​CYBER & LAUGHS — Cyber Leaders Dinner

​Thursday 17 September 2026 · 6:00 PM · The Groucho Club, Soho
Hosted by CYBER & BEATS · Sponsored by CovertSwarm

​The evening

​6:00 PM — Arrival drinks
7:00 PM — Dinner & roundtable: Getting Ahead of the Risk in an AI-Agentic Attack Landscape
9:00 PM — Live comedy
After — drinks at the bar

​The conversation

​Attackers are no longer just people. Agentic AI runs reconnaissance, adapts mid-attack and chains exploits at machine speed — and most security programmes were built to defend against humans on human timelines. Over dinner we'll dig into what that actually changes: which assumptions survive, which don't, and what the leaders round the table are doing about it now.

​Moderated by CISO Todd Wade under Chatham House Rules — so people say what they actually think.

​The room

​One table, around twenty seats, personally curated: CISOs and senior security leaders from banking, insurance, fintech and software. No audience, no slides, and our standing promise — nobody sells to you in the room, there's no hard sales follow-up, and your details are never shared.

​Then the laughs

​Once the notepads are away, a headline stand-up takes the mic. Guest comedian to be announced — we book the names you've seen on Live at the Apollo and Mock the Week, and this one won't disappoint.

​The venue

​The Groucho Club is a Soho institution — home to UK comedy and creative talent, and named, in its own words, after Groucho Marx's famous line about clubs. It carries its own character: if you spot a celebrity, be cool. No photographs.

​Sponsor

​CovertSwarm delivers continuous security testing that mirrors real adversary behaviour across digital, physical and human domains. Designed for environments where response time no longer exists.