Mª Amor Dominguez is the Business Development Manager for Iberia and the Hispanic market of the specialized IT division, TÜViT, of the German group TÜV NORD, focusing primarily on cybersecurity, privacy, data protection, and certification of technological infrastructures such as Data Processing Centers. She promotes certification schemes such as IEC/IECEE 62443-x-x for industrial cybersecurity, an area in which she collaborates with ALTER TECHNOLOGY, also part of the TÜV NORD group.

Previously, she has worked in the technology sector for manufacturers such as Fujitsu, BMC, and Mercury Interactive, which was acquired by HP. She has extensive technical education, holding a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Systems Applications from American University in Washington D.C., as well as a Master’s degree in Business Administration from ICADE, and a Diploma in the European Union from the Diplomatic School, belonging to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

She is part of various working groups in Spain’s standardization organizations, UNE, for Cybersecurity and Data Privacy (CTN-UNE-320), as well as other international groups, actively participating in the review of standards such as the EUCC (European Cybersecurity Certification).

She has completed various specialized courses in Ethical Hacking and Security in Industrial Environments and has published several White Papers on these topics.

In her business activities, she founded a small company that received the Best Innovative Company Award from the City Council of Pozuelo de Alarcón in 2015. The company’s purpose is to raise awareness among non-technical groups about the risks of internet misuse.

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Anders Hessel works as Head of R&D, Process Automation at Xware AB. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Uppsala University (2007). The subject of his research was model-based testing for real-time systems. Anders is the author of an extension of the UPPAAL model checker called UPPAAL CoVer that generates test cases (with timing) automatically from a coverage specification. Anders has been a guest researcher at Mälardalen University in cooperation with ENEA (first) and then with Xware (second).

Anders has also been a Post-Doc researcher one year at CRIM (Computer Research Institute of Montreal) in model-based testing cooperating with GM and Siemens. Anders’ employment history (starting 1994) also include ISD Datasystem (Technical Project Manager), Ericsson (Consultant), Filoprocess (Solution Architect), and ENEA (Software Engineer (Tools)/Process Developer). Anders now leads the work of process automation tools (monitoring/workflow) for his company’s integration platform xTrade.

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Ariel Cymberknoh is a DevOps and Automation at Mobileye. A 25 years veteran, Ariel started his career at Intel Israel as a software validation engineer, taking managerial responsibilities more than 20 years ago.

Ariel leaded in Intel  a team of more than 100 test engineers in charge of validating Firmware and Software based solutions for products concerning security, remote manageability and sensors including the development of the test automation team that provides solutions for the validation of these activities.

As of now, Ariel leads the Automation Infrastructure organization in Mobileye, providing DevOps, automation and LABs infrastructure to all the company’s ADAS and Autonomous Driving development teams.

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Begoña Laibarra graduated in Computer Sciene and obtained a master´s degree in Robotics and Automation. Since 1991 she works for CARSA. She has been responsible for R&D projects coordination of Manufacturing and Information Technologies. Since 1998 works as General Manager of SQS S.A.

She has been responsible of systems V&V definition and implementation for a wide range of embedded systems including safety critical systems. She has also been responsible of the design and implementation software quality process improvement actions.

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After his masters degree in computer science in 1998 Bryan Bakker has worked as software engineer on different technical systems. Since 2002 Bryan has specialized in testing of embedded software in multi-disciplinary environments; in these environments the software interfaces with other disciplines like mechanics, electronics and optics. He has worked on e.g. medical products, professional security systems, semi-industry products, and electron microscopy systems.

The last years Bryan focuses as a test architect on test automation, integration testing, reliability testing and design for testability. Bryan is also a tutor of several different test related courses and presents regularly at international testing conferences.

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Jan Tobias Mühlberg, is active in the fields of software security, and formal verification and validation of software systems, specifically for embedded systems and low-level operating system components.

Tobias is particularly interested in security architectures for safety-critical embedded systems and for the Internet of Things. Before joining KU Leuven, Tobias worked as a researcher at the University of Bamberg (DE), obtained a Ph.D. from the University of York (UK) and worked as a researcher at the University of Applied Sciences in Brandenburg (DE), where he also acquired his Masters degree.

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Telecommunications Engineer with an MBA from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. With more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, implementing and leading communications projects in different companies. During the last 5 years she has focused her activity on cybersecurity, carrying out cybersecurity projects, at national level, in companies of different sectors.

She is currently Technical Director in ZIUR Foundation, a position from which she is responsible for managing the infrastructure and technology strategy of the Foundation, and the provision of various services that ZIUR makes available to industrial companies in Gipuzkoa, in order to improve their cybersecurity.

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Omar has worked in cybersecurity since 2006 and in the railway sector since 2018. His professional activity includes leadership global roles in the field of rail cyber security such as head of Product Cybersecurity Advisory at Selectron/Knorr-Bremse or Chief Cybersecurity Officer at Siemens Mobility. He currently works for Cylus, a pioneering company in cybersecurity solutions for the railway sector, and as associated teacher in Open University of Catalonia (UOC) cybersecurity master’s degree. Omar has collaborated on the redaction of CENELEC’s
TS50701 and currently is part of the experts working group shaping the future IEC 63452 which will define the cybersecurity requirements for the rail applications.

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Expert in Security principles in development processes. His specialty and passion is the design of systems and services to solve complex problems based on the following pillars: strategy, technology, quality, safety and continuous improvement.

This has always been the driven force of his career based on his inquiring nature, exploring and experimenting with new ways and options that enrich his vision, and learn new tools to incorporate as part of his toolkit.

Thanks to these values ​​and concerns, He has gained extensive experience in complex web environments and JEE with high availability and performance requirements, and implemented best practices in software development life cycles for quality and security assurance, through process automation, continuous delivery and devops.

He is convinced of the need to put people at the center of processes and organizations, to set a purpose that aligns teams, and work in network to achieve better results and to encourage key factors such as commitment motivation, collaboration and talent.

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