Dr Andy Jones:
Dr. Andy Jones has long and broad experience in the security of Information Technology systems, which was gained during a 25 year military career. He was awarded an MBE for his service in Northern Ireland and gained his doctorate for research into the threats to information systems and effective countermeasures. After his military career, he moved into the area of defence research and was employed as the manager of a group of 80 research scientists and as a researcher and analyst in the area of Information Security, before moving to a post as a principal lecturer at the University of Glamorgan.  He has gained considerable expertise on the criminal and terrorist aspects of Information Security and has undertaken a range of research into Information warfare and the threats to information systems and is currently writing his third book on computer security and crime.  He is currently a research group leader of a security research group at BT.

Bill Hutchinson:
Bill Hutchinson is the IBM Chair for Information Security at Edith Cowan University in Perth Western Australia. He is chief editor of the Journal of Information Warfare and is co-author of the book ‘Information warfare: Corporate Attack and Defence in the Information Age. Bill has published numerous paper in the area of information operations. His main interests are in deception, influence, and environmental security.

Maksym Schipka:
Maksym Schipka is the AntiVirus Technical Architect at MessageLabs, the leading provider of managed email security services to businesses worldwide. Prior to this, Maksym worked for Kaspersky Lab as a Senior Software Engineer delivering, among other applications, AVP for Microsoft Exchange.
Maksym was born near Kiev in the Ukraine in 1977.  He first became interested in computer security and anti-virus technology whilst studying at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Maksym’s first position in the anti-virus field was as a Virus Researcher in McAfee’s Moscow office.
Maksym is a key media spokesperson for MessageLabs on anti-virus and other internet security issues, as well as a contributor to industry events such as the annual Virus Bulletin conference

Richard Starnes:
Richard Starnes is an internationally recognised expert in information security, incident response, computer crime investigation and cyber terrorism. Richard has extensive experience in designing and implementing information technology security systems, crisis management, policy and procedure development, physical security implementation, audit and review of information security programs. Richard has seventeen years experience in planning and implementing information technology systems and security solutions and is also an expert in identifying, documenting and reviewing current - and developing - best practice, standards, policies and procedures. Richard is currently the Director of Incident Response for the Managed Security Operations Centre (MSOC) at Cable & Wireless. His responsibilities include assisting customers and internal clients with resolving security related events, in which an unauthorised entity attempts to obtain confidential information stored on computer systems, gain unauthorised access to data or resources or prevent a system from performing properly.