Global Cybersecurity Forum 2022
Event Information
Date
9 - 10 November, 2022
Time
09:30 - 17:30
Location
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
In 2022, the GCF set out to raise its ambitions, staging a globally significant and successful forum. The edition welcomed over 9000 participants from 117 countries. It featured 127 of the world’s best cyber minds from across government, the private sector, academia, international organizations, and NGOs, who contributed to diverse perspectives across 41 content-rich sessions. Under the theme, Rethinking the Global Cyber Order, the Forum catalyzed socioeconomic impact spearheaded multilateral collaboration, and advanced progress on critical issues.
Speakers
H.R.H Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman Al-Saud
Saudi Arabia
Minister of Energy
Michio Kaku
City University of New York
Professor of Theoretical Physics
Shyam Saran
India
Former Foreign Secretary
Jeremy Jurgens
World Economic Forum
Managing Director
Saad Alaboodi
SITE
CEO
Doreen Bogdan-Martin
International Telecommunication Union
Secretary-General-elect

Rajesh Pant
National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India
National Cyber Security Coordinator

Göran Marby
ICANN
President and CEO

H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti
United Arab Emirates Government
Head of Cyber Security

Christopher Ahlberg
Recorded Future Inc.
CEO/Co-founder

Isa Ali Ibrahim
The Federal Republic of Nigeria
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy

H.E. Dr. Khalid Biyari
Ministry of Defense, Saudi Arabia
H.E. Assistant, Minister of Defense for Executive Affairs

Amin Nasser
Saudi Aramco
President and CEO

Major General Dr. Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi
INTERPOL
President

Olayan Alwetaid
stc Group
CEO

Sheikh Salman bin Mohammed Al Khalifa
The National Center for Cybersecurity, Bahrain
CEO

Ursula Owusu-Ekuful
Ghana
Minister for Communications and Digitalisation

Ben Miller
Dragos Inc.
Vice President of Services

Issam Abousleiman
World Bank
Regional GCC Director

Bocar Ba
SAMENA Telecommunications Council, UAE
CEO
Natasha Jackson
Oliver Tavakoli
Monique Morrow
Peter Sund
Purvi Kay
Vanessa Copetti Cravo
Kevin Emery
Juliette Wilcox
Almerindo Graziano
Rudolph Lohmeyer
Joe Sarno
Basmah M. Aljedia
Fahad Al-Jutaily
Abdulrahman S. Al-Fageeh
Mary Aiken
Bassant Hassib
Eugene Kaspersky
Marco Gercke
Andrea Rigoni
Dr. Beyza Unal
AnaMaria Meshkurti

Simon Sinisha Patkovic
Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Badran
Sasha Qadri
Khumbudzo Ntshavheni
Albert Antwi- Boasiako
Cyber Security Authority Republic of Ghana
Ag. Director-General
Algirde Pipikaite
Noor Nugali
Alex Liu
Kearney
Managing Partner and Chairman
Sunjoy Joshi
Marco Obiso
George Patsis

Chris Gibson
Robin Geiss

Dr. Yuhyun Park
Ian Goldin
Seena Amidi
Nathalie Rivat
John Omo
Kim Ik Kyun
Masanori Kondo
Steph Shample
David Kanamugire
Andrés Jesús Ruiz
Adrian Victor
Sang-Yoon Chang
Lt. Col. Dana Humaid
Ministry of Interior, United Arab Emirates
Director General, International Affairs Bureau
Sri Chandrasekaran
Pano Yannakogeorgos
Nezar AlOmar
Peter Selfridge
SAP
Global Head of Government Affairs
Aapo Cederberg

Christophe Blassiau
Hazim Almuhimedi

Bushra Alahmadi
Flavio Aggio
Charles Lim
Howard Taylor
Eng. Nadhmi Alnasr
Pierre-Yves Jolivet
Rodney Taylor
HE Eng. Abdullah A. Alswaha
John Crain
Laura Taddei
Richard Clarke
Jabiri Kuwe Bakari
Esa Alsumiri
Bilel Jamoussi
John Defterios
Mohamed Ben Amor
Mary O'Brien
Robert Putman
Preetam Maloor
Dr. Craig Wright
Sanjay Wijesekera
Paul Griswold
Eugene Kaspersky
Sylvain Guilley
Mark Ryland
Iain Drennan
Irakli Beridze
Piotr Ciepiela
Alexander Mejia
Mohammed Soliman
Helmut Reisinger
Amanda Third
Andreas Ekstrom
Martin Boer
Elvira Tejada De La Fuente
Abbas Kudrati
Risto Hotulainen
Craig Jones
Victoria Coates
Suliman Alsamhan
Adrian Colbrook
Olga Botero
Rebecca McLaughlin-Eastham
Rima Maktabi
Francois Candelon
Gwenda Fong
Ramia Farrage
Visa Vallivaara
Mark Zelman
Hanna M. Kreitem
Afrooz Kaviani Johnson
Yalda Aoukar
Fabien Rech
Rawan Radwan
Dr. Chafic Chaya
Oliver Väärtnõu
Lothar Renner
Kashif Kifayat
Khaled Al-Dhaher
Baher Esmat
Konstantinos Masselos
Chris Fox
Stefan Deutscher
Shoaib Yousuf
Mishari Almishari
Godfrey Gaston
Nadezhda Neynsky