Kyiv International Cyber Resilience Forum 2025

8:30 – 09:30 | Participant registration and welcome coffee

9:30 – 10:00 | Official opening

Oleksandr Lytvynenko, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

10:00 – 10:30 | Keynote speakers

Maciej Stadejek, Director for Security and Defence Policy, European External Action Service

Oleksandr Potii, Chairman of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine

Juhan Lepassaar, Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

10:30 – 10:45 | Keynote speaker

Sandra Joyce, Vice President, Mandiant Intelligence, Google Cloud

10:45 – 11:45 | Panel Discussion: Cybersecurity Strategies 2025: Leaders Tackling Evolving Threats

Alexander Martin, journalist The Record UK

Serhii Demediuk, Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Alexander Seger, Head of the Cybercrime Division of the Council of Europe

Luca Tagliaretti, Executive Director at European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC)

Dan Cimpean, General Director of the Romanian National Cybersecurity Directorate (DNSC)

12:00 – 12:15 | Keynote speaker

Tetiana Lukyniuk, Director of Google Ukraine

12:15 – 13:00 | Panel Discussion: Cybersecurity Startups in Action: Innovating for a Resilient Future

Anna Bulakh, Government Affairs and Public Policy Lead, Google

Oleg Naumenko, Founder & CEO Hideez

Olena Stepura, Co-owner Artellence

Roman Osadchuk, Director of Threat Intelligence, LetsData

Stanislav Lurie, Head of UA Office, Osavul

13:20 – 13:30 | Keynote speaker

Andrii Sybiha, Minister for Foreign Affairs (TBC)

13:30 – 14:30 | Panel Discussion: The Role of International Cooperation in Global Cyber Deterrence

Valeriya Ionan, Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine

Mart Noorma, Director of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE)

Tõnu Grünberg, Deputy Minister for Cyber security and digital infrastructure of Estonia

Nataliya Tkachuk, Head of the Information and Cyber Security Directorate at the Office of the NSDC of Ukraine, Secretary of the NCSCC

Enrique Perez de Tena, Head of International Relations, MCCE (Spanish joint cyber command)

Anton Demokhin, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Chief Digital Transformation Officer

15:00 – 15:10 | Keynote speaker

Volodymyr Karastelyov, Acting Head of the SBU Cyber Security Department

Session: Navigating Cyber Threats: Real-World Cases, Lessons Learned, and Effective Defense Strategies

15:10 – 15:25 | From Sabotage to Espionage: How Russia's Cyberwar in Ukraine has Evolved

Richard Marko, CEO ESET

15:25 – 15:40

Serhii Prokopenko, Head of NCSCC Operations Department - Deputy Head of Information Security and Cybersecurity Directorate at the Staff of the NSDC of Ukraine

15:40 – 15:55

Varis Teivāns, Deputy Manager of CERT.LV

15:55 – 16:10 | Overcoming Cyber Crisis: Kyivstar’s Approach to Fast and Secure Recovery. Future attacks prevention strategy

Andrii Zhukovskyi, CIO of Kyivstar, CEO of Kyivstar.Tech

16:10 – 16:25 | CrowdStrike Global Threat Report: Lessons learned, key challenges, and technologies shaping digital security in 2025

Sergii Kulyk, Head of the Ukrainian office at iIT Distribution

16:25 - 16:30

Mikko Hyppönen, Global security expert, Chief Research Officer, WithSecure

17:00 – 18:00 | Panel Discussion: Defending Ukraine's Business: Strategic Insights from Top CEOs on Cybersecurity

Timur Khromaev, Officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, entrepreneur

Yegor Aushev, CEO and Co-Founder CyberUnit.Technologies

Konstantin Yevtushenko, Managing partner, UnitCity

Serhii Chernenko, Chairman of the Board of FUIB Bank

Sergey Martynchuk, General Manager Cisco Ukraine

Maryna Pavliuk, General Manager at Glovo

18:00 – 18:15

Special guest

Session: CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE

11:00 – 11:20 | Browser-based social engineering. ClearFake and ClickFix attack

Denys, representative of the SBU Situational Center for Cybersecurity

11:20 – 11:40

representative of ESET

11:40 – 12:00 | Value of Cyber Threat Intelligence

Iaschuk Denys, CERT-UA

12:00 – 12:20

representative of CERT-ЕЕ (TBC)

12:20 – 12:40 | Espionage Targeting Military Devices: A Case Study of Threats and Countermeasures

Alexander Price, Dublin City University, MSCA Doctoral Fellow EU-GLOCTER, PhD Candidate in Law and Government

13:10 – 14:10 | Panel Discussion: Building global resilience against evolving hybrid threats and FIMI

Yuliia Dukach, Head of Disinformation Investigations at OpenMinds

Josef Schroefl, Deputy Director CoI Strategy & Defence, Center of Excellence for countering hybrid threats

Andrii Nadzhos, Deputy Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine for European Integration

Andrii Yusov, Representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine

Session: DisinfoWars: Tactics and Tools to Combat Digital Deception

14:30 – 14:45 | How technological innovations affect OSINT research for intelligence agencies and businesses. Molfar's experience

Artem Starosiek, Founder & CEO Molfar

14:45 – 15:00 | Tools of hostile information interference (FIMI) in cyberspace and countering them

Oleksandr Melnychenko, SBU's Cyber ​​Security Department

15:00 – 15:15 | Techno-feudalism and disinformation: defending and surviving

Petro Okhotin, Head of DataInt, ICF Cybersecurity Support Center

15:15 – 15:30 | Memes as Digital Shields: Activating Grassroots Activism for Cyber Resilience

Dr. Tine Munk, Senior Lecturer Nottingham Trent University

16:00 – 17:00 | Panel Discussion: Building Cyber Resilience: Ukraine’s Collaboration with International Partners

Arthur David, Political Attaché, Embassy of Canada to Ukraine

Ieva Ilves, WithSecure

Tanel Sepp, Ambassador at Large for Cyber Diplomacy at the Estonian MFA

Mykhailo Verych, Regional Director, CRDF Global

Ihor Malchenyuk, Director of the Cyber Defense Department of the State Special Communications Service of Ukraine

Maria Shevchuk, Executive Director of the IT Ukraine Association

9:00 – 10:00 | Participant registration and welcome coffee

10:00 – 10:30 | Keynote speacker

Kateryna Chernohorenko, Deputy Minister of Defense for Digital Development, Digital Transformations, and Digitization

Session: Innovations and solutions for cyber resilience

10:30 – 10:50 | European future Secure Digital Military Mobility System (SDMMS)

Jaak Tarien, VP for Defence, Cybernetica AS

10:50 – 11:10 | Detection and Response for Operational and IoT Networks

Michael Dugent, Global IoT Director, Nozomi Networks

11:10 – 11:30 | (In)Security Through Obscurity. Why it's important to talk about cybersecurity not only on the solution provider side, but also on the client side

Kyrylo Naumenko, СТО GigaCloud

12:00 – 12:20 | True Isolation: Strengthening Critical Infrastructure with Defense in Depth

Tomas Petru, Head of CEE Goldilock

12:20 – 12:40 | The Role of Cybersecurity in Times of Hybrid Warfare as a Key Component of Critical Infrastructure Protection. DTEK Group's Experience

Yurii Shatylo, Head of Cybersecurity at MODUS X (DTEK Group)

12:40 – 13:00 | Data protection in times of war: Lessons from cyberattacks on Ukraine's critical infrastructure

Volodymyr Pokatilov, CEO, Datacenter “Parkovyi”

13:00 – 13:20 | From Trenches to Servers: Ukraine is Building Europe’s Silicon Valley, Turning the Data Economy into the Weapon of the Future

Anna Bon, Founder of DefenseMed Innovations, Inc. (USA) and the Medical Data Bank - DeHealth

13:20 – 13:40 | OSINT Analysis of Digital Profiles of Individuals: Risk Management and Organizational Security

Yevhen Derevyanko, Deputy Director for Development at ST&T

14:10 – 14:30

Balashov Vitaliy, Head of Cyber Security Engineers, EPAM Systems

14:30 – 15:00 | Workshop | SOC Kill Chain: The Must-Have Detections to prevent Disaster

Anastasia Uniiat, SOC Analyst, UnderDefense

Dmytro Shevtsov, Information Security Account Executive / Head of Partnerships, UnderDefense

Sasha Lishchynskyi, SOC Manager, UnderDefense

15:00 – 16:00 | Panel Discussion: Cyber Battlefield: How Ukraine Stands Against the russian Hackstorm

Ievgen Vladimirov, Director, Cybersecurity Center at the National Academy of Security Service of Ukraine

Valeriy Kulyk-Kulichenko, Deputy Head for Digital Development, Digital Transformation and Digitalization of the State Service of Ukraine for Transport Safety

Artem Skrypnyk, CEO Favbet Tech

Roman Sobol, Deputy Head of Security Department, Naftogaz of Ukraine

Sergiy Galagan, Member of the Board of NPC Ukrenergo

16:30 – 17:30 | Panel Discussion: Developing Ukraine’s Cybersecurity Ecosystem: Growth, Collaboration, and Women's Leadership

Oleksandr Fedienko, Member of Parliament of Ukraine

Anastasiia Ostrovska, co-founder & CEO Women’s Leadership and Strategic Initiatives Foundation (WLSIF)

Serhii Khariuk, Founder and CEO AmonSul, co-founders of the largest cybersecurity community in Ukraine

Ievgeniia Bespalova, Chief Strategy Officer at Molfar

17:30 – 18:00 | Awarding Winners of the CTF

9:00 – 10:00 | Participant registration and welcome coffee

Session: Cyber Resilience in the AI Era

10:00 – 10:20 | Leveraging AI for Cyber Threat Detection

Oleksandr Lazarchuk, cybersecurity expert

10:20 – 10:40 | Achieving Information Integrity with AI: a Coherence Based Approach

Ludmilla Huntsman, Founding Executive Director, Cognitive Security Alliance (USA)

10:40 – 11:00 | AI for Security and Security for AI

Volodymyr Ilibman, Manager of Cybersecurity Development in Ukraine, Cisco Ukraine

11:00 – 11:20 | AI Cyber Warfare and Digital Resilience

Dr. Anna Mysyshyn, Director, Co-Founder Institute of Innovative Governance, AI Policy & Cybersecurity Expert

Session: Education, Technology, and Standards: Emerging Trends

11:20 – 11:40 | Trends in the Development of Cybersecurity Specialist Training in Higher Education

Maksym Delembovskyi, Associate Professor at the Department of Cybersecurity and Computer Engineering, Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture

11:40 – 12:00 | Development of military-technological sport

Artur Bulygin, President, Federation of Military and Technological Sports

12:00 – 12:20 | Compliance with international security standards: the next step today

Volodymyr Zdor, Thales

12:20 – 12:40 | How to implement IT systems quickly and safely during the war on the example of DOT-Chain

Alyona Zhuzha, IT Advisor, State Logistics Operator

13:00 – 14:00 | Panel Discussion: Cybersecurity of Regions: The Formula for Protection

Dzhorzh Paparyha, Board Member, Institute for Cyber War Research (ICWR)

Victoria Itskovych, Director of IT Department of Kyiv City Council (TBC)

Oleksandr Kulepin, CDTO Lviv Regional State Administration (TBC)

Sergiy Kropyva, CDTO Odesa Regional State Administration (TBC)

Andriy Kavunets, CDTO Vinnytsia Regional Military Administration (TBC)

14:30 – 15:30 | Panel Discussion: Cyber Risk Assessment: Strategies for Resilience and Mitigation

Oleksandr Korystin, expert ICWR

Oleksiy Yankovsky, partner at PwC

Oksana Merezhko, attorney at law, managing partner of ARMADUM LAWYERS

Stanislav Petrov, Deputy Head of ARMA for Digital Development, Digital Transformation and Digitalization (CDTO)

Vitalii Zubok, Leading Researcher at the Pukhov Institute for Modeling Problems in Energy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Professor of the Department of Information Security of the Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

15:30 – 16:00 | Workshop

Andriy Levchenko, Cloudflare Business Development Manager at iIT Distribution

16:30 – 17:30 | Workshop

Euro-Atlantic Resilience Centre (TBC)