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Biographies

Stiepan Kovac
MSc ICT Security, ITK.swiss and QRC

Stiepan Kovac, MSc ICT Security, specializes in complex system security issues involving cryptography, whether in blockchains or SIM cards. He co-authored the quantum resistant SIM card patent, which became the good practice for quantum safe 5G, as well as several provisional/pending patents in the field of secure telecoms, data & systems. He holds an inter-university Master’s degree in ICT Security with an applied research orientation from the UOC, UAB, URV and UIB (Spain), as well as a Swiss Bachelor’s degree in IT engineering. His studies abroad and army service across Switzerland brought him to master 5 European languages, likewise to acquire a good conversational level in several other languages. Mr. Kovac started working in the field of standardization in 2017 as he joined an ITU-T / ETSI joint event on 5G safety and energy efficiency considerations. Since then, with his companies, ITK.swiss and later, QRC, he amended ITU-T X.1197 guidelines on IPTV cryptography and wrote the cryptography part of H.551 (vehicular multimedia arch.), which refers to the former as well as X.1811, where he set the good practice for QSC 5G. Mr. Kovac is also very active in cryptography standardization in ISO, notably as it regards financial cryptography, where he represents Switzerland and its financial standards association, with active contributions to projects of global relevance such as CBDC wallets, leveraging Mr. Kovac’s and his group’s patents.Lately, his latest invention in the realm of memory safe, real-time and quantum resistant OSes got recognized by DARPA, the institution behind ARPANET - which gave the Internet as we know it today eventually, after a stop in Switzerland -, as awardable

Arnold Kibuuka
Programme , Standardization Bureau, ITU

Arnold Kibuuka is a member of the Financial Inclusion Global Initiative (FIGI) Security, Infrastructure and Trust Working Group. He currently supports the digital financial services security lab at the ITU. Prior to joining ITU, Arnold was the senior technical security officer at MTN for six years.

Vincent Mwesigwa
Manager, Information Security in the Directorate of ICT & Research

Vincent Mwesigwa is a seasoned cybersecurity leader with over 14 years of experience safeguarding critical communications infrastructure at the Uganda Communications Commission. As Manager of Information Security in the Directorate of ICT & Research, he designs and implements robust security frameworks, leads incident response and digital forensic investigations, manages cyber risk, and delivers actionable threat intelligence to protect the nation’s digital assets. Vincent holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an M.Sc. in Data Communications and Software Engineering from Makerere University, and he has earned various international cybersecurity certifications including Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI), ISO 27001 LA. He is passionate about continuous cybersecurity improvement, he is committed to ensuring operational resilience against evolving cyber threats through proactive detection, prevention, and response.