Dean Jones

AI Score is redefining how organisations succeed in the AI age; transforming artificial intelligence from a technical asset into a source of secure innovation, trust, and measurable impact. Our platform connects every aspect of enterprise AI – from 3rd party SAAS and models to risks and outcomes – in one living system. It provides the clarity, confidence, and intelligence leaders need to drive progress responsibly and boldly. With real-time insight, intelligent scoring, and automated safeguards, AI Score turns complexity into clarity. We help organisations understand how their AI is performing, where risks emerge, and where the next opportunities for innovation lie. Designed for the cloud era, AI Score’s modular, lightweight architecture integrates effortlessly across your AI ecosystem — delivering instant visibility, trusted intelligence, and secure collaboration across teams. AI Score: Empowering secure and successful AI innovation.

ContraForce is creating a secure future where service providers are the leading force against the global cybercrime epidemic. The company was founded in 2021 by Stan Golubchik and Ricky Melendez to revolutionize security service delivery, with the ultimate goal to make effective security services accessible to all. ContraForce has gained worldwide attention for a series of 2024 milestones. It won the Microsoft Security Excellence Award for ISV of the year. Through multi-tenant automation, streamlined workflows, simplified workspace orchestration, Service Providers can simpify their management of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for XDR, and Microsoft Sentinel all in one place. For more information, visit www.contraforce.com.

Alchem is a data and systems integrator providing high-end technical capabilities in the national security, defence, and critical infrastructure sectors. Collaboration: Mesh architecture allows selective, on-demand data sharing between trusted partners. Compliance: Operational data remains in situ with data owners; governance maintained by them to their standards. Efficiency: Only targeted data is transported, saving time and money. Trust: Data lineage/chain of custody are maintained with certified data attributes. Transformation: Disparate applications are connected to form integrated solutions

Second Front is a public-benefit, venture-backed company delivering mission-critical software to the world’s democracies. We work with organizations to simplify and accelerate every step of software delivery to government and regulated networks, including development, accreditation, operation, and extensibility. Together with our customers and partners, were powering software for the free world. Learn more at secondfront.com

ANGOKA is an IoT security company focused on protecting M2M communications for Smart Cities and Mobility. Headquartered in Belfast, with offices in London and The Hague, ANGOKA offers solutions that protect devices’ identities. With an increase of inherently insecure networks coming online with the boom of IoT, ANGOKA’s solutions safeguard critical machine-to-machine communication integrity and data provenance, creating trusted connections, even in untrustworthy networks. ANGOKA is the only cybersecurity company to win a place on Zenzic’s CAM Scale-Up Programme, delivered in partnership with Plug and Play. ANGOKA was also the first NI start-up to be selected for NCSC’s Cyber Accelerator, who reviewed and assessed ANGOKA’s technology. ANGOKA is also an alumnus of Seraphim Space Camp, Yes!Delft and TechNation Cyber 2.0. Finally, ANGOKA has been awarded several Innovate UK R&D projects, which focus on securing quantum communications (led by BT) and two drone projects.

AI Score is redefining how organisations succeed in the AI age; transforming artificial intelligence from a technical asset into a source of secure innovation, trust, and measurable impact. Our platform connects every aspect of enterprise AI – from 3rd party SAAS and models to risks and outcomes – in one living system. It provides the clarity, confidence, and intelligence leaders need to drive progress responsibly and boldly. With real-time insight, intelligent scoring, and automated safeguards, AI Score turns complexity into clarity. We help organisations understand how their AI is performing, where risks emerge, and where the next opportunities for innovation lie. Designed for the cloud era, AI Score’s modular, lightweight architecture integrates effortlessly across your AI ecosystem — delivering instant visibility, trusted intelligence, and secure collaboration across teams. AI Score: Empowering secure and successful AI innovation.

ContraForce is creating a secure future where service providers are the leading force against the global cybercrime epidemic. The company was founded in 2021 by Stan Golubchik and Ricky Melendez to revolutionize security service delivery, with the ultimate goal to make effective security services accessible to all. ContraForce has gained worldwide attention for a series of 2024 milestones. It won the Microsoft Security Excellence Award for ISV of the year. Through multi-tenant automation, streamlined workflows, simplified workspace orchestration, Service Providers can simpify their management of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for XDR, and Microsoft Sentinel all in one place. For more information, visit www.contraforce.com.

Alchem is a data and systems integrator providing high-end technical capabilities in the national security, defence, and critical infrastructure sectors. Collaboration: Mesh architecture allows selective, on-demand data sharing between trusted partners. Compliance: Operational data remains in situ with data owners; governance maintained by them to their standards. Efficiency: Only targeted data is transported, saving time and money. Trust: Data lineage/chain of custody are maintained with certified data attributes. Transformation: Disparate applications are connected to form integrated solutions

StirlingX develops advanced drone solutions that deliver actionable data at scale. Our drones capture intelligence from complex environments, feeding it directly into analytics platforms to provide real-time, decision-ready insights. By combining modular technology with proprietary expertise, we maintain operational control while optimising performance for both commercial and defence applications. This dual-use approach allows us to innovate rapidly and translate commercial speed into defence capabilities. With decades of experience in UAVs, robotics, and data operations, our expert team delivers versatile drone solutions for the most challenging missions.