Program

Event Schedule

3 days of keynotes, workshops, and research presentations

08:00 – 09:00

Check-in & Registration

Entrance of guests, participants, and speakers

Zoom Link
09:00 – 09:15

Opening Ceremony

President of UCA – Mr. Blaid Bougadir
Director of ENSA – Mr. Hassan Ayad
President of the Committee – Mr. Anas Abou El Kalam

09:15 – 09:55

Plenary Conference

Prof. Layth Sliman – senior R&D and Professor, West Virginia University

09:55 – 10:35

Plenary Conference

Nourredine Lasfar – Head of the Company's Digital Transformation department (ADD)

10:35 – 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:00

Round Table: Decision Makers

• Hicham Faik – CEO CYBERFORGE
• Karim Hamdaoui – CEO LMPS
• Mohamed Amine Lemfedli – CEO TRUST AND SECURITY CONSULTING
• Jamal Jessour – President of the Digital Economy Commission ICC Morocco | Vice-President of ISACA Casablanca | President of the Cyber Security & Privacy Forum

12:00 – 12:45

Plenary Conference

Mohamed Boutaleb – Principal Offensive Security Team Lead @ Nearsecure

12:45 – 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:40

Round Table: CISOs & Security Experts

• Ayoub Arbaoui – Senior Cyber Security Manager Bank Al Maghreb
• Jawad Benabbou – CISO of SRM Marrakech-Safi
• Taieb Hezzaz – CEO/Founder of CyberX
• Abdelwahab Haddaoui – Ph.D & Program Director and Strategic Leadership

14:40 – 15:50

Round Table: AI & Cybersecurity

• Zouheir Lakhdissi – CEO Dial Technologies
• Jules Hervé Yimeumi – President of Africa Data Protection
• Abderrazak El Kaddouri – Lawyer at the Rabat Bar and Privacy & AI expert at TNP Consultants
• Jamal Saad – CEO OGSBC

15:50 – 16:30

Plenary Conference

Walid Laasmi – SR Manager & Head of Cybersecurity, Foster Processing

16:30 – 18:50

Innovative Projects Visit

Visit of innovative projects exhibition

18:50

Innovative Project Awards

08:30 – 09:00

Registration & Reception

09:00 – 09:40

Plenary Conference

KC Santhos – Full Professor (AI) & Chair, Computer Science, University of South Dakota | Founding Director, USD AI Research | PhD (INRIA)

Zoom Link
10:30 – 12:45

Session 1: Intelligent AI Systems, Cybersecurity, and Emerging Technologies

View 9 papers

10:30 – 10:45 – Koo Imai, Keigo Kansa: "Generalization Limits of Reinforcement Learning Alignment: Detecting LLM Vulnerabilities through Compound Jailbreaks"
10:45 – 11:00 – Chaimae Lahrire: "Improving Diabetes Prediction Using a Hybrid Model: Machine Learning and Rule-Based Logic"
11:00 – 11:15 – Achraf Ait Benaali: "A Lightweight Blockchain-based Framework for Ensuring Training Data Integrity in Machine Learning Pipelines"
11:15 – 11:30 – Hajar Agrar: "Multi-Agent Collaborative Intrusion Detection Systems: A Survey of Architectures, Agent Technologies, and AI Techniques"
11:30 – 11:45 – Oussama Lachihab, My Ahmed El Kiram and Latifa Errajy: "Hybrid Multi-Person Tracking Framework for Dense and Dynamic Environments"
11:45 – 12:00 – Saad Mansouri, Anas Abouelkalam and Wissam Abbass: "Securing the Model Context Protocol: A Systematic Analysis of Attack Surfaces and Defense Gaps"
12:00 – 12:15 – Theophile Laroussinie, Tarik Hidar: "Coping AI: Predictive Modeling of Workplace Resilience Through Longitudinal Emotional Intelligence"
12:15 – 12:30 – Lawan Salisu Muhammad: "AI-Driven Deep Learning and IoT-Based Optimization of Lithium-Ion Battery Performance with Cybersecurity Frameworks for Renewable Energy Systems"
12:30 – 12:45 – Anass Assouri and Rajae Ziki: "Heterogeneous Multi Agent Ensemble with Dynamic Class Weighting for Multi-class Network Intrusion Detection" (Online)

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 – 14:40

Plenary Conference

Dr. Sandip Rakshit – Associate Professor at Rabat Business School | Associate Editor of "IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics" and "ACM Computing Survey"
"From Research Idea to Top-Tier Publication: An Editor's Lens on AI and Cybersecurity Research"

Zoom Link
14:40 – 16:10

Session 2: AI, Cybersecurity, and Intelligent Agent Systems

View 6 papers

14:40 – 14:55 – Edoardo Bambini: "Agent Armor: A Deterministic Multi-Layer Runtime for Zero-Trust AI Agent Governance" (Online)
14:55 – 15:10 – Mahesh Gopalakrishnan: "AI-Augmented Security Operations: A Unified Framework for Intelligent Threat Detection in Enterprise Environments" (Online)
15:10 – 15:25 – Mohamed Ohamouddou, Rafik Lasri and Suhail Odeh: "Lightweight Damascena Rose Maturity Classification via Wavelet Scattering" (Online)
15:25 – 15:40 – Nicholette Lindsay: "Quasi-Symbiotic Domain Warfare: The Orbro Protocol" (Online)
15:40 – 15:55 – Ferdaouss Nmari: "A Multidimensional Classification Model for Security Vulnerabilities in Medical Wireless Sensor Networks" (Online)
15:55 – 16:10 – Blessing Ezeobioha: "Explainable AI for Security Operations: Improving Cyber Threat Intelligence Reporting Across African Organizations" (Online)

Zoom Link
14:40 – 16:25

Session 3: Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Intelligent Business Applications

View 7 papers

14:40 – 14:55 – Yassine Znagui: "Security of Patient Data in Cloud-Based Healthcare Systems: A Structured Literature Review" (Online)
14:55 – 15:10 – Waqar Javed: "Adaptive Transformer-Based Churn Modeling with Uncertainty Quantification for Financial Services Clients" (Online)
15:10 – 15:25 – Waqar Javed: "Integrating ERP-Driven Cost Variance Analysis for Enhanced CO-PA Decision Support in Foundry Manufacturing" (Online)
15:25 – 15:40 – Waqar Javed: "Optimizing Last-Mile Delivery in E-Commerce Using Real-Time Context-Aware Machine Learning" (Online)
15:40 – 15:55 – Waqar Javed: "Data-Driven Personalization Engines: The Role of Big Data Analytics in Optimizing Digital Retail Interfaces" (Online)
15:55 – 16:10 – Waqar Javed: "Book Sales Prediction: Classifier Comparison" (Online)
16:10 – 16:25 – Waqar Javed: "Intra-Swarm Decision Dynamics in Localized AI Agent Simulacra" (Online)

Zoom Link
14:40 - 15:00

Tutorial

Soufiane El Adnani – Cyber Resilience Business Unit Director @ DataProtect

15:00 - 15:40

Tutorial – AiSec Online Sessions

Nizar Zoubir – Senior Security Engineer @ REDACTED

15:40 - 16:20

Cybersecurity Talk

Hatim Mzah – Technical and Pedagogical Staff @ 1337 | Cyber Security Team Lead @ Leet Solutions

17:15

CTF – Reception & Registration of Teams / CTF Start

Reception and registration of CTF teams, followed by the official start of the competition. Code212 Library, Cité de l'Innovation, Marrakech.

01:00

Dinner

11:00 – 11:30

End of CTF & Closing Ceremony

Official end of the CTF competition and closing ceremony of AiSec 2026. Code212 Library, Marrakech.

11:30

CTF Winners Announcement & Prize Distribution

Announcement and awarding of the winning CTF teams.