Terry has over twenty years’ experience in the environment profession, having held senior roles in Melbourne with the Environment Protection Authority in the Australian state of Victoria, in London with the global consulting firm WSP and, most recently, in Belfast as Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency before he joined SEPA. In all this work, Terry has strongly focussed on bringing environmental and economic aims together, supporting business and social innovation and getting tougher with the worst environmental performers. Terry is a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, a member of the Advisory Board of the Global Footprint Network and a Fellow of the UK Institute of Directors.

Dr David Pirie has over 25 years of experience with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. As Executive Director he co-ordinates the teams that enable SEPA’s environmental protection, including IS. He is a Chartered Chemist and member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Jude McCorry is CEO of the Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland. She has over 20 years’ experience in the Technology sector and started her career with Dell computers in Ireland, she joined the Cyber and Fraud Centre – Scotland in April 2020 from The Data Lab where she was Director of Business Development working with industry and academia to maximise the value of data for Scotland.
She is one of the founders of the Unicef Data Hub for Children, and always ensures there is a social aspect to everything she does in order to benefit the people of Scotland or further afield. Jude is a board member of Parkinson’s Scotland and the Policy Board at SCDI.

David is the Managing Director of Beyond Blue and Global Head of Cyber Futures at KPMG.
Over his 35 years in security, he has played a leading role in developing the UK’s cyber security strategy, including as the Head of Cyber and Space for the Ministry of Defence and the chair of the National Cyber Resilience Advisory Board for Scotland.
Cyber security has been his passion over the years, and he has worked with the largest firms in the world to bring cyber security to life as a topic for executives and boards.
David was made an OBE for his contribution to national security and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and the Institute for Information Security.

Michael started his career in 2003 in Strathclyde Police as a uniform officer spending 6 years in response policing in the communities of the South side of Glasgow following which he transferred to Detective Constable in Glasgow Division’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Here he gained experience in serious and major crime investigation, training and specialising in a number of key detective roles.

Following a move to Detective Constable in the Strathclyde Police, Crime Policy and Strategy Unit, in 2011 he was promoted in this department to Detective Sergeant and soon thereafter transferred back to Glasgow to an operational Detective Sergeant role based at Patrick police office. After 3 years and the merger to Police Scotland, he joined Glasgow Division Robbery Unit.

In 2017 Michael was successful in application to the Post of Detective Sergeant in Police Scotland’s Serious Organised Crime (SOC) Strategy Unit based at the Scottish Crime Campus where he gained experience in partnership working supporting the Force Executive in executing Scotland’s SOC Strategy.

After a year he was promoted to the rank of Temporary Detective Inspector within the National Disruptions Unit where he lead initiatives focused on the disruption of SOC and was shortly thereafter transferred to the Cybercrime Capability Programme to take a lead role in the Forces Cyber development and implementation of Police Scotland’s enhanced operational cyber response and understanding of Cybercrime.

In early 2020 Michael moved to lead the Cybercrime Investigation Unit as Detective Inspector where he is a Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) responsible for the proactive and reactive investigation of Serious Organised Cybercrime in Scotland and where he continues to develop the services responses to Cybercrime.

Paul has worked in the civil service for over 15 years, predominately working in the areas of critical infrastructure resilience, emergency planning, and finance with a particular focus on energy resilience. Paul joined the Scottish Government’s Cyber Resilience Unit as Head of Public Sector Cyber Resilience in 2018.

Kim McAllister is a freelance journalist and communications consultant at Connect. She presents Clever About Cash on BBC Radio Scotland and contributes to a number of BBC shows including Radio 4’s Inside Science. She regularly writes for the Herald and other business titles. Since the pandemic hit, Kim has been involved with a wide range of events online, from chairing the three day annual international conference of the British Occupational Hygiene Society to hosting business recovery webinars for the Herald. Her space podcast series “Scotland’s Secret Space Race”, which she made with the University of Edinburgh, is the no 6 physics podcast in the UK and she is currently working on a special edition.