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.
Nikolai Stoianov is Colonel in the Bulgarian Armed Forces, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Bulgarian Defence Institute.
Members
Chief Scientist, of the Army Research Laboratory (ARL), a component of the Combat Capabilities Development Command in the US Army Futures Command.
Andrzej Dziech from the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland, is full professor cover 1986.
Rector of Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy, Varna, Bulgaria.
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).
Senior Researcher at Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), Recently, Dr. Derbentseva participated in the NATO STO HFM RTG-259 on Human Systems Integration Approach to Cyber Security.
Dr Lenk holds the post of Chief of Service Strategy and Innovation in the NATO Communication and Information Agency.
Researcher with ITI-CERTH.
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.
