Speakers

President Kaljulaid is a supporter of a nonrestrictive legal space for the ongoing digitalization of economies and governments. She is an active promoter of sustainability and halting climate change. She advocates for publicly speaking up against violence and for giving a voice to those affected by it.

In 2016 Kersti Kaljulaid was elected President of the Republic of Estonia. Previously she served from 2004 to 2016 as a Member of the European Court of Auditors. Kersti Kaljulaid was the CFO and CEO of the Iru Power Plant of state-owned energy company Eesti Energia and prior to that Prime Minister Mart Laar's Economic Advisor.

Kersti Kaljulaid has graduated from the University of Tartu in the field of genetics in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and she has a master`s in Economics and Business Administration. She is fluent in English and French and also speaks German, Finnish, Russian. 

Kersti Kaljulaid is married and has four children.

Monica Kaminska is a postdoctoral researcher at The Hague Program for Cyber Norms at Leiden University – Institute of Security and Global Affairs and a PhD Candidate in Cyber Security at the University of Oxford. She is also a trustee of the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative (ECCRI) and has held research positions at the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs and the Computational Propaganda Project, both at the University of Oxford. Monica’s research examines international cyber conflict, particularly states’ responses to hostile cyber operations.

Kadri Kaska is the head of Law Branch and cybersecurity policy researcher at the NATO CCDCOE since 2008. Her main area of research is national cyber security strategy and governance; as part of her portfolio, she maintains the Centre’s National Cybersecurity Strategies repository [link] and is editor for the National Cybersecurity Governance series. Given her legal background, she also writes on the legal aspects of state cyber activities.
In 2017-2018, she was seconded to the Estonian Information System Authority, where she was the lead author and editor of annual Estonian Cyber Security Assessments and contributed to the Agency’s activities in cyber threat assessment, policy analysis and legal drafting. In that capacity, she was one of the authors of Estonia’s new Cyber Security Act and the 2018 Cybersecurity Strategy.
Kadri holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Tartu, Estonia.

Johannes Klick is the CEO of Alpha Strike Labs and a passionate researcher and IT security expert. His research focuses on global internet scanning for threat analysis and external attack surface detection, as well as identifying the cyber infrastructures of organisations and companies. He has given presentations at internationally recognised conferences such as Chaos Communication Camp, PHDays Russia, and Blackhat USA.

Casper Klynge is Microsoft’s Vice President for European Government Affairs with responsibility for all of Microsoft’s government affairs and public policy work across the continent. He serves on the senior leadership team of Microsoft’s CELA group. Prior to joining Microsoft, Casper most recently served as Denmark’s (the world’s first) Ambassador to the global tech industry. Previous posts include: Ambassador to Indonesia, Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea and ASEAN (2014-2017), Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus (2013-2014), Deputy Head of NATO’s Provincial Reconstruction Team in Helmand Province, Afghanistan and Head of Mission of the EU’s civilian crisis management planning mission in Kosovo (2006-2008). Casper holds a M.Sc. in Political Science and is a 2009 Marshall Memorial Fellow.

Commander PD Dr rer. nat. Dr habil. Robert Koch is a General Staff Officer of the Federal Armed Forces. He joined the Navy in 1998 and studied computer science at the Universität der Bundeswehr. After operational and technical training, he served as a Weapon Engineering Officer onboard German frigates. After the National General/Admiral Staff Officer Course at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Dr Koch had assignments as Action Officer Cyber at the Bundeswehr Communication and Information Systems Command and as Head of Department Penetration Testing at the Bundeswehr Cyber Security Center. Currently, Dr Koch is Desk Officer Cyber Policy at the Federal Ministry of Defence. He holds a Diploma in Computer Science and a Master’s in Military Leadership and International Security; he received his PhD in 2011, his habilitation in 2017 and his Venia Legendi in 2018. Now, he is lecturer in computer science at the Universität der Bundeswehr and the University of Bonn with course offerings ranging from introductory cyber security for non-technical people to in-depth technical IT security topics. His main areas of research are attack and tamper detection, anonymity in cyberspace, and conducting and optimizing security analysis.

Erki Kodar has been the Undersecretary for Legal and Consular Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since September 2019. Previously, Erki Kodar worked for nearly fifteen years at the Ministry of Defence, starting out as a lawyer and graduating to the position of Undersecretary for Legal and Administrative Affairs. He also worked as the Director of the Legal Department and the Director of the NATO and European Union Department. Erki Kodar began his university studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Tartu, graduating in 2005. In 2018, he obtained a master’s degree in strategic studies at the Army War College in the United States. He has also attended courses and seminars on armed conflict law and completed the Higher Command Studies Course at the Baltic Defence College.

Capt. (retired), Lt. Col. In Reserve Bernd König served thirty years as an officer in the German Federal Armed Forces with special high-security tasks in EW, he has also served as IT security officer in the MoD for the largest European IT outsourcing project, HERKULES; CISO with Operative IT-Sec responsibility for data centres in the Bundeswehr under the HERKULES project (IBM); Top Executive Consultant, Portfolio Executive at BU Cyber Security T-Systems; International Director Product Management Security EMEA at AKAMAI; and Diploma Social Pedagogue, IT Expert in the Ring of German Experts at CISSP, CRISC.

Csaba Krasznay is an associate professor at the University of Public Service with cybersecurity being his field of research. Currently, he is also the Head of the university’s Institute of Cybersecurity. Besides his activities in higher education, he is present on the market as well. He obtained a CISA certification in 2005, CISM and CISSP in 2006, CEH in 2008, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor in 2012 and CSSLP in 2015. He is a board member of the Magyary Zoltán E-government Association and the Voluntary Cyberdefence Cooperation, member of ISACA Budapest Chapter and the Hungarian Association for Electronic Signature. In 2011, he was voted to the “Security Expert of the Year”.

Neal Kushwaha is a recipient of the 2019 Royal Humane Silver Medal of Bravery and 2020 commendation from the Governor General of Canada. Neal is an international bilingual speaker, a guest lecturer at Stellenbosch University, and a motivational speaker. He is the founder of a Canadian consulting company, IMPENDO Inc., specifically serving public sector clients. His research and consulting falls within the cross-section of cyberspace, security, and law. Neal has publications at various venues on topics ranging from policy and doctrine to technical matters. Aligned with his PhD research, he supports nations with their cyber programmes. While he is a prominent speaker at cyber conferences on the global stage, it is his climbing that generates the most interest. He is an accomplished mountaineer with over 28 years of climbing experience and climbs under the banner of Big Climbs, including Everest.