The 2026 programme is currently being developed. If you would be interested in getting involved as a Speaker, please let us know. We would also welcome your input on companies, topics or specific persons you would like to see included on the agenda this year. We welcome your input into shaping the agenda sara.hook@pulseconferences.com.
Tom Murphy is Intelligence & Due Diligence Manager at Google DeepMind, which is Google’s AI division. His background is in intelligence, and he has extensive experience providing business-enabling security and political intelligence and analysis to some of the world’s most influential organisations.
At Google Deepmind, he has helped launch and/or run programs related to assessing Google DeepMind’s external risk environment, insider risk, due diligence, third party risk management, and vetting and back background checks.
Before Google DeepMind, Tom ran the Strategic Intelligence practice at global political risk intelligence firm Dragonfly, where he advised C-suite executives as well as corporate and information security leaders in blue chip clients across diverse sectors, including tech, financial services and critical infrastructure. Tom holds a MA in International Relations from the University of Melbourne.
Dr. James M Dorsey is an award-winning journalist and scholar with four decades of experience covering many of the most momentous events in contemporary history, including multiple wars, insurgencies, and civil strife in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the Iranian revolution, the demise of the Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the politics of sports, and religious militancy. A former foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Financial Times, Dr. Dorsey was based in Washington, London, Paris, Athens, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Beirut, Tehran, Cairo, Dubai, Kuwait, Riyadh. Currently, he is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. As the author of the widely read newsletter The Turbulent World with James M Dorsey and books on the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and China, he is a widely recognized voice on international affairs, a frequent advisor to governments, corporations, and international institutions, and investigator for law firms and due diligence consultancies.
Patrick Kane is Senior Director Security for Atlas Air, a US airline conducting cargo and public/private passenger operations worldwide. Patrick is heavily focused on developing and implementing mitigation measures to support a highly mobile global workforce and multiple travelers, to include pre-travel risk assessments, coordinating secure transportation and journey management, assessing hotel and transportation options.
Patrick currently serves as the Chair of the ASIS International Santa Barbara Ventura Chapter #21 and is the President of the Corporate Executive Protection Leadership Council (CEPLC). He recently spearheaded the creation of a Travel Risk Working Group within ASIS International. Patrick is also the past Chair and Chair Emeritus of the OSAC Aviation Security Working Group. He has over 20 years of experience working in private sector corporate security; most of that time focused on international operations and has personal experience on the ground in more than 70 countries.
Since 1996 Patrick has been a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) in good standing under the auspices of ASIS International. He received an International Executive MBA from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain in 2004. Prior to entering the private sector, Patrick served as an infantry officer in the US Marine Corps. He welcomes questions, comments and suggestions and he can be reached at patrick.kane@atlasair.com or patrick.kane.cpp@gmail.com .
Meredith Wilson is the Founder and CEO of Emergent Risk International, LLC, which empowers companies to understand and address the impact of geopolitical events on their business. The company specializes in addressing risks and opportunities in emerging markets, political and security risk, and building strategic risk intelligence programs for multi-national companies and organizations. ERI provides consulting, training and advice to some of the largest multi-national companies in the US.
Ms. Wilson serves as a political risk and intelligence advisor to executive management and government and has more than 20 years experience in international environments, the energy sector, major corporations and the US intelligence community. Before founding Emergent Risk International, Ms. Wilson worked at the Pentagon for the US Defense Intelligence Agency. In 2007 she moved to the private sector to build a strategic intelligence program at ConocoPhillips. Subsequently she worked in regulatory affairs before moving on to Kosmos Energy to develop a political risk program. She served as a business intelligence advisor to the National Intelligence Officer for Science and Technology and provides briefings to executives and members of the USG and US military. She is a cofounder of the Private Sector Intelligence Council (PSIC), a member of the Board of Directors for the Association for International Risk and Intelligence Professionals (AIRIP), and an Advisory Board member for the Southeastern Analysts’ Roundtable. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations and a Masters Degree in History. Ms. Wilson has lived and worked in Australia, the UK, Ireland, Vietnam and Malaysia. She also has extensive experience working in the Middle East and Africa. She is available for speaking engagements related to geopolitical events and utilizing intelligence to build better business strategy.
Justin is a military veteran with 25 years of full and part time experience. With degrees from the University of Durham and King’s College, London, he was initially a corporate finance analyst at JP Morgan Chase & Co before being called up for military service after 9/11. This started a security focused career that led to founding Sibylline. He continues to serve as a Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank commander with the Royal Wessex Yeomanry in the UK. His focus areas are global jihadism, the evolution of cyber and technical threats, and the creation of innovative and effective risk models. He is an acknowledged authority on business intelligence, global risk analysis and governance, the Vice President of the Association of International Risk Intelligence Professionals (AIRIP); a member of the UK Risk and Security Management Forum; on the steering group of the International Security Foundation; and mentors next generation military professionals starting in business through Heropreneurs. He has on-the-ground experience in over 65 countries and is a regular print and broadcast media commentator, as well as the author of Corporate Security Intelligence and Strategic Decision Making, the first work dedicated to the topic.
Chris Meager has spent twenty-two years working within the security profession, which has seen him work on CSO level searches for some of the largest multinationals in the world and place people in over 45 countries. Chris regularly speaks at industry events both in Europe and the US, on subjects ranging from Diversity & Inclusion, through to how a business’ culture can affect a CSO and the security management function. He has worked with companies to help them increase the diversity of their security and resilience functions, successfully targeting diverse candidates for roles ranging from CSO, to Regional Security Directors, and niche SMEs in intelligence and investigations. Chris holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Security Management from Leicester University and is a member of ASIS International, the Security Institute and the Association of International Risk Intelligence Professionals. Chris also holds membership of APSCo, the leading industry body for the Executive Search profession and has the Certificate in Recruitment Practice from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation.
Eugene Teo is Microsoft ASEAN’s Chief Security Advisor, partnering with enterprise CISOs to strengthen their cybersecurity programmes, strategy, and oversight. He also serves as the Data Protection Officer (DPO) for several Microsoft subsidiaries in ASEAN. Prior to Microsoft, Eugene was VP of Global Security at UKG (a PE-backed technology firm) and held leadership roles at Symantec and Red Hat. A dedicated industry leader, Eugene is the Co-Chair of the FAIR Institute (Singapore Chapter), a member of the Finance Committee at the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID), and a committee member at the Singapore Computer Society. His expertise is featured in the book “Tribe of Hackers Security Leaders,” and he is a frequent speaker at global security conferences. Eugene holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computing from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is an SID Accredited Board Director and a Boardroom Certified Qualified Technology Expert (QTE), holding CISM, CRISC, CIPM, and CIPP/E certifications.
Gilad is an international security, risk, and resilience leader with over two decades of experience operating in complex and high‑risk environments. As International Security Director at CRH, he leads enterprise security risk management, crisis preparedness, and organisational resilience across Europe, Asia, and Australia, protecting large-scale manufacturing and global supply chain operations. Previously, Gilad held senior leadership roles at CEMEX, where he oversaw security and enterprise risk management across more than 700 operational sites, and at Control Risks, advising Fortune 500 organisations on risk appetite, security strategy, and crisis response worldwide. Gilad brings deep expertise in geopolitics, threat intelligence, insider risk, supply chain resilience, crisis leadership and business continuity management. He holds an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and is a regular contributor to global security and resilience forums.
Jason Lau is currently the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Crypto.com where he drives the global cybersecurity and information privacy strategy. Jason led his team to become the first cryptocurrency company in the world to have company-wide certifications in ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27701:2019, ISO 22301:2019, PCI:DSS 4.0, SOC2 Type 2 and meeting the highest “Adaptive” tier of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and NIST Privacy Framework. Prior to this, Jason was a regional Cybersecurity Advisor at Microsoft, leading Microsoft’s cybersecurity initiatives in Asia Pacific. Jason holds the title of Adjunct Professor of cybersecurity and data privacy at one of Asia’s leading business schools, a member of the global ISACA Board of Directors, Advisory Board for BlackHat and former Asia Advisory Board, Co-Chair and faculty member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Jason also sits on the advisory board of Tencent’s Finance Academy, advising on FinTech and cybersecurity ecosystem development in the region. Jason has over 24 years in consulting experience for Fortune 500 companies in the fields of management consulting, cybersecurity, IT governance, privacy and risk management, and holds certifications such as CISSP, CDPSE, CGEIT, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, CEH, CNDA, CSM, HCISPP and more. Jason has won multiple awards including the “Cybersecurity Professional Award”, and “Outstanding Financial Technologist of the Year (Data Privacy)”, and voted a “Top 50 global thought leader and influencer on cybersecurity”, selected by industry peers into the “Global CISO 100” and most recently, Business Magazine Executive of the Year for Cybersecurity and multiple CSO Online “CISO 30” winner. Jason also sits on industry advisory groups and participates on various global security and privacy think tanks like the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network, Centre for Information Policy Leadership (CIPL). Jason has over a decade in the Healthcare industry across 5 continents safeguarding highly sensitive Protected Health Information (PHI) for hospitals and healthcare providers, and is a certified HealthCare Information Security and Privacy Professional (HCISPP). Jason also sits on various industry committees on the cybersecurity risks and ethical use of Artificial Intelligence. Jason holds a bachelor degree in engineering (Honors) and bachelor degree in commerce, and completed executive programs at Stanford and Harvard
As a graduate of Philosophy, Mark served 25 years as an officer in the Royal Marines, focusing mainly on counter terrorist operations and intelligence. He has spent the last 20 years in corporate security holding the most senior security leadership roles in several global organisations, serving as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and boards, and shaping enterprise-wide approaches to security, resilience, and crisis response. He has been the Chief Security Officer for Smiths Group, Cadbury, Philip Morris International and CRH and the Global Security Leader at PwC, where he led the client-facing Security Consultancy practice.
Throughout his military and commercial careers, Mark has been directly involved in most of the world’s significant crises, conflicts, and natural disasters, bringing deep expertise in crisis planning, response, and recovery. Most recently, he has been intimately involved in the Ukraine crisis, dividing his time equally between the UK and Ukraine, working closely with both nations’ military and intelligence organisations.
Martin Petts has over 20 years’ experience in crisis management, emergency notification, IT business continuity, and data protection technology. He joined F24 more than eight years ago, where he has guided the digital transformation of critical communications and emergency and crisis management functions for over 30 organisations. Now leading F24’s efforts in the Asia Pacific and Oceania regions, Martin is dedicated to bringing his expertise to these underserved markets and collaborating with organisations seeking to use technology to advance their incident response and resilience capabilities through technology.
Dr Sally Leivesley, Managing Director of Newrisk Limited in UK is interested in all catastrophic risks to people, infrastructure cyber security and to the stability of organisations and governments – see www. Newrisk.com, Sally@newrisk.com. Her current research focus is on the resilience of the First and Second Island Chains, escalating nuclear weapons risks and advances in bio-computing and brain science. She serves as an international media commentator for BBC World Service and other international news outlets including Australia on incidents such as the 2025 Heathrow Airport transformer fire outage, 2024 Paris Olympics rail sabotage, 2023 Chinese spy balloon over USA nuclear missile site; cyber threats; terrorism; aviation losses including MH370; nuclear reactor disasters; South China Sea; Polonium-210 and Novichok poisonings, Beslan siege; Iran; DPRK; and Covid-19.
In cyber and physical security she has worked closely with companies, governments and emergency services in the design and execution of large field exercises, table tops and board level exercises. She is currently designing and chairing a series of 10 international workshops on catastrophic risks including cyber and physical security, for Imperial College London. In London she served on a small panel of advisers for the first two UK government supported publications on ‘cyber security in the built environment’ published by the IET. Dr Leivesley is a Visiting Security Science Fellow for the Institute of Security and Technology, Imperial College London and holds memberships with the UK Register of Security Engineers and Specialists, the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, and the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies.
Dr Leivesley commenced her career in Australia working across banking cyber security, petrochemicals, oil and gas and mining infrastructure and worked on resilience of power generation and distribution, railways mainline and underground, bulk shipping, banking and other areas of critical industry as well as pioneering disaster unit leadership for major disasters. She is also a former British Scientific Advisor for all-out nuclear attack protection of the public, infrastructure and government and was trained by the British Home Office during the Cold War. She has been contracted during three nuclear power plant incidents to provide publications, reports and advice on public safety -–TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima. In May 2024 she published with colleagues in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists the subject of formal risk assessments and nuclear arms control. She has spoken at many international events on energy security including the Electrical Infrastructure Security Council electric power industry meeting in the United States Capitol and to the USA Baker Institute on catastrophic supply chain risks.
Chris has over two decades of experience in information security, data privacy, and digital transformation; leading the business, design & delivery of innovative and effective solutions for complex and diverse challenges in various industries. As Technical Leader at Cisco, he collaborates with global customers, teams and partners to provide strategic guidance, technical advice, and thought leadership in Mobile Communications, Cloud, Enterprise Security Architectures, Managed Services, and Digital Trust. Chris is a Fellow of Information Privacy and a member of the Research Advisory Boards of the IAPP, where he contributes to the development and promotion of the profession, privacy engineering and domains of digital responsibility. He is also a member of the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC2), a Member of the Open Worldwide Application Security Project® Foundation (OWASP), a Member of the Internet Society, a Corporate Member with Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), as well as being a Professional Member of the Singapore Computer Society (SCS). Chris is deeply passionate about advancing the professions of Digital Trust and information security to empower organizations and individuals to protect their data and assets in the information economy.
You currently have JavaScript disabled!
This site requires JavaScript to be enabled. Some functions of the site may not be usable or the site may not look correct until you enable JavaScript. You can enable JavaScript by following this tutorial. Once JavaScript is enabled, this message will be removed.
