ICT Forum
2009 Conference

Mr Gibson’s primary role is to serve as the senior adviser to Microsoft’s customers, partners, government elites, and the public on how to best respond to the current security environment - from internal leakage of intellectual property to best practices for online cyber security - and how to improve their security through Microsoft's solutions and services.  One of the key skills Mr Gibson brings to Microsoft is his ability to forge and maintain strategic alliances across public and private sector organisations in an international environment.  He is the link between Microsoft and industry specialists, government and academia, law enforcement and commerce, facilitating the sharing of security knowledge between these disparate groups.

Ed’s knowledge and experience was gained through a 20-year career as a Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).  He specialized in investigating economic espionage, complex money laundering and fraud schemes, and intellectual property theft.  From 2000-2005, Mr Gibson was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in London as the FBI's Assistant Legal Attaché in the UK and Ireland responsible for all FBI Hi-Tech, Internet Extortion and Blackmail, Cyber Terrorism, Infrastructure Protection, Intellectual Property, and Crimes against Children investigations.  His focus on how criminals exploit the internet and his investigative abilities have made him an ideal figurehead for Microsoft's efforts in secure computing.

Before his appointment to the FBI, Mr Gibson served for 5-years as a Lawyer for a multi-national corporation based in the U.S.  He is a qualified Solicitor in England and Wales, completed a 2-year ‘computing’ program at Oxford University, serves on several technology association Advisor Boards and Steering Committees, and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.  Since taking on his role with Microsoft UK, Ed has lectured widely on world-wide cyber-threats and internet crime, social networks, and e-business & risk management.  He is a sought after speaker given his ability to bring current security problems to life and make it personal.

Graeme Hackland joined Benetton Formula Ltd in 1997 as a Network Support Analyst, and in 2002 when Benetton Formula became the Renault Formula 1 Team, he was promoted to IT Manager with responsibility for all I.T. at Whiteways Technical Centre in England.

Graeme is a British Computer Society Chartered IT Professional and a Member of the IEEE Computer Society. On behalf of the ING Renault Formula 1 Team, Graeme was a 2008 Computerworld Honors Laureate and 21st Century Achievement Award Finalist.

Gabriel is Marketing Manager for Northern and Southern Europe at PGP Corporation. He has over 10 years' experience in IT Security and Messaging. Working for leading companies within the Email Messaging and Security space, such as VeriSign, Verizon Business, Critical Path and ISOCOR Marketing a wide variety of products addressing industry problems such as Data Protection, Identity,Authentication, Fraud, Malware, and Spam. Gabriel is fluent in both French and Spanish and has a Postgraduate Diploma in International Marketing from Buckinghamshire University.

Kang Tang started to work as software developer in Oxford e-Research Centre from 2006. His role within the centre is mainly to design and implement software and toolkits for UK eScience community. He specialises in OOD, SOA, web service security and visualisation.

Kang is the lead developer for Low Carbon ICT project in Oxford, during which he has lead the design and implementation of institutional WoL service and monitoring service. Previously he was working as key developer on ShibGrid project and Optiputer project. Kang has more than 3 years IT industrial experience and a MSC in distributed computing from UCL.

Steve Lamb is an expert in Information Security having helped leading companies across EMEA to do more with less risk. He specialised in the field back in 1994 and continues to find information security fascinating. Steve initially focused on the technical aspects of the discipline and through extensive experience implementing solutions he discovered the value of process and procedures.

For the last six years Steve has been Microsoft Ltd's Technical Security advisor researching/explaining/demonstrating/advocating how to most effectively reduce risk while maximising profits for customers.

Steve is well known on the speaker circuit (including TechEd) and has a reputation of being able to clearly communicate highly complex subjects to audiences large (up to 1,200 people) and small, technical and business.

Steve has deep technical security expertise of Microsoft's product suite including Windows client and server operating systems. He also has expertise in LINUX and a wide range of networking and cryptographic technologies.

Steve has excellent relationships with Chief Information Security Officers across the UK with whom he meets on a regular basis. He has architected and managed the implementation of security solutions for infrastructures supporting up to a million users and tens of thousands of servers. Steve has worked with commercial, government and defense organisations across Europe and provides advice to specialists across the World via his online presence.

Steve is an active blogger with a readership in excess of 100,000 people - type his name into Google and it's the top hit.

Out of work Steve is into a wide range of sports including Windsurfing, climbing, white water kayaking(instructor), snowboarding and running.