CITMO 2005 – Agenda

Day 1:  15 June 2005

8:30    Registration

9:00    Welcome by:  Mr. Goran H. Johnson, Chairman of the Organizing Committee

9:05    Address from Ministry of Defence: Deputy Minister Sonya Yankulova

9:25    Address from Ministry of Interior: LTGEN Boyko Borissov, Secretary General

9:45    Address from Ministry of Economy: Deputy Minister Radoslav Bozadzhiev

10:05  Welcome from AFCEA:  Mr. Konstantin Zografov, AFCEA International

10:10  Welcome from Plovdiv Local Authorities -  Dr. Gyoka Hadzhi Petrov, Governor of Plovdiv Region.

10:15 Opening of Exhibition by Ministry of Economy

10:20—10:40:   Break

10:40—12:10  Visit to Military Base, live exercise demonstration.

12:10—14:00  Lunch

14:00  CITMO Overview and motivation for its current theme,  Dr. James DeCorpo,

Technical Director, US Office of Naval Research Global.

Session I:  IT tools of the terrorists

Session Chair:  Dr. John Fay

14:20  ”Control and Prevention of Special and Dual Use Products”  – Mr. Valentin Balabanov, Foreign Economic Cooperation Directorate, Ministry of Economy, Bulgaria

14:40  “Terrorists’ Use of the Internet and Fighting Back” – Ms. Maura Conway,

University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

15:00  “Computer Security Compromises by Software Bugs” – Mr. Felix Lindner (FX),

            CISSP, Senior Security Consultant, n.runs. Germany.

15:20—15:40  Break

15:40  “Personal Device for Detection of Explosives”, Mr. Yuri Markov, Sniffex Inc., Bulgaria.

Session II:  Networks and Communications

Session Chair:  Mr. Staffan Stromback

16:00  Mr. Ray McGowan, Chief, CECOM Applications Branch, US Army Research

Development Standardization Group.

16:20  “A Global Network to counter Global Threats” – Mr. Dan Mercer, Vice

President of Channel Development, Iridium Satellite LLC, USA.

16:40 “Tetra communication solutions for prevention and disaster management” –

            Mr. Ole Arrhenius, Senior System Marketing Manager.

17:00  Cocktail Reception – Ambassador Restaurant

            Hosted by IDG Europe AB

Day 2, 16 June

Session II:  Networks and Communications (continued)

Session Chair:  Mr. Staffan Stromback

09:00  “The role of Thuraya satellite communication products and services for

defense organizations and peacekeeping operations” – Mr. Abdallah Touhami,

Senior Manager, Marketing & Sales.

09:20  “Low Profile Mobile Terminals for High Speed Satellite Communication” –

Mr. Emil Totomanov, General Manager, RaySat Ltd.

09:40  “A Global Network to counter Global Threats” – Mr. Dan Mercer, Vice

President of Channel Development, Iridium Satellite LLC, USA.

10:00—10:40  break

Session III:  Information Services

Session Chair:  Dr. Velizar Shalamanov

10:40  “DISA and Network Centric Warfighting” - Mr. Bernal Allen, Chief of Enterprise Applications, US Defense Information System Agency, USA.

11:00  “Transaction Risks in Payment Systems” – Professor Vladimir Zaslavsky,

Faculty of Cybernetics, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev, Ukraine.

11:20  “Information Security and the Contemporary Dimensions of the Cyber

            Terrorism”,     Professor Dr. Eugene Nikolov, National Laboratory of Computer

Virology, Bulgarian Academic of Sciences.

11:40 “The application of policy based messaging for homeland security” –

           Mr. Richard Shine, Nexor Limited, U.K.

Session IV: Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure

Session Chair:  Ms. Maura Conway

12:00  “Securing the decision making process in counter terrorist operations” –

            Ms. Catharina Candolin, Researcher, National Defence College/The Finnish

Defence Forces.

12:20  Administrative Announcements – Ms. Louise Yuen

12:25—14:00  lunch

14:00  “Open Standards, Open Source and Collaboration in networks” – Mr. Staffan Stromback, Swedish Defence Material Administration, Sweden.

14:20 “Software based GSM voice encryption” – Mr. Frank Rieger, Chief Technical Officer,  GSMK mbH Berlin, Germany

Session V: Linking Disparate Organizations in Ad Hoc Cyber Networks

Session Chair:  Mr. Konstantin Zografov

14:40 “The Cyber Terrorism – the New Face of the Terrorism” – Mr. Emil Dimitrov,

 Director of the Communications Directorate, Ministry of Interior, Bulgaria.

15:00  “Use of the C2PC Information System of the Bulgarian Army during participation in anti-terrorist operations” – Colonel Valter Tzvetkov, Director of the National Military Command Center (NMCC) Bulgaria.

15:20  “CDE/ATD for expeditionary forces network enabled capabilities”  Dept. Of C4I Systems Institute ofr Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Professor Tzvetan A. Semerdjiev.

15:40 - 16:00 Break

Session VI:  Working Groups

16:00—18:00 Working Group Meetings and Discussions

Additional presentations can be made within the Working Groups. 

WG I: Critical Information Infrastructure Protection –

Chairs:  Dr. J. Fay, Lt.Col. I. Mateev

WG II: Networks and Communications –

Chairs:  Mr. R. McGowan, Mr. E. Totomanov

WG III: Information Service –

Chairs:  Mr. B. Allen, Prof. E. Nikolov

Objectives:

CITMO 2005 will explore ways to develop and recommend

1) A set of technologies that are available today that could be applied to solve some

of these issues

2) R&D that could support development of IT and which could overcome obvious gaps

3) Propose a strategy to co-evolve the policy and IT in near-term toward achieving

goals outlined in paragraph two of the invitation.

19:00 Walking tour of Plovdiv

Day 3, 17 June

Session VI:  Working Groups

09:00 Continuation

Session VII: Plenary Session and Recommendations

                     Part A:  Presentation of WG Results 

11:00—11:20  Break

11:20  Working Group 1, Questions and Answers

            Working Group 2  Questions and Answers

            Working Group 3  Questions and Answers

12:30—13:30 Lunch

Review Panel: 

13:30—13:50 Conclusions and Recommendations

13:50  Closing address

14:00  Closing of CITMO 2005

16:00  Closing of Exhibition

17:30  Wine Tasting, Dinner and Folk Dance Performance

Hosted by Electronic Warfare Associates, Bulgaria