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Former FBI Counterintelligence Operative and Author of Gray Day
Bruce Schneier
Security Technologist and Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Security Policy · Trust · AI Risk
Speaking Fee
Fee on request
Based In
United States
Signature Topic
Security and Public Policy
Format
Keynote
About Bruce
Bruce Schneier is the security technologist The Economist called a security guru, and he occupies a position almost nobody else in the field does: he works on security as a public policy problem rather than as a product category. He is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
He is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen books, including A Hacker's Mind, alongside hundreds of articles, essays and academic papers. His newsletter Crypto-Gram and his blog Schneier on Security are read by more than 250,000 people, and have been running long enough to constitute a record of how the field's thinking has changed.
He serves as chief of security architecture at Inrupt, and sits on the boards of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow and the Tor Project, with advisory roles at the Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.
The argument that runs through his work is that security failures are usually failures of incentive rather than of technology. Someone is not paying the cost of the risk they create, and no amount of engineering fixes that. It is the frame a board needs and the one a vendor briefing will not supply.
He is booked for audiences making decisions rather than implementing them: boards, executive teams, policy conferences and the main stages of security congresses. Recent material centres on artificial intelligence, surveillance, and what happens to trust when systems can be manipulated at scale.
Keynote Topics
Security as an Incentive Problem, Not a Technology Problem
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend the Rules
Artificial Intelligence, Trust and Democracy
Surveillance, Privacy and the Data Economy
Best For
- Security congresses and industry main stages
- Board and executive risk briefings
- Public policy and technology governance conferences
- Academic and research institution events
- AI governance and ethics summits
Booking Bruce Schneier: Frequently Asked Questions
What is Bruce Schneier's speaking fee?
Bruce Schneier's fee is not published and is quoted per event. It is driven by event date, location and travel, session length, and whether a board briefing, moderated discussion or book copies are added to the keynote. Submit an inquiry with your date and audience size for a current quote and availability.
How is his material different from a typical cybersecurity keynote?
He treats security as a public policy and incentive problem rather than a technology one. The recurring argument is that failures happen because somebody is not bearing the cost of the risk they create, which no amount of engineering resolves. That frame suits boards and policy audiences rather than implementation teams.
Does he speak on artificial intelligence?
Yes. Recent work centres on AI, surveillance, and what happens to trust when systems can be manipulated at scale, which is the same incentive argument applied to a newer technology. A Hacker's Mind extends it to how rules themselves get gamed by those with resources.
What kind of audiences book him?
Audiences making decisions rather than implementing them: boards, executive teams, policy and governance conferences, academic institutions, and the main stages of security congresses.
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