Pete Cooper Keynote Speaker

Pete Cooper is a recognised international leader across technology and investing with extensive experience in private and public sectors as well as military operations across multiple domains.

Currently he advises at every scale from international, national and enterprise across multiple sectors and in 2023, was awarded “Cyber Citizen of the Year” at the National Cyber Awards.  Prior to this he was in the Cabinet Office, where he led the cyber transformation of the UK public sector by delivering the Government Cyber Security Strategy.  This also saw him leading on cyber incidents impacting government and all cyber standards, assurance, policies and Red Teaming.

Across the private sector he has supported innovation and collaboration across multiple sectors, most notably in Aerospace where he has worked with some of the largest manufacturers in the world and everyone from global industry bodies to the hacker and researcher community.  Alongside these efforts he also founded the Aerospace Village at DEFCON and the UK’s only cyber strategy competition to find the next generation of cyber leaders.

The first part of his career was in the UK military where he flew and instructed operational fast jets in the Royal Air Force before transferring to be one of the UK’s first Cyber Operations Officers at the vanguard of building National capability.  He has a Post Grad in Cyber Operations, is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Cyber Statecraft Initiative of the Atlantic Council, a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Dept of War Studies Kings College London and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.