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Jan Stölting is a senior manager & consultant at KPMG in Stuttgart with more than 10 years of experience in cybersecurity advisory. Jan supports KPMG’s clients in organisational as well as technical information security topics and has gathered broad international project experience in Europe, North America and Asia. His core focus topics are security transformations, establishing security management systems and building cyber defense. He is responsible in KPMG for Automotive Cyber Security Management Systems following UN R155, ISO/SAE 21434 and similar frameworks.

Mesih Olumee received his master's degree in Mathematics and Cryptography in 2018 at the Technical University Darmstadt. In 2019 he started working for ESCRYPT GmbH were he was working in a number of automotive and IoT projects as a security consultant and security engineer. With his expert knowledge in post-quantum cryptography, he has joined the funded project FLOQI that pursues the development of a post-quantum PKI.

Marcos Cardoso graduated in electrical engineering in 2007 in Universidade Sao Judas Tadeu - Brazil. He has worked several years in V&V solutions in Latin America, as a test engineer at General Motors and as applications engineer and business developer at NI (National Instruments). Joined ETAS Germany in 2021 to work on SiL-related solutions and currently dedicated to fuzzing applications.

Thomas Irmscher graduated with a diploma degree in business informatics in 2010 from the University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich, and with a master’s degree in applied IT security in 2017 from the Ruhr University, Bochum. He joined ETAS 2017 (former ESCRYPT) in Munich as a project manager for embedded security consulting and testing projects. Until 2020, he led a team of security consultants before he started his work assignment as Regional Solution Field Manager at ETAS Japan in Yokohama. Since 2023, Thomas Irmscher is the Product Manager for Security Testing Services at ETAS and thereby responsible for the global verification & validation service portfolio.

Tobias Brennich received his master degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology in 2015 at the Technical University Munich. In 2016 he started working at ESCRYPT in Munich where he successfully participated in various automotive projects both as security consultant and as security tester. Since 2018 he represents ESCRYPT in the research project SecForCARs where he is responsible for the coordination of ESCRYPT's contributions to the project and the exchange with the project partners from academia and the automotive industry.

Efstathia Katsigianni is working as an IT Security consultant at ESCRYPT GmbH in Berlin. In the last two years, she has worked in different IT security projects in the automotive sector and since December 2019 she has been working on a funded project regarding the creation of a post quantum PKI, also leading the project inside ESCRYPT. In 2018 Efstathia obtained a doctoral degree in mathematics, specifically in the area of arithmetic geometry.

Moritz Minzlaff is a senior manager & consultant at ESCRYPT in Berlin. He has more than a decade of experience in cybersecurity. Moritz focuses on advancing his clients' organizational and technological cybermaturity following UNECE WP.29 and similar frameworks. He has successfully worked with automotive OEMs and suppliers from Asia, Europe, and North America. Among others, he introduced a new tuning protection PKI at a global top 5 supplier. He also co-developed and applied a joint safety & security certification. In 2013, Moritz obtained a PhD for his research in curve cryptography.

Colin O'Flynn has been building and breaking embedded systems for ten years, the more recent years being dedicated to work on breaking them with advanced attacks such as power analysis and fault injection. As part of his PhD he built the open-source ChipWhisperer project, which is now the foundation of his company NewAE Technology Inc. He lives in Halifax, Canada where he is also with Dalhousie University as an assistant professor to continue teaching and research on embedded device security.

Daniel Sepúlveda received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the University of Los Andes, Colombia, and the M.Sc degree in Electrical Engineering on Electronic Technologies for Big-Data and IoT, from the University of Bologna, Italy. He has experience in the design of embedded electronic systems for powerful MPSoCs used for high performance and for safety-critical applications in the automotive domain. Currently, he is a kernel developer of the OS PXROS at HighTec.

Dr. Elmar Schoch graduated from Ulm University with a PhD in Computer Science in 2009, with one of the first dissertations on secure communication in inter-vehicle networks. In 2010, he started his industry career at Volkswagen and AUDI AG, in various leading positions on security research and series development. As a part of his work, he was responsible for the security of vehicle connectivity and E/E security in general, and has been active in VDA and various European and international standardization activities. In 2017, Elmar Schoch joined BMW Group's department for Automotive Security and is now heading the Security Architecture and -Management group within E/E development. Part of his responsibility is security-by-design of all BMW E/E platforms, the definition of company-wide E/E security mechanisms (BMW Automotive Security Kit), operative lead for in-vehicle network security and the processes to develop secure vehicles.

Alexander Kiening is responsible for DENSO’s EU Security R&D. His research areas include cybersecurity engineering, privacy, and applied post quantum cryptography. He is active in the German public-funded R&D project SecForCars-SAVE and contributes to automotive security standardization. Prior to joining DENSO, he was with Fraunhofer AISEC, where he contributed to research in secure in-vehicle E/E architectures and V2X communication. In total, he has been involved in automotive security since 2009.

Fabian Weber is Security Consultant at SCHUTZWERK GmbH, an international IT security consultancy with core competencies in independent security assessments. At SCHUTZWERK, he regularly conducts penetration tests of embedded systems, especially in the automotive domain. In context of the BMBF-funded project SecForCARs, he develops new tools for automotive penetration testing. He holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor's Degree in mechanical engineering.

Behrouz has over 35 years of diverse experience in the technology realm working with Nortel networks, Bell Northern research, Communication research council, and GEC Gas Turbines. He is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in real-time distributed computing and has authored 15 patents on the subject. He is passionate about fault tolerant distributed computing (FTDC) and has successfully developed a self-healing cybersecurity system using the core FTDC technology.

Dr. Bastian Könings is Managing Consultant at SCHUTZWERK GmbH, an international IT security consultancy with core competencies in independent assessments and holistic optimization of all aspects of information, IT and cybersecurity. At SCHUTZWERK, he regularly conducts penetration tests and technical security reviews in the automotive domain and supports OEMs with risk assessments in his role as security architect. As part of the BMBF-funded project SecForCARs, his research activities are focussed on the development of new methodologies and tools for automotive penetration testing. He holds a PhD and a Diploma in Computer Science from Ulm University.

Felix is heading Alyne’s Customer Success function and team. He is responsible for implementation as well as solving functional challenges and serves a global client base across all industries with a globally operating team. Felix has more than 8 years of experience in Consulting and the SaaS industry.

04/2015 - 02/2021: Master of Science in Applied IT Security 04/2021 - Now: Security Consultant at SCHUTZWERK GmbH

Florian Sommer is an academic researcher and PhD student at the Institute for Energy Efficient Mobility, which belongs to Hochschule Karlsruhe – University of Applied Sciences (HKA). In 2015, he received a B. Eng. degree, followed by a M. Sc. degree in vehicle technology in 2017. Since 2018, he is involved in the German R&D project SecForCARs. His research focuses security testing, especially model-based security testing of automotive networks, as well as automotive security attacks.

Frank Kargl is the director of the Institute of Distributed Systems at Ulm University. His research interests are in the field of mobile and self-organizing networks, especially mobile ad hoc networks and vehicle-to-vehicle communication. Another focus of his work is security and privacy in cyber-physical systems. Many of his research projects are in the overlap area of both topics, such as projects on security and privacy of connected or automated vehicles. He was involved in many projects in this area, including EU projects SeVeCom, PRESERVE, or the recent SecForCARs project. He also contributed to standardization of V2X security at ETSI and harmonization world-wide.

Guy leads Upstreams product management group. A group of talented product managers, designers and threat intelligence analysts who design and build a comprehensive mobility cloud security and analytics solution for OEMs and Tier 1 & 2. These solutions help protect customer assets, comply with new standards and regulations and leverage mobility data for better decision making and monetization. Guy brings more than 15 years of experience in product management and marketing in global technology companies. Gaining experience in leading products in the field of cyber, intelligence, data analytics, and AI. Prior to joining Upstream, Guy led the management of AI-based products at EY. Additionally, he founded and led the product management team at NSO Group for 5 years, from a small startup into a multi-million dollar business. Guy volunteers as a mentor in Product League, a product management mentorship program. Guy served for 5 years in the IDF intelligence corps. Guy holds a BSc in Industrial Engineering from Tel Aviv University.

Jean-Philippe has over 15 years of software development experience in a broad array of environments, including: automotive CAN, game engine networking, embedded systems, distributed programming. Jean-Philippe has architected the Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing system for real time error detection and corrections. He also led the Akimbo team in developing our self-healing cyber security system for the automotive industry.

Johanna Sepúlveda received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering – Microelectronics by the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Integrated Systems and Embedded Software group at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), at the group of Embedded Security of the University of South Brittany (France), at the Heterogeneous Systems group of the University of Lyon-INRIA (France) and at the Institute for Security in Information Technology at the Technical University of Munich (Germany). Since 2019, she has held a position as a Senior Scientist of Secure Communications at the Central Research Technology Office at CTO group of the Airbus Defence and Space. Currently she works as the Expert on Quantum-Secure Technologies of Airbus.

She has more than 15 years of experience in research in the area of embedded security and System-on-Chip (SoC) design for secure communications. It includes the design and implementation of innovative hardware architectures and software for protection against side-channel attacks, fault attacks and denial-of-service attacks. Her research interest in the area of quantum-secure systems includes the design, secure implementation and integration of such technologies in a wide variety of cyber-physical platforms and critical infrastructures.

Kevin Gomez Buquerin is a PhD candidate at the Technical University Ingolstadt and Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in Germany. His main research area is automotive digital forensics where his goals are the implementation of new methods for extraction and analysis of digital evidence in modern and future automotive systems. Besides his academic career, he is a security incident responder with a focus on reverse engineering and malware analysis.

Kim Strandberg is a senior security engineer at the Department of Research and Development at Volvo Cars and an industrial Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He has two BSc. and two MSc. in computer science and engineering with specializations in software engineering, computer systems, networks, and cyber security. He has been working as an engineer within the IT area for 16 years and with automotive cyber security for about six years. His main research field is automotive cyber security, with an emphasis on secure and resilient automotive system design and development.

Manoj’s role is Global Program Director – AIShield® at Bosch. He is an award-winning experienced seasoned Technologist. He has a demonstrated history of working with emerging technology, deep technology, and automotive engineering industry. He has been working at Bosch for more than 13 years. He is responsible for designing, leading, and driving technology-oriented strategy for the organization. His responsibilities include building a global product at the intersection of AI and CyberSecurity to safeguard AI systems and leading AI Security Initiative for Bosch Group.

Manoj’s journey is an inspirational and transformational one, across domains of automotive, two-wheeler, and digital, to deliver customer-focused business values. He, along with his teams, has built several innovative products and solutions using multiple classical and emerging technologies. He has mastered numerous technologies and helped the organization, and people navigate through disruptions using the visionary approach. He is skilled in Algorithms, Control Systems Design, Data Science, Machine Learning, Computing, Blockchain, IOT, Quantum Computing, and Automotive.

He has filed 20+ patents out of which 8 are industrialized. He has published 13 research papers in IEEE and SAE Conferences. He is a Mentor and Jurist for various startup events (Government and Private). He has also been a guest speaker on varied topics of technology, Innovation, and entrepreneurship. He is a Technical Committee Member of six prestigious international conferences and has been the chair of an IEEE conference session.

He is a recipient of the Chevening Cybersecurity Fellowship 2021 by the UK Government’s FCD Office. He was awarded Technology Role Model Award 2020 by Zinnov. He is founding member of MITRE ATLAS. He holds engineering and management degrees. He has also completed the Corporate Startup program from UC Berkeley and M.Sc. in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from HEC Paris.

He is a lifelong learner and holds science, engineering, and management degrees

Bob Kaster is chief technical expert, leading the product security team for Bosch Americas. He worked 4 years in Germany, set up the safety electronics design group in the US, was awarded several patents in automotive safety/security and was thrice honored as an innovator of the year for the CC division. He served as co-chair for UMTRI-MTC cybersecurity group 2016-17, and as a chair in the Auto-ISAC 2018-21. He is a doctoral candidate in automotive cybersecurity at the University of Michigan.

Since 2019, I have been a research associate and doctoral student at the Fraunhofer Institute IEM in Paderborn. I work and research at the intersection of Automotive Model-Based Systems Engineering and Security. Especially with regard to ISO/SAE 21434.

I have a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Paderborn. In my spare time I like to spend time with my wife and my two young daughters. Furthermore, I like to be involved in church together with my wife.

You can find previos talks from me regarding Security by Systems Design on YouTube

Srdjan Capkun is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich and Director of the Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC). He was born in Split, Croatia. He received his Dipl.Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science from the University of Split in 1998, and his Ph.D. degree in Communication Systems from EPFL in 2004. Prior to joining ETH Zurich in 2006 he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Networked & Embedded Systems Laboratory (NESL), University of California Los Angeles and an Assistant Professor in the Informatics and Mathematical Modelling Department, Technical University of Denmark (DTU). His research interests are in system and network security. His focus areas are wireless security (in particular secure positioning), and system security where he focuses on trusted computing and blockchain technologies. He is a co-founder of 3db Access, a company focusing on secure distance measuement and proximity-based access control, and of Futurae a spin-off focusing on usable on-line authentication. In 2016 he received an ERC Consolidator Grant for a project on securing positioning in wireless networks. He is a fellow of the ACM.

Yasemin Acar is a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy and Research Professor at the George Washington University. She focuses on human factors in computer security. Her research centers humans, their comprehension, behaviors, wishes and needs. She aims to better understand how software can enhance users’ lives without putting their data at risk. Her recent focus has been on human factors in secure development, investigating how to help software developers implement secure software development practices. Her research has shown that working with developers on these issues can resolve problems before they ever affect end users.

Dr. Thomas Liedtke works for KMC as an expert for cybersecurity, safety, privacy, and process improvement. As part of this role, he advises customers on issues in this subject area in a variety of ways. In addition to his many years of practical experience, he relies above all on common standards/regulations such as ISO 21434, UNECE, ISO 27001, ISO 5112, TISAX, and others. He is member of the national DIN AK Cybersecurity and leads the intacs WG implementing the ASPICE for Cybersecurity training concept. He studied Computer Science/ Mathematics at the University of Stuttgart.

Marina Moore is a PhD candidate at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering where she conducts research on secure software updates and supply chain security in the Secure Systems Lab. While at NYU, she has worked primarily on research and development for The Update Framework (TUF), Uptane, and Notary, and has delivered talks at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and WiCyS 2019.