Nuno Medeiros

Nuno Medeiros has a master’s degree in electrical and Computers Engineering with a major in Energy from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) in 2008.
In the end of 2011, he became a Master of Science in Information Technology – Information Security (MSIT-IS) from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Science – Cyber Security from Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.
Nuno began his career at EDP Distribuição (now E-REDES) in September 2009, joining the SCADA and Automation Unit, responsible for the mission critical systems of the Portuguese DSO. In 2017, he was appointed Head of the Cyber Security Department and CISO, where he oversaw the organization’s security architecture, ensuring the security and privacy of products and processes through a risk-based approach. His role involved managing the end-to-end security for the company’s mission-critical infrastructure.
In 2020, Nuno assumed leadership of the “IT/OT Strategy and Cybersecurity” unit, tasked with developing the architecture, platforms, applications, and connectivity solutions for E-REDES, all while ensuring cybersecurity and operational resilience in support of the company’s digital transformation strategy.
Currently, he serves as the Head of Mission Critical Platform, leading the strategic development, performance, and security of the company’s mission-critical ecosystem. As the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of E-REDES, Nuno is responsible for the organization’s overall information security strategy, enhancing cyber resilience, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
Nuno is actively involved in industry collaborations at the European level, having chaired and coordinated various cybersecurity working groups, including those of the EUTC and EDSO. He is also a founding representative and board member of the European Energy Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EE-ISAC) and currently serves as chair of the executive committee for the Portuguese Energy ISAC. Furthermore, he contributes to the EU DSO Entity Cyber Security Expert Group.
In addition to his professional responsibilities, Nuno is a director and lecturer at Porto Business School’s “Cybersecurity for Executives Program”, which aims to equip business leaders with the knowledge necessary to effectively lead in cybersecurity. He regularly speaks at European conferences, sharing E-REDES’ approach to cybersecurity and privacy, while advocating for stronger leadership, awareness and collaboration in the evolving cybersecurity landscape.

Mathew Woodyard

Mathew Woodyard is a threat intelligence researcher at Okta studying identity-based attacks and botnet behavior. He has worked in many roles throughout his career in finance and technology ranging from quantitative risk to distributed security architecture to botnet behavior. He regularly shares his findings at industry and academic conferences, including BSides Las Vegas, Oktane, and IEEE International Conference on Communications.

Ben Kuchta

Ben Kuchta is an experienced leader in the energy industry with nearly two decades of operational expertise at various levels. Currently serving as the Group Director for Resilience and Crisis Management at National Grid plc, Ben plays a crucial role in ensuring strategic resilience across the company’s UK and US businesses. His responsibilities include topics such as climate resilience to stakeholder and government engagement. Ben is accountable for the Group-wide framework for resilience and has an influential role in shaping the evolving regulatory space. He also oversees the training and exercise programs for crisis management.

Ondřej Černý

Ondřej Černý is a Senior Projects Officer in E.DSO, the European association of electricity distribution system operators. Besides participating in multiple research projects, Ondřej also coodinates the activites of the E.DSO Innovation & Research Committee, which focuses on sharing the best practices between member DSOs and formulating priorities for European R&I policy.

Awais Rashid

Professor Awais Rashid is focusing on novel software modularity techniques that make software adaptable, evolvable, and resilient. He is a keen researcher of adversarial and non-adversarial behaviours in cyber security and leads projects as part of the UK Research Institute on Trustworthy Industrial Control Systems (RITICS), the UK Research Institute on Socio-technical Cyber Security (RISCS), and the National Centre of Excellence on Cyber Security of Internet of Things (PETRAS). He is also a member of the UK Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) and leads research on the readiness of software engineers and developers to work with new secure hardware as part of the ESRC Hub on Digital Security by Design (Discribe). A Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, he was the co-founder and co-director of the Security Lancaster Institute at Lancaster University before joining the University of Bristol.

Nikos Hatziargyriou

Nikos Hatziargyriou is since 1984 with the Electrical and Computer Engineering School, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Professor in Power Systems since 1995, and Professor Emeritus since 2022. He is also part-time Professor at the University of Vaasa, Finland. He has over 10 years of industrial experience as Chairman and CEO of the Hellenic Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO) (2015-2019) and as Executive Vice-Chair and Deputy CEO of the Public Power Corporation (PPC) (2007-2012), responsible for the Transmission and Distribution and the Islands Divisions. He has authored more than 350 journal publications and 600 conference proceedings papers. He is included in the 2016, 2017, and 2019, Thomson Reuters lists of the top 1% most cited researchers and for several years in the global list of top 2% Scientists released by Stanford University. He is 2020 Globe Energy Prize laureate, recipient of the 2017 IEEE/PES Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award and the 2023 IEEE Herman Halperin Electric Transmission and Distribution Award. He was the Chair of the Power System Dynamic Performance Committee of IEEE and Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. He is currently EiC-at-Large for IEEE PES Transactions. He is an honorary member of CIGRE and past Chair of CIGRE SC C6 “Distribution Systems and Distributed Generation.” He has participated in more than 60 R&D projects funded by the EU Commission, electric utilities and industry for fundamental research and practical applications.