We are currently inviting Speakers. Our programmes are organic to ensure that we bring you the very latest perspectives.
If you would be interested in getting involved as a Speaker, or if there are colleagues, peers or luminaries you would like to see on stage, please let us know.
Email: teampulse@pulseconferences.com.
These are your agendas.
Recent Directors on the Talk to the Board Panel have included:
- Susan Hooper, Non Executive Director, Uber, Non Executive Director, Chair of the Remuneration Committee, ESG Lead, DNED Workforce, Moonpig
- Dr Mark Carawan, Board Member and Chair of the Board Audit Committee, The Bank of London Group; Board and Chair of the Risk Committee, Euroclear UK and International
- Peter Davies, Former CEO, Air Malta. CEO, Airline Management Group
- Carolyn Brown, CIO, British Medical Association and Board Trustee, Association for Project Management
- Lorraine Heggessey, Former Controller of BBC One
- Josephine Fairley, Co-Founder, Green & Black’s
- Dame Inga Beale, former CEO, Lloyd’s of London
- Robert Hannigan, Former Director, GCHQ
- Mike Coupe, Fomer CEO, Sainsbury’s
- Roger Flynn, Former CEO and leader in transformation change, Virgin, British Airways, Prudential
- Rupert Lee-Browne, Group Chief Executive, Caxton
- Daniel Bobroff, Founder and CEO, DUWL, and Former Co-Founder, ASOS Ventures
- Laura Tenison MBE, Former Founder & CEO, JoJo Maman Bébé
- Haydn Brooks, CEO & Co-Founder, Risk Ledger
- Dr. Alan Knight OBE, Group Director of Sustainability, Drax
- Julian Wheatland, former Chair of SCL Group and COO and CFO of Cambridge Analytica
- John Hutson, Chief Executive, Officer, JD Wetherspoon plc.
- Air Marshal Sir Christopher Coville, Senior Defence Advisor, EMC and BT. Former Chairman, Westland Helicopters
- Robin Dargue, Global CIO, WPP
2026 Speakers including (partial list):
Steve Hill is an independent strategic adviser, helping Boards to navigate geopolitics, national security and cybersecurity challenges. Steve served as the Group CISO at Credit Suisse and deputy Group CISO at UBS until August 2024. His previous appointments at Credit Suisse included Global Head of Operational Resilience and Group Head of Technology, Cyber and Third Party Risk.
Steve served in the British Government for over thirty years, including as Deputy Director in the National Security Secretariat of the UK Cabinet Office, with responsibility for aspects of cybersecurity policy. For over thirty years, Steve worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in a variety of National Security roles with a focus on transnational threats including terrorism and weapons proliferation. He served overseas in Vienna, Washington, Dubai, Kabul and New York. Steve is a senior visiting research fellow at King’s College, London. He sits on several global advisory boards including those of Dell Technologies, Venari and Twine.
Alan was formerly Group CISO at Babcock International, UK CSO at CSC and T-Systems, an Associate Partner at IBM Security, and served in the Royal Air Force for 21 years.

