Four areas, chosen because a volunteer network can genuinely move them and because they matter to the organisations already inside Global Tech Advocates.
A standing forum for security people across GTA networks. Closed-door sessions where practitioners can be candid about incidents, tooling that did not work, and decisions they would take differently. Chatham House rules by default.
Value here comes from frequency and trust rather than production values. A recurring call with fifteen of the right people beats an annual conference with three hundred of the wrong ones.
GTA has more than forty networks and tens of thousands of members. Security questions surface constantly: a founder facing their first enterprise security questionnaire, a chapter planning an event on AI risk, a policy consultation with a short deadline.
The guild is where those requests land and get matched to someone qualified and willing. Not a consultancy and not free labour for member companies, but a route to a considered answer from a peer.
Most organisations in the network are small, and many have no security function at all. The gap between nothing and basic competence is where the most risk sits, and it is closed with plain guidance rather than specialist depth.
Practical material aimed at founders and operators: what to do first, what can wait, what the questions in that enterprise questionnaire are actually asking. Vendor-neutral, including where our own sponsors compete.
Global Tech Advocates exists to give tech a voice worldwide. Cybersecurity regulation is being drafted quickly in many jurisdictions at once, frequently without much contact with the people who will have to implement it.
The guild can convene practitioner input on consultations and supply evidence grounded in operational reality. GTA already does this through the Chips Coalition and similar efforts; the mechanism is proven.
Saying no to these keeps the guild credible with the people whose participation makes it work.
These four areas are a starting position, not a settled programme. The members who turn up in the first year will decide what the guild actually becomes.
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