We are absolutely delighted to have Lorna McGregor back, attending the forum discussion on 'How do we know that AI is doing the right thing?' Please tune it on Friday 16th October at 2PM.
Lorna McGregor is a Professor in the Law
School and Director of the Human Rights Centre (on study leave 2017) at the
University of Essex. She is the Principal Investigator and Co-Director of
an ESRC Large Grant (£5 million) on Human Rights, Big Data and
Technology. Lorna is also a Co-Chair of the European Society of
International Law's Interest Group on Human Rights, a Co-Chair of the
International Law Association's Study Group on Individual Responsibility in
International Law, a Contributing Editor of EJIL Talk! and a Commissioner of
the British Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Prior to joining the Law School, Lorna worked
for REDRESS and the International Bar Association. Lorna holds an LL.B
(First Class Honours) from Edinburgh Law School and an LL.M. from Harvard Law
School, where she was a Kennedy Memorial Trust Scholar and Henigson
Fellow.
Howard Shrobe is Director of CyberSecurity@CSAIL. His
research interests include software and hardware architectures for computer
security and the use of AI techniques in software development and other
engineering disciplines. At the present time his main interests are in new
(hardware and software) architectures for secure computing, the security of
industrial control systems, intelligent assistants for programmers, and
policy issues related to cyber security.
·From 1997 - 2000, he served as associate
director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
·From 1994 - 1997, he served at DARPA
as Assistant Director and Chief Scientist of the Information Technology Office.
He was responsible for the Intelligent Systems and Software Technology group in
the office with direct involvement in the Evolutionary Design of Complex
Software and the original suite of Information Survivability programs.
·From Feb 2010 - Oct 2013, he served at
DARPA as a Program Manager Information Innovation Office where he sponsored two
programs on cyber security: CRASH (Clean-slate design of Resilient Adaptive
Secure Hosts) and MRC (Mission-oriented Resilient Clouds).
·From Oct 2013 - November 2014 I served as
Associate Director of CSAIL
'ADVA Optical Networking SE' is one of our strongest supporters since the beginnings of Tommy Flowers Institute and we are delighted to have Uli Schlegel as speaker at our conference on 'Security & Trust - How to empower and protect all users'.
Uli Schlegel is ADVA Optical Networking’s technical expert for enterprise networks. He has over 17 years of experience in WDM technology and optical networking systems.
He holds an engineering degree (Dipl.-Ing. Physikalische Technik) from the University of Applied Sciences (TFH) in Berlin, Germany.
Uli currently drives product development in the data center interconnect space. He mainly focuses on solutions for storage and server connectivity as well as encryption and security relevant topics.
We are proud to have Ian Daft from the National Crime Agency as a speaker at our conference.
Ian is a Manager within the Intelligence Collection Department of the NCA leading on the development of new capabilities to ensure the NCA is able to counter organised crime with public confidence and security.
At the moment he is giving specific attention to the application of Voice Biometrics and Analytics. A specific interest in the scope for appropriate co-operation between strategic partners.
His previous positions in the Agency have included in Financial Crime and as a Staff Officer within the Command Team. Prior to joining the NCA, Ian worked in Europol, Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Office with his last posting being as 1st Secretary at the British Embassy in Athens. He holds a MA in History as well as degree level qualifications in Financial Crime, Personnel & Development and Project Management.
11:30 - 12:15 Panel discussion "How to create impact in Digital Transformation
Ben Azvine is responsible for setting direction and strategy for Security research, identify innovation opportunities and lead a strong international team of researcher to develop new capabilities in collaboration with industrial and academic partners.
Ben has 30 years’ experience in both academia and industry. His previous roles included leading the IT research centre and head of business intelligence & customer analytics research at BT Group Chief Technology Office. He holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering, an MSc in Control Engineering, a PhD in Intelligent Control Systems from Manchester University, and an MBA from Imperial College, London. Having held research fellowship and lectureship posts in several universities, he joined BT in 1995 to lead a research programme to develop and exploit novel Artificial Intelligence technology to support next generation IT systems. Since then he has held senior, principal, chief research scientist posts at BT’s global R&D headquarters in Adastral Park, Ipswich where he is currently based.
He has edited two books and published more than 100 scientific articles on novel application of intelligent systems. He is an inventor of 50 patent applications, has won 4 BCS and an IET gold medals for IT innovation, and holds visiting professorship positions at the Universities of Bristol, Cranfield, Suffolk and Bournemouth. Ben is a current fellow of Institute of Telecom Engineers (FIET) and has acted as the chairman of the European network of excellence for Uncertainty management techniques from 1998 to 2001. His current research interests include the application Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Cyber security, protection of critical national infrastructure, data analysis and information & knowledge management. His current projects include Visual Analytics for Cyber defence, cloud & Internet security, machine learning and anomaly detection in network data and future identity and access management.
“The UK categorises cyber-crime as a tier one threat to our national security. Since 2011 we have had in place a National Cyber Security Strategy. … Our full spectrum approach ranges from developing the new skills and expertise we need, supporting the cyber ecosystem, collaboration with critical infrastructure, the established cyber industry, start ups, and academia to protect our national security and protect the public’s way of life, while contributing to our prosperity and building a more trusted and resilient digital environment. …
Our growing expertise was perhaps best showcased during the 2012 Olympics. The London games were the first ever “digital games” - the first to provide public Wi-Fi access in all Olympic venues, with more content broadcast online than ever before, and much of it accessed via mobile devices - and yet, despite a peak of over 11,000 attacks per second, the network was never once compromised”
In 2017 as well, during our TFNetwork conference on “Security &Trust”, we explored how technology can empower users so that they can protect themselves and their data. And this means that we need that credible track-record of secure operation to create the user’s trust in those constantly evolving technologies, which have capabilities that potentially can turn the table, enabling new kinds of attacks. So there is constant evolution across technology, user behaviour, and the perception of human rights.
Half a decade later the digital landscape is evolving at an even increasing speed, and more than ever it is my opinion that Cyber Security is one of the greatest man-made challenges of our time. The frequency and impact of breaches is increasing at the same mindboggling trajectory as the digital transformation of our world, and the need to continuously adapt and innovate to stay ahead of the threat environment, is raising the bar for researchers.
