Stuart Sumner is Editorial Director of Incisive Media's technology-focused titles: Computing and Delta. He oversees all content across print, web, tablet editions, rich media and events - including the IT Leaders' Dining Club and Computing Summits. During Stuart's tenure Computing has transformed from a print-reliant business to a bleeding edge multi-channel brand with an industry-leading events portfolio. Previously he spent 10 years as a programme manager in the IT industry, working for companies such as the BBC, COLT, Nortel Networks and Equant. As a journalist he has also worked for Time Out and IPC Media. He is a regular technology pundit and contributor to the BBC News Channel, as well as a published author.

Alan has worked in IT and IT Security industry for various organisations for around 22 years and has a wealth of experience across industry sectors such as Finance, Retail, Manufacturing, Healthcare and Government customers throughout his security career.

He understands the challengers companies faces in today’s continual and rapidly changing threat landscape and has the technical expertise to help combat these challenges.

Annette is the Chief Information Security Officer at the Met Office and has overall responsibility for Cyber Security and Resilience. The Met Office is the UK’s National Meteorological Service which utilises world leading Super Computing to underpin globally recognised science and meteorology. Annette has over 10 years IT leadership experience with the last 7 years in key information security leadership roles.

Annette designed and implemented new and innovative approaches to Cyber Security and represented the Met Office at Big Data Analytics (White Hall Media 2015) on the use of analysing large data sets to deliver actionable security intelligence for the business. She is on the external advisory panel for Computing at Plymouth University and was a keynote speaker at Women in Stem 2016.

I joined Covéa in January 2020 so it won't be long before more than half my Covéa career has been working from home. In information security it's our job to help Covéa to do what it thinks is necessary but to do it securely, not to stop people doing things.

I originally qualified as a chartered accountant, then I spent twenty years as an information security and risk consultant running both PwC's and KPMG's Northern information security functions (not at the same time). Before joining Covéa I was CISO at Morrisons for 5 years seeing some interesting changes and one of the most significant court cases relating to the misuse of personal information in the last ten years.

My interests largely centre around making things, I love music (particularly Bach and Baroque music) but I also like playing around with microcontrollers and woodworking. I even like making virtual things and I play Minecraft when I have nothing better to do. I am a keen walker and spend a lot of time on the beautiful moors around where I live.