Space stretches the innovative skills of our best scientists and engineers and it inspires young people to develop the skills to push forward the frontiers of scientific knowledge. It offers the promise of helping the human race to solve some of the biggest challenges it will face over the next few decades. It will impact CIOs and CTOs through the Cloud, giving them access to unlimited volumes of data and information but also paving the way for new cyberthreats. On May 11, during ICT Spring Europe 2016, international and local experts will notably discuss cybersecurity.
One of them will be Rogier Holla, Deputy Head of organization, CERT-EU, the Computer Emergency Response Team of the EU institutions, bodies and agencies. He will give a presentation entitled "Cyber Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructure" .
He has worked and lead teams at the European Commission on policy-making, legislation and international negotiations in cybersecurity, the fight against cybercrime, the introduction of the .eu internet domain, intellectual property, and innovation policy.
Before joining the European Commission, he was an academic and consultant in law and technology, European and international law, and international relations. He was assistant professor of international law at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and assistant professor of international relations at the American University of Washington, D.C. He was Fulbright research fellow at the Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Center for Science and International Affairs of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and research fellow at the European University Institute of Florence, Italy. As a consultant, he advised the US Environmental Protection Agency and the federal governments of Canada and Germany on legal and regulatory aspects of technology policy.
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