Program Overview / Amsterdam 2023 FIRST Technical Colloquium

Wednesday, March 20^th
Conference Room 1
Conference Room 2
Thursday, March 21^st
Training Track 1
Training Track 2
Training Track 3
Friday, March 22^nd
Training Track 1
Training Track 2
Training Track 3

Wednesday, March 20^th

	Conference Room 1	Conference Room 2
08:00 – 09:00	Registration and welcome coffee
09:00 – 09:05	Introduction Franziska Klopfer (DCAF), Serge Droz (FIRST), Era Gjata (AKCESK)
09:05 – 09:30	High-level Opening Address Igli Tafa (AKCESK), Mirlinda Karcanaj (AKSHI), Mia Marzouk (British Embassy Tirana)
09:30 – 10:00	Keynote Speech: Building a fruitful environment for national CERTs Roman Hüssy (National Cybersecurity Centre of Switzerland)
10:15 – 11:30	Panel: Promoting Cyber Talent for Good Moderator: Serge Droz (FIRST)
11:30 – 12:00	Coffee break
12:00 – 12:30	Topic: Analysis of LLM-themed Malvertising Campaign Targeting Social Media Users Jaromir Horejsi (Trend Micro)	Topic: Protecting Critical Information Infrastructure: Strategies and Best Practice Saimir Kapllani (AKCESK)
12:30 – 13:00	Topic: How to have impact as a small national CERT Roman Hüssy (GOV CERT)	Topic: Evaluating the Impact of Cybersecurity Capacity Building Phil Sheriff (Royal Holloway University London)
13:00 – 13:30	Topic: Towards automated early warning system Marko Krstić (SRB CERT)	Topic: Bridging National Cybersecurity Strategies and EU NIS2 Directive in the Western Balkans Aleksandar Acev (DAI Global LLC)
13:30 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 15:00	Topic: Pragmatic Approaches to Incident Response Plans Gregor Wegberg (One Consult)	Topic: Conceptualising and planning capacity-building projects on good governance in cybersecurity Franziska Klopfer(DCAF), Leonora Hasani (DCAF)
15:00 – 15:30	Topic: The Power of Control: Botnets and Their Impact on Geopolitical Stability Mil Rajic (Dynarisk)	Topic: Cybersecurity in the Banking Sector: Addressing Challenges and Innovations Reglend Xhango (Albanian Association of Banks)
15:30 – 16:00	Topic: Enhancing Incident Response with AI: Leveraging ML for IoT/IIoT Attack Detection and Prevention Atdhe Buja (ICT Academy), Blent Kurtalani (ICT Academy)	Topic: Proactive National Cybersecurity Planning and Awareness Branko Primetica (CEDARS Int)
16:00 – 16:30	Topic: Romanian Model of Cooperation between Private Sector and State Institutions in cyber security Alin Dragan (Safetech Innovations), Iulian Alecu (Safetech Innovations)

Thursday, March 21^st

	Training Track 1	Training Track 2	Training Track 3
09:00 – 11:00	Ransomware Empowerment Trainers: Gregor Wegberg (One Consult) and Serge Droz (FIRST)	Threat Intel Pipelines Course Trainers: Jaroslaw Jedynak (CERT.PL) and Pawel Pawlinski (CERT.PL)	Practical Cases on Incident Response and TTX on Incident Handling Trainers: Ergis Gaxho (AKCESK), Gerald Bici (AKCESK), Jetmir Rajta (AKCESK) and Kevin Mamaj (AKCESK)
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 13:30	Ransomware Empowerment Trainers: Gregor Wegberg (One Consult) and Serge Droz (FIRST)	Threat Intel Pipelines Course Trainers: Jaroslaw Jedynak (CERT.PL) and Pawel Pawlinski (CERT.PL)	Practical Cases on Incident Response and TTX on Incident Handling Trainers: Ergis Gaxho (AKCESK), Gerald Bici (AKCESK), Jetmir Rajta (AKCESK) and Kevin Mamaj (AKCESK)
13:30 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	Ransomware Empowerment Trainers: Gregor Wegberg (One Consult) and Serge Droz (FIRST)	Threat Intel Pipelines Course Trainers: Jaroslaw Jedynak (CERT.PL) and Pawel Pawlinski (CERT.PL)	Practical Cases on Incident Response and TTX on Incident Handling Trainers: Ergis Gaxho (AKCESK), Gerald Bici (AKCESK), Jetmir Rajta (AKCESK) and Kevin Mamaj (AKCESK)

Friday, March 22^nd

	Training Track 1	Training Track 2	Training Track 3
09:00 – 11:00	Ransomware Empowerment Trainers: Gregor Wegberg (One Consult) and Serge Droz (FIRST)	Threat Intel Pipelines Course Jaroslaw Jedynak (CERT.PL) and Pawel Pawlinski (CERT.PL)	Continuity with TTX and Cyber Drills. Trainers: Adriano Lleshi (AKCESK), Bledar Kacadej(AKCESK), Kristian Josifi(AKCESK) and Redon Hoxha (AKCESK)
11:00 – 11:30	Coffee break
11:30 – 13:30	Ransomware Empowerment Trainers: Gregor Wegberg (One Consult) and Serge Droz (FIRST)	Threat Intel Pipelines Course Jaroslaw Jedynak (CERT.PL) and Pawel Pawlinski (CERT.PL)	Continuity with TTX and Cyber Drills. Trainers: Adriano Lleshi (AKCESK), Bledar Kacadej(AKCESK), Kristian Josifi(AKCESK) and Redon Hoxha (AKCESK)
13:30 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 16:00	Ransomware Empowerment Trainers: Gregor Wegberg (One Consult) and Serge Droz (FIRST)	Threat Intel Pipelines Course Jaroslaw Jedynak (CERT.PL) and Pawel Pawlinski (CERT.PL)	Continuity with TTX and Cyber Drills. Trainers: Adriano Lleshi (AKCESK), Bledar Kacadej(AKCESK), Kristian Josifi(AKCESK) and Redon Hoxha (AKCESK)