Programme

9:40 – 9:45

Welcome Addresses by the Prime Minister, Mr. Rosen Zhelyazkov

9:50 –10:00

Welcome Addresses by the Minister of Finance, Ms. Temenuzhka Petkova

Panel I: Building AI Capacity for the Benefit of Good Governance

10:00 – 10:15

Study on Public Trust in the Bulgarian National Audit Office and the Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector

Research Center Trend (presentation of a sociological survey and analysis)

10:15 – 10:30

Developing AI Capacity in the Country:   Establishment of an AI Factory 

Tomislav Donchev, Deputy Prime Minister,

Minister of Innovation and Growth

10:30 – 10:45

Artificial Intelligence as an Opportunity to Optimise the Oversight of Public Finances

Iliana Ivanova, Member of the European Court of Auditors

10:45 – 11:00

Artificial Intelligence with INSIGHT: Large Language Models, Implementation and Sovereignty

Eng. Borislav Petrov, Executive Director of INSIGHT

11:00 -11:15

Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Auditing

Sylvia Peneva, Deloitte Bulgaria

11:15 – 11:30

Responding to Cyber Threats and Managing Database Storage: A Government Perspective

Valentin Mundrov, Minister of e-Government

11:30 – 11:45

Group Photo of the Official Guests and Conference Participants

Coffee Break

Panel II: Innovative Technologies and Cybersecurity

11:45 – 12:00

Artificial Intelligence – Partner or Threat to the Auditor

Dobroslav Dimitrov, Chairman of the Bulgarian Employers' Association Innovative Technologies (BRAIT) and Member of the Advisory Board of the Bulgarian Association of Software Companies (BASSCOM)

12:00 – 12:15

First Steps in the Implementation of Artificial Intelligence at the Bulgarian National Audit Office

Tsvetana Mateva,

Chief expert, Planning, reporting, development and audit quality management unit, Bulgarian National Audit Office

12:15 – 12:30

IT audit and Cybersecurity:

 Rising to the New Risk Landscape

Alvar Nõuakas, Chair of the EUROSAI IT Working Group (SAI Estonia)

12:30 – 12:45

Addressing the Challenges of High-Risk AI Systems in the Public Sector through Effective IT Auditing          

Dafina Dimitrova, Assistant Director General at the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI)

12:45 – 13:00

Audit of Trust: Assessing the Security and Reliability of AI and Biometric Systems in Digital Administration

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Agata Manolova, Dean of the Faculty of Telecommunications, Technical University of Sofia

13:00 – 13:10

Closing of the Conference

13:10-13:25

Group Photo of All Conference Participants and Guests, taken in the Hall

13:25 – 15:00 ч

 Working Lunch at Grand Hotel Millennium Sofia