Speaker will share her research outcome for The Human OS: Social Engineering in the Age of AI.
Speaker
Oindrilla Choudhury
Agenda
19:00 - Refreshments and Networking
19:30 - Talk including Q&A
20:30 - Networking
21:00 - Event End
Synopsis
Have you ever paused mid-call and thought: is this actually them?
Your boss is on a video call asking you to approve a payment. Your daughter's voice is on the phone saying she needs help. A friend messages you on WhatsApp asking for a favour. The face is familiar. The voice is right. But is the person?
AI is changing the ways criminals earn our trust. Yet beneath the cloned voices, deepfake videos and convincing messages, the vulnerabilities are remarkably familiar: we respond to authority, act quickly when frightened, and want to help people we care about. Attackers don't always need us to believe something extraordinary. They just need something believable to arrive at exactly the wrong moment.
So why do informed, digitally confident people still get caught out? What happens in the gap between noticing something unusual and doing what we're asked? And when seeing and hearing are no longer enough — what should we trust instead?
Drawing on real cases — from business email compromise to WhatsApp account takeovers and AI-enabled impersonation — I take audiences inside the anatomy of a scam: how attackers manufacture urgency, borrow credibility, and turn ordinary human instincts into opportunities. And why "I would never fall for that" is often where the risk begins.
Drawing on my work building a human risk intelligence programme at Syngenta, I then ask what protection looks like beyond telling people to be more careful. Attendees will leave with practical ways to verify suspicious requests, interrupt the pressure to act, protect their accounts, and build safer habits at home and at work.
About the speaker
Oindrilla Choudhury is Head of Human Risk at Syngenta Group, a global agriculture company focused on sustainable food systems. Formerly Syngenta’s first Cybersecurity Evangelist, she leads executive-sponsored initiatives across human risk management, security culture, and major incident response.
With a background in engineering and a master’s in brand psychology, her work bridges cyberpsychology, digital ethics, and AI governance to drive human-centric security at scale. She is a regular speaker at the Financial Times, UKSEC, PrivSec, and RISK, and is known for her insights on dark patterns, humane tech, and AI-driven risk
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