CBN CyberSummit 2026: Baroness Liz Lloyd and Senior CNI Leaders to Address UK Cyber Resilience

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The Cybersecurity Business Network (CBN) has unveiled the full agenda for its inaugural CyberSummit 2026: Practical Security, Policy Frameworks, and Industry Growth, a full-day forum dedicated to driving tangible, actionable, and layered resilience strategies for the UK digital economy. Firevault is proud to join Bird & Bird as a sponsor of the event.

Taking place on Tuesday 23 June 2026 at Bird & Bird, 12 New Fetter Lane, London EC4A 1JP, the summit will bring together more than 100 senior leaders, key policymakers, and C-suite executives from Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) sectors including health, finance, energy, telecoms, and insurance.

Keynote and ministerial address

Baroness Liz Lloyd, Minister for the Digital Economy at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), will deliver the opening keynote. She will be joined by senior policymakers and CISOs to debate the future of UK cyber policy, regulation, and resilience.

Confirmed speaker line-up

• Baroness Liz Lloyd, Minister, DSIT
• Irfan Hemani, Deputy Director of Cyber, DSIT
• Sam Kirby-French, Global CISO, BAE Systems
• Liz Banbury, CISSP, CISO, Thames Water
• Tom Clementi, CEO, Pool Re
• Alison Griffiths MP, Officer for Cyber Innovation APPG
• Matt Warman, Chair of CBN and former Digital Minister
• Jamie MacColl, Senior Fellow, RUSI
• Rory Innes, CEO, The Cyber Helpline
• Jenny Murray, Partner, Bird & Bird

Further speakers are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.

Agenda highlights

The day opens at 09:30 with delegate registration, followed by Minister Liz Lloyd's keynote at 10:05. A morning panel on Strengthening Resilience: the Evolving UK Threat Landscape, Economic Consequences, and Future Resilience Strategies runs until the networking break.

The afternoon centres on a CNI Leaders Hour featuring Tom Clementi of Pool Re and Liz Banbury of Thames Water, interactive workshops, and a closing panel on the Future of UK Cyber and the Systems Necessary to Ensure Resilience at Every Layer of Attack. The summit closes with a networking reception until 18:00.

Why this summit matters

The UK digital economy faces unprecedented risk, with escalating state-sponsored attacks, ransomware campaigns, and supply chain compromises threatening both UK businesses and Critical National Infrastructure. The CBN CyberSummit is designed to move beyond threat assessment and focus on layered resilience strategies that organisations can deploy today.

Firevault commentary

"Resilience is no longer a board-level aspiration, it is a regulatory and operational necessity," said Mark Fermor, co-founder of Firevault. "The CBN CyberSummit brings the right people into the same room at the right time. We are proud to sponsor an event that puts Critical National Infrastructure, ministers, and the CISO community on one stage to debate what genuine, layered defence looks like. Offline Secure Storage and disciplined operational technology controls have a central role in that conversation, and we look forward to sharing how organisations are deploying them today."

Register your place

Spaces are limited. To secure your place at the CBN CyberSummit 2026, visit the official registration page or the Cybersecurity Business Network.

How Firevault helps

• Offline Secure Storage keeps gold-copy data physically disconnected from the network, so a ransomware or exfiltration event cannot reach it.
• Control gives boards and operators a single view of what is online, what is isolated, and what is recoverable across the estate.

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