Master of Ceremonies at the first ever CRESTx conference, CRESTx Lancaster. CRESTx is an official spin off from CRESTcon, the flagship conference of the Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (CREST). CRESTx was designed to bring short talks on big ideas to the domain of cyber security. CRESTx Lancaster featured talks between 5 and 20 minutes from 20 speakers, over four sessions: (1) Privacy and Personal Security; (2) Critical Infrastructure Protection; (3) Governance, Risk Management and Compliance; and, (4) The Human Element of Cyber Security.