Agenda 2023

CYBER SECURITY CONFERENCE

„Secure Critical Infrastructure – One Step Ahead of Cyber Threats“
CUE Podgorica, 11th of December, 2023

09:00 – 09:30

Registration

09:30 – 10:00

Official opening

MSc Ivona Dabetic, NGO Secure, President

MSc Marash Dukaj, Minister of Public Administration Montenegro

DSc Filip Ivanović, Minister of Foreign Affairs

Dragan Krapović, Minister of Defence

Speeches by officials of international organizations in Montenegro

10:00 – 10:10

Ambasador Judy Rising Reinke, Embassy of United States of America

10:10 – 10:20

Ambasador Andreina Marsella, Embassy of Italy

10:20 – 10:30

Ambasador Anne-Marie Maskay, Embassy of France

10:30 – 10:40

Riccardo Serri, Deputy Head of the Delegation of the European Union in Montenegro

10:40 – 10:50

Sarah Pilbeam, Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy

10:50 – 11:00

Online

Christian-Marc Liflander, Head of the Cyber and Hybrid Policy Section in NATO

11:00 – 11:20

Coffee break

Working part of the conference

11:20 – 11:40

Dušan Polović, Director General in Directorate of Infrastructure, Information Security, Digitalization and e-Services, Ministry of Public Administration

11:40 – 12:00

Valentina Stadnic, GovStack Regional Coordinator for Europe, International Telecommunication Union (ITU): „Protection of the critical information infrastructure – ITU approach“

12:00 – 12:20

Milan Sekuloski, Senior Cybersecurity Expert, e-Governance Academy Estonia: „Cyber Balkans - EU’s support to cyber ressilient Western Balkans

12:20 – 13:10

Panel: Governmening Cybersecurity: A High Level Dialogue on Protecting National Cyber Security in the Digital Age

Panelists:

Ilir Daka, Head of the Cyber Security Monitoring and Incident Response Unit, Albania

Damir Softić, Cyber Security Excellence Centre – CSEC, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Dušan Krkotić, Government CIRT Montenegro

Moderation: Nikola Živković, Ministry of Public Administration

13:10 – 14:10

Lunch

14:10 – 14:30

Patrick Bryant, Cybersecurity expert, e-Governance Academy Estonia: „Providing Syber Security Fundamentals“

14:30 – 15:20

Panel: Cybersecurity Incident Response and Counter Measures

Panelists:

Gordon Smith, Cybersecurity Advisor, Ministry of Defense - Montenegro

David Toulotte, Expert from French Gendarmerie

David Smith, BAE Systems

Moderation: Cedric Grousset, Project Manager Director of Studies Western Balkans Cyber Capacity Centre

15:20 – 16:10

Panel: Innovation Meets Security: Private Sector Strategies for Advancing Cyber Defence

Panelists:

Branko Primetica, Cedars International

Magda Jianu, Palo Alto

Christan Middleton, Quality Business Engineering (QBE)

Moderation: Rikardo Junčaj,, Ministry of Public Administration

16:10 – 16:30

Closing remarks

Dušan Polović, Director General in Directorate of Infrastructure, Information Security, Digitalization and e-Services, Ministry of Public Administration