14th-16th OCTOBER 2025
BRINDISI, ITALY

Antonella Calo

Antonella Calo

  • Ph.D Candidate
  • University of Salento, Italy

    Antonella Calo is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Salento, working across the Departments of Legal Studies and Engineering for Innovation with a Linguistics Background.
    Her research focuses on AI-based multilingual veracity assessment of public datasets, addressing hybrid threats, Information Manipulation, and the protection of critical infrastructures, aligned with EU values and FAIR data principles. She has worked with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (Unit E.2 HYCER) on threat modeling for space infrastructure and hybrid threats, integrating LLMs and open-source data with European data sources. She also collaborated with CETMA within the European Digital Innovation Hub initiative on cybersecurity and digital transformation for public administrations and SMEs.
    Additional work includes conflict and risk analysis with UNGSC, and regional infrastructure resilience projects with UNIMED and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her background combines social sciences, computational linguistics, legal frameworks, and technical skills in data science, making her highly interdisciplinary and data/policy-focused.

    Sessions

    • Risk Management & Mitigation Strategies

      Developing comprehensive resilience within the critical infrastructure community requires structured information sharing, a commitment to infrastructure preparedness, and robust risk management and mitigation strategies. How do we approach identifying, assessing and prioritising risks and build in resilience through reducing vulnerabilities, whilst planning for a potential disaster.

    • Emerging Threats against CI/CE

      The threats to critical infrastructure and entities continue to evolve. Cyberattacks are becoming more elaborate, threat of terrorism activities are on the increase, natural induced disasters worsen due to the changing weather patterns, and new threats like drone attacks and AI misuse emerge. This constant shift demands continuous updates to security measures. How can we identify, monitor and manage their potential damage?