Speakers - CAIGF - Central Asian Internet Governance Forum

	Jambakin Askar Vice-Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan I started my career in 2003 as a first-category telecommunications technician at CJSC “Air Kazakhstan”. In 2010-2011. – head of the corporate system department, direct marketing officer of JSC “HSBC Bank Kazakhstan”. In 2011-2014, he worked in JSC “Bank Development of Kazakhstan” as the head of methodology and business processes management, director of business processes and corporate development departments. In 2014-2016. — Deputy Director of the Department of Management and Development of Payment Systems of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 2016-2017. the position of deputy director, director of the department in JSC “Kazkommertsbank”. In 2017-2018. — manager of the program project office, adviser to the chairman of the board of the national ICT holding “Zerde”. In 2018-2020. – holding managerial positions in commercial organizations. He was an external adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In November 2020, he was appointed as the Vice Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
	Sharshenova Indira Januzakovna Deputy Minister of Digital Development of Kyrgyzstan
	Burzhuev Azamat Cholponbekovich Head of the Digital Development Department of the Presidential Administration of Kyrgyzstan
	Chengetai Masango The head of the Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Mr Chengetai Masango is the head of the Secretariat of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) which was set up after the World Summit on the Information Society to facilitate public policy discourse on issues related to key elements of Internet governance in order to foster the sustainability, robustness, security, stability and development of the Internet. Mr Masango holds a master’s degree in International Relations- Global Information Policy and degrees in Information Management and Computer Programming.
	Rajnesh Singh Director, ISOC Asia‐Pacific Regional Bureau Rajnesh Singh is Director of the Asia‐Pacific Regional Bureau at the Internet Society (ISOC) where he oversees projects, initiatives and activities across ISOC’s functional and programmatic areas in the Asia and Pacific region, including Public Policy, Development, Capacity Building and Internet Standards and Technology. Prior to joining ISOC, Rajnesh played founding and leading roles in several technology and private equity investment firms, and still maintains varied business interests. In his professional capacity, Rajnesh has consulted on communications & power infrastructure, project management and business strategy for medium to large companies and organisations in the Asia‐Pacific region. He has also held advisory roles across multiple sectors ranging from governmental organisations to sporting organisations and the private sector. Rajnesh has worked extensively with the Asia‐Pacific Internet community, and has held several leadership roles, including Founding Chair of ICANN’s Asia Pacific Regional At‐Large Organisation (APRALO) and Chair of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society. He has worked extensively on ICT policy, training and capacity building in the region, including delivering programmes for UN agencies. Rajnesh is multi‐lingual and divides his time between Singapore and Sydney.
	Patrick L. Jones STAFF Senior Director, Global Stakeholder Engagement Patrick coordinates ICANN’s Global Stakeholder Engagement activities across its regional and functional teams, working closely with counterparts in ICANN org’s community-facing areas. Patrick oversees the function’s budget and operating activities, and coordinates operational alignment of global engagement activities across the regions. Patrick joined ICANN in March 2006 and has been active in Internet governance, policy, technology/security and privacy areas since 2000. Patrick previously served in the Security team from November 2009-October 2013, and ICANN’s Registry team from 2006-2009. He is a graduate of Indiana University McKinney School of Law and is developing conversational fluency in Spanish. Patrick is an invited participant from ICANN technical staff in the Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) and represents ICANN at the UN Group of Experts on Geographic Names (UNGEGN). He regularly speaks at regional Internet and DNS events on security, privacy and technology issues.
	Vahan Hovsepyan RIPE NCC, External Relation Officer, Caucasus and Central Asia Vahan Hovsepyan has a diverse background in boosting initiatives in ICT field. He is a Director of ARMIX Foundation-Armenian neutral Internet exchange, Armenian Operators Union, with more than 20 member companies. He worked at the Union of Information Technology Enterprises as a Deputy Director, heading Armenian technological delegations during different local and international activities. He has served as a Jury Member of Georgian ICT Award, and in 2017 became an ICANN Fellow. Vahan has participated in IXP workshops in Dushanbe and Bishkek, and was a co-host of RIPE NCC Regional Meeting in 2015 and host of ENOG 12 in 2016. He graduated from Armenian-Russian State University, and has completed executive education courses in Maastricht School of Management and John. F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. From July 2017, Vahan will serve as an External Relations Officer, Caucasus and Central Asia with the RIPE NCC.
	Gimranov Askhat Ildarovich Head of UZ Domain Administration, Uzbekistan
	George Chen Regional Public Policy Director at Meta (Facebook) George Chen’s career spans international media, academia, and now public policy at Meta (previously known as Facebook), whose mission is to bring the world closer together. As the Managing Director, Public Policy, for Greater China, Mongolia, and Central Asia, George serves as Meta’s “ambassador” to engage with the people and governments across the vast and diverse regions on a wide range of policy issues from online safety to data privacy, and free expression to digital economy. George joined Facebook in January 2016 as the company’s first-ever policy representative based in Hong Kong, home for Meta in the Greater China region.
	Tattu Mambetalieva Director of the Public Fund “Civil Initiative Internet Policy” Initiator and founder of the public platform Kyrgyz Forum of Information Technologies (KIT Forum), the annual Central Asian Forum on Internet Management CAIGF – https://caigf.org/ru/ as a regional initiative of the Global Forum on Internet Management (IGF), created under the auspices of UN. Innovator and public figure who contributed to institutional, legal and public development in the field of ICT, improvement of business climate and economic growth in the ICT sector of the Kyrgyz Republic. Actively participates in the formation of regional policy regulation in the CIS countries
	Valeriy Zubanov Commercial Director, Kaspersky Lab in Central Asia and Mongolia Since 2010, led a branch of the company AXOFT in Kyrgyzstan and engaged in the promotion of solutions to ensure information security. He started working at Kaspersky Lab in 2013 as a business development Manager in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Since 2014 commercial Director of Kaspersky Lab regional office in Central Asia and Mongolia.
	Almerindo Graziano CEO Cyber Ranges Almerindo a.k.a Al co-founded and now leads Silensec. He is also the co-chair at the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) of SWG 5.1 and 5.2 on cyber ranges, technical exercises and cyber security skills development. Al was the founder and course director of the MSc in Information Systems Security programme at Sheffield Hallam University, a first of its kind in the UK, and in collaboration with the British Standard Institution (BSI). Al has personally authored a number of training courses from ethical hacking to intrusion detection, along with the first ever ISO27001 Lead Implementer certification course offered by BSI worldwide. Al’s areas of expertise include: standards compliance (e.g. ISO27001, ISO22301, PCI DSS), IT infrastructure protection, design of SIEM and Log Management systems and development of cyber threat intelligence capabilities.
	Ruta Makareviciute Ruta is Consulting Partner, leads Consulting practice in Uzbekistan and Digital services in Central Asia and Caucasus. Since joining EY in 2002 and through her carrier Ruta has been working with governments across EMEIA by helping them to transform into modern governmental institutions and led GPS community in the EY EMEIA Advisory Center. Before joining EY Uzbekistan Ruta was an Advisory Partner at EY Baltic and has been working with the different government institutions and public sector agencies for more than 10 years, including feasibility study for interoperable e-services platform design and its implementation supervision. Ruta has wide range of experience successfully delivering transformational GPS (Government and Public Sector) projects, including core e-Government information systems design, selection and implementation, public finance management, better regulation and civil service reforms, strategic and budget planning, capacity building, quality management systems implementation.
	Asomudin Atoev CyberSTAR Regional Project Coordinator Asomudin Atoev is a regional director of SecDev Foundation and a project coordinator on cyber security of Civil Initiative of Internet Policy Public Fund in Kyrgyzstan now. He is a Master in Computer Science (2000, Salford University, Great Britain), a Master in ICT Natural Sciences (information and communication technologies) for development (2010, Manchester University, Great Britain) and a Scholar in the International Policy Fellowships Programme 2004/2005 of the Policy Studying Center (Central Europe University). He actively deals with the issues of ICT introduction both in practice and policy at the national and regional levels. He has a number of publications in such issues as ICT advantages of providing free and open software for technological independence, information society, electronic government and electronic participation. His joint work with Richardo Dunkomb called “The Development of Potential E-citizen” has won an award of International ICEGOV 2011 Conference for the Best work in the field of the theory and practice of electronic control. Besides, he is a coauthor of a number of researches on electronic readiness, cyber security, ICT for development, open data, digital broadcasting and regulations of telecommunication and TV and radio broadcasting.
	Irina Baikulova Interdisciplinary expert in the field of law and application of IT/ICT, specialist in the field of digital and cyber law. More than 25 years of legal practice and legal consulting in the state, commercial sphere, international and non-commercial organizations. Experience of conducting research, analysis, development and implementation of an advanced regulatory base in the field of IT/ICT, personal data, digital innovations in the Kyrgyz Republic. Co-author of bills and normative legal acts at the Government level in the field of IT use, personal data protection, digital transformation, digital services, interdepartmental information exchange. 6-year experience in conducting trainings and educational events for representatives of state structures, the private sector and civil society in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan on issues of personal data protection and cyber security regulation. Confirmed knowledge of international standards in this area.
	Alexei Marciuc Chairman – Comunitatea Internet Association, Coordinator – Moldova Internet Governance Forum (MIGF) Alexei Marciuc is Chairman and Co-founder of Comunitatea Internet Association – a non-governmental organization that supports and promotes the development of the open, secure, trustworthy, and unified global Internet. He is an initiator and national coordinator for the Moldova Internet Governance Forum, in February 2020 he was elected as a Chairman of the MIGF Organizing committee. He is a lawyer and researcher with strong background in issues lying at the intersection of law, media and technology, has been actively involved in regional and global Internet governance and human rights initiatives. Alexei Marciuc is a founding member of the Internet Freedom Network for Eastern, Central Europe and Eurasia, and a member of Freedom of Information Advocates Network. He is a regular contributor to the UN IGF, EuroDIG, Freedom Online Coalition annual meetings, as well as Internet Freedom Summit, where he also presented as a speaker and moderator. He is an author and coauthor of a number of analytical studies on different areas of legal regulation.
	Eric Johnson International expert in the field of freedom of access to information and technology Eric Johnson has worked on supporting freedom of access to information for over 30 years. Most of the first decade (largely the Russian-speaking world) focused on “conventional” media. Since then, his work has evolved toward internet freedom, launching and managing significant multi-country projects in the fields of pro-cyberliberty policy advocacy, anti-cybercensorship technology, and cybersecurity for journalists and activists. An American born in West Africa, he has lived in Kyiv, Moscow, Paris, Shanghai, Sydney, and now Singapore.
	Tatyana Zinovich Acting director of the Center for Legal Policy Research. Tatiana specializes in human rights and human rights issues. He is an expert on issues of transparency and accountability, responsible business management and criminal justice. He is a member of the Expert Group on Digital Rights of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Master of law.
	Askhat GimranovHead of UZ Domain Administration, Uzbekistan
	Oljas Satiev Oljas Satiev, the president of the center for tracking cyberattacks “Tsarka” and the founder of the WebTotem startup, which is engaged in legal hacking of its clients to check their level of information security, tells how thanks to “Tsarka” the cyber shield of Kazakhstan was created. It explains what ethical hacking is, and what the word “hacker” actually means. Oljas also shares tips on how to build a successful cybersecurity startup and reveals a plan to establish cybersecurity across Central Asia.
	Sarkis Darbinyan Head of Digital Rights Protection Center Sarkis Darbinyan is the head of the Digital Rights Protection Center and the leading lawyer of Roskomsvoboda. He is also the author of a number of studies focused on the legal regulation of copyright in the digital age, the responsibility of information intermediaries, the restriction of access to websites, cyber surveillance, law enforcement of the right to oblivion, as well as criminal and administrative prosecution in connection with the expression of opinions on the Internet. He is the ideologist of the campaign “Time to change copyright” and co-author of a number of bills to regulate copyright in the digital age. He is a strong supporter of the multistakeholder approach to the regulation of relations on the Internet. He believes that any new legal regulation of relations related to the use of online space should be balanced with the rights and interests of all parties: users, business, government.
	Abigail Menashe Executive Director of KARPOU (Kyrgyz Association of Software Developers and Services) Avigail Menashe is an Executive Director of the biggest Kyrgyz IT Association with 5+ years of experience in tech and innovations industry, global expansion, startup acceleration and business development in Central Asia. Her diverse skills span across: Strategic Partnerships with the Governments, Donor Agencies, VCs and Universities • Relationship, Account and Project Management • Business Development and Sales • Consulting and Mentoring; Product Management • Lean Startup Methodology • Grant Writing * Ed tech Additionally Avigail advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, and education in Tech through different projects around the country.
	Vladimer Svanadze Pre – eminent Georgian cybersecurity expert, founder and chairman of the Internet Development Initiative (IDI) Vladimer Svanadze is a pre – eminent Georgian cybersecurity expert, founder and chairman of the Internet Development Initiative (IDI). As a Managing Partner he established the Cyber Security Academy (CSA) and the “Georgian Information Security Association (GISA)”. Mr. Vladimer is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research (GFCSR). Vladimer is an Invited Lecturer at the University of Georgia. In the scope of official cooperation with the Ministry of Defense of Georgia, Mr. Vladimer was a Consultant of the “LEPL Cyber Security Bureau” in 2014 – 2016. He was involved in the preparation of the final version of 2017 – 2018 and 2021 – 2024 National Cybersecurity Strategies and Action Plans of Georgia. Additionally, he was involved in the working process related to a new legislation regarding Information Security.

Jambakin Askar

Sharshenova Indira Januzakovna

Burzhuev Azamat Cholponbekovich

Chengetai Masango

Rajnesh Singh

Patrick L. Jones STAFF

Vahan Hovsepyan

George Chen

Tattu Mambetalieva

Valeriy Zubanov

Almerindo Graziano

Ruta Makareviciute

Asomudin Atoev

Irina Baikulova

Alexei Marciuc

Eric Johnson

Tatyana Zinovich

Oljas Satiev

Sarkis Darbinyan

Abigail Menashe