CYpBER 2016 Conference Booklet Cyber Security | Page 4

Welcome address Mr Vasilis Zomenos Director CYpBER 2016 Your Excellency, Minister of Transport, Communication & Works of the Republic of Cyprus, Your Excellency, Mayor of Nicosia, Your Honorable Permanent Secretary, dear Executives, conventioneers ladies and gentlemen I would like to welcome and thank you all, for your presence and participation during the 2nd CypBER Int'l Conference of 2016 on behalf of our company Zomidea Design & Services ltd. The conference is organized under the auspices of the Ministry Transport, Communication & Works of the Republic of Cyprus, which from the first moment embraced our event and for that, we are quite grateful. Incidentally, I would like to express my gratitude to our SUPREME SPONSOR: "MEDUSA Project" a Program of the European Union, lead by the University of Piraeus Research Centre and partnered by the University of Cyprus, EUROPHAR, the Austrian Instiute of Technology & Singular Logic. Also my gratitude to our SENIOR SPONSORS: CISCO Systems, ORACLE - INTEL and our SPONSOR: MARSH Brokers for their valuable support in the preservation of this Institution. On this occasion, I would like to honor the memorable former Minister of Transport, Communications & Works, Mr. Tasos Mitsopoulos, supporter of the 1st conference CYpBER 2013, subsequent Minister of Defense of the Republic of Cyprus, with a brief moment of silence in his memory. Once again, I would like to welcome all of you and hope for a productive and beneficial Conference. I call Mr. Marios Demetriades, Minister of Transport, Communications & Works of the Republic of Cyprus, for the official opening of the Conference.