Joanne is a critical thinker who enjoys a fast-paced environment. She excels at building relationships with peers, partners, and leaders. She has a passion for continuous education, helping others learn and build next-generation skills by creating world-class learning experiences.

Responsible for leading the cybersecurity awareness training program for an employee base of 90k team members worldwide. Joanne has experience of working in a rapid and agile environment, directly leading the creation and on-going maintenance of cybersecurity awareness training, communications and culture change within HPE. Her role included creating strategic and long-term plans for the team for global dissemination to spread cybersecurity awareness on a company level.

Joanne recently graduated with a Masters from MTU in eLearning Design & Development in which her thesis investigated the benefits of gamification and its effect on continuance intention in relation to phishing awareness training.

Joanne sits n the board of Cyber Ireland within the Talent & Skills working group.

Joanne has a passion for all things Gamification and the Human centric side of the Cyber sphere. She has featured in several articles from TripWire, Silicon Republic, Dark Reading & Sunday Business Post.

Louise is a member of the European Union’s ENISA ad hoc working group on raising Cybersecurity Awareness.

Louise was the Cybersecuity Education and Awareness Officer in Northern Ireland Water, where she developed a cyber awareness survey and Cybersecurity Awareness Program from the findings.

Louise has an academic background. She holds and an MSc in Cyberpsychology – and her MSc thesis “Cybertrends” is a book chapter in the text “Cyberpsychology and Society” (Power, A, 2018).

She is doing a Doctorate in Queens University Belfast. Components of research findings from her doctoral studies “The Human Element of Cybersecurity” were chosen to be presented formally to the Home Office in the United Kingdom.

Louise is a contributing member of The Children’s Research Network Special Interest Group Child Sexual Abuse and Child Exploitation.

Annie leads the Threat Insights Team for HPEs Fusion Center. Her team is responsible for Global Security’s SIEM Security Information and Event Mgmt System. Annie holds a Higher Diploma in Systems Analysis and Design and a Masters in Software Design with Cyber Security. Annie is also PMP and Green Belt Certified.

Annie is passionate about equipping people with the necessary knowledge and tools to adequately protect themselves online. As a member of HPEs Women in Security group she developed and delivered the Cyber Awareness Program for children online and in person to schools across Galway.

Annie is a vocal advocate for greater diversity within the Cyber Security field, and, having moved from IT to Cyber enjoys raising awareness and attracting new talent into the sector, especially those who may not have yet considered Cyber Security as a career.

Laura Blake is the marketing manager at Cyber Skills. She is passionate about all things marketing and has extensive experience ranging from event management and coordination to digital marketing, brand creation, public relations, as well as stakeholder and sponsorship management. Since completing her MSc in Marketing Practice from Munster Technological University in 2019, Laura has worked in both the B2B and B2C markets creating and managing marketing strategies to build relationships for organisations.

Laura’s current role includes developing and executing marketing campaigns along with creating and managing digital and traditional marketing content in order to position Cyber Skills as Irelands number one cyber security education provider. Laura also manages all Cyber Skills events and played an integral part in launching 'The State of the Cyber Security Sector in Ireland' report this year in Dublin.

I am a lover of literature and a keen academic in pursuit of knowledge in every venture undertaken. I began my academic adventures, focusing on Child Care and Education (CACHE Diploma 2007-2009). I have since continued on, to complete a Bachelor of Social Science Degree (Double Major in Philosophy and Social Policy) in National University of Ireland Maynooth in 2017-2020, and have most recently graduated with First Class Honours in a Master of Social Science (Rights and Policy) Degree, National University of Ireland Maynooth in 2021. Throughout my four years of study in Maynooth University, I have been an active member of the community, engaging as an Orientation Leader, MAP Ambassador and in Social Justice week programmes and events.

I am continually educating myself upon these fields and actively researching, in order to generate purposeful change. My pursued areas of study and research focuses heavily in the sphere of domestic violence, with aspirations to highlight the nature of its varying forms, concentrating on the digital aspects of abuse, and responses to this evolving medium of abuse in our ever changing physical and digital climate.

Outside of academia, I am an active composer and multi-instrumentalist who enjoys spending time with family and friends, and having nature adventures.

Lisa Marmion joined Safe Ireland in October 2017 as its Services Development Manager.

Holding a BSc (Hons) Social Psychology from Ulster University Coleraine, an MSc Applied Psychology from Ulster University at Jordanstown and currently completing a PhD with Trinity College Dublin titled: Multiple Perspectives on father engagement in the context of Domestic Violence, Lisa brings a wealth of experience and knowledge of Domestic Violence. Having worked in Women’s Aid Dundalk for 17 years, Lisa is part of the development and lecturing team in Dundalk Institute of Technology on the Certificate in Fundamentals in Understanding and Responding to Domestic Abuse (Level 8).

Claire Kearney is a graduate of Middlesex University with a first class honours degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy. She also holds a Diploma in Biodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychology from the Gerda Boyesen International Institute. Claire is working with Safe Ireland since 2007 and currently works in the Education and Training Department. Prior to this and as a qualified psychotherapist, she was the first point of contact for women who contacted Safe Ireland, the general public and our Safe Ireland members. She holds a Level 8 Certificate in Fundamentals of Understanding and Responding to Domestic Abuse from DKIT.

Connor has over 20 years of industry experience in cyber security, including management roles in regulated sectors. He joined HPE in 2018, where he has held various cyber risk and compliance roles, including third-party vendor compliance, and application security compliance. These were key roles in evaluating the state of compliance and associated risk across the company, its technology operations, software applications and service providers. He also acted as point of escalation for complex compliance issues, to drive closure/remediation. Connor subsequently transitioned to the role of compliance lead within global security, refining and streamlining compliance evaluation processes, to drive the implementation of a “shift-left” strategy. He currently leads the data analytics function for HPE’s Global Security organisation. Connor is a passionate advocate for helping people understand and protect themselves in the digital world, and has delivered a Cyber Awareness Program developed by the HPE Women in Security group, online and in person to schools around Galway. Connor holds a BTech from the University of Limerick, an MSc in Computing in Cyber Security from Atlantic Technological University, Letterkenny, and is a current ISC2 CISSP.

Annick is the Chief Operating Officer for Cybsafe, a British cyber security and data analytics company that builds software which goes beyond cyber security training to change behaviour and reduce human-cyber risk.

Annick is a certified cyber risk officer and dual qualified lawyer (England, Wales and Ireland) with wide business experience internationally and across sectors. Bi-lingual, tech savvy and continually curious, Annick brings energy and dynamism to cyber.

An expert in defining, driving and maintaining compliance & risk-management frameworks, she is a confirmed executive of culture & behavioural change. She has extensive experience in corporate conduct and training. with a special focus on cyber, privacy, data protection and information security.

Annick speaks and writes widely on the topic, as a host and panelist. She is an ambassador for the ICTTF, the working group chair for Swiss Cyber Institute and has co-founded a group "Diversity in Privacy" in order to bring new ways of thinking to the cyber compliance challenges.

Annick motivates and disrupts whilst maintaining operational excellence. Annick’s primary strength is her business-centric approach which understands crucial value chain and works to enable and autonomise compliance in business-as-usual processes and structures.

I'm a cybersecurity lecturer/course creator at UCD Professional Academy and entrepreneur (www.fortifyinstitute.com). I have a passion for teaching and learning and work to close the cyber skills gap by encouraging more women and underrepresented groups into the security industry. I’m on the Board of Cyber Women Ireland and I’m a member of the ENISA AHWG for Cybersecurity Markets.

I hold a MEd and MSc in Cyber Security and I am an eternal student who loves nothing more than adding another cert or qualification to my collection. I work with SMEs rebuilding and securing their businesses after the impact of Covid-19 and mentor women who, like me, got into infosec after 40.