Speakers of Past Editions
Joseph Cannataci – Special Rapporteur on the Right of Privacy at the United Nations.
Michel Sieber – Head of Information Superiority at the European Defence Agency. (2012-2016)
Reinhard Posch – Chief Information Officer of the Federal Republic of Austria. Formerly Chairman of the Board of ENISA.
Wojciech Wiewiórowski – Deputy European Data Protection Supervisor.
Achim Klabunde – Head of Sector IT Policy at European Data Protection Supervisor.
Andreas Wild – (former) Executive Director of ECSEL JU, the largest EU R&D public funding program for microelectronics (150M€/ year).
Jan Philipp Albrecht – Former Vice-Chair of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) of the EU Parliament.
Marit Hansen – Data Protection Supervisor of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, Federal Republic of Germany.
Bart Preneel – Former President at International Association for Cryptologic Research. Director at COSIC TU Leuven. Arguably EU’s most peer-recognized IT security expert and researcher.
William R. Pace – Executive Director, World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP). Convenor of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) since 1995.
Marcos Vinicius Mazoni – President of SERPRO, the main Brazilian IT public agency, delegated by President Roussef to develop state-surveillance-proof email systems for government officials.
Pierre Chastanet – Senior Policy Analysts at EU Parliament Science and Technology Options Assessment unit (STOA) and the EU Parliament LIBE Committee Secretariat.
Peter Ide-Kostic – Senior Policy Analysts at EU Parliament Science and Technology Options Assessment unit (STOA) and the EU Parliament LIBE Committee Secretariat.
Renaud Sirdey – Director of Research at the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, French Department of Energy.
Jovan Golic – Former Privacy, Security and Trust Action Line Leader of EIT Digital.
Michel Jaccard – Founder and CEO of Id Est Avocats, specialized in open innovation, data privacy and security, free and open source licenses.
Jaap – Henk Hoepman – Professor at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences of Radboud University Nijmegen.
Yvo Desmedt – World-renowned cryptographer, and pioneer of threshold cryptography.
Rogério Winter – Liason Officer of the Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer of the Brazilian Army.
Raoul Chiesa – A widely-recognized IT cracker, hacker and IT security expert. President of Security Brokers. Formerly consultant and advisor to ENISA, Nato, Italian MoD, UNICRI.
Richard Stallman – President of the Free Software Foundation. Founder of the Free Software movement.
Bruce Schneier – Arguably the world’s most-renowned IT security expert. Board member at Electronic Frontier Foundation, OSI and EPIC. CTO at Resilient Systems, IBM. Fellow at Harvard Law School.
Romano Stasi – Managing Director of Innovation Lab of the Italian Banks Association since 2013 (ABI Lab)
Melle Van Den Berg – Managing Consultant at CapGemini Cyber Security Consulting.
Koen Maris – CTO at ATOS. Previously CSO at Telecom Luxembourg.
Roberto Gallo – CEO and Chief Scientist at KRYPTUS. Coordinator of the Cybersecurity Committee at the Brazilian Defense Industry.
Rufo Guerreschi – Executive Director of the Trustless Computing Association. CEO of TRUSTLESS.AI.
Alberto Pelliccione – CEO of ReaQta, endpoint defense against advanced threats. Previously senior researcher at Hacking Team, a world leader in lawful access systems.
Eric Drexler – Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University, and a researcher and Internal Advisor to the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), led by Prof. Nick Bostrom. Nanotechnology pioneer and AI security expert.
Bjoern Rupp – CEO of GSMK Cryptophone, leading mobile device security provider (whose CTO is Spokesman for Chaos Computer Club).
Paul Nemitz – Director for Fundamental Rights and Union Citizenship in the EU Commission’s Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers.
Zachary Goldman – Director of the Center of Law and Security at New York Law School.
Steven Bellovin – IT security professor at Columbia University. Co-author of foundational papers on state attempts to reconcile cyber-investigation and privacy (1997, 2013)
Max Schrems – Leading Austrian privacy activist. Initiated a lawsuit questioning the compliance of the Safe Harbor agreement between EU and US.
Ulrich Seldeslachts – CEO of LSEC, a not for profit industry association focused on Information Security in Europe, based in Belgium.
David Meyer – Berlin-based digital rights journalist, published on Fortune, Gigaom, POLITICO Europe, ZDNet, BBC, the Guardian.
John C. Havens – Executive Director of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of AI Autonomous Systems.
Roman Yampolskiy – World-renowned AI superintelligence safety expert and professor. Author of the book “Artificial Superintelligence”.
John “Maddog” Hall – Free software pioneer and evangelist.
Alberto J. Azevedo – Brazilian IT security and privacy expert, consultant and free software hacktivist.
Kai Rannenberg – Chair at Deutsche Telekom Chair of Multilateral Security at Goethe University.
Jan Philipp Albrecht – Former Vice-Chair of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) of the EU Parliament.
Jennifer Baker – Freelance IT privacy and rights journalist. Published on ArsTechnica, ComputerWeekly, Macworld, PC World and The Register.
Daniel Castro – Vice President Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Washington, USA. Co-author of Unlocking Encryption:Information Security and the Rule of Law.