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Ioana Stancioiu

Software Engineer Pentest-Tools.com

BIOGRAPHY Computer science graduate working as a software engineer at Penest-Tools.com, an online platform for..

Chris Kubecka

Hacktress HypaSec

BIOGRAPHY CEO and Founder of HypaSec NL, former Distinguished Chair for the Middle East Institute’s Cyber ..

Mihai Vasilescu

Security Research Engineer Keysight Technologies Romania

BIOGRAPHY Mihai Vasilescu is a Security Research Engineer at Keysight’s Application and Threat Intelligence ..

Sebastian Avarvarei

EMEA Security Manager Canon EMEA

BIOGRAPHY Currently working as EMEA Information Security Manager at Canon, Sebastian has been in IT and ..

George-Andrei Iosif

Software Security Engineer Canonical

BIOGRAPHY Andrei spent the previous year as a technical leader of a startup automating cybersecurity solutions..

Anca Coltescu

Associate Director for IT Security Operations MSD Romania

BIOGRAPHY Currently she is acting as a Site and Service Lead for a team of approximately 40 people and is a ..

Nenad Zaric

CEO & Co-Founder Trickest

BIOGRAPHY Offensive security professional with over ten years of experience in penetration testing, bug bounty..

Radu Ionicioiu

Senior Researcher in Quantum Technologies IFIN-HH

BIOGRAPHY Radu has 20+ years of experience in quantum information and quantum technologies. His interests ..

Cristian Done

Security Researcher Keysight Technologies Romania

BIOGRAPHY Cristian Done is a Security Researcher within Keysight’s Application and Threat Intelligence ..

Marek Zmysłowski

Senior Security Engineer Azure DevOps

BIOGRAPHY Marek is Senior Security Engineer @ Azure DevOps. He’s worked in the security industry for ..

Wojciech Reguła

Principal Security Consultant SecuRing

BIOGRAPHY Wojciech is a Principal Security Specialist working at SecuRing. He specializes in application ..

Kirils Solovjovs

Owner -

BIOGRAPHY Kirils Solovjovs is an IT policy activist, bug bounty hunter, and the most visible white-hat hacker ..

Bogdan Stefan

DevSecOps Software Architect Keysight Technologies Romania

BIOGRAPHY Tinkerer, breaking stuff and putting them together again has always been second nature to him. His ..

Tudor Damian

Cybersecurity & Cloud Advisor D3 Cyber

BIOGRAPHY An IT consultant with more than 20 years of industry experience, Tudor is a Certified Ethical ..

Konrad Jedrzejczyk

Senior security engineer -

BIOGRAPHY The first man who has ever publicly showcased an unmodified Commodore 64 as an attacking machine ..

Abdullah Al-Sultani

Product Security Engineer TikTok

BIOGRAPHY Abdullah is a security engineer at TikTok London office, originally from Iraq, passionate about ..

Radu Boncea

Head of Department for "Software Engineering and Complex Systems" The National Institute for Research & Development in Informatics

BIOGRAPHY TBA ICI InnoLabs: A safer approach to building research infrastructure TBA

Muhammad Mudassar Yamin

Associate Professor Norwegian University of Science and Technology

BIOGRAPHY Dr. Muhammad Mudassar Yamin is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of ..

Radu Tudorica

Security Researcher Bitdefender

BIOGRAPHY In his 4 years working as a security researcher for Bitdefender’s Cyber Threat Intelligence ..

Razvan Chitu

DevOps Engineer Keysight Technologies Romania

BIOGRAPHY He’s currently working on automation projects, but his one true love has always been cyber ..

Mihail-Iulian Plesa

Security Researcher Orange Services

BIOGRAPHY Mihail is a security researcher and a PhD student at the University of Bucharest. His area of ..

Octavian Purcaru

Security Engineer Adobe

BIOGRAPHY Octavian is a Security Engineer at Adobe’s SOC team. He’s focused on integrations within..

Cristian Miron

Security Engineer UiPath

BIOGRAPHY Cristian Miron is a Security Engineer currently working for UiPath. His career in IT started 12 ..

Inbar Raz

VP of Research Zenity

BIOGRAPHY Inbar has been teaching and lecturing about Internet Security and Reverse Engineering for nearly as ..

Arun Mane

Founder and CEO Amynasec Labs

BIOGRAPHY A Trailblazer in Security, Innovation, and Education Arun Mane, a visionary leader and luminary in ..

Ioan Constantin

Cyber Security Expert Orange

BIOGRAPHY Ioan Constantin got his BSc degree from “University of Craiova” with a thesis on cyber ..

Joey Geralnik

Software Security Consultant Hypr

BIOGRAPHY Hacking things since the age of 12, have always been curious how things work. Can be found playing ..

Walter Belgers

CTO Security Officer Philips Research

BIOGRAPHY Walter Belgers is an honorary member of TOOOL, the Open Organisation of Lockpickers and NLUUG, the ..

Andrei Cotaie

Technical Lead, Security Operations UiPath

BIOGRAPHY Andrei Cotaie is a Security Engineer specialised in Incident Response. Currently working for ..

Andrei Grigoras

Senior Penetration Tester TwelveSec

BIOGRAPHY Andrei is a highly experienced cybersecurity professional with a passion for Windows Evasion, ..

Matei Badanoiu

Hacker Deloitte

BIOGRAPHY Pentester by day and security researcher by night, Matei has spent the past sleepless years (since ..

Joe Beeton

Senior Application Security Researcher Contrast Security

BIOGRAPHY I’m a recovering Java Developer. I started my career as a Java developer writing ..

Julien Ducarroz

Chief Executive Officer Orange Romania

BIOGRAPHY A graduate of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Julien Ducarroz joined the Orange..

Hrishikesh Somchatwar

Masters Student Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis

BIOGRAPHY Meet an esteemed cybersecurity expert and distinguished speaker who has graced prestigious stages ..

Eva Telecka

Executive Director IT Risk Management and Security MSD

BIOGRAPHY Eva is the Regional Technology Center Lead for the IT Risk Management & Security function, ..

Vladimir Ghita

CEO Fort

BIOGRAPHY With over 15 years of experience in the IT industry and a decade of consultancy expertise, Vlad ..

Remi Gascou

Senior Security Researcher Podalirius Labs

BIOGRAPHY Remi Gascou (@podalirius_) is a Microsoft Security MVP and Senior offensive security consultant in ..

Todor Todorov

Senior Software Engineer Payhawk

BIOGRAPHY I am a senior software engineer with more than 15 years of experience in creating distributed cloud ..

Abdullah Joseph

Senior Security Researcher Appsflyer

BIOGRAPHY Abdullah Joseph is a software engineer with a special interest in security and cryptography. In the ..

Matei Josephs

Senior Penetration Tester KPMG

BIOGRAPHY I’m a cybersecurity enthusiast with a knack for uncovering vulnerabilities and strengthening ..

Alexandru Persunaru

Product Manager Bitdefender

BIOGRAPHY As a Product Manager at Bitdefender, Alex specializes in connected home security products. With a ..

Carina Deaconu

Software Engineer Pentest-Tools.com

BIOGRAPHY From day to day I tackle the software engineering challenges of cybersecurity at ..

Yashin Mehaboobe

Security Consultant Xebia

BIOGRAPHY Yashin Mehaboobe is a security consultant at Xebia and has more than 8 years experience in the ..

Jan Rynes

Solutions Architect Infoblox

BIOGRAPHY Jan specializes in the use of DNS in cybersecurity. Over the past 3 years, he has been researching ..

Radu Ticiu

Co-founder CoderDojo

BIOGRAPHY Tech entrepreneurship, coding, space, synbio edu-facilitator. CoderDojo and BioCoderDojo Timisoara ..

Maksim Iavich

President of SCSA, Professor Caucasus University

BIOGRAPHY Maksim is CEO & President at Scientific Cyber Security Association (SCSA). Maksim is professor ..

Ta-Lun Yen

Senior Vulnerability Researcher TXOne Networks

BIOGRAPHY Ta-Lun is a Sr. Vulnerability Researcher at TXOne Networks, with focus on compromising everything ..

Radu Chivereanu

Machine Learning Engineer Intern Adobe

BIOGRAPHY New graduate, working in the Security – Threat Hunting team inside Adobe. Passionate about new..

Andrei Niculae

Student Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science from Politehnica University of Bucharest

BIOGRAPHY Andrei is a 4th year student at the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science from ..

Simona David

Security Engineer Orange Services

BIOGRAPHY TBD. Moving Target Defense The goal of the presentation is to introduce the concept of Moving Target..

Nir Chervoni

Senior Manager - Data Security Booking.com

BIOGRAPHY Nir Chervoni is a seasoned information security leader with extensive experience in CyberSecurity, ..

Adrian Furtuna

Founder & CEO Pentest-Tools.com

BIOGRAPHY Adrian Furtuna is the founder & CEO of Pentest-Tools.com, a full, online pentesting toolkit ..

Eduard Agavriloae

Senior Consultant KPMG

BIOGRAPHY I’m a senior pentester at KPMG Romania with a focus on cloud security. I write articles on ..

Ionut Leonte

Lead Software Engineer Bitdefender

BIOGRAPHY Ionuț is a seasoned software developer with over 18 years of experience, specializing in security ..

Cristian Pop

Cyber Security Engineer Garmin

BIOGRAPHY After around 5 years of doing penetration testing on web applications, mobile applications and IoT ..

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