Signal Sessions

The right people,
in the same room,
talking properly.

In person gatherings, by invitation built around discussion rather than presentation. Attendance is deliberately limited and the room carefully curated, so it behaves like a conversation and not an audience.

By invitation · In person · Chatham House Rule

Forthcoming

Four Sessions, through to January.

Signal Sessions London

BFI Stephen Street, 21 Stephen Street, London W1T 1LN

A full day of moderated conversation under the Chatham House Rule, with two thirty minute sessions on the human side of security and on developing people.

Moderator, two panellists, two special guests and host confirmed.

Moderator, panel and special guests confirmed.

Signal Sessions Cardiff

Cardiff. Venue to be announced.

Same format, same rules, a new room.

Event partner confirmed. Moderator, panel and guests to be announced.

Attendance by invitation. Requests open.

Signal Year End Review & Party

London. Venue to be announced.

A day reviewing the year with the people who lived it, then an evening of drinks, celebration and music.

Participants to be announced.

Attendance arrangements being finalised. Register interest.

Signal Sessions Glasgow

Glasgow. Venue to be announced.

The first stop in the wider Signal roadshow. An invitation led day for CISOs and senior security leaders, run the way every Session is run.

Moderator, panel and guests to be announced.

Attendance by invitation. Requests open.

What a Session is

No slides to sit through. No pitches to survive.

Security leaders rarely need more information. They need somewhere they can test their thinking against people carrying similar responsibility.

A moderator opens the day, practitioners bring experience from the front line including the parts that did not go to plan, and then the room takes over. The agenda follows what the people present are actually dealing with.

Everyone contributes. Nobody performs.

  • 01Curated roomsAttendance is deliberately limited and carefully composed so the room behaves like a conversation, not an audience.
  • 02Real problemsThe subjects come from the people present, not from a marketing agenda.
  • 03Chatham House RuleWhat is heard may be used. Who said it may not be repeated.
Archive

Previous Sessions.

Sessions have run at the BFI and in Bloomsbury in London, and in Cardiff. They run under the Chatham House Rule, so anything published from a room is agreed first and never attributed.

Partners

Partners take part in the room, not on a stage.

Partner opportunities are available at Cardiff, Year End and Glasgow, shaped around relevance and fit. No exhibition hall, no sales presentation, no bought audience. Partner participation does not confer access to the online member community.

Between Sessions

The conversation carries on in the community.

Sessions happen a few times a year. The online community runs all the time, and it is where most of the value is.