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	Prof. Dr. Marco Gercke is an entrepreneur, scientist and consultant. His first focus area is Cybersecurity. With more than 1000 speeches in over 100 countries and over 100 scientific publications, Prof. Gercke is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of cybersecurity and cybercrime. He is the founder and director of the Cybercrime Research Institute, an independent research institute and think tank based in Cologne and advises governments, organizations and large enterprises around the world and advises them on strategic, political and legal issues in the field of cybersecurity. Marco’s second focus is digitization and its effects – especially with regard to „Machine Learning“ and Artificial Intelligence. In the 90th he founded a company that utilized „Machine Learning“ to develop software solutions for medical diagnostics. Today, he focuses on advising international organizations and executive boards of major companies on issues related to the opportunities and risks of digitalization and the use of artificial intelligence.
	Ms Lara Pace is an independent analyst and executive with 10 plus years of international experience in cybersecurity. Her skills include strategy and policy development with a strong focus on implementation, capacity development for incident response and management, as well as capacity development of the criminal justice system to address cybercrime. Recently, Lara has been involved in programmes focused on the monitoring and evaluation of national cybersecurity capacity development programmes. Lara started her career working in counter cybercrime capacity-development across the Commonwealth, moving into cybersecurity more broadly at a global level. She has in-depth knowledge and pragmatic experience of the Commonwealth and the cyber capacities of member states and has held positions in Commonwealth partner agencies, as well as the Commonwealth Secretariat. Most recently, Lara was responsible for Strategy and External Engagement at the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, where she spearheaded the global uptake of what is known to be, the Cybersecurity Capacity Maturity Model for Nations, establishing the model as the standard for national cyber security capacity reviews. Currently, Lara serves the international community through a portfolio of clients, who include multilateral agencies, national governments and private sector companies active in this field. The projects span cybersecurity considerations for digital regulation in emerging markets; national cybersecurity strategy development and implementation plans; as well as strengthening incident response capacity and cybersecurity governance across the Commonwealth.
	Mr Luc Dandurand is the Head of Cyber Operations at Guardtime, where he leads the development of cyber range automation software, cyber exercises for critical infrastructure and advanced cyber capabilities. Prior to joining Guardtime, he was the Head of the ICT Applications and Cybersecurity Division at the ITU, directing the program to assist ITU Member States in cybersecurity and in leveraging ICTs for sustainable development, focusing on National Cybersecurity Strategies and the establishment of National Computer Incident Response Teams. Mr Dandurand started his career as a Signals Officer in the Canadian Forces, working mostly on advanced adversarial assessments of computer networks. After retiring from the military, he worked for Canada’s Communication Security Establishment, leading a team responsible for prototyping novel cybersecurity solutions. Prior to joining the ITU, Mr Dandurand worked at the NATO Communications and Information Agency, managing cybersecurity capability development projects for NATO and NATO Nations.
	Dr Jamie Saunders is a strategic security consultant, an Oxford Martin Fellow, and visiting professor at UCL. The majority of his career has been spent in UK Government, including GCHQ, Cabinet Office, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the National Crime Agency. At Director International Cyber Policy at FCO, he was responsible for the establishment of the UK’s cyber security capacity building programme, which (amongst other things) led to the creation of the Oxford Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre. At the NCA his roles included Director of the National Cyber Crime Unit, where he helped to build up new operational partnerships with international allies and with business. Since leaving government in he has provided specialist cyber and other security advice to government and to businesses in the financial, technology, and manufacturing sectors.
	Adnan Baykal is the Global Advisor for the Global Cyber Alliance, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to eradicate global cyber risk. Before taking this role, Mr. Baykal served as Vice-President of Operations at the Center for Internet Security (CIS). Mr. Baykal oversaw all technicaloperations for CIS and for the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). Prior to this role, Mr. Baykal served as the Vice-President of Security Services as well as the Director of the CIS Cybersecurity Emergency Response Team (CERT). As the Director of CIS-CERT, he managed a highly select group of expertly skilled individuals responsible for providing rapid cybersecurity and incident response services to all state and local governments across the U.S. Mr. Baykal, who has academic degrees in both applied mathematics and computer science, is acknowledged internationally as a technical expert in cybersecurity. With almost two decades of experience leading complex operations in large-scale network monitoring, incident response, computer forensics and malware analysis, Mr. Baykal has become a global resource for detecting, identifying, analyzing and combating cyber threats on enterprise systems and networks. Over the course of his career, Mr. Baykal has supported public and private sector enterprises in increasing their cybersecurity posture and in improving their practice, and has worked closely with the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, and other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. His engaging ability to clearly explain complex technical subjects has made him a much sought-after subject matter expert.
	Indrani Chandrasegaran is a Cyber Security Executive with Accenture Security based out of Singapore and leads the Applied Cyber Security Services Practice for Accenture in South East Asia. In her role as the Applied Cyber Security Services leader, she is responsible for transformation of Client enterprise cyber security programs through delivery of Innovative cybersecurity services to help them grow confidently and build business cyber resilience. Indrani has a total of 20 years’ experience in delivering cyber digital transformation programs, cyber governance advisory, technology advisory, cyber defense operations and managed security services in APAC, Middle East and Europe. She is versatile cyber security professional focused on a vision to advocate cyber security culture and helping organizations globally to rethink and innovate their enterprise cyber resilience program. Prior to Accenture, Indrani served as the CISO/Vice President Cyber Security Services with Infosys Compaz(a joint venture of Temasek and Infosys) where she spearheaded and managed security services portfolio including maturing their cyber practice, go to market strategies, partner alliances and helped to drive their client digital transformation program in South Asia. Before moving to ICompaz, she held the role of Regional Cyber Strategist with Symantec Corporation, evangelizing their enterprise cyber solution platform and driving their product innovation strategy in ASEAN. She holds Masters In Information Technology along with security certifications as C-CISO, CISM, CIPM, CBCP, CBCLA and ISO27001 LA.
	Adli Wahid is a Security Specialist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC). He is responsible for the APNIC’s security engagement and outreach program. His engagement activities include providing technical support & training for network operators, Law Enforcement Agencies and CERTs/CSIRTs. Adli is also the technical lead for the APNIC Community Honeynet Project. Adli has more than 10 years of experience with the security response community. Prior to joining APNIC, Adli was the Head of Malaysia CERT (MYCERT) and had served as a member of Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Security Response Team (MUFG-CERT). Adli has also served as the Board member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST.org) from 2014-2019.