{"code":"GU7EG3","name":"Aaron Kaplan","biography":"Aaron Kaplan\r\n\r\nBackground: Computer Science TU Vienna and Mathematics Univ. of Vienna.\r\n\r\nCurrently working for DIGIT-S.2 where he focuses on how AI can help IT security and Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysis.\r\n\r\nPrior to joining DIGIT-S.2, Aaron was employee #4 of CERT.at, the national CERT of Austria from 2008-2020. \r\n\r\nAt CERT.at, he co-developed and founded the IntelMQ Incident Response automation framework (intelmq.org).\r\nDuring his time at CERT.at he held multiple additional roles. Amongst others, he was member of the board of directors of the global Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST.org) between 2014-2018.  \r\n\r\nHe is a frequent speaker at (IT security) conferences such as Blackhat, hack.lu, FIRST or Falling Walls, amongst others.\r\n\r\nHe is the founder of the FunkFeuer (http://www.funkfeuer.at) free wireless mesh community ISP in Austria. Funkfeuer, received international attention as a role model for bottom-up networking. Amongst others an article in Scientific American [1]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAaron likes to come up with ideas which have a strong positive benefit for (digital) society as a whole and which scale up.","submissions":["7WSPY8"],"avatar":"https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/4532bfe85bf353d4ef118650383c4b24"}