Agendă

Cătălin Aramă is the General Director of the General Directorate of Informatics and Digital Communications from “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati. With over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, he has held leading positions both in the public and private sectors. He was General Director of the Romanian National Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-RO), Chairman of the “Dunărea de Jos” IT Cluster and manager of the first Software Park in Romania, as well as president of the National Digital Romania Center, an institution under the coordination of the Ministry of Communications and Information Society. Mr. Aramă is a PhD candidate at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza Police Academy, Graduate School of Public Order and National Security, and holds an MA Degree in European Law and Public Administration Studies.

Magda Popescu is outside legal counsel to Microsoft Corporation, Digital Crimes Unit, EMEA, and she works on complex operations tackling botnets , tech support fraud, business email compromise, and online child exploitation.

She is an attorney-at-law, member of the Bucharest Bar Association since 2002, as well as certified trademark and industrial design Romanian and European attorney since 2005. She also holds a IAPP privacy certification in GDPR and EU privacy regulations - CIPP/E.

She graduated from Bucharest University Faculty of Law in 2001 and holds a master degree in business law from the Institute for Business Law and International Cooperation Nicolae Titulescu - Henri Capitant, a jointly administered Institute by the Paris I University Pantheon-Sorbonne and the University of Bucharest Law School.

Comisar șef de poliție Sorin STĂNICĂ - șeful Biroului Prevenire, în cadrul Institutului de Cercetare și Prevenire a Criminalității din Poliția Română.

În această calitate, organizează, monitorizează și coordonează implementarea activităților de prevenire a criminalității pe termen scurt / mediu / lung. De asemenea, stabilește și menține parteneriate solide, colaborează cu parteneri interni și externi pe probleme tematice.

Reprezintă Poliția Română la evenimente relevante la nivel național / regional sau internațional în probleme legate de prevenirea criminalității. Totodată, este unul dintre reprezentanții naționali ai României în cadrul Rețelei Europene de Prevenire a Criminalității - EUCPN.

Ioan-Cosmin MIHAI is a researcher, professor, trainer, and conference speaker, with an experience of more than 15 years in cybercrime and cybersecurity.

He is a cybercrime training officer at the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL), associate professor at “Al. I. Cuza” Police Academy, visiting professor at the University Politehnica of Bucharest and “Carol I” National Defence University, Romania, honorary professor at CT University, India, and vice president of the Romanian Association for Information Security Assurance (RAISA).

• Founder and CEO – CyBureau - The Cyber Empowerment Center, Romania, Israel

• Head of Cybersecurity Studies – Information Systems Program, School of Economics and Management, the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo

• Lecturer at several academic institutions in Israel

• Lecturer and researcher of Internet, cyber security, cyber threats and cyber policy

• Holds a PhD in Middle Eastern Studies from Bar-Ilan University, Israel (dissertation: “Changes in Governmental Restrictions over the Use of Internet in Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates between the Years 2002 – 2005”)

• Keynote speaker at international conferences; has been interviewed as an expert cyber commentator on all major Israeli media outlets

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