Alison is a recognised  digital leader in Scotland with a wealth of experience of many ground-breaking digital programmes across the public sector.  She has worked with many organisations across the Justice sector including Disclosure Scotland, Scottish Prison Service, Scottish Courts and Crown Office.  Her experience also includes a 2.5 year secondment as Head of the Digital Transformation Division of the SG Digital Directorate, during which she was involved in the Digital Justice DESC programme.

Alison is a former Chair of ScotlandIS and now works as a digital transformation strategist working with public and private sector to drive digitally enabled change. 

Derek has almost 20 years of police service working in a variety of roles from frontline policing in the East-End of Glasgow through to Specialist National Departments. Having a significant amount of service in national intelligence and investigatory roles including online child protection investigations.  

Derek currently leads three cybercrime departments including Cyber Investigations for the West of Scotland. With a passion for training, Derek has supported the Scottish Police College to develop better training for police to get the best outcomes for victims of cyber enable and dependant crimes. 

Scott Hunter Education Officer with responsibility for Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety at Education Scotland.  Scott is multi awarding winning teacher who has over 20 years’ experience of working and supporting the growth of cyber security education in the Scottish education eco system.  Scott has been involved in the development of the Cyber Resilience and Internet Safety curriculum and resources.   These resources can be found on the digilearnscot website and for the past three years he has been leading the National Cyber Security Centre NCSC  CyberFirst programme in Scotland.  This work has enabled us to establish a link between the setting up of devices and accounts to reducing the harms young people face while using social media.  As part of this work Education Scotland commissioned a literature review from Glasgow University to establish most effective way to teach young people about risk. 

Declan Doyle is the Incident Management Lead at the Scottish Cyber Coordination Centre (SC3), where he helps strengthen cyber resilience across Scotland’s Public Sector by leading and coordinating responses to cyber incidents and supporting effective recovery. 

He was previously a Senior Information and Cyber Security Officer at Social Security Scotland, responsible for ensuring that the products, services, and solutions used to facilitate and deliver benefits to the people of Scotland were secure and resilient to cyber attacks. Before this, Declan was Head of Ethical Hacking & Professional Services at the Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland, where he delivered a wide range of cyber services and support, managed a cohort of ethical hackers, and focused on embedding robust cyber security measures and a positive security culture across organisations. 

Alongside his role, Declan’s commitment to the future of the field is demonstrated by his active mentoring of Scotland’s emerging cyber security professionals, underscoring his passion for fostering STEM skills and bolstering national digital resilience. 

Alan Gray is the Head of National Cyber Security and Resilience for The Scottish Government. A Security leader with over 15 years of experience within government, professional and public sector organisations, Alan has managed a wide range of security activities from strategic capability development to operational response. Previously as Chief Information Security Officer for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with responsibility for the cyber security of all core technologies and services both at home and across posts and embassies worldwide, he was also a member of the Government Security Board as representative for the CISO community across government. Drawing on past experience in National Security, academia, central government and the private sector, Alan has joined the Scottish Government to drive the consolidation and expansion of Scotland’s cyber security and cyber resilience activities, and to lead the Scottish Cyber Coordination Centre (SC3). 

David is the CISO for the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government.  The Digital Office provides digital transformation services to all Scottish Local Authorities including advice and support for cyber security. 

David has a 27-year career in IT and has worked in the public sector for 18 years.  He has worked in a variety of roles in including programmer, support engineer, administrator, and digital transformation as well as cyber security. 

His goal is to support Local Government and the public sector in general to transform into secure digital organisations fit for the future that can provide the vital services that Scottish communities rely on from their local councils. 

Dr Zibby Kwecka, FCIIS, is the Chief Information Security Officer at Arnold Clark, one of Europe’s largest independently owned automotive retailers, where he leads enterprise scale security across a fast-moving digital landscape.  

Previously Head of Information Security at Heineken UK and a vCISO to major brands, Zibby brings a rare blend of hands-on technical experience, deep expertise in cryptography and privacy, and executive leadership. 

Over the years he has helped organisations in banking, manufacturing, retail, and the public sector strengthen their security postures, simplify complex environments, and embed resilience into day-to-day operations. Known for driving clear, outcome focused security conversations at all levels of the organisation, Zibby also works closely with industry and academia to advance cyber, privacy, and digital business resilience. 

William (Bill) J Buchanan OBE FRSE  is a Professor of Applied Cryptography in the School of Computing, Edinburgh and the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University. He is a Fellow of the BCS and a Principal Fellow of the HEA. Bill was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to cybersecurity, and,  in 2024, he was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).  His social media tagline reflects his strong belief in changing the world for the better: “A Serial Innovator. An Old World Breaker. A New World Creator.” Bill also has a strong belief in the power of education and in supporting innovation from every angle and currently leads the Blockpass ID Lab and the Centre for Cybersecurity, IoT and Cyberphysical.   Bill works in the areas of cryptography, blockchain, trust and digital identity. He has one of the most extensive cryptography sites in the World (asecuritysite.com), and is involved in many areas of novel research and teaching.  He has published over 30 academic books and over 450 academic research papers. Along with this, Bill’s work has led to many areas of impact, including a number of highly successful spin-out companies (including Zonefox, Symphonic Software and Cyan Forensics), along with awards for excellence in knowledge transfer and for teaching. He recently received an ”Outstanding Contribution to Knowledge Exchange” award and was included in the FutureScot “50 Scottish Tech People Who Are Changing The World”, along with being a regular keynote speaker at a range of conferences. Bill’s true academic passion is building, analysing and breaking cryptographic methods. 

From the public to the private sectors and back again, Scott has worked in information and cyber security for over 20 years. Having held CISO positions in the private sector, he joined NHS NSS in 2020 and leads the mission to deliver a world class cyber security operations capability for Scotland’s Health Sector. He is excited by the opportunities that new technologies and ways of working bring to society and an advocate of cohesive security strategies to exploit these opportunities safely.

Maggie is an extremely experienced and respected Leader, Board Chair and Advisor. She worked within national law enforcement for over 30 years and then a further 5 years in the Finance sector. Her last position was Director Intelligence and Incident Response at Lloyds Banking Group. She combines that unique blend of a senior private sector career with the highest level of international law enforcement management.   

Within her current portfolio she chairs the Scottish Government’s National Cyber Resilience Advisory Board and, in 2025, was appointed as the Board Chair at Cyacomb, an Edinburgh based digital forensics company. Cyacomb’s technology quickly and thoroughly scans digital devices for known harmful content and enables law enforcement agencies worldwide to detect evidence of child sexual abuse.  

Maggie is also a strong advocate for new and emerging sectors and skills.  She is a mentor and advocate for promoting diversity in cyber skills.  

Following a 32 year career in policing which included leading cyber investigations in 2013 Keith joined the Scottish Government to support the development of cyber policy and strategy. In November 2015 the Scottish Government launched Safe, Secure, Prosperous a Cyber Strategy for Scotland which was followed in 2021 by The Strategic Framework for a Cyber Resilient Scotland.

Keith was responsible for establishing the Cyber Scotland Partnership a collaborative leadership approach to focus efforts on improving cyber resilience across Scotland. Keith is the Response Lead within the newly formed Scottish Cyber Co-ordination Centre (SC3), a collaborative function supporting combatting the accelerating threat of cyber attack to Scotland.