One of the objectives in the aftermath of the four cybersecurity pilot projects is to strengthen the cybersecurity community in Europe and working to that end are representatives from TDL, the EU-CHECK (led by CNRS) and CyberSecPro projects.

The event will focus on some of the main drivers of these initiatives, from skills and education to market trends in innovation, as well as emerging initiatives from the EU itself such as the AI Act, the Cybersecurity Resilience Act and the European Digital Identity Framework (eIDAS 2.0).

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CONVERGENCE 2023 AGENDA

The overall focus is forward-looking, on what is to come over the next two years, to support driving the European digital identity and cybersecurity community and to provide guidance to the NCCs on what to expect.

THURSDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2023

Theme − Capacity Building

14:00    Welcome

14:10    Opening address

14:30    Skills & education

• Christos Douglieris, Professor, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus Research Centre
• Arnaud de Vibraye, Junior Manager for Skills and Human Factors, European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO)
• Vasia Liagkou, Assistant Professor, Computer Technology Institute, Patras (CTI)
• Marko Hölbl, Associate Professor and Vice Dean for Research, University of Maribor

Moderator: Kai Rannenberg, Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security, Goethe University Frankfurt

16:00    Coffee break

16:30    Research & innovation

• Matteo Merialdo, Security Services Deputy Business Unit Manager, Rhea Group
• Arthur van der Wees, Arthur’s Legal B.V.
• Fabio Martinelli, Research Director, Italian National Research Council (CNR)
• Ricardo De Sousa Figueiredo, Cybersecurity Expert, European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)
• Theodora Tsikrika, Senior Researcher,
  Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Lab, Information Technologies Institute (ITI)

Moderator: Evangelos Markatos, Professor Head, Distributed Computing Systems and Cyber Security Research Lab, University of Crete and Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH)

18:00    Drinks and snacks

19:00    Evening panel: Challenges Facing the ECCC

• Welcome addresses
• Keynote address:
  • Tamara Tafra, Minister Counsellor for Cyber Issues, Hybrid Threats & Disinformation at PermRep of Croatia to the EU
• Panel:
  • Panagiotis Marzelas, European Security and Defence College
  • Claudio Teixeira, BEUC Digital Rights Legal Officer
  • Katarzyna Prusak–Górniak,  Head of Digital Affairs Unit in Permanent Representation of Poland to the EU, Deputy Chair of the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre Governing Board
  • Ellen Stassart, Head of the National Cybersecurity Coordination Centre (NCC – BE)

20:30 Reception 

FRIDAY, 1 DECEMBER 2023

Theme − Emerging Technologies & Regulations

09:00   Welcome back!

09:05    Opening keynote: An Introduction to the ECCO (European Cybersecurity COmmunity) project

• Roberto Cascella, Head Of Sector – Technology, Supply Chain & Strategic Autonomy, European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO)

09:30   Looking to the Future

• Jarno Salonen, Senior Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
• Koen Teuven, PhD Student, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Shukun Tokas, Research scientist, SINTEF DIGITAL

Moderator: Afonso Ferreira, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

10:15   Certification and Standards: Policy Tools for Trust

• Riccardo Masucci, Director of Security and Technology Policy, Intel Corporation
• Lars Bruckner, Director, EU Public Affairs Office, NEC Europe Ltd

10:45    Coffee break

11:15     European Data and Identity Strategies

• Esther Makaay, Business & eID Analyst/Architect, Signicat
• Muhamed Turkanović, Associate Professor, University of Maribor
• Katryna Dow, CEO and Founder, Meeco
• Cristian Lepore, Scientific Researcher, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, IRIT

Moderator: David Goodman, Senior Consultant, Trust in Digital Life

12:15    Lunch

13:15   eIDAS, certificates and cryptographic keys: a matter of trust

• Bart Preneel, Full Professor, KU Leuven
• Thomas Rössler, Executive Vice President Products and Solutions., CRYPTAS it Security GmbH / CEO and Founder PrimeSign GmbH

Moderator: Svetla Nikova, Research Manager at COSIC, KU Leuven

14:00    EU Regulations − Future Strategy

• Alain Mermet, Director, Brussels office, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Joanna Świątkowska, COO, European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO)
• Marco Barros Lourenço, Research and Innovation Team Lead, European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

14:30    Closing keynote:

• Bart Preneel, Full Professor, KU Leuven

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