Biography of the speakers:

Lorenzo Pupillo – CEPS

Lorenzo Pupillo is an Associate Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Cybersecurity @CEPS

Initiative. Before joining CEPS, he served as an Executive Director in the Public & Regulatory Affairs

Unit of Telecom Italia developing the company’ global public policies for Internet, Cyber-Security,

Next Generation Networks. He also managed Telecom Italia’s relations with the OECD, the ITU and

other international associations and organizations. Previously, Dr. Pupillo held a variety of senior

positions in the Strategy, Business Development and Learning Services divisions of Telecom Italia. He

is an economist by training and has worked in many areas of telecommunications demand and

regulatory analysis, publishing four books on Internet Policy and many papers in applied

econometrics and industrial organization. He has served as an advisor to the Global Information and

Communication Technologies Department of the World Bank. Before joining Telecom Italia, he was

member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill – New Jersey – and he worked

as senior economist for governmental institutions. Dr. Pupillo is also an affiliated researcher at

Columbia Institute for Tele Information at Columbia Business School and serves on numerous

scientific and advisory boards around the globe. He obtained a Ph.D. and an M.A. from University of

Pennsylvania, an MBA from Istituto Adriano Olivetti in Ancona Italy and an MS in Mathematics from

University of Rome.

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Lorena Boix Alonso is Director for Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity in Directorate General for

Communications Networks Content and Technology (DG CONNECT), at the European Commission.

Formerly, she was Acting Director for Policy Strategy and Outreach and Head of Unit for Policy

Implementation and Planning, also in DG CONNECT. Previously, she was Deputy Head of Cabinet of

Vice President Neelie Kroes, Commissioner for the Digital Agenda and also during Ms Kroes' mandate

as Commissioner for Competition. She joined the European Commission Directorate-General for

Competition in 2003. Prior to that, she has worked for Judge Rafael García Valdecasas, at the

European Court of Justice, as well as Deputy Director and Legal Coordinator of the IPR-Helpdesk

Project and in private practice in Brussels. She holds a Master of Laws from the Harvard Law School

and a Licence Spéciale en Droit Européen from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She graduated in

Law from the University of Valencia.

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Raj Samani, McAfee Fellow, Chief Scientist

Raj Samani is Chief Scientist and McAfee Fellow for cybersecurity firm McAfee. He has assisted multiple law enforcement agencies in cybercrime cases and is a special advisor to the European Cybercrime Centre in The Hague. Samani has been recognized for his contribution to the computer security industry through numerous awards, including the Infosecurity Europe hall of Fame, Peter Szor award, and Intel Achievement Award, among others. He is the coauthor of the book "Applied Cyber Security and the Smart Grid" and the "CSA Guide to Cloud Computing," as well as technical editor for numerous other publications.

************************** Jan Vanhaecht, Belgian Cyber Secure domain leader, Partner, Risk Advisory

Jan joined the Deloitte Cyber Risk Services group in June 2008 after successfully leading a niche IAM systems integration company. He is currently leading the Identity and Access Management Practice for EMEA and the Cyber Secure domain for Belgium. In these capacities, he is involved in major national and international projects at a wide range of sectors (Finance, Technology, Public Sector, …). The projects where Jan is involved, focus on: Defining down-to-earth Cyber Security strategies for high ranking clients (national governments, international FSI’s), Identity and Access Management engagements from strategy through implementation to managed services where synergies between stakeholders (eg Client Identity and Employee Identity) and IT platforms (eg best-of-bread solution combinations) form a cornerstone of the solution design, Securing IT services integration from Enterprise Security Architecture to cloud integration and secure software development, Translating complex regulatory and compliance standards (like GDPR and SWIFT CSP) to actionable initiatives and pragmatic infrastructure solutions.

Jan is frequently requested to share his vision on public speaking occasions and panels. Further, the broader security community regularly taps in to his experience by deploying Jan in a Quality Assurance or technology audit role. Next to his client advisory work, Jan is responsible for financial and operational management of the Cyber Risk Services team in Belgium.

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Eva Kaili is a Member of the European Parliament, part of the Hellenic S&D Delegation since 2014.

She is the Chair of the Future of Science and Technology Panel in the European Parliament (STOA)

and the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (C4AI), Member of the Committees on Industry, Research and

Energy (ITRE), Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), Budgets (BUDG), and the Special Committee

on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA).

Eva is a member of the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (DACP), the

delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula (DARP), and the delegation for relations with the

NATO Parliamentary Assembly (DNAT).

In her capacity, she has been working intensively on promoting innovation as a driving force of the

establishment of the European Digital Single Market. She has been the draftsperson of multiple

pieces of legislation in the fields of blockchain technology, online platforms, big data, fintech, AI and

cybersecurity, as well as the ITRE draftsperson on Juncker plan EFSI2, and more recently the InvestEU

program and the NIS2 Directive.

She has also been the Chair of the Delegation to the NATO PA in the European Parliament, focusing

on Defence and Security of Europe.

Prior to that, she has been elected as a Member of the Hellenic Parliament 2007-2012, with the

PanHellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK).

She also worked as a journalist and newscaster prior to her political career.

She holds a Bachelor degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering, and Postgraduate degree in

European Politics.

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Florian Pennings – Director, European Government Affairs (Cybersecurity) Florian Pennings works for Microsoft as Director, European Government Affairs (Cybersecurity). He believes that industry collaboration and multi-stakeholder management is important to ensure strong cybersecurity and that it requires constant engagement and open discussions. Before joining Microsoft, he worked at the Dutch National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) and at the EU Cybersecurity Agency (ENISA) and coordinated strategic and tactical cooperation with industry and public stakeholders. At Microsoft, he works on EU cybersecurity policy and emerging technologies like AI and 5G, using his operational and strategic national and European experience. He strongly believes that cooperation is built on trust and common interests, not on differences.

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Sandra Schmitz , Research Associate,, University of Luxemburg

Sandra SCHMITZ received her PhD degree in law, from the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance

(FDEF) at the University of Luxembourg in 2014. She has gained work experience as legal practitioner.

Her research interests are in cybercrime, media and IP law. Sandra will work with Prof. Mark D. Cole.

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Jakub Boratyński, Deputy Director of Directorate CNECT H, Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity (Directorate-General Communication Networks, Content and Technology) and Head of Unit CNECT H.2 - Cybersecurity and Digital Privacy Policy. Among others, involved in negotiations of the Cybersecurity Act, implementation and review of the Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive, preparation of the Commission’s Recommendation for a common EU approach to the security of 5G networks, the EU cyber-security strategy's actions on resilience and cooperation with the EU Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA). He also directly contributed to the production of the new EU Cybersecurity Strategy. Previously Head of Unit 'Organised Crime and Relations with EMCDDA' at the European Commission (Directorate-General Home Affairs), which has the lead responsibility for the fight against cybercrime, corruption, sexual abuse of children and confiscation of criminal assets. In relation to cybercrime, involved in negotiation and drafting of two directives (on cyber-attacks and sexual exploitation of children) and establishment of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3). Previously worked on EU relations with Russia (Directorate-General External Relations). Before joining the European Commission, a Director at the Stefan Batory Foundation in Warsaw and Policy Officer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Warsaw (international relations, law).

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Luigi Rebuffi

Luigi Rebuffi is the Secretary General and founder of ECSO (European Cyber Security Organisation) as

well as founder and Secretary General of the Women4Cyber Foundation. After graduating in Nuclear

Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy), he worked in Germany on the development of high power

microwave systems for the next thermonuclear fusion reactor (ITER). He continued his career at

Thomson CSF / Thales in France where he took on increasing responsibilities for European Affairs (R&D)

in different sectors: telecom, industrial, medical, scientific, becoming in 2003 Director for European

Affairs for the civilian activities of the Group. He suggested the creation of EOS (European Organisation

for Security), coordinated its establishment in 2007 and was its CEO for 10 years . Until 2016 and for 6

years, he was an advisor to the European Commission for the EU Security Research Programme and

President of the Steering Board of the French ANR for security research. In 2016 was one of the founder

of ECSO and signed with the European Commission the cPPP on cybersecurity. In 2019 he created the

Women4Cyber Foundation to promote participation of women in cybersecurity and became its present

Secretary General and member of the Administrative body. In 2020 he was nominated in the list of “IFSEC

Global Influencers in security - Executives”

**************************************** Dr. Marnix Dekker, Cybersecurity expert, at ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity.

Marnix works at ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity. He leads the ENISA work in the

area of telecom security (e.g. the 5G toolbox), cybersecurity breach reporting, and security of cloud

and digital infrastructure under the NIS Directive. He has a Ph.D. degree in Computer security and an

M.Sc. degree in Theoretical physics, doing a thesis on Quantum mechanics.

Previously, he worked at the European Commission’s CISO office, where he developed the corporate

IT security strategy and policy, and was the link between the operational security teams and the

political level and press.

Before joining ENISA he worked as an IT auditor at KPMG in The Hague, as an IT architect and

protocol designer for the Dutch government e-ID systems DigiD and eHerkenning, and he worked as a

software developer in Italy.

Contact details and social media:

Email: marnix.dekker@enisa.europa.eu

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marnixdekker/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/marnixdekker

Blog: https://marnixdekker.wordpress.com/

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Valéry Vander Geeten is the head of the legal department, NIS directive coordinator and DPO of the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB). Before joining the CCB, he was a lawyer at the Brussels Bar and teacher assistant at the Law Faculty of the ULB. His main tasks consist in providing legal advices, coordinate the implementation of the NIS directive and other EU Cybersecurity initiatives, participate in working groups at the national and international level (European Cooperation Group NIS, CSIRT network, ENISA, OSCE, OECD, NATO,

GFCE, etc). He has lead the development of the national policy around coordinated vulnerability disclosure in Belgium. In addition to his legal skills, he have acquired additional expertise in the field of Information Security, Incident Management, Project Management, EU cooperation and Personal Data Protection

********************************* Kevin Gallerin is the APAC CEO of Yes We Hack.

He advises companies on how security teams can execute Bug Bounty Programs and Vulnerabilty

Disclosure Policy in the most optimal, sustainable and effective manner. Kevin moved to

Singapore over a decade ago and has more than 15 years of experience in IT security. His

previous roles include penetration tester, security researcher, and R&D team lead.

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Laurent BERNAT is policy analyst at the OECD Secretariat in the Digital Economy Policy Division, where he works on digital security policy issues. Laurent supports the activities of the Working Party on Security and Privacy in the Digital Economy (SPDE) and Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP). He led the development of the 2015 OECD Recommendation on Digital Security Risk Management for Economic and Social Prosperity which forms the basis for current OECD work on digital security. Laurent is currently working on the revision of the 2008 OECD Recommendation on the protection of critical information infrastructures and manages the OECD Global Forum on Digital Security for Prosperity. Since 2003, Laurent worked on many different trust-related policy issues including national cybersecurity strategies, digital identity management, RFID, cryptography policy and the protection of children online.

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Rayna Stamboliyska is a strategist and foresight practitioner focusing on cyber diplomacy and

resilience, including issues related to cybersecurity, strategic autonomy and data protection. An

award-winning author for her most recent book "La face cachée d'Internet" ("The dark side of the

Internet", Larousse 2017), Rayna is also an IoT hacker and a staunch proponent of open source, data

and science. She has extensively explored the impact of data and technology in conflict and post-

conflict zones in the MENA region and Eastern Europe. Rayna has experience in advocacy and

community building for open source, data, and science. She has served in various executive positions

and has consulted for international organisations, private companies, governments and non-profits,

interfacing with public sector actors and guiding them through innovative policy-making processes.

Energetic and passionate, Rayna has grown to become a recognised information security speaker

committed to educating those outside of the industry on security threats and best practices. She is an

associate professor at Sciences Po Paris and a Board Member of the Women4Cyber Foundation.

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Staša Novak , Cyber Attaché to EU and NATO, Chair of the Horizontal Working Party on Cyber Issues (HWPCI)(July-December 2021)

Experienced cyber security, foreign and defence policy expert with a proven track record in policy and strategy development, strategic analysis, planning, negotiations, risk and project management, public-private cooperation and civil-military coordination, in both national and international environment (EU, NATO, UN, OSCE).

*********************************** Gérôme Billois, Partner, Cybersecurity and Digital Trust at Wavestone Gérôme Billois is a Partner, Cybersecurity and Digital Trust at Wavestone, in charge of digital risk management, crisis situations and cyber innovation, and rapporteur of the Institut Montaigne study Cybermenace : avis de tempête.

******************************** WOLFANG TITTEL, Professor, QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, TU Delft, The Netherlands Visiting Professor, University of Geneva and Schaffhausen Institute of Technology in Geneva, Switzerland Wolfgang Tittel received his PhD from the University of Geneva in 2000 for “Quantum correlation for quantum communication”. He joined the University of Calgary in 2006 as associate professor and industrial research Chair, and was promoted to full professor in 2013. In 2018 he accepted a position at QuTech at the Delft University of Technology and, since September this year, he is a visiting professor at the University of Geneva and the Schaffhausen Institute for Technology in Geneva. Dr. Tittel has engaged in groundbreaking research in quantum communication from the early stages of this field on. The work stretches across many topics within atomic and optical physics, and was seminal in bringing this promising application of quantum information processing out of the laboratory and into the real world, thereby raising attention and appreciation that the required technology is not restricted to controlled laboratory settings. His research interests include nano-photonics, practical quantum cryptography, quantum memory, quantum repeaters, and quantum networks.

Dr. Tittel’s work has been cited more than 23,700 times and he has raised funding in excess of the equivalent of EU 17M. He has been involved in steering the University of Calgary’s Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, its Institute for Security, Privacy and Information

Assurance, and the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience in Delft. He was a senior fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and has been a founding member of the international QCRYPT conference and the workshop for quantum repeaters and networks, as well as the IOPscience journal “Quantum Science and Technology”.

*************************** Mariarosaria Taddeo is Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and is Defence Science and Technology Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.

Her work focuses mainly on the ethical analysis of Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, cyber conflicts, and ethics of digital innovation. Her area of expertise is Philosophy and Ethics of Information. Her research has been published in major journals like Nature, Nature Machine Intelligence, Science, and Science Robotics. Since 2019, she leads a Dstl (Defence Science Technology Laboratory, Ministry of Defence UK) funded research project on the Ethics of AI in National Defence. She has received multiple awards, the 2010 Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy; the 2016 World Technology Award for Ethics. In 2018, InspiringFifty named her among the most inspiring 50 Italian women working in technology. ORBIT listed her among the top 100 women working on Ethics of AI in the world. She is one the twelve 2020 "Outstanding Rising Talents" named by the Women's Forum for Economy and Society. Since 2016, Taddeo serves as editor-in-chief of Minds & Machines (SpringerNature) and of Philosophical Studies Series (SpringerNature).

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Pascal Maillot is deputy Head of Unit of the High Performance Computing and Quantum Technology

unit in Directorate General Communications Networks, Content and Technology at the European

Commission. He is in charge of the one-billion euro Quantum Flagship initiative launched in October

2018 with its first 20 projects.

He graduated as a computer engineer in 1998 and had several positions in the private and public

sector as telecom project manager and cyber-security analyst.

He then moved to the quantum domain and focuses specifically on the future “quantum internet”

interconnecting quantum computers, simulators and sensors via quantum networks to distribute

information and quantum resources securely all over Europe. He’s been working for the EU

institutions for 14 years.

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Wolfgang Kleinwaechter

Wolfgang Kleinwaechter is a Professor Emeritus from the University of Aarhus in Denmark where he

was teaching a master course on Internet Policy and Regulation since 1998. He is also a Commissioner

in the Global Commission on Stability in Cyberspace (GCSC).

He is involved in Internet Governance issues since the early 1990s. He was member of the UN Working

Group on Internet Governance (2003-2005), appointed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Special

Adviser to the chair of the Internet Governance Forum (2005-2010), Nitin Desai, and Special

Ambassador of the Net Mundial Initiative (NMI).

He is involved in ICANN since 1998, where he was a member of the ICANN Board of Directors (2013 –

2015), chaired the Nominating Committee (NomCom) and represented the Non-Commercial User

Constituency (NCUC) in the GNSO Council (2011- 2013). In 2018 he was appointed to serve in ICANNs

oversight body, the ATRT 3.

In the WSIS process he was a member of the WSIS Civil Society Bureau, co-chair of the Civil Society

Internet Governance Caucus and member of the UNCSTD IGF Improvement Working Group. He is a co-

founder of the European Dialogue on Internet Governance (EURODIG), the Global Internet Governance

Academic Network (GIGANET) and the ICANN-Studienkreis. He served in numerous committees and

contributed as chair, rapporteur or panelist to numerous intergovernmental and non-governmental

organisations as UN, UNCSTD, UNESCO, ITU, OECD, World Economic Forum, Munich Security

Conference and others.

In 2009, the Council of Europe appointed him to chair the Cross-Border Internet Expert Group which

drafted the Declaration on Universal Principles in Internet Governance, adopted by the COE Ministerial

Meeting in 2011. In the EU, he chaired the Coordination Committee of the European Interregional

Information Society Initiative/IRIS (1994-1998), the Internet Governance Sub-Group of the EU Task

Force on the Internet of Things/IOT (2010-2012)) and the evaluation team of EUs Safer Internet Action

Program/SIAP 2005-2007). From 2007 to 2012 he was a member of the Steering Board of the EU-FP7

research project “Next Generation Internet/EURO-NF”.

He got his Dr. rer. pol. and Dr. habil. from the University of Leipzig, where he was teaching until 1992

at the Institute for international Studies. Before moving to the University of Aarhus he was teaching at

the University of Tampere (Finland), the University of Oerebro (Sweden) and the School of International

Services (SIS) at the American University in Washington D.C. (1993 – 1995). In the academic world,

Wolfgang Kleinwächter served from 1988 to 2012 as a voting member of the International Council of

the “International Association for Media and Communication Research” (IAMCR), where he chaired for

more than ten years the IAMCR Law Section. He is the founder and chair of the “European Summer

School on Internet Governance” (EURO-SSIG), is member of various Editorial Boards of academic

journals, has testified in hearings in the Deutsche Bundestag and the European Parliament and has

published and edited more than 200 articles and 12 books. One of his latest publications was “Internet

Fragmentation: An Overview”, published by the World Economic Forum (co-authored by Vint Cerf and

William Drake) in 2017 and “Towards a Global Framework for Cyberpeace and Digital Cooperation: An

Agenda for the 2020” with a preface from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres (Berlin 2019). His

Internet Governance blog is under Circle ID (http://www.circleid.com/members/5851/).

In 2012, he got the “Internet Award” from the German Internet Economy Association (eco).

****************************** David Harmon, DIRECTOR EU PUBLIC AFFAIRS, HUAWEI

David Harmon has been working with Huawei since November 2014. He was based at Huawei headquarters in Shenzhen, China, between 2014 and 2019, when he managed Huawei’s global relations with over 15 international multilateral organisations. Such bodies included the OECD, UNIDO, UNESCO, the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, and the five regional economic commissions of the United Nations around the world. He regularly represents the company as a public speaker at key conferences covering digital economy issues and he has also engaged extensively in media relations for Huawei. In the Brussels PACD office, he manages key stakeholder relationships within the EU institutional framework and with multilateral organisations in Europe. Areas of policy responsibility include the research, science, innovation and technology sectors. Mr Harmon is a qualified lawyer and he was formerly a member of the cabinet of the European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science between 2010 and 2014.

****************************** Elena Plexida, Vice President, Government and IGO Engagement, ICANN Elena Plexida is Vice President for Government and IGO Engagement at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Prior to joining ICANN, Ms Plexida worked for the European Commission DG CONNECT on internet governance issues. Before that, she was a Telecom Attaché with the Permanent Representation of Greece to the EU. During the Greek Presidency of the Council of the EU, Ms Plexida co-chaired the Council Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society. Before joining the Permanent Representation, Ms Plexida was an international affairs officer at the Hellenic Ministry of Telecom. Her main responsibilities included EU affairs and relations of the country with a number of international organizations. Ms Plexida holds a master’s degree from the National (Metsovian) Technical University of Athens and a degree in economics and political science. She is also a graduate of the National School of Public Administration of Greece (ESDD).

*********************************** Wiktor Staniecki, Deputy Head of Security and Defence Division, European External Action Service

Wiktor Staniecki is serving as Deputy Head of Security and Defence 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

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Klara Jordan, CHIEF PUBLIC POLICY OFFICER

Prior to joining the Cyber Peace Institute, Klara was the Director for Government Affairs and Public

Policy for the UK at BlackBerry and the Executive Director for the EU and Africa at the Global Cyber

Alliance. She also served as the director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council think

tank, and worked in the policy and privacy division of FireEye.

Her background also includes work on international law issues at the American Society of

International Law and at NATO’s Allied Command Transformation.

At the Institute, she is the Chief Public Policy Officer.

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