A first look at this year’s speakers
We’ve made it – just before the summer break, the program for this year’s Swiss Cyber Storm Conference on 22 October on the topic of “The AI Revolution” and other hot security topics is online. In addition to the already announced opening keynote by AI thought leader Daniel Miessler, we would therefore like to introduce you to some more speakers. Five of them, here they are.
Eva Wolfangel is a is a freelance journalist and speaker with a long-standing interest in privacy and security. She regularly presents at CCC and has an impressive track record when it comes to investigative journalism. Eva strongly advocates for transparency and accountability in data handling practices – a stance that also underlies her AI talk: “When chatbots talk too much: the risks and rewards of AI manipulation”.
Lukasz Olejnik is a very active author with an exceptionally broad portfolio that stretches from technical analysis of browser tracking mechanisms to threat intelligence to online propaganda. He is a cyberwarfare advisor at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and has worked on several W3C standards. Lukasz will present his newest book (“Propaganda: From disinformation and influence to operations and information warfare”) at the conference, in which, among other things, he discusses the use of AI methods to create a system for information operations.
David Rosenthal, one of the best-known Swiss lawyers in the area of cybersecurity, is a strong presenter and able to bridge the gap between techies and lawyers with hands-on experience. David is known for sharing very practical guidelines and decision guides for legal handling of privacy questions (e. g. cloud storage of sensitive data). His approach to AI regulation is equally intriguing. At Swiss Cyberstorm, he will give security people an understanding of how lawyers are seeing AI.
Ruben Santamarta is a highly respected security researcher with a track record of uncovering and disclosing vulnerabilities in critical systems and devices, often critical infrastructures. Among other, he has found several issues in Swiss Post’s e-voting system. His latest work focuses on the security of nuclear power plants. As part of this research, he also looked at several Swiss sites. While the disclosure process is still going on, Ruben has promised to lay it all out at Swiss Cyber Storm.
Laura Bell Main, founder of safestack.io and former developer for CERN brings a unique perspective to the security discourse. Her take is: IT should be secure by design, and you secure it by talking to the UX designers that will define how people work with it. If the designers get it right, users will be led towards following security best practices. If they don’t, insecurity will be the default and achieving security will be very hard for everybody – especially for the users and their sensitive data.
Other enlisted speakers so far are Maya Bundt (multiple board member and chair of the NCS steering committee), Cornelia Puhze (Switch), and Matt Tesauro (DefectDojo, OWASP).
We will complete the conference schedule in the coming months.
