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#115: The Rt Hon Stephen McPartland, Former MP and Minister for National Security
Manage episode 490761003 series 2944671
"You can't have good Cyber Security without Economic Security.''
Join us this week on The Tech Leaders Podcast, where Gareth Davies sits down with The Rt Hon Stephen McPartland, former MP and author of the McPartland Review into Cyber Security. Stephen talks about his time in Parliament, the impact of AI on Cyber Security, and why the UK is both uniquely well prepared and uniquely vulnerable.
On this episode, Stephen and Gareth discuss what it’s like to work with Prime Ministers, how to prevent the widespread adoption of AI leading to “digital exclusion”, why we need to automate processes rather than jobs, and how a Scouser became Tory MP for Stevenage…
Timestamps:
- Intro and good leadership (1:33)
- Proudest achievements and lessons learned in Politics (7:54)
- Ministerial role, and working with Prime Ministers (10:09)
- Cyber Security and the Digital Economy (17:50)
- AI, Government and Cyber Security (23:23)
- Fostering a Cyber workforce (29:35)
- LLMs and Agentic AI (33:14)
- Cryptocurrencies and Post-Quantum Cryptography (38:28)
- AI concerns – Digital exclusion and Rules of Engagement (46:25)
- Stephen’s advice to his younger self (49:00)
115 episodes
Manage episode 490761003 series 2944671
"You can't have good Cyber Security without Economic Security.''
Join us this week on The Tech Leaders Podcast, where Gareth Davies sits down with The Rt Hon Stephen McPartland, former MP and author of the McPartland Review into Cyber Security. Stephen talks about his time in Parliament, the impact of AI on Cyber Security, and why the UK is both uniquely well prepared and uniquely vulnerable.
On this episode, Stephen and Gareth discuss what it’s like to work with Prime Ministers, how to prevent the widespread adoption of AI leading to “digital exclusion”, why we need to automate processes rather than jobs, and how a Scouser became Tory MP for Stevenage…
Timestamps:
- Intro and good leadership (1:33)
- Proudest achievements and lessons learned in Politics (7:54)
- Ministerial role, and working with Prime Ministers (10:09)
- Cyber Security and the Digital Economy (17:50)
- AI, Government and Cyber Security (23:23)
- Fostering a Cyber workforce (29:35)
- LLMs and Agentic AI (33:14)
- Cryptocurrencies and Post-Quantum Cryptography (38:28)
- AI concerns – Digital exclusion and Rules of Engagement (46:25)
- Stephen’s advice to his younger self (49:00)
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