UWEcyber Guest Seminars

Schedule of invited talks for the UWEcyber guest seminar programme.

All talks are subject to change, please refer to Blackboard annoucements for further detail.

Current Term

  • Monday 15th December 2025 - “From Campus to Industry: Lessons from a Cybersecurity Consultant” Harri Renney, Senior Research and Development Engineer, Kaze Consulting
  • Monday 8th December 2025 - “Experience of working in the Digital Forensic Unit at the Serious Fraud Office” Nikesh Vaghela and Mariqa Joy Cumberbatch, Serious Fraud Office
  • Monday 1st December 2025 - “The Help Desk That Cost £440M: Securing the Extended Enterprise” Adaora Uche-Ezennia, GRC Lead, THG Ingenuity
  • Monday 17th November 2025 - “UKI Product Security & Systems Evaluation: Introduction for OT/ICS + IoT” Elyot Hoy, Security Delivery Manager, Accenture
  • Monday 10th November 2025 - “Beyond the Top 10: A Professional Guide to Verifiable Application Security with OWASP ASVS” Chris Wood, Principal Application Security SME, Immersive
  • Monday 3rd November 2025 - “From Hard Drives to Global Threat Actors: Evolving Forensic Skills for Modern Cyber Defence” Scott Eggins, Global head of Cyber Threat Intelligence, ComputerShare
  • Monday 20th October 2025 - “From Keyboard to Cabinet: How Cyber Security Shapes National Security” Jack Marley, P3M Works
  • Monday 13th October 2025 - “Cyber Security at BMT” BMT
  • Monday 6th October 2025 - “Cyber Security at Leonardo” Leonardo MW Ltd.
  • Monday 29th September 2025 - “Society Talk: UWE CTF Falcons and CyberWomen@UWE” Mateusz Madrzynski and Megan Jones, UWE.

Previous Talks

  • Monday 24th March 2025 - “CSI: Common Sense Investigations”, Adam Harrison, Managing Director at FTI Consulting and SANS Instructor
  • Monday 17th March 2025 - “Cyber Threat Intelligence – Lifting the Shadows” Ian Parsons, Cyber Threat Lead, Quilter
  • Monday 10th March 2025 - “Human Risk” Lucy Finlay, Delivery Director of Security Behaviour and Analytics, Think Cyber Security Ltd.
  • Monday 3rd March 2025 - “Cybercrime and Policing from the SWCRC Perspective” Joseph Ross, South West Cyber Resilience Centre
  • Monday 24th February 2025 - “More tales from the front line of Digital Forensics” Craig Porter, Senior Account Executive at OpenText
  • Monday 17th February 2025 - “Bridging the Gap: My cybersecurity journey and insights for your step into industry” Katie Wood, Senior Information Security Architect at Bibby Financial Services
  • Monday 10th February 2025 - “Data Security at Microsoft” Maddi Skinner, Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft
  • Monday 27th January 2025 - “Experience of working in the Digital Forensic Unit at the Serious Fraud Office” Mariqa Joy Cumberbatch, Serious Fraud Office
  • Monday 18th November 2024 - “Visualising cyberspace as a contested operating environment” Nigel A. Jones, BSc, MScEcon, FBCS, FRGS, Independent consultant
  • Monday 4th November 2024 - “Online Safety at Ofcom” Dr Andreas Haggman, Principal - Privacy, Security and Academic Partnerships, Ofcom
  • Monday 28th October 2024 - “Human Factors in Cyber Security: Applying Theory to Practice” Dr George Raywood-Burke, Human Factors Scientist, Trimetis
  • Monday 14th October 2024 - “Cyber Security for Space Systems” Jessie Hamill-Stewart, Centre for Doctoral Training, University of Bristol and University of Bath
  • Monday 7th October 2024 - “Cyber Security in a Connected World” Matt Disley, Threat and Response Lead, Arqiva
  • Monday 30th September 2024 - “Society Talk: UWE CTF Falcons and CyberWomen@UWE” Sebastian Lacasutu and Lucja Mendygral, UWE.
  • Monday 15th April 2024 - “Cybersecurity: in everyday life and SMEs” Kevin Rice, Kevs IT
  • Monday 25th March 2024 - “Cyber Security Considerations When Designing a Submarine” BMT Defence and Security UK and the Ministry of Defence Submarine Delivery Agency
  • Monday 18th March 2024 - “Behind an incident” Lisa Forte, Red Goat Cyber Security
  • Monday 11th March 2024 - “Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime from a US Federal Law perspective” Craig Porter, OpenText
  • Monday 4th March 2024 - “Phishing, patching, poo: A year in the challenging Water Sector” Steve Treharne, Group Director of Information Security, YTL Wessex Water
  • Monday 26th February 2024 - “Finding an entry point: From Industry Breakthrough to Infiltrating High-Security Facilities” Ryan Pullen, Stripe OLT
  • Monday 19th February 2024 - “Tales from the frontline of Reactive Digital Forensics and Incident Response” Charlie Watson, Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks)
  • Monday 29th January 2024 - “The role of a Cyber security start-up in a Cyber Security ecosystem” Jack Marley, P3M Works
  • Monday 4th December 2023 - “Dinosaur Codes and AI Bones: Unleashing Your Intellect in Cyber for Career Success” Alsa Tibbit, Associate Lecturer/Advisor, Sheffield Hallam University
  • Monday 27th November 2023 - “Exploring cyberspace: when one academic discipline is simply not enough” Dr Aida Abzhaparova, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security and Global Politics, UWE
  • Monday 20th November 2023 - “Hardware security: building technology on sandy foundations and copper wire” Amy Brooks, Portfolio Cyber Security Consultant and Advisor
  • Monday 13th November 2023 - “Leveraging AI for Cyber Security” Zeba Khanam, Research Scientist, BT Security Research Group
  • Monday 6th November 2023 - “Let’s sort this out on the Range” Fred Stinchcombe, Lecturer in Computer Science/MSc Cyber Program Coordinator, Rowan University, New Jersey, USA
  • Monday 30th October 2023 - A Cyber Security PhD Showcase - “What is it like to do a PhD at UWE?” Carol Lo, James Barrett, Sadegh Bamohabbat, Dalila Khettaf and Aimen Djemaa
  • Monday 23rd October 2023 - “14 years on since graduating from Forensic Computing at UWE” Scott Eggins, Hargreaves Lansdown
  • Monday 16th October 2023 - “Cyber Skills For Life - An Interactive Session on Getting Into Cyber and a Chance To Test Your Crisis Decision Making” James Riley, ImmersiveLabs
  • Monday 9th October 2023 - “Security by Design” Gareth Jones, Methods and Tony Dawson, CoreAzure
  • Monday 2nd October 2023 - “Cyber Path - Police & Academia Talent Horizons” Mark Moore, South West Cyber Resilience Centre
  • Wednesday 22nd March 2023 - “Get Linked-In to Cyber” Laura Reilly and Emma Treacy, LT Harper
  • Friday 24th February 2023 - “Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime from a US Federal Law perspective” Craig Porter, OpenText
  • Wednesday 27th April 2022 - “What a CISO really does” Ben Aung, Sage
  • Wednesday 6th April 2022 - “PhD Research in Cyber Security” Jacob Williams, University of Bristol
  • Tuesday 22nd March 2022 - “Women in Cybersecurity” Precious Tatah, Socura
  • Wednesday 16th March 2022 - “NCSC Innovation Event” Valentino Duval, UWE
  • Wednesday 9th March 2022 - “Cyber Intership at Gwent Police” Beth J., Gwent Police
  • Wednesday 23rd February 2022 - “Operational Technology Security” Dan Mosca, Cyber Security Specialist, Digital Trust Cyber Security, PA Consulting Group
  • Wednesday 16th February 2022 - “Creating IOCs for live malware analysis” Jordan Hyde, Threat Detection Engineering Lead, Leonardo
  • Wednesday 9th February 2022 - “Hacking the Cyber Job Market” Amy Stokes-Waters, Capture the Talent / Cognisys
  • Wednesday 2nd February 2022 - “Securitay Conference” Ian Johnson, UWE
  • 12th January 2022: Jon White, UWE
  • 1st December 2021: Craig Porter, Open Text Inc.
  • 17th November 2021: Ross Young, Ministry of Defence
  • 17th November 2021: Scott Eggins, Hargreaves Lansdown
  • 10th November 2021: Theo Spyridopoulos, Cyber Security Research
  • 3rd November 2021: Laura Reilly, LT Harper
  • 30th October 2021: BAE Systems CTF Challenge
  • 27th October 2021: Daniyal Nadeem, Oracle
  • 20th October 2021: Avin Karim, Avon and Somerset Police
  • 13th October 2021: Mark Moore, South West Cyber Resilience Centre
  • 6th October 2021: Andrew Clymer, RockSolidKnowledge
  • 23rd June 2021: Alan Mills, VQ Communications
  • 9th June 2021: Amy Stokes-Waters, Cognisys
  • 2nd June 2021: Sarah Boyd, Information Security Manager, AXA Health
  • 26th May 2021: Ross Young, Cyber Security Team Leader, Ministry of Defence
  • 5th May 2021: Laura Reilly, LT Harper
  • 28th April 2021: Justin Hart, Ribbon Communications
  • 21st April 2021: “E-Discovery, Careers, Opportunities, Puppies” Christina Mather, NUIX and Ruth Roberts, CMS
  • 14th April 2021: “Security Economics” Dr Yulia Cherdantseva, Cardiff University
  • 24th March 2021: Bruce Gregory, Hub8
  • 17th March 2021: “10 lessons from cyberpsychology” Dr Linda Kaye, Edge Hill University
  • 10th March 2021: Elias Wylde, National Grid
  • 3rd March 2021: Lewis West, Hamilton Barnes
  • 24th February 2021: Tom Williams, Avon and Somerset Police / Cyber Volunteers
  • 17th February 2021: Mark Moore, Cyber Resilience Centre (South West)
  • 10th February 2021: Jacob Williams, Claranet
  • 17th December 2020: FTK or Blacklight or Linux Forensics.
  • 10th December 2020: EnCase
  • 3rd December 2020: Mobile Device Forensics
  • 26 November 2020: Magnet Axiom CTF
  • 19 November 2020: Cellebrite CTF
  • 4th March 2020: AmioSec
  • 19th February 2020: Lighthouse Forensics
  • 5th February 2020: EY
  • 29th January 2020: ImmersiveLabs
  • 4th December 2019: Context IS
  • 27th November 2019: Nationwide
  • 20th November 2019: ACM CCS Conference Review, Gwyn Wilkison and Andrew McCarthy
  • 13th November 2019: Securitay Conference Preview, Ian Johnson
  • 23th October 2019: Android Permissions, To Allow or Deny, Dr Panagiotis Andriotis
  • 9th October 2019: Research in UWEcyber, Dr Phil Legg
  • 2nd October 2019: UWE Cyber Security Society

Future talks to be scheduled

  • TBC - “How to start in to the Penetration Testing Field?” Ahmed Hassan, Cyber Security Engineer & Penetration Tester, Condignum GmbH
  • TBC - “What Lurks Below: The Hidden Security Risks of Mobile Apps” Meletius Mgbeodichimma Igbokwe, Senior Modern Workplace Engineer, Lima
  • TBC - “Compromising Windows via WSL: A Deceptively Simple Privilege Escalation Path” Liyander Rishwant L, Independent consultant
  • TBC - “Building Cyber Resilience from the Ground Up: Stories, Startups and Systems That Matter” Halima Kure, Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity, University of East London