After a long COVID lockdown, SPRITE+ made steps towards safey bringing togther our cybersecurity community to reignite our face-to-face networking initiatives, jointly discuss emerging research challenges and opportunities, and strengthen networks amongst our academics, stakeholders, and industrial partners.

We were delighted to work with our Project Partners, the London Office for Rapid Cybersecurity Advancement (LORCA) to host an event on 26 November 2021. The meeting was chaired by Professor Sakir Sezer (Director of Research and the Head of the Networked System Security at the Centre for Secure Information Technology at Queen's University Belfast) and featured:

• A key note talk from Dr John Hurley, Senior Staff Engineer at Nvidia discussing emerging cybersecurity related challenges faced by corporate R&D teams and his perspective on emerging research opportunities.
• Elevator pitches delivered by SPRITE+ Expert Fellows from academia and industry to introduce their expertise, research focus and cybersecurity related challenges that they target through innovation, services and products.
• Networking sessions to facilitate the creation of new connections and collaborative partnerships.

We were pleased to welcome 35 attendees, representing 34 individual organisations from academia, large business and the SME and start-up communities.