Artificial intelligence is reshaping how organisations operate, innovate, and manage risk. This keynote panel will examine how leaders can drive intelligent transformation that accelerates business value while maintaining resilience, regulatory compliance, and trust across the enterprise. 

• Aligning AI governance with evolving UK regulation  

• Embedding automation, analytics, and AI securely across IT and operational technology environments 

• Balancing innovation with risk management, ethics, and effective human oversight 

Panellists: 

Subhash Chandra Jose, Managing Director and CIO, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 

JP Bhamu, Director of Data & AI, NHS Business Services Authority  

Dr Omer Moghraby, Chief Digital Information Officer, West London NHS Trust 

Moderated by: 

Sheetal Thaker, Senior Strategy Lead, FormAgility 

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• Examining how ransomware tactics, targets, and monetisation models are changing 

• Understanding the growing role of data extortion, double- and triple-extortion strategies 

• Sharing practical approaches to incident response, negotiation, and decision-making under pressure 

• Strengthening resilience through prevention, backup strategy, and organisational preparedness 

• Anticipating regulatory, legal, and insurance implications for ransomware response in the UK and globally 

• Shifting security awareness from check-the-box training to behaviours that reflect shared ownership, accountability, and everyday decision-making  

• Re-engineering awareness programmes to be continuous, contextual, and role-specific   

• Embedding security mindsets into culture through leadership modelling and real-world scenario practice  

• Using data and behavioural analytics to measure risk reduction and identify emerging human-factor vulnerabilities  

• Moving beyond GDPR compliance toward measurable business value from strong data protection practices 

• Managing data sovereignty, cross-border flows, and regulatory divergence in a fragmented geopolitical environment 

• Embedding privacy-by-design across AI, analytics, and digital transformation initiatives 

• Balancing security, usability, and customer trust as expectations around transparency increase 

Ranjit Shergill, Data Protection Manager, Phoenix Group 

• Cyber as a Business Enabler: Balancing resilience, innovation, and speed  

• From Technical Risk to Business Risk: How CISOs are reframing cyber conversations for boards and CEOs   

• Anticipating how quantum computing will reshape cyber risk, digital trust, and global security dynamics 

• Defining leadership priorities now to ensure long-term resilience in a post-quantum threat landscape 

• Aligning cybersecurity investment, innovation strategy, and regulatory readiness for the quantum era 

• Protecting sensitive data with a “harvest now, decrypt later” mindset and future-proof security planning 

Asim Khwaja, Cyber Risk Advanced AI & Analytics, Government Entity 

Moderated by: 

Azeem Bashir, Group Chief Information Security Officer, Apex Group