BBC North East Tech Hub Meet Up #18

🎒🪪 Please be aware bag and/or ID checks may be in operation by our Security team at the entrance.

Background

The BBC has been broadcasting from Newcastle for over 100 years. Now it's also the base of our North East Technology Hub and home to teams from the BBC's Product Group, responsible for developing world-beating services like iPlayer, Sounds, Sport and Bitesize.

The event is informal, and the doors will open at 17:30, starting 18:00 running through to 20:00.

🔒 This month is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and we've themed this meetup event on all things Cybersecurity!
If you're interested in learning more, our friends over at CyberNorth celebrate all things Cybersecurity within our region, and have plenty more similar events you can check out here.

Smart Threats, Smarter Defense: How AI
is improving malware, and how secure AI is
fighting back (Annie Wilkinson - Student at Northumbria University)
As AI rapidly evolves, so does the threat of intelligent malware. From vibe coding
to data cleaning, explore how modern cyber attacks leverage artificial intelligence,
and how cyber security teams are fighting back to combat it.
Join us to discover how you can stay one step ahead in the battle between secure,
defensive AI and AI-powered threats.

Securing the BBC's Recommender Systems (Kira Green - BBC)
Learn how we are securing data and ML / AI workloads at scale in the cloud to enable rapid acceleration of Personalisation across the BBC. Take away some practical ideas you can put into practice.

TBC
Our last speaker is still TBC, keep an eye on this page and we'll update it once we've confirmed!