Dr. Bernhards Blumbergs is a lead cyber-security expert at the Information Technology Security Incident Response Institution of the Republic of Latvia (CERT.LV) and the former Technology Researcher at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (NATO CCD COE) also the Ambassador of the Centre since 2018. He is the creator and the technical director of the world’s largest and most innovative full-spectrum offensive cyber operation exercise Crossed Swords. He is a certified exploit researcher and advanced penetration tester (GXPN), industrial cyber security professional (GICSP), and response and industrial defense expert (GRID). He has a solid military background, targeted at developing, administering, and securing wide-area information systems.Dr. Blumbergs received his Computer Science PhD degree in Cyber Security from Tallinn Technical University in 2019, with his dissertation on specialized cyber red team responsive computer network operations.

Jamie Bodley-Scott is a specialist in the security sector where he has worked for two decades. Initially working for his own company where he supported AirZip and Appgate in the UK. He was an active member of the Jericho Forum and co-author of the paper which won the Jericho Challenge in 2005 - "Moving away from the firewall-centric view of security". He is now a Senior Product Manager at Appgate with responsibility for the company’s SDP product offering. Originally qualifying as an electronics engineer, subsequently achieved both Chartered Engineer and Chartered Marketeer status. He has worked in many disciplines including hardware and software design, project management, sales & marketing, quality, product management, and general management in industries as varied as defense, aerospace, automotive, mobile, retail, financial services, and IT security. In his spare time, he has a habit of building/modifying houses and enjoys sharing his view of the world through photography.

Since I remember, I have hacked, built, and broken stuff, and that landed me a career in cybersecurity over 10 years ago. I have done technical security audits, hunted bug bounties, and now also built security products as CEO of SensorFu. Hacking still makes me happy, I enjoy blue and red teaming in exercises, and I am interested in defending electronic freedoms and privacy in our digital society.

Caleb is a Principal Content Engineer at the industrial security company Synsaber. A chemical engineer by trade, with experience in oil and gas was transitioned to the electric sector as a security analyst before expanding across sectors via SCADA red teaming. Currently, lead for protocol and control system R&D with a focus on aligning red team experience to defensive detection capabilities.

Jean-Pierre has 16 years of experience in Infosec. Working on Red Team exercises, and EDR engineering and is now leading the Malware analysis & automation team at the CCCS.
Kevin is a sandbox expert at the CCCS, he contributed to the Cuckoo project & is now one of CAPE's top contributors.

Sascha is a Security Consultant at Recurity Labs GmbH with a strong interest in binary exploitation on mobile devices. Prior to joining Recurity Labs, he worked several years for the german armed forces as a specialist for reverse engineering and binary exploitation and gave several courses for the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCD COE).

With 8 years of experience in the development of embedded and ICS software, Casper Bladt now combines his ICS knowledge with cybersecurity. In 2016 he qualified for the Danish Defence Intelligence Service's Hackeracademy, and again for the national hacking team boot camp in 2018 and 2019. Now he is the technical lead on the ICS Range platform - an interactive educational platform, where both red and blue teams will be challenged in ICS cybersecurity.

Pēteris is a senior researcher at University of Latvia Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science Artificial Intelligence laboratory, working on applied machine learning in the domains of cyber security and natural language processing. He is also teaching at University of Latvia and Riga Technical University. His earlier industry experience includes consulting on IT security, software architecture and machine learning applications, and 10 years working in banking.

Ēriks has an extensive cyber security background, and currently is working as a researcher at University of Latvia Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science Artificial Intelligence laboratory working on projects related to radio signal processing.