400+ Delegates

50+ Speakers

42+ Presentations

10+ Awards

3 Panel Discussions

CISO Connect

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti

Head of Cyber Security,
United Arab Emirates Government

Lt. Colonel. Dr. Hamad Khalifa Al Nuaimi

Head of Telecommunication,
Infrastructure Dept. ICT Center,
Abu Dhabi Police GHQ

Dr. Ebrahim Al Alkeem

Cybersecurity & AI Expert,
Government of Abu Dhabi

Ravi Baldev

CTO Cyber Resilience,
Dell Technologies EMEA

CISO Panelists

Aloysius Cheang

President Cybersecurity & Privacy Protection and Chief Security Officer Middle East & Central Asia

Anton Shipulin

 Industrial Cybersecurity Evangelist

Anil Pais

General Manager – IT

Illyas Kooliyankal

Chief Security Advisor & Group CEO

Javed Alam

Director– Head of Information Security

Dr. Mohammad Khaled

Safe & Smart City Digital Transformation Expert

Bassil Mohammed

Senior Director

Kiran Kumar

Cybersecurity Director

Kumar Prasoon

Founder & CEO

Siham Benhamidouche

MEA Cybersecurity Officer

Anoop Kumar

Information Security Manager

David Brown

Security Operation Director

Dr. Hossam Elshenraki

Professor in Criminal Investigation

Waqas Haider

Chief Information Security Officer

EXPERT SPEAKERS

Boris Larin

Kaspersky

David Driker

Check Point

Eduard Alles

G DATA CyberDefense

Giampaolo Dedola

Kaspersky

Hyunjong Lee

SANDS Lab

Igor Zdobnov

Doctor Web

Israel Gubi

Check Point

Ivan Korolev

Doctor Web

Jagadeesh Chandraiah

SophosLabs

Jaromir Horejsi

Trend Micro Research

Kihong Kim

SANDS Lab

Marian Gusatu

Gen Digital

Marius Benthin

G DATA CyberDefense

Mellvin S

K7 Computing

Rintaro Koike

NTT Security Holdings

Shogo Hayashi

NTT Security Holdings

Vigneshwaran Parthiban

K7 Computing

Dr. Vlad Constantin Craciun

Bitdefender

Yuma Masubuchi

JPCERT/CC Incident Response Group

Andrew Shelton Lotus Edison

K7 Computing

Alexey Kolesnikov

Positive Technologies Expert Security Center

Jason Zhang

Anomali Inc.

Kyle Campbell

Anomali Inc.

Donato Onofri

Crowdstrike

Sarang Popat Sonawane

Crowdstrike

Denis Kuvshinov

Positive Technologies

Stanislav Rakovsky

Positive Technologies

Eddy Willems

G DATA

Righard Zwienenberg

ESET

Chintan Shah

Trellix

Sergey Ulasen

Acronis

Krishna Sawe

Qualys Inc.

JunSeok Kim

AhnLab

Amit Gadhave

Qualys Inc.

TaeHyeon Song

AhnLab

Vladimir Strogov

Acronis

Geri Revay

Fortinet

Kalpesh Mantri

Cisco Talos

Muhammad Shahmeer

Younite

Chetan Raghuprasad

Cisco Talos

Holger Unterbrink

Cisco Talos

Martin Smolár

ESET

Nihar Deshpande

Quick Heal

Aravind Raj

Quick Heal

Vanja Svajcer

Cisco

Abhishek Singh

Cisco Talos

Romain Dumont

ESET

Niranjan Jayanand

SentinelOne

Michael Daniel

Cyber Threat Alliance

Georgy Kucherin

Kaspersky

Leonid Bezvershenko

Kaspersky

Shivang Desai

Microsoft

Prashant Tilekar

Forescout Technologies

Khalid Alnajjar

F-Secure

Sneha Banerjee

Microsoft

CISO Connect

CISO Connect in AVAR 2023 will feature both panel discussions and presentations designed to benefit cyber security leaders and decision makers, and create networking opportunities to promote collaboration between threat researchers and CISOs.

Panel Discussion Topics

  • Improving data security in the digital-first enterprise
  • Positioning cyber security as a contributor to stakeholder value
  • Mitigating cyber risk from geopolitical tensions

CISO Awards

CISOs with exceptional achievements as cyber security leaders will receive awards at AVAR 2023. The awards will be presented in 3 categories to CISOs from GCC Countries:

Best CISO
Startup

Best CISO
Midsize Organization

Best CISO
Enterprise

Topic Highlights

  • Improving data security in the digital-first enterprise
  • Positioning cyber security as a contributor to stakeholder value
  • Mitigating cyber risk from geopolitical tensions
  • Machine learning or behaviour heuristics? The synergy of approaches to defeat advanced ransomware threats
  • Amplifying Threat Intelligence via Generative AI-Driven Aggregation and Enrichment
  • Turn the tables: How we use GPT to detect phishing websites
  • Revolutionizing Malware Detection: Unleashing the Potential of ML and MITRE TTP’s Integration
  • Let’s Chat about Gross Public Text generation

Who Should Attend

  • CEOs
  • CTOs
  • CSOs/CISOs
  • Regulators
  • Law Enforcement Agencies
  • Researchers

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