Tidal Cyber presents · REKONNEKT 2027 Series · Chapter One
A former US Navy SEAL and a former Formula 1 race engineer have one thing in common: they win by knowing the adversary before contact, and by trusting the people beside them under pressure. Start with drinks and a briefing at Winton. The next day, walk a Battle of Britain airfield and step inside the facility where F1 runs every Grand Prix.
Why this exists
You don't need one more invite to a cyber event. Trust isn't built in a booth or a keynote. It's built at walking pace, side by side, when the small talk runs out and people start telling the truth.
Two elite teams, one lesson
Navy SEALs don't go anywhere they haven't studied. F1 teams don't start a race they haven't simulated against every rival. And neither works without total trust in the person on the other end of the radio.
Every mission starts with the target: who they are, how they move, what they'll do when things go wrong. Then it's rehearsed until nobody has to think.
A race team simulates every rival's strategy before lights out, then reads the live data and decides in seconds, with one calm voice in the driver's ear.
Why here
Biggin Hill defended Britain's skies in 1940. Today, it's the place where Formula 1 brings a whole race weekend home, live, from anywhere in the world.
the summer this airfield helped win the Battle of Britain.
of data sent back to Biggin Hill from a single race weekend.
for footage to travel from Melbourne to Biggin Hill and back.
for a full pit stop. Rehearsed, like a SEAL mission, until it's boring.
Data figures as reported by Reuters from Formula 1's Biggin Hill open day.
Part one · Walk the ground
SEALs train in cold water, at night, in the weather everyone else waits out. So a grey January morning at Biggin Hill isn't a bad day. It's the right one. A former SEAL leads the walk around the airfield that held on through the raids of 1940, and stops along the way to tell the stories you'll never hear from a stage.
In SEAL training, nobody goes in the water alone. Here, nobody walks alone. Buddies change at every stop, so you reach the facility knowing your whole crew.
How SEALs learn to think clearly when they're cold, wet and exhausted, and why the mind quits long before the body does.
What a team does in the first minutes after the plan stops matching what's in front of them.
Why nobody goes in alone, and what it takes to trust the person beside you when it counts.
The walk ends where Biggin Hill kept its squadrons flying through the summer of 1940, whatever the day threw at them.
There are no guests here. Only teammates.
Name to be announced. Opens the happy hour briefing at Winton, then leads the walk around the airfield, with stories from missions where the cold, the dark and the plan were all against his team.
Ask on the walk: what do you do when every part of you wants to stop?
Fourteen years as an F1 race engineer with Toyota, Lotus, Sauber and Alfa Romeo, and the last to engineer Kimi Räikkönen in F1. Founder of JSC7 Engineering and technical analyst for F1 TV. Joins the crews on the airfield, then tells the story of a real race and asks you what you'd do.
Ask on the walk: how do you earn a driver's trust when you're right and they don't believe you?
Tidal's threat intelligence team spends its days tracking how real adversary groups operate. On the day they walk in the crews, hear the same stories, and close the race by connecting it to your world.
Ask on the walk: which adversary would you worry about, in my sector, right now?
Renata, founder and CEO, and Matteo Bruschi design the whole experience. They build the crews and buddy pairs with care, host the happy hour, and make the introductions you came for. After the podium, they keep those connections going.
Ask on the walk: who in this room should I really get to know?
The playbook · Where SEALs and F1 meet your desk
Nobody goes in blind. SEALs study the target. Strategists simulate every rival's move before lights out.
At your desk: threat-informed defence. Prioritise against the adversaries who actually target you.
Before a mission or a race, you walk it. You find the blind corner before the blind corner finds you.
At your desk: know which attacker behaviours your tools detect, and which they don't.
The engineer sees everything and says almost nothing. That restraint is the skill.
At your desk: turning a thousand alerts into one sentence your board can act on.
Two seconds in the pit lane and a clean mission both come from the same place: thousands of repetitions.
At your desk: incident response that has been drilled, not just documented.
Every critical item has a backup, and every role has a second person who can step in.
At your desk: resilience. Assume a control will fail, and know what catches it.
Engineers back in Britain support the car live from the other side of the world.
At your desk: MSSPs, suppliers and remote teams. Your attack surface travels too.
F1's most expensive scandal wasn't a hack. It was confidential design data moving from one team to another.
At your desk: insider risk and data leaving through the front door.
After every mission and every race, the team takes it apart honestly. Rank and ego stay outside.
At your desk: blameless post-incident reviews that actually change something.
Part two · Inside the facility
After a guided look at how F1 runs a Grand Prix from Biggin Hill, Julien tells the story of a real race he engineered. Three times, he stops and asks your crew one question: box, or stay out? Then he tells you what really happened on the pit wall.
Your crew holds up one card: BOX or STAY OUT.
Half the picture and a deadline you didn't choose. Make the call.
Everything on one decision. Box, or stay out?
Julien tells you what the team decided on the day, and why.
The crew with the most points takes the podium. Then Tidal's team takes two minutes to connect the race to your world: deciding fast, with half the information, is what your team does every time an alert goes off.
What you take home
A short, personal brief from Tidal's threat intelligence team on the groups most active against your sector, and how they operate. It arrives before the happy hour. Yours to keep.
The evening before, you'll meet the guests, your crew and your teammates at Winton's office in the City of London for a briefing on the experience and the full programme.
Four peers in your crew, and a room of fifteen, who carry the same pressure as you, a SEAL and a race engineer you can call on, and a debrief that's honest because everyone in the room has sat in the same seat.
Your crew's three calls from the race, matched to the three calls your team faces in a real attack, with the adversary most active in your sector. Plus a one-page board version you can use on Monday.
The mission plan
Like a mission or a Grand Prix, the work starts the night before.
Your Adversary Brief for your sector, your crew shirt and car number, the walking route, and what to wear for a winter airfield.
Drinks with the people you'll walk and race with. The SEAL briefs the mission, you meet your crew and your first buddy.
No icebreakers and no name badges. You met your crew last night, over a drink.
Our opening night! Drinks and a short mission brief from REKONNEKT. The SEAL and Julien tells their first stories. Crews are revealed, routes and what we will do on the day after.
Coffee, crews form up, kit on. A short welcome from REKONNEKT and Tidal Cyber.
Around two hours on foot around Biggin Hill, in whatever the weather brings, led by the SEAL, Julien, Rekonnekt and the Tidal team walking in the crews.
Long tables, crews mixed. The conversations from the walk keep going.
A guided look at how Formula 1 runs a race from Biggin Hill, and what it takes to keep that operation trusted.
A real race, three big decisions, and the story behind each one.
The SEAL and Julien lead it together, mission-style: which call was hardest, what we'd change, and who we'd want beside us next time.
Why it's different
Who's on the grid
The 2027 Series
Know your adversary, trust your crew, make the call. With a former SEAL and a former F1 race engineer at Biggin Hill.
New ground, new hosts. Chapter One crews hear about it first.
Each chapter builds on the last, with the same crews invited back.
Request your seat
This isn't a booking. Tell us who you are, and we'll confirm places personally once the date is set.
We'll be in touch personally to confirm your place. Watch for your Adversary Brief and your kit the week before, and your invitation to the happy hour briefing at Winton.