2025 Conference on International Cyber Security | 4-5 November 2025
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Day 1

Tuesday 4 November 2025

9:00 – 9:45 Registration & welcome

9:45 – 10:00 Welcome by Dennis Broeders

10:00 – 11:00 Keynote 1

Moderators:

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Corneliu Bjola

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Tech Diplomacy and the Future of International Digital Order

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee & tea break

11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Sessions

Panel 1

Cyber Diplomacy: Its Evolution and Future

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André Barrinha

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Arindrajit Basu

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Re-arranging cyber diplomacy's pecking order: the UN Open Ended Working Group and the rise of the 'Global South'

Cyber Diplomacy: Its Evolution and Future

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Raman Jit Singh Chima

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Faiz Naeem

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Diplomacy, Deal-Making, or Disruption: What Avenues Lie Ahead for Cyber Dialogue for the second half of the 2020s?

Cyber Diplomacy: Its Evolution and Future

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Chimdi Igwe

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Analysing African engagement in the UN OEWG process through text mining

Panel 2

Geopolitics and Digital Infrastructures

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Anna Oriishi

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Re‑ordering Global Governance through Submarine Cable Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Policy and Infrastructural Geopolitics

Geopolitics and Digital Infrastructures

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Liling Xu

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Arctic Subsea Cables: Materialities, Geopolitics, and the Reordering of Cyberspace

Geopolitics and Digital Infrastructures

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Elena Cioffi

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Beyond Dependence: Rethinking Europe’s Cybersecurity Infrastructure in Light of Transatlantic Shifts

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Parallel Sessions

Panel 3

Normative (Re-)ordering of Cyberspace

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Stanislav Budnitsky

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Digital Solidarity: A Metaphor of Global Re-Ordering

Normative (Re-)ordering of Cyberspace

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Miftahul Ulum

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Tamara Nair

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Jompon Pitaksantayothim

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Bora Park

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Faby Izaura Y Barus

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Fragmentation and Re-ordering in ASEAN Cybersecurity: Between Normative Ambitions and Geopolitical Realities

Normative (Re-)ordering of Cyberspace

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Bo Ma

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Navigating Cyber Sovereignty and Security: China's Evolving Legal and Normative Strategy in Cyberspace

Panel 4

Spooks in Cyberspace: Surveillance of the Digital Realm

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Anchi Cao

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Data Brokers in the Age of Cyber Disorder: Powerless Paradoxes and the Reordering of Governance through Structural Vulnerabilities

Spooks in Cyberspace: Surveillance of the Digital Realm

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Natalie Davidson

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Big Tech and the Regulation of the Global Trade in Spyware

Spooks in Cyberspace: Surveillance of the Digital Realm

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Apolline Rolland

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James Shires

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Beyond persistent access: the infrastructural logics of state-sponsored digital espionage

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee & tea break

16:00 – 17:00 Keynote 2

Moderators:

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Paul Timmers

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17:00 – 18:30 Drinks/break

18:30 – 21:00 Conference dinner

Day 2

Wednesday 5 November 2025

9:30 – 10:00 Coffee & tea break

10:00 – 11:00 Keynote 3

Moderators:

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Duncan Hollis

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11:30 – 12:30 Parallel Sessions

Panel 5

The Politics and Agency of Cybercriminals

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Helena Huang

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Redefining Power Dynamics in the Digital Age: Cybercriminals as Rule-Makers in the Southeast Asia Landscape

The Politics and Agency of Cybercriminals

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Conner Joyce

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Politics in the Dark Web: Mobilization and Radicalization in Cybercrime Networks

Panel 6

National Perspectives on a Geopoliticised Internet

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Saeideh Shariati Najafabadi

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Cybersecurity and Strategic Autonomy in Iran: Navigating US Pressure through Digital Resistance and Innovation

National Perspectives on a Geopoliticised Internet

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Tobias Liebetrau

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Small State, Big Impact: How Czechia and Denmark Navigate Cybersecurity in a Transforming Digital Space

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 15:30 Parallel Sessions

Panel 7

Shaping the Digital: Cybersecurity Communities Beyond the State

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Hannah-Sophie Weber

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Friendly foes: How emerging cybersecurity communities cushion geopolitical turmoil

Shaping the Digital: Cybersecurity Communities Beyond the State

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Liliya Khasanova

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Josephine Wolff

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Private and Public Sector Stakeholder Perspectives on the EU AI Act

Shaping the Digital: Cybersecurity Communities Beyond the State

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Alina Kontareva

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Franco Tomassoni

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Szymon Pilch

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Maurilio Pirone

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Between Dependency and Autonomy: European Approach to Platform Companies

Shaping the Digital: Cybersecurity Communities Beyond the State

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Jack Goldsmith

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The geopoliticization of open-source software communities: Towards a model of features, organization, and methods

Panel 8

The Fifth Domain: Cyberspace and Conflict

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Matthias Schulze

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Ondrej Rosendorf

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Offensive Cyber-postures and the risk of escalation

The Fifth Domain: Cyberspace and Conflict

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Aanya Dandass

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Rules of Engagement: How U.S. Cyber Strategy Is Quietly Normalising Offensive Cyber Operations

The Fifth Domain: Cyberspace and Conflict

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Ksenia Rundin

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Nina Khairova

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Jonas Colliander

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Liveness, (Dis-)Loyalty, and Legitimacy: Russian War Bloggers and the Narrative Reordering of Cyberspace

The Fifth Domain: Cyberspace and Conflict

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Gil Baram

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Re-ordering Accountability: The Geopolitical Significance of Joint Cyber Attribution in a Fragmented Cyberspace

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee & tea break

16:00 – 17:00 Keynote 4

Moderators:

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Myriam Dunn Cavelty

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17:00 – 17:15 Conference closing & presentation best paper award by Dennis Broeders

17:15 – 18:30 Closing drinks