Welcome to 7th Talk to the Board 360

Event Details:
📍 Location: London
🗓️ Date: Thursday 6 November 2025
⏰ Time: 08:30-23:00

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Watch Highlights from the 6th Talk to the Board Conference

Catch the key moments, insights, and takeaways from this ground-breaking event bridging the gap between cybersecurity leaders and the Boardroom.

7th Talk to the Board Conference 2025: Expanding Perspectives in Cybersecurity Leadership.

Created and hosted by Pulse Conferences, the 7th Talk to the Board 360 returns to London, 6 November 2025!

This year’s programme breaks new ground with even more non-security perspectives than ever before. Introducing Cyber NEDs and further key functional leaders who will share insights from outside the cybersecurity lens, offering CISOs a deeper understanding of how their priorities align with broader business goals.

Key highlights include:

A Unique Opportunity: Question a Board without consequences. Gain unfiltered insights by testing the questions you’ve always wanted to ask.
Cross-Functional Perspectives: Hear from non-security leaders, including Cyber NEDs and functional heads, on how cybersecurity fits within business strategy, governance, and operations.
Master Crisis Communication: Learn how to effectively communicate during a crisis to drive better decision-making and outcomes.
Inspire Cultural Change and Well-Being: Explore innovative awareness, well-being and transformation campaigns that foster organisational buy-in and collaboration.
Lessons from the Top: Directors share stories of success, challenges, and growth, with insights into key areas like employee well-being and resilience.
Strategic Insights: Gain valuable context on the Board’s view of cybersecurity and their future priorities.
Speak Their Language: Develop communication skills to articulate your challenges in a way that resonates with leadership.

Secure your seat today – complimentary for CISOs and cybersecurity practitioners – for an unparalleled opportunity to engage, learn, and align with the perspectives that drive boardroom decision-making in 2025!

2024 Highlights: Post-Event Report

The 6th Cyber Exchange 360: Talk to the Board Conference was hosted at the Science Museum London, 6 November 2024.

Read about some of the learnings from the panel in the post-event report here.

Our Talk to the Board Panel of Directors 2024 included:

Lorraine Heggessey, Former Controller, BBC 1
Haydn Brooks, Co-Founder & CEO, Risk Ledger
Roger Flynn, Chairman, Cooke Optics Former CEO and leader in transformation change , Virgin, British Airways, Prudential
Rupert Lee-Browne, Chairman and Group CEO, Caxton

Why do CISOs attend?

Increase readiness to respond capacity – how can we better communicate during a crisis
Learn from successful examples of corporate awareness and transformation campaigns
Hear the learnings from Directors as they share success and war stories
Gain context! Board perspectives on where cybersecurity sits and useful predictions
Speak to the Board in a way that makes them understand your pain points
Compare key metrics and test them on the Board
Re-energise your approach to driving change and leading teams

Why do Board Directors attend?

“The session Talk to the Board was a rich discussion with two interesting themes emerging for myself. The primary ask from the Board is for them to champion the importance of Cyber security and employee Cyber vigilance across the organisation as a cultural norm. To secure this commitment the audience noted the value of having a standing agenda item on the Board annual agenda. The panel also encouraged the audience to craft carefully any presentation to the Board to focus on what outcome they were asking for and to avoid just an information update. Both the audience and panel found the event very interesting and informative.” Jeremy Schwartz, Former CEO, The Body Shop, Pandora and Conival plc, Current Chairman Sustainability and Inclusion Practice, Kantar; Advisor Business, Transformation, McKinsey

“The Talk to the Board session provided a wonderful opportunity for CISOs to hear first-hand how and where they might tailor their Board interaction more strategically to achieve greater impact at this level. By doing so, board members could be better served as CISOs educate and update them about evolving organizational cyber security risk exposures and vulnerabilities. More intriguing, perhaps, was that CISO’s were urged to also see risks as potential opportunities that, with careful due diligence, might be thoughtfully exploited.”
Graham Joscelyne, Former Auditor General, World Bank and Chair: Audit and Ethics Committee, The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Current Advisory Committee for Internal Oversight, United Nations (UNRWA)

“The afternoon discussion with the Board focused on a number of key themes, how to build trust with Board members, what priorities a Board cares most about and how to sustain the conversation as a rolling programme. Such diverse Board representation from Audit, Tech, Sustainability, Risk, Marketing, People and Change meant the participants could fully engage in debate across a range of challenging topics”
Deborah Exell, Former Board Member, Head of Human Capital & Business Transformation, Getronics