December 5-6, 2024
UNITED
CYBER DEFENSEVirtual Conference '24
Cyber Warriors:
Leading the Charge in Digital Warfare
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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.
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.
Oleksii Hichko
Counselor for Cyber Issues to the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States of America, first Cyber Diplomat
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.
Chuck Brooks
President of Brooks Consulting International, is a globally recognized thought leader and subject matter expert Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies. The first Legislative Director of The Science & Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security.
Serhii Demediuk
Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, 3rd rank General of the National Police of Ukraine
Chris Roosenrad
CISO at Google Fiber.Leader in Cybersecurity, Privacy, Engineering, & Architecture. Board member, speaker, advocate, advisor.
Вrig. Gen. Oleksandr Potii
Head of the State Service, Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine. A Dr.Sci. in Engineering and a professor, Mr. Potii has a wealth of experience working on secure comms and IT at Air Force of Ukraine.
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.
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).CONFERENCE COUNTDOWN
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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.
05 DEC
Thursday
‣ Welcome
‣ General Defense. Overview and context.
‣ Threat Landscape and Modern Challenges
‣ Incident Response and Resilience
‣ General Defense. Overview and context.
‣ Threat Landscape and Modern Challenges
‣ Incident Response and Resilience
06 DEC
Friday
‣ Financial Cyberdefense
‣ Cutting Edge Technologies in Cybersecurity
‣ Educational Aspects in Cybersecurity
‣ Ukraine in a World’s Cybersecurity
‣ Cutting Edge Technologies in Cybersecurity
‣ Educational Aspects in Cybersecurity
‣ Ukraine in a World’s Cybersecurity
Welcome
9:00 AM - 10:00 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. in applied mathematics.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
Oleksii Hichko
Counselor for Cyber Issues to the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States of America, first Cyber DiplomatResilience of Ukraine
Keynote Speaker
Chuck Brooks
President of Brooks Consulting International, is a globally recognized thought leader and subject matter expert Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies. The first Legislative Director of The Science & Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security.Impact of Emerging Technologies
General Defense. Overview and context.
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Guest Speaker
Glenn Sturm
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).1000 days of 10 year war
Keynote 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
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Keynote Speaker
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.Speaker
Serhii Prokopenko
Head Of Operations at National Cybersecurity Coordination Center (NCSCC-UA). Has 20 years experience in cybersecurity, incident response, digital forensics, cyber threat intelligense, cybercrime investigations, development of enterprise cybersecurity systems. Co-author of the method for data examination on digital media that is registered in the Register of Methods for Forensic Expertise of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.Ukraine's experience in resisting russian cyber agression: lessons learned
Coffee Break
Incident Response and Resilience
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Speaker
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.Speaker
Kevin Thomas
CSO at Avint, cybersecurity and business strategist. With experience working for Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 companies, Kevin has 24 years of business management and operations experience, 27 years of IT architecture and engineering, and 18 years of Cybersecurity consulting and operations experience. An expert with FISMA, including NIST, NISPOM, and ICDs, as well as commercial standards such as SOX, ISO, PCI-DSS, and privacy (HIPAA, GLBA, etc.)Speaker
Oleksii Yankovski
Leader of NGO ”ISACA Kyiv Chapter”, Recognized leader for IT & Cyber in Ukraine and CEE, with 26 years of professional experience in Technology and Cyber. Established Kyiv chapter of international professional association ISACA. Former CIO at diversified business group. George Mason University, International Professional Certifications (CGEIT, CISM, CSX Fundamentals)Welcome. Day 2
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Host
Glenn Sturm
Seasoned corporate lawyer, entrepreneur, and U.S. Army officer with over 30 years of experience. Author of the book Warriors Hate War.Strategic Frameworks for Cybersecurity and Hybrid Warfare
Financial Cyber Defense
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Speaker
Nick Kotakis
Senior Vice President, Global Head of Third Party Risk at Northern Trust. Divisional Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) l Cybersecurity for Financial Institutions l Risk Mitigation l Enterprise-Wide Remediation l Third Party Risk Management | MBA l ITIL l CISSPImplement Defenses in TPRM to Detect and Protect Against Cyber Risk
Keynote 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).the National Bank of Ukraine Experience During the War
Educational Aspects in Cybersecurity
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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
Dr. Joel Rasmus
Managing Director, Purdue CERIAS, the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, the world’s largest and foremost interdisciplinary academic research institute addressing the issues of cyber-/cyber-physical assurance, security, resiliency, privacy, autonomy, trusted electronics and explainable AI.Panelist
Maggie McDonough
Practice Area Director for Technology & Innovation within Purdue Applied Research Institute, overseeing new business development and delivery of a portfolio of programs focusing on cybersecurity, digital workforce development, innovation ecosystem development, and more. Prior to joining the Purdue community, she served as the Director of the Technology & Innovation operating division for CRDF Global,Coffee Break
Cutting Edge Technologies in Cybersecurity
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Keynote Speaker
Chuck Brooks
President of Brooks Consulting International, is a globally recognized thought leader and subject matter expert Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies. The first Legislative Director of The Science & Technology Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security.Speaker
Anoop Nannra
Anoop Nannra is the Co-Founder/CEO of Trugard Labs where he leads a world class team on the mission to make Web3 safer and more secure. As a real-time distributed systems engineer, Anoop has had a long career driving bleeding edge innovation spanning optics, asic design, media and telecommunications, AI, cybersecurity and blockchain. Prior to Trugard, Anoop led blockchain efforts at Cisco, AWS, Co-Founded and Chaired the Trusted IoT Alliance, and helped create the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.Ukraine in a Global Cybersecurity
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
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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NEWS
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Stay tuned as we are moving forward with having new guests and speakers coming to join our conference. Our latest news and publications of our speakers and guests will catch you up.
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