As our economy becomes increasingly dependent on cloud and edge computing, building secure, resilient, and trusted services have never been more urgent. This event brings together experts and practitioners from across the industry to explore what good looks like — from securing individual deployments to strengthening the wider digital economy.
Speakers and attendees will dive into best practice for zero trust architectures, observability, and threat detection and response, and examine the impact of AI on security. We will also consider the latest developments in encryption and key management, alongside the regulatory and assurance frameworks needed to maintain trust in cloud services.
Beyond the technical, this event will address issues such as disaster recovery, business continuity and supply chain resilience. And with cloud services now recognised as Critical National Infrastructure, we will consider the horizon risks shaping their future — from geopolitical instability to energy security challenges.
More details and a list of speakers will be announced in due course.
Opening remarks
Panel 1: Securing the Cloud – Architectures, Threats and Trust
- Zero trust implementation, access controls, observability, threat detection and response
- The dual role of AI as both a security enabler and risk factor.
- Encryption and key management, homomorphic encryption, trusted execution environments, post-quantum cryptography
- Regulation, standards, and assurance frameworks.
Coffee Break
Panel 2: Building Resilience - Cloud as Critical National Infrastructure
- Best practice for disaster recovery and business continuity.
- Designing for resilience: redundancy, multi-cloud & hybrid strategies, and data & workload portability.
- Securing the supply chain: software, hardware, and service provider dependencies.
- Network resilience, energy security, and sustainable operations.
- Regulatory expectations and the role of governments in safeguarding resilience.
- Lessons from recent outages and disruptions.
Networking and refreshments
Chris Hazell
Sue Daley OBE
Sue Daley OBE
Sue leads techUK's Technology and Innovation work.
This includes work programmes on cloud, data protection, data analytics, AI, digital ethics, Digital Identity and Internet of Things as well as emerging and transformative technologies and innovation policy.
In 2025, Sue was honoured with an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the Technology Industry in the New Year Honours List.
She has been recognised as one of the most influential people in UK tech by Computer Weekly's UKtech50 Longlist and in 2021 was inducted into the Computer Weekly Most Influential Women in UK Tech Hall of Fame.
A key influencer in driving forward the data agenda in the UK, Sue was co-chair of the UK government's National Data Strategy Forum until July 2024. As well as being recognised in the UK's Big Data 100 and the Global Top 100 Data Visionaries for 2020 Sue has also been shortlisted for the Milton Keynes Women Leaders Awards and was a judge for the Loebner Prize in AI. In addition to being a regular industry speaker on issues including AI ethics, data protection and cyber security, Sue was recently a judge for the UK Tech 50 and is a regular judge of the annual UK Cloud Awards.
Prior to joining techUK in January 2015 Sue was responsible for Symantec's Government Relations in the UK and Ireland. She has spoken at events including the UK-China Internet Forum in Beijing, UN IGF and European RSA on issues ranging from data usage and privacy, cloud computing and online child safety. Before joining Symantec, Sue was senior policy advisor at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Sue has an BA degree on History and American Studies from Leeds University and a Masters Degree on International Relations and Diplomacy from the University of Birmingham. Sue is a keen sportswoman and in 2016 achieved a lifelong ambition to swim the English Channel.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- Phone:
- 020 7331 2055
- Twitter:
- @ChannelSwimSue,@ChannelSwimSue
Laura Foster
Laura Foster
Laura is techUK’s Associate Director for Technology and Innovation.
Laura advocates for better emerging technology policy in the UK, including quantum, future of compute technologies, semiconductors, digital ID and more. Working alongside techUK members and UK Government she champions long-term, cohesive, and sustainable investment that will ensure the UK can commercialise future science and technology research. Laura leads a high-performing team at techUK, as well as publishing several reports on these topics herself, and being a regular speaker at events.
Before joining techUK, Laura worked internationally as a conference researcher and producer exploring adoption of emerging technologies. This included being part of the team at London Tech Week.
Laura has a degree in History (BA Hons) from Durham University and is a Cambridge Policy Fellow. Outside of work she loves reading, writing and supporting rugby team St. Helens, where she is from.
- Email:
- [email protected]
- LinkedIn:
- www.linkedin.com/in/lauraalicefoster
