The main focus of discussion will be the latest efforts around cyber diplomacy, i.e. Tech Accord, The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace, led by French President Emanuel Macron.

Līga Raita Rozentāle recently joined Microsoft as the Director of EU Governmental Affairs for Cybersecurity Policy bringing to the role her experience as the Counsellor on Cybersecurity Policy at the Latvian Permanent Representation to the EU and the Latvian Delegation to NATO. During the Latvian Presidency of the Council of the EU, she was the Chairwoman of the Council Working Party on Telecommunications on the NIS Directive and for the Friends of Presidency on Cyber Issues. Ms Rozentāle has also worked for the Global Cyber Alliance and James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies. Ms Rozentāle completed her studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, CA, USA and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Ms. Rozentāle is a former UN Fellow on Disarmament.
Līga is enthusiastic about enhancing and energizing public private partnership, facilitating the role of Micorosft in Europe and driving the future of cybersecurity policy in the EU and globally.

Join us at the next PER Forum as we share advice, lessons learned and practical examples of evaluating public engagement with research – for those that are new to evaluation: http://bit.do/per-forum.

This might be of particular interest at this point in time because we now have the final guidance on submissions to the next Research Excellence Framework. See this short post: https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/public-engagement/latest/ref2021-final-guidance-on-submissions-published
TLDR*: Impacts generated via public engagement with research are valid and will be judged equitably alongside other impact-generating activities. You should ensure you integrate evaluation in your plans at the outset to be in the best position to evidence your impact properly (REF2014 standard of evidence of PER was low, so wouldn’t count on using previous case studies as a guide).

Multiparty Privacy (plus other security and privacy research)
In this talk, I will briefly introduce some of my previous and ongoing security and privacy research projects. I will then focus on one of these projects: multiparty privacy. Privacy is not just about what an individual user discloses about herself, it also involves what others (e.g. her friends) may disclose about her. Multiparty privacy is concerned with information pertaining to several individuals and the conflicts that arise when the privacy preferences of these individuals differ. In particular, I will go through the research we have been doing on multiparty privacy applied to social media and the future challenges in general in this field.

BIO: Dr Jose M Such is Reader in Security and Privacy at King’s College London and Director of the KCL Cybersecurity Centre, an EPSRC-NCSC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). Dr Such was Senior Lecturer at King’s College London from 2016 to 2018, and before that, he was Lecturer at Lancaster University from 2012 to 2016. His research interests are at the intersection between Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Human-Computer Interaction. He has been principal investigator for a number of projects funded by research councils (EPSRC, InnovateUK), industry (Google) and government (UK Government, NCSC).

Cyber Security Challenges in Future Mobility
Mobility is changing fast due to global trends and disruptive technology. Oxfordshire County Council is working hard to take advantage of new opportunities and enable innovative technologies in a responsible way, keeping the interests of its citizens and the strategic growth of the county in mind. As always, deployment of disruptive technology presents various cyber security risks. We give an overview of where these risks are coming from and explore possible solutions.

BIOS:
Ruth Anderson – Lead Technologist in Oxfordshire County Council’s Innovation CAV team where she has been working for the past 18 months. Previously she managed the Council’s Traffic Management & Control team in the Traffic Control Centre, keeping the highway network moving for 10 years. She has over 20 years’ experience in traffic engineering, traffic signal design and managing the highway network both in consultancy and local authorities.

George Fourtinas – Bsc Psychology Graduate (London South Bank University) where he looked at the problem of Internet addiction and its effects on Interhuman relationships. He is currently working as a Data Analyst for Oxfordshire County Council Innovation CAV team, looking at developing an open data platform and combining all the different data sources held by OCC. George is also interested in vehicle to everything(V2X) cybersecurity challenges.

Abstract:
Over the past couple of years, there has been increasing interest in applying the latest advances in machine learning to creative projects in art and design. From DeepDream and style transfer to a GAN-generated painting selling for $430,000 at auction, AI art has moved beyond the world of research and academia and become a trend in its own right. Meanwhile, the contemporary art world's fascination with the social impact of facial recognition, recommendation systems and deep fakes has encouraged artists to explore AI critically as subject matter. This talk will give an overview of how artists and technologists are using and thinking about machine learning, its creative potential and societal impact.

Bio:
Luba Elliott is a curator and researcher specialising in artificial intelligence in the creative industries. She is currently working to educate and engage the broader public about the latest developments in AI art through talks, workshops and exhibitions at venues across the art and technology spectrum including The Photographers’ Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, Seoul MediaCity Biennale, Impakt Festival, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, NeurIPS and ECCV. Her Creative AI London meetup community includes 2,300+ members. She has advised organisations including The World Economic Forum, Google and City University on the topic and was featured on the BBC, Forbes and The Guardian. She is a member of the AI council at the British Interactive Media Association. Previously, she worked in startups and venture capital and has a degree in Modern Languages from Cambridge University.

Coffee from 09:00 for an 09:30 start
Sandwich lunch will be provided.

All welcome but please register by emailing Philippa.garson@politics.ox.ac.uk

Ben Walsh (educational consultant) and Jessica Lutkin (Impact Officer, University of Reading) will facilitate this full day workshop which provides a guide to achieving educational impacts from any field of research. Looking at the challenges and opportunities for education impact, including: definitions, structures, needs (of teachers and exam boards, for example), and levels of impact (from one class of pupils to the Department of Education). The session includes examples of academics’ experiences (good and bad). Participants can discuss how they can achieve education impact with significance and reach.

Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-education-impact-opportunities-workshop-tickets-57589422513

Co-facilitated by Aileen Marshall-Brown (Senior Research Impact Facilitator, Social Sciences Division) and Charlotte Medland (Impact and Evaluation Officer, Humanities Division), these workshops will support researchers doing impactful activity to plan their evidence-gathering process. These skills will be especially useful as we approach REF2021. The sessions will include: how to use Symplectic Elements for REF impact, and the advantages of storing your data in this way; what a 4* Impact Case Study looks like in Symplectic; how to ensure you are collecting the ‘right’ evidence for REF impact; practice session and Q&A.
Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/planning-your-impact-evidence-registration-57780573250

Description:The security industry focuses a great deal on defense, detection and investigation of advanced threats. Once an attacker is on your network, it's imperative to have a formal and repeatable plan to quickly get them back out! This talk explores how Google performs incident management and remediation at scale, adapting the techniques of disaster management professionals and modern open source tools to achieve lightning-fast, efficient response cycles and push the envelope in the field of Incident Response.

Co-hosted with the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs https://www.ctga.ox.ac.uk/event/life-incident

Open to all, register: https://oxf210319.eventbrite.co.uk/

More details http://www.oxon.bcs.org/programme-2/

Bertrand Venard is a Professor, Anti-Fraud and Cybersecurity Chair Holder at Audencia Business School (France) & Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Oxford University. He works with Prof. Mayer-Schönberger to understand the determinants of cybersecurity. The empirical inquiry is based on data collection in France and the UK.

"The title is provocative but it is what an informant said about his data backup."

What do you need to be aware of when handling personal data? This short session will take you through the core principles of data privacy, choosing the correct legal basis, developing and using privacy notices, and tips for managing mailing lists.

Please feel free to bring along any local issues or concerns; I am happy to take questions, and interactivity makes it more interesting for everyone!