Security Stage

Steve Rymell joined Airbus (then known as EADS) in 2000, having held many roles within the IT & Security organisations of several well-known UK companies from the Automobile sector to Fast Moving Consumer Goods.

He started at Airbus as IT & Security strategist within the satellites division and was appointed as Chief Information Officer in 2003, at which time he made the move from the UK to Germany.

In Jan 2007, he took a Director post within the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), ensuring cyber defence and security solutions to protect all overseas based parts of the UK government.
He returned to Airbus, and Germany, in April 2011 and made the logical move to the CyberSecurity organisation. Since then Steven has been part of the executive team, shaping the development of the organisation through 8 years of constant growth.

Today, his 38 years of experience are focused on leading our Cyber Technology Strategy, choosing cyber technologies, and developing cyber capabilities for the future.

Gregory Pickett CISSP, GCIA, GPEN has a background in intrusion analysis for Fortune 100 companies but now works with NuTech Logix’s Assessment Practice.  As a security professional, his primary area of focus and occasional research is networks with an interest in using network traffic to better understand, to better defend, and sometimes to better exploit the systems that live on them.

Eliza is the CEO and Co-Founder of th4ts3cur1ty.company, who specialize in delivering intelligence lead adversary emulation purple teaming & the bespoke building of Security Operation Centers. Eliza is also the Founder and Director of Ladies of London Hacking Society (LLHS). LLHS is one of the largest technical cyber-security groups in Europe, and the only one of its kind in the world.

Eliza originally trained in Digital Forensics at university but fell in love with purple teaming after exploring both penetration testing and incident response. She is an advocate for accessible education, a driver of the women in cyber-security movement, she champions neurodiversity and is an international technical speaker.

Marco has been working with US Government and collaborating closely with the University of California, Davis on new security paradigms. During 2009 he has been working at NIST, Maryland where he improved the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) standard.

He collaborates with different national and international public and private agencies. Marco co-founded Yoroi believing in a human-centric cyber defense approach which took him to build Yoroi Cyber Security Defence Center.

Arthur Keleti, cyber-secret futurist, is widely respected around the world as an expert on cybersecurity, and a visionary in his field. He is the founder of the long-running East-European cybersecurity grand conf-expo ITBN. Arthur is also the President and founder of the Voluntary Cyber Defence Collaboration, and he works for T-Systems Hungary as IT Security Strategist since 1999. He is the author of “The Imperfect Secret” a book on cyber-secrets, and the future of AI-based privacy. He is also an Executive Producer of the movie SIGHT: Extended a stunning, Augmented Reality themed Sci-Fi thriller in the making.

Michael’s company (HakDefNet) currently does Cyber Intelligence research and projects focused on Global Cyber Risks, International Business and Security Leadership and are aimed at making security products, processes, solutions and defense against cyber threats as easy to understand and implement as possible.

Michael is also the author of the chapter “Cyber Security: Future IT-Security Challenges for Tomorrow’s Leaders and Businesses”, with IGI Global elaborating on elevating issues in cyber security and cyber espionage, as well as the challenges that leaders and businesses face in confronting such issues. He also has written for various IT, Channel and Business publications and newspapers internationally. Publishing Trainings and Reports about Cyber Risks.

Anton has worked in the information security industry since the beginning of the century. He began his career as a penetration tester and ISO 27002 auditor in security consultancy. He later became one of the first certified PCI DSS auditors in Russia. In 2009 Anton stepped away from security consultancy business and joined the Global Information Security team at Barclays Bank, where he was a member of the Security Assessment and Penetration Testing teams.

Anton joined Yandex in 2011 as Chief Security Officer, where he builds and manage Security department. Yandex is one of the largest internet companies in Europe, operating Russia’s most popular search engine and its most visited website. Anton is responsible for developing and leading information security strategy and risk management plans, designing security controls and processes across the company.

Double awarding-winning globally recognized expert and visionary in the World of Cyber Security, Forbes Tech Council Member, and technology leader with 20 years of experience executing team leadership in designing effective cyber and information security solutions. Jason continues to raise and educate the profile of Information Security risks and was instrumental in the introduction of the role CSO (Chief Security Officer) globally.

Jason has devoted his time to reducing and researching Cyber Risks and in-turn been the visionary in a number of the world-leading cybersecurity services and the founder of the world’s leading Cloud-Based Authentication Platform CRYPTOCard. As a former ethical hacker, Jason has used his knowledge and expertise to create technologies that ensure organizations stay one step ahead of the risks presented by ongoing advances in Cyber threats and risks.

Talented leader and collaborator with the ability and knowledge to start new businesses, maximize resources, execute strategic plans, and build or transform teams to drive innovative Cyber Security product development and delivery. With the professional experience of driving technology performance on a global scale.

Jason continues to published articles and white papers Globally and continually appears on BBC, ITV, CNN, Fox News and CNBC as well as Radio 5, Sky News and BBC World News as an expert advisor on Cyber and Information Security matters and issues. His expertise has been cited in global publications including Time, SC Magazine, InfoSec, Computing and Computer Weekly magazines and in the FT, Guardian, Times and Evening Standard and is recognized as a lead figure within the global information security industry.

Jason has held senior positions within a number of organizations, including Ernst & Young’s Information Security Assurance and Advisory Services practice, CEO of WhiteHat and Cryptocard. Clients have included NHS, Governments, as well as a large number of FTSE 100 organizations, for whom Jason has created and developed entire security frameworks as well as Information Security Assessment Methodologies. In addition, Jason regularly provides advice and guidance to Governments, Law Enforcement and Military agencies on Information Security matters globally.

Laurentiu Popescu has over 18 years of work experience in the IT&C industry with background in marketing strategy, market research, competitive analysis, business consulting, lead generation and go-to-market services.

In his capacity of Security Product Management Lead at Orange, Laurențiu oversees the product portfolio, contributing to the roadmap development and go-to-market strategy. Prior to joining Orange România, Laurențiu Popescu held positions with Bitdefender as Global Marketing Manager, Research & Insights and Country Manager for IDC România.

Uwe Maurer practices Cyber Security for more than 25 years. He worked in the fields of security operating processes, application and database security, intrusion detection, SIEM and log analysis. Our team in NTT has more than 20 years’ experience in Cyber Defense. Uwe Maurer is responsible for the Cyber Defense architecture in EMEA and still, emphases to work in key customer projects.

Bogdan Costea is Head of Information Security at ING Bank Romania. He previously spent 11 years auditing both business and IT processes, including cybersecurity.

Having extensive knowledge on business and security processes allows Bogdan to identify, assess and drive implementation of security controls without impeding too much business processes.

Bogdan is highly aware of the current need to adopt security as a mindset and to make it the core business of any company, as it is not an IT issue alone. In his current role as Head of Information Security, he is preaching this on every occasion.

A true professional with both business and tech skills and over 15 years of expertise in tracking inventory of hardware and software, negotiating with vendors and suppliers, project management and analyzing the cost for the upgrades and maintenance in technology.

He graduated from the Faculty of Informatics ( Romanian-American University in Bucharest) and holds a Master’s degree in Business Management at the same university. He joined RCS & RDS team 17 years ago.

Within the Digi Group | RCS & RDS, his responsibilities are related to the development and operation of the fixed and mobile telephony networks in Romania, as well as the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) DIGI networks in Italy and Spain. Cătălin Neagoe coordinates the division that operates, plans and implements the Group’s mobile networks and decides their development, launches of new services and functionalities, following and maintaining the quality parameters.

One of the key moments in Cătălin’s career, but also for the company, was winning the tender for 3G mobile license, in 2006, followed by the commercial launch of the mobile services, in 2007. Other important moments were marked by the launch of the network in Spain, in 2008, and in Italy, in 2010. In 2018, he was appointed Director of the Fixed Telephony and Mobile Communications Division.

Andrei Cepoi is an experienced IT&C professional, with more than 15 years proven expertise in Business and IT&C consultancy, IT&C audit, Enterprise Digital Transformation and Project Management. Throughout the years, Andrei held different sales and management roles, currently being responsible of managing and developing NTT DATA business on Local Market. Andrei Cepoi graduated from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest; he is passionate of IT & C and loves to travel.

Vlad is a highly skilled business consultant, experienced in Digital Business Transformations, Strategy and Process Administration and Sales Leadership, working intensively with both Telecom and Financial Industries.

He is an experienced Business Leader and Senior Program Manager with a proven track records of more than 19 years in IT&C industry.

Andrei is a highly skilled and experienced consultant in Digital Customer Experience, IT Security and Business Transformation domains.

Over the last 12 years, he helped large international customers from Telecom and Banking industries steer their IT strategies to ride the latest technological trends.

Lately, he focused on R&D around Open Banking, particularly the security challenges, in close cooperation with leading software vendors and initiative groups. One of his early achievement in this domain was winning the Open Banking Institute Hackathon in 2018.

He is the lead contributor in launching Smart Fintech, an Open Banking accelerator platform powered by IT Smart Systems.

Alexandru Luca is an experienced Senior Consultant for Mobile Technologies with over 15 years experience in IT & C field. Over the years, Mr. Luca has gained valuable experience in this field both by taking key roles in the companies in which he has worked and by acquiring important certifications in this field such as Certified Enterprise Mobility Management, Certified Solution Design & Deployment and Certified System Architecture.

Mr. Luca is a member of the certSIGN team for more than 4 years during which, his activity was an important part of certSIGN’s work and business in this field. The company, with its own mobile security department, has developed and now owns its proprietary mobile products, such as Trust4Mobile – Voice and Messages Encryption application, Fides – Electronic Signature application, and, at this moment,  is giving increased interest in continuously improving products and maintaining them at a constantly up-to-date technological level.”

With over 20 years experience in the field of IT solutions for infrastructure and security, Ovidiu Seceleanu manages the B2B solutions team of the Samsung Romania IM division. The mission is to promote Samsung mobility solutions for companies, to develop the partners ecosystem and to make Samsung Knox the market leader in the field of mobile device management solutions.

Emir’s 25 years of work has been balanced between engineering, consulting and account management, and travel. During that time, he did business in over 20 countries. At the beginning, engineering work was focused on protecting at that time second-biggest Internet Backbone, AS 3561, while an advisory board member at multiple startups he helped define and formalize engineering requirements for different security solutions.
Middle part of his career was focused on providing technical solution for complex ICT projects in CEE working for T-Systems.

Last 4+ years Emir is working for Qualys where his passion is to develop strategies which help CIOs and CISO.s of large enterprises and Government agencies to bring security to the new level. He has worked with hundreds of clients across government, retail, banking, insurance, and others to improve their IT visibility, security and compliance posture.

Elena is Cyber Security enthusiast with more than 10 years background in coordinating projects in cybersecurity, developing digital subscriptions products, digital media and data privacy.

Elena joined Marsh Cyber Business Development team as Cyber Risks and Insurance Consultant focused in providing advanced cyber protection tools to major companies in Romania within an approach based on comprehensive response cover for cyber risks, backed by industry-leading cyber insurers.