Luis Jiménez, Deputy Director / National Cryptologic Center


Deputy Director-General of the National Cryptologic Centre of the National Intelligence Centre. Lieutenant Colonel. Specialist in Cryptography and Specialist in Decryption. Master’s degree in Information and Communication Technology Systems Management. Member of the National Cybersecurity Council and national representative on the EU Council and NATO Cyber and Information Security Committees.
José de la Peña, Director / SIC Magazine


Graduate in Information Sciences, Journalism branch, from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since 1992 he has been director of the Spanish magazine SIC (www.revistasic.com) and co-president of Securmática (www.securmatica.com), of the monographic series Espacio TiSEC, IdentiSIC, Responses SIC and ÁgoraSIC-Centro de Conocimiento en Cibersecurity. De la Peña has participated in numerous national and international courses, conferences and seminars on information security, privacy, system security control and auditing, and as a professor in several specialized master's degrees. Currently, he participates, representing Ediciones CODA (parent of SIC Magazine), in the National Cybersecurity Forum. In 2020 he received the National Award from the National Cryptology Center-CCN for professional career.
Mark Ryland, Director, Office of the CISO/Amazon Web Service


Mark Ryland is the Director of the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (OCISO) at Amazon Web Service (AWS) reporting to the CISO of AWS and leading a global team of experts who engage with customers on behalf of AWS Security leadership. The OCISO team helps customers to understand more deeply how AWS builds and operates its highly secure cloud offerings, and how they can best leverage the AWS cloud to enhance their own security posture.
Cristina Gutiérrez, Minor Awareness Manager at INCIBE


Helene Verbrugghe, Public Policy Manager at Meta, Spain and Portugal / META


Helene has been public policy manager at Meta covering Spain and Portugal for five years, where she covers content issues (safety of users, misinformation, copyright, etc.), as well as innovation. Prior to that, she was working on public affairs for a Brussels-based consultancy. She graduated in politics and administration from the College of Europe and Sciences Po.
Marta Becerra, Manager of Global Affairs and Public Policy / Google


With a degree in Law and Business Administration from the Carlos III University of Madrid, she has specialized in child safety and content safety at Google. She was previously the Director of Public Affairs at Adigital, the Spanish Association for the Digital Economy, and has held various roles at the CEOE's EU office in Brussels and the European Economic and Social Committee.
Joana Candina, Associate Partner / McKinsey & Company


Joana Candina is an Associate Partner with McKinsey & Company and is core member of the Cyber and Digital practices in Europe. She started working in consulting since she finished university in 2013.
Her work with McKinsey has addressed topics like cybersecurity strategy, approach for quantification of cyber risks from a business perspective, cyber maturity assessment, analyses of core critical systems within the business value chain and IT Transformations
Jorge Ordás, Chief Operating Officer / Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute


PhD in Intelligent Systems in Engineering
Master in management of information systems and communications from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
With more than 15 years of experience in the management of information systems, innovation and modernisation.
Ángel Sanz Barea, Managing Director / Aragonesa de Servicios Telemáticos, Aragón


Pedro Jesús Rodríguez González, Deputy Director General / Society and Digital Economy, Madrid

