October 3-4, 2024

UNITED

CYBER DEFENSE

Virtual Conference '24

Cyber Warriors:
Leading the Charge in Digital Warfare

Organized by:

First annual conference on cybersecurity collaboration between Ukraine, the United States, and allied countries worldwide

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Why Attend

Ukraine is fighting for survival on two fronts: the battlefield and the digital arena. Cyber attacks threaten Ukraine’s infrastructure daily, and those same threats are coming for us. Learn from the world’s top cyber defenders who are safeguarding Ukraine—and discover strategies to protect your own organization. 100% of every ticket sold directly supports Ukrainian people in Ukraine… Join the fight. Secure your future.

Location

Online / Hybrid

Time

October 3-4, 2024
US/Canada: 9:00a.m.-2:00p.m. (EST)
Ukraine: 16:00-21:00 (GMT +2)

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

Our Keynote Speakers

Meet our keynote speakers. This list is subject to change. If you want to join our conference as a speaker, feel free to send a request with the form.

Oksana Markarova

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States, Permanent Observer of Ukraine to the Organization of American States, and Ambassador of Ukraine to Antigua and Barbuda.

Andrii Zahorodnyuk

Chairman of the Center for Defence Strategies, former Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2019–2020), Adviser to the President of Ukraine, Member of the Supervisory Board of Ukroboronprom, volunteer.

Nataliya Tkachuk

Head of Cyber Security and Information Security Directorate at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, and National Cybersecurity Coordination Center, Secretary of the NCSCC.

Prof. Dr. Anton Kudin

Chief Expert at Cybersecurity Department of the National Bank of Ukraine. Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Department of Informatics (Cyber security).

Dr. Oleksii Baranovskyi

CISM, CISSP, ISACA Educational Excellence Award. Has received numerous awards for his educational activities in cyber security, including awards from the NSDC, SSSCIP, and Cyberpolice.

Chris Roosenrad

CISO at Google Fiber.
Leader in Cybersecurity, Privacy, Engineering, & Architecture. Board member, speaker, advocate, advisor.

Вrig. Gen. Oleksandr Potii

CEO and co-founder at Cyber Unit Technologies & Cyber School. Experienced Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the information services industry.

Misha Verych

Was officially named as the Regional Director of CRDF Global’s Europe and Eurasia Hub in December 2023. Has served an integral role in expanding the company’s cybersecurity portfolio.

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Conference Agenda

This agenda is tentative and is subject to change. Please make sure you have checked with the latest updates.

03 OCT

Thursday

‣ Welcome
‣ General Defense. Overview and context.
‣ Threat Landscape and Modern Challenges
‣ Incident Response and Resilience

04 OCT

Friday

‣ Financial Cyberdefense
‣ Cutting Edge Technologies in Cybersecurity
‣ Educational Aspects in Cybersecurity
‣ Ukraine in a World’s Cybersecurity

Welcome

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Host

Dr. Volodymyr Tkach

Head of United Cyber Defense initiative, CEO and founder of Accendum LLC, Adviser to the Cybersecurity Department of the National Bank of Ukraine, PM for the Reforms Project Office (2019-2023), Associate Professor of the Information Security Department at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute., Ph.D.

United We Stand

Host

Dr. Maryna Baydyuk

President of United Help Ukraine. Has a Ph.D. in Pharmacology. Since 2014, Dr. Baydyuk has been a member of United Help Ukraine (UHU), a non-profit organization based in the Washington, DC area. She has served as a board member since 2017 and as president since 2019.

United We Help Ukraine

Special Guest

Oksana Markarova

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United States (since February 2021), Permanent Observer of Ukraine to the Organization of American States (since May 2021) and Ambassador of Ukraine to Antigua and Barbuda (since July 2023). Oksana Markarova is also a former Minister of Finance (2019-2020).

Resilience of Ukraine

General Defense. Overview and context.

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Guest Speaker

Borys Kremenetskyi

Major General (UKR-Air Force), Defense Attache at the Embassy of Ukraine to the USA, a graduate of the Air Force Engineer Academy (1983) (MA Avionics), US Air War College (1998) and National Security Course, JFK School of Government, Harvard University (2000).

30 Months

Guest Speaker

Andrii Zagorodnyuk

Chairman of the Center for Defence Strategies, former Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2019–2020), Head of the MOD Reforms Project Office (2015–2018), Adviser to the President of Ukraine, Member of the Supervisory Board of Ukroboronprom, volunteer.

Defense Strategies and Cybersecurity

Threat Landscape and Modern Challenges

11:00 AM - 12:00 AM

Panel Discussion

Panelist

Chris Roosenrad

CISO at Google Fiber, the Alphabet owned ISP. Leader in Cybersecurity, Privacy, Engineering, & Architecture. Board member, speaker, advocate, advisor. Has served as Chief Information Security Officer, Director of Security Products, and Customer Security and Systems Engineer at multiple companies in tech and finance.

Panelist

Nataliia Tkachuk

Head of Information Security and Cybersecurity Service of the Office of the NSDC of Ukraine, Secretary of the National Coordination Centre for Cybersecurity. Natalia Tkachuk has 20 years of practical work experience in the national security and defense sector of Ukraine. Natalia has a J.D. degree in the field of national security.

Coffee Break

Incident Response and Resilience

12:30 AM - 14:00 AM

Panelist

Dr. Roman Proskurovsky

Ph.D., Head of the Department of Critical Infrastructure Protection of the National Bank of Ukraine (Since February 2024). Former Deputy Head of the Cybersecurity Center (CSIRT) of the National Bank of Ukraine. He is an Associate Professor, Expert on cybersecurity in the Ukrainian banking sector.

Panelist

Yevheniia Volivnyk

Chief of the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) which is part of The State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine. She completed her master's at the National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute'.

Welcome. Day 2

09:00 AM - 09:30 AM

Host

Pavlo Parkhomenko

Co-founder and CTO of Accendum LLC, has a degree from the University of Waterloo in Quant and a deep background in Artificial Intelligence with application to various domains including cybersecurity and general defense.

Cybersecurity New Face

Special Guest

Yuliya Kovaliv

Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada from March 2022. Held the position of the Deputy Head of Office of the President of Ukraine in charge of economic policy development and IFIs coordination. Served as the Deputy Secretary of the National Investment Council of Ukraine under the President Ukraine and the Member of the National Reform Council.

Borders of Collaboration

Financial Cyber Defense

09:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Speaker

Dr. Prof. Anton Kudin

Chief expert at the Security Department of the NBU, Professor at the National Technical University of Ukraine. Former Deputy Director of the National Bank of Ukraine Security Department. Corresponding Member of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Department of Informatics (Cyber security).

Educational Aspects in Cybersecurity

10:30 AM - 12:00 AM

Panelist

Dr. Oleksii Baranovskyi

CISM, CISSP, CHFI. ISACA Educational Excellence Award. Has received numerous awards for his educational activities in cyber security, including awards from the NSDC, SSSCIP, and Cyber Police.

Panelist

Mykhailo (Misha) Verych

Regional Director of CRDF Global’s Europe and Eurasia Hub. Joined CRDF Global in 2019. Since that time, has served an integral role in expanding the company’s cybersecurity portfolio and stabilizing the Ukraine Hub throughout the full-scale invasion in 2022.

Panelist

Dr. Yegor Aushev

CEO and co-founder at Cyber Unit Technologies & Cyber School. Experienced founder with a demonstrated history of working in the information services industry.

Coffee Break

Cutting Edge Technologies in Cybersecurity

12:30 AM - 13:30 AM

Panelist

Dr. Yegor Aushev

CEO and co-founder at Cyber Unit Technologies & Cyber School. Experienced founder with a demonstrated history of working in the information services industry.

Ukraine in a Global Cybersecurity

13:30 AM - 14:00 AM

Speaker

Dr. Mart Noorma

Director of NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) since February 2020. A voluntary member of the Estonian Defence League. Mart Noorma has also worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Helsinki University of Technology, where he obtained the degree of the Doctor of Science in Technology

Ukraine and NATO

Speaker

Dr. Andrii Davydiuk

PhD in Cybersecurity, a technology researcher at NATO CCDCOE, deputy branch chief in the State Cyber Protection Centre State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, senior scientific research staff in the G.E. Pukhov Institute for Modelling in Energy Engineering National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Ukraine’s membership in the NATO CCDCOE as a Contributing Participant

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