| Ms. Atsuko Okuda was appointed as the Regional Director of the International Telecommunications Union Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in April 2020. Prior to the new assignment, she was the Chief of the ICT and Development Section at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific from 2015 to 2020, where she promoted the development of regional broadband connectivity through the implementation of the Asia-Pacific Information Superhighway initiative.
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| Daniela Eilberg, Cybercrime Associate Programme Officer. Criminal Lawyer expert in Cybercrime and Digital Evidence. LLM and PhD candidate. |
| Vytenis Benetis has worked as an intelligence analyst for a decade. His professional experience covers a wide range of missions and organisations including the Lithuanian Ministry of Defence and the European Union on both the operational and strategic level. Following his military career, Vytenis has worked with a company i-intelligence where he has provided research, training, and advisory services to public and private sector clients. Lately, Vytenis has been consulting the UNCCT on various projects helping UN members states to counter terrorism.
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| Ms. Akvile Giniotiene is Head of Cyber and New Technologies Unit at the United Nations Counter Terrorism Centre, Office of Counter-Terrorism. She leads Global Counter-Terrorism Programme on Cybersecurity and New Technologies, which supports Member States, international and regional organisations and United Nations entities in building knowledge and raising awareness of terrorist use of new technologies and enhancing their technical capacities to prevent and counter this phenomenon through policy responses, cyber resilience and criminal justice response. Prior to joining the United Nations, she had served for 25 years in different capacities for the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, including as the Deputy Director of the State Security Department, Deputy Chair of National Security Authority, and in private sector, where she has been an active participant of international cybersecurity dialogue and capacity building initiatives and assisted governments in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America in the development of national cybersecurity strategies and critical information infrastructure protection frameworks.
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| Caroline Troein works at the International Telecommunications Union as a lead researcher, and works on projects related to cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and digital capacity. At the Fletcher School Digital Planet initiative, she co-created the Smart Societies framework for looking at digital societies, and worked on the Digital Evolution Index, African Leapfrog Index, Digital Trust Index, and Global Cost of Cash. She focused on strategic technologies in the global commons, applying systems analytics and security studies to cyber, space, and maritime questions. She has worked as a consultant on cross-country user technology behavior. She has also worked as a Congressional staffer in the US House of Representatives, where her policy portfolio included technology, space, and cyber issues. She has assisted in high level diplomatic conferences on cyber issues, and is strongly engaged with the cyber and space policy communities.
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| Champika Wijayatunga is an experienced Internet technology and Cybersecurity professional currently working as the Regional Technical Engagement Manager for Asia Pacific at Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the global body that coordinates Internet's unique identifiers across the world. He represents ICANN in Security, Technical, Law Enforcement and Capacity Building forums primarily in the Asia Pacific region.Prior to ICANN, Champika held managerial, specialist and liaison roles at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific. He started his career with IBM Corporation as a technical specialist and later worked in IT industry, academia, research, and training environments. Champika has been regular speaker at various technical and security forums, INTERPOL, Council of Europe etc. and also received a number of excellence awards during his academic and professional careers.
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| Mateo Ciampagna is a passioned IT professional, leveraging 20 years of helping to develop, understand and enhance information technology and cybersecurity throughout different organisations around the world. He is originally from Argentina living many years abroad. Mateo’s years on background in IT management, consulting services, cloud computing and technical training allows him to easily adapt contents to the level of audience and professions, filling technical and soft skills gaps. He joined Welchman Keen in 2022 as cybersecurity specialist and he enjoys sharing his depth and breadth of experience and his holistic approach to security, risk management, technology and business processes. In the era of digitalisation where privacy become the new priority, he specialised in data protection regulations and technologies helping to improve organisation’s security posture and compliance process. Because for him life is not only about IT but beyond, he published two books of poems and short stories, and with his wife, they are bringing healthy food and mindfulness through a small business in Malaysia.
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| Zabri plays major role of ensuring the competent and efficient overall strategic and operations of CyberSecurity Malaysia (CSM) digital forensics and cyber defense services. Zabri graduated with a Bachelor Degree of Computer Science (2001) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and obtained his Master in Business Administration (2018) from University Kebangsaan Malaysia. He has more than 17 years experiences in handling computer crimes, computer-related crimes forensics examination for various law enforcement agencies in Malaysia. This is also including handling e-discovery cases for civil claim and corporate domestic inquiry.
Zabri has completed the digital evidence case investigation circle by testifying in Malaysia High Court Session Court Intellectual Property Court, Magistrate Court and Royal Commission of Inquiry including many high-profile cases.
Zabri is also among the pioneer scientists in CyberSecurity Malaysia cyber forensics research and his current interest is in vehicle forensics research area.
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| Mr. Ann Kim Deputy Director of ICT Security Department, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC). Started his career as Sytem Engineer in 2012 with National ICT Development Authority (NiDA), He advanced his professional post by joining ICT Security team at Ministry in 2014. Kim has been working in the government administration industry for long period. He has been Certified as Cyber Defender (CCDA) with strong military and protective services professional in the capacity of Incident Management, Incident Analysis, Cyber Security Awareness, Alert and Warning.
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| Mr. Marwan Ben Rached is a Cybersecurity Coordinator at ITU and has more than 14 years of experience in cybersecurity. Marwan has provided information security consulting services and has managed cybersecurity projects for the governments and the private sector. He has also been involved in regional cybersecurity assistance by helping different developing countries to enhance their cybersecurity capabilities. Marwan received Master's and Engineer degrees in Computer Science from the University of Sousse, and he also holds various cybersecurity certifications.
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| Jorge Merchán, Especialista del CSIRT CEDIA (Corporación Ecuatoriana para el Desarrollo de la Investigación y la Academia). Ingeniero en Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones, Máster en Ingeniería de Software y Sistemas Informáticos, apasionado de la tecnología, ciberseguridad, seguridad de la información, seguridad informática, experiencia en Gestión de proyectos, Investigación, Security Control, Identity Management, QA Security (SAST/DAST), SecDevOps, Ethical Hacking, Hardening, Gestión de eventos e incidentes de Seguridad informática, concienciación y capacitación en ciberseguridad, especializado en SGSI (27001) y ciberseguridad (27032). Especialista del CSIRT de CEDIA.
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| Anett Mádi-Nátor has more than a decade of experience in strategic and administrative layers of information security and cyber defence both as a private sector subject matter expert and as a government representative. She is now responsible for Strategic Business Development at a niche cyber security service provider operating internationally. Besides, she is the President of Women4Cyber Initiative and Foundation launched by European Cyber Security Organisation and the European Commission. Anett is an SME advocate, chairs the Information and Cyber Security Working Group of ICT Association of Hungary, takes a strong role in the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) where she chairs the working group responsible for cyber range and technical education programmes for the EU. She is also a Special Advisor to the organisation and member of the ECSO Strategic Committee, and member of ECSO Board of Directors. Anett's recent appointments include Hungarian MilCIRC Head of Coordination, Administrative Head of Hungarian government cyber security centre – Cyber Defence Management Authority within the National Security Authority, NATO Cyber Coalition Exercises Core Strategic and Administrative Planner, and Lead to NATO Cyber Defence Capability Team. Up to the summer of 2015 Anett was the appointed primary policy and administrative contact point for Hungary in the Memorandum of Understanding in Cyber Defence between NATO and Hungary. She received a ministerial award for excelling public service in 2013. Besides her successful public service and private business activities Anett is a regular speaker at various cyber security events and conferences in Europe and in the Far East.
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| Paula Brenes is a computer engineer, has a degree in Software Development and a master's degree in Computer Engineering with a mention in Project Management. She has studied at MIT in: digital transformation, leadership for innovation and organizational strategy. At Columbia Business School: digital strategies, and marketing strategies. She has worked in the public sector, private business, and academia; today she is the first woman Director of Digital Governance at MICITT
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