Christian Dörr is a professor at the Hasso Plattner Institute and the University of Potsdam. As holder of the Chair of Cybersecurity and Enterprise Security, his research covers both technical issues of network and system security, as well as organizational aspects, e.g. how technical security solutions can be embedded in companies as effectively as possible.

Matthias Assel holds a degree in computer science from the Technical University of Munich and has been head of R&D in the SIX business unit at Thales Germany since 2018.
This unit develops complex security solutions for a wide range of customers and provides cyber / IT security services externally as well as internally within the group.
Before joining Thales in 2016, he worked for different companies in various expert roles and leadership positions.

Andreas Könen is Head of Department Cyber and Information Security at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Construction and Community (BMI). Previously, he was the head of the staffs IT II - IT and cyber security; secure information technology and ÖS III - cyber security in the area of the police forces and the protection of the constitution in the BMI. Until 2016, he was the Vice President of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). At the BSI, Andreas Könen started in 2006, as head of the management staff. In 2009, he was appointed head of the department "Security in Applications and Critical Infrastructures". He then took over as head of the "Coordination and Control" department. From 2011, he headed the "Consulting and Coordination" department. In previous years, he worked in various areas of the federal administration, with a focus on information technology. This also included operational functions. Andreas Könen is married and father of two children.

Mr. Jörg Kremer is head of the department Föd. IT Architecture Management, Projects and Standards of the Federal IT Cooperation (FITKO). The administrative expert was deputy head of the FITKO set-up staff and represented the President of FITKO in cases of absence. Since 01.04.2023 he has been the acting head of FITKO.

As Chief Security Officer at Cisco, Klaus Lenssen heads the Security & Trust
Trust Office Germany and is Cisco Group
Group Security Officer. He studied computer science at the
communications and business administration at the
RWTH Aachen University. For more than 20 years, Mr Lenssen has held various positions at Cisco in Germany with a focus on IT security.

As CEO of Delos Cloud, Georges Welz has many years of industry experience in the public sector. Prior to his role at Delos Cloud, he led the government customer division at Microsoft Germany. There, he was tasked with developing a sovereign cloud for the German government. Prior to that, he held various sales roles at Cisco Systems and EMC in the public administration and defense sectors.

Marc Fliehe studied politics, philosophy and psychology (M.A.) and worked for the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), among others, before taking up a position as division manager at the digital association Bitkom. 
Today, the 40-year-old heads the digital division at the TÜV Association. There, he is responsible for the topics of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data rooms and education, among others.

Heinz Kreuter (*1963 in Braubach am Rhein) started his evening studies in business administration in 1989 after many years of service in the German Armed Forces, which he successfully completed in 1993. In the years that followed, he assumed various management positions in the business world, including at Deutsche Telekom. In 2001 he founded HAK GmbH and in 2005, together with Rudolf Scharping, RSBK GmbH. Heinz Kreuter's many years of experience have given him a distinctive market policy network.

Sabine Griebsch studied Administrative Sciences and Public Management / E-Government, was initially employed at the Ministry of the Interior of the State of Saxony-Anhalt and soon switched to freelancing as an IT project coordinator. She was external CDO of the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district administration and took over the technical operations management in the declared cyber disaster. Since 2023, she has been working on the topics of GovTech and Urban Resilience.

PhD on the strategic implications of cyber security and cyber operations at the University of Hull - Deputy Head of Unit at the German Federal Office for Information Security - Staff member of the IT security Officer at the Federal Foreign Office.

Timo Keim is a Senior Intelligence Consultant in the Cyber and Information Space Division of ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH.
Previously, he was in charge of cyber defence and economic protection at the Verfassungsschutz Hessen, among other things.
He began his professional career with a degree and various assignments at the Federal Intelligence Service.

Dr. Stefan Pütz, born in 1968, lives with his family in the Rhineland. He studied communications engineering at the University of Siegen and earned his doctorate in the field of security of modern mobile communications systems. Cyber and IT security have shaped his career for more than 25 years and he is considered a pioneer of the security-by-design principle. Today, he is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Deutsche Telekom AG in Bonn.

Frank Rieger is a hacker, author, technology journalist, Internet activist and one of the spokespersons for the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). Professionally, he works as the technical managing director of a communications security company. He is co-founder of successful German startup companies in the fields of mobile and location-based information services and data security. 

Dr. Tim Stuchtey holds a degree in economics from the University of Münster and a doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin. After holding positions at the BDA, Humboldt University and a Washington think tank, he became managing director of the Brandenburg Institute for Society and Security (BIGS) in Potsdam in 2010. His research focuses on the economics of (cyber) security, transatlantic economic relations, and regulatory policy.

Marian Rachow is CEO of Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity. In a career spanning more than twenty years with various management positions at Airbus Group, Rachow completed an executive management program at Harvard Business School. In 2017, after founding several start-ups, the electrical engineering graduate returned to Airbus respectively to the Airbus spin-off Hensoldt and built up Hensoldt Ventures and was additionally responsible for the management of Hensoldt Cyber.

Prof. Dr. Christian Rossow is a senior scientist at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. His research focuses on malware analysis, detection and defense against denial-of-service attacks, and the development of system designs based on trusted hardware. He has published his research in over 70 scientific publications and regularly presents at leading academic cybersecurity conferences.

Hiltrud D. Werner has decades of experience in the automotive industry and has held various management positions in Group Internal Audit. From 2017 to 2022, she was Member of the Board of Management for Integrity and Legal Affairs at Volkswagen AG. She has been Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG since November 2021, a member of the Supervisory Board of MAN Energy Solutions SE and of Hensoldt AG since September 2022. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the SPD e.V..

As Managing Director of Westnetz, Patrick Wittenberg heads the Special Technology/Digitization department. He studied at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at RWTH Aachen University and earned his doctorate. After joining RWE, he held positions at Westnetz, RWE AG and innogy SE. Most recently, he was Managing Director of wesernetz Bremen GmbH.

Johannes Steger heads the editorial department of the Tagesspiegel Background Cybersecurity. Previously, he worked as a consultant in a technology consultancy and a communications consultancy. At Handelsblatt, he wrote about the start-up and technology scene as an editor. He learned his journalistic tools at the Georg von Holtzbrinck School for Business Journalists.

Jörg-Alexander Albrecht has been responsible for the company's relations with politics, authorities and associations in Germany at VMware since 2020. He brings years of experience in the IT and telecommunications industry. He previously worked at Huawei for seven years, the last three as Director Corporate Affairs. Prior to that, he was Manager of Government Affairs at Microsoft Germany. Before moving into economics, he worked in the diplomatic service of the Federal Foreign Office.

Michael Waidner is Institute Director of Fraunhofer SIT, holds a TU Darmstadt Professorship for IT Security and is Director of the ATHENE Research Center. With > 130 publications he is one of the outstanding scientists in IT Security, IEEE Fellow and ACM Distinguished Scientist with a PhD from the University of Karlsruhe (KIT). Previously, he was responsible for technical security strategy & architecture at IBM Corporation and led security research at IBM Research - Zurich.

Christian Dörr is a professor at the Hasso Plattner Institute and the University of Potsdam. As holder of the Chair of Cybersecurity and Enterprise Security, his research covers both technical issues of network and system security, as well as organizational aspects, e.g. how technical security solutions can be embedded in companies as effectively as possible.

Regine Grienberger has been the Federal Foreign Office's cyber ambassador since 2020. Her previous positions include Deputy Head of the Minister's Office under Federal Ministers Gabriel and Maas, Head of the Political Section at the Embassy in Rome and Deputy Head of the EU Economic, Financial and Budgetary Policy Unit. She studied at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences in Vienna and received her doctorate on a topic of agricultural economics in Bonn.

Roderich Kiesewetter has been a directly elected member of the German Bundestag (CDU) since 2009. He is spokesman for crisis prevention, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Control Panel.
Kiesewetter is a former officer in the General Staff Service of the German Armed Forces, Colonel (ret.) and served for almost 30 years in various command and staff functions as well as in the German Army. He served for almost 30 years in various command and staff functions as well as in foreign missions, including in the Balkans. He studied economics and holds a degree in business administration.

Since 10/2015: Chair of Military History / Cultural History of Violence at the University of Potsdam. • 2012-2015: Chair of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science. • 2011/2012: Chair of Modern History / Global Security, University of Glasgow.
Research interests: Military and violent history of modernity. • International history of the 19th and 20th centuries • History of the Bundeswehr in an international context

Major General Jürgen Setzer joined the Bundeswehr in 1980 and studied computer science.  He completed both German and U.S. general staff training. He has served in command and staff positions at almost all levels. In this context, he was deployed several times to the Balkans and Afghanistan.
Since 2018, Major General Jürgen Setzer has been Deputy Inspector Cyber and Information Command (CIR), CISOBw and Space Representative of CIR Command.

Dr. Pascal van Overloop is involved in the application of digital technologies for defense and intelligence at Microsoft Germany. Previously, he spent ten years advising national and international defense customers on possible scenarios, the required capability portfolio and the adaptation of future technologies. During his active officer career, he not only experienced the operational requirements of modern military operations, but was also able to contribute to research, teaching and consulting on the management and future development of the Bundeswehr.

As director of the Clausewitz Network for Strategic Studies and the International Clausewitz Center, Martin C. Wolff represents the connection of an overall societal defense. With the theory on "Digital Sovereignty" (Velbrück 2022), he creates the theoretical foundations for questions of hybrid defense between critical infrastructure and cyber defense.

Florian Flade, born in 1989, focuses on extremism, terrorism and espionage. He worked in the investigative department of WELT and WELT am Sonntag from 2011, and as WELT chief reporter for inner security from 2016. Since 2019, he has been working for the research cooperation of WDR, NDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung in Berlin. For his journalistic research on the terrorist attack on Berlin's Breitscheidplatz, the cyber attack on the German Bundestag and the surveillance software "Pegasus", he was awarded, among others, the Guardian Prize of the German Daily Press, the prize Der lange Atem and the Reporter Prize.

Teresa Ritter works as a Senior Associate at GovTech Campus Germany, where she promotes the establishment and expansion of the GovTech ecosystem for the public sector. Previously, she held various positions in the areas of innovation, digitization and cybersecurity - always at the interface of government and business. For example, at the Cyber Agency of the Federal Government, at the digital association Bitkom and at the investment company of the RAG Foundation.

Prof. Dr. Claudia Eckert is Managing Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security AISEC in Munich and Professor at the Technical University of Munich, where she holds the Chair for Security in Computer Science in the Faculty of Computer Science. As a member of numerous national and international industrial advisory boards and scientific committees, she advises companies, trade associations and the public sector on all aspects of IT security. 

Markus Hartmann is Senior Public Prosecutor at the Cologne Public Prosecutor's Office and Head of the Central and Contact Point Cybercrime North Rhine-Westphalia (ZAC NRW). The ZAC NRW conducts cybercrime proceedings of outstanding importance. It is also the central point of contact for fundamental, non-procedural issues in the field of cybercrime. Furthermore, it is available as a contact point for cooperation with science and industry.

Christian Hummert, Research Director of the Cyber Agency. Previously Head of Digital Forensics at ZITiS and Professor for IT Security/Digital Forensics at the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida, where he currently holds an honorary professorship. He also teaches at the LMU Munich. Dr. Hummert has over 10 years of experience in the field of digital forensics and was a practitioner at the LKA Thüringen for 6 years, leading large research and development projects and teaching in the field of cybersecurity.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ina Schieferdecker is head of Department 5 "Research for Technological Sovereignty and Innovations" at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Her department implements initiatives on modern key technologies such as quantum technologies, material technologies, microelectronics, communication, software and AI technologies, as well as on the future of work and value creation. It is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).