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	Mark Zajicek is a Member of the Technical Staff in the CERT Division at the Software Engineering Institute, located at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA). Mark’s current work is focused on helping other organizations to build and assess their own computer security incident response team (CSIRT) or incident management capability. As a member of the CERT CSIRT Development and Training team, Mark is responsible for providing guidance to new and existing CSIRTs, worldwide. Mark has co-developed a variety of publications and training materials, and he is an instructor for a suite of several courses that provide training for CSIRT managers and technical staff and for organizations that are building or evaluating an insider threat program. Previously, Mark was the Daily Operations team leader for the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC), after having joined the CERT/CC’s incident handling staff in 1992. Prior to joining the CERT/CC, he also helped support the CERT/CC during its initial start-up in 1988.
	James Boorman has worked in research and in practice across academic and public health sectors in the UK and as a Chief Information Officer for research projects for the Australian government. James has experience in large collaborative research projects at University College London and the University of Cambridge. As Head of Research and Capacity Building at the not-for-profit Oceania Cyber Security Centre (OCSC) in Melbourne he leads the OCSC collaboration with the University of Oxford on the Cybersecurity Capacity Maturity Model for Nations (CMM). He has successfully led and co-authored six CMM reviews in the Oceania region providing reports to governments with specific recommendations to build national cybersecurity capacity and resilience. This work has involved joint missions with partners such as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT), Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) and World Bank.
	Adli Wahid is a Security Specialist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC). He is responsible for the APNIC’s security engagement and outreach program. His engagement activities include providing technical support & training for network operators, Law Enforcement Agencies and CERTs/CSIRTs. Adli is also the technical lead for the APNIC Community Honeynet Project. Adli has more than 10 years of experience with the security response community. Prior to joining APNIC, Adli was the Head of Malaysia CERT (MYCERT) and had served as a member of Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Security Response Team (MUFG-CERT). Adli had also served as a Board member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST.org) from 2014-2019.
	Jean-Robert Hountomey is Director of AfricaCERT, as such he coordinates the activities of the Organization. As a vulnerability researcher, Jean-Robert brings an interesting perspective in the CSIRTs work when it comes to Risk Management, Internet Infrastructure Assets evaluation, vulnerability research and investigation, security events coordination and global coordination.
	Dr. Vilius Benetis works for NRD Cyber Security (based out of Lithuania, North Europe, EU), where he leads the team of experts to consult and establish cybersecurity incident response teams (known as CSIRT/SOCs) for enterprises, governments and organisations in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America. He is active contributor and speaker for ISACA’s cybersecurity research, contributes to development of CSIRT methodologies for ENISA (EU), FIRST.org and ITU. He is industry professor in Cybersecurity at Kaunas Technology University (ktu.edu).
	Vidur Gupta is a Partner with EY’s Consulting practice and leads Cyber Security team with a focus on Government clients across Africa, India and Middle East. He has around 18yrs of experience, working in multiple geographies and countries for national and multinational clients representing diverse industry segments. At professional qualification aspects, he has multiple certifications like CIPR, CRISC, CISM and CISA, etc. along with MCA as post graduation.
	Don Stikvoort is founder of the companies “S-CURE” and “Cross Your Limits”. S-CURE offers senior consultancy in the area of cyber security – specialising in security incident management (CSIRT), governance/policy matters and translating theories and policies to real life. Cross Your Limits offers life/exec coaching and trainings in “human arts”. Don’s client base is global, however on his home front (The Netherlands) he works together with several colleagues in the m7 partnership. After his Master’s degree in Physics, he became Infantry platoon commander in the Dutch Army. In 1988 he joined the Dutch national research network SURFnet. In that capacity he was among the pioneers who together created the European Internet since November 1989. He recognised “security” as a future concern in 1991, and was co-founder and chair of the 2nd CSIRT in Europe (now SURFcert) from 1992-8, FIRST member since 1992 – later Don became a FIRST Liaison Member, until today. Together with Klaus-Peter Kossakowski he initiated and fostered the closer cooperation of European CSIRTs ever since 1993 – this led to the emergence of TF-CSIRT in 2000. In 1998 he finished the "Handbook for Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs)" together with Kossakowski and Moira J. West-Brown of CERT/CC. He was active in the IETF and RIPE (co-creator of the IRT-object). Don chaired the Program Committee for the 1999 FIRST conference in Brisbane, Australia, and kickstarted the international FIRST Secretariat in the same year. From 2001-2011 his company ran TFCSIRT’s Trusted Introducer service. He authored and taught several training modules for the CSIRT community, some of which are being used worldwide today, e.g. as part of TRANSITS. In 1998 Don started his first company. A first assignment was to build the network connecting over 10,000 schools in The Netherlands. Many CSIRTs were created with his help and guidance, among which the Dutch national teeam (NCSC-NL), and teams for universities, major hospitals and big corporations like Philips. Second opinions, audits and maturity assessments in this field have become a specialty – and in that capacity Don developed SIM3 in 2008, the maturity model for CSIRTs which is used worldwide today for maturity assessments and certifications. SIM3 has now been taken under the wings of the notfor-profit “Open CSIRT Foundation” (OCF). Don was one of the founders in 2016 and now chairs its board. CSIRT community building worldwide is one of Don’s specialties: he is active as expert on behalf of the Cyber4Dev project, participates in the GFCE, and works together with CERT.br, WACREN, AfricaCERT, ITU and many others. Starting in 1999, Don was certified in NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Coaching, Hypnotherapy and other psychotherapy forms, and started what is now Cross Your Limits as a result. Cross Your Limits’ portfolio is life & executive coaching, and workshops and intensive training courses in what Don likes to call “human arts”, leading to internationally recognized certifications. He also trains communicators, presenters and trainers, including many in the CSIRT field. Don thrives as motivational and keynote speaker. He enjoys to share his views on how the various worlds of politics, economics, psychology and daily life, but also cyber security, all intertwine and relate – and how increased understanding of this “texture” and a better ability to express ourselves, increase our ability to bring good change to self – and the world around us. He has discussed such topics in keynote talks from The Hague to Bali, from Hamburg to Mauritius and from Rome to the Australian Outback. His goal is to challenge his audience to gain deeper insight and understanding, and motivate them to be the difference that makes the difference, reminding them of the old African proverb: “If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito”