Welcome to 7th Talk to the Board: CISO 360

📍 Location: St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel – King’s Cross – London
🗓️ Date: Thursday 6 November 2025
⏰ Time: 08:30-23:00

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The business event for CISOs and their supply chain. Meet with board directors in a unique and collaborative setting to accelerate security leadership. 

As the CISO role continues to evolve covering AI, digital transformation impact, governance, compliance, their relationship with the Board may also change.  Ultimately, CISO success increasingly depends on leaders who can balance technical excellence with human factors while maintaining strong board relationships to build sustainable, resilient teams, while clearly demonstrating security’s value to the board. We are thrilled to announce that the 7th Talk to the Board: CISO 360 will return for the 7th edition. The event will be hosted on 6 November 2025 at the iconic St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel, King’s Cross London.

Talk to the Board is the only dialogue between CISOs, Board Directors from across different functional areas, this year will include the vital CFO view. NEDs and other non-security C-Suite are invited to partake, encouraging further 360 cross-functional dialogues between CISOs and, crucially, with their supply chain.

Join and share candid 360 perspectives, where different angles clash and complement each other. The tensions and different perspectives will be both engaging and educational!

Key highlights include:

• A Unique Opportunity: Question a Board without consequences. Gain unfiltered insights by testing the questions you’ve always wanted to ask. Hear Directors success and war stories!
• Cross-Functional Perspectives: Hear from non-security leaders, including NEDs and functional heads, on how cybersecurity fits within business strategy, governance, and operations.
• Master Crisis Communication: Increase readiness to respond capacity – how can we better communicate during a crisis. Re-energise your approach to leading teams.
• Inspire Cultural Change and Well-Being: Explore innovative awareness, well-being and transformation campaigns that foster organisational buy-in and collaboration.
• Lessons from the Top: Directors share stories of success, challenges, and growth, with insights into key areas like employee well-being and resilience.
• Strategic Insights: Gain valuable context on the Board’s view of cybersecurity, corporate security and their future priorities.
• Speak Business Language: Develop communication skills to articulate your challenges in a way that resonates with leadership. Speak to the Board in a way that makes them understand your pain points.

What’s New for 2025!

🌟 Fresh Boardroom Perspectives
This year’s Directors Panel brings voices from across the C-suite, including, for the first time, the critical CFO view.

🌟 Inside the Boardroom
“How I Talk to My Board About Cybersecurity” – respected CISOs share their real board decks, revealing the key messages and reasoning behind decisions.

🌟 AI Through the Board’s Eyes
New director insights: How do boards view AI for security and security for AI? Do they truly understand the trade-offs? Where do they see cybersecurity as a competitive advantage?

🌟 Bring a Board Director
CISOs are encouraged to bring a board director to better understand the tradeoffs between business innovation and resilience and understand how CISO think as a group. Our aim is to actively support CISOs by enabling strategic dialogue with board directors. We’re not only preaching to the converted.

Secure your seat today.

Complimentary for CISOs, CSOs and security practitioners – for an unparalleled opportunity to engage, learn, and align with the perspectives that drive boardroom decision-making in 2025!

Watch Highlights from the 6th Talk to the Board: CISO 360 

Catch the key moments, insights, and takeaways from this ground-breaking event bridging the gap between security leaders and the Boardroom.

2024 Highlights: Post-Event Report. Download here

Why do CISOs attend?

“The theme of CISO Exchange 360 and Talk to the Board, for me, is absolutely spot on. Coming here and engaging with the board to validate what resonates with them is very special and powerful. We have silos of silos in companies. But criminals don’t have silos. They don’t have borders or boundaries. So, to win the fight, we must come together and build coalitions of capability and bridge across the boundaries we live in so we can stop the enemy and kick them out of our networks and our organisations. This event is fantastic. It’s a great forum. Board members and IT people speak different languages. We must learn to communicate effectively to help make rational decisions within a context that matters. So, this event, this forum, is exactly what I’m looking for.” Michael Beaupre, Head of Cyber Security, Hays

“The great thing about Pulse is that you get different perspectives outside of our core market. So it’s perfect for me to come here and get that completely different perspective and speak to people at the level that Pulse Conferences attract. Talk to the Board is interesting because the business dimension is the most important thing about cybersecurity. Speaking to the board brings me that business dimension to cybersecurity. As a sponsor, we get so much value out of these events, not just from potential clients but for people to partner with, and we get different perspectives on what the market is and what other people are prioritising.” Dr. Paul Kennedy, Chief Engineer – Cyber and CEMA, QinetiQ

“It’s so rare to have that opportunity to hear it directly from the CISOs and the board. So what more could you ask for if you’re up and reporting to boards and you need to communicate with them effectively? It’s a unique opportunity. What is important for them? For anyone thinking of coming to a Pulse Conferences event, just do it. Block out that time, make the commitment and realise that it’s an investment not only in your company and what your company needs from you but also in your professional development.”
Katherine Leivesley, Head of Legal, Offer and Sourcing, Kingfisher PLC

Why do our Board Directors attend Talk to the Board: CISO 360?

“I wanted to be part of  Talk to the Board because I’ve always been so fascinated by technology, particularly cyber attacks and the cyber risk. I’ve learnt about how lonely and vulnerable the CISO feels. I’ve been a CEO a few times and always felt the CEO took the can for everything. I was hearing that from some of the attendees, and as boards, we need to think about how we can be more of a support for the CISOs so that they don’t feel so under threat. If your world is looking at cyber risk and you’re a CISO, I would come to this event and get involved because you are sharing and gaining simultaneously.”
Dame Inga Beale, Former CEO, Lloyd’s of London

“Having a plan prioritising, getting the basics right, not trying to do everything or running off in different directions demands some follow through, both by boards and CISOs. Great to have board and CISO side of the equation together. It shows the maturity of the board-CISO relationship that we’re having much better conversations about this now than we were 10 years ago.”
Robert Hannigan, Former Director, GCHQ

“It was a really interesting panel, Talk to the Board, and great to meet people from across the cybersecurity profession, to hear their concerns and to help them to understand all the different issues that Boards need to deal with and where cybersecurity may rank on their list of priorities.”
Lorraine Heggessey, Former Controller, BBC 1

“A rich discussion with very interesting themes emerging for myself. Both the audience and panel found the event very interesting and informative.”
Jeremy Schwartz, Former CEO, The Body Shop, Pandora and Conival plc, Current Chairman Sustainability and Inclusion Practice, Kantar

“It’s great to hear from board executives and have CISOs sit alongside them, asking questions. It’s a sort of reversal of the status quo.”
Jonathan Luff, Co-Founder, CyLon Ventures

“Talk to the Board provides a wonderful opportunity for CISOs to hear first-hand how and where they might tailor their Board interaction more strategically to achieve greater impact at this level. By doing so, board members could be better served as CISOs educate and update them about evolving organizational cyber security risk exposures and vulnerabilities. More intriguing, perhaps, was that CISO’s were urged to also see risks as potential opportunities that, with careful due diligence, might be thoughtfully exploited.”
Graham Joscelyne, Former Auditor General, World Bank and Chair: Audit and Ethics Committee, The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Current Advisory Committee for Internal Oversight, United Nations (UNRWA)

“… how to build trust with Board members, what priorities a Board cares most about and how to sustain the conversation as a rolling programme. Such diverse Board representation from Audit, Tech, Sustainability, Risk, Marketing, People and Change meant the participants could fully engage in debate across a range of challenging topics”
Deborah Exell, Former Board Member, Head of Human Capital & Business Transformation, Getronics

Why do our Sponsors join Talk to the Board: CISO 360?

“Talk to the Board. It’s been so fruitful and fantastic. We particularly found the 1-2-1 speed meetings useful. We covered a lot of ground in a short time. We’ve met some great new contacts, and I’d definitely come again!”
Holly Steele, Senior Vice President EMEA & UK Marketing, BlueVoyant

“Great to be back at a Pulse event! We love this event, Talk to the Board: CISO 360. It’s just so good to be able to network and interact with people and to have relaxed conversations, especially timing-wise towards the end of the year. People have gone through pressures and challenges and the good things that have happened. We can all collaborate and talk to each other. Interesting panel topics that fundamentally pinpoint where we’re heading in 2025 and beyond!”
James Alliband, Head of Marketing, Risk Ledger

“The key take-away of Talk to the Board: CISO 360 is the calibre of the individuals who attend. I’ve done these events over many years and I’m incredibly impressed with the team. They pulled this off brilliantly! I’ve had conversations with people who have budge, make decisions and who want to know about cybersecurity technologies that Mastercard cyber intelligence has.”
EMEA Strategic Alliances Director, Mastercard

“Pulse has exceeded expectations again in terms of the event they put on Talk to the Board: CISO 360. The content and 1-2-1 meetings are the important factor for us, and on the social side where we get to socialise with CISOs!”
Matt Middleton-Leal, Managing Director, EMEA, Qualys