Liron David is Ph.D researcher in Electrical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University, under the supervision of Prof. Avishai Wool. Liron has received her M.Sc degree in Electrical Engineering and B.Sc degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, both from Tel-Aviv University. Her research interests include computer security, privacy, and applied cryptography.

She has won the Weinstein best paper prize in 2021 and 2018, the Trotsky award for excellence in studies in 2020, the Weinstein award for excellence in studies in 2017, and the Tel-Aviv University Rector’s award for excellence in teaching in 2016.

Ernesto Damiani is Full Professor at Università degli Studi di Milano, Senior Director of Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute and Director of Center for Cyber Physical Systems (C2PS) within the Khalifa University, leader of the Big Data area at Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Center, and President of the Consortium of Italian Computer Science Universities (CINI).

He is also part of the ENISA Ad-Hoc Working Group on Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity, where he serves as Rapporteur. According to DBLP (June 2021), Ernesto Damiani has authored 146 journal papers, 341 refereed articles in proceedings of international conferences, and published 57 books and chapters as an author or editor. According to Google Scholar, Ernesto’s work has been cited more than 19,000 times and his h-index is 57; more than 303 of his papers have at least 10 citations. On Scopus he has 629 documents and more than 7,300 total citations by more than 5,900 documents. His Scopus h-index is 36. With 557 publications listed on DBLP, he is considered among the most prolific European computer scientists.

His areas of interest include cyber-physical systems, Big Data Analytics, Edge/Cloud security and performance, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. Ernesto Damiani has pioneered model-driven data analytics. Ernesto has been a recipient of the Stephen Yau Award from the Service Society, of the Outstanding contributions Award from IFIP TC2, of the Chester-Sall Award from IEEE IES, and of a doctorate honoris causa from INSA – Lyon (France) for his contribution to Big Data teaching and research.

Stephen Kavanagh joined the Metropolitan Police in 1985 where he served in the Homicide Command, Anti-Corruption Command and later as the Staff Officer to London Gold for the 7/7 bombings and the attempted bombings in 2005.

Mr Kavanagh has held a number of senior roles including Commander Counter Terrorism (SO15), Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Territorial Policing, where he was responsible for over 20,000 uniformed personnel and staff. He was selected for the role of Deputy Assistant Com-missioner for Specialist Operations, New Scotland Yard, where he worked closely with the UK Home Office and other security partner bodies to transform the delivery of the ‘Protect and Prepare’ counter terrorism strands for London.

In 2013, Mr Kavanagh was appointed as the Chief Constable of his home county, Essex. There, he guided his Force through a period of austerity with a focus on unlocking workforce potential and transforming the operating culture and organizational IT infrastructure. His emphasis on collaborative partnerships across Essex County

Avigail Gutman has been a hacker-tracker since the early days of broadcast TV piracy all the way through to today’s streaming and content piracy. She leads a global team that disrupts piracy by turning information about pirates’ technologies and the pirates themselves into actionable intelligence, informing field and legal operations, and resulting in new counter measures. The anti-piracy team works alongside industry organizations, government and law enforcement agencies. Prior to her current position, Avigail spent 21 years working in operational security for NDS and Cisco, in Israel, China and Korea.

Yosi Shneck, YSICONS founder, senior consultant, leading the Cyber entrepreneurship and business development at the Israel Electric Corp. In charge of Cyber entrepreneurship and business development, including R&D, cyber products and services development, support of the IEC's cyber unit, marketing, and deployment worldwide. Leading the R&D projects and activities in the European research programs for more than ten years, including the FP7 and Horizon 2020 programs.

More than 45 years of experience in computer systems & technologies in utilities, including information systems, scientific applications, supper computing & communication, control systems, infrastructures & architectures, and cyber. In addition to his duties as ITC leader, he was responsible for readying the company against cyber-attack threats, including IT/OT environments. Being accountable for the cyber activity of supercritical infrastructure, Mr. Shneck is involved in many nationwide and international initiatives in this field.

His previous functions in the IEC include SVP Information and Communications and Chief Cyber Officer; Head of Information Systems and Communication Division, CIO; Member of the selection committee for an investor in the new communication infrastructure company; Head of the National Communications and Electronics unit and Deputy of the Information Systems and Teleprocessing Division; Head of R&D computer department. Mr. Shneck has an M.A. in Business Administration and a B.A. in Computer Sciences.

Aviad is the head of DevOps and security activities in Briefcam for the past year. He has extensive experience in Cloud Infrastructure and security. As Co-Founder of eToroX, Aviad specializes in Blockchain technologies and in designing and implementing R&D security processes in the fintech and digital adoption industries.

Oz Avenstein is a recognized expert and thought leader in the fields of Application & Cloud security. Providing cyber security services for variety of customers from startups to fortune 500.

Ryan Gurney, CISO-in-Residence at YL Ventures, provides ideation support to up and coming Isreali cybersecurity entrepreneurs, assists the firm in vetting candidates and concepts in the pipeline, and amplifies our value-add services to portfolio companies.

Ryan applies his 15+ years of industry experience and deep understanding of today’s security landscape to advise teams pre and post investment, including identifying greenfield opportunities and helping them understand customer needs and the challenges CISOs confront on a daily basis. He leverages his unique customer-centric and perspective to help the firm’s portfolio companies remove communication roadblocks with customers, refine their positioning, and validate their go-to-market strategies. Prior to YL Ventures, Ryan was the Head of Information Security at Looker, a business intelligence software and big data analytics platform acquired by Google.

Previously, he served as Looker’s Chief Security Officer, Vice President of Information Security at Zendesk, held Security Engineering leadership roles at Engine Yard and eBay, managed IT organizations and led large consulting engagements with PwC.

Lior Yaari is the Co-Founder and CEO at Grip Security, the industry’s most comprehensive solution across organizations’ entire SaaS portfolio. He is a multidisciplinary techie with an extensive entrepreneurial background. Prior to Grip, Lior was the CTO at YL Ventures, where he was responsible for assessing investment opportunities and providing value-add for the firm’s portfolio companies.

Previously, he specialized as a Vulnerability Researcher and Project Lead at automotive cybersecurity company Cymotive. He co-founded Imperium Security, an embedded devices Secure Development Life Cycle (eSDLC) company and provided consulting services, security audits and embedded security training featured in major international security conferences. Lior holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The Open University of Israel (B.Sc., magna cum laude).

He served as the Chief of Cyber Training and a cybersecurity expert in an elite unit of the Intelligence Corps of the Israeli Defense Force. Over the course of his military career, he received many accolades for his cybersecurity training programs.

Shira Shamban is a security researcher and technical expert with a focus on cloud security. Currently, she is the co-founder and CEO of Solvo, a software company that automates and shifts left cloud security. Shira started her professional career in cybersecurity as a military officer in the elite intelligence unit 8200. Shira strongly believes in empowering women and under-represented communities in the world of technology. She volunteers as a lecturer and a mentor in forums such as SheCodes, Cyber Ladies and Women in AppSec. Shira started the local mentoring program Security Diva and is the co-chair of OWASP Israel.

Dotan Bar Noy is Authomize's Co-Founder & CEO. Prior to co-founding Authomize, Dotan was the head of product management for the “Infinity Next” platform at Check Point Software, following the successful acquisition of ForceNock Security, where he served as Co-founder & CEO. He also founded and served as CEO at ReSec Tech.

Partner and head of tech & regulation department at the leading International Israeli law firm Herzog, focusing on Tech Regulation and disruptive digital technologies, Internet and Cyber laws, Ad-tech and Fintech. In addition, founder and General Partner at Herzog Strategies, tech strategic consulting company, leading a practice of tech investments, digital transformation projects and cyber management consulting.

Previously, Venture partner, investor at JVP, Labs, lead global Venture Capital, focusing personally on early stage investments, disruptive digital technologies and company building around core innovation. At JVP Cyber Labs, focused on Cyber investments and Big Data and co-led the VC state-sponsored incubator for Cyber Security & Big Data in Beer Sheva, Israel.

Academically, initiated the Cyber Security studies at TA University MBA program and teach classes on Cyber Security and Information Security paradigms and architecture and on Internet laws and Data Protection. Taught at Kellogg Executive MBA Global Network program. Background as an entrepreneur (Internet & Information security companies) and co-founder of start-ups (Plymedia & Altal).

Specialties: Cyber, Big Data Analytics, Internet law, New Media, Information Security.

Haim Suchowski is an associate Professor at the department of Condensed Matter Physics, the school of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University. His research focuses in exploring ultrafast dynamics in condensed matter physics, plasmonic nanostructures, Silicon Photonics and 2D materials. Also perform research in quantum coherent control of atoms and molecules with ultra-short laser pulses, and control scheme in quantum integrated photonics and nonlinear optics. Haim Suchowski has 52 articles and 12 patents. He received the Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship and was awarded recently the ERC grant for his project “MIRAGE 20-15”.

Mr. Jonathan (Jony) Fischbein leads Check Point Cyber Security organization focusing on protecting Check Point global assets, employees and services.

Mr. Fischbein's career has given him a diverse background as well as a breadth of experience in High Tech Security markets for 25 years developing ad-hoc solutions for large corporations to mitigate security threats and shape the company’s security strategy to cope with upcoming challenges. In addition, Fischbein leads the organization Data Privacy efforts to meet compliances and legislations challenges across hybrid connected environments.

Jony served as Head of Cyber Security & Innovation bringing value to customers and motivating regional teams to enhance organizations security posture. A major accomplishment is the new Innovation Center operation with 2 main facilities, the first in Tel Aviv and the 2nd in Silicon Valley California. Formerly, Mr. Fischbein had a key role in Product Organization, Product Management, Security Solutions Architecture.

Joonho Kim is a theoretical physicist working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, US. Previously, his research focused on quantum field theory and quantum aspects of black holes. He is now actively working on hybrid quantum computing and variational algorithms and looking for their interesting applications.