Strategic Cyber Security: AI, the Board & Managing Risk

A half-day for the people accountable for cyber risk.

Walk away with a clearer view of where to focus next, how your peers are framing today’s challenges, where they’re setting their priorities, and the opportunities they’re seeing before everyone else does.

Why Attend

Why Senior Leaders Make the Time

SecureTour isn’t just a conference, it’s an event built for the leaders accountable for cyber risk. SecureTour is built around peer conversation, expert insight, and practical takeaways you can act on.

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Insights you can trust

Built on more than 30 years of UK cyber experience and the daily work we do for over 1,200 organisations. Every conversation at SecureTour is grounded in what’s actually working in the field.

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Validate your strategy

Our expert speakers have spent careers helping protect UK organisations. Walk away with a clearer view of what’s worth doing next.

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Strengthen your network

Spend the morning with the CISOs, CIOs and Heads of Cyber Security shaping the cyber agenda across the UK and Northern Ireland. Test your priorities against a room of peers facing the same trade-offs.

What to Expect

Cyber Leadership & Strategy

The cyber leader’s brief has expanded: AI, regulation, board scrutiny, all at once. Hear how senior peers are shaping strategy their boards can act on, making the resource calls that hold up, and leading with confidence when the goalposts keep moving.

AI in Cyber

The attackers have AI. The defenders have AI. The business wants AI everywhere. Compare notes on putting it to work in your security stack, defending against AI-powered threats, and writing the governance that lets the business move fast.

Risk, Resilience & Regulation

Cyber risk has become a board-level concern and regulators are setting the pace. Speak to the experts on managing third-party risk, navigating overlapping regulations, and building the kind of resilience that holds up when something goes wrong.

“Thoroughly enjoyed the day and the conversations, which were topical and thought provoking. I left with many questions and opportunities to take back to our team.”

Choose Your City

Five Events. Five Iconic UK Venues. One Great Conversation.

Pick the date and city that work for you. Each event runs 9am–2pm and includes refreshments on arrival, and a networking lunch.

Belfast

Tue 8th Sept


Europa Hotel

Belfast City  Centre

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London

Thu 10th Sept


HMS Belfast

Queens Walk, London

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Manchester

Tue 15th Sept


IWM North

Trafford Wharf, Salford Quays

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Glasgow

Tue 22nd Sept


Collectors Hall

Glasgow City Centre

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Duxford

Tue 29th Sept


IWM Duxford

Duxford, Cambridgeshire

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Agenda

A practical half-day, built around you.

AI is rewriting the rules of attack and defence. SecureTour 2026 brings CyberLab and our partners together for a half day of sharp sessions and real conversation, We value your time, so we wrap by 2pm. The afternoon’s yours — explore the museum at our IWM venues, head back to the office, or get home in good time.

09:00 Arrival and Networking
Refreshments and pastries on arrival.
09:30 AI Threats in Action with CyberLab
A short welcome from CyberLab followed by a demonstration of AI powered cyber threats.
10:00 Panel: The State of Cyber Security
Threat landscape, geopolitics, AI-era risk and leadership priorities.
10:45 Refreshments Break
15 minutes.
11:00 The New Security Team: How Agentic AI is Reshaping Human-Led Defence with Sophos
How agentic AI empowers security teams in Microsoft environments, handling detection and response so analysts can focus on what matters.
11:30 Interactive Session
Content varies by location:
Vicarius Manchester · Duxford
Exposed and Unfixed: The State of Vulnerability Remediation
Proofpoint Belfast · Glasgow · London
Details coming soon!
11:50 AI, Microsoft and Copilot with Chess ICT
A quick look at how Copilot and AI are reshaping everyday productivity in Microsoft environments, and what it takes to deploy them safely at scale.
12:05 The Enterprise Browser with Island
Where access, security, and AI-powered productivity work as one, creating the perfect conditions for work to thrive.
12:20 Refreshments Break
15 minutes.
12:35 Roundtables
Bring what you've heard through the day to the table and talk it through with peers facing the same challenges.
13:20 Lunch & Networking
Continue the conversation with peers.
14:00 Close
Guests free to depart.

Who Should Attend

Built for the people accountable for cyber risk.

SecureTour brings together senior decision-makers from UK and Northern Ireland organisations. Expect candid conversations with peers facing the same trade-offs you are.

Chief Security Officers
Chief Information & Technology Officers
Chief Executives & Chief Financial Officers
Heads of Cyber Security
Heads of IT
IT Managers
Risk & Compliance Leads
Security & Infrastructure Architects

Not sure if it’s for you? If your role isn’t listed but you’d like to attend, drop us a note at [email protected] — we’d be happy to talk it through.

Supported by Our Partners

Pick the city that works for you. Free to attend, lunch included. Don’t miss out.

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