Speaker’s BIOS

After 19 years in military, followed by an academic career in the Academy of Sciences, Dr. Shalamanov has had several tours of public service: Deputy Minister of Defense (1998-2001), Minister of Defense (2014), Director Demand Management in the NATO’…

Rasmus was previously employed as the Deputy Head of Unit for Defence Cooperation at the Ministry of Defence of Finland. He has served as Defence Counselor at the Embassy of Finland in Washington D.C., and as Defence Adviser at the Permanent Represen…

Prof. Dr. Sc. Mitko BOGDANOSKI is Dean at the Military Academy “General Mihailo Apostolski” in Skopje, Managing Director and Consultant of CYSEG, and Co-founder of Cyber Security, Corporate Security, and Crisis Management Initiative – C3I. He has a d…

Kenneth Geers (PhD) is an analyst at Very Good Security. Dr Geers served for 20 years in the US Government: in the Army, National Security Agency (NSA), Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), and NATO. Kenneth is a fellow at the Atlantic Counci…

Professor Alan Brill is a Senior managing Director in and founder of the Cyber Risk practice of Kroll. He has more than 40 years of experience in the fields of computer security and digital forensics, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Forens…

Jason serves as an Advisor on Security and Defence, Foreign Affairs and Counter-Terrorism in the European Parliament. His primary responsibilities are to support the Members of European Parliament and Advisory teams in a joint effort to ensure effect…

Predrag Pale received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and PhD degrees in electrical engineering, electronics and computer science from University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Information security professional with more than 20 years of experience in helping organizations to improve their security posture and comply with international standards and regulations.

Mr. Andrea Zapparoli Manzoni is an Executive Director at Crowdfense Limited (UAE). His expertise covers Offensive Cyber Security operations, offensive tools design and procurement, Defensive Cyber Security advisory (Gov and Corporate), and defensive …

Ritesh has dedicated his working career to exploring how technology could be used to co-create public safety and trust between our communities and public institutions. He started an eight-year career within policing which involved two police agencies…

Dr. Zeynep Ece Ünsal (Ph. D) studied Business Administration as well as European Union and International Relations at Başkent University in Ankara/Turkey. She received her Ph.D on International Security and Terrorism from the Defence Sciences Institu…

Brigadier General (BG) Metodi Hadji-Janev, Ph.D. is an associate professor at the Military Academy General Mihailo Apostolski”-Skopje, a unit of University “Goce Delcev” in Stip, Macedonia and an adjunct faculty member at Ira A. Fulton School of Engi…

Dr.sc. Sabina Baraković holds a PhD in electrical engineering. She is an associate professor and has published over 5 books and 70 journal and conference papers. Also, she has held over 50 invited talks and participated in over 10 international proje…

Zlatogor Minchev is an Associate Professor on “Automation & Control” at the Institute of ICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; IT for Security Department Head (since 2018); Holds a PhD degree on Cybernetics & Robotics. Director of Joint Training Simula…

Gorazd Bozic is the Head of the Slovenian National Computer Emergency Response Team (SI-CERT) which was established in 1995. Between 2000 and 2008 Gorazd was the Chairman of the European CERT group TF-CSIRT, which brings together all known CERTs in …

Nikolai Stoianov is Colonel in the Bulgarian Armed Forces, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Bulgarian Defence Institute. He has significant experience in developing information systems with various designation, and many are already use…

Dimitar Bogatinov (M) is Associate Professor in the Military academy “General Mihailo Apostolski“ – Skopje, associate member to the University “Goce Delcev” – Ship. He has references as researcher and expert in NATO and EU-funded projects.

Awarded as Top 100 “Women of Influence in Cyber Security in Europe”, she is the President of Women4Cyber Albania, an initiative which aims to promote, encourage and support the participation of women in cyber security.

rof. Dr. Ashok Vaseashta is Executive Director for research with the International Clean Water Institute in Virginia, USA. He also serves as a Professor at Riga Technical University, Chaired Professor of Nanotechnology at the Academy of Sciences of M…