Mr. Botond Feledy is lawyer, foreign policy expert and commentator, senior fellow at the Centre of Euro-Atlantic Integration and Development (CEID). Currently he is researching cyber security and Russian influence in Central Europe. He was elected last year as member of the #NewEurope100, a joint initiative of Google, Financial Times, Visegrad Fund and the Polish Res Publica Foundation to choose yearly the hundred most transformative person of the Central European region. He is former director of the Saint Ignatius Jesuit College, he is still working at various instances of the Hungarian public talent management programs. He presides the Institute of Social Reflection as well as offers seminars in IR theory at Pazmany University, Budapes…

Zsolt has more than 15 years of experience with ICT in various heterogeneous technological and complex application environments. One of his advantages is that he has experience with being on the side of a customer as well as being on the side of a provider, distributor and vendor. His specialization in recent years is information security; he dedicated his time to internal audits, risk analysis and ethical hacking.

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.

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…

Barbara has worked in the Kosciuszko Institute since 2017 as Research Fellow, Project Manager of the European Cybersecurity Forum – CYBERSEC and Chief Editor of the European Cybersecurity Journal (ECJ). She is graduate of the International Economics and European Studies at the Cracow University of Economics and French language and literature at the Jagiellonian University. She is also PhD candidate in Economics at the Cracow University of Economics. She studied International Economics at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her interests encompass processes of economic change in the context of new technologies, theories of economic growth and international security. She is author of various publications in the field of technology and it…

Jean Bayon de La Tour is Cyber Development Leader for Marsh Continental Europe. He meets with clients to understand their needs and translate them into insurance-related solutions while also training Marsh colleagues on cyber risk and insurance. Jean joined Marsh in 2012 and was in charge of dedicated insurance programs for large financial institutions and stock exchanges. He was later appointed leader for Cyber Development in France before becoming Cyber Development Leader in 2016. Before joining Marsh, Jean worked in Group Internal Audit at Crédit Agricole and in the private banking sector at HSBC France. He holds a Master in Corporate and Capital Market Finance from EDHEC Business School in Paris, France.