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.
Professor and Head of Computing at Bournemouth University, UK, with diploma in Electrical Engineering from Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, an MBA from Keele University in the UK and a PhD in Computer Science (network security and cryptography) fro
Members
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).
Salvador Llopis is currently a senior Project Officer on Telecommunications and Information Systems at the European Defence Agency (EDA) in Brussels.
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.
