CYBERSEC GLOBAL 2020 SPEAKERS & PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Kersti Kaljulaid
President of the Republic of Estonia
Armen Sarkissian
President of the Republic of Armenia
Margrethe Vestager
Executive Vice-President, European Commission
Mircea Geoană
Deputy Secretary General, NATO
Dita Charanzová
Vice-President, European Parliament
Marek Zagórski
Polish Minister of Digital Affairs
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Federal Minister of Defence of Germany
Jaroslav Nad
Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic
Matt Warman
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Minister for Digital Infrastructure, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, United Kingdom
Vinton Cerf
Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
Eva Kaili
Member of the European Parliament; Chair, Panel for the Future of Science and Technology, European Parliament
Anna Fotyga
Member, European Parliament; Member, NATO Reflection Group
Sophie in ‘t Veld
Member, European Parliament
Riho Terras
Member, European Parliament
Rob Joyce
Special US Liaison Officer, London
Ambassador Sorin Ducaru
Director, European Union Satellite Centre (SatCen); Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges, NATO (2013-2017)
Sir Julian King
European Commissioner for Security Union (2016-2019)
BG Karol Molenda
Director, National Cyber Security Centre of Poland
Melissa Hathaway
President, Hathaway Global Strategies, LLC; Cybersecurity Advisor, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations (2007-2009); Expert of the Kosciuszko Institute
Flavio Aggio
Chief Information Security Officer, WHO
Michael Chertoff
Co-Chair, Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace; US Secretary of Homeland Security (2005-2009)
Carine Claeys
EU Special Envoy for Space; Head of the Space Task Force, EEAS
Martin Achimović
Director, NATO Counter Intelligence Centre of Excellence
Abigail Bradshaw
Head, Australian Cyber Security Centre
Bob Kolasky
Assistant Director, National Risk Management Center, US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl
Director General, DIGITALEUROPE
Gerhard Schabhüser
Vice-President, German Federal Office for Information Security
Jakub Boratyński
Acting Director, Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity Directorate, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Pierre Chastanet
Head of Unit, Cloud and Software, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Joseph Evans
Technical Director for 5G, United States Department of Defense
Tobias Feakin
Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology, Australia
Richard Kadlčák
Special Envoy for Cyber Space; Director of Cyber Security Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
Bryan Wells
Chief Scientist, NATO
MG (Ret.) Brett Williams
Director of Operations, United States Cyber Command (2012-2014); Co-Founder, COO, IronNet Cybersecurity
Robert Kośla
Director, Cybersecurity Department, Ministry of Digital Affairs
Krzysztof Szubert
President of the Management Board, NCBR Investment Fund; Member, the UN IGF Organizing Committee
Marco-Alexander Breit
Head, Artificial Intelligence Task Force, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
Johanna Weaver
Special Adviser to Australia's Ambassador for Cyber Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Australia’s Head of Delegation to Open Ended Working Group on Cyber; Australia’s representative to UN Group of Experts on Cyber
Kerstin Vignard
Head, support team to General Assembly processes pursuant to resolutions 73/27 and 73/266, UNIDIR
Lise Fuhr
Director General, ETNO
Marietje Schaake
International Policy Director, Cyber Policy Center, Stanford University; President, CyberPeace Institute
Eileen Donahoe
Executive Director, Global Digital Policy Incubator, Cyber Policy Center, Stanford University
Paul Timmers
Research Associate, Oxford University; Director, Sustainable & Secure Society Directorate, DG CONNECT, European Commission (2012-2016)
Ciaran Martin
• Professor of Practice in Public Management, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University; CEO, UK NCSC (2016-2020)
Steve Purser
Head, Core Operations, ENISA
Evangelos Ouzounis
Head, Secure Infrastructure and Services, ENISA
Joanna Baranowska
Deputy Director, System Management Department, Polish Ministry of Digitalisation
Jaya Baloo
Vice-Chair, Quantum Flagship Initiative; CISO, Avast Software
Mike Witt
Associate CIO for Cybersecurity and Privacy, Chief Information Security Officer, NASA
Theresa Payton
White House Chief Information Officer (2006-2008); CEO and Chief Advisor, Fortalice
Jaisha Wray
Associate Administrator for International Affairs, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Izabela Albrycht
Chair, The Kosciuszko Institute; President, Organising Committee of the European Cybersecurity Forum – CYBERSEC
Joanna Świątkowska
Assistant Professor, AGH University of Science and Technology; Initiator & Former CYBERSEC Programme Director (2014-2019)
Barbara Sztokfisz
CYBERSEC Programme Director
Rafal Rohozinski
CEO, SecDev Group
Christopher Painter
President, The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise; Commissioner, Global Commission on Stability of Cyberspace; Former Coordinator for Cyber Issues, U.S. State Department
Magdalena Wrzosek
Head of Strategic Analysis and Emerging Technologies Team, NASK
Nikos Sarris
Project Coordinator, Social Observatory for Disinformation and Social Media Analysis (SOMA)
Richard Spearman
Group Corporate Security Director, Vodafone
Allan Dafoe
Director, Centre for the Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute; Associate Professor, International Politics of AI, University of Oxford
Deborah Frincke
Associate Laboratory Director for National Security Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy; Director of Research, National Security Agency, USA (2014-2020)
Michele Mosca
Co-Founder and Professor, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo; Co-Founder and President, CEO, evolutionQ Inc.
Milton Mueller
: Founder, Internet Governance Project; Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Public Policy
Samir Saran
President, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), India
Martijn Rasser
Senior Fellow, Technology and National Security Program, Center for a New American Security
Shin Oya
Senior Consulting Fellow, Asia-Pacific Initiative
Līga Rozentāle
Senior Director of EU Governmental Affairs for Cybersecurity Policy and Security of Emerging Technologies, Microsoft
Andrzej Dopierała
President, Asseco Data Systems Management Board; Vice President, Asseco Poland Management Board
Ulf Pehrsson
Vice President; Head of Government and Industry Relations, Ericsson
Aura Salla
Public Policy Director, Head of EU Affairs, Facebook
Marta Poślad
Head, Public Policy & Government Relations, Central and Eastern Europe, Google
Jakub Turowski
Head of Public Policy for Poland, Baltics, Romania, Bulgaria, Facebook
Neal Pollard
Chief Information Security Officer, UBS AG
Rene Summer
Director, Government & Industry Relations, Ericsson
Marc Vancoppenolle
Vice President, Global Head of Government Affairs, Nokia
Brian Hendricks
Vice President of Policy and Public Affairs, Nokia Americas
Edward Christie
Deputy Head, Innovation Unit, Emerging Security Challenges Division, NATO
Vikram Sharma
CEO, QuintessenceLabs
Robert Spalding
Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; Senior Director for Strategy in President Trump Administration (2017-2018)
Paco Garcia
Chief Technology Officer, Yoti
Rebecca Arcesati
Analyst, Mercator Institute for China Studies
Bonnie Butlin
Co-founder & Executive director, Security Partners’ Forum
Tadeusz Chomicki
Ambassador for Cyber & Tech Affairs, Security Policy Department, Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Paul Cornish
Visiting Professor, LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics
Jayshree Pandya
Founder and CEO, Risk Group LLC
Robert Muggah
Principal, SecDev Group
Luigi Rebuffi
Secretary General and Founder, European Cyber Security Organisation
Jean-Christophe Le Toquin
President, Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Advisors Network; Coordinator, Encryption Europe
Magda Chelly
Head Cyber Risk Consulting Marsh Asia, Founder of WoSEC Singapore, Brand Ambassador of CYBERSEC FORUM 2020
Vladimir Soukharev
Principal Cryptographic Technologist, Chief Post-Quantum Researcher, Infosec Global
Carsten Maple
Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering, WMG, Principal Investigator NCSC-EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (North America), University of Warwick; Fellow, Alan Turing Institute
Robert Knake
Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Director for Cybersecurity Policy, US National Security Council (2011-2015)
Erica D. Borghard
Assistant Professor, Army Cyber Institute at West Point; Senior Director and Lead, Task Force One, Cyberspace Solarium Commission
Aleksandra Przegalińska-Skierkowska
Associate Professor, Kozminski University; Associate Researcher, American Institute for Economic Research; Former MIT Research Fellow
Stuart J. Russell
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley
David Carroll
Associate Professor, Media Design, Parsons School for Design
Florian Pennings
Cybersecurity Policy Manager, EU Government Affairs, Microsoft
Samuel Stolton
Digital Editor, EURACTIV
Amir Rapaport
Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Cybertech and Israel Defense
Przemysław Roguski
Lecturer, Chair of Public International Law, Jagiellonian University; Expert of the Kosciuszko Institute
Aaron Ostrovsky
Expert of the Kosciuszko Institute
Ainikki Riikonen
Research Assistant, Technology and National Security Program, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
Viktoras Daukšas
Head of Debunk.eu initiative, Debunk EU
Jonáš Syrovátka
Program Manager, Prague Security Studies Institute
Amit Katwala
Senior editor, WIRED UK
Teri Schultz
Freelance Reporter, Deutsche Welle, NPR
Matthew Rosenberg
National Security Correspondent, the New York Times; National Security Analyst, CNN
Andrea G. Rodríguez
CYBERSEC 2019 Young Leader; Research fellow, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB); Associate Member, Observatory for the Social and Ethical Impact of Artificial Intelligence (OdiseIA)
Omree Wechsler
CYBERSEC 2019 Young Leader; Senior Researcher, Yuval Ne’eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security, Tel Aviv University
Theodoros Karathanasis
CYBERSEC 2020 Young Leader; PhD candidate in European Law, University of Grenoble Alpes
Esther Staes
CYBERSEC 2020 Young Leader; MA student in International Security and Development, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
Christopher A. Wijono
CYBERSEC 2020 Young Leader; MA student in International Security and Development, Jagiellonian University in Kraków