BSDA brings together worldwide exhibitors, specialized visitors and official military delegations around the world.

BSDA offer to exhibitors, and also visitors, various services in order to help them to develop their commercial opportunities.

BSDA is not just an exhibition, but the best platform to showcase in life-size and live demos numerous equipment and systems, make presentations during our conferences and workshops.

BSDA 2024 Homeland Security, Safety & Protection Conference

• The BSDA 2024 Homeland Security, Safety & Protection Conference will take place in 2024 in the beautiful National Military Club, a Ministry of National Defense building which was built more than 100 years ago! Considered a historic and an architectural monument, the National Military Club represents the central cultural institution of the Romanian Armed Forces.
• The BSDA 2024 Homeland Security, Safety & Protection is organized together with the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs and will bring together the industry and the governmental decision makers with competencies in this field.
• In the new geo-political and social realities, the Romanian Government is looking to upgrade and secure its citizens, critical infrastructure and borders. The main theme of the event is the Security & Safety Challenges in the Never Ending Environment Changes & Advancing Technologies.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs representatives and the other Romanian representatives of public institutions are eager to find out the new technologies and products available on the market presented by the attending companies.

The event’s agenda will feature the following topics:

• Public Order and Law Enforcement
• Cybersecurity
• Counterterrorism
• Emergency Management
• Fire Protection and Rescue
• Counterdrug
• Border Security
• Transnational Organized Crime

– Tomorrow’s defence, by AI
– Unveiling the Future: AI in Cybersecurity
– Digital communications in the age of AI
– Mastering the AI: ethic and legal considerations
– AI as enabler and challenger of societal resilience
– AI-enhanced education
– Round-table: AI in money laundering and crypto

The aim of the Conference is to address the complex impact of AI on the resilience of our society as a whole and explore the dual role that it has, of facilitator and disruptor, in domains like defense, communications, education, societal resilience, ethics and cyber. Objectives: In this regard, the conference aims to:

– Facilitate awareness about current trends in this domain and the actors involved in the process
– Stimulate the exchange of information on AI in specific domains, covered by the panels of the conference
– Create a collaborative environment/format between experts, developers and decision-makers in the field
– Share best practices and discuss principles in the ethical and safe use of AI
– Strengthen trust and relationships between stakeholders
– Identify the major vulnerabilities and opportunities in the context of AI development and potential large-scale use towards building resilient institutions and societies

Distinguished guests and speakers list:

* Ovidiu RAEȚCHI – President, Euro-Atlantic Resilience Centre
* Amb. Ovidiu DRANGA – Euro-Atlantic Resilience Centre
* Luca TAGLIARETTI – Executive Director, European Cybersecurity Competence Center
* Sorin–Dan MOLDOVAN – Chairperson, Committee for Information technologies and communications, Chamber of Deputies
* Gabriela RAMOS – Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences of UNESCO (video)
* Cristian SFICHI – Regional Managing Director for Romania , Ukraine & Caucasus, THALES
* Luciana MOROGAN – AI expert at European Defence Fund, DG DEFIS, EU Commission
* Isidoros MONOGIOUDIS – Project officer, European Defence Agency
* Dongyoun CHO, Senior Researcher, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
* Andrei MITRANA – Senior Cyber Security Manager, Human Capital at National Cyber Security Directorate
* Cătălina IOSUB – System engineer specialist, Palo Alto Networks
* Marianne LINDROTH – Project Manager, Aalto University
* Yugo NEUMORNI – President, CIO Council
* Nathalie VANDYSTADT, Policy Coordinator for relations and negotiations with the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, DG CONNECT, European Commission
* Seizo ONOE – Director, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
* Ioan DEMETER – Partner, Mware Solutions SA
* Major-General Mădălin MIHAI – Technical Deputy Director, Special Telecommunications Service
* Ciprian ZAMFIRESCU – Vodafone Romania
* Sabin DIMA – Founder & CEO, Humans.AI

• Besleaga Liviu – President RO-EU CCCR