Keynote Speaker

Richard Bird

chief strategy & chief security officer, singulr ai

Richard Bird is Chief Strategy and Chief Security Officer at Singulr AI. He has spent three decades inside the system he critiques, moving from executive roles in global banking and corporate technology into start-ups and public advocacy. He publishes The Hacker in a Hoodie Index, a live record of what cyber incidents actually cost, and is the author of three books: Famous With 12 People, the forthcoming Built Wrong: Why Cybersecurity Keeps Failing and How We Can Rebuild It, and its companion volume The Verified Security Framework. He speaks around the world to rooms that range from dinners with boards of directors to conference halls in front of thousands.

In his keynote, It Was Already Broken Before AI Showed Up, Richard challenges the idea that AI created an entirely new set of cybersecurity problems. Instead, he’ll examine what AI has exposed and accelerated, from longstanding gaps in security controls to cybercrime, privacy risks, and the impact on vulnerable populations.

Attendees will leave with a practical way to evaluate AI security investments, distinguish truly new risks from existing problems moving at greater speed, and identify where fixing the foundation matters more than adding another layer of technology.