This Executive Dinner will be held on Tuesday 8th of April 2025 in the Gherkin
Menu
Searcy’s gin cured smoked salmon
dill pickled cucumber, lemon gel, rye bread
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Aged beef sirloin
crushed Jersey Royals, rainbow chard, mushroom ketchup, bone marrow, jus
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Lemon tart
raspberry ripple whipped mascarpone
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Tea, Coffee and Petit Fours
Timings
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5:30 to 6:30
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Champagne Reception
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6:30 to 7:00
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Introduction to our sponsor
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7:00 to 8:00
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1st & 2nd Course Dinner
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8:00 to 8:30
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Guest speaker
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8:30 to 8:45
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3rd Course
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8.45 to 10:00
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Debating the issues raised
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10:00
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Close
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Topic for the dinner
The CISO’s Dilemma: Balancing Security, Compliance, and Business Growth
CISOs today face an almost impossible balancing act, protecting their organisations from relentless threats while enabling business innovation, ensuring regulatory compliance, and justifying security spend.
How do you make the right decisions without compromising security or business objectives?
At this thought-provoking dinner, with Black Duck’s CISO, Bruce Jenkins and CRO Sean Forkan, we will explore critical questions that every CISO must confront and address the growing complexity of cloud, AI and third-party risks:
• How do you prove the value of security spend when leadership sees it as a cost centre only, rather than an investment in business risk management?
• How are you ensuring you comply with regulations like NIS2, DORA and GDPR?
• What steps are you taking to build resilience against supply chain disruptions caused by cyber threat or regulatory failures?
• Is your organization prepared for a major breach, or just hoping it won’t happen?
We want to listen and understand what keeps you up at night in this closed-door discussion.
Our Speakers
Sean Forkan - Chief Revenue Officer, BlackDuck Software
Sean is responsible for overseeing and optimizing all revenue-generating activities at Black Duck, bringing a consistent track record of leading teams through complex change to deliver predictable growth. Sean has over 30 years of progressive experience in leading sales and go-to-market teams. Sean most recently led the Worldwide Sales and Go-To-Market team for the Carbon Black team at VMware/Broadcom. Sean has a diverse background in technology that spans cyber security, SaaS, hardware, software and consulting/outsourcing having worked at industry leading organizations such as Cisco, Oracle, Symantec/Veritas and Ernst. & Young. Throughout Sean’s career he has been acknowledged as a leader who has a long-lasting impact on both organizations and teams. Sean holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Management from McMaster University.
Bruce Jenkins – CISO, Black Duck Software
Bruce Jenkins leads Black Duck Cybersecurity and its mission to identify and reduce security-related business risk, resolve security incidents with urgency and transparency, and earn the long-term trust and loyalty of our customers. Bruce is a 28-year US Air Force veteran whose career as a cybersecurity evangelist began after a 2005 security breach resulted in a PII theft affecting 33,000 military officers. In addition to cybersecurity, he has led teams in diverse functional areas, such as aircraft weapons control systems, IT, postal operations, US Customs, network operations, software engineering, and software quality assurance. His nearly 25-year involvement in physical, IT, and software security forms his pragmatic approach to cybersecurity and transparency with the goal of improving operational efficiency and building trust. Bruce has a BS in computer science and MS in management science and holds professional certifications in data privacy, information security management, secure software lifecycle, and information systems security.
Our Sponsor
Black Duck, formerly the Synopsys Software Integrity Group, is the market leader in application security testing (AST). With the most comprehensive, powerful, and trusted portfolio of application security (AppSec) solutions in the industry, we help organizations worldwide build trust in their software. We take pride in offering the vision, flexibility, openness, coverage, and staying power our customers need to keep pace with the changing world of software development, software assurance, and risk management
Under Synopsys, the Software Integrity Group had extraordinary success. We grew into the most comprehensive and respected provider of application security testing solutions in the world, establishing ourselves as the industry leader. During that time, we received multiple awards and accolades from industry analysts, including being the seven-time Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AST.
From open source and cloud to AI and quantum computing, Black Duck provides impactful and market-leading solutions, so businesses can bring their innovations and technologies to the world faster and more safely than ever before. And we will continue to help organizations address the security of everything that goes into their software, decrease risk without jeopardizing their revenue streams, and align their people, processes, and technology to manage software risk across their organizations and at every stage of their development life cycles
Venue
Private Dining Room on the 38th Floor
Gherkin
30 St Mary Axe
London
EC3A 8BF
