Dr Bob Oates is a cyber security expert with over a decade of industrial experience, focussing predominantly on safety-critical, operational technologies and critical national infrastructure. As a technical expert Dr Oates has worked on a number of highly-complex and challenging programmes including the security for the world’s first commercial remotely operated ship. As an employee of Rolls-Royce Dr Oates won the Sir Henry Royce award twice, once as part of the team behind remotely operated ships, and once as part of the team behind a cryptographic framework for securing confidential data on remote compute resource for computational fluid dynamics. During his time at the National Grid he predominantly focussed on the impact of OT/IT convergence on threat modelling by demonstrating how controls in one domain could prevent propagation of threats into adjacent domains. Dr Oates has contributed to a number of standards and guidance documents, including ED202A (the aviation cyber security standard), The Safety Critical System Club’s Data Safety Guidance, and Canada’s Cybersecurity for Road Transportation Primer. In addition to standards and guidance, Dr Oates has maintained an active interest in publishing work in high-quality conferences and journals. He has also been an invited guest to The Polish Academy of Science, and to the Dagstuhl Conference on Artificial Immune Systems. He has an honorary Professorship in Safety and Security from De Montfort University, a PhD in Robotics and Security from The University of Nottingham, and a Master’s degree in Applied Cybernetics and Computer Science from The University of Reading.