An entrepreneur, public speaker, programmer and telecommunications engineer. I have been a cybersecurity and combat sports fan since the age of eight. Since I was sixteen I have combined work and study, beginning as a systems technician, graduating to software developer, big data and artificial intelligence architect, and finally technical director of my own company, Ironchip. Following this development, as the founder, I have decided to specialise in business and marketing, and my current role is executive director within Ironchip.
After several masters in Near Eastern Studies, Cristina forged her career in technology startups between Barcelona and the City of London before co-founding IriusRisk. Cristina currently co-manages the R&D department, with a growing team of developers and security analysts. Cristina is an advocate for open platforms and leads the community edition of IriusRisk to offer users a free and collaborative platform to share threat models of system architectures. Cristina is a champion of women in technology and for encouraging girls to choose STEM subjects at an early age.
Gerard Cervello is professionally specialized in management, business development and in deploying high-profile IT projects. As Blueliv’s General Manager/COO, Gerard has a multi-faceted role of leading, empowering and coaching a world-class team in the sales, marketing, finance, production, delivery and R&D areas to achieve Blueliv’s ambitious objectives, as well as in participating in the company’s strategy and vision.
He has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry in multiple positions, having worked his way from the bottom up. Before joining Blueliv, Gerard worked both in large companies such as Philips, and start-ups such as Isoco and Scytl. In the latter, Gerard was part of the successful management team that helped the company become the dominant player in its market, scaling the business from less than 1M to a run rate of over 60M upon his departure in 2016. Gerard holds a Master of Engineering in Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
Daniela Kominsky is Cymulate Country Manager for Iberia. She is an executive with more than 20 years’ experience in business development and marketing in the information technology and systems sector; her career has been spent in international and multicultural environments.
Over the last 10 years, she has led important initiatives in the field of cybersecurity, promoting commerce between Israeli and Spanish companies, acting as a bridge between both countries. She is committed to innovation and entrepreneurship, she has worked with INCIBE to develop the ecosystem of cybersecurity entrepreneurship in Spain, and she participates actively as a conference speaker on these subjects. Moreover, Daniela is a member of the Board of Directors of the Israeli-Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and is a Member of the Council of Women4Cyber Spain.
Ángeles Caso is a writer, historian and communicator. She has won such important literary awards as the Planeta Prize and the Prize for the Best Translated Novel in China. As a communicator, she has worked across all media: written press, radio and television.
Rafael Tesoro has a doctorate in mathematics from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has extensive experience in digital transformation of several sectors, having worked at various companies such as IBM and Sainsel Sistemas Navales.
Since 2013, he has worked in the institutions of the European Union promoting cybersecurity in the Union. His work focuses mainly on managing cybersecurity programmes and projects co-funded by the EU (e.g., Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, Digital Europe). He also contributes to implementing various policies that seek to build and reinforce European cybersecurity capabilities and technologies (e.g., the NIS directive). In particular, since 2019, he has supervised the EU’s pilot projects to establish a European network of cybersecurity competencies.
A native of La Coruña, an industrial engineer and a safety director with 19 years of experience in the Electricity Sector.
Her career has been spent mainly in the field of electricity generation and distribution. In 2015, she joined the department of Cybersecurity Spain within Iberdrola’s Corporate Security, holding various posts since then; she is now the head of Critical Infrastructure and essential services at Iberdrola.
She has been a Councillor on Fabero City Council, a Regional Councillor in El Bierzo, an MP for the province of Leon in the VI and VII Legislatures 1996/2004, holding, among other posts, that of Member of the Budget Committee. She was the Secretary of State for Social Policy 2004-2009 at the Ministries of Employment and Education, where she piloted the implementation of the Personal Autonomy and Care for Dependant Persons Act. She was the Regional Representative of the Government in the Region of Madrid, from 2009 to 2011. She was a regional MP in the IX Legislature of the Madrid Assembly 2011-2015, having held, among other posts, that of 2nd Deputy Speaker of the Assembly and Chairperson of the Budget Committee. She was the Director-General of Recruitment and Military Teaching at the Ministry of Defence, from 2018 to 2020. She currently holds the post of Undersecretary of State for Defence.