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PCC Matthew Barber
APCC CT/SOC
Portfolio Lead

Simon Clifford
CEO

Irakli Beridze
Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Simon Clifford
CEO

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ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM

AI is rapidly reshaping how public sector organisations detect threats, allocate resources, and make operational decisions. At the same time, adversaries are adopting AI to increase the speed, scale, and sophistication of their activities.

This invitation-only symposium brings together senior leaders from policing, government, defence, and national security to explore how AI can move beyond strategy into operational capability.

Through practical demonstrations and peer-led discussion, delegates will examine proven approaches, share lessons from live programmes, and identify opportunities to accelerate AI adoption across their organisations. Drawing on experience from policing, the Ministry of Defence, the United Nations, and the Cabinet Office, the symposium focuses on applying existing investments to deliver measurable operational impact.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Two-day Executive Symposium with overnight stay at the picturesque Cumberland Lodge, concluding at 13.00 on Friday
Demonstration-led Sessions combining concise strategic context, live capability demonstrations and facilitated discussion.
Peer-to-Peer Dialogue focused on practical implementation rather than lengthy presentations.
Chatham House Rule to encourage open, candid conversations and the sharing of real-world experience.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This symposium is designed for chief officers and senior leaders - or their strategic nominees - with responsibility for:

Intelligence, Counter-Terrorism, and Serious & Organised Crime
Digital Transformation, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence
National Resilience and the Protection of Critical National Infrastructure

This event is invitation only.

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Cumberland Lodge
Windsor Great Park
Windsor, SL4 2HP
3 - 4 September 2026 |
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Agenda

Day one - Efficiency & quality: the connected foundation

Internal and cross-agency collaboration to sharpen daily operational effectiveness, get more from current and future programmes, and strengthen frontline impact.

Systemic adaptability & high-pace insight: mastering AI with connected data to turn high-level policy into near-term operational improvement.
Inside the force: driving frontline efficiency, automating evidential workflows, and sharpening investigation and golden-hour insight.
Across the boundary: breaking down silos to elevate intelligence and case quality in service of the public protection mission.
The international landscape: a global threat and public-safety perspective from Irakli Beridze (Head of AI & Robotics, UNICRI).
Beyond the blue line: multi-agency collaboration across public and private sector to unlock near-term capacity.

Day two - Adaptability & resilience: the strategic pivot
From daily efficiency to national resilience - maintaining real-time, AI-assisted insight during active disruption and grey-zone or hybrid-threat incidents.

Operational efficiency under pressure: sustaining institutional adaptability and resilience amid financial restraint, accelerated change, and an evolving threat landscape.
Real-time AI flow in crisis: a unified operating picture during a major incident, helping leaders make faster, more accurate decisions to protect critical infrastructure.
Strategic roundtable - local value: a collaborative session applying the day's tools to immediate, on-the-ground challenges.
The road ahead: closing address and call to action by PCC Matthew Barber.

Cumberland Lodge
Windsor Great Park
Windsor, SL4 2HP
3 - 4 September 2026 |
Denodo

Denodo is the AI data layer company. The award-winning Denodo Platform powers trustworthy agents and applications, transforming enterprise data into reliable insights for analytics and self-service. Organizations worldwide deploy Denodo alongside their data lakehouses to deliver AI-ready, business-ready data in a fraction of the time-achieving up to 4x faster time to insight, 345% ROI, and 10x better performance.

Cliff42 are a SME focusing on using technology to solve public protection problems. A transformation catalyst that understands the big picture, enabling the public and private sector to collide delivering rapid innovation to thematic problems. Cliff42 is a blend of individuals and strategic partners that have the same goals and aspirations – to improve public protection and ensure technology is delivered at speed and value. former senior policing Chief Constables, Senior Officers, National Technology Directors and Technical Advisors. Cliff42 brings unique domain knowledge from across policing, technology, security and cyber ethics that is gained from leading forces, national change programmes and national technology delivery. We help the public sector define their vision, problems and requirements whilst ensuring the private sector understands the business and can deliver solutions that can improve the safety of the public.

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