“It was lovely, meeting people, and making contacts – absolutely wonderful.” Those were the kind words said to Professional Security Magazine staff at the reception desk by a parting visitor yesterday, at the final Security TWENTY event of 2025, ST25 Heathrow.
The venue was the Radisson Red hotel, at the round-about before the airport, and the format was the same, and slightly different at the same time – an exhibition floor of security product and service suppliers and industry bodies, and an ‘innovation stage’ where numerous suppliers could put across their messages to an ST audience (who when asked posed some good questions to the speakers).
For more than a dozen years now, ST is an around the British Isles roadshow, free to visit whatever your background or interest in private security – whether as a manager, installer, consultant or specifier, or simply someone who wants to treat ST as a barometer of the industry, and catch up with old friends and make some new ones. And to seal the deal, we provide tea and coffee, and a hot buffet at lunch, and eclairs and fruits for dessert.
If that whets your appetite, here are the venues and dates for 2026 – Belfast and Dublin in February, Cumbernauld in May, Manchester in July and back to London again on November 6, 2026. For exact details and to register, click on this link. For a gallery of pictures of ST25 and previous years’ ST events, visit the ‘gallery‘ part of the Professional Security Magazine website.
Speakers
At ST25 Heathrow the speakers in order were first Gavin Wilson, head of sales at Skills for Security, who set out what the apprenticeship trainers do, and how they want to engage with installers and others to bring through more apprentices – including by offering a ‘talent acquisition’ service, from drawing up a job description with the employer, putting in front of them two or three candidates, and doing the on-boarding, besides the classroom training course while the employer provides the on-the-job experience. Ryan Christopher-Butler, growth development manager for the guarding and facilities management contractor Wise-K9 engagingly took the audience through the security side of his company’s offerings. Jonathan Marshall, sales engineer for northern Europe of March Networks, went over artificial intelligence (AI), how to go about applying it, and for what security or other purposes. And Janice McMahon of medical supplies firm Steroplast explained the contents of a public access trauma kit, and gave the audience a chance to try applying a tourniquet. More in the December 2025 edition of Professional Security Magazine.
Photo by Mark Rowe; ST show floor, visitors take a break in a corner.
