Course Instructors

Juris Uzulāns

Occupation: Instructor in business processes area, risk management and project management with more than 20 years of experience in process analysis, business intelligence tools, risk and project management.

Teaching approach: Combines theory with practice and personal experience, using a variety of modern methods and artificial intelligence.

Anna Vladimirova-Kryukova

Occupation: Lawyer in the Intellectual Property and Information Technology Practice Group at COBALT's Latvian office.

Professional experience: Specializes in data protection, technology and sustainability issues, is a Certified Information Privacy Professional – Europe (CIPP/E), certified lead auditor for information security management systems (ISO/IEC 27001), certified personal data protection specialist and cybersecurity specialist in the Republic of Latvia. She also has extensive experience in commercial law issues related to start-ups. Lectures on information technology security and data protection and is the author of numerous publications.

Kirils Solovjovs

Occupation: Head of security company "Possible Security", IT policy activist, vulnerability researcher, and Latvia's most prominent "good hacker."

Professional experience: Kirils specializes in network flow analysis and reverse engineering, as well as social engineering. He has accumulated experience in investigating security incidents. Kirils has earned three higher education degrees with honors, including a master's degree in computer science from the University of Latvia, specializing in computer networks and project management. His professional experience is complemented by an internship at the NATO Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, developing the red team exercise "Crossed Swords".

Āris Dzērvāns

Professional experience: Managed ICT in companies such as "Latvijas Valsts ceļi" and "Latvijas Valsts meži", was director of "Rīgas digitālās aģentūras", and led the development of Latvian state ICT policy while working at "VARAM" as Deputy State Secretary for Digital Transformation. In addition, Aris has more than 15 years of experience working with Microsoft.

Dāvis Indriksons

Occupation: Head of the Cyber Security Management Center team.

Certificates obtained: ITIL® MP.