Afonso Ferreira, PhD, is senior researcher and Head of European Digital Matters at the French CNRS. Afonso leads his laboratory, the Institut de Recherches en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), in three European projects at the intersection of digital technologies, policy and regulation, and foresight, in the areas of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Afonso has published more than 150 papers at …
Dr. Jörg Hladjk
Chairman Partner, Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection Practice, Jones Day Leading Jones Day’s Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Protection Practice in Brussels, Jörg advises multinational clients across all industries, with an emphasis on automotive, IT, energy and medical devices. His work covers all areas of EU data protection, such as implementing GDPR and ePrivacy Regulation compliance programs, data breach preparedness, incident response …
Amardeo Sarma
General Manager, Security & Networking Research Division NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH Board responsibilities: VZW issues, Decision making processes, Budget, Finance. Amardeo currently leads the Security & Networking Research Division at NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH in Heidelberg where he has been since 2001. He is responsible for M2M Services, Power Grid Control Platforms, Cloud Computing as well as Security, Privacy and Identity …
Dr. Svetla Nikova (Chair)
Research Expert, COSIC research group, Department of Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven Board responsibilities: Marketing and communication, knowledge institutions activities and issues. Dr. Svetla Nikova is currently a Research Expert in the research group COSIC at the Electrical Eng. Dept. of KU Leuven, Belgium. Prior to that she was assistant professor in University of Twente, NL (2008-2012). Svetla’s Ph.D. degree is …
Claire Vishik
Formerly Security and Privacy Standards and Policy Manager, Intel Corporation Claire’s work focuses on hardware security, trusted computing, privacy enhancing technologies, some aspects of encryption and related policy issues. Claire is a member of the Permanent Stakeholders Group of ENISA, is active in standards development and is on the Board of Directors of the Trusted Computing Group and on the Council of …
Prof. Dr. Kai Rannenberg
Deutsche Telekom Chair (formerly T-Mobile Chair) for Mobile Business and Multilateral Security at Goethe University, Frankfurt Board responsibilities: Knowledge Institutions activities and issues, citizen and consumer interests and impacts Kai has been at Goethe University since 2002, before which he was with the System Security Group at Microsoft Research Cambridge, focussing on “Personal Security Devices and Privacy Technologies “, such …
Reinhard Posch
Professor Dr. Reinhard Posch has been the Chief Information Officer of the Austrian Federal Government since 2001. He heads the Digital Austria platform, is the Scientific Director of the Center for Secure Information Technology (A-SIT) and from 2007 to 2011 was the Head of the Board of ENISA. Reinhard studied Technical Mathematics (Information Processing) at Graz University of Technology, earning his diploma in 1973 and later obtaining his doctorate. From 1974 he was a …
Antonio Skarmeta
Full Professor, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Murcia Dr. Antonio F. Skarmeta received a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Granada and B.S. (Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Murcia. In 2009 he was appointed Full Professor. Antonio has worked on different research projects in the national and international …
Ronny Bjones
Director Cloud Identity & Privacy Services Microsoft Corporation Board responsibilities: Alliances Ronny currently works for Microsoft Engineering (Cloud and Enterprise group) as Director of Cloud Identity & Privacy Services. Ronny builds new identity and privacy capabilities in Microsoft’s cloud. Ronny engages with key customers to validate new cloud concepts in practice and to learn customer feedback. On joining Microsoft in 2002, …