Speakers

Alejandro Guerra Manzanares is a post-doctoral associate, jointly hired by the Center for Interacting Urban Networks (CITIES) and the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU Abu Dhabi. Before joining NYU, he was a researcher at the Center for Digital Forensics and Cyber Security, Department of Software Science, at Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Information Technology in 2022. His dissertation covered Android malware detection and IoT botnet detection tasks (https://l8.nu/tL9q). He has first authored +15 papers covering aspects such as concept drift, cross-device behavioral challenges and active learning. He received a BA degree in criminology (cum laude) from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) in 2013 and a BS degree in ICT engineering (cum laude) from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain) in 2017. In 2018, he received a M.Sc. in cybersecurity (cum laude) from Tallinn University of Technology.

Allard Dijk received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Hogeschool Alkmaar in 2003 and an M.S. degree in Software Engineering from the University of Amsterdam in 2010. From 2007 to 2016, he worked as a hardware and software developer for the Dutch military and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Cybersecurity and AI. He started his involvement with Locked Shields as a defender of SCADA/ICS systems in 2015. In 2016, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Military Sciences of The Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA)in Den Helder.

Andrea is currently a PhD candidate in the Systems Security Group (VUSec) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is mainly interested in low level topics in Systems and Security. Some keywords related to his interests include memory safety, Linux kernel, side channels, fault injection and operating system design.

Artis has a master's degree in electrical engineering and experience in the fields of wireless communication, digital signal processing and currently is working as a research assistant at Institute of Electronics and Computer Science in Cyber-Physical Systems laboratory.

Arturs Mednis is a most known digital marketing expert in Latvia with over 20 years of experience in the field. He is the Founder and CEO of New Black, a most awarded digital marketing agency in Latvia. Arturs has been a prominent speaker and presenter at various conferences, seminars, and training sessions since 2006. Additionally, for last 13 years he serves as a Digital Marketing teacher at RISEBA University. With a profound interest in buyer behavior and Artificial Intelligence, Arturs is deeply fascinated by cognitive and social sciences.

Asta Mineike currently serves as the Support and Operations Manager at EURid, the manager of the .eu domain registry. She assumed this role almost two years ago, following several years as the Regional Manager for Northern Europe. As Support and Operations Manager, Asta successfully implemented a data validation procedure within the BizOps team. She leads a dedicated team responsible for data validation, utilizing innovative tools to enhance data quality and strengthen the trustworthiness of the .eu domain namespace.

Baiba Kaškina is the General manager of CERT.LV - Latvian National and Governmental CSIRT (since 2011) leading the dynamic work of the team and liaising with the constituencies. She has started the first CERT team in Latvia in 2006 and since then has been involved in shaping the cyber security ecosystem of Latvia as well as internationally. Baiba has been the chair of European CSIRTs collaboration forum TF-CSIRT from 2014-2019. She has received the Order of Three stars from the Republic of Latvia in recognition of her contribution to establish and lead the Latvian cyber security environment.

Barbara Povše is the head of the Slovenian TLD Registry since 1997. Registry.si was one of the founding members of CENTR, the big family of European (and wider) national registries. They were helping to shape what today is ICANN (and still trying to do so). In these many, many years the DNS Ecosystem became her home. It’s exciting for Barbara to work in a constantly changing environment, with so many experts from a very different fields, still learning new things. In February 2020 CENTR colleagues of Barbara elected her as a Chair of the CENTR Board of Directors.

Dr. Bernhards Blumbergs is a lead cyber-security expert at the Information Technology Security Incident Response Institution of the Republic of Latvia (CERT.LV) and the former Technology Researcher at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCD COE) also the Ambassador of the Centre since 2018. He is the creator and the technical director of the world’s largest and most innovative full-spectrum offensive cyber operation exercise Crossed Swords. He is a certified exploit researcher and advanced penetration tester (GXPN), industrial cyber security professional (GICSP), and response and industrial defense expert (GRID). He has a solid military background, targeted at developing, administering, and securing wide-area information systems.Dr. Blumbergs received his Computer Science PhD degree in Cyber Security from Tallinn Technical University in 2019, with his dissertation on specialized cyber red team responsive computer network operations. Currently, he is doing a JSPS postdoc fellowship in Nara Institute of Science of Technology (Japan) with his research focusing on information space awareness.

Chris Boehm is the Director of Global Field CISOs at SentinelOne. As a cybersecurity thought leader, he drives strategy and works closely with some of the largest organizations in the world. Before SentinelOne, he was a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft in the Azure Security engineering division. In his five years at Microsoft, he focused on driving product strategy and delivering strategic customer enablement. Chris worked closely with the Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations Center (CDOC) and Microsoft Threat Intelligence team (MSTIC) to work on research and enablement to create a more intuitive investigation experience for Security Operations Centers.

Chris Mondini is Vice President, Stakeholder Engagement, Europe and Managing Director for Europe, stationed in the Brussels, Belgium office. In his role, Mondini oversees ICANN org’s operations in the region and leads ICANN org’s Global Business Engagement initiatives worldwide. Christopher began his professional life as a United States diplomat and later became a corporate investigator with Deloitte. He has investigated the world’s largest corporate corruption cases, while working with NGOs and business organizations on ways to mitigate corruption risks. He also led grant-making teams for the Full Circle Fund, an engaged philanthropy organization addressing economic development challenges. Christopher holds degrees from Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities. Throughout his career in Washington and Silicon Valley, he has dedicated his career to bridging communications gaps that occur among diverse sectors - public, private and nonprofit – and across international borders.

Christiane Kirketerp de Viron has been the Head of Unit for Cybersecurity and Digital Privacy policies in the European Commission´s DG CONNECT since July 2022. Prior to this, she was Member of Cabinet for the European Commissioner for Budget and Administration, Johannes Hahn, where parts of her responsibilities concerned the digital transformation of the European Commission as well as the cybersecurity of EU Institutions, Bodies and Agencies. During the Juncker Commission, Christiane served as Member of Cabinet for the European Commissioner for Research Innovation and Science, Carlos Moedas.

Christoffer Karsberg works as Coordinator for the National Coordination Centre for Cybersecurity Research and Innovation, NCC-SE. The Centre is hosted by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, MSB. Previously at MSB, Christoffer coordinated the NIS Directive rollout in Sweden. Christoffer also has a background from the European Cybersecurity Agency ENISA and from the Swedish telecom regulator PTS.

Daiva Tamulioniene works at the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) under the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania. As the Head of division at Cyber Defence department, she is responsible for implementation and development of cyber security monitoring and cyber attack detection and prevention measures in the national defence system, state information resources and critical information infrastructures. Division also develops and administers the cyber security information network platform. Prior to joining NCSC in 2022, Daiva has worked in the domain name industry for more than 30 years as the manager of the .LT registry since its creation.

Dan is the UK's Regional Cyber Lead for the Nordic-Baltic region, based at the British Embassy in Copenhagen. He has previous experience in cyber operations, policy, strategy and international engagement.

Dana Ludviga holds a master's degree in computer science and has over a decade of experience in the domain industry. She currently serves as the Digital Project Manager at NIC, the registry for .LV domains. Dana contributes to the development to the domain industry as the co-chair of the Marketing Working Group at the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR). In this role, she collaborates with industry leaders to develop marketing strategies and initiatives, with a keen eye on domain name security. Before her current role, Dana was as a computer science researcher at the University of Latvia. Her work extended to diverse IT research and network development projects funded under the 7th framework of the European Union. Dana held leadership positions in various market research teams.

Danielius Vargonas worked with NATO shielding standards on EMI/RFI (TEMPEST) certifications. Then he moved on to cyber and joined CERT-LT. At the moment he is in the roles of incident responder and reverse engineer. Past two years Danielius has been also part of EU PESCO Cyber Rapid Reaction Team (CRRT). Certified in CompTIA CASP+ and others.

David has been in the internet engineering industry since 1999. Prior to joining ICANN, he was at companies such as Microsoft, Global Crossing, Oracle, and Telocity. He also spent 10 years at ARIN. David graduated from Indiana University in 1996 with a bachelors of arts degree for a double major (telecommunications and geography). He lives with his family in Ashburn, Virginia, USA.

Dion Hinchcliffe is a well-known IT and cybersecurity expert, bestselling book author, enterprise architect, frequent keynote speaker, analyst, futurist, and strategy expert based in Washington, DC. He is currently VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research as well as an Executive Fellow at the Tuck School of Business Center for Digital Strategies. He has led or advised at a senior level over a dozen major digital transformation and cybersecurity projects on six continents. Leadtail recently ranked him the #2 global influencer of CIOs.

Dmitrijs Nikitins, a distinguished member of Tet's board and Chief Technology Officer, boasts over 15 years of expertise in IT. With a strong foundation in research, development, and technology implementation, he has been instrumental in enterprise digital transformation and agile strategy. His multifaceted skill set spans DevOps, software development, network management, and cybersecurity, consistently driving innovation and business elevation.

Internet engineer with rich background in high-profile, mission-critical 24x7 operations. Specializing in DNS infrastructure. Administrative contact for .UA ccTLD, Hostmaster.UA. Member of Internet Association of Ukraine. Can help as for hands-on CTO or VP of Operations. Specialties: Internet operations, Datacenter deployment, Service scalability, DNSSEC, IPv6, internet governance.

Eduards has more than ten years of experience in network administration and hardware maintenance, and is well versed in technology infrastructure. Over the past three years, he has honed his skills in system and hardware security testing, dedicating his daily efforts to hardening these critical areas against potential threats.

Software Engineer at VirusTotal. Main focus of work is the development of dynamic analysis environments and the analysis of banking trojans and APTs. Creator of the free online resource learnfrida.info to introduce users to binary instrumentation and how to use the Frida toolkit.

Florian Pennings works for Microsoft as Director for EU cybersecurity policies. In this role he leads Microsoft’s effort regarding relevant cybersecurity policy development and cooperation, supporting public policy development with transparency, inclusion and expertise in mind. Previous to this role, he worked in public sector for EU institutions and national security agencies. He focuses on bringing different organizations together by focusing on common (security) interests and ensuring benefits to global cyber resilience.

Holding a Ph.D. in signal and image processing, Dr. Gundars Bergmanis-Korāts works as a principal scientist at the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence (StratCom COE). His research is primarily focused on the evolving role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the landscape of disinformation. Within the scope of his work, Dr. Bergmanis-Korāts is involved in numerous projects. He utilizes his expertise in the practical application of AI within custom analytics tools, aiming to enhance their efficiency and accuracy. Furthermore, he also investigates the applicability of AI in small EU languages, specifically in the context of countering disinformation. In addition to these research areas, Dr. Bergmanis-Korāts studies the role of AI in Strategic Communications, with a keen interest in the implications and opportunities associated with cutting-edge generative AI, including the Large Language Models. His prior work includes an exploration of the security implications of data brokers and an analysis of social media platforms.

Since 2018 Heiki has worked as Cyber Security Expert of CERT-EE (national CERT of the country). He has over 20 years of experience in the administration of computer systems and networks.

Mr. Heiki Sibul is the CEO of the Estonian Internet Foundation and has been in charge of organizing the Estonian Internet Governance Forum called National Internet Day. Throughout his career Heiki Sibul has contributed to the development of the Estonian Internet. He has extensive experience in organizing Estonian elections – he held the position of the Chairman of the Estonian National Electoral Committee from 2000 to 2012. Moreover, Mr. Sibul was the leader of the Estonian Internet voting project from 2003 to 2012. He has also held different positions in the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu), including the position of Secretary General. From 2013 - 2022, he was the Chairman of the Council of Civil Service Ethics. Mr. Sibul holds an MA in Law and Political Sciences from the University of Tartu.

Heinrihs is a PhD candidate who is currently engaged in the development of an Intrusion Protection System (IPS) for SCADA systems, with a broader objective of strengthening the cybersecurity landscape. His research interests are diverse and encompass the fields of network security, synthetic data generation and machine learning. Heinrihs' methodological approach is a fusion of advanced techniques such as machine learning algorithms, data analysis and network simulations.

Helen is currently working in the Estonian Internet Foundation as a leading IT lawyer and is responsible for all of the legal matters mainly in the domain name industry field. Helen is also responsible for data privacy compliance and deals with data security issues as data protection officer (DPO). Helen has an MA degree in Information Technology Law from the University of Tartu.

Since 2009, Ingmārs Pūķis has been the Marketing and Business Development Vice President and Member of the Management Board of Latvian Mobile Telephone, Ltd. He holds two decades of experience in telecommunications, marketing, and business development. Before joining LMT, Ingmars was the owner and CEO of Exact Management LLC; before that – the Marketing Director at Exigen Services Latvia JSC. Between 2000 and 2004, he worked at Lattelekom LLC, progressing from Marketing Manager to Director of Broadband Services Department. Ingmars is a member of the Latvian Internet Association. He’s also a member of the State Administration Policy Development Council.

Iveta works at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Latvia as a Head of NIC.LV policy development and compliance group and is engaged in cybersecurity field as a Senior Lawyer at CERT.LV. Her knowledge of information technology law and policy development expertise has been instrumental in many successful projects as well as liaising with national institutions and other organisations with emphasis on technology and regulation interrelations. Iveta holds an LL.M. from the University of Latvia, where she specialised in Public International Law with a focus on Internet governance.

Jakub Orkiszewski - Account Executive with over 12 years of experience in the IT industry. For the past ten years engaged in IT security projects in the Eastern European market in the area of consulting, business development and sales. Currently representing Recorded Future, whose main goal is to empower organizations with the visibility and information organizations need to identify threats and take proactive actions against bad actors, to further conduct the business in a safe manner. In the past responsible for infrastructure projects with Dell EMC, data protection projects with Imperva and Identity Security projects with SailPoint Technologies.

Mr. Garisons is the State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia since August 2015. As the State Secretary, he is the highest civil servant and has overall responsibility for the defence planning, organization, personnel, resource management and finances of the whole realm of the Ministry of Defence. He provides the Minister with the advice for all decisions. He is an active member of the National Guard and serves in the NG Student Battalion. Mr. Garisons has a Master’s degree in History from the University of Latvia and a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies from U.S. Army War College.

Data democratization advocate and principal engineer at Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.

Jukka-Pekka Juutinen is responsible of operations of the National Cyber Security Centre Finland (NCSC-FI) with the other directors. As his a special responsible areas are information security phenomena and development. He is also responsible of the National Coordination Centre Finland which is placed in NCSC-FI. With 16 years of experience in working as public servant in the field of electronic communication, identification services and cybersecurity has given to him a good knowledge base to analyze the level of the cybersecurity and preparedness as well as the development areas in cybersecurity and preparedness in Finland and EU.

Kārlis Svilans is a member of CERT.LV since 2020. He is a member of the Incident Response team, as well as an active of the threat hunter, having taken part in multiple threat hunting operations to this date. Kārlis is part of the CyberChess conference planning committee and has represented CERT.LV in several international events, among those: MeliCERTes Conference, NATO CCDCoE Crossed Swords 2022, the 35th annual FIRST conference and others. An Australian born Latvian, Kārlis graduated with a bachelors degree in Computer Science from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2020.

The ECCC and NCC Network have a mission to increase the global competitiveness of the Union’s cybersecurity industry with a strong focus on SMEs and startups, ensure high cybersecurity standards throughout the Union and turn cybersecurity into a competitive advantage for other Union industries. The presentation will focus on latest developments in the ECCC and the NCC Network to achieve this goal.

Katrina Sataki currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of NIC.LV, the country code Top-Level domain of Latvia managed by the Network Solutions Department of the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia. Katrina has been involved with .LV since 1997 when she helped to develop the website and on-line registration form of the registry operator. She also has participated in many meetings organised by European registry operators and has been an active participant of the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) community and served as the ccNSO Council chair from 2016-2021. Katrina holds a professional degree in Mathematics, a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Latvia. She has participated in several research projects, lectured law students on IT Law and IT students on law and internet governance related issues.

Lari Huttunen is a polyglot linguist with an avid interest in defensive cyber security. He’s been working in the field since the late 1990s. At the beginning of his career he worked for the Finnish police, but since 2007 he has been employed by the private sector (Codenomicon - Synopsys - Arctic Security). Throughout his career, his main passion has been early warning. That is why he is heavily involved in researching the impact of known vulnerabilities and exposures on a global scale, as well as understanding cyber crime – but with a victim focus.

Laura has previous experience in counterintelligence and cyber security. She is interested in the legal aspects of Intellectual Property and Domains.

Mr. Lauri Tankler is the head of Research and Development Coordination at the National Cybersecurity Centre (part of the Estonian Information System Authority). A former journalist and teacher, he has been focusing on cybersecurity for the last 5 years, analysing cyber incidents, raising awareness on cyber threats and accelerating new ideas to boost the cyber-resilience in Estonia and Europe. He is currently spearheading a new initiative to foster the Estonian and European cybersecurity research, innovation and entrepreneurship through EU investments, collaboration on research, market incentives and a special focus on the next generation of cyber specialists.

Leo Trukšāns has 30 years of experience in IT projects, including Latvian Education Informatization System, BalticGrid, E-Spiets science cloud, IPsec QKD integration development. He joined LVRTC for the development of first national QCI network. He has doctor degree in Computer Science from University of Latvia where he also works as associate professor in the field of IT.

Rear-Admiral Carosielli holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University, a Masters of Applied Science in Software Engineering from the Royal Military College in Kingston and is a graduate of the Canadian Forces College Joint Command and Staff Programme and the National Security Programme. In June 2022 Rear-Admiral Carosielli was appointed Chief of Staff for Assistant Deputy Minister (Information Management).

For over 10 years, Maciej has been helping organizations in Europe develop their cybersecurity. He gained his experience working for the largest integrators and distributors in the region in professional services departments. His main interests focus on the Security Operation Center, process design and solution implementation. Privately, a great sports fan (unfortunately, currently more passively in front of the screen than actively).

Mārtiņš Kaļķis has worked in different roles at LMT Security Department while focusing on technology, security and resilience and currently is leading cybersecurity. He is an active member of cybersecurity community locally and globally, member of several NGOs, provides his expertise in cybersecurity governance legislation development. Recently he led the establishment of LMT’s National Guard subunit.

Mauno Pihelgas has almost a decade of experience as a Technology Researcher at the NATO CCDCOE, where his area of expertise was monitoring, cyber security automation, data mining, and situational awareness. In addition to various research endeavors, he has been closely involved with the technical development of CCDCOE's cybersecurity exercises Locked Shields and Crossed Swords. He obtained his PhD degree from Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) in 2021. He is currently working as a Senior Systems Engineer for a global group of companies at Podium North.

Mihails Potapovs is the Head of the European Union Cybersecurity Affairs Section at the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia. With a Master’s degree in International Security from Sciences Po, Mihails has a comprehensive understanding of global threats and strategic challenges. He also serves as Member of the Governing Board of the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC) and Head of the Latvian National Coordination Centre (NCC-LV) Secretariat. Prior to his current roles, Mihails gained valuable experience in various capacities within the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the European Commission.

Patrick Hauss is a CSC® regional director based in Paris. He is responsible for digital assets management, cyber security, and online brand protection business development in France, Spain, and the Middle East. Patrick has held positions within major French companies including Bank and Telecom, where he oversaw the technology contracts negotiation process and was responsible for data privacy compliance, brand protection, and trademarks/domain names management. Patrick has a master’s degree in Intellectual Property and IT Law from the CEIPI in Strasbourg. He coauthored "Stratégies de nommage, sélectionner et sécuriser ses noms de domaine sur Internet." He is also a member of CYBERLEX, the INTA, the AIPPI and the IESAS (European Institute for Advanced Security & Safety).

Patrik has been working with the Internet since around 1980, and he has been focused on robust communication. Creator of a few standards, including internationalized domain names (IDN), and long term participant in the IETF and RIPE. Have been negotiating on behalf of Sweden in the ITU and been the chair of SSAC within ICANN for 7 years. Last 10+ years at Netnod with a security and operational focus, and last three years part time for the Swedish Armed Forces. 2023 he was team lead for the Swedish/Icelandic team in Locked Shields, the Nato exercise hosted by CCDCOE in Tallinn, and the team did win.

Paweł Srokosz is a security researcher and a malware analyst at CERT.PL, constantly digging for fire and doing reverse engineering of ransomware and botnet malware. Main developer of CERT.pl open-source projects for malware analysis automation: MWDB Core and Karton. Free-time spends on playing CTFs as a p4 team member.

Polina Malaja is the Policy Director at the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR), leading its policy work and liaising with governments, institutions and other organisations in the internet ecosystem. She holds an LL.M in International Human Rights Law and Intellectual Property Rights Law and is deeply interested in interactions between technology and fundamental rights and freedoms in the digital age. Before joining CENTR, Polina was responsible for the free and open source software advocacy work at the Free Software Foundation Europe, together with leading the FSFE legal team and coordinating the biggest network of legal experts in Free Software: the Legal Network.

Rishi Maudhub has worked in the domain industry for over ten years, and he remains one of the longest serving members of the CentralNic Group. With over 15 years of post-qualified legal experience in corporate contracts and cross-border disputes, Rishi has worked across all of CentralNic's business divisions. From overseeing the successful applications of over 140 brand applicants in the 2012 ICANN gTLD process, Rishi is now Head of Global Registry Services, and works closely with the Brand Services team to execute on strategic partnerships to help grow CentralNic's reputation as the predominant force in registry and registrar services.

Richard A Browne is Director of the National Cyber Security Centre in Ireland, a role he has held since 2021. He has previously held roles in the Prime Minister’s office and in digital and telecommunications policy.

Rudolfs is an incident responder who also delves into threat hunting and conducts research in Industrial Automation and Control System (IACS) security at CERT.LV. He holds a Master's degree in Cybersecurity from Tallinn University of Technology (Taltech).

Mr. Sascha Kämpf works as Product Manager for .de, the german registry, since 2001. For the past 10 years he has been responsible for the .de registration system and information services. As such he worked on the introduction of IDNs, one and two letter domains and DENIC´s rush system for domain investors. Since 2014 Sascha Kämpf is also the chair of the CENTR Administrative working group. The working group deals with processes and services related to daily interaction with registrars, registration data quality management, channel management, design, introduction, redesign and improvement of products and services and observation of trends within registries and in the broader.

Svitlana has been working for the ccTLD .UA for over 15 years in different capacities, starting as a technical operator to a Board Member. All this time her main goal has been to ensure stability, reliability, resilience of the ccTLD .UA. Svitlana has participated in policy development for .ua and in various technical projects. She is also the founder and organizer of the UADOM meeting, regional meeting of the domain industry players, which attracts regional specialists and international DNS experts.

Timo Võhmar is a laid back, cool and fun guy with "how can we improve that" type of mindset. He has quite a few revolutionary and disruptive solutions under his belt like blind auction system for releasing domains and the best electronic identification and authentication system in the world. There is no end of great ideas with this one.

Over 20 years of experience in the internet domain name industry. Tomas has been actively involved in cyber security assurance of .LT registry and domain name system over the last decade.

Tomas has been working in the DNS industry since 2007. Cyber security is one of the key interest areas, where Tomas holds multiple certificates including GCFA, GNFA, GPYC and GREM.

Tun Hirt works at Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity as Head of the National Cybersecurity Coordination Centre (NCC-LU). With his background in both International and Cyber Law, Tun works on strategic, legal and economic aspects of cybersecurity. One of the main missions of the NCC-LU is to coordinate European research, industry and education with the aim to up-level capacity building in Europe, together with a Network of National Centres in all of the 27 EU Member States.

Varis Teivāns works in the field of cyber security since 2006. He has played a major role in development of the IT security infrastructure and a recovery plan for the Latvian presidency of the EU. Varis has participated in planning, technical setup, and scenario development of several hackfests, run technical workshops on IT security issues at the university as well as at the CERT.LV organized events. Currently Varis is leading CERT.LV's technical incident response team.

Vaggelis Segredakis has been the CEO of the .GR registry ICS-FORTH for over seveenteen years.

Yevhen Bryksin is Deputy Chief of the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) which is part of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine. Worked in CERT-UA since 2014. Deputy Chief since 2020. The main tasks are the development and implementation of CERT-UA services and managing processes of incident investigation, computer forensics, and malware analysis.