He has been working in various positions in the IT field for more than 15 years. Since 2018, he has been the director of the Žilina branch of Softec. He leads a team dedicated to various innovative projects focusing on the use of biometric technologies in process digitization. In this area, he delivers solutions to a wide range of customers in a variety of applications.

Carsten has over 15 years of experience in InfoSec and over 10 years of experience in application security. He has carried out numerous AppSec program rollouts and deployments as a professional services consultant becoming a practice principal and managing a team of software security consultants across Europe. When joining Checkmarx in 2016, Carsten initially worked as the first Technical Account Manager (TAM), managing the largest accounts of Checkmarx in EMEA. Shortly after joining Checkmarx, Carsten started building the team of technical account managers around him and a year later also a team of AppSec advisors. Carsten has contributed to the OWASP OpenSAMM standard and has presented at various application security conferences.

Richard Kiškováč has been working in the field of information and cyber security in the private sector for more than 16 years. Prior to entering the private sector, he investigated cybercrime. He has extensive experience in security in the telecommunications and financial sectors, public administration as well as industry. During his career, he held several managerial positions in multinational or local companies. He worked as a consultant in an international audit and consulting company where he led a local team. He currently works as an independent cyber security consultant and as an external collaborator of the cyber security section at the Slovak Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatization. 

Martin Sulík studied software design and programming at the Faculty of Management and Command of the Academy of the Armed Forces of General M. R. Štefánik in Liptovský Mikuláš. He has extensive experience in the banking sector, where he has held various positions for eleven years. He worked as a program analyst, integration architect, IT infrastructure architect, security or corporate architect and also participated in the development of mobile applications. He was responsible for the selection, implementation, integration and operation of information systems in banks. For nine years he worked for the consulting company Fairdyne, where he collaborated on projects related to IT management, business management, IT application architecture,…

Andrej Bederka graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Technical University in Bratislava in 1989 and the Faculty of National Economics of the University of Economics in Bratislava in 1999. He was a software consultant and a project manager in ICT sector and acted in business consulting. Since 2010, he has worked 10 years for the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic, partly on ICT projects and also on projects focused on education (“Universities as engines of knowledge society development” - internship of university students, “Improving the Quality of the Education at primary and secondary Schools using electronic Testing”, “IT Academy - Education for the 21st Century”, “School informatisati…