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Biographies of Conference Chairs, Programme Chairs
and Keynote Speakers
Conference Chair
Programme Chairs
Vahur Kotkas is a Development Manager of the Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn
University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia. His research and activities are mostly related to
engineering, modeling and simulations where Knowledge- and Logic-Based techniques are
developed and applied in order to achieve comfortable and efficent platforms for modeling
and for simulations. During the past few years Vahur has been active in Cyber Security
related research under a contract with Estonian MoD to develop suitable tools for Cyber
Defence.
Rain Ottis is a scientist at the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. He
previously served as a communications officer in the Estonian Defence Forces,
focusing primarily on cyber defence training and awareness issues. He is a graduate
of the United States Military Academy (BS, Computer Science) and Tallinn University
of Technology (MSc, Informatics). He gained his PhD from Tallinn University of
Technology, where his research focused on politically motivated cyber attack
campaigns by non-state actors. Other research interests include cyber conflict and
politically motivated cyber attacks.
Mini Track Chairs
Debi Ashendeni is a Senior Research Fellow within the Defence College of Management
and Technology at Cranfield University. Prior to taking up this post she was a Managing
Consultant within QinetiQ’s Trusted Information Management Department (formerly the
Defence Evaluation Research Agency). Specialising in information assurance in general,
and risk assessment in particular, other specific areas of interest include building trust for
information sharing, governance processes for information assurance and information
security awareness. Debi has worked extensively across government, defence and the
finance sector as a consultant and her work concentrates on understanding the role of individuals in ensuring
that security risks are mitigated. Debi has had a number of articles on information security published,
presented at a range of conferences and has co-authored a book for Butterworth Heinemann ‘Risk
Management for Computer Security: Protecting Your Network & Information Assets’. Her current research
examines the practice of information operations using discourse analysis.
Eric Adrien Filiol has been an officer in the French Army for 20 years. He is now head
scientist officer and professor in a research lab working for different department in
France (justice, police and defense). He holds a PhD in mathematics and computer
science, a habilitation thesis in computer science, an engineer diploma in cryptology
and has graduated from NATO in InfoOps. His research works relates to computer
security (especially computer virology and cryptanalysis) and cyber warfare with the
attacker’s mind.
Dr. Marja Härmänmaa is a university lecturer in Italian at the University of Helsinki. In
addition to Critical Discourse Analyses and critical reading, her research interests include
Italian literature and culture of the early 20th century.
Professor, LTC(G.S), Aki Huhtinen, PhD is Docent of practical philosophy in the
University of Helsinki and Docent of social consequences of media and information
technology in the University of Lapland. He is also Docent of information security and
information operations in the University of Tampere Technology. Aki works at the
Department of Leadership and Military Pedagogy at the Finnish National Defence
University.
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