This week I jumped on the Eurostar and
headed to the annual ISSE conference (one of my favourite events in the MCC calendar). The
two-day IT security event is the result of twelve months of hard work from the
team at EEMA, TeleTrust and Revolution Events as well as many
other organisations who come together to put on a conference that places content
at the heart of the event.
MCC
International has had the pleasure of running the press office for over ten
years in cities including Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Budapest, Warsaw and
Madrid. This year it was our pleasure to welcome members of the media from
across Europe (and a few beyond) to Brussels for the second year in succession.
ISSE is perennially popular with the media as it always attracts the big names
to speak and a very high calibre delegate, making it the ideal place to spend quality
time with the who’s who of IT security.
This year they were treated to
presentations from Google’s Mayank Upadhyay,
Chief Executive of the International Cyber Security Protection
Alliance, John Lyons (both of whom prompted a lot of debate on Twitter and in the
corridors following their keynotes), and
Kim Cameron from Microsoft. In fact, it
is a curious phenomenon listening to the presentations being given, whilst
reading Tweets commenting on what is being said in real-time. Sat at the back of
the packed auditorium it was impossible to detect who the main protagonists
were.
Arriving back in the office on
Wednesday morning I was delighted to receive an email from a journalist saying:
“Congratulations to you and the ISSE 2013 team on producing an excellent event. Some really well-pitched presentations,
I learned a lot.”
So, I would like to say a
huge thank you to all of the members of the media that joined us at ISSE 2013 and
to everyone who makes the event a compelling pull. I look forward to seeing you
all again next year.
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