As a Detective Superintendent with over 25 years’ experience in policing and a background in investigating and preventing cybercrime, Paul has taken on the role of Director for the Wales Cyber Resilience Centre.

Whilst working in Tarian, the Regional Organised Crime Unit that covers the three Southern Wales police forces, he worked closely with businesses to raise awareness of the cyber threat and headed up a partnership to create a Cybercrime Prevent package involving education, awareness and law enforcement support across Wales.

Paul is passionate about preventing cybercrime and protecting our businesses across Wales. The WCRC is a unique opportunity to provide support to SMEs and micro businesses, working with academia and private sector experts to raise awareness and provide solutions that will help prevent them from becoming victims.

Duncan Brown is the head of software engineering at the Cabinet Office Incubator for AI, where he leads teams using AI and machine learning to find ways to tackle previously intractable problems across government. Before that he created and led the engineering function for teacher recruitment at the Department for Education, having spent a decade working in startups in the publishing and edtech industries.

Warren is one of the commercial and procurement specialists working as part of the Welsh Government sponsored Cyd service (formerly the 'Procurement Centre of Excellence'). He has almost 30 years experience across private and public sectors, leading transformative projects to introduce new ways of thinking and working in procurement. Warren joined the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) in 2012, with responsibility for ensuring the UK government’s Digital Marketplace directly supported digital transformation. He introduced user-centred, design-led, data-driven and open approaches to public contracting – the foundational step-change in procurement envisioned in the UK Government Transformation Strategy.

Between 2018-2021, Warren led the GDS Global Digital Marketplace Programme, helping emerging economies make their public procurement more transparent, improve systems that govern public spending, improve scrutiny through better quality open data, and build institutional capability and capacity to ensure sustainable change. In addition to co-leading the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 'United for Smart Sustainable Cities' (U4SSC) Thematic Group on ‘Procurement for Smart Sustainable Cities’ and Working Group on 'Intergenerational Procurement for People-Centred Cities', Warren has also led a Thematic Group of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Working Party of Senior Digital Government Officials, focused on ‘GovTech Commissioning’, supported the OECD Working Party of Leading Practitioners on Public Procurement as a peer reviewer, and contributed to the development of the OECD ‘Integrating Responsible Business Conduct in Public Procurement’ report.

David Nicholson is Head of Commercial and Procurement for the ICT branch of the Welsh Government in Cardiff.