Octavia de Weerdt

Octavia de Weerdt is a Romanian-Dutch expert in cybersecurity and women in tech. She has been the director of the National Internet Providers Association (NBIP) since 2017. Prior to that, she was the director of sevenP, a hosting company. De Weerdt grew up in Romania, where girls in tech are the norm, and faced biases as a technical woman in the Netherlands. She is a prominent figure in the cybersecurity and anti-DDoS communities.