Chief Patron
Dr. Zsolt KUTNYÁNSZKY
State Secretary for Force Development and Defence Policy
Hungarian Ministry of Defence
In 2006, Dr. Kutnyánszky started to work at the Budapest Waterworks as a Legal Counsellor and then as a Head of Cabinet. Between 2008 and 2013 he held various positions at the National Development Agency. In 2014 he joined the Ministry for Innovation and Technology and its successor institutions (2014-2022) first as Head of Department, then as Deputy State Secretary for Transport Operational Programmes and subsequently as State Secretary for Industrial Policy and Technology. In 2023 he held the position of Ministerial Commissioner at the Ministry of Energy.
Currently, as the State Secretary for Force Development and Defence Police at the Ministry of Defence, the protection of critical infrastructure is a key focus of his broad portfolio, as a part of force development, defence innovation, defence policy and human resources policy.
Plenary Speakers
Prof. Dalibor DOBRILOVIC, PhD
Full professor
University of Novi Sad
Technical Faculty “Mihajlo Pupin” – Zrenjanin, Serbia
Department of Information Technology
Presentation title:
Zero-Knowledge Proof Protocols for Securing IoT-Based Critical Infrastructure Systems
Dr. Dalibor Dobrilovic is a full professor at the Information Technology department at the University of Novi Sad, Technical Faculty “Mihajlo Pupin”, Zrenjanin. He received his PhD in Information Technology in 2012. His research interests are in the areas of IoT, Smart Cities, Wireless Communications, Wireless Sensor Networks, Computer Networking, Engineering education, etc. Dalibor Dobrilovic has more than 180 research articles (Scopus: 335 Citations, 68 Documents, h-index 10; WoS: 168 Citations, 44 Publications, h-index 8; IEEE Xplore: 95 Citations, 28 Publications) published in international journals and conferences. He has participated in three EU and over ten nationally funded scientific, research, and technical projects. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE Education Society, IEEE Communication Society, ACM (Association for Computer Machinery), and ACM SIGCOMM. From 2019 to 2023, he has been president of the Council of the Technical Faculty “Mihajlo Pupin”, Zrenjanin. Since 2018 he has been president of the local HAM radio club “Zrenjanin”. In 2016, he was the mentor of student team 6thSense in an international competition Texas Instruments TI Innovation Challenge (TIIC) European Design Contest, which won one of seven 1st round prizes in the category of Innovation. He is a technical committee member of the following international conferences: ICICCT, New Delhi, India; SSSCC and ICCECIP, Budapest, Hungary; ICI2C’21, Morocco; EAI FABULOUS, Zagreb, Croatia; AIIT and ITRO, Zrenjanin, Serbia.
Prof. Levente DIMÉN, PhD
Full professor
„1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania – Faculty Informatics and engineering, Alba Iulia, Romania
Presentation title:
Analysis of Natural and Anthropogenic Hazard in order to Produce Vulnerability az Risk Maps
Levente Dimén is currently professor in Soil science and remote sensing at the „1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania – Faculty Informatics and engineering, Alba Iulia, Romania and he is also head of department for distance learning and continuous education since 2012. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography; M.A. in Environment sciences; B.A. in Environment sciences.He teaches Soil sciences, remote sensing, geomorphology and geomorphological risk assessment. Her research interests focus on: GIS, GIS aided modelling, distance education and lifelong learning, and he has published numerous works in these fields both as an author and co-author or editor.He is one of the experts evaluators of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education for commission 13 Distance education and he is the Erasmus+ departmental Coordinator.
Prof. László KOVÁCS, DSc
Full professor
Ludovika University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary
