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Kent Cyber Security Forum 2021

Date/Time

28/06/2021
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Price

Free

Event Website/Booking Link

Join the University of Kent for this year’s Kent Cyber Security Forum (KCSF’21) and the official launch of the University’s newly established Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS). Alongside carefully selected talks and panel discussions, you will have an opportunity to (virtually) meet with a diverse range of cybersecurity experts from different organisations and disciplines, including researchers, practitioners, innovation experts, policymakers and end-users.

There will also be a variety of interactive and poster sessions available throughout the day, on the event
platform Gather.Town.

10:00-10:10 – Welcome by Professor Karen Cox, Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Kent

10:10-10:30 – Invited talk by a senior speaker from the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre, a part of GCHQ)

10:30-11:00 – Keynote Talk 1: Risk, Harm and Online Safety Tech: The Changing UK Landscape (by Professor Julia Davidson OBE, University of East London)

11:00-12:00 – Panel Discussion 1: Cyber Crime and Digital Forensics (Facilitator: Dr Virginia Franqueira, Deputy Director of iCSS and Lecturer in Cyber Security, School of Computing, University of Kent)

12:00-13:00 – Lunch break / networking / interactive session

13:00-13:30 – Introduction to iCSS (by Professor Shujun Li, Director of iCSS and Professor of Cyber Security, School of Computing, University of Kent)

13:30-14:00 – Keynote Talk 2: A Psychological Vaccine Against Misinformation (by Professor Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge)

14:00-15:00 – Panel Discussion 2: False Information and Online Harm (Facilitator: Dr Harmonie Toros, Deputy Director of iCSS and Reader in International Conflict Analysis, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent)

15:00-16:00 – Concluding remarks / networking / interactive sessions / feedback survey

 

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