Cyber Scotland Connect: Leith (Edinburgh) Meetup
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
18:00 – 21:00 BST
Season Quayside, 72 Commercial St, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6LX
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Evening Agenda & Schedule
9 itemsDoors Open
Welcome
The AI Kill Switch: Building Failsafes for Smart Cities Under Cyber Siege
Short Break
Full-Cycle LLM Development for Privacy-Critical Domains Using CPU & Open Tools
Phishing, Spoofing, and Trusted Communications in 2025
Networking
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Featured Speakers & Sessions
Meletius Igbokwe
"The AI Kill Switch: Building Failsafes for Smart Cities Under Cyber Siege"
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.
Rory McCune
"So you've deployed Kubernetes Everywhere, now what?"
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.
Sergey Sergyenko
"Full-Cycle LLM Development for Privacy-Critical Domains Using CPU & Open Tools"
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, exploring the Llama.cpp inference engine and related GGML tools as alternatives to resource-intensive GPU or massive cloud deployments. The goal is to establish local, private infrastructure where continuous learning (fine-tuning) remains accessible and efficient.
Jacob Duane
"Phishing, Spoofing, and Trusted Communications in 2025"
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.
An evening meetup in Leith at Season Quayside, with refreshments kindly sponsored by ExtraHop. Four talks covered AI failsafes for smart city infrastructure, Kubernetes security architecture, private CPU-based LLM development for privacy-critical domains, and the evolving state of phishing and trusted communications.