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Industry keynote

Dr Alison Edgar MBE

“Alison delivers clear business impact, with a human touch and personable approach.”

Dr Alison Edgar MBE is an expert in improving performance inside organisations. Throughout Alison’s years advising entrepreneurial businesses, she has discovered important factors that make them successful. Alison takes these lessons on enhancing motivation, communication, and agility and shares them with enterprising businesses.

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Microsoft keynote

Sarah Armstrong-Smith

Chief Security Advisor – Microsoft

Sarah is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and is recognised as one of the most influential and inspiring women in UK Tech, regularly contributing to thought leadership and industry publications. She guides businesses through digital attacks and shows organisations how to protect their people and data. Working with clients across Europe, Sarah offers valuable advice on cyber security strategies, ensuring stronger defences against attackers, to deliver effective resilience.

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Hannah Birch
Chief Executive Officer, Kocho

Hannah is a passionate technology leader with over 30 years of experience driving transformation and innovation. From shaping global strategies at BP, Fujitsu, and Computacenter to leading complex integrations as Group Managing Director at Node4 and European MD at Ensono.

 

 

Anna Webb
Head of Global Security Operations, Kocho

Anna leads our Security Operations Centre (SOC). And as a testament to her expertise and hard work she won the Security Changemaker at the Microsoft MISA Excellence Awards in 2024.

 

David Guest
Architect & Technology Evangelist, Kocho

Dave is Kocho’s Solution Architect & Technology Evangelist. He’s responsible for developing identity, Microsoft 365 security, and other cloud service solutions – and keeping our clients abreast of the latest technology trends.

Stefan Baldey
Product Development Director, Kocho

Stefan supports and delivers productivity applications for Kocho clients. He has successfully led global IT transformations that consistently deliver enhanced security, operational efficiency, and significant cost savings for organisations, including enabling his then employer, Dojo, to go 100% cloud native.

 

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Mathew Richards
Head of Secure Digital Transformation, Kocho

Mat has over 25 years’ IT experience, including seven years at Microsoft. He leads a team of consultants and architects that live and breathe secure transformation – delivering excellence across Microsoft 365 and Azure.