Speaker Overview

Aleksandra Mudrinić Ribić

Deputy CEO Education Support Department in CARNET (Croatian Academic and Research Network)

Alexander Pröll

Secretary of State for Digitalisation, Federal Chancellery

Alexandra Duca

Alexandra Duca

Legal Advisor, Federal Ministry of Defence

Andreas Holzer

Director General, Criminal Intelligence Service Austria, Federal Ministry of Interior

Anis Bajrektarevic

Professor, Board Member of IFIMES

Anna Malec

ESDC Cyber ETEE Training Manager at ESDC Secretariat, European Security & Defence College

Augusto Lopez Claros

Augusto Lopez Claros

Executive Director, World Governance Forum

Bart Karstens

Bart Karstens

Rathenau Institute, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences:
Are the Dutch taming Big Tech?

Bethany Allen

Bethany Allen

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)

Birgit Reiter-Braunwieser

Birgit Reiter-Braunwieser

Team Lead Research Location & CEE: Cyber security company landscape in Austria and ABA support for international companies

Blerim Rexha

Blerim Rexha

Professor at the University of Prishtina, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Prishtina, Kosovo.

Carina Zehetmaier

CEO paiper.one, Member of the Austrian AI Advisory Board at Digital Austria

Colonel Nguyen Tuong Quan

Director of Center 1, Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention

Daniela Pieters

Technology Expert, Vienna Business Agency

Daniele Sangion

Daniele Sangion

CSO, Head of Digital Transformation Office, UniCredit Bank Austria

Dirk Ahrendt

Director Government, Public and Healthcare DACH, Trend Micro

Elena K. Sokova

Elena K. Sokova

Executive Director, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP)

Fabio Seferi

Fabio Seferi

PhD CandidateItalian National PhD Program in CybersecurityIMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca & University of Florence, Italy: Sandboxes as regulatory infrastructure

Felix Kufus

Felix Kufus

Advisor, Digital Peacemaking & Emerging Technologies, CMI — Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation

Filimon Peonidis

Filimon Peonidis

University Professor for Philosophy at the Aristotle University Thessaloniki

Guilherme Maia de Oliveira Wood

Guilherme Maia de Oliveira Wood

Head of the Section for Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

Gwendolyn Murphy

Gwendolyn Murphy

University of Delaware/IWM Fellows: An Energy Transition Critical Raw Material Repository

H.E. Yvonne Toncic-Sorinj

Deputy Director General for European and Economic Affairs, Ambassador of Austria to the Republic of Lithuania based in Vienna

H.E. Zenon Kosiniak Kamysz

Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Austria

Hubert Cottogni

Director, European Investment Bank

Insuk Kim

Insuk Kim

President of Korean-German Association of Economics and Management (KDGW), CEO of HANDA Forum

Joanna Pawełek-Mendez

Coordinator for Cybersecurity Policy, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs

José Carrera

José Carrera

International Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Thought Leader and Cybersecurity Strategist

Joseph Ngala Adero

Joseph Ngala Adero

PhD professor of international relations, United States International University. Guiding and evaluating PhD students through their research studies.

Modus Chora Studio: When Sovereignty threatens Ubuntu, African Concept of Solidarity: The Case of the GenZ in Kenya

Julia Haas

Advisor to the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (OSCE RFoM)

Juliano Alves Pinto

Government Affairs Director of the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO)

Julie Michelle Klinger, (c) Jonathan Kannair

Julie Klinger

University of Delaware/IWM Fellows: An Energy Transition Critical Raw Material Repository

Karin Kosina (c) Arno Mitterdorfer

Karin Kosina

Head of Cyber Diplomacy Unit, Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs

Katharina Schell PRINT (PSO Coated v3)

Katharina Schell

Deputy Editor-in-Chief, APA – Austria Press Agency

Komitas Stepanyan

Komitas Stepanyan

Technology, Information & Cybersecurity Director,

Central Bank of Armenia

American University of Armenia: The New Digital Borders: Cloud Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and the Future of Sovereignty

Kuangran Li

Kuangran Li

Assistant Researcher at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences: Balancing Sovereignty and Transparency: Soft Law Approaches for Enhancing Sovereign Debt Data Governance in the Digital Era

Madeleine Müller

Senior Researcher at Research Institute – Digital Human Rights Center

Magnus Brunner

Member of the European Commission for Internal Affairs & Migration

Mari Galstyan

American University of Armenia: The New Digital Borders: Cloud Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and the Future of Sovereignty

Mark Borthwick

Mark Borthwick

OOCDTP Doctoral Fellow, Open University, UK: God-in-the-algorithmn: Exploring media formations of faith-nationalist identities make new sovereignties, and challenge existing geopolitics

Matthäus Vobruba

Financial Officer at VICESSE Research GmbH

Max Schrems

Law, Privacy and Politics Expert

Michaela Scheriau

Michaela Scheriau

Postdoc Researcher at VICESSE (Vienna)

Michail Bletsas

Governor of the NCSA (National Cyber Security Authority)

Michele Giovanardi
Michele Giovanardi

Michele Giovanardi

Programme Officer, Digital Peacemaking, CMI — Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation

Natalia Spinu

Natalia Spinu

Director of the European Institute for Political Studies in Moldova

Nico Hornig

Nico Hornig

Research Associate at the chair of Economic Policy Journalism at TU Dortmund and research associate at GADMO (German Austrian Digital Media Observatory)

Olesia Mariina

Member of the Security Service of Ukraine (tbc)

Philipp Budka

Philipp Budka

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna

Plixavra Vogiatzoglou (c) Bastiaan Heus

Plixavra Vogiatzoglou

Postdoctoral researcher at Universiteit van Amsterdam: Digital sovereignty’s legitimising role: the case of the European Union

Robert Moro

Robert Moro

Researcher at the Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT) located in Bratislava

Sabine T. Köszegi

Head of the Institute of Management Science, Technical University Vienna

Salmi Ahsan
Salmi Ahsan

Salmi Ahsan

Security Solution Advisor, SAP Berlin

Sarah Lackner (c) Georg Wilke, Foto Wilke (Wien)

Sarah Case Lackner

Senior Fellow, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP)

Sarah Kriesche

Journalist (ORF Radio – Ö1/FM4)

Stacey Nduta

Stacey Nduta

Kenya, Managing Director, Modus Chora Studio, Validating portfolio assets and service delivery at the Kenyan-based venture studio: When Sovereignty threatens Ubuntu, African Concept of Solidarity: The Case of the GenZ in Kenya

Stefan Brandl

Information Assurance Director at Austrian State Printing House

Stephanie Jakoubi

Head of the Strategic Partnership Management, Communication, and Events, SBA Research

Szilvia Tóth

Cyber Security Officer, OSCE Secretariat, Transnational Threats Department

Mr. Ulrik P. Ahnfeldt-Mollerup

Ulrik P. Ahnfeldt-Mollerup

Head of Section at UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, UNOCT

Uroš Svete

Uroš Svete

Director of the Government Information Security Office of the Republic of Slovenia

Vangelis Ouzounis

Head of Capacity Building and Skills Unit, ENISA

Viktoria Kontrus

Victoria Kontrus

Researcher at VICESSE

Social science and legal research in national and EU-funded projects

Wirkwajie E. Wirba

Wirkwajie E. Wirba

Kenya, University lecturer, MC Studio, Guiding students through their undergraduate studies in humanities.

Modus Chora Studio: When Sovereignty threatens Ubuntu, African Concept of Solidarity: The Case of the GenZ in Kenya

Jean-Marc Rickli

Jean-Marc Rickli

Head of Global and Emerging Risks, Geneva Centre for Security Policy

Andrea G. Rodríguez

Lead and Chair of the Governing Board, ImpaQT

Dimitris Papastergiou

Minister of Digital Governance

Carmen Isabel Grabuschnig

Carmen Isabel Grabuschnig

Guest Lecturer, University of Sorbonne: A new love for censorship? How social media and identity politics undermine the fundamental values of democracy

Friedrich Moser Film GmbH
Friedrich Moser © Friedrich Moser Film GmbH

Friedrich Moser

Austrian Documentary film producer & director, Director of the Movie “How to build a Truth Engine“

Eman Alawadhi

Eman Al Awadhi

Vice President Network and Cyber Security, Expo City Dubai

Christof Tschohl

Research Director, Research Institute

Roland Fadrany

Roland Fadrany

Chief Operating Officer, Gaia-X AISBL

Detlef Eckert

Detlef Eckert

Founder Deep Digital Consulting B.V., Author of “40 Years of European Digital Policies“

Tobias Lang

Tobias Lang

Director, Austrian Centre for Peace

Farhat Asif

Farhat Asif

Founder & President, Institute of Peace & Diplomatic Studies, Islamabad

Markus Kornprobst

Markus Kornprobst

Vienna School of International Studies, Diplomatische Akademie Wien, Professor of International Relations

Renata Ávila Pinto

Renata Ávila Pinto

CEO of Open Knowledge Foundation

Ulrich Mans

Ulrich Mans

Lead Strategic Partnerships, Quantum Delta

Ditte Bjeeregaard
Ditte Bjerregaard

Ditte Bjerregaard

Acting Tech Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark

Michal Krelina

Michal Krelina

Associate Senior Researcher, SIPRI – Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Athina Lykos

Junior Researcher and Liaison to MFA, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology

Lukas Mandl

Member of the European Parliament, Subcommittee on Security and Defence, Vice President, Brussels

Michael Merker

Senior Adviser to the EU’s Civilian Operations Commander, European External Action Service (EEAS)

Ronan Hamon

Scientific Project Officer, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy

Masood Karimipour

Chief of the Terrorism Prevention Branch (TPB), UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) (Online)

Klaudia Tanner

Minister at Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence

Elsa Landry

International Sales Manager, Infodas GmbH
How the protection of vital networks contributes to the well-being of our societies

Walter Göttlich

Graduate Research Assistant, KU Surveillance Studies Research Center, Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, University of Kansas, USA

Sabine Gillessen

Gillessen – digital strategies & communicating politics

Hannah Reiter

Senior Researcher, VICESSE

Brigitte Lutz

Data Governance Coordinator of City of Vienna

Thomas Mann

CISO, K-Businesscom AG

Bohumil Hruska

Head of Threat Modelling, Sparx Systems

Christof Tatschl

Deputy Commander IT and Cybersecurity Center at Österreichisches Bundesheer (Austrian Armed Forces)

Andreas Reichhardt

Vice Minister at Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Regions and Tourism

Marion Neunkirchner

Marion Neunkirchner

Austria, Researcher at VICESSE Research GmbH (Vienna Centre for Societal Security)

Social Science (Social work, Sociology)

Andy Knapp

Vice President of International Sales at Secure Code Warriors

Reinhard Kreissl

Director, VICESSE

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