Philip Chertoff is a junior research fellow in the Defence and Security Programme at the GLOBSEC Policy Institute (GPI), where he is developing a new Institute initiative on critical information infrastructure cybersecurity. Before he joined GPI, Philip worked as a senior strategy analyst at Accenture Strategy in Chicago, developing technology strategies for companies in the retail and financial services industries. He also served as a research associate for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Emerging Leaders Program, studying private sector responses to state-sponsored hacking. His commentary has appeared in international publications such as Wired and Boston Globe.

Rastislav Janota has more than 20 years of experience in the IT and telecommunications sector. During his professional career, he held several expert and top managerial positions in the field of ICT and cyber security both in the private sector and in public administration, both in Slovakia and in various countries abroad. Since September 1, 2023, he has been working as a special envoy of the NBU for cyber security at the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Washington, D.C., USA.

Jean-Pierre Nordvik has a M.Sc degree in electro-mechanical engineering from the “Université Libre de Bruxelles”, Belgium. He has been working since 1989 for the European Commission. He is currently Head of the Cyber and Digital Citizens’ Security Unit within the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. His Unit carries out research on how emerging Information and Communication Technologies impact citizens' daily life.  Jean-Pierre works on risk mitigation, cyber security, cybercrime, data protection, privacy, and on the associated legal and regulatory frameworks. Over the past few years, his interest has focused on the security and data protection of connected and automated cars, and on digital identities, distributed led…

Luigi Rebuffi is the Secretary General and founder of ECSO (European Cyber Security Organisation) as well as founder and senior advisor to the EOS Board (EOS - European Organisation for Security) and the. After having graduated in Nuclear Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), he worked in Germany on the development of high power microwave systems for the next thermonuclear fusion reactor (ITER). He continued his career at Thomson CSF / Thales in France where he took on increasing responsibilities for European Affairs (R&D) in different sectors: telecom, industrial, medical, scientific, and becoming in 2003 Director for European Affairs for the civilian activities of the Group. He suggested the creation of EOS and coordinated …

Ondřej Šťáhlavský is respected expert within IT Security field almost 15 years. He has joined Fortinet 10 years ago as the first Territory Manager for the CEE region. Within those years Ondřej served in multiple roles, one of them was EMEA Technical Support Director where he built the new Technical Assistance Center supporting the EMEA region from Prague (Czech Republic). Once this mission has been finished Ondřej came back to CEE salesforce in the role of Regional Director.

He has held the position of Managing Director and Managing Director for the Slovak and Czech Republics since 5 June 2017. Prior to accepting this position at Atos IT Solutions and Services, s.r.o., he worked for the last 4 years as General Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Slovakia, s.r.o. After joining HP/HPE in 1998, he worked as Enterprise Account Manager and Dealer Manager as the first employee of the division dedicated to enterprise solutions in Slovakia. In 2003 he became District Manager for the public sector TSG Sales, responsible for the entire HP portfolio within the public sector in Slovakia. Later he held several sales positions in Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. In 2006, he became Director of Public…