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The European Cyber Security Conference returns to Brussels & Online this March for its 9th Edition! Gathering leading policy-makers, industry players, high level cyber security and defence experts, this Forum Europe conference, organised in partnership with the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO), will explore Europe’s response to cyber security issues in a dynamically evolving global risk landscape and what the next steps for all actors of the ecosystem should be to create a safe and secure environment allowing Europe to leverage the tremendous socio-economic benefits offered by digital technologies.
The European Cyber Security Policy landscape: NIS 2, CER and the Cyber Resilience Act
5G and the Internet of Secure Things
Cyber security and Future Technologies
AI for Security Operations Centre
Enhancing European and Global cooperation in Cyber Security
Margaritis Schinas took office as Vice-President of the European Commission under President Ursula Von Der Leyen in December 2019. He is entrusted with the portfolio for Promoting our European Way of Life. In this capacity, he oversees the EU’s policies for Security Union, migration, skills, education and integration.
As Vice-President in charge of the Security Union, he oversees and coordinates all strands of the European Commission’s work under the Security Union, including tackling terrorism and radicalisation, disrupting organised crime, fighting cybercrime, stepping up cybersecurity, protecting critical infrastructures or addressing hybrid threats.
Mr Schinas has also served as a Member of the European Parliament. Upon the completion of his parliamentary term of office, he returned to the European Commission and held various senior positions. In particular, in 2010, President Barroso appointed Mr Schinas as Deputy Head of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers. Later he served as Resident Director and Head of the Athens Office of the European Commission’s Directorate‑General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN). In 2014, President Juncker appointed Mr Schinas as the Chief European Commission Spokesperson. Mr Schinas has been working for the European Commission in various positions of responsibility since 1990.
Margaritis Schinas holds an MSc on Public Administration and Public Policy from the London School of Economics, a Diploma of Advanced European Studies on European Administrative Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges and a Degree in Law from the Aristotelean University of Thessaloniki.
Vice President, Promoting our European Way of Life
European Commission
Ms. Neuberger is the Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies on the National Security Council. Previously, she served as the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Director of Cybersecurity, where she led NSA’s cybersecurity mission, including emerging technology areas like quantum-resistant cryptography. Prior to this role, Ms. Neuberger co-led NSA and USCC’s election security effort and served as Assistant Deputy Director of NSA’s Operations Directorate, overseeing foreign intelligence and cybersecurity operations. She also served as NSA’s first Chief Risk Officer, Director of NSA’s Commercial Solutions Center, the Department of the Navy’s Deputy Chief Management Officer and a White House Fellow. In 2020, Ms. Neuberger was awarded DoD’s and NSA’s highest civilian awards, the DoD Distinguished Civilian Service Award, and NSA’s Distinguished Service Medal. In 2017, Ms. Neuberger was awarded a Presidential Rank Award. Before her Government service, Ms. Neuberger was Senior Vice President of Operations at American Stock Transfer and Trust Company, where she directed technology and operations. Ms. Neuberger is a graduate of Columbia University, where she earned an MBA and Masters of International Affairs.
Deputy National Security Advisor, Cyber & Emerging Tech at National Security Council
The White House
David van Weel is NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges. He is the Secretary General’s primary advisor on emerging security challenges and their implications for the security of the Alliance and a member of the Secretary General’s senior management team.
The Emerging Security Challenges Division, which he directs and manages, aims to provide a coordinated approach by the Alliance to all new and emerging challenges. These include cyber and hybrid threats, terrorism, as well as emerging and disruptive technologies (such as AI and quantum computing), energy security challenges, including those posed by environmental changes, and data policy. The division also runs the Science for Peace and Security Programme, which promotes dialogue and practical cooperation between NATO
and partner nations through scientific research, technological innovation and knowledge exchange.
The Division aims to provide innovative policy solutions for countering and defending the Alliance and Allies against these challenges and to maintain the innovative and technological advantage of the Alliance in conjunction with partners, industry and other multilateral organisations.
Prior to joining NATO, David van Weel was the Foreign Policy and Defense Advisor for the Prime Minister of The Netherlands (2016-2020). This position followed a long career in The Netherlands Ministry of Defence, where he ended as Director for International Affairs and Operations/ Policy Director (2014-2016) after serving as the Chief of Cabinet for the Minister of Defence and the Permanent Secretary (2012-2014) and as the senior policy officer for amongst others operations in Afghanistan and Libya, NATO, nuclear policy and disarmament, special operations and the preparation
of the Defence Budget.
David started his career in the Royal Netherlands Navy, where, upon completion of the Naval Academy (1994-1999), he served on different frigates, served in the British Royal Navy as an exchange officer, worked as a Staff Officer for Middle and Eastern European countries in the Defence Staff and ended as a Primary Warfare officer and Navigation Officer.
David is married to Iris and has two daughters, Felice and Alix.
Assistant Secretary General
NATO
Mr. Lepassaar took up his functions on 16 October 2019. He has more than 15 years of experience in working with and within the European Union. Prior to joining ENISA, he worked for six years in the European Commission, including as Head of Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip responsible for the Digital Single Market. In this capacity he also led and coordinated the preparations and negotiations of the Cybersecurity Act.
Mr Lepassaar started his career in the EU affairs with the Estonian Government Office, leading for five years the national EU coordination system as the Director for EU affairs and EU adviser of the Prime Minister.
Executive Director
ENISA
Eva Maydell (Paunova) is a second-term Member of the European Parliament within the European People’s Party (EPP) Group, representing the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB). She is a Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Committee. She is also a Vice-Chair of the Delegation for relations with Japan and substitute member in the Delegation for relations with the US. Until her election, she was Executive Coordinator of the GERB-EPP Delegation and Senior Policy Advisor in the European Parliament. MEP Maydell’s key interests include innovation & digitalisation, investments, SMEs & entrepreneurship and education.
MEP
EEP Group (BG)
Nathalie Jaarsma is the Dutch Ambassador at-Large for Security Policy and Cyber since September 2020. Prior to this position, she was the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Cyprus (2016-2020) where she took various initiatives for reconciliation and peacebuilding. Ms. Jaarsma headed the Security and Defence Policy Division at the Dutch Ministry of foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2016. In this role, she was responsible for the Dutch engagement in NATO, OSCE and on EU security and defence policy. She was a Political Counsellor at the Dutch Embassy in Washington DC (2008-2012), primarily working on non-proliferation and arms control issues. Before working in the security field, Ms. Jaarsma worked on economic, trade and financial affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and at the Dutch Embassy in Canberra.
She joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2001. Prior to this, Ms. Jaarsma had a career in organizational change management in various consulting and commercial roles. In those years, she worked in Thailand and in the Netherlands mainly in IT, telecoms and the (petro) chemical industry.
Ms. Jaarsma holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Business University Nijenrode and a Master’s degree in Business with a specialization in innovation and change management from Technical University Twente.
Ambassador at-Large for Security Policy and Cyber
Kingdom of the Netherlands
Alejandro Cainzos is member of cabinet to European Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, whom he advises on the international aspects of her portfolio, 5G, cybersecurity and defence. He has previously advised the Commission’s Deputy and Acting Secretary-General and held other posts in the Secretariat-General and the Directorate-General for Internal Market and Services. Prior to joining the Commission he worked on public affairs in the financial sector. He holds a MA from the College of Europe and a BS from Georgetown University on international relations and economics.
Member of Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Vestager
European Commission
Katja is a lawyer with 20 years of experience in electronic communications from the National Regulatory Authority perspective. Prior to her position as a Head of the Supervision Department for operators, she worked as an inspector for electronic communications. She has extensive experience in electronic communications, mainly in ex ante market regulation, network/cyber security of electronic communications networks, Data Protection, Open internet and QoS. She has been an active member in national Inter-Ministerial expert working groups for electronic communication legislation, critical infrastructure, ePrivacy, cybersecurity and Network and Information Systems (NIS) for some years now. Katja has been a member of the ECASEC (former Article 13a) expert group of NRAs supported by ENISA for 11 years. As a Co-Chair of the BEREC’s 5G Cybersecurity WG, she also participates in NIS 5G Cooperation Group meetings. Furthermore, she has been appointed as a BEREC member in the ENISA Advisory Group in February 2021.
Head of Supervision Department for Operators at AKOS
Co-chair of BEREC 5G Cybersecurity Working Group
Nina Hyvärinen works as a Chief Policy Advisor in cyber security at the Ministry of Transport and Communication in Finland. Before joining the Finnish Government, she worked at F-Secure get-ting a deep-dive into cyber security and technology. Even if having spent past seven years in the private sector, her background is very much in the public sector. Nina has a long career in EU-affairs in the Cabinet of European Commissioner in Brussels, and at the Prime Minister’s Office and Foreign Ministry in Finland. Nina is passionate about international affairs and technology and security policy. Nina is natural in navigating international and European organizations and policy-making.
Chief Specialist
Safety and Security Unit
Data Department Ministry of Transport
and Communications,
Finland
Ms Urb joined the Information System Authority (RIA) in 2018 after having served her country as a career-diplomat for 16 years. In RIA, the government institution that forms the heart of digital Estonia, Ms Urb manages the foreign relations with the main partners and all world while also ensuring the coherence of the foreign and the defense policy priorities of the Government with the Authority.
RIA develops and manages the core infrastructure elements of the e-government of Estonia and is responsible for the cyber security of the country, including the tasks of national CERT (CERT-EE). RIA also leads the EU projects EU CyberNet and the Cyber Resilience for Development.
Prior, as part of her country’s foreign service, Ms Urb has worked on different subjects and countries. She gained a solid multilateral diplomacy experience from working with the EU, the UN Human Rights Council and the ITU. She led the Estonia’s chairmanship of the Freedom Online Coalition in 2013-2014 and served as a member of the Supervisory Board of Estonian National Commission for UNESCO.
Head of International Relation
Information System Authority (RIA), Estonia
Julie Ruff is currently Deputy Head of Unit for Cybersecurity technologies and Capacity building in the European Commission (Directorate-General Communications Networks, Content & Technology).
She joined the Commission in 2010 and has worked on digital issues in several Commission DGs, notably in DG Migration and Home Affairs where she dealt with cybersecurity and the fight against cybercrime. As part of the Commission’s Secretariat-General, she was involved in coordinating Digital Single Market initiatives. She was also a Member of the Cabinet of Sir Julian King, the EU Commissioner responsible for the Security Union.
Deputy Head of Unit, DG CNECT/H1 (Cybersecurity technologies and Capacity building)
European Commission
Dr. Andreas Mitrakas is Head of Unit “Market, Certification & Standardisation” in the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). In this capacity he co-chairs the Stakeholders Cybersecurity Certification Group (SCCG). Prior to joining ENISA, Andreas served as General Counsel in Globalsign and as a Senior Counsel in Verizon (Ubizen). Andreas is a qualified lawyer and holds a doctorate degree in Law from Erasmus University of Rotterdam.
Head of Unit for Market, Certification and Standardization
ENISA
Wiktor Staniecki is serving as Deputy Head of Security and Defence Policy Division at the European External Action Service where he previously worked as the Head of Cyber Sector. In his diplomatic career, Mr Staniecki was posted to Tokyo in the Political Section of the EU Delegation to Japan. He also worked as desk officer for Brazil (2013-2015) and the United States (2008-2013). Previous to his work for the EEAS, he was a consultant at Burson-Marsteller Brussels and worked for the European Commission on entrepreneurship policy.
Mr Staniecki holds Master’s Degree of European Studies from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, as well as Diplôme d’Etudes Générales Européennes of Centre Européen Universitaire de Nancy 2.
Deputy Head of Security and Defence Policy Division
European External Action Service
Carlos Córdoba is coordinator of the national Cybersecurity Operations Centres (SOC), advising agencies on the deployment of capabilities for the implementation of SOCs and technical support in the operation of these Centres.
He is responsible for the deployment of the National SOC Network, and a representative of the National Cryptologic Centre in the CSIRT.es forum and in various national and international working groups on telecommunications and cybersecurity regulations.
Head of Area for Cybersecurity Operation Centers, National Cryptologic Center
Spain
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Chair
ETSI TC CYBER
Darren Shou is the Head of Technology for NortonLifeLock. In this role, Darren is responsible for technology strategy, innovation and thought leadership. He is a global keynote speaker, a contributor at WIRED, and has been featured in Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNN and other major media outlets.
Prior to NortonLifelock, Shou held several leadership positions at Symantec in strategy, research and development over 15 years, resulting in numerous innovations across all business areas that collectively impacted hundreds of millions of customers. Shou had previously worked at Microsoft.Mr. Shou holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering & Computer Science from the University of Southern California. He currently serves as a board observer of Valimail and CyberCube.
Head of Technology
NortonLifeLock
John Graham-Cumming is Chief Technology Officer at CloudFlare, a web performance and security company he first joined in 2012. Graham-Cumming has also worked as a programmer in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Germany and France. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004. Graham-Cumming is the author of a travel book for scientists called The Geek Atlas (published in 2009) and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist and other publications. He is known for having successfully petitioned the UK government to apologize for its treatment of Alan Turing, British mathematician in 2009. Graham-Cumming holds a Ph.D. in computer security from the University of Oxford where he also studied mathematics and computation.
Chief Technology Officer
Cloudflare
Thomas Boué oversees the BSA | The Software Alliance’s public policy activities in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. He advises BSA members on public policy and legal developments and advocates the views of the ICT sector with both European and national policy makers. He leads on security and privacy issues as well as broader efforts to improve levels of intellectual property protection and to promote open markets, fair competition, and technology innovation in new areas such as cloud computing.
Prior to joining BSA, Boué served as a consultant in Weber Shandwick where he advised clients on a wide range of technology and ICT-related policy issues and represented them before the EU institutions and industry coalitions. In this role, he also served as policy and regulatory adviser for both EU and US telecom operators. Prior to that Boué worked for the EU office of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry where he was responsible for the lobbying activities towards the EU Institutions in the areas of trade, education, and labor, as well as for the organization and running of seminars on EU affairs for SMEs and business professionals.
Boué holds a Master of Business Administration from the Europa-Insitut (Saarbrücken, Germany), a Certificate of Integrated Legal Studies (trilateral and trilingual Master’s degree in French, English, German and European Law, from the Universities of Warwick (UK), Saarland (Germany) and Lille II (France) as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Law from the University of Lille II, France. He is based in BSA’s Brussels office.
Director General, Policy - EMEA
BSA | The Software Alliance
Ilias Chantzos is the Global Privacy Officer and the Head of Government Affairs programmes for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) of Broadcom. Chantzos leads the global privacy program of Broadcom across the company’s multiple business units and regions. He also represents Broadcom before government bodies, national authorities and international organisations in EMEA advising on public policy issues.
Before joining Broadcom Chantzos spent almost 16 years in various government affairs and legal roles in Symantec. During his last post with the Symantec he was in charge of the Government Affairs for the EMEA and the Asia Pacific Japan regions and the Global Advisor for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Privacy.
Before joining Symantec in 2004, Chantzos worked as legal and policy officer in the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission focusing on information security policy. He covered the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention and the Framework Decision on Attacks against Information Systems. In addition, he worked on a number of EU legislative initiatives relevant to information society and security, including directives on Privacy on Electronic Communications, the Data Retention Directive and the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). He also represented the European Commission in various international debates and conferences.
Chantzos holds a law degree from the Aristotle University, a Master degree in Computers and Communication Law from Queen Mary College, University of London and a Master in Business Administration from Solvay Business School. He has also completed executive education at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and at the JFK School of Government in Harvard. Chantzos is member of the Athens Bar Association. He served as Chairman of the Executive Board of TechAmerica Europe. He also served for four terms as Chairman of the European Policy Council of Business Software Alliance (BSA). He has represented Symantec at the NATO Industry Cooperation Platform and he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) from 2006 until 2020. He is also a member of Europol’s European Cybercrime Center (EC3) Advisory Board. Chantzos is a member of the Young Global Leaders 2014 class of the World Economic Forum. He speaks English, Greek, Dutch and German.
Head of Government Affairs programmes EMEA
Broadcom
Leif Nixon is a cybersecurity expert at Sectra with more than 20 years of experience in IT security in all its aspects. He has deep technical knowledge and a broad understanding of various types of cyber threats, including the geopolitical threat landscape. He has worked 13 years for the Swedish National Supercomputer Centre and among other things he has worked with incident management, intrusion detection, digital forensics and penetration testing. He has also supported police authorities in multiple countries with investigations regarding cyber-related crimes.
Security Expert
Sectra Communications
Miguel Ángel Recio joined Accenture’s European Industry X security team last December as Associate Director to lead the growth of smart product and platform security, which not only includes IoT/IIoT security, but is also expanding into the 5G arena in brownfield and greenfield infrastructures with private and dedicated networks to develop use cases that require low-latency, massive and high-bandwidth local connectivity.
Prior to Accenture, he worked for Telefónica group, as Global IoT Security Category Leader, initiating the creation of an IoT security portfolio to position the telco operator as a reference partner in cybersecurity for industrial environments. During his time at Telefónica, he was an active member of the GSMA IoT Security Program contributing to the IoT SAFE (IoT SIM Applet For Secure End-2-End Communication) Implementation Guide. He was granted with the GSMA IoT Security Champion Award (2019) for the use and promotion of the GSMA IoT Security Guidelines and Assessment Scheme.
Before that, he had an extensive career at Ericsson working on pioneering technologies such as Internet of Things, IP Multimedia System and 3G holding different positions at global, regional or market unit levels.
He loves to work at the cutting edge of technology enjoying the new challenges it brings to customer business. The combination of IoT/OT and Cybersecurity is such an attractive subject for him because both, together with 5G, Edge/Cloud and AI technologies, are underpinning the digital transformation in any and every business sector of society. Miguel holds a MSc in Telecomm. Engineering and an Executive MBA.
In his spare time, Miguel is a Spanish Red Cross volunteer in Communications & Coordination for Immediate Emergency Response Team. He is a nature lover and, during holidays, he enjoys hiking through Northern Spanish Mountains with his family and, after the hiking, savoring fantastic Asturian and cantabrian cooking.
Associate Director - Intelligent Products & Platforms Security Lead
Accenture
Javier has over 25 years’ experience in Europe’s telecommunications sector, having held commercial, management and external affairs positions across three different tech comms companies in four Member States of the European Union (Spain, pre-Brexit UK, Luxembourg and Belgium). He joined Vodafone Group in 2001. Currently Deputy Head of Vodafone’s permanent representative office to the EU, he moved to Brussels in 2015 and has since focused on the digital transformation of Europe’s economic sectors; media, technology and industrial policy; and (not least) cybersecurity and protection of critical national infrastructure. A convinced pro-European and Spanish national, he lives in Brussels and loves to swim, hike, cycle and to change his passwords often (while imagining combinations of alphanumeric and special characters that even a quantum computer won’t break).
Deputy Head Government Relations and Policy Engagement - EU Affairs
Vodafone
Jorge Blanco is currently Global Head of Security Solutions at BBVA Group, leading the development, acquisition, and deployment of cybersecurity and fraud technologies.
Prior to his current role, Jorge was Head of Forensics and Threat Intelligence at the Bank. Before joining BBVA he was the Chief Information Security Officer for Equifax Spain and Portugal, implementing key security programs to protect the business and its customers. He has also a wide variety of experience of more than 20 years in cybersecurity, having worked at companies such as S21Sec and Incibe (Spanish National CERT) performing different security-related roles. He is graduated in Computer Science Engineering from Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, and holds several recognized industry certifications.
Global Head of Security Solutions
BBVA Group
Dr. Dennis Kügler is the head of the branch “Standardization, Certification Policy, and Supervision” at the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). This branch is acting as overseeing part of the national cybersecurity certification authority and in addition responsible for the standardization strategy with respect to cybersecurity. Prior to this position, since joining BSI in 2002, Dr. Kügler was in charge of hardware related security aspects. His teams were advising in various digitization projects with expertise in the area of secure elements, Two-Factor-Authentication, electronic identities, and certification aspects. He has been actively involved in and contributing to European and international standardization as government representative aiming at improving sustainability and resilience of cybersecurity.
Head of Branch Standardization, Certification Policy, Supervision
Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Germany
Mr. Rebuffi graduated in Nuclear Engineering at the Politecnico in Milan (1984) before obtaining a PhD in Electronics at Paris – Orsay University (1987).
He worked on the development of high power microwave systems for the future thermonuclear fusion reactor (ITER) in Garching, Germany (1988-1991). Afterwards, he was employed by Thomson CSF to take responsibility for European Affairs (R&D) in different sectors: telecom, industrial, medical, scientific etc (1992-1999). He worked for Thales Microwave, in the position of the Head of Unit for Sales of Telecom Products (2000-2002) and later became promoted for a position of the Thales Director for European Affairs (2003-2007). In this capacity, he was responsible for the development of business and research activities with European Institutions for the civilian activities in Thales.
In 2003, he initiated and from 2007 to 2017 he has been the CEO of the European Organisation for Security (EOS) that gathers the most important European private security stakeholders and public NGOs from supply and demand side to develop and implement European security solutions and services in a comprehensive approach. In 2016, he took over the role of Secretary General of the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO). He contributed to establish in June 2016 an Association with more than 250 members in charge of implementing the Public-Private Partnership contract on European cybersecurity with the European Commission and supporting the development of the full European Cybersecurity Ecosystem.
Secretary General
ECSO
Iva Tasheva is a co-founder of CyEn, family owned consultancy where she leads the cybersecurity practice. Her expertise includes the EU cybersecurity policy analysis, and the implementation of applicable cybersecurity rules and laws (EU NIS Directive, EU MDR) and standards (ISO27K, NIST, PCI). She specialises in the public, digital, transport, financial, medical devices and non-profit sectors.
In addition, Iva is a Member of ENISA’s Ad-Hoc Working Group on Enterprise Security, Board Member of the DPO Circle (community of GDPR and data security professionals) and adviser to SANA, the South African Norwegian Association.
Iva holds an MBA and Master in Cybersecurity degrees and is a Certified ISO 27001 Lead Implementer and Certified ISO 27799 Lead Manager.
She is a published author, incl. the author of the Bulgarian SMEs Cybersecurity Guide, and an experienced cybersecurity policy speaker.
Co-Founder & Cyber Security Lead
CYEN SCS
Visiola follows cybersecurity regulation at EU level and national cybersecurity developments in the UK. She leads the benchmarking analysis reports under the cybersecurity practice, and actively reports on topics such as 5G security, high risk vendors in the cybersecurity supply chain, the EU cybersecurity act and the EU Network and Information Security Directive (NIS Directive).
Visiola joined Cullen International in July 2015, after graduating from the University of Hamburg, Germany in EU Law and Affairs.
Cybersecurity Senior Analyst
Cullen International
Dr Raluca Csernatoni is Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where she leads the research workstreams on European security and defence, as well as emerging disruptive technologies. As part of her contribution at Carnegie Europe, she is also Team Leader on New Technologies and Project Expert for the EU Cyber Diplomacy Initiative – EU Cyber Direct project. Csernatoni is currently Guest Professor on European Security with the Brussels School of Governance and its Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium.
Her published work appeared in academic journals such as European Foreign Affairs Review, European Security, Critical Military Studies, Global Affairs, and European View. She has authored numerous book chapters, policy analysis articles, reports, and commentary pieces on the governance of EU-led defence technological and industrial initiatives, European technological sovereignty and strategiC autonomy, and the impact of emerging disruptive technologies such as drones and Artificial Intelligence on international and European security. Her latest co-edited book, Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance: Actors, Practices and Processes, was published with Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology Series in 2020.
Prior to joining Carnegie, Csernatoni was a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Charles University’s Institute of Political Studies in Prague, where she focused on the impact of new military capabilities and emerging dual-use technologies such as drones on the EU’s security and defence architecture.
Previously, Csernatoni conducted research on European defence and technological policy at the Faculté des Sciences Sociales et Politiques, Université libre de Bruxelles, the Royal Higher Institute for Defence’s Centre for Security and Defence Studies, and at the International Security Information Service Europe in Brussels. She was also a Research Fellow in the Study Program on European Security at the Institute for European Politics in Berlin.
Csernatoni holds a PhD and master’s degree in international relations from the Central European University in Budapest.
Visiting Scholar
Carnegie Europe
Paul Adamson is chairman of Forum Europe and founder and editor of Encompass, an online magazine dedicated to covering the European Union and Europe’s place in the world.
Paul is a member of the Centre for European Reform’s advisory board and Rand Europe’s Council of Advisors. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, King’s College London, a patron of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.
In 2012, Paul was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to promoting understanding of the European Union” and in 2016 he was made a Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite by the French government.
Chairman
Forum Europe
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Margaritis Schinas took office as Vice-President of the European Commission under President Ursula Von Der Leyen in December 2019. He is entrusted with the portfolio for Promoting our European Way of Life. In this capacity, he oversees the EU’s policies for Security Union, migration, skills, education and integration.
As Vice-President in charge of the Security Union, he oversees and coordinates all strands of the European Commission’s work under the Security Union, including tackling terrorism and radicalisation, disrupting organised crime, fighting cybercrime, stepping up cybersecurity, protecting critical infrastructures or addressing hybrid threats.
Mr Schinas has also served as a Member of the European Parliament. Upon the completion of his parliamentary term of office, he returned to the European Commission and held various senior positions. In particular, in 2010, President Barroso appointed Mr Schinas as Deputy Head of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers. Later he served as Resident Director and Head of the Athens Office of the European Commission’s Directorate‑General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN). In 2014, President Juncker appointed Mr Schinas as the Chief European Commission Spokesperson. Mr Schinas has been working for the European Commission in various positions of responsibility since 1990.
Margaritis Schinas holds an MSc on Public Administration and Public Policy from the London School of Economics, a Diploma of Advanced European Studies on European Administrative Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges and a Degree in Law from the Aristotelean University of Thessaloniki.
Mr. Lepassaar took up his functions on 16 October 2019. He has more than 15 years of experience in working with and within the European Union. Prior to joining ENISA, he worked for six years in the European Commission, including as Head of Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip responsible for the Digital Single Market. In this capacity he also led and coordinated the preparations and negotiations of the Cybersecurity Act.
Mr Lepassaar started his career in the EU affairs with the Estonian Government Office, leading for five years the national EU coordination system as the Director for EU affairs and EU adviser of the Prime Minister.
Paul Adamson is chairman of Forum Europe and founder and editor of Encompass, an online magazine dedicated to covering the European Union and Europe’s place in the world.
Paul is a member of the Centre for European Reform’s advisory board and Rand Europe’s Council of Advisors. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, King’s College London, a patron of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.
In 2012, Paul was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to promoting understanding of the European Union” and in 2016 he was made a Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite by the French government.
To address the increasing digitalisation of activities that are vital to the functioning of the internal market, the interconnectedness of these activities and the constant evolution of the digital and physical security risks landscape – all of which have been amplified throughout the COVID-19 crisis – the European Commission has continued to release proposed reforms to existing measures governing both cyber and physical resilience of critical entities and networks as part of its updated Cybersecurity Strategy. Both the proposed NIS 2 and the Critical Entities Resilience (CER) directives cover a wider range of sectors than their predecessors, based on their criticality to the internal market, and an upcoming Cyber Resilience Act will aim to set common standards for connected devices, complementing the measures set out in the delegated act to the Radio Equipment Directive, recently released. These ambitious measures aim to prepare for and respond to future cyber and physical security risks, in line with the approach defined in the Security Union Strategy 2020-2025 which breaks down the silo measures between the online and offline worlds.
This session will explore the status of discussions around the measures recently announced, identify areas where more clarity or focus needs to be given and discuss the importance of promoting a harmonised and consistent approach across the EU to truly boost the security and resilience of digital networks, products as well as of essential and important entities. It will ask how provisions of the NIS 2 and CER directives can increase the level of resilience of all relevant public and private entities that are key to the functioning of our economy and society, discuss what needs to be included in the upcoming Cyber Resilience Act and how it can be guaranteed that all measures truly complement each other.
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Nina Hyvärinen works as a Chief Policy Advisor in cyber security at the Ministry of Transport and Communication in Finland. Before joining the Finnish Government, she worked at F-Secure get-ting a deep-dive into cyber security and technology. Even if having spent past seven years in the private sector, her background is very much in the public sector. Nina has a long career in EU-affairs in the Cabinet of European Commissioner in Brussels, and at the Prime Minister’s Office and Foreign Ministry in Finland. Nina is passionate about international affairs and technology and security policy. Nina is natural in navigating international and European organizations and policy-making.
Javier has over 25 years’ experience in Europe’s telecommunications sector, having held commercial, management and external affairs positions across three different tech comms companies in four Member States of the European Union (Spain, pre-Brexit UK, Luxembourg and Belgium). He joined Vodafone Group in 2001. Currently Deputy Head of Vodafone’s permanent representative office to the EU, he moved to Brussels in 2015 and has since focused on the digital transformation of Europe’s economic sectors; media, technology and industrial policy; and (not least) cybersecurity and protection of critical national infrastructure. A convinced pro-European and Spanish national, he lives in Brussels and loves to swim, hike, cycle and to change his passwords often (while imagining combinations of alphanumeric and special characters that even a quantum computer won’t break).
Iva Tasheva is a co-founder of CyEn, family owned consultancy where she leads the cybersecurity practice. Her expertise includes the EU cybersecurity policy analysis, and the implementation of applicable cybersecurity rules and laws (EU NIS Directive, EU MDR) and standards (ISO27K, NIST, PCI). She specialises in the public, digital, transport, financial, medical devices and non-profit sectors.
In addition, Iva is a Member of ENISA’s Ad-Hoc Working Group on Enterprise Security, Board Member of the DPO Circle (community of GDPR and data security professionals) and adviser to SANA, the South African Norwegian Association.
Iva holds an MBA and Master in Cybersecurity degrees and is a Certified ISO 27001 Lead Implementer and Certified ISO 27799 Lead Manager.
She is a published author, incl. the author of the Bulgarian SMEs Cybersecurity Guide, and an experienced cybersecurity policy speaker.
While it is recognised that 5G and associated connected technologies will play a significant and positive role in the digital and green transformation of numerous sectors in Europe, it is also expected that, by expanding the attack surface with billions of interconnected devices running through increased bandwidth, 5G will significantly alter the already-complex cyber threats landscape, giving rise to new vulnerabilities and risks: If compromised, any component of the network can be exploited at a new speed and scale. With 5G systems relying on a huge number of components being manufactured by various players all over the world, concerns over the integrity of supply chains have also been raised. This new reality has led Europe to launch several initiatives in recent years to bolster cybersecurity in a vastly expanded threat landscape resulting from the roll out of 5G and from the adoption of connected and intelligent technologies.
This session will discuss the latest thinking around the security and resilience of 5G networks and systems (with 6G already on the horizon) and of connected devices, notably around considerations pertaining to supply chain security and certification initiatives under the Cyber Security Act. It will also explore the work that is needed to make the upcoming Cyber Resilience Act a success by setting industry standards for the security of connected devices and supporting the EU’s ambitions to remain a leader in Cybersecurity on the global scale and the extent to which the recently adopted delegated act to the RED Directive is an appropriate first step.
Topics discussed will include:
Alejandro Cainzos is member of cabinet to European Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, whom he advises on the international aspects of her portfolio, 5G, cybersecurity and defence. He has previously advised the Commission’s Deputy and Acting Secretary-General and held other posts in the Secretariat-General and the Directorate-General for Internal Market and Services. Prior to joining the Commission he worked on public affairs in the financial sector. He holds a MA from the College of Europe and a BS from Georgetown University on international relations and economics.
Katja is a lawyer with 20 years of experience in electronic communications from the National Regulatory Authority perspective. Prior to her position as a Head of the Supervision Department for operators, she worked as an inspector for electronic communications. She has extensive experience in electronic communications, mainly in ex ante market regulation, network/cyber security of electronic communications networks, Data Protection, Open internet and QoS. She has been an active member in national Inter-Ministerial expert working groups for electronic communication legislation, critical infrastructure, ePrivacy, cybersecurity and Network and Information Systems (NIS) for some years now. Katja has been a member of the ECASEC (former Article 13a) expert group of NRAs supported by ENISA for 11 years. As a Co-Chair of the BEREC’s 5G Cybersecurity WG, she also participates in NIS 5G Cooperation Group meetings. Furthermore, she has been appointed as a BEREC member in the ENISA Advisory Group in February 2021.
Dr. Dennis Kügler is the head of the branch “Standardization, Certification Policy, and Supervision” at the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). This branch is acting as overseeing part of the national cybersecurity certification authority and in addition responsible for the standardization strategy with respect to cybersecurity. Prior to this position, since joining BSI in 2002, Dr. Kügler was in charge of hardware related security aspects. His teams were advising in various digitization projects with expertise in the area of secure elements, Two-Factor-Authentication, electronic identities, and certification aspects. He has been actively involved in and contributing to European and international standardization as government representative aiming at improving sustainability and resilience of cybersecurity.
Miguel Ángel Recio joined Accenture’s European Industry X security team last December as Associate Director to lead the growth of smart product and platform security, which not only includes IoT/IIoT security, but is also expanding into the 5G arena in brownfield and greenfield infrastructures with private and dedicated networks to develop use cases that require low-latency, massive and high-bandwidth local connectivity.
Prior to Accenture, he worked for Telefónica group, as Global IoT Security Category Leader, initiating the creation of an IoT security portfolio to position the telco operator as a reference partner in cybersecurity for industrial environments. During his time at Telefónica, he was an active member of the GSMA IoT Security Program contributing to the IoT SAFE (IoT SIM Applet For Secure End-2-End Communication) Implementation Guide. He was granted with the GSMA IoT Security Champion Award (2019) for the use and promotion of the GSMA IoT Security Guidelines and Assessment Scheme.
Before that, he had an extensive career at Ericsson working on pioneering technologies such as Internet of Things, IP Multimedia System and 3G holding different positions at global, regional or market unit levels.
He loves to work at the cutting edge of technology enjoying the new challenges it brings to customer business. The combination of IoT/OT and Cybersecurity is such an attractive subject for him because both, together with 5G, Edge/Cloud and AI technologies, are underpinning the digital transformation in any and every business sector of society. Miguel holds a MSc in Telecomm. Engineering and an Executive MBA.
In his spare time, Miguel is a Spanish Red Cross volunteer in Communications & Coordination for Immediate Emergency Response Team. He is a nature lover and, during holidays, he enjoys hiking through Northern Spanish Mountains with his family and, after the hiking, savoring fantastic Asturian and cantabrian cooking.
Dr. Andreas Mitrakas is Head of Unit “Market, Certification & Standardisation” in the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). In this capacity he co-chairs the Stakeholders Cybersecurity Certification Group (SCCG). Prior to joining ENISA, Andreas served as General Counsel in Globalsign and as a Senior Counsel in Verizon (Ubizen). Andreas is a qualified lawyer and holds a doctorate degree in Law from Erasmus University of Rotterdam.
Visiola follows cybersecurity regulation at EU level and national cybersecurity developments in the UK. She leads the benchmarking analysis reports under the cybersecurity practice, and actively reports on topics such as 5G security, high risk vendors in the cybersecurity supply chain, the EU cybersecurity act and the EU Network and Information Security Directive (NIS Directive).
Visiola joined Cullen International in July 2015, after graduating from the University of Hamburg, Germany in EU Law and Affairs.
This fireside chat will discuss the policy, technological and societal implications that continuous tech innovations will have on the notion of ‘cybersecurity’ as we know it given the development of a digital space that integrates emerging technologies like quantum computing, blockchain, AI and more, and as we look into futuristic concepts such as the ‘metaverse’.
Mr. Rebuffi graduated in Nuclear Engineering at the Politecnico in Milan (1984) before obtaining a PhD in Electronics at Paris – Orsay University (1987).
He worked on the development of high power microwave systems for the future thermonuclear fusion reactor (ITER) in Garching, Germany (1988-1991). Afterwards, he was employed by Thomson CSF to take responsibility for European Affairs (R&D) in different sectors: telecom, industrial, medical, scientific etc (1992-1999). He worked for Thales Microwave, in the position of the Head of Unit for Sales of Telecom Products (2000-2002) and later became promoted for a position of the Thales Director for European Affairs (2003-2007). In this capacity, he was responsible for the development of business and research activities with European Institutions for the civilian activities in Thales.
In 2003, he initiated and from 2007 to 2017 he has been the CEO of the European Organisation for Security (EOS) that gathers the most important European private security stakeholders and public NGOs from supply and demand side to develop and implement European security solutions and services in a comprehensive approach. In 2016, he took over the role of Secretary General of the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO). He contributed to establish in June 2016 an Association with more than 250 members in charge of implementing the Public-Private Partnership contract on European cybersecurity with the European Commission and supporting the development of the full European Cybersecurity Ecosystem.
Darren Shou is the Head of Technology for NortonLifeLock. In this role, Darren is responsible for technology strategy, innovation and thought leadership. He is a global keynote speaker, a contributor at WIRED, and has been featured in Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNN and other major media outlets.
Prior to NortonLifelock, Shou held several leadership positions at Symantec in strategy, research and development over 15 years, resulting in numerous innovations across all business areas that collectively impacted hundreds of millions of customers. Shou had previously worked at Microsoft.Mr. Shou holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering & Computer Science from the University of Southern California. He currently serves as a board observer of Valimail and CyberCube.
This session will focus on the European Commission’s proposal to build a network of Security Operations Centres (SOCs) across the EU that would leverage AI and ML technologies to detect early signs of impending cyber-attacks and launch early preventative actions. It will discuss how the establishment of this network of SOCs aimed at building a so-called ‘Cyber Security Shield’ can concretely improve threat and incident detection, analysis and response, and the extent to which this network of SOCs will address the current fragmentation in information sharing between the public and private sectors. It will explore how the combination of AI and cybersecurity measures
alongside human expertise offers unique opportunities to the continuous development of a secure digital economy.
The session will also ask
– What data governance models need to be put in place to ensure that the AI systems being used in SOCs are secured, trustworthy and reliable?
– What considerations for the future of the intersection between real-time cybersecurity and AI in the context of SOCs need to be taken into account as EU initiatives around the deployment of Edge Computing, Quantum computing and other advanced technologies are scaling up?
-With technology, people and processes being at the core of SOCs, what more can be done both at EU and member-state level to encourage investments, support public-private cooperation further and ensure that a skilled and diverse workforce is in place to create a truly efficient ‘Cyber Security Shield”?
Julie Ruff is currently Deputy Head of Unit for Cybersecurity technologies and Capacity building in the European Commission (Directorate-General Communications Networks, Content & Technology).
She joined the Commission in 2010 and has worked on digital issues in several Commission DGs, notably in DG Migration and Home Affairs where she dealt with cybersecurity and the fight against cybercrime. As part of the Commission’s Secretariat-General, she was involved in coordinating Digital Single Market initiatives. She was also a Member of the Cabinet of Sir Julian King, the EU Commissioner responsible for the Security Union.
Carlos Córdoba is coordinator of the national Cybersecurity Operations Centres (SOC), advising agencies on the deployment of capabilities for the implementation of SOCs and technical support in the operation of these Centres.
He is responsible for the deployment of the National SOC Network, and a representative of the National Cryptologic Centre in the CSIRT.es forum and in various national and international working groups on telecommunications and cybersecurity regulations.
Leif Nixon is a cybersecurity expert at Sectra with more than 20 years of experience in IT security in all its aspects. He has deep technical knowledge and a broad understanding of various types of cyber threats, including the geopolitical threat landscape. He has worked 13 years for the Swedish National Supercomputer Centre and among other things he has worked with incident management, intrusion detection, digital forensics and penetration testing. He has also supported police authorities in multiple countries with investigations regarding cyber-related crimes.
Ilias Chantzos is the Global Privacy Officer and the Head of Government Affairs programmes for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) of Broadcom. Chantzos leads the global privacy program of Broadcom across the company’s multiple business units and regions. He also represents Broadcom before government bodies, national authorities and international organisations in EMEA advising on public policy issues.
Before joining Broadcom Chantzos spent almost 16 years in various government affairs and legal roles in Symantec. During his last post with the Symantec he was in charge of the Government Affairs for the EMEA and the Asia Pacific Japan regions and the Global Advisor for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Privacy.
Before joining Symantec in 2004, Chantzos worked as legal and policy officer in the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission focusing on information security policy. He covered the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention and the Framework Decision on Attacks against Information Systems. In addition, he worked on a number of EU legislative initiatives relevant to information society and security, including directives on Privacy on Electronic Communications, the Data Retention Directive and the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). He also represented the European Commission in various international debates and conferences.
Chantzos holds a law degree from the Aristotle University, a Master degree in Computers and Communication Law from Queen Mary College, University of London and a Master in Business Administration from Solvay Business School. He has also completed executive education at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and at the JFK School of Government in Harvard. Chantzos is member of the Athens Bar Association. He served as Chairman of the Executive Board of TechAmerica Europe. He also served for four terms as Chairman of the European Policy Council of Business Software Alliance (BSA). He has represented Symantec at the NATO Industry Cooperation Platform and he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) from 2006 until 2020. He is also a member of Europol’s European Cybercrime Center (EC3) Advisory Board. Chantzos is a member of the Young Global Leaders 2014 class of the World Economic Forum. He speaks English, Greek, Dutch and German.
Jorge Blanco is currently Global Head of Security Solutions at BBVA Group, leading the development, acquisition, and deployment of cybersecurity and fraud technologies.
Prior to his current role, Jorge was Head of Forensics and Threat Intelligence at the Bank. Before joining BBVA he was the Chief Information Security Officer for Equifax Spain and Portugal, implementing key security programs to protect the business and its customers. He has also a wide variety of experience of more than 20 years in cybersecurity, having worked at companies such as S21Sec and Incibe (Spanish National CERT) performing different security-related roles. He is graduated in Computer Science Engineering from Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, and holds several recognized industry certifications.
Mr. Rebuffi graduated in Nuclear Engineering at the Politecnico in Milan (1984) before obtaining a PhD in Electronics at Paris – Orsay University (1987).
He worked on the development of high power microwave systems for the future thermonuclear fusion reactor (ITER) in Garching, Germany (1988-1991). Afterwards, he was employed by Thomson CSF to take responsibility for European Affairs (R&D) in different sectors: telecom, industrial, medical, scientific etc (1992-1999). He worked for Thales Microwave, in the position of the Head of Unit for Sales of Telecom Products (2000-2002) and later became promoted for a position of the Thales Director for European Affairs (2003-2007). In this capacity, he was responsible for the development of business and research activities with European Institutions for the civilian activities in Thales.
In 2003, he initiated and from 2007 to 2017 he has been the CEO of the European Organisation for Security (EOS) that gathers the most important European private security stakeholders and public NGOs from supply and demand side to develop and implement European security solutions and services in a comprehensive approach. In 2016, he took over the role of Secretary General of the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO). He contributed to establish in June 2016 an Association with more than 250 members in charge of implementing the Public-Private Partnership contract on European cybersecurity with the European Commission and supporting the development of the full European Cybersecurity Ecosystem.
As the digital space transcends state borders, no country can counter cyber threats alone. Cooperation and a multilateral approach are therefore crucial to mitigate cybersecurity threats and to ensure the stability of the digital world. In the past decade, the EU has undertaken a number of initiatives aimed at strengthening cooperation amongst Member States, as well as with international organisations and partner countries in order to deliver a shared understanding of the digital threat landscape, to promote an open, stable and secure cyberspace and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms online.
This session will discuss the latest policies outlined in the new Cybersecurity Strategy as well as the non-regulatory instruments suggested to scale up cooperation and knowledge sharing at EU level and with international partners on existing and emerging cyber or hybrid threats. It will highlight how capacity and confidence building measures can be improved to develop and implement a coherent and holistic international cybersecurity approach that reflect the EU’s core values.
Areas of focus will include:
Ms. Neuberger is the Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies on the National Security Council. Previously, she served as the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Director of Cybersecurity, where she led NSA’s cybersecurity mission, including emerging technology areas like quantum-resistant cryptography. Prior to this role, Ms. Neuberger co-led NSA and USCC’s election security effort and served as Assistant Deputy Director of NSA’s Operations Directorate, overseeing foreign intelligence and cybersecurity operations. She also served as NSA’s first Chief Risk Officer, Director of NSA’s Commercial Solutions Center, the Department of the Navy’s Deputy Chief Management Officer and a White House Fellow. In 2020, Ms. Neuberger was awarded DoD’s and NSA’s highest civilian awards, the DoD Distinguished Civilian Service Award, and NSA’s Distinguished Service Medal. In 2017, Ms. Neuberger was awarded a Presidential Rank Award. Before her Government service, Ms. Neuberger was Senior Vice President of Operations at American Stock Transfer and Trust Company, where she directed technology and operations. Ms. Neuberger is a graduate of Columbia University, where she earned an MBA and Masters of International Affairs.
David van Weel is NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges. He is the Secretary General’s primary advisor on emerging security challenges and their implications for the security of the Alliance and a member of the Secretary General’s senior management team.
The Emerging Security Challenges Division, which he directs and manages, aims to provide a coordinated approach by the Alliance to all new and emerging challenges. These include cyber and hybrid threats, terrorism, as well as emerging and disruptive technologies (such as AI and quantum computing), energy security challenges, including those posed by environmental changes, and data policy. The division also runs the Science for Peace and Security Programme, which promotes dialogue and practical cooperation between NATO
and partner nations through scientific research, technological innovation and knowledge exchange.
The Division aims to provide innovative policy solutions for countering and defending the Alliance and Allies against these challenges and to maintain the innovative and technological advantage of the Alliance in conjunction with partners, industry and other multilateral organisations.
Prior to joining NATO, David van Weel was the Foreign Policy and Defense Advisor for the Prime Minister of The Netherlands (2016-2020). This position followed a long career in The Netherlands Ministry of Defence, where he ended as Director for International Affairs and Operations/ Policy Director (2014-2016) after serving as the Chief of Cabinet for the Minister of Defence and the Permanent Secretary (2012-2014) and as the senior policy officer for amongst others operations in Afghanistan and Libya, NATO, nuclear policy and disarmament, special operations and the preparation
of the Defence Budget.
David started his career in the Royal Netherlands Navy, where, upon completion of the Naval Academy (1994-1999), he served on different frigates, served in the British Royal Navy as an exchange officer, worked as a Staff Officer for Middle and Eastern European countries in the Defence Staff and ended as a Primary Warfare officer and Navigation Officer.
David is married to Iris and has two daughters, Felice and Alix.
Ms Urb joined the Information System Authority (RIA) in 2018 after having served her country as a career-diplomat for 16 years. In RIA, the government institution that forms the heart of digital Estonia, Ms Urb manages the foreign relations with the main partners and all world while also ensuring the coherence of the foreign and the defense policy priorities of the Government with the Authority.
RIA develops and manages the core infrastructure elements of the e-government of Estonia and is responsible for the cyber security of the country, including the tasks of national CERT (CERT-EE). RIA also leads the EU projects EU CyberNet and the Cyber Resilience for Development.
Prior, as part of her country’s foreign service, Ms Urb has worked on different subjects and countries. She gained a solid multilateral diplomacy experience from working with the EU, the UN Human Rights Council and the ITU. She led the Estonia’s chairmanship of the Freedom Online Coalition in 2013-2014 and served as a member of the Supervisory Board of Estonian National Commission for UNESCO.
John Graham-Cumming is Chief Technology Officer at CloudFlare, a web performance and security company he first joined in 2012. Graham-Cumming has also worked as a programmer in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Germany and France. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004. Graham-Cumming is the author of a travel book for scientists called The Geek Atlas (published in 2009) and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist and other publications. He is known for having successfully petitioned the UK government to apologize for its treatment of Alan Turing, British mathematician in 2009. Graham-Cumming holds a Ph.D. in computer security from the University of Oxford where he also studied mathematics and computation.
Dr Raluca Csernatoni is Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where she leads the research workstreams on European security and defence, as well as emerging disruptive technologies. As part of her contribution at Carnegie Europe, she is also Team Leader on New Technologies and Project Expert for the EU Cyber Diplomacy Initiative – EU Cyber Direct project. Csernatoni is currently Guest Professor on European Security with the Brussels School of Governance and its Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium.
Her published work appeared in academic journals such as European Foreign Affairs Review, European Security, Critical Military Studies, Global Affairs, and European View. She has authored numerous book chapters, policy analysis articles, reports, and commentary pieces on the governance of EU-led defence technological and industrial initiatives, European technological sovereignty and strategiC autonomy, and the impact of emerging disruptive technologies such as drones and Artificial Intelligence on international and European security. Her latest co-edited book, Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance: Actors, Practices and Processes, was published with Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology Series in 2020.
Prior to joining Carnegie, Csernatoni was a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Charles University’s Institute of Political Studies in Prague, where she focused on the impact of new military capabilities and emerging dual-use technologies such as drones on the EU’s security and defence architecture.
Previously, Csernatoni conducted research on European defence and technological policy at the Faculté des Sciences Sociales et Politiques, Université libre de Bruxelles, the Royal Higher Institute for Defence’s Centre for Security and Defence Studies, and at the International Security Information Service Europe in Brussels. She was also a Research Fellow in the Study Program on European Security at the Institute for European Politics in Berlin.
Csernatoni holds a PhD and master’s degree in international relations from the Central European University in Budapest.
Margaritis Schinas took office as Vice-President of the European Commission under President Ursula Von Der Leyen in December 2019. He is entrusted with the portfolio for Promoting our European Way of Life. In this capacity, he oversees the EU’s policies for Security Union, migration, skills, education and integration.
As Vice-President in charge of the Security Union, he oversees and coordinates all strands of the European Commission’s work under the Security Union, including tackling terrorism and radicalisation, disrupting organised crime, fighting cybercrime, stepping up cybersecurity, protecting critical infrastructures or addressing hybrid threats.
Mr Schinas has also served as a Member of the European Parliament. Upon the completion of his parliamentary term of office, he returned to the European Commission and held various senior positions. In particular, in 2010, President Barroso appointed Mr Schinas as Deputy Head of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers. Later he served as Resident Director and Head of the Athens Office of the European Commission’s Directorate‑General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN). In 2014, President Juncker appointed Mr Schinas as the Chief European Commission Spokesperson. Mr Schinas has been working for the European Commission in various positions of responsibility since 1990.
Margaritis Schinas holds an MSc on Public Administration and Public Policy from the London School of Economics, a Diploma of Advanced European Studies on European Administrative Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges and a Degree in Law from the Aristotelean University of Thessaloniki.
Mr. Lepassaar took up his functions on 16 October 2019. He has more than 15 years of experience in working with and within the European Union. Prior to joining ENISA, he worked for six years in the European Commission, including as Head of Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip responsible for the Digital Single Market. In this capacity he also led and coordinated the preparations and negotiations of the Cybersecurity Act.
Mr Lepassaar started his career in the EU affairs with the Estonian Government Office, leading for five years the national EU coordination system as the Director for EU affairs and EU adviser of the Prime Minister.
Paul Adamson is chairman of Forum Europe and founder and editor of Encompass, an online magazine dedicated to covering the European Union and Europe’s place in the world.
Paul is a member of the Centre for European Reform’s advisory board and Rand Europe’s Council of Advisors. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, King’s College London, a patron of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.
In 2012, Paul was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to promoting understanding of the European Union” and in 2016 he was made a Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite by the French government.
To address the increasing digitalisation of activities that are vital to the functioning of the internal market, the interconnectedness of these activities and the constant evolution of the digital and physical security risks landscape – all of which have been amplified throughout the COVID-19 crisis – the European Commission has continued to release proposed reforms to existing measures governing both cyber and physical resilience of critical entities and networks as part of its updated Cybersecurity Strategy. Both the proposed NIS 2 and the Critical Entities Resilience (CER) directives cover a wider range of sectors than their predecessors, based on their criticality to the internal market, and an upcoming Cyber Resilience Act will aim to set common standards for connected devices, complementing the measures set out in the delegated act to the Radio Equipment Directive, recently released. These ambitious measures aim to prepare for and respond to future cyber and physical security risks, in line with the approach defined in the Security Union Strategy 2020-2025 which breaks down the silo measures between the online and offline worlds.
This session will explore the status of discussions around the measures recently announced, identify areas where more clarity or focus needs to be given and discuss the importance of promoting a harmonised and consistent approach across the EU to truly boost the security and resilience of digital networks, products as well as of essential and important entities. It will ask how provisions of the NIS 2 and CER directives can increase the level of resilience of all relevant public and private entities that are key to the functioning of our economy and society, discuss what needs to be included in the upcoming Cyber Resilience Act and how it can be guaranteed that all measures truly complement each other.
This session will also discuss:
Nina Hyvärinen works as a Chief Policy Advisor in cyber security at the Ministry of Transport and Communication in Finland. Before joining the Finnish Government, she worked at F-Secure get-ting a deep-dive into cyber security and technology. Even if having spent past seven years in the private sector, her background is very much in the public sector. Nina has a long career in EU-affairs in the Cabinet of European Commissioner in Brussels, and at the Prime Minister’s Office and Foreign Ministry in Finland. Nina is passionate about international affairs and technology and security policy. Nina is natural in navigating international and European organizations and policy-making.
Javier has over 25 years’ experience in Europe’s telecommunications sector, having held commercial, management and external affairs positions across three different tech comms companies in four Member States of the European Union (Spain, pre-Brexit UK, Luxembourg and Belgium). He joined Vodafone Group in 2001. Currently Deputy Head of Vodafone’s permanent representative office to the EU, he moved to Brussels in 2015 and has since focused on the digital transformation of Europe’s economic sectors; media, technology and industrial policy; and (not least) cybersecurity and protection of critical national infrastructure. A convinced pro-European and Spanish national, he lives in Brussels and loves to swim, hike, cycle and to change his passwords often (while imagining combinations of alphanumeric and special characters that even a quantum computer won’t break).
Iva Tasheva is a co-founder of CyEn, family owned consultancy where she leads the cybersecurity practice. Her expertise includes the EU cybersecurity policy analysis, and the implementation of applicable cybersecurity rules and laws (EU NIS Directive, EU MDR) and standards (ISO27K, NIST, PCI). She specialises in the public, digital, transport, financial, medical devices and non-profit sectors.
In addition, Iva is a Member of ENISA’s Ad-Hoc Working Group on Enterprise Security, Board Member of the DPO Circle (community of GDPR and data security professionals) and adviser to SANA, the South African Norwegian Association.
Iva holds an MBA and Master in Cybersecurity degrees and is a Certified ISO 27001 Lead Implementer and Certified ISO 27799 Lead Manager.
She is a published author, incl. the author of the Bulgarian SMEs Cybersecurity Guide, and an experienced cybersecurity policy speaker.
While it is recognised that 5G and associated connected technologies will play a significant and positive role in the digital and green transformation of numerous sectors in Europe, it is also expected that, by expanding the attack surface with billions of interconnected devices running through increased bandwidth, 5G will significantly alter the already-complex cyber threats landscape, giving rise to new vulnerabilities and risks: If compromised, any component of the network can be exploited at a new speed and scale. With 5G systems relying on a huge number of components being manufactured by various players all over the world, concerns over the integrity of supply chains have also been raised. This new reality has led Europe to launch several initiatives in recent years to bolster cybersecurity in a vastly expanded threat landscape resulting from the roll out of 5G and from the adoption of connected and intelligent technologies.
This session will discuss the latest thinking around the security and resilience of 5G networks and systems (with 6G already on the horizon) and of connected devices, notably around considerations pertaining to supply chain security and certification initiatives under the Cyber Security Act. It will also explore the work that is needed to make the upcoming Cyber Resilience Act a success by setting industry standards for the security of connected devices and supporting the EU’s ambitions to remain a leader in Cybersecurity on the global scale and the extent to which the recently adopted delegated act to the RED Directive is an appropriate first step.
Topics discussed will include:
Alejandro Cainzos is member of cabinet to European Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, whom he advises on the international aspects of her portfolio, 5G, cybersecurity and defence. He has previously advised the Commission’s Deputy and Acting Secretary-General and held other posts in the Secretariat-General and the Directorate-General for Internal Market and Services. Prior to joining the Commission he worked on public affairs in the financial sector. He holds a MA from the College of Europe and a BS from Georgetown University on international relations and economics.
Katja is a lawyer with 20 years of experience in electronic communications from the National Regulatory Authority perspective. Prior to her position as a Head of the Supervision Department for operators, she worked as an inspector for electronic communications. She has extensive experience in electronic communications, mainly in ex ante market regulation, network/cyber security of electronic communications networks, Data Protection, Open internet and QoS. She has been an active member in national Inter-Ministerial expert working groups for electronic communication legislation, critical infrastructure, ePrivacy, cybersecurity and Network and Information Systems (NIS) for some years now. Katja has been a member of the ECASEC (former Article 13a) expert group of NRAs supported by ENISA for 11 years. As a Co-Chair of the BEREC’s 5G Cybersecurity WG, she also participates in NIS 5G Cooperation Group meetings. Furthermore, she has been appointed as a BEREC member in the ENISA Advisory Group in February 2021.
Dr. Dennis Kügler is the head of the branch “Standardization, Certification Policy, and Supervision” at the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). This branch is acting as overseeing part of the national cybersecurity certification authority and in addition responsible for the standardization strategy with respect to cybersecurity. Prior to this position, since joining BSI in 2002, Dr. Kügler was in charge of hardware related security aspects. His teams were advising in various digitization projects with expertise in the area of secure elements, Two-Factor-Authentication, electronic identities, and certification aspects. He has been actively involved in and contributing to European and international standardization as government representative aiming at improving sustainability and resilience of cybersecurity.
Miguel Ángel Recio joined Accenture’s European Industry X security team last December as Associate Director to lead the growth of smart product and platform security, which not only includes IoT/IIoT security, but is also expanding into the 5G arena in brownfield and greenfield infrastructures with private and dedicated networks to develop use cases that require low-latency, massive and high-bandwidth local connectivity.
Prior to Accenture, he worked for Telefónica group, as Global IoT Security Category Leader, initiating the creation of an IoT security portfolio to position the telco operator as a reference partner in cybersecurity for industrial environments. During his time at Telefónica, he was an active member of the GSMA IoT Security Program contributing to the IoT SAFE (IoT SIM Applet For Secure End-2-End Communication) Implementation Guide. He was granted with the GSMA IoT Security Champion Award (2019) for the use and promotion of the GSMA IoT Security Guidelines and Assessment Scheme.
Before that, he had an extensive career at Ericsson working on pioneering technologies such as Internet of Things, IP Multimedia System and 3G holding different positions at global, regional or market unit levels.
He loves to work at the cutting edge of technology enjoying the new challenges it brings to customer business. The combination of IoT/OT and Cybersecurity is such an attractive subject for him because both, together with 5G, Edge/Cloud and AI technologies, are underpinning the digital transformation in any and every business sector of society. Miguel holds a MSc in Telecomm. Engineering and an Executive MBA.
In his spare time, Miguel is a Spanish Red Cross volunteer in Communications & Coordination for Immediate Emergency Response Team. He is a nature lover and, during holidays, he enjoys hiking through Northern Spanish Mountains with his family and, after the hiking, savoring fantastic Asturian and cantabrian cooking.
Dr. Andreas Mitrakas is Head of Unit “Market, Certification & Standardisation” in the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). In this capacity he co-chairs the Stakeholders Cybersecurity Certification Group (SCCG). Prior to joining ENISA, Andreas served as General Counsel in Globalsign and as a Senior Counsel in Verizon (Ubizen). Andreas is a qualified lawyer and holds a doctorate degree in Law from Erasmus University of Rotterdam.
Visiola follows cybersecurity regulation at EU level and national cybersecurity developments in the UK. She leads the benchmarking analysis reports under the cybersecurity practice, and actively reports on topics such as 5G security, high risk vendors in the cybersecurity supply chain, the EU cybersecurity act and the EU Network and Information Security Directive (NIS Directive).
Visiola joined Cullen International in July 2015, after graduating from the University of Hamburg, Germany in EU Law and Affairs.
This fireside chat will discuss the policy, technological and societal implications that continuous tech innovations will have on the notion of ‘cybersecurity’ as we know it given the development of a digital space that integrates emerging technologies like quantum computing, blockchain, AI and more, and as we look into futuristic concepts such as the ‘metaverse’.
Mr. Rebuffi graduated in Nuclear Engineering at the Politecnico in Milan (1984) before obtaining a PhD in Electronics at Paris – Orsay University (1987).
He worked on the development of high power microwave systems for the future thermonuclear fusion reactor (ITER) in Garching, Germany (1988-1991). Afterwards, he was employed by Thomson CSF to take responsibility for European Affairs (R&D) in different sectors: telecom, industrial, medical, scientific etc (1992-1999). He worked for Thales Microwave, in the position of the Head of Unit for Sales of Telecom Products (2000-2002) and later became promoted for a position of the Thales Director for European Affairs (2003-2007). In this capacity, he was responsible for the development of business and research activities with European Institutions for the civilian activities in Thales.
In 2003, he initiated and from 2007 to 2017 he has been the CEO of the European Organisation for Security (EOS) that gathers the most important European private security stakeholders and public NGOs from supply and demand side to develop and implement European security solutions and services in a comprehensive approach. In 2016, he took over the role of Secretary General of the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO). He contributed to establish in June 2016 an Association with more than 250 members in charge of implementing the Public-Private Partnership contract on European cybersecurity with the European Commission and supporting the development of the full European Cybersecurity Ecosystem.
Darren Shou is the Head of Technology for NortonLifeLock. In this role, Darren is responsible for technology strategy, innovation and thought leadership. He is a global keynote speaker, a contributor at WIRED, and has been featured in Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNN and other major media outlets.
Prior to NortonLifelock, Shou held several leadership positions at Symantec in strategy, research and development over 15 years, resulting in numerous innovations across all business areas that collectively impacted hundreds of millions of customers. Shou had previously worked at Microsoft.Mr. Shou holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering & Computer Science from the University of Southern California. He currently serves as a board observer of Valimail and CyberCube.
This session will focus on the European Commission’s proposal to build a network of Security Operations Centres (SOCs) across the EU that would leverage AI and ML technologies to detect early signs of impending cyber-attacks and launch early preventative actions. It will discuss how the establishment of this network of SOCs aimed at building a so-called ‘Cyber Security Shield’ can concretely improve threat and incident detection, analysis and response, and the extent to which this network of SOCs will address the current fragmentation in information sharing between the public and private sectors. It will explore how the combination of AI and cybersecurity measures
alongside human expertise offers unique opportunities to the continuous development of a secure digital economy.
The session will also ask
– What data governance models need to be put in place to ensure that the AI systems being used in SOCs are secured, trustworthy and reliable?
– What considerations for the future of the intersection between real-time cybersecurity and AI in the context of SOCs need to be taken into account as EU initiatives around the deployment of Edge Computing, Quantum computing and other advanced technologies are scaling up?
-With technology, people and processes being at the core of SOCs, what more can be done both at EU and member-state level to encourage investments, support public-private cooperation further and ensure that a skilled and diverse workforce is in place to create a truly efficient ‘Cyber Security Shield”?
Julie Ruff is currently Deputy Head of Unit for Cybersecurity technologies and Capacity building in the European Commission (Directorate-General Communications Networks, Content & Technology).
She joined the Commission in 2010 and has worked on digital issues in several Commission DGs, notably in DG Migration and Home Affairs where she dealt with cybersecurity and the fight against cybercrime. As part of the Commission’s Secretariat-General, she was involved in coordinating Digital Single Market initiatives. She was also a Member of the Cabinet of Sir Julian King, the EU Commissioner responsible for the Security Union.
Carlos Córdoba is coordinator of the national Cybersecurity Operations Centres (SOC), advising agencies on the deployment of capabilities for the implementation of SOCs and technical support in the operation of these Centres.
He is responsible for the deployment of the National SOC Network, and a representative of the National Cryptologic Centre in the CSIRT.es forum and in various national and international working groups on telecommunications and cybersecurity regulations.
Leif Nixon is a cybersecurity expert at Sectra with more than 20 years of experience in IT security in all its aspects. He has deep technical knowledge and a broad understanding of various types of cyber threats, including the geopolitical threat landscape. He has worked 13 years for the Swedish National Supercomputer Centre and among other things he has worked with incident management, intrusion detection, digital forensics and penetration testing. He has also supported police authorities in multiple countries with investigations regarding cyber-related crimes.
Ilias Chantzos is the Global Privacy Officer and the Head of Government Affairs programmes for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) of Broadcom. Chantzos leads the global privacy program of Broadcom across the company’s multiple business units and regions. He also represents Broadcom before government bodies, national authorities and international organisations in EMEA advising on public policy issues.
Before joining Broadcom Chantzos spent almost 16 years in various government affairs and legal roles in Symantec. During his last post with the Symantec he was in charge of the Government Affairs for the EMEA and the Asia Pacific Japan regions and the Global Advisor for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Privacy.
Before joining Symantec in 2004, Chantzos worked as legal and policy officer in the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission focusing on information security policy. He covered the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention and the Framework Decision on Attacks against Information Systems. In addition, he worked on a number of EU legislative initiatives relevant to information society and security, including directives on Privacy on Electronic Communications, the Data Retention Directive and the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). He also represented the European Commission in various international debates and conferences.
Chantzos holds a law degree from the Aristotle University, a Master degree in Computers and Communication Law from Queen Mary College, University of London and a Master in Business Administration from Solvay Business School. He has also completed executive education at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and at the JFK School of Government in Harvard. Chantzos is member of the Athens Bar Association. He served as Chairman of the Executive Board of TechAmerica Europe. He also served for four terms as Chairman of the European Policy Council of Business Software Alliance (BSA). He has represented Symantec at the NATO Industry Cooperation Platform and he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) from 2006 until 2020. He is also a member of Europol’s European Cybercrime Center (EC3) Advisory Board. Chantzos is a member of the Young Global Leaders 2014 class of the World Economic Forum. He speaks English, Greek, Dutch and German.
Jorge Blanco is currently Global Head of Security Solutions at BBVA Group, leading the development, acquisition, and deployment of cybersecurity and fraud technologies.
Prior to his current role, Jorge was Head of Forensics and Threat Intelligence at the Bank. Before joining BBVA he was the Chief Information Security Officer for Equifax Spain and Portugal, implementing key security programs to protect the business and its customers. He has also a wide variety of experience of more than 20 years in cybersecurity, having worked at companies such as S21Sec and Incibe (Spanish National CERT) performing different security-related roles. He is graduated in Computer Science Engineering from Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, and holds several recognized industry certifications.
Mr. Rebuffi graduated in Nuclear Engineering at the Politecnico in Milan (1984) before obtaining a PhD in Electronics at Paris – Orsay University (1987).
He worked on the development of high power microwave systems for the future thermonuclear fusion reactor (ITER) in Garching, Germany (1988-1991). Afterwards, he was employed by Thomson CSF to take responsibility for European Affairs (R&D) in different sectors: telecom, industrial, medical, scientific etc (1992-1999). He worked for Thales Microwave, in the position of the Head of Unit for Sales of Telecom Products (2000-2002) and later became promoted for a position of the Thales Director for European Affairs (2003-2007). In this capacity, he was responsible for the development of business and research activities with European Institutions for the civilian activities in Thales.
In 2003, he initiated and from 2007 to 2017 he has been the CEO of the European Organisation for Security (EOS) that gathers the most important European private security stakeholders and public NGOs from supply and demand side to develop and implement European security solutions and services in a comprehensive approach. In 2016, he took over the role of Secretary General of the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO). He contributed to establish in June 2016 an Association with more than 250 members in charge of implementing the Public-Private Partnership contract on European cybersecurity with the European Commission and supporting the development of the full European Cybersecurity Ecosystem.
As the digital space transcends state borders, no country can counter cyber threats alone. Cooperation and a multilateral approach are therefore crucial to mitigate cybersecurity threats and to ensure the stability of the digital world. In the past decade, the EU has undertaken a number of initiatives aimed at strengthening cooperation amongst Member States, as well as with international organisations and partner countries in order to deliver a shared understanding of the digital threat landscape, to promote an open, stable and secure cyberspace and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms online.
This session will discuss the latest policies outlined in the new Cybersecurity Strategy as well as the non-regulatory instruments suggested to scale up cooperation and knowledge sharing at EU level and with international partners on existing and emerging cyber or hybrid threats. It will highlight how capacity and confidence building measures can be improved to develop and implement a coherent and holistic international cybersecurity approach that reflect the EU’s core values.
Areas of focus will include:
Ms. Neuberger is the Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies on the National Security Council. Previously, she served as the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Director of Cybersecurity, where she led NSA’s cybersecurity mission, including emerging technology areas like quantum-resistant cryptography. Prior to this role, Ms. Neuberger co-led NSA and USCC’s election security effort and served as Assistant Deputy Director of NSA’s Operations Directorate, overseeing foreign intelligence and cybersecurity operations. She also served as NSA’s first Chief Risk Officer, Director of NSA’s Commercial Solutions Center, the Department of the Navy’s Deputy Chief Management Officer and a White House Fellow. In 2020, Ms. Neuberger was awarded DoD’s and NSA’s highest civilian awards, the DoD Distinguished Civilian Service Award, and NSA’s Distinguished Service Medal. In 2017, Ms. Neuberger was awarded a Presidential Rank Award. Before her Government service, Ms. Neuberger was Senior Vice President of Operations at American Stock Transfer and Trust Company, where she directed technology and operations. Ms. Neuberger is a graduate of Columbia University, where she earned an MBA and Masters of International Affairs.
David van Weel is NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges. He is the Secretary General’s primary advisor on emerging security challenges and their implications for the security of the Alliance and a member of the Secretary General’s senior management team.
The Emerging Security Challenges Division, which he directs and manages, aims to provide a coordinated approach by the Alliance to all new and emerging challenges. These include cyber and hybrid threats, terrorism, as well as emerging and disruptive technologies (such as AI and quantum computing), energy security challenges, including those posed by environmental changes, and data policy. The division also runs the Science for Peace and Security Programme, which promotes dialogue and practical cooperation between NATO
and partner nations through scientific research, technological innovation and knowledge exchange.
The Division aims to provide innovative policy solutions for countering and defending the Alliance and Allies against these challenges and to maintain the innovative and technological advantage of the Alliance in conjunction with partners, industry and other multilateral organisations.
Prior to joining NATO, David van Weel was the Foreign Policy and Defense Advisor for the Prime Minister of The Netherlands (2016-2020). This position followed a long career in The Netherlands Ministry of Defence, where he ended as Director for International Affairs and Operations/ Policy Director (2014-2016) after serving as the Chief of Cabinet for the Minister of Defence and the Permanent Secretary (2012-2014) and as the senior policy officer for amongst others operations in Afghanistan and Libya, NATO, nuclear policy and disarmament, special operations and the preparation
of the Defence Budget.
David started his career in the Royal Netherlands Navy, where, upon completion of the Naval Academy (1994-1999), he served on different frigates, served in the British Royal Navy as an exchange officer, worked as a Staff Officer for Middle and Eastern European countries in the Defence Staff and ended as a Primary Warfare officer and Navigation Officer.
David is married to Iris and has two daughters, Felice and Alix.
Ms Urb joined the Information System Authority (RIA) in 2018 after having served her country as a career-diplomat for 16 years. In RIA, the government institution that forms the heart of digital Estonia, Ms Urb manages the foreign relations with the main partners and all world while also ensuring the coherence of the foreign and the defense policy priorities of the Government with the Authority.
RIA develops and manages the core infrastructure elements of the e-government of Estonia and is responsible for the cyber security of the country, including the tasks of national CERT (CERT-EE). RIA also leads the EU projects EU CyberNet and the Cyber Resilience for Development.
Prior, as part of her country’s foreign service, Ms Urb has worked on different subjects and countries. She gained a solid multilateral diplomacy experience from working with the EU, the UN Human Rights Council and the ITU. She led the Estonia’s chairmanship of the Freedom Online Coalition in 2013-2014 and served as a member of the Supervisory Board of Estonian National Commission for UNESCO.
John Graham-Cumming is Chief Technology Officer at CloudFlare, a web performance and security company he first joined in 2012. Graham-Cumming has also worked as a programmer in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Germany and France. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004. Graham-Cumming is the author of a travel book for scientists called The Geek Atlas (published in 2009) and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist and other publications. He is known for having successfully petitioned the UK government to apologize for its treatment of Alan Turing, British mathematician in 2009. Graham-Cumming holds a Ph.D. in computer security from the University of Oxford where he also studied mathematics and computation.
Dr Raluca Csernatoni is Visiting Scholar at Carnegie Europe in Brussels, where she leads the research workstreams on European security and defence, as well as emerging disruptive technologies. As part of her contribution at Carnegie Europe, she is also Team Leader on New Technologies and Project Expert for the EU Cyber Diplomacy Initiative – EU Cyber Direct project. Csernatoni is currently Guest Professor on European Security with the Brussels School of Governance and its Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium.
Her published work appeared in academic journals such as European Foreign Affairs Review, European Security, Critical Military Studies, Global Affairs, and European View. She has authored numerous book chapters, policy analysis articles, reports, and commentary pieces on the governance of EU-led defence technological and industrial initiatives, European technological sovereignty and strategiC autonomy, and the impact of emerging disruptive technologies such as drones and Artificial Intelligence on international and European security. Her latest co-edited book, Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance: Actors, Practices and Processes, was published with Routledge Studies in Conflict, Security and Technology Series in 2020.
Prior to joining Carnegie, Csernatoni was a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Charles University’s Institute of Political Studies in Prague, where she focused on the impact of new military capabilities and emerging dual-use technologies such as drones on the EU’s security and defence architecture.
Previously, Csernatoni conducted research on European defence and technological policy at the Faculté des Sciences Sociales et Politiques, Université libre de Bruxelles, the Royal Higher Institute for Defence’s Centre for Security and Defence Studies, and at the International Security Information Service Europe in Brussels. She was also a Research Fellow in the Study Program on European Security at the Institute for European Politics in Berlin.
Csernatoni holds a PhD and master’s degree in international relations from the Central European University in Budapest.
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Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 459,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives.
Broadcom Inc. is a global infrastructure technology leader built on 50 years of innovation, collaboration and engineering excellence.
With roots based in the rich technical heritage of AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent and Hewlett-Packard/Agilent, Broadcom focuses on technologies that connect our world. Through the combination of industry leaders Broadcom, LSI, Broadcom Corporation, Brocade, CA Technologies and Symantec, the company has the size, scope and engineering talent to lead the industry into the future..
Broadcom is focused on technology leadership and category-leading semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. The company is a global leader in numerous product segments serving the world’s most successful companies.
Broadcom combines global scale, engineering depth, broad product portfolio diversity, superior execution and operational focus to deliver category-leading semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions so its customers can build and grow successful businesses in a constantly changing environment.
BSA | The Software Alliance is the leading advocate for the global software industry before governments and in the international marketplace. Its members are among the world’s most innovative companies, creating software solutions that spark the economy and improve modern life. With headquarters in Washington, DC, and operations in more than 30 countries, BSA pioneers compliance programs that promote legal software use and advocates for public policies that foster technology innovation and drive growth in the digital economy.
Cloudflare is the security, performance, and reliability company on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today it runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers anything connected to the Internet, with its services being used by everyone, from nonprofits and SMBs to Global 2000 companies and top government organizations.
The European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) ASBL is a fully self-financed non-for-profit organisation under the Belgian law, established in June 2016.
ECSO is the privileged partner of the European Commission for the implementation of the Cybersecurity Public-Private Partnership, as well as a recognised actor in the European institutional landscape, A pan European, multi-stakeholder and cross sectoral partnership organisation working on cybersecurity with a holistic approach, ECSO federates the European Cybersecurity public and private sector, including large companies, SMEs and start-ups, research centres, universities, end-users and operators of essential services, clusters and associations, as well as the local, regional and national public administrations across the European Union Members States, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and H2020 Programme associated countries.
NortonLifeLock is a global leader in consumer Cyber Safety. We believe the digital world is only truly empowering when people are confident in their online security. For decades, our experience in cybersecurity and identity theft protection lets us help people live their digital lives safely. Nearly 80 million users in more than 150 countries trust us with their personal information.
Sectra is a cybersecurity company with a core expertise in encryption technology, providing secure communication solutions for European government authorities, EU and NATO institutions, defense departments and other critical functions of society. Sectra has worked together with the EU institutions for several years and more than half of the EU member states use the Sectra Tiger system to exchange classified information on national and international levels.
Our secure communication solution Sectra Tiger/S allows you to share classified information up to the SECRET classification level through encrypted voice, messaging and data transfer. It is approved by the EU and NATO and developed in close cooperation with the Dutch security authorities. With its unique interoperability features, Sectra Tiger/S enables secure communications across nations and organizations, between security levels and for mission-based satcom use.
Even with a due diligence process in place, organisations struggle to quantify the risk. We identified that to be successful in managing vendor risk, we had to evolve the existing practice.
Trudexia is a company that provides vendor risk management data helping customers to overcome the blind spot of vendor risk in Cyber, ESG, and corporate domains. Trudexia has a focus on automation of vendor risk management through innovative solutions to oversee and reduce vendor risks. Trudexia has customers in EMEA and Asia Pacific and is considered a true innovator in this space.
Usercentrics is a global market leader in the field of consent management platforms (CMP). We enable businesses to collect, manage and document user consents on websites and apps.
We help organizations achieve full compliance with global privacy regulations while facilitating high consent rates and building trust with their customers. We believe in creating a healthy balance between data privacy and data-driven business, delivering solutions for every size of enterprise.
Usercentrics is active in more than 100 countries, with 2000+ resellers, and handles more than 61 million daily user consents.
Vodafone is a leading telecommunications company in Europe and Africa. Our purpose is to “connect for a better future” enabling an inclusive and sustainable digital society. Our expertise and scale give us a unique opportunity to drive positive change for society. Our networks keep family, friends, businesses and governments connected and – as COVID-19 has clearly demonstrated – we play a vital role in keeping economies running and the functioning of critical sectors like education and healthcare.
Vodafone is the largest mobile and fixed network operator in Europe and a leading global IoT connectivity provider. Our M-Pesa technology platform in Africa enables 50m people to benefit from access to mobile payments and financial services. We operate mobile and fixed networks in 21 countries and partner with mobile networks in 52 more. As of 30 September 2021, we had over 300m mobile customers, more than 28m fixed broadband customers, over 22m TV customers and we connected 136m IoT devices.
We support diversity and inclusion through our maternity and parental leave policies, empowering women through connectivity and improving access to education and digital skills for women, girls, and society at large. We are respectful of all individuals, irrespective of race, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, belief, culture or religion.
Vodafone is also taking significant steps to reduce our impact on our planet by becoming net zero by 2040, purchasing 100% of our electricity from renewable sources in Europe and across our entire operations by 2025, and reusing, reselling or recycling 100% of our redundant network equipment.
For more information, please visit www.vodafone.com, follow us on Twitter at @VodafoneGroup or connect with us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/vodafone.
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