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;
Commander Bruno Pica
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Serves in the Portuguese Navy and is currently posted in Romania as Deputy Programme Manager
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Qualified expert in submarine operations
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Previously posted at the Ministry of National Defence, where he acted as the National Focal Point for the European Defence Fund and the National Point of Contact for the Capability, Armament & Planning Directorate of the European Defence Agency
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Holds a degree in Naval Engineering, with a specialisation in Weapons and Electronics Engineering, from the Portuguese Naval Academy
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Postgraduate degree in Information Technology
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Master’s degree in Project Management
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Completion of the Senior Staff Officer Course at the Naval War College
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Executive MBA from ISCTE & London Business School
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.