Keynote Day 1

“From Artisanal to Industrial Delivering Security at Scale for Business and Technology Agility”

Bio: Phil is the Chief Information Security Officer of Google Cloud where he leads the risk, security, compliance, and privacy teams and leads many AI security initiatives. Before joining Google, he was a Partner at Goldman Sachs where he held multiple roles over a long career, initially as their first Chief Information Security Officer, a role he held for 17 years. In subsequent roles, Venables was Chief Operational Risk Officer, an operating partner in their private equity business and a Senior Advisor to the firm’s clients and executive leadership on cybersecurity, technology risk, digital business risk, and operational resilience. In addition to this, he was a Board Director of Goldman Sachs Bank. Before Goldman Sachs, Venables held multiple Chief Information Security Officer roles, and senior engineering roles across a range of finance, energy, and technology companies.  He has been honored with many distinctions and awards and in 2024, was inducted into the Chief Security Officer Hall of Fame. Outside of Google, Venables serves on the boards of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, the NYU Stern Business School Volatility and Risk Institute, the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board of NIST, the Security and Technology Advisory Board of MITRE, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2021 to 2025 he served on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology at The White House where he drove multiple initiatives from cyber-resilience, the future of AI, through to improvements in scientific communications. He serves on multiple private sector Boards including HackerOne, Interos.ai, and Veza. He remains active in advising many financial sector organizations on matters of security, risk and compliance including Plaid, The Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Bank of England. Venables holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Computer Science, Formal Methods and Cryptography from the University of York and The Queen’s College at Oxford University. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Scientist and a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society.