Speaker Bio:

Axel is passionate about Product Security in general, and hardware and supply chain security in particular. Based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, he is currently Head of xen1thLabs -the leading cyber security test and validation laboratory in the GCC region. Previously, he worked at NXP semiconductors in Hamburg, Germany on securing high security smart cards and before that he was an assistant professor at NTU, Singapore. Axel holds a PhD in electrical engineering and is currently pursuing an Executive MBA. He published more than 40 scientific articles with more than 8000 citations on lightweight crypto and cryptographic engineering and he is co-editor of 2 ISO standards on lightweight crypto