Cybershare Conference 2020

Davor is CEO of Open & Agile Smart Cities, a non-profit, international smart city network that has the goal of creating and shaping the nascent global smart city data and services market. With more than 15 years of experience in innovation and smart cities, he has an established track record in initiating and scaling up international technology projects, programmes, and companies. Among others, he was one of the founders of 'City of Things' in Antwerp, Belgium, the largest smart city IoT living lab in Europe. He is also a member of the United Nations SDG 11 Global Council, Co-Chair of the BDVA Task Force on Smart Cities, represents OASC at the Advisory Board of the ETSI Task Force on Citizen-Centric Standards, and is a mentor and juror for the start-up incubator programme Start-It KBC.

Professor Gabi Dreo Rodosek holds the Chair for Communication Systems and Network Security at the Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany. She is Executive Director of the research institute CODE (Cyber Defence), coordinator of the project CONCORDIA, a major H2020 consortium, with 55 partners from research and industry, member of the Supervisory and Advisory Board of Giesecke & Devrient GmbH, member of the Advisory Board of the BWI GmbH, member of the Governing Board of the Deutsches Forschungsnetz (DFN) and member of the IT expert panel of the German federal financial supervisory agency (BaFin). Professor Dreo studied computer science at the University of Maribor and the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. In 2016 she was awarded the European Medal from the Bavarian Minister for European Affairs and International Relations Dr. Beate Merk.

Niall O'Higgins is the head of IT at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the Committee of the Regions (COR).Before working at the European Institutions, he worked for Siemens as a development engineer in their public networks division. He studied engineering at University College Dublin where he completed a Ph.D. in algorithms for data transmission.

Daria Catalui is a passionate learner and volunteer. She is a cyber security training and awareness professional starting back in 2010 working since then for EU’s cyber security agency ENISA, the European Commission or the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU. She is an advocate for the following projects which she had the chance to kick-off and helped grow for public awareness and scaled-up for impact: Cyber Aware and CyberReadyGame , European Cyber Security Month, NIS quiz, NIS educational map, European cyber security challenge and the Annual Privacy Forum.

Furthermore, Daria is a Phd candidate at Lancaster ( Educational research and Technology Enhanced Learning) with focus on gamification, training and cyber awareness. She speaks regularly in international conferences.

Ioan-Cosmin MIHAI is a cybersecurity and cybercrime researcher, professor, trainer and conference speaker. He is an Associate Professor at “Al. I. Cuza” Police Academy, the University Politehnica of Bucharest, “Carol I” National Defence University, Romania, and a Honorary Professor at the CT University, India, where he is teaching disciplines related to information technology, cybersecurity and cybercrime.
He is a trainer for the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL), the Romanian National Computer Security Incident Response Team (CERT-RO), the General Inspectorate of Romanian Police (GIRP), the Romanian Centre of Excellence for Cybercrime (CYBEREX), the Romanian Superior Council of Magistracy (SCM), the Romanian National Institute of Magistracy (NIM), researcher at the Quality, Reliability and Information Technology Laboratory (EUROQUAL)from the University Politehnica of Bucharest, and Vice President of the Romanian Association for Information Security Assurance (RAISA).
More details about his activity: www.cosmin-mihai.com