Women's AI Breakfast: Cybersecurity, Testing and Defence

AI systems can now find and exploit vulnerabilities faster than any human red team could catch them. As offensive AI becomes fully automated, human-in-the-loop defence simply can't keep pace, and that gap is forcing cyber defence companies and red-teamers to rethink how much of their own testing and response should run autonomously too. This edition brings together women working directly on AI-driven cybersecurity: testing systems to find where they break, and building the defensive tooling and products designed to catch and patch vulnerabilities at machine speed. We'll explore what it actually takes to automate the core defensive loop, not just detection, but patching and response, and why doing it partially may leave defenders worse off than before. Your speakers Sunaina Aytan - AI Cyber Security Lead at BAE Systems Donya Hardan - AI Technical Product & Program Manager at IBM Moderated by Nicole Büttner - Founding Partner of Merantix Capital More speakers to be announced soon! This edition brings together women working across that spectrum, from evaluating frontier models for loss-of-control and safeguard risks, to red-teaming AI to find where it breaks, to building autonomous agents inside regulated industries. Agenda9:00 - 9:30: Arrival + Breakfast9:30 - 10:00: Panel Discussion + Q&A10:15 - 11:00: Networking About your hostThe London AI Hub is dedicated to making the UK an epicentre for AI excellence, ensuring innovation isn’t just built here but scaled and adopted globally. The Hub is an initiative led by Tech Nation (part of the Founders Forum Group), Merantix, and Husayn Kassai (Founder of Onfido and ollo), and proud to be supported by Principal Partner Google Cloud, and Techspace – home of the London AI Hub.