PRESENTATION 1: Application of Voice Biometrics in Critical Infrastructure and Emerging Challenges–Rufat Guliyev, Chief Operating Officer of "R.I.S.K. Company"

PRESENTATION 2: Transforming the SOC in the Age of AI–Fadi Chami, Sales Director for Cloud and Cortex at Palo Alto Networks

PRESENTATION 3: Orkhan Habibzadeh, Regional Systems Engineer – CrowdStrike’s Experience Against Digital Sabotage: Is It Possible to Halt a City with a Single Cyberattack?

PRESENTATION 4: Natalia Tkachuk, Head of the Information Security and Cybersecurity Service of the Staff of NSDC of Ukraine, the NCSCC Secretary

PANEL 1: A New Playground for Cybercriminals: Smart Cities

Moderator: Tural Məmmədov, Deputy Head of the General Department of the Special Communication and Information Security State Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan

• Davud Rustamov, Head of the National Cybersecurity Center of the State Security Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan
• Farid Zeynalov, Head of the Electronic Security Service under the Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of the Republic of Azerbaijan
• Shahin Aliyev, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Innovation and Digital Development Agency
• Yusif Huseynov, Head of Division of the Main Department for Combating Cybercrime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan
• Elnur Eyvazli, Director of the Information and Cybersecurity Department of the Central Bank

PANEL 2: Global best practices in protecting smart infrastructures

Moderator: Panah Musayev, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association of Cybersecurity Organizations of Azerbaijan

• Yevhenii Pedchenko, Head of Information Security Department at Seeton, PhD in Cybersecurity, Associate Professor at SUICT–Next-generation cybershield: AI-powered defense and adaptive security with AKAMAI
• Ramin Alakbarov, Country Sales Lead at HPE - Strengthening Digital Resilience: HPE and the Technologies of the Future HPE
• Tamerlan Mashadihasanli, Head of Product Division at AzInTelecom - AzInTelecom Solutions for a Safe Digital Transformation
• Hakan Kaplan, Board Member of Gardiyan–Security and Sustainability of Critical System Infrastructures: A Gardiyan Approach From Regulations to Implementatıon
• Mohammad Bushlaibi Senior Manager Information Security Services in aeCERT –TDRA

PANEL 3: The Dark Side of Technology: Next-Generation SOC Systems Against Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure and Social Engineering

Moderator: Murad Balayev, Head of the Computer Emergency Response Center (CERT) of the Special Communication and Information Security State Service

• Mais Sharifli, Head of Cybersecurity Section at Azercell–AI-Enhanced SOC: Next-Generation Defense and Simulations
• Aydın Qurbanli, Chief Information Security Officer at B and B Security–Customer–Oriented SOC: The Future Concept of MSSP Operations
• Murad Zeynalli, Senior Advisor to the CEO of Proxima Tech Solutions –SOC: Proxima's vision and challenges
• Zohrab Seyidli, SOC Manager at Prosol–The Invisible attack surface: IoT in critical infrastructure and the role of SOC in its security”
• Shahin Pashazadeh, Information Security Specialist at the Cybersecurity Department of Delta Telecom–The Changing Nature of DDoS Attacks and Protection of Critical Infrastructure

PRESENTATION 7: Aykut Hatun, Presales manager at Infosec–AI-Based approach to modern cybersecurity

PRESENTATION 8: Gabil Gasimov, Director of Megasec–Cybersecurity Reshaped by Artificial Intelligence

PRESENTATION 9: Sahar Kashkash, Threat cyber researcher at Dream–How Dream defends against APTs using AI agents

PRESENTATION 10: Todorovic Vladan, Technical Director and Founder of Nothreat–The Importance of Country-Adapted Threat Intelligence, a Real-Life Story Demonstrating Zero-Day and Targeted Attacks Against Azerbaijan

PANEL 4: Critical infrastructure at risk: a call for revised security strategies

Moderator: Jana Krimpe, Founder of B.EST Solutions & Femmes Digitales

• Toomas Vaks, Senior Cybersecurity Expert at e-Governance Academy
• Elsa Neeme, Senior Cybersecurity Expert at e-Governance Academy
• Zari Uslu-Abdullayeva, Cyber Security Lead, ICT Sector / WiCSME Affiliate UAE
• Orkhan Sadigov, CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) at “Azerconnect”
• Vugar Namazli, Director of Cybersecurity Business Unit at Techpro DC–Defensible OT (Operational Technology) Architecture & ICS (Industrial Control Systems) Incident Response

PANEL 5: The city that knows you: Biometric surveillance, collected data, human rights, protection measures – which matters more?

Moderator: Elvin Balajanov, Cybersecurity Operations Center, State Security Service

• Elgin Abdullayev, Head of Department of the Special Communication and Information Security State Service of the Republic of Azerbaijan
• Aydın Verdiyev, Head of the Cybersecurity Division, Criminalistics and Information Technologies Department of the Prosecutor General's Office
• Ruslan Dadayev, Director of the Information Security Department at "AzInTelecom" LLC
• Berna Baysal, Executive Director of Karmasis Azerbaijan