17th Cluster Session: “Cybersecurity 2023: trends, new opportunities and prospects”

Mr. Georgii Dubynskyi has been an expert on international cooperation with sound accomplishments for more than 20 years. His background includes work for the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. During 2008- 2013 he was in charge of economic and multilateral cooperation in the Mission of Ukraine to the European Union in Brussels. He was the National Coordinator of the National Contact Points of Ukraine to the Horizon 2020, Secretary of the Interagency Council on Smart Specialization Strategy, and adviser to the Vice President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NAoS) in charge of international cooperation. Since April 2017, Georgii Dubynskyi has worked in the Embassy of Ukraine to the USA for science, technology, innovations, cybersecurity, countering disinformation, and health protection topics. He was also an official representative of the NAoS of Ukraine in the USA and Adviser to the Deputy Secretary of the NSDC of Ukraine. In May 2022, Georgii started to work at the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine as the Deputy Minister. He is in charge of cyber security, countering disinformation and defense innovations, and leading global engagement with Big-Tech companies and allies of Ukraine.

Mr. Serhii Prokopenko is the Head of the NCCC Support Department and Deputy Head of Information Security and Cybersecurity Directorate at the NSDC of Ukraine. He has 20 years of experience in cybersecurity. Now he is responsible for the coordination of all the stakeholders, developing the NCCC’s analytical and technological platform, improvement of Cyber Threats Intelligence (CTI) exchange and sharing mechanisms, organization of training programs for specialists from the public sector and critical infrastructures, building Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), international cooperation, control of the Cybersecurity Strategy implementation plan.

Dr. Andrii Paziuk is an experienced professional with over ten years of successful accomplishments in project management, policy development, strategic advising, legal consulting, and public administration reforms.

Dr. Igor Linkov develops methods and tools for measuring risk and resilience in interconnected networks and applies these tools to critical infrastructure, transportation, energy and cyber systems, and supply chains. He was a member of several interagency committees, and working groups tasked with developing resilience metrics and management approaches, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Resilience Roadmap, the Secretary of Deference (OSD) Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, and the OSD Cyber Resilience Technical Committee. He has published widely on environmental and technology policy, climate change, and risk and resilience analytics, including 25 books, over 450 peer-reviewed papers, and book chapters. Dr. Linkov is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Society for Risk Analysis and received multiple USACE, U.S. Army, and U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Awards and Civilian Service medals, including the 2020 DOD Top Scientist Award.

Prof. Mokhor made a significant scientific contribution to the energy industry's and critical infrastructure's IT and cyber security field. He is the author of about 250 scientific works and the initiator and organizer of several representative international and all-Ukrainian scientific conferences, including "Information technologies and security", "Information technologies in energy", "Cyber security of energy" and others. He is the chairman of the Scientific Council of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine "Cybersecurity in Energy", the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal "Electronic Modeling", a member of the editorial boards of several scientific publications, in particular, "Nuclear and Radiation Safety", "Information Technologies and Security". In 2018, he was elected a correspondent of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, specializing in information security and modeling in energy. Member of the information and communication technologies section of the Committee for State Prizes of Ukraine in the field of science and technology. Member of the specialized scientific and technical council of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Ukraine for selecting scientific works and projects for the HORIZON 2020 program.

Greg Rattray is a founder of the CDAC initiative and a partner and founder of Next Peak LLC, a cybersecurity & risk management firm operating worldwide. Greg retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Colonel in 2007.  He served as a Director for Cybersecurity in the White House and commanded the Operations Group of the Air Force Information Warfare Center.

David is the Co-Founder of Internet 2.0. He is a former Australian Army Intelligence Officer. Author of reports which made headlines in news outlets globally: "SANA Botnet attack on Pentagon" - Mar 21; "TikTok Source Code Review" - Jul 22; "WeChat Security and Propaganda Review" - May 22; "Beijing Olympics App Security review" - Jan 22; "Procuring for a Pandemic, PCR procurement in Wuhan in 2019" - Oct 21 (the most read story for the Month Nikkei Asia); "PSB Surveillance Leak" - May 21; "CCP Shanghai Members Leak" - Dec 20; "Zhenhua Data Leak" - Sep 20.

Ed is a former British reconnaissance officer with a background in supporting diplomacy in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other Middle Eastern spots. His work at WithYouWithMe focuses on discovering people from the invisible talent pools of society and reskilling them into the digital space, solving both socio-economic and operational needs. Ed is a fluent French speaker and keen on cooking.