David Smith is the Deputy Commissioner with responsibility for the Data Protection supervisory functions of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) based in Wilmslow, Cheshire.

As well as providing Data Protection leadership across the Information Commissioner’s Office, David has direct responsibility for oversight of its Strategic Liaison Division which develops and manages the ICO’s relations with its key stakeholders. He is a member of both the Commissioner’s Management Board and Executive Team.

The international aspects of David’s work involve him in representing the UK on the Article 29 Working Party of European Supervisory Authorities set up under the Data Protection Directive. In addition he was the Chairman of the data protection supervisory body for Europol from October 2006 to October 2009.

Paul is a co-founder and board member of the Jericho Forum. Until recently he was the CISO of AstraZeneca and prior to that the CISO of ICI.

He was awarded “Chief Security Officer of the year” at the 2005 SC Magazine European Awards and is listed in both the 2004 & 2005 global top 50 most powerful people in networking, by the US publication Network World.

In addition to the Jericho Forum, Paul sits on the advisory board of a number of leading-edge computing companies, as well as the Executive Advisory Board of ISSA UK. He also is a British Canoe Union Level 3 Kayak Coach.

Until 2008 James was Director of Security at Vocalink, the business formed to manage the technical infrastructure behind the UK automated payments and ATM Networks. In that role he was accountable, not only to Vocalink management, but also to the finance industry for the integrity of the majority of UK clearing and ATM central infrastructure. His innovative security leadership brought the Vocalink group of companies through 27001 certification and helped to land and deliver various new business opportunities.
His work with the banks, Serious Organised Crime Agency, CPNI and other government agencies, on fraud and e-crime have brought him immense respect in his field.
Prior to his successful tenure at Vocalink, James lived and worked throughout the Middle and Far East in various Director and Senior Consulting roles. He has over 30 years experience in the IT environment, with the last 20 or so concentrating on the security challenges associated with the use and misuse of information systems. He holds various professional and educational qualifications including an MSc in Security Management, and is currently partway through his part time PhD in Computer Forensics (Ethics and CoC).

Charlie McMurdie has 29yrs service in law enforcement. She has worked throughout London as a detective including various roles within the MPS Murder, Armed Robbery, and Specialist Crime Commands including Head of Central Authorities Bureau and the Covert Operations Centre. In 1988 she joined the National Crime Squad and was subsequently seconded to the Royal Ulster Constabulary for three years on covert operations. Charlie has been the Senior Investigation Officer on several high profile investigations including serial murder enquiries and international internet and money laundering investigations.

Within the Metropolitan Police’s Economic Crime portfolio Charlie is responsible for the Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Card Unit, and the Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU); a national unit established “to improve the police service response to victims of e-crime”. The PCeU remit is to develop the mainstream capability of the Police Service across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, co-ordinating the law enforcement approach to all types of cyber-crime, and providing a national investigative capability for the most serious cyber-crime incidents which have the potential to cause national harm.

Part of Charlie’s role within the PCeU is that of MPS representative engaging with Counter Terrorism, working with the Office of Cyber Security in a multi agency working group, including the Security Services and Ministry of Defence, to create the Cyber Security Operations Centre for the United Kingdom.

Mark has worked in the security industry for 30 years, gaining holistic security experience - physical, personnel and electronic. Having held a number of posts within the UK Government, Mark joined Barclays Bank in 2007 to become Director, Information Risk Management. Mark’s responsibilities and achievements to date at Barclays include successfully building an extensive information sharing network across the bank, delivering the bank’s award winning IRM awareness raising programme, providing IRM advice to 3rd parties, the subject matter expert for the banks’ Logical Access Management programme and more recently he’s become responsible for Principle Risk Reporting and Overview.

Mark takes an active role in a number of professional bodies in particular the Institute of Information Security Professionals, the ISF and sits on the White Hat Ball organising committee, which last year raised over £120,000 for the charity NSPCC/Child Line. He is also involved in raising money for a smaller charity that looks after people with complex needs.

Phil Genge is the Head of Information Security (IS) at Nationwide; responsible for the oversight of information risk which includes risk reporting, risk assessment, policy setting, third party assurance, incident management, project consultancy, employee awareness, data privacy and logical access.

Phil joined the team in 2007, having previously worked for a decade as a qualified management consultant focusing on process transformation and strategic design. Since 2007 Nationwide has achieved the widest level of certification against ISO27001 in the industry.

As Deputy Director of Security & Risk at HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Chris is accountable for the IT security of processes and systems. In addition, he is the Data Guardian and Information Champion for HMRC’s IT Department, and holds responsibility for operational risks management and response for live services aswell as the security management of its outsource provider, Aspire.

Chris joined the Civil Service in 2008 from the Utility industry where he held a senior security position. He previously held a number of Senior Security and Technical Design / Architecture roles in the Business Process Outsource sector specialising in providing secure offshore facilities for leading US and UK Banking and Credit card organisations.

A security professional and ISO27001 lead auditor, Chris has recently been involved in promoting the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) and sponsoring the inauguration of the IISP Midlands Chapter.

Ian Collard is the Security and Identity Management Practice Manager at Siemens IT Solutions and Services Ltd, holding cross sector business development and portfolio responsibility for all of the company's products and services in the UK. Ian brings more than 10 years experience as a consultant and solution architect to the role, specialising particularly in Enterprise Security Solutions - including identity and access management, data leakage prevention and perimeter security technologies. He also has extensive knowledge of the UK and international business continuity, data and voice security services and hardware markets. Ian is also the Siemens IT Solutions and Services lead for SCADA and SMART Grid cyber security issues.

Ian holds a degree in Telecommunications and is an active member of the Intellect Association for Biometrics.