Speakers

James Babbage is the Director General for Threats in the National Crime Agency and in that role is responsible for work with law enforcement partners, industry regulators and others to reduce serious and organised crime. A long-term employee of GCHQ, he previously established and led the National Cyber Force, publishing Responsible Cyber Power in Practice towards the end of his tenure.

Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade (better known as ‘JAGS’) is Executive Director for Intelligence and Security Research at SentinelOne and Distinguished Resident Fellow for Threat Intelligence and Adj. Professor at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies. Before leading SentinelLabs, Juan Andrés was Google Chronicle’s Research Tsar, co-founder of Stairwell, and a Principal Security Researcher at GReAT focusing on targeted attacks. He worked as Senior Cybersecurity and National Security Advisor to the Government of Ecuador. His joint work on Moonlight Maze is now featured in the International Spy Museum’s permanent exhibit in Washington, DC. JAGS is the Founder of LABScon and co-hosts the Three Buddy Problem podcast with Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu.

Sophie in ‘t Veld served as member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2024. She is staunchly pro-European and a leading voice on democracy, rule of law and fundamental rights. She was the rapporteur of the landmark European Parliament inquiry (“PEGA committee”) into the abuse of spyware. She was a member of the European liberal democrat group (ALDE/Renew), and its Deputy Leader (2014-2019), leading the Renew team in the EP LIBE committee. From 2018 onwards she chaired the European Parliament Democracy, Rule of Law, and Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group, and was the architect of the annual Rule of Law Report. 

Ciaran Martin is Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. He had a 23-year career in the UK civil service prior to joining the School, including as founding Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, Constitution Director in the Cabinet Office (2011–2014), Director of Security and Intelligence at the Cabinet Office (2008–2011), and Principal Private Secretary to the Head of the Civil Service (2002–2008).

Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). From April 2023 to June 2024, Segal was a senior advisor in the State Department’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, where he led the development of the United States International Cyberspace and Digital Policy. His book The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age (PublicAffairs, 2016) describes the increasingly contentious geopolitics of cyberspace. His work has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs, among others.

Based in New York City, Yuliana Shemetovets is the political representative of the Belarusian Cyber Partisans. In her role, she coordinates platform building, cybersecurity, verification policies and manages communication strategies with media, civil, and political organizations. Yuliana is a panelist at Bloomberg, BBC, Harvard, Yale, NYU. In addition to her work with the Cyber Partisans, Yuliana is an active council member of the Kalinouski Regiment in Ukraine. A director of the organizing committee for the “Belarus Liberty” nonprofit organization, Yuliana is focused on using technology to empower civil societies and to advocate for human rights. Yuliana holds MA in Political Science and MS in Data Analytics.

Dr. Michael Sulmeyer has served in many senior cyber policy roles in US military and national security structures. Most recently, he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy and the Principal Cyber Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, responsible for overseeing the Department of Defense’s cyber policies and operations. Outside of government, Dr. Sulmeyer was the Director of the Cybersecurity Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, with positions at the University of Texas School of Law and Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Dr. Sulmeyer was a Contributing Editor to the national security blog Lawfare and in the mid-1990s, he was the System Operator (SysOp) of The Summit BBS in Santa Barbara, California.