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Experienced investor and company builder. Alberto is one of the pioneers of the cybersecurity industry and has played significant roles as entrepreneurial and public company CEO, board member, angel and venture capital investor. He currently focuses on cybersecurity investments.

Senior information security professional with track record as IT risk and information security consultant in two BigFour for several sectors, mainly, financial. Experience of 7 years as a CISO in a major Group of the European audiovisual sector providing business-oriented strategic advice and managing the information security. Since 2022, Global CISO of the Abertis Group leading the information security transformation.

Partner of Audens specialized in Intellectual Property and Digital Law. Author of "Legalidad de los negocios digitales" by Anaya Multimedia. Head of studies and Professor at the School of Legal Practice of the Bar Association of Bizkaia. Tutor of the HELP program (Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals) of the Council of Europe. Member of the IT Law working group at CCBE (Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe).  

Julia Perea is Digital Security Director at Telefónica Spain. With more than 25 years of experience in IT services, she has developed her professional career in different positions related to IT infrastructures, digital business and security services for Telefónica customers.

She studied Computer Science at UPM and holds a degree in Business Administration and Management at UOC. She is a member of the board of directors of Women4Cyber Spain.

Lola is Deputy Director for Boosting the Industry, Talent and R&D area at INCIBE; and she has co-led the Working Group GT2- Promotion of industry and national R&D for the National Cybersecurity Forum (FNCS) jointly with the Spanish Chamber of Commerce.

She is a graduate in electronic engineering, specializing in semiconductor fabrication, from Wilkes University (USA). She began her career at Harris Semiconductors and later at Lucent Technologies in USA. In Spain she has held various positions at international companies. In 2019 she founded L’OLA Consulting, to fill positions in Management, Operations or Logistics, focusing on digitalization and new technology integration processes (blockchain, smartcontract, IoT, sensoring, etc...), she has co-lead two Startups in blockchain for first mileage logistics in the food sector and traceability of temperature sensitive goods whilst in transit.

In March 2022, she is appointed as part of the Advisory Council for the High Commissioner of Spain, Entrepreneurial Nation, and is also elected as a member of the Permanent Commission of the Advisory Council (Ministerial Order PCM/920/2021).

Selected by El Referente as one of the TOP100 women investors in the national ecosystem and a candidate for the 100 Leading Women in the Public, Political and Institutional Function category

John Howie leads the team at Bayer that oversees cybersecurity in M&A Activity and Licensing Deals. He previously was the Chief Privacy Officer for Huawei Consumer Business Group, and has help senior positions with a global financial firm, the Cloud Security Alliance, and Microsoft Corporation.

Colonel of Artillery. Industrial Engineer specialising in electronics and automation. Specialist cryptologist. Several certifications of specialisation in ICT security. More than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity.

The main tasks of his Department are the training of the Administration's specialist security staff, the development of CCN policies, guidelines and reports (CCN-STIC Series and CCN-CERT Reports), the development of cybersecurity tools to support the public sector, the supervision of system accreditation and the performance of security audits.

Governmental Incident Response Capability Manager (CCN-CERT)

Professional with more than 25 years of experience in IT business, 17 of them in management positions, and extensive experience in corporate strategy, business development, sales and marketing in leading companies. Iosu Arrizabalaga has been CEO of Factum since it was officially founded in 2009.

After graduating in Telecommunications Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and completing his training in the PDG Management Program at the University of Navarra (IESE), Iosu began his career leading sales and business development departments in renowned companies until he became Head of Innovation & Business Development at Siemens (later Fujitsu-Siemens) in 2004, managing the development of value-added solutions for Spain and Portugal.

Currently, as CEO of Factum, Iosu is the main responsible and driving force behind the company's global strategy for the expansion and positioning of cybersecurity and technology. With an ambitious long-term growth plan for both national and international growth, Factum continues to optimise its portfolio of customisable B2B services for Enterprise and SME's across all industries.

Degree in Computer Sciences at the Technical University of Madrid.
Expert in IT Services management and CISA.
I started working in the IT Service of the University of Cádiz. From 1997 until 2014 I was the Director IT Service, first in the University of Burgos and afterwards in the Technical University of Cartagena. In 2017 and 2018 I worked as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in the University of Alcalá and since 2019 I am the CISO of the Technical University of Cartagena. 
In 2018 I started also as coordinator of the cibersecurity working group in CRUE (Spanish Universities).
Member of the Committee of Experts of the National Cybersecurity Forum: “Education, Training and Talent” group.

Official A.1. Founder of the company H4dm. Intelligence analyst and risks to national security. Expert in intelligence methodology and creation of intelligence units. Speaker, professor and advisor at various universities and public and private forums. Master in logistics, intelligence, cyber crime and digital footprint, knowledge management.