STEERING COMITTEE
Rear Admiral António Gameiro Marques
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Former General Director of National Security Office and National Cybersecurity Center;
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Electrical and computer engineering in Naval Postgraduate School of Monterey, California;
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Director of the National Security Office, which includes, in its structure, the National Cybersecurity Center;
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CIO in the Navy in 2009;
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Responsible for developing and maintaining software for Portuguese Navy frigate combat systems and for modernizing and automating radio stations;
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Portugal's representative with NATO bodies that are responsible for information and communication technologies.
Telmo Vieira
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Managing partner at PremiValor Consulting;
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Lecturer at ISEG-Lisbon School of Economics and Management – University of Lisbon;
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President of the Supervisory Board of a bank operating specially in digital market;
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Mentor and investor in Start-ups in different phases, early stage and growing stage;
Rita Vasconcelos
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Director at PremiValor Consulting;
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Head of Corporate and Project Finance
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Has significant experience in Corporate and Project finance, financial advisory, economic-financial modeling, Business and Company Valuation, Business plans and Strategic diagnostics, Cost Benefit Analysis and projects focusing on knowledge transfer and innovation.
Brigadier General
Ana Cristina Telha
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Former Portuguese Air Force Communications and Information Systems Director;
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Former Portuguese Air Force Communications and Information Systems Head of Division, at Air Force Staff;
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Degree in Military and Aeronautical Sciences - Computer Engineering from the Air Force Academy
Paulo Moniz
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Director - Information Security and IT Risk at EDP - Energias de Portugal;
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AFCEA Portugal - Cyber Committee Board Member
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Member of the Board of Directors of CIIWA (Competitive Intel and Information Warfare Association)
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Member of the “Systems of Cyber Resilience Electricity” group at the World Economic Forum
Vicente Huertas Pardo
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CEO of Peru and the Southern Cone at Minsait-Indra;
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20 years of experience as IT Company Director, Business Process, IT Service Management and Software Project Management;
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Held several management positions for Indra Group in Spain, Brazil and Portugal;
Vasco Mendes de Almeida
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CEO Portugal & PALOP – Indra Group (Indra/Minsait)
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25 years of experience in IT Service Management and IT Consulting
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Has managed Business Units of Financial Services and Digital Business Technologies for Indra Group
Marco Lourenço
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Director of Information, Workplace and Innovation at European Court of Auditors
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Team Leader of Knowledge & Innovation at ENISA;
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Technology strategist, futurist, and cybersecurity researcher with more than two decades of experience in international;
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Worked for more than a decade as a CISO for an EU diplomatic missions and as a Senior Manager for the United Nations and Microsoft Corporation.
ADVISORY COMITTEE
Lieutenant Colonel Salomão Carvalho
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Advisor for the Defence Resources of the Ministry of Defence;
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Degree in Electronics and Computer Science and a Master in Military Electronics Engineering;
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Project Manager of the NATO Smart Defence “Multinational Project on Cyber Defence Education and Training (MNCDE&T)” and the National Co-Leader at the European Union Military Training Group - Cyber Defence Discipline;
Rui Carvalho
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Head of Cybersecurity at InnoWave Technologies;
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Over 25 years of experience in Cyber Security;
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Development Director at EAST (European Association for Secure Transactions) and he chairs the EAST Payment Task Force;
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Member of the EC3 Advisory Group on Financial Crime at Europol;
Carlos Lobo
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Doctor in Law;
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Professor at the Law School of the University of Lisbon (Tax, Public Finance, Competition and Regulation);
SCIENTIFIC COMITTEE
António Casimiro
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Associate Professor at Department of Informatics of Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa;
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Director of the Master in Information Security at FCUL;
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Researcher at LASIGE, a research unit in the area of Computer Science and Engineering of FCUL
MENTORS BOARD
Prof. Shomit Ghose
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General partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital fund, ONSET Ventures;
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Start-up entrepreneur, with multiple successful exits via IPO and acquisition;
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Serves on multiple advisory boards in EUrope and the US
Nuno Pereira
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Degree in product design;
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Involved in multiple design/engineering hardware and software projects;
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CEO of of Holy Grail Inc;
ETHICS COMMITTEE
Rogério Bravo
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Former Chief Police Inspector responsible for Portuguese Judiciary Police cyber crime unit UNC3T (working on the field since 1991);
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Portuguese Police representative on INTERPOL’s European Working Party on Information Technology Crime;
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Professor of IT criminality and digital forensics (Judiciary Police, FCUL, IP Beja) and fellow researcher;
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Degree and Postgrad in Law (UAL) and postgrad on Cyberwarfare by Militar Academy.