Cyber Resilience for 2026
🛡️ Cyber Resilience in an Age of Escalating Threats
Cyber attacks are growing in frequency, scale, and sophistication—posing real and immediate risks to organisations across every sector. As threat actors evolve, so must our defences. This event is a call to action: a chance to examine your cyber posture, strengthen your resilience, and prepare for what’s next.
- Leadership Under Pressure Ray Goggins—Special Forces veteran, bestselling author, and star of RTE’s Ultimate Hell Week—shares powerful lessons in mindset, resilience, and team performance. With insights from 30 years of elite training and leadership, Ray explores how to thrive under pressure and unlock your full potential.
- Island of Ireland Policing Featuring cyber division representatives from An Garda SĂochána and the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)—the island’s twin pillars of policing—this panel delivers first hand insights into the evolving threat landscape, operational challenges, and the importance of seamless cross-border collaboration in safeguarding national security.
- Industry Experts Panel Join cybersecurity leaders from BullWall, Qualys, and Palo Alto Networks as they unveil cutting-edge strategies and technologies designed to counter modern cyber threats. This session will focus on building resilience and ensuring your organisation is equipped to stay secure and agile in 2026’s rapidly shifting digital terrain.
Whether you’re in IT, security, leadership—this is your opportunity to engage, learn, and lead the charge toward a more secure digital future.
Essential Details
đź“ŤLocation: Fire Restaurant, Dublin (Location)
⏰Date: Thursday 23 October 2025
đź“…Time: 11.45 -4.00pm
Who Should Attend
This event is essential for senior IT managers and C-suite executives concerned about their cyber responsibilities.
Please note that due to high demand, places are limited to two per company.
Keynote Speaker
Ray Goggins
Ray Goggins is a former Special Forces Operator and bestselling author – you may know him as the Chief Instructor on RTE’s hit show, Ultimate Hell Week or more recently, RTE’s Uncharted with Ray Goggins. Over the past 30 years, Ray has been building and leading teams and acquired key skills to encourage people to change their mindset. His aim is to help push them to be the very best version of themselves.
Island Of Ireland Policing
Paul Johnstone – Detective Sergeant of An Garda SĂochánaÂ
Paul has been a member of An Garda SĂochána since 1995 and has been attached to the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau since 2001. During his tenure with GNCCB he has been involved in cyber forensics, cyber investigations, and is currently the cyber engagement and security lead within the Bureau. He is the national Garda liaison to Eurojust and the European Judicial Cybercrime Network, the Chairman of the EU cybercrime training and development agency ECTEG, the GNCCB liaison with the cyber training agency CEPOL and a lecturer on the Fraud & eCrime course at UCD. Paul has also been a guest lecturer at TCD on the LLM Cyber course for a number of years and provides training on cyber investigations and preventions to students and Garda trainees at the Garda College in Templemore. He holds an MLitt in Cyber Law and Cyber Crime Investigations, an LLB in Irish Law and post graduate qualifications in Governance, Human Rights and Digital Forensics.
Samuel Kinkaid – Detective at Police Service of Northern Ireland
Sam is a Detective with 29 years service who has been attached with the Police Service of Northern Ireland Cyber Crime Centre since its inception in 2014. Having dealt with cyber related investigations such as insider threats, network intrusions and ransomware, for the past 8 years, Sam has been the Regional Cyber Protect officer and a member of the Cyber Protect network within UK Policing.
Working alongside partners such as the National Cyber Security Centre and National Crime Agency, Sam engages with local organisations and victims of cyber crime, raising awareness of current threats and providing advice and guidance on how individuals and organisations can protect themselves from becoming a victim of cyber crime and prepare for the potential consequences when an incident takes place.
Industry Experts Panel
Morten Gammelgard – Interim CEO at BullWall
Morten is a cybersecurity sales expert with 20+ years of global experience, specialising in ransomware and advanced threats. He’s known for exceeding targets, leading high-growth teams, and selling to top IT executives in over 40 countries. Morten brings deep technical insight, strong negotiation skills, and a value-driven approach to solution selling.
Matt Middleton-Leal – Managing Director, EMEA North & South, at Qualys
Matt is Managing Director for EMEA North & South at Qualys. With 20 years spent working in the security industry, Matt brings significant experience to his role at Qualys. He has worked for many organisations, specialising in areas such as risk management, identity and access management, application, network and database security.
Martin Carry – Solutions Manager at Palo Alto Networks Ireland
Martin Carry is a Solutions Manager at Palo Alto Networks Ireland, where he leads a technical team who engage with some of the Ireland largest and most complex organisations. His work is driven by a commitment to challenging conventional thinking and pioneering the next wave of cybersecurity advancements. With a deep and practical understanding of a wide array of technologies, Martin’s expertise includes IT Architectures, Network Security, SASE, SaaS, CNAPP, and SOC Transformation.
Joined By
James Finglas – Managing Director of Digital Services at Viatel Technology Group
James, driving rapid growth in cybersecurity, cloud, and Microsoft solutions. With over 25 years as Managing Director of MJ Flood Technology, he transformed the company into a multimillion-euro success, leading to its acquisition by Viatel in 2024. James now helps shape Ireland’s tech landscape by uniting two of the country’s top IT providers.
Paddy Trainor – Managing Director, Cybit Cyber at Viatel Technology Group
A Cybersecurity leader with a proven track record of building and scaling security-first organisations. At Cybit, Paddy led the team that built the business on strong cybersecurity partnerships, expert consultants, and skilled engineers, enabling businesses — including public sector bodies, utilities, and criminal justice organisations — to strengthen their resilience and prepare for regulatory demands such as NIS2.
Following Cybit Cyber’s acquisition by Viatel in 2025, he is now focussed on Viatel’s cybersecurity strategy in the marketplace — uniting expertise, talent, and innovation to protect Ireland’s digital economy.
