Co-Chairs
Professor in the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Head of its Centre for Security and Defence Management.
Professor in the Systems Research Institute, Warsaw, and full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Professor in the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering and Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Nikolai Stoianov is Colonel in the Bulgarian Armed Forces, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Bulgarian Defence Institute.
Members
Andrzej Dziech from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland, is full professor cover 1986.
President of CIRM, with key competences on cybersecurity policy issues, emergency response teams, and innovation in healthcare.
Associate Professor, Director of the National Laboratory of Computer Virology supporting the session on Cyber Security Situational Awareness with focus on detecting and countering malware.
CEO of the European Software Institute (Eastern Europe), National Cybersecurity Coordinator of Bulgaria (2014-2017).
Founder of the Department of Computer Science and Professor of formal methods at the Department of Software Science, Tallinn University of Technology.
Dr. Michael Cooke is Lecturer in Applied Psychology in the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Co-founder and deputy director of The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, organizer of the Cyber Security Summerschools with international partners like NATO and Europol.
Associate Professor in the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies and Theme Chair for Wildfires in CMINE.
Professor at the George C.
Professor in the Department of Computer Systems and Technologies, Prof. Asen Zlatarov University, Burgas.
Associate Professor in the Department of Bioinformatics and Mathematical Modelling, Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering.
Deputy director of the Institute of Information and Communications Technologies, former Minister of Defence .
Professor in the Faculty of Cybernetics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine.
Head of the Computer Systems, Networks and Cyber Security Department at the National Aerospace University KhAI, Kharkiv.
Dr Ir Wim Mees is Full Professor in the Royal Military Academy in Brussels, Belgium. In addition to teaching, Prof.
Professor in the Bulgarian Defence Institute, principal national representative to the NATO STO Human Factors & Medicine Panel since 2005.
Associate Professor in the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Head of its "IT for Security