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Kyiv International Cyber Resilience Forum 2026

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KICRF 2026 Speakers

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Rustem Umerov

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

Єгор Аушев

Yegor Aushev

Cybersecurity expert, CEO and Co-Founder CyberUnit.Technologies

Volodymyr Karastelov

Volodymyr Karastelov

Acting Head of the Cyber Department, Security Service of Ukraine

Олександр Потій

Oleksandr Potii

Brigadier General, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Chairman of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine

Сергій Демедюк

Serhii Demediuk

Chairman of the Board at Institute of Cyber Warfare Research

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Vitaly Balashov

Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine for Cybersecurity and Cloud Technologies

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Mykhailo Verych

Regional Director, CRDF Global in Ukraine

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Nadiia Kolibaba

Director of Business Development, Security Solutions, Mastercard in Ukraine and Moldova

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Vadym Polishchuk

Vice President of Business Development, Mastercard Services in Ukraine and Moldova

Ilona Khmeleva

Ilona Khmeleva

Secretary of the Economic Security Council of Ukraine

Grégory Priolon

Grégory Priolon

Journalist, Intelligence Online

Mark Montgomery

Mark Montgomery

Senior Director, Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

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Andriy Fedoriv

CEO, Fedoriv Group

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Ieva Ilves

CEO CISO Campus, Ukraine & Advisor on Cybersecurity, Ukraine/Latvia

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Oleksandr Kosovan

Founder & CEO of MacPaw

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Dmytro Stryzhov

Founder and Member of the Supervisory Board of the SHERIFF security holding

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Oleksandr Fediienko

People's Deputy of Ukraine, Head of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity

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Yevhenii Panchenko

First Deputy Head of International police cooperation Department National Police of Ukraine

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Yaroslav Ognevyuk

Managing Partner at AMBASSADORS Law Firm, Head of IP & Tech

Gentry Lane

Gentry Lane

CEO, CTO & Founder of Nemesis Global, Inc.

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Davis Richardson

Founder & CEO of America-Ukraine Strategic Partners (AUSP), founder of Paradox Public Relations

Олександр Мазур

Oleksandr Mazur

Director of Digital Technology Development and Support, MHP

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Oleksandr Korystin

DSc (Law), Professor, Honored Academic of Science and Technology of Ukraine

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Sergiy Gnatyuk

Doctor of Technical Sciences, professor, President of the Scientific Cybersecurity Association of Ukraine, Vice-Rector of the State University "Kyiv Aviation Institute"

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Luca Tagliaretti

Executive Director at European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC)

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Michael Dignam

СЕО, CRDF Global

Todd Spires

Todd Spires

Program Operations Director, CRDF Global

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Thomas Callahan

Senior Advisor, CRDF Global

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Maksym Delembovskyi

Head of the Department of Cybersecurity and Computer Engineering at KNUCA, Director of the NGO "Center for Cyber Development," Expert at the NGO "Institute for Cyber Warfare Research"

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Volodymyr Styran

Aide to the Head of the SSSCIP

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Christopher Ghorbani

Intellectual Thought Leader, RAINCLOUD DEFENSE member 

Max Lurya

Max Lurya

Crypto Track Event Host

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Merlin Hipp

Founder and CEO of Lancelot Systems

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Serhii Prokopenko

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

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Bjørn Rønning

Special Advisor at Norwegian Datacenter Industry

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Jesse Nuese

Head of Business Development, Cracken

Владислав Терешин

Vlad Tereshyn

Senior Software Engineer, Cracken

Анастасія Лобан (1)

Anastasiia Loban

Product Manager, Unit Range | Cyber Unit Technologies

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Pekka Jokinen

Deputy director-general, National Cyber Security Center Finland

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Oleksii Hichko

Counselor for Cyber and Digital Policy, Embassy of Ukraine in the USA

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Serhii Koniushok

Deputy head of the Institute (for scientific work), ISCIP of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

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Serhii Khariuk

Founder & CEO of AmonSul

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Robert Potter

Managing Partner Cyber Activities Group

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Sheldon Bernstein

Global Chief Strategy Officer, bitCorp

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Serhii Denysenko

Еxecutive director Computer Forensics Lab LLC, Сyberlab

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Andrew Mikhaliuk

CEO, CoreWin

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Taras Oliynyk

Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Central Election Commission on Digital Development, Digital Transformation, and Digitization (CDTO)

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Benjamin Trump

Chief Executive Officer, Dara Systems LLC

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Kyrylo Goncharuk

Founder & CEO, CheckEye

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Douglas White

Chief of Party, U.S. Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure in Ukraine (CCI) Activity

Sviatoslav Hnizdovskyi OpenMinds 1 (1)

Sviatoslav Hnizdovskyi

CEO, OpenMinds

Jurriën Norder (1)

Jurriën Norder

Head of NCC-NL

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Kateryna Dovhopola

COO CYBERACADEMY SHERIFF

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Yevhenii Taran

Systems Engineer at Fortinet

Toomas Tirs (1)

Toomas Tirs

Tallinn Mechanism Front Office, Estonian Embassy in Ukraine

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Nataliya Tkachuk

Head of the Information and Cyber Security Directorate at the Office of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine

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Dmytro Pakholchenko

Acting Director of the Cybersecurity Department of the Аdministration of the SSSCIP

Helen Pop

Helen Popp

Ambassador at Large for Cyber Diplomacy at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

John Mackenzie (1)

John Mackenzie

Principal Cybersecurity Consultant, Author & Independent Researcher at TrueCyber

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Ernst Noorman

Ambassador at Large for Cyber Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands

Iryna Volnytska

Iryna Volnytska

President of SET University, Founder of IronCyber

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Tõnis Saar

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

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Andrii Zhukovskyi

CEO, Kyivstar.Tech & CIO, Kyivstar

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Tetiana Chych

CISO/DPO, Kyivstar

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Roman Osypchuk

Deputy Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine for Digital Development and Digital Transformation

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Piotr Łukasiewicz

Charge d’affaires of Poland in Ukraine

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Edgars Grandāns

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and Member of the Board at Tet

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Dmytro Kravchuk

CTO at Protagonist

Єгор Сухецький (1)

Yehor Sukhetskyi

Program Director at defence-tech company "General Cherry"

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Alona Zhuzha

IT Advisor at the Defense Procurement Agency DOT

Lauri Luht

Lauri Luht

Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Government of Estonia

Martins Savickis

Mārtiņš Savickis

Threat Hunt Deputy Lead at CERT.LV

Олексій Шатирко

Oleksii Shatyrko

SOC Team Lead, Cyber Security Situation Centre of the Security Service of Ukraine

Claudia Iannazzo

Claudia Iannazzo

CEO of Catalisto

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Mihai Lupașcu

Director of the Agency for Cybersecurity of Moldova

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Oleksandr Illiusha

CTO of ESET in Ukraine and a cybersecurity expert with over 20 years of experience

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Oleksandr Voloshchuk

Deputy Director for Cybersecurity, Specialized Municipal Enterprise “Kyivteleservice”

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Volodymyr Ilibman

Head of Cybersecurity, Cisco Ukraine

Peter Pomerantsev

Peter Pomerantsev

Professor at Johns Hopkins University

Joshua Segal (2)

Joshua Segal

Non-Resident Fellow at GLOBSEC

Illia Kuznietsov (1)

Illia Kuznietsov

Independent cybersecurity consultant, PhD student at The National University "Kyiv Aviation Institute"

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Mikael Bjorknert

Chairperson of the Management Board of PrivatBank

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Fedir Serdiuk

Co-founder of MOWA Defense

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Taras Rokoshevskyi

Co-founder ROBONEERS, Head of UGV Department

Ankur Rawat (1)

Ankur Rawat

Chief Technology Officer, CRDF Global

Владислав Дубов (1)

Vladyslav Dubov

Head of the architecture department IT Specialist LLC

Олексій Третяк

Oleksii Tretiak

CTO at Trypillian

Роман Комендант

Roman Komendant

Deputy Head for Digital Development, Digital Transformation and Digitalization (CDTO) at the State Agency for Restoration and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine

Станіслав Лурʼє

Stanislav Lurie

Head of Ukraine Osavul Office

Oleksii Yasinskyi BAKOTECH (1)

Oleksii Yasinskyi

Director of B4 Department, BAKOTECH

Тетяна Хібібрахманова

Tetyana Khabibrakhmanova

Head of Ukrainian Alliance for Digital Sovereignty

Олег Мамка

Oleh Mamka

Deputy director of the department – head of the 2nd division of the Department of critical infrastructure protection of the Administration of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine

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Dmytro Ostapenko

Іnformation security specialist

Андрій Оленін (1)

Andrii Olenin

Analyst at Mantis Analytics – an AI platform for real-time monitoring and analysis of the information space

Юлій Гере (1)

Yuliy Gere

Chairman of the Supervisory Board at United Tech Assets Fund, Owner&CEO of Engineering-Company, LTD

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Oleksandr Tarasov

Deputy Director for Development at SE Infotech

Сергій Кулик

Sergii Kulyk

Country Manager at iIT Distribution | Head of CyberTech Committee at IT Ukraine Association

Максим Ященко

Maksym Iashchenko

Head of Information Security Service UKRSIBBANK BNP Paribas Group

Олег Полігенько (1)

Oleh Polihenko

CISO at Nova Group, Founder of CISO Club Ukraine

Тарас Лобода

Taras Loboda

CISO - Board Member, Universal Bank

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Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov

Advisor to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine

Oleh Umantsev Avrora

Oleh Umantsev

CIO, Aurora Retail Chain

Nataliia Mykolska Diia.City United

Nataliia Mykolska

Executive Director, Diia.City United

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Serhii Zabirkа

CTO, Parkovy Data Center

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Oksana Ferchuk

Deputy Minister of Defence for Digital Development, Digital Transformation, and Digitalization

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Georgii Dubynskyi

Expert in international science and technology cooperation

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Valeriy Churkin

Authorized Adviser to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) on digital transformation, AI, and cybersecurity.

Florian Pennings (1)

Florian Pennings

Associate Chief Cybersecurity and Operational Officer (COO), ENISA

Dan Cimpean (1)

Dan Cimpean

The Director, Romanian National Cyber Security Directorate

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James Littleton

Senior Director DAI Global

Andrew Yasynyshyn

Andrii Yasynyshyn

CEO & Co-Founder, Ralabs

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Vitalii Zubok

Dr. Eng., is a leading researcher at G.E. Pukhov Institute for Modelling in Energy Engineering National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

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Iryna Laba

Project manager CyberUA: Strengthening capacities on electronic evidence of war crimes and gross human rights violations in Ukraine

Марина Мкртичева

Maryna Mkrytycheva

Managing Partner at Magnet Legal, Head of Business Defense and Criminal Law Practice

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Yevhen Bryksin

Deputy Chief of the National cyber incident, cyber attack, cyber threat response team of Ukraine (CERT-UA)

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Roman Osadchuk

Director of Threat Intelligence at LetsData

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Dmytro Kushnir

Chief Engineer, ST&T

Михайло Павловський

Mykhailo Pavlovskyi

Head of Sales, Kavitech

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Nataliia Pinchuk

Strategic Communications Expert, Co-founder of ICE Task Force

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Anton Demokhin

Deputy Foreign Minister, Chief Digital Transformation Officer; a public sector executive and architect in the fields of digital transformation, cybersecurity, innovation, and international affairs

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Yuriy Kryvosheya

Managing Partner & President, PJSC “Toronto-Kyiv”; VP & Board Member of Canada Ukraine Chamber of Commerce; Member & Co-owner of CEO Club Ukraine; Chairman of SOVA Innovations

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Kyrylo Viktorov

Head of the Department for Countering Information Threats to National Security at the Center for Countering Disinformation

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Oleg Haiduk

Expert at the Institute for Cyber Warfare Research (ICWR) and an Advisor on AI and Innovation at the PARKOVYI Data Center

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Yuriy "Phoenix"

NGU "Lasar’s Group"

Organizers

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