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The main focus of the 2nd
International Cybersecurity Congress will be a discussion of new cyber threats
and practical measures to combat them.
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The Congress will be run by the
Roscongress Foundation
21 May
2019, Moscow — The website of the 2nd
International Cybersecurity Congress (ICC), which will be held in Moscow on
20–21 June, has published the preliminary programme of the Forum. Leading
industry experts, representatives of major international companies and
countries, and anyone who is interested in making the digital world more secure
will take part in the discussions.
The Congress will be held at Moscow’s World Trade
Center on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment. The participants will discuss
practical methods used to combat major global cyber threats. The theme of the
plenary session is ‘The Road to Cyber-Resilience — A Walk Together?’ The
session will open the Forum on 20 June, be attended by Russian Minister of
Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Communications Konstantin Noskov and President of the
Cyber-Security Council of Germany Hans-Wilhelm
Dunn, and be moderated by journalist and leading cybercrime expert Misha Glenny.
The panel
session ‘Cybersecurity Strategies: Financial Industry’ will bring together
leading financial institution representatives from around the world to discuss
common challenges and identify key aspects of collaboration in matters
concerning cybersecurity. It will be moderated by Sberbank Deputy Chairman of
the Executive Board Stanislav Kuznetsov,
and the key speakers will be President of the Association of Banks of Russia Georgy Luntovsky and Visa Senior Vice
President and Chief Information Security Officer Sunil Seshadri.
Other panel sessions and discussions will focus on finding ways to
collaborate and jointly develop an effective international strategy for
cooperation between states and law enforcement agencies in combatting
cybercrime and determining the cybersecurity landscape of critical global
infrastructure as well as breakthrough technological advances in cybersecurity.
The key speakers at the congress include: CEO of Sberbank subsidiary
BI.ZONE Dmitry Samartsev; Head of
the Sberbank Information Security Service Sergey
Lebed; ANO Digital Economy CEO Evgeny
Kovnir; Rostelecom President Mikhail
Oseevsky; OSCE Co-ordinator of Activities to Address Transnational Threats Rasa Ostrauskaite; Munich Security
Conference Chief Operating Officer Dr. Benedikt
Franke; Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute CEO Alberto Hernández Moreno; Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity and
Enabling Technology at the Department of Information and Communications
Technology of the Republic of Philippines Allan
Salim Cabanlong; Saudi Aramco Vice President for Information Technology Yousef Al-Ulyan; and VEON Chief
Technology Officer Yogesh Malik.
Thematic sections will also be held with reports on various areas of
focus in the industry. The discussion topics include: ‘Legal Environment’,
‘Attributing Cyber Attacks’, ‘Legislating a Borderless, Ungoverned Virtual
World — is it possible?’, ‘Capacity building’, ‘Cybersecurity Education in
the Nuclear and Energy Sector’, ‘Disruptive technologies’, ‘Threat
Intelligence’, and ‘Investments in Cybersecurity’.
The Forum will also feature a
briefing on the results of the Cyber Polygon project, a multinational online
training session on international business cooperation in the fight against
digital threats. During the briefing, representatives of the member
organizations will present the results of the training session, assess the
effectiveness of such events, and discuss prospects for developing cooperation
to jointly confront cyber threats.
The Forum will be
concluded with the main plenary session ‘Secure Digital World — Future or
Utopia?’, which will be attended by Sberbank CEO and Chairman of the Executive
Board Herman Gref. This is the key event during which the Forum participants
will summarize the joint work and discuss development prospects in the era of
global digital transformation as well as identify strategies to boost global resistance
to global cyber threats.
The ICC is a unique
international inter-sectoral platform that brings together representatives of
the government, global business leaders, and recognized industry experts to
engage in an open dialogue on the most pressing issues concerning cybersecurity
in the context of global digitalization.
The 2nd International Cybersecurity Congress will be the key
event of Global Cyber Week, an international week devoted to cybersecurity,
which will take place on 17–21 June in Moscow and will be the largest specialized
event in Russia and Eastern Europe. The event will unite a number of industry
forums, which will bring together representatives of Russian and foreign
government agencies, international organizations, transnational companies as
well as independent experts and researchers.
Global Cyber Week
will open with the OFFZONE Technical Cybersecurity Conference on 17–18 June.
The Cyber Polygon online training session on international business cooperation
in combatting digital threats will take place on 19 June, with training session
observers being able to monitor the participants’ progress in real time on the
website.
The 1st International Cybersecurity Congress was held on 5–6
July 2018 in Moscow. The Congress brought together over 2,500 participants and
roughly 700 organizations from more than 50 countries. Russian President
Vladimir Putin gave the opening speech to personally welcome the Congress
guests. The Russian President is expected to attend the Congress this year as
well.
