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Maria Manuel Leitao Marques is a full professor of the faculty of economics at the University of Coimbra and was elected MEP in the last European elections of 2019 for the Portuguese Socialist Party. She is currently vice-chair of the International Market and Consumer Protection committee and a member of the delegations to both the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.

She is also a substitute MEP in the ITRE and FEMM committees, as well as in the delegation to EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee.

She previously served as Minister of the presidency and administrative modernisation between 2015-2019 and as a secretary of state for administrative modernisation between 2007-2011.

Since 2011, Paloma Castellano is the director of Wayra Madrid, Telefónica’s open innovation hub created in 2011 and now present in 10 countries with 11 hubs. Wayra Madrid is based in Telefónica’s emblematic building on Gran Vía.

Paloma Castellano has been linked to Wayra since its inception and helped launch Wayra in 2011. Computer Engineer by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid as well as Executive MBA at IE, Paloma started her professional career at Microsoft and later joined Terra as Project Manager. After her time at Terra, she joined Telefónica as a TV Product Owner.

After several years launching and managing innovative products such as mobile TV, she moved to Telefónica China where she worked with the CEO of CNC Labs in the design and implementation of the company’s strategic plan. Back in Spain, he was in charge of developing the mobile broadband business.

In 2011 he joined Wayra to help with the global launch as part of the founding team. Paloma has helped scale more than 50 startups, such as Voicemod, Countercraft, Smart Protection, Brandtrack, Bucmi (sold to Uala), Upplication (sold to Mobusi), among others.

Sobre Wayra
Wayra is the most global, connected and technological Open Innovation Hub in the world. Since 2011 Wayra works as the investment arm in startups of the Telefónica Group.

Carlos Moreira da Silva has been supporting Sonae IM to actively invest in cybersecurity and telecom technology since 2013, across Europe, Israel and US, holding several board positions both in multi-regional MSSPs and growth stage cybersecurity tech companies. Carlos is also ECSO WG2 co-chair for Investments and Innovative Business Models since 2018.

Secretary-General Sebastiano Toffaletti heads the association’s secretariat since 2008. Sebastiano holds a Master Degree in Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering from the University of Bologna. He authored several articles and position papers on topics such as Intellectual Property Rights, Standards, e-Skills, Net Neutrality and Cloud Computing, and serves as expert in EU working groups and task forces, such as the EU Multi-stakeholder Platform on ICT Standardisation. Since 2014, Sebastiano is also a member of the ETSI Board. ETSI the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, produces standards for key global technologies such as GSM cell phone system, 3G, 4G, DECT, etc.

Almerindo Graziano has over 20 years of experience in information and cyber security, ranging from developing one of the first university master programmes in the UK in 2005 up to security consultancy and strategic advisory for private and government organizations across Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia. He is a cyber security expert for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) where, since 2014, he has contributed to the delivery of CyberDrills and workshops for national CERTs and governments around the world. He is also the co-chair of the European Cyber Security Organization (ECSO) sub working group on Cyber Range environments and technical exercises.

Wolfgang Röhrig is the Head of Unit Information Superiority in the Capability, Armament and Planning Directorate of the European Defence Agency (EDA). Born 1966 in Germany he entered the German Navy in 1985. After completing his studies at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg with the degree of MBA in 1990 he served in several officer’s positions in the German Navy and the German Joint Services including several operational deployments and service in NATO.  March 2012 he joined EDA as Project Officer and became Programme Manager Cyber Defence beginning of 2014.  In this position he developed and shaped the EDA Cyber Defence Programme, being inter alia responsible for the identification of capability gaps with respect to cyber defence in EU-led military operations, and the development and implementation of solutions for closing these gaps through cooperative projects with EU Member States. In February 2018 he returned to the German Armed Forces becoming a staff member of the new Cyber and Information Domain Services Headquarters dealing with International Cooperation in Cyber Defence. Since November 2018 he is leading the EDA Information Superiority Team in EDA. The EDA Information Superiority Team pools the EDA expertise on Capability Development in the Cyber Domain and the Space Domain as well as on ISR, Information Management and general CIS.

Wim Mees is professor at the Royal Military Academy, where he teaches courses on cybersecurity, and leads the Cyberdefense Research Laboratory. He is furthermore the Belgian representative in the NATO Science and Technology Organisation’s (STO) Information Systems Technology (IST) panel.

Wim has coordinated numerous Horizon 2020 programme, European Defense Agency, European Space Agency and National Security Authority and national Defense research projects. He is currently coordinating the H2020 ECHO research project that builds a European network of cyber competence centres in order to contribute to the strategic cyber autonomy of the EU.

Thomas Tschersich, Diploma in engineering (University of Applied Sciences), is Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Deutsche Telekom AG. In this function, he is responsible for cyber security as well as all other operational security issues at Deutsche Telekom.

Tschersich, born in 1969, is Member of the Board of Deutschland sicher im Netz and active in numerous advisory functions, including being a member of the Cyber Security Council and the UP Kritis Council.

After studying electrical power engineering at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences (Diploma in engineering), Thomas Tschersich joined Deutsche Telekom in 1995 and has held various management positions. After setting up the network security team at DeTeCSM until 2001, he took over as head of the security strategy and policy department at Telekom headquarters.

From 2007 to 2009, he established the Technical Security Services division and then the Group IT Security division. After taking over as Head of Group Security Services in 2014, he held the position of Chief Security Officer of the Deutsche Telekom Group. He has been Head of Internal Security & Cyber Defense at Telekom Security since January 2017 and was appointed CSO of Deutsche Telekom AG in June 2019.

Paul Adamson is chairman of Forum Europe and Forum Global and founder of Encompass (previously E!Sharp), an online magazine and discussion space dedicated to covering the European Union and Europe’s place in the world.

Paul is a member of the Centre for European Reform’s advisory board and Rand Europe’s Council of Advisors. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, King’s College London, a Senior Adviser at the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Britain and Europe at the University of Surrey. He is a patron of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.

In 2012, Paul was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to promoting understanding of the European Union” and in 2016 he was made a Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite by the French government.

Mr. Rebuffi graduated in Nuclear Engineering at the Politecnico in Milan (1984) before obtaining a PhD in Electronics at Paris – Orsay University (1987).

He worked on the development of high power microwave systems for the future thermonuclear fusion reactor (ITER) in Garching, Germany (1988-1991). Afterwards, he was employed by Thomson CSF to take responsibility for European Affairs (R&D) in different sectors: telecom, industrial, medical, scientific etc (1992-1999). He worked for Thales Microwave, in the position of the Head of Unit for Sales of Telecom Products (2000-2002) and later became promoted for a position of the Thales Director for European Affairs (2003-2007). In this capacity, he was responsible for the development of business and research activities with European Institutions for the civilian activities in Thales.

In 2003, he initiated and from 2007 to 2017 he has been the CEO of the European Organisation for Security (EOS) that gathers the most important European private security stakeholders and public NGOs from supply and demand side to develop and implement European security solutions and services in a comprehensive approach. In 2016, he took over the role of Secretary General of the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO). He contributed to establish in June 2016 an Association with more than 250 members in charge of implementing the Public-Private Partnership contract on European cybersecurity with the European Commission and supporting the development of the full European Cybersecurity Ecosystem.

Mr. Juhan Lepassaar is a citizen of Estonia. Dedicated to the European Union, he has been a strong supporter of the development of the cybersecurity policy as Head of Cabinet of Andrus Ansip, Vice President for the Digital Single Market in the European Commission for the past 5 years.

It is within his previous function as Director for EU affairs at the Government Office of Estonia that Mr. Lepassaar had been initially given the chance to engage in cybersecurity policy.

Aapo Cederberg is an experienced cyber security strategist and analyst. Aapo have a unique strategic-level international expertise and understanding of Hybrid threats. Aapo really understands the complexity of the cyber world and hybrid warfare as well as having comprehensive strategic management skills and experiences. He has also extensive first-hand knowledge of the military defense. He is one of the authors of the first Finnish Cyber Security Strategy.

Aapo is a founder of Cyberwatch Finland with a firm focus on helping decision- makers to establish a holistic cyber strategy, to build situational awareness, and take the necessary steps to ensure cyber resilience.

Cyberwatch Finland provides strategic analysis and better situational awareness of the cyber world by presenting complex cyber world phenomena and developments in an easy-to-understand format, utilizing the latest technology, easily adaptable methods, and various media formats.

Mr. Aapo Cederberg´s is also an Associate Fellow of the Global Fellowship Initiative at the Geneva Centre of Security Policy (GCSP). Last year he was appointed as a Chairman Committee of Word UAV Federation (WUAVF). In 2018 Aapo Cederberg was awarded with the Cyber Security Nordic prize. Mr. Cederberg has served as a Secretary General for the Security Committee of Finland for six years. The Security Committee provides support, advice and expertise for the government in comprehensive security matters and serves as a collaborative platform for the on-going national efforts related to the national crisis preparedness. Colonel Cederberg’s earlier assignments include working as the head of Strategic Planning and foresight at the Ministry of Defense Before this he has a long career in Finnish Defense Forces.

I have been working for industries that have transformed Europe for the past two decades: IT and cyber security. I have executed build-up strategy for two acquisitions of IT software vendors and the merger of two cyber security companies. My experience in transformation gave me the industrial leadership to address the challenges of a fragmented market in a global landscape with specific national requirements.

I have experienced large corporations (Airbus, Bull), SMBs under LMBO or owned by private sector.

My mission is to develop cooperation and partnerships, transform innovation into business in the cyber security field at Airbus Defence & Space, with the ambition to reach several hundreds of millions euros by 2021.

Furthermore, I seat as Vice-Chair at the Board of Directors of ECSO, the cPPP European Cyber Security Organisation. I seat at the Board of Directors of the Women in Engineering (so called “Femmes Ingénieurs”) association.

Charlotte Graire graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique Féminine and holds an Advanced Certificate Women Be European Board Ready”from ESSEC business school.

Luis Álvarez, SIA CEO, the Indra´s cyber-security company, has been in positions of responsibility for more than 30 years. A former CEO of BT Global Services, a world leader in Telecommunications, he has previously worked for Ericsson, IBM, and Grupo Santander. Working in a highly dynamic sector driven by the power of digital technologies has allowed him to connect with business leaders from many companies around the world.

Among his most important achievements are significant improvements in business performance, transforming the customer experience, developing innovative solutions, and building successful teams.

A digital and strategic advisor, he is an active contributor to social media, where he shares his thought leadership, regularly attends the World Economic Forum, participates in conferences, and directs a radio program called Conversations with the CEO for Capital Radio in Spain.

A passionate engineer, Luis graduated with a Master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He completed his business training at Tuck University, IMD, and ESADE

Nina Hyvarinen is a seasoned expert in EU policy-making and international affairs. About a year and half ago she joined a Finnish cyber security company F-Secure as Head of Corporate Relations. Nina has made her career in EU-affairs and worked in the Cabinet of European Commissioner and at the Prime Minister’s Office and Foreign Ministry in Finland. Nina has a vast network of decision-makers and leaders both in the public and private sector.

With a focus on antitrust and competition law and significant experience in transatlantic mergers and cartels, Alexandre Verheyden represents major corporations and governments before the European Commission, European courts, and national authorities. He is also Partner-in-Charge of the Brussels Office.

Alexandre concentrates on complex merger cases. His experience spans all fields of competition law including abuse of dominant position/monopoly offense, cartel, merger, and state aid cases. He recently represented Wabtec in its acquisition of Faiveley in a complex Phase II case and Huber in the sale of its Silica business to Evonik, which was cleared with commitments. Alexandre also has successfully litigated a damage claim for anticompetitive conduct that resulted in a landmark settlement of €120 million and successfully represented several clients in the auto parts cartel. He also has strong State aid experience representing both companies and governments.

Alexandre coordinates Jones Day’s competition practice in Europe. He has served as co-chair of the Communications Committee of the International Bar Association. He was a winner of the 2012 Antitrust Writing Awards for the article “EU Court of Justice Provides Guidance on Abusive Margin Squeezes” and was a scholarship recipient of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. He has authored various articles in the field of competition law and speaks regularly at conferences. He was previously admitted to the New York State Bar.

Michel Van Bellinghen became Chairman of the BIPT Council in January 2017, having been a Member of the Council twice (from 2003-2009 and then again in 2013).

Mr Van Bellinghen began his career as a researcher at the UCL university in 1990, then became an assistant under the supervision of Professor Françoise Tulkens, at the UCL Laws Centre for Criminal Law. He went on to become an assistant advisor at the Ministry of Justice in 1992, joining BIPT in 1997. From 1999 to 2003 he held the position of expert at the private office of Rik Daems, who was the Federal Telecommunications Minister at the time, and afterwards took up the function of Assistant Head of the Private Office. After his first tenure as Member of the BIPT Council (2003- 2009) he supervised the legal department until being elected as a Member again in 2013.

Mr Van Bellinghen has written several scientific publications. He has a Master of Laws from UCL.

Andreas Könen is the Director General CI – Cyber- and Information security. Previously he was the Head of Directorate IT II – IT and cyber security; secure information technology and ÖS III – Cyber security in the field of law enforcement and domestic intelligence by the German Federal Ministry of the interior. Before it he was the Vice President of the German “Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)”. Mr Könen, a graduate mathematician, joined the BSI in 2006, taking on the post as the head of the executive staff of the BSI Director General. In 2009 he became the head of the division “Security in Applications and Critical Infrastructures” and subsequently head of the department “Security Consulting and Coordination”. Prior to BSI, Mr Könen held various positions in the field of information technology within the German Federal Administration, including executive functions.

She has held a number of positions within the Orange Group over the past 20 years, from the Group’s Head of Commercial Roaming & Interconnection to Director of Country Strategic Projects in the Group’s Strategy division.  For the past  3years, she has held the position of Senior European Affairs Advisor representing Orange to the European institutions in Brussels, specifically focusing on cybersecurity, ePrivacy and various verticals such as connected cars, industrial policy and other technology and innovation driven topics of importance to the Orange Group.

Despina Spanou is the Head of Cabinet for European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas.

Previously she has been Director for Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity at the Directorate-General Communications Network, Content and Technology. She was previously Director for Consumer Affairs at the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (2013-2017) in charge of consumer policy, consumer and marketing law, redress and enforcement, and product safety. She has served as Principal Adviser in the Directorate-General for Health and Consumers where she was responsible for communication and also led the work on strategies on managing chronic diseases including the EU`s contribution to the UN General Assembly on Health.

Paul Adamson is chairman of Forum Europe and Forum Global and founder of Encompass (previously E!Sharp), an online magazine and discussion space dedicated to covering the European Union and Europe’s place in the world.

Paul is a member of the Centre for European Reform’s advisory board and Rand Europe’s Council of Advisors. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, King’s College London, a Senior Adviser at the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Britain and Europe at the University of Surrey. He is a patron of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.

In 2012, Paul was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to promoting understanding of the European Union” and in 2016 he was made a Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite by the French government.

John Suffolk is the President and Global Cyber Security & Privacy Officer (GSPO) for Huawei. In this role, he oversees the enhancement and implementation of Huawei’s end-to-end global cyber security and privacy assurance system, which includes developing the overall strategies, executing the strategies and monitoring all aspects of security and privacy across the company to ensure they achieve legal and customer requirements. Mr. Suffolk is responsible for strengthening the company’s understanding of security and privacy issues of governments and customers and ensuring the trusted delivery of all of the company’s technology and services.

Mr. Suffolk is dedicated to developing a common security approach in technology, legislation standards and norms to promote technology innovation and the safe global adoption of technology. He is a frequent international speaker and provides advice to the public and private sector around the world. He has published a range of articles and White Papers describing end-to-end cyber security processes and a list of security requirements buyers of technology should pose to their technology vendors.

Mr. Suffolk has more than 30 years of experience in the information and communications technology industry. Prior to joining Huawei in 2011, Mr. Suffolk spent more than seven years in the UK Government, where he was Her Majesty’s Government CIO and CISO, leading the delivery of the Government’s strategy for the transformation of public services enabled by technology. Previously, he was Operations Director and Managing Director of Britannia Building Society, and Director of Customer Services at Birmingham Midshires.

He was named the most influential CIO in the UK in 2010 by Silicon.com and was ranked in the top five of the most influential people in technology behind Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Mr. Suffolk received an MBA from The University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom.

Wiktor Staniecki is the Head of Cyber Sector in the Security and Defence Policy Division at the European External Action Service. Before assuming this post, he was posted to Tokyo, working in the Political Section of the EU Delegation to Japan. Within the European External Action Service, Mr Staniecki also worked as desk officer for Brazil (2013-2015) and the United States (2008-2013). Previous to his work for the EEAS, he was a consultant at Burson-Marsteller Brussels and worked for the European Commission on entrepreneurship policy.

Mr Staniecki holds Master’s Degree of European Studies from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, as well as Diplôme d’Etudes Générales Européennes of Centre Européen Universitaire de Nancy 2.

Chris Southworth is Secretary General at the ICC United Kingdom. Prior to joining ICC he was Executive Director for Global Partnerships, at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), Head of the International Chambers of Commerce Unit at UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and a Senior Policy Advisor to Lord Heseltine for his independent review of UK competitiveness. In 2011 he helped set up the mid-size business export programme at UKTI and was a Senior Policy Advisor for the 2011 Government Review of Mid-Size Businesses. Former roles have encompassed deregulatory policy at Better Regulation Executive, social enterprise policy at the Department for Business and stints in a local strategic partnership and the charity sector.

Jacques Kruse Brandao is Global Head of Advocacy at SGS Digital Trust Services. Jacques has been in the identification industry for more than 18 years. Today, Jacques advocates our partners on how to generate trust into products and services in the hyper-connected world explaining the related needs for Security and Privacy and available solutions to test, validate and certify products, services and systems. Before Jacques was in charge of Business Development and Advocacy for Emerging businesses in the field of Cyber Security in the Internet of Things focusing on ‘Connected Systems’ like Smart Grid, Smart Buildings, Smart Home, Industry 4.0, Smart Mobility incl. UAV from a secure semiconductor perspective.

Jacques is continuously contributing in several cyber security initiatives and associations like ECSO, Charter of Trust, TIC-Council, AIOTI, EUROSMART, a.o.. His patience is to generate trust for a smarter connected world.

Margrethe Vestager is EU Commissioner for Competition and Executive VP-designate for the next Commission. Former Minister in Denmark (Economy and Interior, Education), she was political leader of the Social Liberal Party. She holds an MSc in Economics.

A lawyer and acvitist, Josianne Cutajar is the youngest ever representative of the Maltese islands in the European Parliament.

In her first mandate, she is a progressive force for a strong digital policy enhancing Europe’s global leadership, harnessing human development and ensuring sustainable high-quality employment.

Cutajar works for a more connected Europe, with no distinction between large and small states and regions, and better accessibility.

Mr. Rebuffi graduated in Nuclear Engineering at the Politecnico in Milan (1984) before obtaining a PhD in Electronics at Paris – Orsay University (1987).

He worked on the development of high power microwave systems for the future thermonuclear fusion reactor (ITER) in Garching, Germany (1988-1991). Afterwards, he was employed by Thomson CSF to take responsibility for European Affairs (R&D) in different sectors: telecom, industrial, medical, scientific etc (1992-1999). He worked for Thales Microwave, in the position of the Head of Unit for Sales of Telecom Products (2000-2002) and later became promoted for a position of the Thales Director for European Affairs (2003-2007). In this capacity, he was responsible for the development of business and research activities with European Institutions for the civilian activities in Thales.

In 2003, he initiated and from 2007 to 2017 he has been the CEO of the European Organisation for Security (EOS) that gathers the most important European private security stakeholders and public NGOs from supply and demand side to develop and implement European security solutions and services in a comprehensive approach. In 2016, he took over the role of Secretary General of the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO). He contributed to establish in June 2016 an Association with more than 250 members in charge of implementing the Public-Private Partnership contract on European cybersecurity with the European Commission and supporting the development of the full European Cybersecurity Ecosystem.

A lawyer and acvitist, Josianne Cutajar is the youngest ever representative of the Maltese islands in the European Parliament.

In her first mandate, she is a progressive force for a strong digital policy enhancing Europe’s global leadership, harnessing human development and ensuring sustainable high-quality employment.

Cutajar works for a more connected Europe, with no distinction between large and small states and regions, and better accessibility.

Lise is ETNO’s Director General since January 2016. At ETNO, she leads and oversees all the activities and she is the main external representative of the Association. On behalf of the Association, she is also a Board and an Administrative Committee member in ECSO, the European Cybersecurity Organisation. Lise has also been reappointed to the Internet Society Public Interest Registry Board of Directors for a three-year term as of May 2019.

Prior to joining ETNO, she was Chief Operating Officer of DK Hostmaster and DIFO, the company managing the .dk domain name. In the period between September 2014 and December 2015, she also chaired the Cross Community Working Group for the IANA Stewardship Transition, building on her strong network within the internet community. Lise has 20+ years of experience in the telecoms industry. She started her career at the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation (1996-2000) where she wrote and implemented regulation for the telecommunication markets. After that, she worked for the telecoms operator Telia Networks (2000-2009), where she led various teams dealing with issues as diverse as interconnection agreements, mobile services and industry cooperation.

Luis Álvarez, SIA CEO, the Indra´s cyber-security company, has been in positions of responsibility for more than 30 years. A former CEO of BT Global Services, a world leader in Telecommunications, he has previously worked for Ericsson, IBM, and Grupo Santander. Working in a highly dynamic sector driven by the power of digital technologies has allowed him to connect with business leaders from many companies around the world.

Among his most important achievements are significant improvements in business performance, transforming the customer experience, developing innovative solutions, and building successful teams.

A digital and strategic advisor, he is an active contributor to social media, where he shares his thought leadership, regularly attends the World Economic Forum, participates in conferences, and directs a radio program called Conversations with the CEO for Capital Radio in Spain.

A passionate engineer, Luis graduated with a Master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He completed his business training at Tuck University, IMD, and ESADE

Pierre Chastanet is Head of the Unit for Cloud and Software in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology, and oversees the development and implementation of the Digital Single Market policy on Cloud, Free Flow of Data and European software.

Mr. Chastanet has been working for 13 years at the European Commission in various management and policy development assignments, in the areas of cybersecurity, digital privacy, ICT for societal challenges, green ICT, and telecom innovation.

Mr. Chastanet has more than 10 years of ICT experience, mostly in various IT management positions at Procter & Gamble.

He holds an MSc in Telecommunication Engineering from Telecom ParisTech, an M.A. in International Politics from the Free University of Brussels (ULB), and a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Līga Raita Rozentāle is the Microsoft Senior Director and Team Lead for EU Cybersecurity. Līga currently also serves as a Special Advisor to the Latvian Mission to the UN and is a delegate for the UN Open Ended Working Group on Cyber Issues. Līga engages in the Women4Cyber Advisory committee and has been named by SC Magazine UK as one of the Top 50 European Women in Cybersecurity for 2019. Additionally, Līga brings to the role her experience as the first Latvian Cyber Diplomat at the EU and NATO where she chaired the EU working parties on both telecoms and cybersecurity and was a representative to the NATO Cyber Defence Committee. Ms. Rozentāle has worked at the Global Cyber Alliance and James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Ms Rozentāle completed her studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and the Uni. of Illinois. Ms. Rozentāle is a former UN Disarmament Fellow.

Paul Adamson is chairman of Forum Europe and Forum Global and founder of Encompass (previously E!Sharp), an online magazine and discussion space dedicated to covering the European Union and Europe’s place in the world.

Paul is a member of the Centre for European Reform’s advisory board and Rand Europe’s Council of Advisors. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, King’s College London, a Senior Adviser at the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Britain and Europe at the University of Surrey. He is a patron of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.

In 2012, Paul was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to promoting understanding of the European Union” and in 2016 he was made a Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite by the French government.

Miguel González-Sancho is since July 2018 Head of the Unit “Cybersecurity Technology and Capacity Building” at the European Commission, where he has worked for over 20 years, mainly on EU policy and R&D&I programmes relating to digital technologies, and before on telecoms regulation and trade policy. His previous responsibilities in the Commission included Head of Unit for eHealth, Head of Unit for Administration and Finance, Deputy Head of Unit for Policy Coordination, Deputy Head of the Unit for eInclusion, and member of cabinet of a European Commission Vice-President. Miguel holds degrees in law, international relations, business administration, accounting and auditing.

Merle Maigre is the Executive Vice President for Government Relations at CybExer
Technologies, an Estonian firm that specializes in providing governments, international
organizations and companies with cyber training environment and sophisticated, large-
scale cyber security exercises. 2017- 2018 Merle Maigre served as the Director of the
NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE) in Tallinn. During
2012 to 2017, she worked as the Security Policy Adviser to Estonian Presidents Kersti
Kaljulaid and Toomas Hendrik Ilves. In this capacity, she was the President’s chief
advisor on domestic and international security issues, including cyber defence
developments and challenges. From 2010-2012 Merle Maigre served at NATO HQ in
the Policy Planning Unit of the Private Office of NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh
Rasmussen. Merle Maigre has also worked as a researcher at the International Centre
for Defense and Security (ICDS) in Tallinn (2007-2010). She has served as the Deputy
Head of the NATO Liaison Office in Kyiv and at the NATO Department in the Ministry of
Defence, Estonia, in support of the country’s NATO accession.

Yair Kler leads Huawei’s security architecture design for Telecom Security (5G) in EMEA region. Yair joined Huawei in 2017 and manages a global team of cross domain security architects.

Mr Kler heads the security architecture design across all Huawei’s P&S solutions (Carrier Networks & Enterprise). He serves as a subject matter expert on network resiliency and security in 4G/5G, Telecom-AI Domains.

With more than 20 years of experience leading solution development in cutting edge cyber-security technology companies, Yair is often a speaker at internationally accredited cybersecurity events. He is an active member of the GSMA Fraud and Security working groups and also the 3GPP security group SA3.

Elida Policastro has over 20 years’ experience in corporate end user sales, channel sales, business development, team building, sales management and channel management in the IT industry in EMEA, US, ASIA & LATAM. She has extensive expertise in managing Spanish and International sales and marketing teams in the security, storage, virtualization and cloud infrastructure markets, leading sales operations for turnaround and high-growth organizations

Elida is focused on customer’s needs analysis with a consultative approach to software and application sales. Repeated success guiding cross-functional teams in the launching of leading-edge technology solutions driving record-setting sales. She is an expert presenter, negotiator, and business person who is able to forge solid relationships with strategic partners and build consensus across multiple organizational levels.

She is a solution and results driven individual who combines sales accomplishments with general management experience, leading people, processes, strategies and target delivery across sales, marketing, and channel management operations.

Elida has strong interpersonal, presentation, organizational and planning skills who is also highly motivated by nature, goal-oriented and pragmatic, with the urge to outperform. She has a solid and current contact list of senior leaders in the IT channel, distribution and end users (banks, assurances, IAD´s.) across EMEA, US, ASIA & LATAM.

She has entrepreneurial spirit, start-up experience as well as international business expansion background around the world. Elida is fluent in English, French and Spanish and also available for travel as much as required to drive the business and reach objectives.

Professor Chris Mitchell has been a Professor of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL) since 1990; he previously worked for Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol as a project manager. He has worked in information security and cryptography for over 40 years, and he has published well over 200 refereed articles in journals and conferences. At RHUL he co-founded the world famous Information Security Group in 1990 and also played a major role in developing the ground-breaking MSc in Information Security in 1992, which now has several thousand alumni worldwide. He has been involved in international security standardisation for over 30 years.

Jon France is the Head of Industry Security at the GSMA. He has been with the GSMA since 2008 having held several technical positions and moving into current position in 2018. Jon is responsible for leading the Fraud and Security function within the GSMA reporting to the CTO and working within the board reporting Technology Group. Loves all things technical and passionate about security as global societal reliance on technology rises, in part driven by the 5G era and strives to ensure that it is resilient & secure and meets operators, consumers and wider ecosystem expectations.

Has 20+ years global experience in Enterprise IT & Security within the Media and Telecoms fields, having previously delivered cloud enablement strategies, built online product portfolios, run development teams, run global IT portfolio, and lead incident / crisis management teams.

Since 2013 Tamara Tafra has been working for the Permanent Representation of Croatia to the EU, covering COEST, COSCE and CYBER. She is currently the Counsellor for Cyber Issues and will be Chair of the Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues.

She started her career as a diplomat in 2004 and, between 2006 and 2010, she worked at the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia to Switzerland and Liechtenstein. She was also actively involved in the accession negotiations of Croatia to the EU as a coordinator for the Economic criteria and EMU.

Along with a University degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb and a Master in European Studies from the Europa Kolleg in Hamburg, Tamara Tafra has undergone several professional programmes in the German Bundestag (IPS programme), a training for diplomats of the German Federal Foreign Office, as well as the UN Academy and the Diplomatic Academy in Zagreb.