Hugo Ferreira - Keynote Speaker

Ethiack

Director of Hacking Operations at Ethiack and professor at ISTEC-Porto, he has over 7 years of experience in IT security. He is an enthusiast of social engineering and ethical hacking, having participated in Live Hacking Events and CVE publications. Lately, he has primarily managed hacking teams with Ethiack, finding vulnerabilities in organizations so that they can mitigate them and strengthen their systems.
 
 
 

 
Pedro Pinto – Roundtable moderator

ISEP

Adjunct Professor at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), Portugal, and a researcher at the GECAD and INESC TEC research centers.
He served as the Data Protection Officer (DPO) and the Director of the Master's in Cybersecurity at the Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo (IPVC) in Portugal. He also served as deputy director of the Applied Digital Transformation Laboratory (ADiT-Lab) Research Center, Portugal.
His main interests include telecommunications, computer networks and systems, cybersecurity, and data protection and privacy. He is also a recipient of honorable mentions and awards in vulnerability reward programs (e.g., Google and Microsoft) and serves as an expert for the Portuguese Attorney General's Office, for scientific councils of foreign countries, and for the European Commission.

Rui Moura – Guest Speaker

Critical TechWorks

Specialist in cybersecurity, advanced solutions, and project management. He has successfully led large-scale global projects related to electronic identification (eID), ePassports (PKIs), and information security across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
Currently at Critical TechWorks in Porto, Portugal, he serves as Chief Technical Titan for Cyber Security and Infrastructure, providing strategic leadership in cybersecurity initiatives and infrastructure and software protection.
Always focused on enhancing security and efficiency, he actively pursues ways to strengthen cybersecurity posture and streamline processes within projects and teams.

Pedro Carneiro – Guest Speaker

ROBOYO

Global Lead of Cybersecurity at ROBOYO, a company that acquired WeMake - Tecnologias de Informação, Lda, where he served as Agile Project Manager & CISO and was a founding partner for 20 years, since 2002.
He is the Director of WeSecure - Cybersecurity & Forensics Analysis, with extensive experience in Information Security and Business Continuity projects for major national institutions, including operators of critical and essential services.
With the acquisition of Roboyo, it manages and integrates international cybersecurity projects, operating directly across all companies in the group.
He has remained a DPO (Data Protection Officer) in public and private companies since 2018.
He has also been part of the Attorney General's Office's pool of forensic experts in the area of secure application development since 2017.