Steering Committee
Rear Admiral António Gameiro Marques
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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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Has significant experience in project and corporate finance, financial advisory, economical-financial modelling, business valuation, business plans and strategic diagnostics, business modelling, project management and market research;
José Alegria
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Chief Security Officer at Altice Portugal;
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Worldwide coordinator of the CyberWatch Program at the Altice Group;
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Member of European Cybercrime Center (EC3) Advisory Group on Communication Providers at EUROPOL;
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Over 15 years of experience in the application of advanced software technology to cyber intelligence and cybersecurity;
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
Alcino Lavrador
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General Director of Altice Labs, Innovation and Technological Development Centre of the Altice Group.
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Led important projects in Africa and Brazil, supporting the internationalisation of Portugal Telecom and PT Inovação
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Holds positions in several institutions related to innovation and ICT
Marcelo Rodrigues
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Cybersecurity Coordinator at Risk Assurance Services in PwC
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10+ years of experience in IT audit and Cybersecurity
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Experienced programmer and Linux system administrator
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CISM, CISA certifications
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Main areas of focus: Pentesting, Cybersecurity incidents, Risk Analysis, Regulatory Compliance
Brigadier General Ana Cristina Telha
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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
Marco Lourenço
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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 organisations on three different continents.
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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 BOARD & SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Luís Paulo Reis
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Director of LIACC – Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory;
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Vice-president of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence;
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Evaluated more than 50 proposals and/or projects of European programs FP6, FP7, Horizon2020 and national programs of FCT and ANI / Portugal 2020;
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;
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;
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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);
Carlos Lobo
Mentors Board & Ethics Committee
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;
Rogério Bravo
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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;
Degree and Postgrad in Law (UAL) and postgrad on Cyberwarfare by Militar Academy;