Strengthening Transatlantic Cybersecurity: Conference at CSIS

April 30, 2012

WASHINGTON, April 30, 2012– The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Technology and Public Policy Program and the European Security Round Table (ESRT) will host a conference entitled “Transatlantic Dimensions of Cyber Security.”

This conference seeks to bring together experts and key stakeholders from the US and the EU to engage in a discourse on how to strengthen transatlantic cyber security. The agenda for the conference appears below.
 
WHEN/WHERE:    
Wednesday, May 2
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
B1 Conference Room
CSIS 1800 K. St. NW, Washington, DC 20006

Credentialed members of the press who would like to attend must RSVP to aschwartz@csis.org.
 
AGENDA
 
9:00 – 09:30 AM  Keynote Speech
"The European Response to the Rising Cyber Threat"

Cecilia Malmström
Commissioner for Home Affairs, European Commission

9:30 – 09:50 AM Keynote Speech
"The US Cyber Security Strategy"

Jane Holl Lute
Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
 
10:00 – 11:00 AM Panel I
"Transatlantic Cooperation in Cyber Security"

Thomas Dukes
Senior Cyber Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of State

Bruce McConnell
Senior Counselor and Director - Cyber and Strategy, U.S.Department of Homeland Security

Moderated by:
Francois Rivasseau
Deputy Head of the European Delegation to the United States, European Union

11:15 – 12:15 PM Panel II
"Fight against Cyber Crime"          

Steven Chabinsky
Deputy Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Troels Oerting
Assistant Director of Operations, Europol

Kevin Winter
Chief Information Security Officer, SRA

Moderated by:
Monika Hohlmeier
Member of the European Parliament, Special Committee on Organized Crime
 
1:30 – 2:30 Panel III
"Coordinating Comprehensive Cyber Policy"

Jonatan Vseviov
Undersecretary of Defence Policy, Estonian Ministry of Defense

Moderated by:
Ivailo Kalfin
Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chair of Committee on Budgets
 
2:30 – 3:00  Keynote Speech
"Cooperation in Developing Norms of State Behavior for Cyberspace"

Hans-Peter Friedrich
Federal Minister of the Interior, Germany

Introduction by:
Ulf Gartzte
Hanns-Seidel-Foundation
 
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