Clarifying the UK’s Technical Vulnerabilities and Defining What the IT Community Must Do Next
Speakers
Mike Lloyd
Agenda
6.30pm - Hybrid event starts
8.00pm - Presentation ends with networking and refreshments for those attending at the BCS London office
9.00pm - Event close
Synopsis
The BCS London Branch invites members to a strategic discussion on the UK’s digital sovereignty. This session focuses on what technical capabilities the UK must be able to operate independently and where our critical vulnerabilities lie within cloud infrastructure, software supply chains, connectivity, identity systems, and opensource ecosystems. With increasing global uncertainty, understanding these “single points of failure” is essential to protecting the UK’s digital operations and public services.
Why Attend?
Attendees will help clarify:
- WHERE the UK is currently dependent on overseas technology
- WHAT minimum sovereign capabilities are required to maintain essential services
- WHAT the UK IT community must prioritise to ensure resilience and continuity
- WHAT national standards, skills, and governance models should look like This is an opportunity for IT professionals to shape a more secure future for UK national IT.
What Will Be Covered:
- Key UK technical vulnerabilities
- The concept of minimum viable sovereign digital capability
- Priorities for national resilience across cloud, compute, identity, and connectivity
- How BCS will coordinate expert input across industry and government Member Benefits
- Influence a national strategy on digital resilience
- Strengthen professional standing by contributing to a critical initiative
- Expand networks across critical national infrastructure, industry, and government.
About the speaker
Mike Lloyd FBCS - Founder at learn-tech.io
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