Name: 2026 Cybersecurity Outlook: Protect Your Data Before AI Cyber Warfare Costs You
Start: 16/04/2026 12:00:00
End: 16/04/2026 14:00:00
Location: Lloyd's Library, Lloyd's Building, One Lime Street, London EC3M 7HA

Event Details

2026 Cybersecurity Outlook: Protect Your Data Before AI Cyber Warfare Costs You

Lloyd's Library, Lloyd's Building, One Lime Street, London EC3M 7HA,

Thursday 16 April 2026

12:00PM - 14:00PM

Introduction

In 2026’s AI-driven threat landscape, manual defence is a liability. Autonomous agents have accelerated attacks beyond human response capabilities. Security must pivot from proactive prevention to automated, operational resilience—designing systems that survive inevitable breaches.

Whether your business is a growing startup or a global enterprise, join frontline experts from Ctera, Cato Networks, and Akamai Technologies to gain actionable insights on neutralising AI-driven cyberattacks, staying ahead of emerging trends, and implementing practical strategies to bolster ransomware resilience while minimising costly downtime.

Ctera leads in hybred files services, unifying on-prem, remote and cloud data with enterprise security and cyber resilience. Trusted across 50,000+ locations, its Global File System provides distributed teams with low-latency access and multi-cloud scalability. A four-time GigaOm Radar leader, Ctera offers zero-trust architecture, ransomware protection, and AI-powered data intelligence.

Cato Networks provides a cloud-native platform that converges enterprise networking and security into a single global service. Cato is the leader in AI-native Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), a technology model that replaces traditional, fragmented infrastructure with a unified architecture enabling secure, high-performance connectivity for users, data centres, and cloud environments.

Akamai Technologies is a leading cloud computing, security, and content delivery network (CDN) provider that powers and protects life online. It operates a massive, distributed edge network, utilising over 400,000 servers in 135+ countries to bring content, applications, and security closer to users, improving performance and reducing latency.

Who Should Attend

Forewarned is forearmed...or at very least prepared and informed.

This session - the second of this year's 'Security Matters' Lunchtime Forums - has been tailored to the needs of senior business; IT and security professionals; technology architects and developers; finance officers; legal, risk and compliance executives; IT audit and data managers; underwriters and brokers who work in the Lloyd's and London insurance market. If this forum is relevant to other colleagues within your company, then please forward this e-mail to them. Thank you.

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Insurance Technology Forums’ (ITF) aim is to provide ‘knowledge events’ for practitioners working for Lloyd's and London insurance market company affiliates, trade associations, professional bodies and standards agencies.

Supported by globally respected academics, authors, innovators and senior insurance market professionals, the reqularly held 'IT Matters' and 'Security Matters' forums, ‘Webinars’ and companion ‘Roundtable briefings’ focus on IT and cybersecurity innovation offering CPD-eligible training and insights towards your sector-recognised CPD vocational training modules.

Agenda

12:00 - 12:10

Delegates arrive at Lloyd's Library

12:10 - 12:15

Welcome and Introductions by Jerry Adley, Forum Chairman

12:15 - 13:30

Presentations and Q&A

13:30 - 14:00

Buffet Lunch and Networking in Lloyd's Library Foyer

14:00 - 14:00

Close.

Speakers

Jerry Adley

Forum Chairman

Welcome, Introductions and Scene Setting

With over 45 years of experience, Jerry Adley is a veteran of the London Insurance Market, specialising in IT solutions for underwriting and broking. Throughout his career—which included a 12-year tenure at the Lloyd’s Corporation—he has focused on driving user engagement and delivering tangible business results.

Although Jerry retired at the end of 2025, he remains a dedicated advocate for the industry. He continues to lead the Insurance Technology Forums (ITF) as Chair of the ‘IT/Security Matters’ Programme, ensuring the market stays connected and secure.

Jon Arnold

Senior Marketing and Sales Director, Northern Europe at Ctera

Jon Arnold is a seasoned technology sales and marketing leader with a proven track record in driving growth across government, defense, and enterprise sectors. Formerly a director at Riverbed, Juniper, and RealWear, he has spearheaded major European initiatives for Viptela and SimpliVity, alongside key roles at Cisco and Coverity.

Seetal Patel

Cybersecurity Specialist at Cato Networks

Seetal is a cybersecurity visionary with 25 years of experience architecting resilience for global enterprise and government. A specialist in Zero Trust architecture and risk-driven security transformation, Seetal bridges the gap between complex compliance and operational agility.

As a contributor to NIST NCCoE initiatives Seetal is dedicated to mentoring the next generation of defenders, empowering organisations to turn security from a hurdle into a competitive advantage in an ever-shifting threat landscape.

Tim Westlake

Enterprise Security Architect at Akamai Technologies

Tim is a Technical Pre-Sales leader specialising in managed cloud infrastructure and channel growth. From architecting mission-critical monitoring platforms to managing multi-million-pound budgets and engineering teams, Tim translate deep technical expertise in security and networking into scalable service solutions.

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Event Details

2026 Cybersecurity Outlook: Protect Your Data Before AI Cyber Warfare Costs You

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