Building the UK Cyber Flywheel: Round 2
Building the UK’s Cyber Market Advantage
This second UK Cyber Flywheel event builds directly on the highly successful inaugural forum held in October 2025, where leaders across government, industry, and investment aligned on the core blockers facing the UK cyber ecosystem.
Why This Exists
The UK does not lack cyber innovation.
It lacks coordinated execution.
AI is reshaping markets, security models, and national competitiveness faster than institutions can adapt. If the UK is to build globally dominant cyber and AI companies, while remaining trusted, secure, and sovereign, the ecosystem must act in concert.
The UK Cyber Flywheel exists to force that alignment into motion.
This is not your average conference. It is a working session designed to drive decisions, ownership, and follow-through.
From Alignment to Accountability
Following Flywheel Round 1, participants jointly published an Open Letter setting out clear, collective signals from the ecosystem: what founders need from buyers, what CISOs need to engage earlier with innovation, and where government and capital must reduce friction.
👉 Read the Open Letter from Flywheel Round 1
That letter is the baseline.
Round 2 is focused on:
What has actually changed since October 2025
What remains blocked, and by whom
What each part of the ecosystem is prepared to commit to next
This session exists to convert shared intent into owned outcomes.
What We Will Work On
The day is structured around a small number of hard questions:
How UK cyber and AI companies scale globally without stalling at home
How CISOs move from late-stage buyers to early design partners
How capital, government, and ecosystem actors reduce friction rather than add it
How the UK competes with US and Israeli ecosystems without defaulting to protectionism
The forum will also showcase several promising security and AI startups selected for real buyer relevance and global ambition.
Who This Is For
Attendance is curated and approval-only.
This room is for people directly accountable for outcomes, including:
CISOs and senior security leaders (public and private sector)
UK-based cyber and AI founders
Investors actively backing UK cyber and AI companies
Government leaders shaping cyber, AI, and national security policy
Design partners or customers of one of the startups pitching
Ecosystem enablers actively supporting UK cyber growth (including innovation hubs, talent and executive search, communications, and scale partners)
If you are not actively building, buying, backing, or enabling UK cyber innovation, this is not the right forum.
How the Day Works
Industry and government framing
Founder–CISO working sessions grounded in real design partnerships
Parallel execution tracks for CISOs and founders
Mixed-table working sessions to surface blockers and commitments
Innovation showcases from promising startups
Capital and ecosystem discussions focused on global scale
Facilitated synthesis to define ownership and next steps
The emphasis throughout is action over panels and outputs over optics.
***Registration subject to approval***