CYBERSECURITY, SMART CITIES AND CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Mariya Gabriel is the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society. She is responsible to facilitate, under the coordination of Vice-President Ansip, the adoption by the co-legislators of all the legislative proposals presented by the Commission to complete the Digital Single Market.

To prepare, as part of the project team steered and coordinated by Vice-President Ansip, ambitious proposals for the completion of a connected Digital Single Market, based on the mid-term review.
To develop and implement measures to make Europe more trusted and secure online, so that citizens and business can fully reap the benefits of the digital economy.
To ensure that the EU can be a catalyst for public and private investment, focusing on high-quality, digital network infrastructure.
To support the development of creative industries and of a successful European media and content industry. Contribute to activities that turn digital research into successful European innovation stories.

A veteran of Air Force intelligence. Ariel has 26 years of experience in government intelligence, energy efficiency, SCADA security, telecommunications, and large cyber security projects. Ariel led technological innovations for the past 21 years, maximizing business growth engines for major international companies. He is the architect behind new cyber solutions tailored for governments and large corporate's around the world.

Professor, Aalto University, Cybersecurity, Adjunct Professor, National Defence University, Cybersecurity leadership, Adjunct Professor, University of Jyväskylä, Security, Adjunct Professor, Tampere University of Technology, Cybersecurity;
Aalto University, Department of Communications and Networking

Michael John is Director Operations at ENCS. With his work at ENCS, Michael is fully committed to enhancing the utilities’ security and privacy landscape. Michael drives ENCS community building and information and knowledge sharing. Michael is leading several projects for ENCS in the domain of Smart Metering, Electric Vehicle and Distribution Automation security.

Architect for Achieving the Synergy between Strategy, Good Business Practices and Disruptive Digital Technologies in Smart Cities
Alexander Samarin wrote his first software program in the year 1973. He obtained a PhD (in computer graphics) in the year 1986. He has worked for a variety of international clients in Switzerland, UK, France, Australia and Africa. He specialises in architecture, implementation and evolution of enterprise-wide solutions with the holistic use of enterprise architecture, business architecture, BPM, SOA, ECM, IT governance and IT strategy.
In October 2009 he published a book “Improving Enterprise Business Process Management Systems”.
Since August 2013 he specialised as an architect and practitioner for implementation of complex digital systems in smart cities. His presentation will discuss how to apply a systems approach to digital healthcare and smart cities with several modern technologies (enterprise architecture, digital, microservices, blockchain, explicit coordination, etc.) to achieve some desired emergent characteristics (e.g. a high level of trustworthiness) of complex digital systems.

Nishant Shandilya is a Senior International Consultant at Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (SPI) and the Project Coordinator of YAKSHA Project. He has experience in a range of European Commission projects under the 7th Framework Programme and the Horizon 2020 Programme, specifically in the fields of ICT, Transport, Internationalization, Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, among others. He has been actively involved in coordinating and writing expression of interests, carrying out financial projections and budgeting, and preparing communication, dissemination and exploitation plans. In addition to managing workshops and exhibitions, he has organized various public lectures and Horizon 2020 dissemination seminars in collaboration with the EC. He has also been lead writing evaluation studies and impact assessment reports for several EC DGs.

Petar Nikolov is a developer with over 20 years of experience and internationally recognised top online influencer in topics like cyber security and risks in implementation of new standards and protocols. Peter does software development for his own company MobilioDevelopment. He built his first website in university in 1997 and since then has been involved in web sites and applications. Now he thinks the less is more principle needs to be applied to the current web too. Peter is also a member of review board of IndIT - a network of independent IT experts from Eastern Europe.

Anton Titov is a software engineer with more than 15 years of experience. With his unique combination of technical and entrepreneurial skills he has co-founded numerous fast and scalable web applications. Currently he is the CTO of pCloud AG,a Swiss-based cloud storage application, which allows users to access and share files securely, everywhere. Today, pCloud boasts with a user base of 8 million people and a place among the top 5 players on the market. Before that, Titov founded Host.bg, one of the leading Hosting companies in Bulgaria and served as CTO between 2004 and 2007 and CEO until 2010.
He is a mentor and member of "Investment comitee" of LAUNCHub, a startup accelerator program backed up by European Investment Fund and a member of Mensa Bulgaria and a rally driver.

Dessislava Petrova-Antonova has an engineering degree in Computer systems and technologies (2000) and PhD degree in System programming (2007) from Technical university of Sofia, Bulgaria. She was an assistant professor at Technical university of Sofia until 2008. She has joined the department of Software engineering at Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” as a researcher since 2008, where she became an associate professor in 2012.
Dessislava Petrova-Antonova delivers lectures in Software quality assurance, Distributed systems, Service-based software systems and Software testing. She supervised over 50 master’s theses in the field of software technologies and 1 PhD student, who completed PhD thesis on business process testing. Dessislava Petrova-Antonova has successfully participated in a number of European and national RTD projects (more than 30). Currently, she is coordinator of 2 projects “Big Data Innovative Solutions for Smart Cities” (Big4Smart), funded by the National Science Fund and “Systematic approach for exploration and assessment of Smart cities” (EXPRESS), funded by Science fund of Sofia University as well as work package leader of project “Big Data for Smart Society” (GATE), funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 WIDESPREAD-2016-2017 TEAMING Phase 1 programme. She is working as an IT expert within the project of Ministry of Education and Science “Building pupils' capacity and increasing motivation for learning through activities developing specific knowledge, skills and competencies”. Her research interests and strong background are in distributed systems, Big Data and software testing. She has more than 80 publications in international and national conferences and journals.

Cristina de la Maza is an Industrial Engineer in Automation and Electronics, active member of the European Cyber Security Organization (ECSO), the EIT Digital in Infrastructures and expert for ENISA, European Union Agency for Network and Information Security. She is COO of redborder being responsible for the operations of the company, as well as the interaction with European and international institutions related to Big Data and Cybersecurity. He has more than 15 years of experience in the area of Systems and Networks with experience in the multinational Fujitsu with CISCO and Microsoft technologies. She is a Master in Project Management with more than 12 years of experience in the formulation, planning, management and evaluation of R&D, innovation and entrepreneurship projects at an international, national and regional level in Europe and Latin America.

Dr. Ivo Kostov is Co-organizer of CyberCon. He is a consultant at The European Cybersecurity Institute, Centre of Excellence "Universities for Science, Informatics and Technologies in the e-society", Centre of Competence for National and Cyber Security, Centre of Competence "Digitisation of Economy in Big Data environment".

Vice Chairman of the Management Board, Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Technology and Development. Cluster Sofia Knowledge City offers a list of five main categories of products & services: 1. IT infrastructure: assembled computer systems and peripherals, office automation, contactless technologies, electronic and electrical products; 2. ITC services: information services, information networks and fund maintenance, IT consultancy, access to unified databases of legal, specialized and business information, design, development and implementation of software and information systems, system integration, outsourcing, IP PBX, Contact and data centers, backup and colocation solutions, system support, migration of database software, e-portals and platforms, multimedia platform for distribution of television, music and video content (IPTV / VOD); 3. Management information systems: software systems for process, document and asset management, ERP / CRM systems, decision support systems, customized software solutions, cloud platforms, 3D GIS / CAD solutions; 4. Business services: business planning, marketing, investment research and design, project management, organizational, management and business development, technology transfer and intellectual property consultancy, business management and reengineering, asset management, investment and fund management, Media platforms, radio, television, printed publications, event organization; 5. Education and training: Bachelor's and Master's programs in Informatics and Computer Science, Public Communication and Information Sciences, Continuing Vocational Training and International Certification in the Field of Knowledge Management and Innovation Management, Short-term Entrepreneurship and Innovation Courses and Academies, Student Practices And cooperation between business, science and universities.

Angel is CEO of Inintech and co-founder of Cybercon. He has more than 35 years of experience in IT technologies, including programming, project management, cybersecurity, hardware and software. Before founding Inintech, Angel successfully participated in and managed a lot of projects in his fields of expertise for top international companies, government and non-government organisations.

Orlin is a chief R&D engineer at POLYGONTeam Ltd. He has more than 10 years of experience in the field of science robotics, industrial robotics and educational robotics. In my last 4 years our team are developing IoT devices for Smart Homes and Smart Cities. Parallel with that the last 6 years I am lector in different international events. One of his passions is to be a teacher, to give knowledge to young people and people who are ready to take their next step in the field of robotics and education.

Krasimir Kotzev is a founder of the SoCyber company which provides solutions in the cyber security field. His experience comes from his work in Hewlett-Packard, where he has started as system administrator of Linux/Unix servers. After few year he's transferred to the Network Security department working on many client's cases. Throughout the years, Mr. Kotzev was working in many companies in the field of MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) solutions, penetration testing etc. Mr. Kotzev is Cisco CCNA, Checkpoint CCSA, HP Tipping Point Expert (IPS) certified expert and has a diploma of Cybersecurity in the University of Maryland. In the last years he is mostly devoted to the ethical hacking field, due to the increased threats and risks in the internet.

Caroline Baylon is the Information Security Research Lead at AXA, where her work focuses on future trends in cyber security and technology. Prior to that, she was the lead researcher on cyber security at Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) in London, United Kingdom. She has also served as an independent contractor for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, carrying out research projects on the activities of cyber proxy groups and on prospects for curbing the proliferation of cyber weapons. Caroline has also served as Vice President of the Center for Strategic Decision Research in Paris, France, where her work focused on cyber security and cyber defense. Caroline holds a Master of Science in Social Science of the Internet from Balliol College, University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stanford University.

Lubomir Tilev is Security Sales leader for Bulgaria and Romania, part of South East Europe Security team. Lubomir has a strong experience holding a couple commercial positions in IBM. Working directly with customers with the ability to get things done by leveraging the broader IBM organization from one side and customers demands from another.

Angel Boyarov is a renowned cyber security engineer, reverse engineer, ethical hacker - known by his alter ego "Frost Jack". His experience into cyber security includes, building security architecture for companies, deliver security information to 3rd party services about suspicious behaviour on large scale networks, penetration testing, analytics, cipher codings, shells, exploits and methods for using them directly in public. In the years Angel took a lot of public ethical hacker challenges like CTF, PHD and late Cicada 3301 challenge.

Information Security Professional and Entrepreneur, Auditor, Penetration Tester, Partner & Head of Operations at Seven Security Group – a specialized provider of professional services for the Information Security. Playing a key role in the company supervising delivery of all core company services: PCI DSS assessments, ISO 27001 implementation, SOC 1/2/3 auditing, all kinds of penetration testing, DDoS stress testing and vulnerability assessments.

Senior Researcher and Head of the Palermo Department of CNR. Primary experience in ICT research projects and their application in education and training contexts. He is in charge of several national and international research projects and is the author/co-author of more than 100 scientific papers. Consultant for the Italian Ministry of research, he leads several projects in the field of e-Healthcare. Contract professor at the University of Palermo.

A result driven visionary with entrepreneurial spirit and pursuit for perfection. With proven entrepreneurial track record in growing start-ups from the ground up to the million scale. Has more than 15 years of experience in company/business/team build up and management along side with web and core development, networking, server environments and building user web applications. Passionate in the process of designing, architecturing and managing projects from ideas that are extremely technologically challenging or many even believe are unrealistic, with one single goal - to turn such into a complete success. Holds a degrees in Tech from the graduated International education - M.Sc. in Digital Communications in the CAU-Kiel Germany and B.Sc. in Telecommunications and. Holds also an MCP certification and has experience in coding in various languages C/C++, PHP, JavaScript, etc as well as has deep understanding of multi-server clustered and parallel computing environments.

Rossen is a Network and Information security expert, focusing on cyber security in Critical Sectors, including eHealth. Areas of expertise include Cloud Computing, Big Data and emerging technologies like Blockchain. He works within the ENISA Secure Infrastructure & Services unit, conducting research on topics like incident reporting in different sectors, mobile payments, certification and standardization. He has more than 15 years of experience in information security, collected as a pen tester and later as an Information Security Officer for a European bank.

Dr. Mircea Adrian Focșa is Associate Professor of Medical Informatics and Biostatistics in the Department of Medical Informatics of the Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania. In 1995 he graduated the medical school in Timisoara, in 2001 received his MSc degree in Medical Informatics in Cluj Napoca and in 2008 becomes a specialist in Public Health and Healthcare Management. He took his PhD in 2007 with a dissertation on „Quality certification of EHR Systems”. From 2008 he joined an international team for developing a knowledge based clinical information systems, coordinating the ontology development and the medical algorithms implementation. In 2012 he leads the interoperability group - part of the Theme Advisory Committee for Health Services (CCTSS) of the Romanian Ministry of Health. He is the founder member and currently holds the position of President of Prorec Romania Association. He join the efforts of the Eurorec Institute for the broad adoption in Europe of the certified EHR systems. More recently, he supported the implementation for the first time in Romania of a Patient Recruitment System for clinical studies, connected to the Clinerion's global network of hospitals. Through his career he participated as a team member or a partner representative to a number of European (FP6, FP7) or National funded projects related to eHealth and eLearning domains, acting also as European expert for EHealth projects (COST, CEF-Telecom, H2020), and member of the Journal of Medical Internet Research Editorial Board. Dr. Focsa was also involved in numerous clinical research projects, in specialties like gastroenterology, neurology, cardiology or public health. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed research articles, book chapters, conference papers and presentations that attracted more than 500 citations.

George Dinchev is Independent IT Expert with over 15yrs experience. His domains of activity currently include Business Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Surveys and Data Management, Data Mining. George Dinchev is Chief Executive Officer at CyberCon Organizing Committee and CEO of Indit.org - a network of independent IT experts, located in Eastern Europe. The events organized by George Dinchev bring together successful freelancers, bloggers, hackers, geeks and SME who make useful systems for the people despite the corporate rules.