Bryan Ware
Bryan S. Ware serves as the Assistant Director for Cybersecurity for the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In this role, Mr. Ware leads CISA’s mission of protecting and strengthening the nation’s critical infrastructure against cyber threats.
Previously, Mr. Ware served as the DHS Assistant Secretary for Cyber, Infrastructure, and Resilience Policy. In this role, Mr. Ware was responsible for leading DHS policy development in support of department-wide efforts to reduce national risks with a focus on critical infrastructure cybersecurity, federal network security, countering cyber-crime, and improving the security and resilience of the global cyber ecosystem, as well as national resilience initiatives that enhance Federal, State and local government and community preparedness and response capabilities.
Mr. Ware is an entrepreneur, founding an artificial intelligence company in 1998 which he led as CEO through multiple rounds of Venture Capital investment until it was acquired in 2013 by Haystax. After serving as CTO of Haystax for several years during which he helped the company acquire leading cloud technology and cybersecurity companies, Bryan took over as CEO of Haystax in 2016 until its acquisition in 2018. Mr. Ware started his professional career at leading Defense contractors working on advanced technology programs like the Star Wars program, early UAV payloads, and counterterrorism technologies.
Mr. Ware has been issued multiple patents in artificial intelligence and mobile technology. He holds a degree in Applied Optics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Javier Candau
Colonel of Artillery. Industrial Engineer specializing in electronics and automation. Cryptology specialist. Mr. Candau has several certifications of expertise in ICT security. He has more than 20 years experience in cybersecurity.
The main tasks of his Department are to train the Administration's security specialists, to develop CCN policies, guidelines and reports (CCN-STIC series and CCN-CERT reports), to develop cybersecurity tools in support of the public sector, to supervise system accreditation and to undertake security audits.
Head of Government Incident Response Capacity (CCNCERT www.ccn-cert.cni.es)
Weaponizing Features
Chema Alonso, Chief Digital Consumer Officer in Telefónica, and Chairman of ElevenPaths
Keynote
Carme Artigas, Secretariat of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence.
Impact scenarios and challenges of digital transformation in the cybersecurity of citizens, businesses and governments.
Speakers:
- Sadie Creese, Professor of Cybersecurity at University of Oxford.
- Victor Muñoz, Presidential Economic and Digital Transformation Counselor (Government of Colombia).
- Mark Ryland, Director, Office of the CISO, Amazon Web Services.
Moderator: Belisario Contreras, Manager of the OAS Cybersecurity Program.
Closing event
- Ambassador Josué Fiallo, Vice President of the Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE). Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the Organization of American States (OAS).
- Rosa Díaz, CEO of Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE)
Inauguration
- Nadia Calviño. Third Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.
- Farah Urrutia. Secretary of Multidimensional Security, Organization of American States.
Keynote
Miguel Ángel Ballesteros, Director Department of National Security of Spain.
Keynote
Tom Burt, Corporate VP Customer Security & Trust Microsoft.
Keynote
Tom Burt, Corporate VP Customer Security & Trust Microsoft .