Between 29 – 31 October 2024, Mr. Sorin Mierlea, the President of InfoCons, attends the Bucharest Cybersecurity Conference 2024. This event is hosted at the JW Marriott Hotel in Bucharest, Romania.
The organizers of this event are Romania’s National Cyber Security Directorate (DNSC) and the National Coordination Centres (NCC-RO) , in partnership with the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC) .
The conference aims to gather leading policy-makers and regulators, top-level industry executives, government and academia representatives, and high-level international cybersecurity and defence stakeholders in order to explore how Europe is securing its digital future in the face of current cyber and hybrid security threats within the context of a rapidly changing global risk environment.
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The high-level sessions will emphasise the practical implementation of the EU’s latest cybersecurity policies and legislation, such as the NIS2 Directive, EU Cyber Resilience Act, or the EU Cyber Solidarity Act, against the backdrop of current geopolitical landscape and emerging threats. Speakers will also discuss and exchange views on how Europe can maintain its leadership in cybersecurity advancements while contributing to global security efforts.
The following speakers will take the floor during today’s sessions:
- Bogdan IVAN – Romanian Minister of Research, Innovation and Digitalisation
- Mircea ABRUDEAN – Minister, Secretary General of the Romanian Government
- Chris KUBECKA, founder and CEO of HypaSec, Author of Hack the World With OSINT, Ethical Hacker, Cyber Terrorism Smasher
- Dan CIMPEAN, The Director of the Romanian National Cyber Security Directorate (DNSC)
- Victor NEGRESCU, Vice-President of the European Parliament
- Hans DE VRIES, Chief Cybersecurity and Operations Officer, European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)
- Carla REDONDO GALBARRIATU, General Secretary INCIBE, Spain
- Arnaud DAVID, Director Public Policy, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Volkmar LOTZ, SAP Product Security and DIGITALEUROPE Board Member, Belgium
- Catalina NICULITA, CTO Cisco Romania, Türkiye & CIS
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- Luca TAGLIARETTI, Executive Director, European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC)
- Alec PETERSON, Vice-President of AWS Resilience, Amazon Web Services (AWS), US
- David NOEL-LARDIN, Vice-President Product & Sales IAM Devices, Thales
- Tiberiu BARABOI, Founder, Expertware, Romania
- Dr. Matthias SACHS, Cybersecurity Policy Lead for Europe, Google
- Alec PETERSON, Vice-President of AWS Resilience, Amazon Web Services (AWS), US
- Steve BROWN, Vice-President, Mastercard Cybersecurity Solution Services, Europe, Mastercard, United Kingdom
- Lajos SZABO, Director of National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) Hungary
- H.E. Kathleen KAVALEC, US Ambassador to Romania
- Jurrien NORDER, Head of NCC-NL, The Netherlands
- Mihai LUPAȘCU, Director of the Agency for Cyber Security ASC, Republic of Moldova
- Samara MOORE, Director, AWS Senior Manager, Security Assurance at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Bassam MAHARMEH, President, Jordan National Cyber Security Center (NCSC-JO), Jordan
- Luigi REBUFFI, Secretary General and founder of ECSO, Belgium
- Anne NEUBERGER, Deputy Assistant to The President, Deputy National Security Advisor, National Security Council, The White House (video intervention)
- Alexandru COREȚCHI, Director of the Information Technology and Cyber Security Service STICS, Moldova
- Alice SABĂU-GEORGESCU, High Representative for countering hybrid threats at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Romania
- Len KHODORKOVSKY, Senior Advisor, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue
- Duncan THOMSON, Senior Advisor, Civilian Research and Development Foundation Global CRDF
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- Maxim MATSKUL, Sales Director Central & Eastern Europe, CIS countries and Israel, Cloudflare
- Craig JONES, Director CyPol & Immediate Past Director Cybercrime @INTERPOL, United Kingdom
- Octavian STANCU, Head of Cybersecurity Services GDC RO & Global Head of Cloud Threat Management BDS, Eviden
- Diana GONTAR, CEE Lead for Risk Management, Visa
- Liviu ARSENE, Director of threat research and reporting, Crowdstrike
- Silviu PUFAN, SecOps Solutions Systems Engineer, Fortinet
- Andreea GRAFU, Sales Engineer, TREND MICRO
- Tomasz PIETRZYK, Systems Engineering Manager, Palo Alto
- Bart PRENEEL, Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium
- Pavel POPESCU, Vice-President, the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), Romania
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