Cyber Security Personality of the Year 2023

• Miguel De Bruycker, Managing Director General at the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium​ (CCB)

• Despina Spanou, Head of Cabinet for European Commission Vice President Schinas at the European Commission

• Nina Olesen, Head of Sector at the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) & Women4Cyber Foundation

• Gunter Van De Wiele, Policy advisor Innovation and Development at the Federal Police Belgium

• Laurent Minne, Founder, CISO, executive member at Be.Cyber

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CISO of the Year 2023

• Claudio Bolla, Group Information Security Director at INEOS

• Siska Hallemeesch, Information Security Consultant active as a CISO as a Service at NVISO Belgium

• Majdeline Elatrache, Information Security Manager at STIB-MIVB

• Philippe Michiels, CISO at Cegeka

• Steven Weytjens, CISO at Ziegler

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Young Cyber Security Professional of the Year 2023

• Maarten Toelen, Manager - Crisis Management & Cyber Resilience at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

• Guillaume Deterville, Co-founder of Cresco Cybersecurity & BeHack

• Inti De Ceukelaire, Chief Hacker Officer at INTIGRITI

• Maxime Thiebaut, Incident Response, Digital Forensics and Threat Intelligence Analyst at NVISO

• Soultana Ellinidou, Cybersecurity Manager at Thales Group Belgium

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Cyber Security Researcher of the Year 2023

• Axel Legay, Professor at UCLOUVAIN

• Kurt Callewaert, Valorisation manager Digital Transformation at Hoest University of Applied Sciences

• Yuri Bobbert, Professor at Antwerp Management School (AMS)

• Wouter Castryck, Research Expert at KU Leuven (research group COSIC)

• Mathy Vanhoef, Assistant Professor at KU Leuven

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