APWG.EU Tech Summit & Researchers Forum 2025
Innovations against Cybercrime through Global Cooperation
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The APWG.EU Tech Summit & Researchers Forum 2025 brings together global leaders in cybersecurity, cybercrime investigation, digital forensics and threat intelligence for a two-day event in the heart of the Mediterranean.
Hosted at the Manifattura Tabacchi in Cagliari, Sardinia on June 17–18, 2025, the Summit convenes researchers, policy-makers, law enforcement, industry professionals, and technologists to share knowledge, present innovative solutions and foster cross-sector collaboration in the fight against cybercrime.
With a rich agenda of keynote presentations, technical talks, panel discussions, and collaborative sessions, the event explores topics such as phishing and online fraud, threat actor behavior, AI in cyber defense, digital financial crime, and the human factor in cybersecurity.
Confirmed speakers include high-level representatives from the European Commission, Poste Italiane, National LEAs, PagoPA, CaixaBank, Nestlé, and leading academic institutions.
The event is organized by APWG.EU and proudly supported by: Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Sardegna Ricerche, Comune di Cagliari, Cagliari Digital Lab, and CYBER 4.0 - Cybersecurity Competence Center, Verisign, Hitachi Systems, Meridian Group, Pluribus One, ECLEXYS, Women4Cyber Italia, OWASP Italy, ISC2 Italy Chapter.
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Agenda
Welcome by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna and Opening Announcements
Mariaelena Motzo, Minister for General Affairs, Human Resources and Administrative Reform, Autonomous Region of Sardinia
Welcome by Sardegna Ricerche
Keynote – European Commission: all-in against Cybercrime: a bold new era of cooperation
Monika Kopcheva, Head of the Unit for Security in the Digital Age, European Commission - DG for Migration and Home Affairs
LEAs Panel: Cross-Border Cybersecurity: Building International Alliances Against Digital Threats
Carlos Urkizo, Cyber Investigator, Ertzaintza - Basque Country Police
Cybercrime Trends and Police Countermeasures in Japan
Nakagawa Yohsuke, Assistant Director in Cybercrime Prevention Office at Cyber Affairs Bureau, National Police Agency Japan
Break
Can we improve collaboration between trust groups and law enforcement?
Jesse Sowell, M3AAWG Expert Advisor, UCL, University College London
Human factor in Digital Fraud
Massimo Maione, Fraud Analyst Specialist, Poste Italiane
Cyberintelligence: the new frontiers of digital investigations
Selene Giupponi, Managing Director Europe Resecurity Inc. Founder & Secretary General Women4Cyber Italia, Women4Cyber/Resecurity
Break
Strengthening Digital Transition Through Public-Private Partnership: Empowering Innovation and SME Cyber Resilience
Matteo Lucchetti, Director, Cyber 4.0
Silent Intrusions: the rise of targeted attacks on mobile platforms
Marc Riviero, APWG.EU & La Salle Campus, Barcellona
Enhancing Bot Detection with casually and temporally constrained counterfactual examples for targeted retraining
Davy Preuveneers, Industrial Research Manager, KU Leuven
Break
SAETI: State-Actor empowered threat intelligence... a good or a bad thing?
Righard Zwienenberg, Senior Research Fellow, ESET
Leveraging LLM for Cyber Threat Intelligence
Nicola Deidda, University of Cagliari
Improving Cybercrime Detection and Digital Forensics Investigations with AI
Silvia Lucia Sanna, University of Cagliari
An assessment of Adversarial Attacks on Perceptual Hashing Systems
Mark O’Neill, Technological University Dublin
22:00
Networking Cocktail hosted by Sardegna Ricerche
Welcome by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna and Opening Announcements
Giuseppe Meloni, Regional Councillor for Planning
Keynote
General Antonio Mancazzo, Commander of the Guardia di Finanza’s Privacy Protection and Technological Fraud Unit, Guardia di Finanza
Research Chalk-Talk: Future of eCrime Research
- Luca Cadonici, European Forensic Institute
- Marc Rivero, APWG.EU & La Salle Campus, Barcellona
- Felipe Castaño, VICOMTECH
Break
Dive into the EU Cyber Resilience Act
Davide Ariu, CEO and co-founder of Pluribus One
Emerging Cybercrime Trends and APWG's role
Dave Jevans, Chairman, APWG
Intelligence Unleashed: how LAZARUS powers the future of secure software
Adriana Freitas, Responsible for Research projects, APWG.EU
Break
Modern Cybercrime and Financial Frauds
Angelo Consoli, Founder / Managing Director, Eclexys
FinTech Panel
- Massimo Simbula, Founder, Studio Simbula Law Firm
- Keshav Kamble, CEO/CTO, Avocado Systems
- Luca Girau, Security Resp. of Governance, Risk & Compliance, PagoPa
- Gianfranco Lanzilli, Director of Security and IT Operations Director, CISO, PagoPa
- Mario Maawad, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
From Clicks to Tricks: the evolution of online scams
Ana Tone, Senior Manager, Senior Manager Threat Defense Analysis, GEN
Break
16:45
Security and Compliance maturity tracker
Francesco Saverio Stella, Nestlé
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