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Back by popular demand! Come hear our panel of industry experts interview four highly innovative emerging cybersecurity companies and also give their perspectives on key cybersecurity trends.

The cybersecurity landscape is constantly evolving with innovative new solutions, especially as the threat landscape continues to pose challenges to organisations large and small.

We’re excited to welcome back our panel of industry experts, along with a few new faces, to interview four innovative new cybersecurity companies and also give their perspectives on the key trends in the cybersecurity space. Our experts include:

• Alastair Patterson (Successful cybersecurity Founder – Digital Shadows, Harmonic Security - and angel investor)
• Cristina Gonzalez (Former Chief of Staff for Cybersecurity at Morgan Stanley)
• Dexter Casey (CISO of Centrica)
• Eoghan McCarthy (Senior Manager in Accenture’s Cybersecurity practice)
• Sandra Lee (CISO of LSEG)

The innovative presenting companies will include:

• ITUS Protect empowers companies to understand vulnerable areas for cyber risk in their business and offers solutions to remediate that risk. Their all-in-one platform simplifies and streamlines cybersecurity efforts, enabling identification of weaknesses and vulnerabilities, prevention of attacks and efficient management of budget, while fostering a culture of security excellence. – Clare Ryan (CEO & Co-Founder).
• Replica Cyber (formerly Grey Market Labs) provides the world's first Secure Environments-as-a-Service platform, enabling organizations to conduct high-stakes activities without sacrificing speed or security. The platform eliminates traditional security trade-offs by providing instant, fully isolated environments that can be deployed without traditional IT overhead. The Replica platform is trusted by the top Fortune 100 and government agencies, while expanding support to businesses worldwide. Replica Cyber is committed to protecting life online while creating value for all stakeholders – Kris Schroeder (CEO & Founder).
• Maze is a stealth mode company that is developing a new type of security platform - one built from scratch to use modern AI to make decisions, instead of pre-defined logic, built to tackle challenges in Vulnerability Management in the first instance – Harry Wetherald (CEO & Co-Founder).
• Company4 TBC

Sincere thanks to London Stock Exchange Group for hosting the Enterprise Tech Monthly and to all our annual sponsors for 2025, in addition to Harmonic Security who is sponsoring the post-event networking reception.

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2. Registration will close on the night of Friday 30th May.
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Post Event Networking Sponsor

Harmonic Security Harmonic Security gives security teams the tools to protect sensitive data without the headaches of labelling and complex rules. Their pre-trained data protection models enable secure innovation through user education and gentle nudges. Recognized as an RSA Innovation Sandbox finalist in 2024, Harmonic Security redefines data protection for the GenAI era.

When: Thursday 20th February 2025 Time: arrive for 5:45pm with talks starting from 6pm start prompt.

Location: BJSS, 90 Victoria St, Redcliffe, BS1 6DP

Complimentary drinks & pizza provided by our hosts BJSS

Social drinks afterwards will be at Ye Shakespeare (50m away) for those interested.

This #MSFABRICBRISTOL will feature Chris Barber and Rishi Sapra

Session 1 - P&L Models - Chris Barber Profitability is a key metric; any profits can be distributed back to shareholders (owners) either directly or indirectly. A profit and loss (P&L) statement answers high level questions - such as “what was net profit last year?” - and summarises key revenue (i.e., product revenue) and expense (i.e., Research & Development) items. Unlike static reports, a P&L semantic model contains the detail; this allows end-users to ask questions such as “what was R&D spending broken down by a particular research project, fiscal period, or legal entity?” A semantic model also allows end-users to consume information using Copilot prompts, Power BI reports, or Pivot Tables and formulas in Excel. In this session, we will go through:

• Why you should build an income statement semantic model
• How to use an accelerator to speed up development.
• The key questions you need to ask stakeholders.
• The challenges in building a P&L income statement

About Chris Chris Barber is a chartered accountant (ACMA, CGMA), 4 times Microsoft MVP, author of Income Statement Semantic Models, runs StarSchema.co.uk, and has popular YouTube videos (over 100k views) and courses (over 1k participants) on the topic of Profit and Loss (P&L) using Power BI.

Session 2 - Financial Reporting in PBI - Rishi Sapra This session will explore how to transform a traditional Excel-based credit rating model for countries into a modern, interactive, and scalable solution using Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. Participants will discover innovative techniques to enhance financial modelling and storytelling by leveraging advanced analytics and integration capabilities.

Hear from Power Platform in Finance specialist and Microsoft MVP, Rishi Sapra, as we delve into the following areas:

• Replicating Complex Rating Logic: Translating intricate credit rating formulas and methodologies from Excel into DAX to ensure consistency and accuracy.
• Interactive Insights: Using slicers, bookmarks, and contextual visualizations in Power BI to enable dynamic comparisons and highlight key drivers of credit ratings.
• Streamlined Reporting: Designing intuitive and user-friendly reports that empower stakeholders to explore insights interactively.
• Scalability with Microsoft Fabric: Harnessing the Medallion Lakehouse architecture to enable seamless data integration, metadata management, and collaboration at an enterprise level.

This session is particularly beneficial for finance professionals and analysts who are seeking to modernize their financial or operational models. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to maintain model accuracy, enhance interactivity, and scale their solutions to meet the evolving demands of modern analytics.

About Rishi Rishi has a unique blend of technical and commercial skills - he is a 5x Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), a Chartered Accountant, a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and an Executive MBA (Hons) holder with a first class degree from the London School of Economics.

He currently works as a Data & AI Strategic Project lead at Avanade - a Joint Venture between Accenture and Microsoft which been awarded Microsoft Partner of the Year 18 times! In this role he focuses on Microsoft Fabric Go To Market (GTM) offerings including those around Security & Governance, Industry/Functional accelerators and Azure/BI migration.

Prior to joining Altius in 2017 (Which was acquired by Avanade in 2020), he spent 12 years in the Big 4 /Financial Services (Deloitte, HSBC, Barclays, KPMG) and has a strong background in Business modelling and process improvement.

He is actively involved in the Fabric Community in London/globally and has presented at Meetup groups and several large-scale conferences. His passion is in helping organisations achieve the holy grail of Self-Service BI and helping individuals learn the necessary skills to succeed. Under his community Learn Data Insights (www.learndatainsights.com), he runs Microsoft Fabric Training (www.msfabrictraining.com) and Power Platform Finance (www.powerplatformfinance.com) with e-learning courses and quizzes for Analytics and Finance professionals.

We all look forward to seeing you there!!

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Despite the opportunities that could come from harnessing emerging technologies, many enterprises find this more challenging than should be the case. Emerging companies often face significant challenges in understanding how to best navigate complex processes within large organisations.

A team of leading industry experts will provide their unique insights into how emerging tech companies can better engage with enterprises and the opportunities that these large organisations can unlock through effective engagement strategies - speakers include:

• Dhruv Sarin (Program Manager of Fusion Partnership Lab, Accenture)
• Mike Day (Host of the Third-Party Therapy podcast)
• Sian Herrington (CEO of Noteworthy & Marketplace)
• Further speakers to be added shortly

The panel will be moderated by Oli Morgan from Ventuure, who will offer some initial remarks to set the stage for the discussion.

There will be two flash talk presentations from:

• Risk Ledger transforms third-party risk management by onboarding and connecting entire supply chains into an active network. Their powerful, single platform instantly identifies concentration risks, provides visual insights, and informs about emerging threats. Gain a clear view of all potential risks and enhance security across every tier of a supply chain (Haydn Brooks - CEO & Co-Founder).
• Flash Talk: TBC

Sincere thanks to London Stock Exchange Group for hosting Enterprise Tech Monthly and to all our annual sponsors for 2025.

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We are delighted to be hosting our first event in the heart of London, at Accenture's flagship offices at 30 Fenchurch Street, on March 21st in the evening.

We have an attendee limit on the event; please only RSVP if you will likely attend.

Speaker 1: Matheus Guimaraes - Senior Developer Advocate UK&I at AWS

Talk 1: The Gen AI Revolution: Transforming Data Overload Into Possiblities

Join me on an exploration of Generative AI, where we unravel the inevitable evolution sparked by the exponential surge in data which led us to this fascinating and transformative technology. Discover the core concepts shaping the future: Foundation Models, Vector Embeddings, and the power of fine-tuning and RAG customizations so you can start your generative AI journey with confidence.

Sponsors:

Thank you to our amazing sponsor, Accenture, for providing the venue, food, and drink for the evening.

More details will follow soon!

PBI Manchester 27th July 2023 Location: Bruntwood Sci-Tech - 103, Oxford House, Oxford Rd, Manchester M1 7ED 5:40pm for a 6pm start (event will wrap up around 8:15pm)

Key note guest speakers

1. Rishi Sapra -
2. Mathias Thierbach

Who is Rishi ? He works as a Group Manager at Avanade - a Joint Venture between Accenture and Microsoft which has been MS Partner of the Year for the last 15 Years - specialising in Power BI. Prior to this he has spent 12 years in Consulting /Financial Services (Deloitte, HSBC, Barclays, KPMG) and is a qualified accountant with a background in Business modelling and process improvement. He is actively involved in the Power BI Community in London and has presented at Meetup groups and several global conferences. He also runs two core communities - LDI (www.learndatainsights.com) for people to take data analytics quizzes and courses and PPF (www.powerplatformfinance.com) for helping finance professionals apply the Power Platform technology stack in their roles.

Topic wise Rishi is planning on showing the (new) back end behind the Fabric quizzes he has on his LDI site https://learndatainsights.com/ - xml files for each quiz attempt pushed through real-time analytics in fabric with direct lake PBI on top

What's new for Power BI Source Control

Learn about three recent substantial innovations for Power BI Pro Developers: TMDL, Power BI Developer Mode, and Workspace Git Integration. TMDL, the new Tabular Model Definition Language, was announced in Public Preview in April 2023. It is a new declarative format for Power BI tabular models that is designed to be human readable and editable as well as collaborative. It is perfectly suited for use of source control and CI/CD when developing tabular models in a professional environment. Mathias contributed the language design and implementation to the Power BI product team as part of their Community Contributor Program. Learn from him, first-hand, what it is all about, how TMDL works, what problems it solves, and which tools are available. Power BI Developer Mode, released in Preview in Power BI Desktop June 2023, enables developer-centric workflows for reports and datasets. Instead of binary .PBIX files, Power BI projects are saved into a source-control friendly text format. Many people have been waiting for this feature for years! See how works, and what workflows it enables. Thirdly, the recent release of Microsoft Fabric has brought native git integration to Fabric/Power BI workspaces. Initially limited to Power BI reports and datasets, alongside Power BI Desktop Developer Mode. How is it enabled, what are the limitations during Preview, and what's coming?

• TMDL Announcement
• learn.microsoft.com: TMDL Overview
• Power BI Developer Mode (Release Plan)
• Introducing Git Integration
• Fabric Git Integration Docs

Bio

Owner of pbi-tools Ltd, Data Platform MVP, and Developer of pbi-tools and TMDL In 2015, after having spent over ten years as a Software Developer and Architect with Microsoft technologies, Mathias Thierbach moved into the Microsoft BI space. He soon landed on Power BI, but also realized quickly that the development and engineering tools and practices were nothing like the ones well established in software development. This is how pbi-tools started as a project, the only complete source control solution for Power BI. During seven years of leading a data management team at YouGov, he experienced the benefits of those efforts every day. Having open sourced the project in fall of 2021, Mathias spends a lot of his free time bringing source control and DevOps practices to the wider Power BI community now. In addition to his open source engagements, Mathias cares deeply about his role as an enterprise technology leader. Like many, once having started as a single contributor technologist, he had to pivot significantly when he moved into a manager role, responsible for building, stabilizing and growing a team of data engineers, analysts and architects. Mathias is now passionately sharing the many experiences and learnings that came out of that journey with the community.

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The FinTech Innovation Lab is a great barometer of the evolution of the European FinTech ecosystem, as it brings together senior leaders from major FS players with the management of emerging FinTech companies, in addition to industry expert mentors.

The July LNETM is a unique opportunity to hear from a selection of innovative FinTech Innovation Lab London graduates and several industry experts, discussing key trends in financial services technology and the London FinTech ecosystem – speakers will include:

• Adizah Tejani (Global Portfolio Manager, HSBC Ventures)
• Sacha Brereton (FinTech Innovation Lab Program Manager)
• Tom Graham (MD in Accenture's Banking practice, Programme Director for Accenture's FinTech Innovation Lab London, Board Member for FS Council, TechUK)
• Tom Griffiths (Head of Subscription Platforms & Innovation at Vodafone Group)

There will also be flash talks and a discussion with three Founders from recent FinTech Innovation Lab graduates, including:

• Lesley Li (CEO of U Impact), who will talk about how their proposition can enable better engagement with ESG investment.
• Stephano Di Gregorio (Founder of Boogi), who will provide an overview about how their platform helps to regenerate local business areas and merchants.
• Speaker Three: TBC

The Founder discussion will be moderated by Jane Michotte (Head of EMEA Customer Success at COGO).

We are very grateful to London Stock Exchange Group for hosting this event and to all of our annual sponsors for their support.

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