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December 8-11, 2025
Excel London / United Kingdom

Black Hat Executive Summit

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Excel, London, UK

ICC Maritime Suite, Victoria 5, Level 3

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Black Hat Executive Summit offers CISOs and other executive cybersecurity practitioners an opportunity to hear from a variety of industry experts who are helping to shape this next generation of information security strategy. The program dissects the latest technologies designed to stay ahead of sophisticated adversaries and provide a peek into future platforms; we'll outline the next-level skills and strategies CISOs need to bolster their relevance and we'll discuss the latest techniques for maintaining a proactive approach to data protection.

Due to limited space, Black Hat Management will review all applications. Notification of application status will be sent within 30 days of application.

*Please note: In order to create an open and candid environment that promotes the sharing of ideas and discussion, the Executive Summit will follow Chatham House Rule. This program is designed for executive security practitioners and as such, attendees from solution providers, vendors, and media are not permitted with the exception of event sponsors.

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*Please note: This program is designed for executive security practitioners. Solution providers, consultants, and vendor attendees are not permitted, with the exception of event sponsors.

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Why Attend the Black Hat Europe Executive Summit

The Premier Gathering of Cybersecurity Leadership

The Black Hat Europe Executive Summit is the most exclusive cybersecurity leadership event in Europe, bringing together hand-selected CISOs, CSOs, and security executives for an unparalleled day of strategic insight, peer networking, and executive education.

  • Connect with Europe’s most influential cybersecurity decision-markers
  • Learn from renowned cybersecurity visionaries, industry pioneers and thought leaders
  • Earn valuable Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits toward your ISC2 certification maintenance while engaging in cutting cybersecurity content designed for senior security professionals
  • The Executive Summit operates under Chatham House Rule, creating a safe space for open, honest dialogue about sensitive cybersecurity challeng

Advisory Board

Dr. Jessica Barker

Dr. Jessica Barker

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Co-Founder and Socio-Technical Lead at Cygenta

Daniel Cuthbert

Daniel Cuthbert

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Black Hat Review Board

Daniel Cuthbert loves doing security research. With a career spanning over 20 years on both the offensive and defensive side, he's seen the evolution of hacking from a small groups of curious minds to organized criminal networks and nation state we see today. He is the original co-author of the OWASP Testing Guide, released in 2003 and now the co-author of the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS) and sits on the UK Government Cybersecurity Advisory Board.

Jane Frankland

Jane Frankland

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CISO Advisor, Speaker, Author & Champion for Women in Cyber Security

Jane Frankland is an award-winning cybersecurity leader, author, and women’s change agent. Her authority is referenced by Wiki, LinkedIn (Top Voices) and UNESCO. In 2020 she won the Women in IT’s Security Leader award, and the National Cyber Security’s Cyber Citizen of the Year award. She has been featured in the Sunday Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Forbes and the BBC speaking about cybersecurity. Jane built her own global penetration testing firm in 1997, has worked as a Managing Director at Accenture, and contributed to numerous industry initiatives, including CREST, Cyber Essentials, and Women4Cyber. Through her IN Security Movement, which followed on from her bestselling book, 389 women have received her scholarships, a value of over $500,000. Today, as the CEO of KnewStart, Jane manages a portfolio career where she shares her thought leadership and leader-developer skills with forward-thinking companies and governments.

Phil Huggins

Phil Huggins

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Independent Consultant and Interim CISO

Phil Huggins is a delivery-focused, chartered, security and risk professional with extensive experience of governance, management, system engineering and practical architecture across a wide range of disciplines and technologies. Phil is experienced in briefing and presenting cybersecurity risk concepts to boards and training NEDs. Phil has designed and operated security for critical national infrastructure and sensitive government. Phil has advised and managed global financial services organisations and advised national regulators on cyber resilience and cybersecurity.

Becky Pinkard

Becky Pinkard

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Recipient of the 2022 Global Cyber Security Leadership Award - Editor's Choice (Global), previously appointed to the ‘100 Global CISOs for 2020’ list and awarded ‘CISO of the Year, 2020’ by SC Awards Europe, Becky Pinkard is a renowned practitioner and commentator on the information security sector who has been working in information technology and security since 1996.

A security transformation expert, Becky’s background and experience to date has provided her with broad information security expertise, coupled with global team management and in-depth, technical capabilities around cyber security operations.

Becky is an active advocate for promoting diversity and inclusion in business and was a co-founder of the ‘We Empower Diversity in Start-ups’ (WEDS) group. She has been a CyLon mentor since 2017, providing cyber security, operations and client success guidance to entrepreneurs. She also co-hosted a monthly podcast, Cyber Warrior Princess, focused on cyber security related commentary.

Becky was a SANS Certified Instructor for over a decade and served as a GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst advisory board member and on the Strategic Advisory Council for the Center of Internet Security. She co-authored "Nmap in the Enterprise" and "Intrusion Prevention and Active Response, Deploying Network and Host IPS". Becky has shared her expertise in numerous publications, both written and in live interviews all over the world, including: The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, ChannelPost, The Telegraph, The New York Times, BBC News, Channel 4 News, and more.

Kai Roer

Kai Roer

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Praxis Security Labs

Currently serving as CEO at Praxis Security Labs, an innovative security software company which he co-founded in 2023, Kai has been providing actionable advice grounded in empirical evidence to public and private organizations around the world since the 1990s.

Kai is dedicated to improving the knowledge and understanding of the human factors that influence security and the organizational impact they have, and in recent years has focused on helping organizations understand what culture they currently have, what culture they would like to have, and more importantly, how to get there. In 2010, he created the Security Culture Framework (SCF), a framework and methodology to build and maintain security culture, which he later gifted to the open-source community. The SCF evolved into several spin-offs, including the Cybersecurity Culture Framework by The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA).

In 2015, Kai founded CLTRe, the world's first SaaS-platform built to measure and manage an organization's security culture, which was acquired by KnowBe4 in 2019. After which, Kai served as their Chief Research Officer, where he led a team of researchers that focused on bridging the gap between theory and practice and collaborated with both academia and other industry leaders on numerous well-received publications.

As best-selling author, an award-winning speaker, and guest expert lecturer, Kai works with the information security community on a global stage. He has written and co-written several best-selling books, including The Security Culture Playbook (Wiley, 2022) and Build a Security Culture (IT-Governance, 2015), which are recognized globally as the leading resources for industry leaders and practitioners to understand and learn how to improve security culture. Thanks to his invaluable contributions to the industry and unique background which combines leadership, communication, and technology, he is a popular keynote speaker, expert lecturer and makes frequent appearances in national and international media (newsprint, radio and TV) and on a variety of podcasts.

Kai focuses on presenting complex challenges in easy-to-understand language and explains security in ways that resonate with non-security people. Throughout his career, Kai has received several awards, including the Ron Knode Service Award by the Cloud Security Alliance CSA for his extensive volunteer work for the security community around the world.

When Kai is not working, he enjoys spending time outdoors, riding his motorcycles and BBQing with his family and friends.
Quentyn Taylor

Quentyn Taylor

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Senior Director – Product, Information Security and Global Incident Response - Canon Europe, Middle East and Africa

Quentyn Taylor is Director of Information Security at Canon Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Using the power of stories and his own experience of testing products to destruction; Quentyn has embraced building business relationships across the world whilst driving Canon’s strategy and educating business customers to minimise their security risk.

Before joining Canon, Quentyn has worked in a variety of industries such as Internet service providers as well as startup businesses.

Erhan Temurkan

Erhan Temurkan

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Director of Information Security/CISO

Erhan Temurkan is a Director of Information Security/CISO with over a decade of experience working in both the Private and Public Sector. They have a proven track record of success in managing information security operations in complex multi-supplier environments and implementing security protocols into cloud integrations.

With an MSc in Information Security and an MBA, Erhan brings a wealth of expertise to the table, with a deep understanding of the industry and a comprehensive business acumen. They operate at both technical and commercial levels, delivering a business-driven focus to security that helps to drive innovation and growth.

Erhan is a passionate advocate for information security, committed to staying up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in the field. They are skilled at collaborating with key stakeholders, including executive leadership, to align security initiatives with organizational goals.

Sponsors

Premium Sponsor

Cyera is a pioneer in the data security space that empowers security leaders to discover their data attack surface, control the use of data, monitor, detect, and quickly remediate risk. Cyera’s agentless platform deploys in five minutes across any environment and delivers 95% accuracy, while auto-learning over time. Learn more at cyera.io.

Foundation Sponsor

Tines is an intelligent workflow platform that powers the world’s most important workflows. IT and security teams of all sizes, from Fortune 50 to startups, trust Tines for everything from phishing response, vulnerability and patch management, software lifecycle management, employee lifecycle management, and everything in between. Leaders across a wide array of industries –including Canva, Databricks, Elastic, Kayak, Intercom, and McKesson– use Tines AI-powered workflows to operate more effectively, mitigate risk, reduce tech debt, and do the work that matters most.

www.tines.com

Reception Sponsor

echo is redefining cloud-native infrastructure with vulnerability-free container base images. Automatically patched, hardened, and FIPS-validated, echo’s AI-powered images eliminate the vulnerability problem at the source and ensure security doesn't slow teams down.

www.echohq.com

Eilon Elhadad

Eilon Elhadad

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Co-Founder & CEO of echo

Eilon co-founded echo after more than a decade in cybersecurity – first in the elite 8200 Israeli Intelligence unit, then as co-founder of Argon, which was acquired by Aqua Security in 2021. At Aqua, Eilon brought his technical background into a customer-facing role, building trusted relationships with hundreds of Fortune 500 leaders and CISOs, and shaping the company’s go-to-market strategy.

Today, he’s drawing on years of experience with container security, vulnerability management, and enterprise needs to build secure-by-design software infrastructure.

Sponsorship Opportunities

The Executive Summit at Black Hat Europe 2025 is your exclusive gateway to the C-suite—where strategic security decisions are made.

Connect directly with hand-selected CISOs, CSOs, and security executives who control enterprise security budgets and drive organizational cybersecurity strategy. Every attendee has been rigorously vetted for their decision-making authority, ensuring your investment reaches the most influential voices in cybersecurity.

  • Influence strategic decisions at the highest organizational levels
  • Share your vision alongside the most respected names in cybersecurity leadership
  • Associate your brand with the most exclusive cybersecurity leadership event
  • Speaking opportunities alongside renowned security executives

Black Hat offers a range of fantastic sponsorship packages available at the Summit, PLUS the chance to demonstrate your solutions in the Business Hall, where you can expect to see 3,500+ attendees.

Limited sponsorship opportunities are available.

Become a Sponsor

Continuing Professional Education (CPEs)

Those who are certified through ISC2 can earn 5 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits for attending the AI Security Summit.

Black Hat does not maintain records of earned CPE credits. However, we will report your credits to ISC2 on your behalf within 30 days following the event. Please provide your ISC2 member number when registering for the event.

For questions about credits for attending AI Security Summit, e-mail summits@blackhat.com.