19:00
- 21:30
Welcome Reception
The Summit
We have entered an exponential age - where technologies like AI, quantum computing, and synthetic media are evolving faster than the ability of societies, institutions, and leaders to adapt, creating an “exponential gap” that challenges the very foundations of resilience. This accelerating change is reshaping geopolitics, competition, and risk itself.
For cyber leaders, the implications are profound. As the speed and scale of technological advancement multiply in an exponential age, so too do the velocity and sophistication of threats. Traditional approaches to security and governance are being outpaced. Resilience must therefore become dynamic - a capability that learns, adapts, and strengthens under stress - and become exponential itself.
Next year, the fifth annual edition of the COMPASS summit will explore how to lead and invest for resilience in this new era of exponential change. It will bring together leaders from business, government, and technology to ask: how can organisations and institutions not just withstand disruption, but harness it - turning resilience into a strategic advantage in the age of acceleration?
When
Description
Welcome Networking Reception at Café Ciel at The OWO
Tuesday
2 June
Day One: Cyber in the Macro
Wednesday
3 June
09:00
- 09:15
Welcome and Resilience in an Expontential Age
Rossa Shanks, ISTARI and Jason Mallinder, ISTARI
09:15
- 09:45
Welcome to the Exponential Age
Azeem Azhar, Author and Entrepreneur
09:45
- 10:05
The New Geopolitical Operating System
Gordon Corera, Author and Journalist
10:05
- 10:45
Leadership in a Non-Linear World
Gordon Corera, Author and Journalist
Azeem Azhar, Author
Dr. Michael Kitson, Cambridge
Tom Glocer, Morgan Stanley
10:45
- 11:15
BREAK
11:15
- 12:15
The Tipping Point: Cyber at Exponential Speed
Gordon Corera, Author and Journalist
Christopher Ahlberg, Founder, Recorded Future
Chris Inglis, former Deputy Director, NSA
12:15
- 13:00
From Signals to Shockwaves: Three Technologies Redefining Cyber Risk
Rachel Laursen, Partner, ISTARI
Lucas Kello, Oxford
Tom Garnett, Refute
13:00
- 14:00
LUNCH
14:00
- 14:30
Adversarial AI: The New Battleground for Defense Automation
14:30
- 15:30
No Safe Mode: Governance at Machine Speed
Jamie McColl, RUSI
Ramy Houssaini, Cloudflare
Lisa Einstein, former Chief AI Officer, CISA
Jonathan Lloyd White, CISO, Bupa
Jonathan Dambrot, Cranium
15:30
- 16:00
BREAK
16:00
- 17:30
Zero Hour: 2030 Simulation
Dr. Lucas Kello, ISTARI and Chris Crummey, Sygnia
Day One: Dinner Gathering at Banqueting House
Wednesday
3 June
19:00
- 22:00
Gala Dinner
Banqueting House, Whitehall, London SW1A 2ER
Day Two: Cyber Leadership
Thursday
4 June
09:00
- 09:30
NATO’s Critical Cyber Mission: Protecting a Billion People Online
Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer, Inaugural Chief Information Officer, NATO
09:30
- 10:30
Held to Ransomware: Lessons from the Blackouts
Oli Newbury, Halycon
Gary Hayslip, former Group CISO Softbank Investment Advisers, Halcyon
Ffion Flockhart, Partner, AO Shearman
Kelly Butler, Managing Director, Head of Cyber - UK, Marsh Speciality, Marsh
10:30
- 11:00
BREAK
11:00
- 12:00
Follow the Money: Funding the Frontier
Nazo Moosa, Paladin Capital
Grace Cassey, 1011
Liran Grinberg, Team8
12:00
- 13:00
1. The Boardroom Agenda 2. Securing the supply chain 3. Sygnia session TBC 4. Securing the Agentic Enterprise
1. Lucas Kello, ISTARI
2. Jason Mallinder
3. Jo De Vliegher, ISTARI and Guy Segal, Sygnia
4. Yash Sharma, ISTARI and Jonathan Dambrot, Cranium
13:00
- 14:00
LUNCH
14:00
- 15:00
1. The Boardroom Agenda 2. Securing the supply chain 3. Sygnia session TBC 4. Securing the Agentic Enterprise
1. Lucas Kello, ISTARI
2. Jason Mallinder
3. Jo De Vliegher, ISTARI and Guy Segal, Sygnia
4. Yash Sharma, ISTARI and Jonathan Dambrot, Cranium
15:00
- 15:45
From CISO to Chief Resilience Officer
Henry Widera, Egon Zehnder
Phil Venables, Ballistic Ventures
15:45
- 16:00
Summit Closing
Rossa Shanks, ISTARI
Speakers
Dr. Yashovardhan Sharma
Advisory Innovation Lead at ISTARI
Jonathan Lloyd White
Group CISO at BUPA
Azeem Azhar
Founder & CEO, Exponential View, Author and Entrepreneur
Dr. Michael Kitson
Economist and Senior Research Fellow at Cambridge University
Gordon Corera
Author and Security Correspondent, BBC
Jamie McColl
Senior Researcher, RUSI
Jonathan Dambrot
CEO, Cranium
Christopher Ahlberg
Founder & CEO, Recorded Future
Oli Newbury
Chief Strategy Officer Partner, Halcyon
Ramy Houssaini
Chief Cyber Solutions Officer, Cloudflare
Grace Cassey
Founder, 1011
Nazo Moosa
Partner, Paladin Capital Group
Liran Grinberg
Co-Founder, Team8
Tom Garnett
Founder & CEO, Refute
Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer
Inaugural Chief Information Officer, NATO
Ffion Flockhart
Partner, AO Shearman
Kelly Butler
Managing Director, Head of Cyber - UK, Marsh Speciality, Marsh
Rachel Laursen
Partner, Advisory
Dr. Lucas Kello
Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Oxford & Strategic Advisor, ISTARI
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Henry Widera
Executive Search & Leadership Advisor, Egon Zehnder
Chris Inglis
FORMER US NATIONAL CYBER DIRECTOR, DEPUTY DIRECTOR NSA
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