Moderators: – Katerina Vidova, PhD and Viktorija Velkova

09:00-09:45 (GMT+2) – Greetings:

Jordan Gjorchev – PhD, President of the Management Board, Founder of ISU

Lenche PetreskaJowanka – PhD, rector of the International Slavic University G. R. Derzhavin

Miglena Temelkova – PhD, rector The University of Telecommunications and Post, Bulgaria

Tal Pavel – PhD, Founder and Director, CyBureau, The Institute for Cyber Policy Studies, Israel

Aleksandar Bajdevski – Vice-Minister, Ministry of Information Society and Administration

09:45 – 12:15 Panel A: Cybersecurity in the Balkans – threats

Speaker 1 – Dimitar Bogatinov – Associate professor at the Military academy “General Mihailo Apostolski”, Skopje, North Macedonia – “Use of Technological Advances Against Cyber Threats in the Balkans”

Speaker 2 – Zlate Dimovski – Profesor at Faculty of Security-Skopje, St. Kliment Ohridski University, Skopje, North Macedonia – “Protection of information and internet abuse”

Speaker 3 – Darko Trifunovic – PhD, founding member and Director of the Institute for National and International Security, Belgrade, Serbia

12:15-14:15 Panel B: Mitigations Cyber threats in the Balkans

Speaker 1 – Martin Rakov – Technologies and tools for threat mitigation, Director General, AGERPRES, Romania

Speaker 2 – Metodi Hadji Janev – Associate professor of Law, “Goce Delcev” University, Stip, North Macedonia – “Cyber and hybrid-based threats to the ongoing digital transformation in the Balkans”

Speaker 3 – Amir Sagie – Cybersecurity Coordinator, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel – – “Israeli aspects in Cyber diplomacy”

Speaker 4 – Darko Obradovich – Security Expert, Center for Strategic Analysis Belgrade, Serbia 

16:15-16:30 Summary and closure, farewell greetings:

Vasko Stamevski – Doctor of Legal Science, PhD, Faculty of Law “Justinianus Primus”, University “Ss.Cyril and Methodius” – Skopje, North Macedonia

Tal Pavel – PhD, Founder and Director, CyBureau, The Institute for Cyber Policy Studies, Israel