On behalf of UK Government, Plexal is leading the UK Tech: San Francisco Trade Mission next month. We’re taking a cohort of top British cyber and AI security startups to the RSA Conference 2026 from Monday 23rd to Thursday 26th March.
Now in its 35th year, the RSA Conference aims to unite and advance cyber security to build a safer society and is expected to bring in over 40,000 delegates from across the world. Its ambition, coupled with a ‘Power of Community’ focus for RSA 2026, aligns to Plexal’s mission of harnessing cross-sector collaboration for high-impact outcomes benefitting the economy, national resilience and societal progress.
Alongside attending RSA and guiding our cohort around the event, Plexal will host UK House, which is funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, with support from the Department for Business and Trade, National Cyber Security Centre and Innovate UK. UK House serves as a hub for UK organisations exploring opportunities in the US market and international organisations looking to engage with the UK, making it ideal for our cohort of scaling innovators.
We’ll deliver panel sessions, networking opportunities with entrepreneurs, investors and professional services providers to exchange insights on UK-US experiences, trends in cyber and AI, barriers and opportunities for growth.
The cohort of companies we’ll be taking from government-backed programmes includes:
Cyber Runway – the largest cyber accelerator in the UK. It’s funded by DSIT and delivered by Plexal to drive innovation, create high-quality jobs and secure long-term economic resilience. Programme representatives will include:
- Cyber Security Stack uses a zero-trust framework to create cryptographic, self‑auditing infrastructure.
- Lab 1’s AI platform detects and analyses exposed data from the open web, dark web and breaches to support enterprise risk management.
- MyCena separates identification from authentication using encrypted credentials and one‑click login.
- Ploy issues identity and access security for hybrid and cloud environments, replacing legacy tools with a cloud‑first, automation‑driven platform.
- SECQAI provides quantum‑secure hardware and software.
- Telicent offers end‑to‑end secure, policy‑enforced data integration.
- Traced’s AI‑powered mobile threat‑defence app protects against malware, phishing, wi‑fi risks and privacy threats.
- Veriom delivers AI-enabled security for compliance across IT and software pipelines.
The Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR) is a public-private partnership, for which Plexal is the industry engagement partner. LASR is dedicated to advancing AI security for UK national security and economic prosperity. Programme representatives will include:
- Advai provides independent testing, compliance assurance and continuous monitoring for secure, high-performing AI systems.
- Culture.AI detects unsafe AI use, coaches employees in real time and enforces guardrails to keep organisations’ AI adoption safe and compliant.
- Secure Agentics has developed a monitoring and control platform for agentic AI, detecting when agents become compromised and intervenes.
CyberASAP (Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme) creates a pipeline to move great cyber security ideas out of the university lab and into the commercial market. Programme representatives will include:
- Cavero Quantum delivers quantum‑safe key exchange, continuous trust verification and passwordless authentication.
- Cyber Innovations is a cyber security education company redefining how people learn to respond to digital threats.
- Cybpass offers expert‑in‑the‑loop lifecycle security, compliance and penetration testing for AI pipelines.
- Fact360 conducts AI‑powered communication network analysis for anomaly detection, insider‑threat monitoring, fraud detection and compliance.
- Lupovis provides cyber deception and threat intelligence with its Deception‑as‑a‑Service platform, deploying decoys and traps to detect insider threats and pre‑breach activity.
- Veribee’s AI‑powered code‑verification and repair platform detects and fixes security vulnerabilities at the source‑code level.
Commenting on its Power of Community positioning, RSA says: “Ideas become breakthroughs when shared. Challenges become opportunities when tackled together. That’s the Power of Community. Real change happens when cyber security professionals unite.”
Diane Gilbert, Senior Innovation Lead for Programmes at Plexal, says: “The RSA Conference is a key moment in the annual global cyber security event calendar and is a unique opportunity to bring together the best of our UK technology companies.
“These are high-potential businesses at the point of activating their US expansion plans and we want to connect them with potential buyers, investors and senior contacts from the international cyber and AI security ecosystems.
“Plexal has led US trade missions before and I’ve specifically seen how impactful RSA can be for our founders. For example, zally CEO Patrick Smith moved the company’s HQ to San Francisco from Manchester as a direct result of our trade mission last year. The energy and impact we’re expecting in 2026 will be no exception and we’re encouraged by the event’s increased advocacy of community.”
