Want to know how to frame your skills for emerging careers in cyber security?

In an increasingly digitised age, the cyber challenges we face are increasingly diverse. It's critical that we have an equally diverse cyber workforce to match.

Whether you have experience or study within arts & humanities, social & historical sciences, or education & society, join the Global Shapers London Hub for an interactive session on demystifying routes into cyber and hear about the mosaic of roles available (e.g., programme management; policy; education & awareness).

Isabel Scavetta (Checkout.com) and Kathy Liu (Amazon Web Services) will share their journeys overcoming the confidence gap and walk you through tailored transferable skills mappings that chart the paths from underrepresented talent pools, such as different arts and humanities disciplines, into cyber security.

This workshop is part of their award-winning Inclusive Cyber project from the Global Shapers London hub, which is part of the Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. These sessions aim to empower underrepresented talent from overlooked and atypical backgrounds to break into cybersecurity. They have delivered these workshops globally across the UK, Canada, the US and Rwanda.

About our speakers

Isabel Scavetta

As a multi-award-winning technology advocate, Isabel is a recognised champion of building a digital future that reflects the society we live in. As the London Lead of the Inclusive Cyber at the World Economic Forum Global Shapers, she has introduced 100s of non-STEM students to cyber careers, and promotes the next generation in technology to enterprises and policymakers on the national and international stage. Her expertise has been featured by organisations including BBC News, the Financial Times, the UK Cybersecurity Council, Microsoft, Code First Girls, the Chatham House Journal of Cyber Policy & several industry podcasts.

Across her product management career, she encourages the industry to take a people-first view on cybersecurity, with a vision to make our technologically-enabled society technologically-educated. Her contributions to gender equality and LGBTQ+ inclusion in the tech sector have supported key strategic initiatives and partnerships to unlock new opportunities for talent progression and industry development.

Kathy Liu

Kathy Liu is the founder of Inclusive Cyber, a global cyber capacity initiative spanning London, Montréal and Kigali. Coming from an atypical background herself, since 2018, she’s been mobilising underrepresented talent to break into fulfilling cyber careers. Outside her volunteer work, Kathy is the Senior Technology Business Development Manager for Digital Sovereignty at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She is a global speaker and thought leader on cybersecurity; she has spoken at Davos, the United Nations, the UK Cyber Security Council and ISC2, and has been published in the World Economic Forum Agenda, Los Angeles Times, Chatham House Journal of Cyber Policy and Canadian Security Magazine. Kathy is a Working Group member of the World Economic Forum Centre for Cybersecurity, where she contributed to their new Strategic Talent Framework, and represents the youth voice. Outside of everything cyber, Kathy helps lead the UK’s largest surfskate community.