{"id":4094,"date":"2022-09-22T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2022-12-06T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T10:51:13","slug":"imagga-attended-the-improvate-defence-and-cyber-conference-in-sofia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/imagga-attended-the-improvate-defence-and-cyber-conference-in-sofia\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagga attended the IMPROVATE Defence and Cyber Conference in Sofia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Georgi Kostadinov, CTO of Imagga, along with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAf_mCYBINtkEvLdTESjUAjYBTTUOMESw8g\"><strong>Borislav Mavrov, <\/strong><\/a>Programme Director at Europ\u0435an Institute, took part in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/improvate.net\"><strong>IMPROVATE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0conference, a high-level event held in Sofia, Bulgaria, with the attendance of AI experts in the fields of defense and cybersecurity, as well as leading politicians, government, industry, CSO, academia, and diplomatic community representatives from NATO, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Israel, Greece, Bosnia, Montenegro, Romania, and Albania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlways happy to discuss the potential of <a href=\"https:\/\/imagga.com\"><strong>Imagga<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s pioneering computer vision tech in countering radicalisation and eliminating online threats developed as part of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/counter-project.eu\"><strong>CounteR Project<\/strong><\/a>\u201d, commented Georgi Kostadinov, CTO of Imagga.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1663600161733-1024x768.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1663600161733-1024x768.gif 1024w, https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1663600161733-800x600.gif 800w, https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1663600161733-768x576.gif 768w, https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1663600161733-1536x1152.gif 1536w, https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1663600161733-258x194.gif 258w, https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1663600161733-516x387.gif 516w, https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1663600161733-720x540.gif 720w, https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1663600161733-1032x774.gif 1032w, https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1663600161733-1440x1080.gif 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Excellent sessions from leaders such as Garry Kasparov,&nbsp;<strong>Rosen Plevneliev<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Solomon Passy<\/strong>, and many AI experts in defense and cybersecurity!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IMPROVATE is a platform that makes technology and innovation accessible to new markets around the world. 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Victor Ponta &#8211; Former Prime Minister of Romania | Yves Leterme &#8211; Former Prime Minister of Belgium | Dr. Vlado Buckkovski \u2013 Former Prime Minister of North Macedonia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgi Kostadinov, CTO of Imagga, along with\u00a0Borislav Mavrov, Programme Director at Europ\u0435an Institute, took part in the\u00a0IMPROVATE\u00a0conference, a high-level event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Imagga attended the IMPROVATE Defence and Cyber Conference in Sofia - Imagga Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/imagga.com\/blog\/imagga-attended-the-improvate-defence-and-cyber-conference-in-sofia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Imagga attended the IMPROVATE Defence and Cyber Conference in Sofia - 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