Gathering and Registration

Moderator - Dr. Yaniv Harel , Academic Conference Chairman; Chief Strategy Officer, ICRC, Tel Aviv University , Former Dell GM Cyber Solutions Group

Opening remarks

Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Prof. Isaac Ben-Israel , Conference Chairman , Cyber Week ; Director , Blavatnik ICRC, Tel Aviv University

Roi Yarom , Director, Economy and Growth , Israeli National Cyber Directorate

Session I: Breakthroughs in Cryptography and deep mathematics for enhanced security

Designing Privacy Enhancing Cryptographic Protocols for deployment in Daily Business applications

Prof. Moti Yung , Security and Privacy Research Scientist , Google

Secure Computing for Data Analysis

Prof. Benny Pinkas , Director, Cyber Research Center , Bar Ilan University

Scaling up GAEN Pseudo-Random Processes: preparing for a more extensive pandemic

Dr. Liron David , Postdoctoral Researcher , Weizmann Institute of Science

Why do we need a new Crypto System?

Prof. Mina Teicher , Mathematics Department and Brain Research Center , Bar Ilan University, Israel

Spare Time for Speaker Introductions

Session II: Policy & Legal Aspects in a Dynamic Cybersecurity World

Technological Change Creates Variance

Prof. Paul Romer , Senior Professor with a Special Appointment at the International Graduate School of Social Sciences , NYU

Digital Surveillance: Rethinking the Design Approach

Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren , Professor of Law , Tel Aviv University ; Faculty of Law and Faculty Associate , Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University

Coffee Break

Session III: Cyber Defense Concepts and Technologies

Securing the DNS System

Prof. Yehuda Afek , Faculty of Computer Science , Tel Aviv University

Smart Nation Cybersecurity as a Large-Scale Distributed Intelligent System

Prof. LAM Kwok Yan , Associate Vice President (Strategy and Partnerships), President’s Office Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering , Nanyang Technological University

Spare Time for Speaker Introductions

Safety Issues around Machine Learning: Verification, Robustness, Privacy, Fairness

Prof. Shafi Goldwasser , Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , University of California Berkeley

The Science of Cybersecurity in Organizations: Why is it so hard and what it takes to do it right

Prof. Eran Toch , Co-Director of the Interacting with Technology Lab, Faculty Member of the Department of Industrial Engineering , Tel Aviv University

Closing Remarks