CISO 360 Dinner Roundtable
What CISOs Are Seeing in Today’s Threat Landscape?
📍 Venue: Guinness Open Gate Brewery London – Private Dining Room + Tasting + Tour
🗓️ Date: Thursday 12 March 2026
⏰ Itinerary: 17:30 – 22:00
17:30 – 18:45 | Open Gate Experience Tour
Guided brewery tour
Tasting room experience
Learn to pour your own pint, finishing in Bar 232
19.00 – 22:00 | Private Dining Room Dinner
Seated dinner with drinks in the Private Dining Room (PDR)
From 22:00 | Post-Dinner Drinks
Post-dinner drinks
What CISOs Are Seeing in Today’s Threat Landscape?
Private CISO Roundtable | Chatham House Rule
Guinness Open Gate Brewery | Covent Garden | London
An experience at a venue few will have seen yet.
This is not a standard dinner roundtable. The evening takes place at Guinness Open Gate Brewery London – Guinness’ brand-new experimental brewery in the heart of Covent Garden, which only opened its doors in December 2025 and is already being talked about as the largest and most distinctive Irish pub experience in London!
The evening begins with a guided behind-the-scenes brewery tour, tasting session, and the chance to learn how to pour your own pint of Guinness, before transitioning into a private, seated dinner and closed-door CISO discussion. It’s an immersive, informal setting designed to encourage real conversation – not rushed networking around a table.
Once seated, the focus turns to substance.
As attack timelines are said to be compressing, this private roundtable discussion brings CISOs together from the UK’s leading organisations to benchmark what the current threat landscape actually looks like in real time, and how peers are adapting when threats operate at machine speed. Rather than future-state theory or vendor narrative, the discussion is grounded in live operational reality – how visibility is evolving, where manual processes are breaking down, and how CISOs are strengthening real-time defence without losing control.
This is a practitioner conversation. No selling. No performance. Just CISOs comparing notes on what feels solid, what feels fragile, and where confidence is shifting.
Why this conversation matters
CISOs want shared clarity on what is happening now, what signals can be trusted, and how to operate with confidence when human reaction time may no longer be the primary control.
This roundtable creates space for honest comparison – what’s working, what feels fragile, and where reliance on better real-time threat understanding is quietly reshaping security operations.
🔹 No slides. No sales. No vendor theatre, the only strategic insights from Reliance Cyber who are happy to share what they’re seeing.
🔹 Just CISOs, comparing reality under the Chatham House Rule.
An evening of candid discussion, practical insight, and peer learning – grounded in the Pulse way: trusted, practitioner-led, and focused on what actually matters.
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About Reliance Cyber
Reliance Cyber delivers world class cybersecurity services tailored to the unique needs of our customers. With extensive in-house expertise and advanced technology, we protect organisations across a wide range of sectors – from enterprise to government – against the most sophisticated threats, including those from nation-state actors. Our teams safeguard critical assets, people, data, and reputations, allowing customers to focus on their core business objectives with confidence.
Discussion co-steered by a CISO and;
Dr. Oliver Farnan is the Head of Research at Reliance Cyber
Dr. Oliver Farnan is the Head of Research at Reliance Cyber, with expertise in offensive security, advanced threats, and nation-state cyber policy. With a rich background in cybersecurity, Oliver has held diverse roles, including as an officer in the Royal Signals, a postdoctoral research position at Oxford University, and as the Global Head of Information Security for the INGO Oxfam. Holding a PhD in Cybersecurity, Oliver combines academic research with practical security operations, empowering organisations to effectively navigate emerging cyber threats.
Practicalities
- There is no cost to attend. Places on the tour and around the private table are limited
- There is a limit of two individuals per organisation
- Conducted under The Chatham House Rule
- Co-chaired by a leading Chief Information Security Officer and a Strategist
- No vendors/suppliers are permitted. No sales, marketing, or media are permitted
- Pulse Conferences is your Host
Who Should Attend
- CISOs and Senior Cybersecurity Practitioners
- No vendors/suppliers or consultants are permitted
- No sales, marketing, or media are permitted
- A Waiting List will operate
Timings – Thursday 12 March 2026
17:30 – 18:45 | Guinness Open Gate Experience
Guided brewery tour, tasting room, and learn to pour your own pint
19:00 – 22:00 | Guinness Open Gate Private Dining Room Dinner
Seated dinner and moderated CISO roundtable
From 22:00 | Guinness Open Gate Post-dinner Drinks
Informal conversations continue
Discussion themes shaped by today’s threat realities
- What does the threat landscape look like right now?
- Is “machine-speed attack” a measurable shift or a framing problem?
- Visibility without overload
- When research, engineering, and operations align
- Automation we trust- and automation we still pause on
- AI in practice, not principle
- What we already have – but don’t fully use
Though forever associated with Ireland, Guinness has opened its first UK brewery open to the public at Guinness Open Gate Brewery London. Set on a historic Covent Garden site where beer has been brewed for over 300 years, this £73m experimental brewery is not about mass production, but innovation. Guests experience behind-the-scenes access to limited-edition Guinness ales, lagers and sours brewed exclusively on site, learn the rituals behind the brand, and finish by pouring their own perfect pint. Pulse Conferences is thrilled to have secured this brand-new venue for the CISO 360 roundtable, offering a rare chance to bond with peers during the brewery experience before continuing the conversation over a private, seated dinner in the Private Dining Room — where discussion deepens and business insights are shared in confidence.
Guinness Open Gate Brewery Experience and Private Dining Room – Covent Garden | London
- Address: 1 Mercer Walk, London WC2H 9FA.
- Location Note: Situated in Old Brewer’s Yard.
- Nearest Tube: Covent Garden (Piccadilly line), Leicester Square (4 min walk).