On Wednesday, December 11, we held our annual CRC Christmas networking event, this time with the region’s DSIT-backed Cyber Security Cluster.
For the second year in a row, Nelsons solicitors kindly hosted us, this time at their Leicester office, generously allowing us the use of their exceptional social space fully equipped with pool table and bar!
The event brought together many of our wider network of current and prospective partners and stakeholders in one location to review the year and share our vision for the future as well as to discuss plans and innovation to help make the East Midlands a thriving and cyber safe region to do business in.
Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Nicolle Ndiweni-Roberts, attended the event to show her support; Nicolle occupies a senior role within the EMCRC sitting on our board and has been a great supporter of the EMCRC’s work in her relatively short time in the role.
Among the attendees was our host and Board member Kevin Modiri, EMCSC's Ismini Vaseiliou, Ed Parsons of ICS2, and Simon Cox of NNBN/Northants Chamber along with his wife Marie Cox Simons from Poppy Design Studio. Also in attendance were representatives from the CyberPATH initiative, Postworks, 3B Data, The University of Leicester Business School, in2secure, Datasense, Kit365, Voyage Education Partnership, Datcom, BRIM and Kryptokloud.
It was great that some of our CRC National Ambassadors who include AVIVA, NatWest and Nationwide were able to send representatives, too.
EMCRC Chairman and Chief Superintendent Dave Kirby delivered a welcome address to the network in which he discussed the important work the Centre is undertaking before handing over to Managing Director, DI Colin Ellis.
Colin underlined the significant progress made by the Centre in the last 12 months as it now supports over 1,600 business members. Colin also spoke about the direction of the Centre in 2025, and how areas such as strengthening supply chain will play a key role in the Centre's 2025 activity, along with our continued outreach focus, visiting businesses directly to raise awareness and offer support.
Colin commented:
"It's been a busy year, focusing on helping our current business members whilst at the same time growing our membership by a further 150% - it’s taken a lot of hard work to be where we are.
“So, it was important to get together to acknowledge and celebrate this with our network of police, business and university champions who have helped us deliver for SMEs within our region.
“Our network is made up of a broad church of professionals and specialists across all sectors, not just cyber, who have a wide breadth of experience, capability, and reach. Not only was it important to thank them, but also really valuable to get our collective creative juices flowing as to how together, we are to grow further and encourage even more businesses to become more resilient online."
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Here is a gallery from the event...
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