Cyber Scotland Connect: Leith (Edinburgh) Meetup!

Cyber Scotland Connect is thrilled to announce our next event in Leith (Edinburgh), with our venue at Season Quayside and refreshments being kindly sponsored by Extrahop!

Please note that we have a limit of 70 attendees, so please update your RSVP if you can no longer make it.

Agenda

• 18:00 - Doors Open
• 18:25 - Harry from CSC: Welcome!
• 18:30 - The AI Kill Switch: Building Failsafes for Smart Cities Under Cyber Siege / Meletius Igbokwe
  Explores the rising threat of AI-powered cyberattacks on urban infrastructure and presents a practical framework for designing intelligent backup plans that can contain threats before they cause systemic disruption.
• 19:00 - So you've deployed Kubernetes Everywhere, now what? / Rory McCune
  10 years after its release, Kubernetes has become the pre-eminent way of orchestrating and managing containerized applications, with millions of clusters deployed across a wide variety of industries. This talk will look at its security architecture, talk about some of the surprising security choices made by the project, their consequences for security teams, and how we can fix (some) of them.
• 19:30 - Short Break
• 19:45 - Full-Cycle LLM Development for Privacy-Critical Domains Using CPU & Open Tools / Sergey Sergyenko
  Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to do a full AI model development and deployment lifecycle with open tools only?
  This session introduces a powerful CPU-based approach for local model inference, focusing on privacy-critical domains like healthcare. Sergy Sergyenko will explore the Llama.cpp ((https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp) inference engine and related GGML tools as key components in challenging traditional, resource-intensive GPU or massive cloud alternatives. The goal is to establish local, private infrastructure where continuous learning (fine-tuning) remains accessible and efficient.
• 20:15 - Phishing, Spoofing, and Trusted Communications in 2025 / Jacob Duane
  Phishing and spoofing have become much easier and much harder to detect at the same time. Authentication improvements are being rolled out by Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo, yet deepfakes and AI are changing the game.
• 20:45 - Networking
• 21:00 - Close!

Please ensure you RSVP to this event, as we're limited in the number of people we can accommodate.

Time/Date: Wednesday, 8 October 18:00 – 21:00

Location: Season Quayside, 72 Commercial St, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6LX

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