Past Edition 2018

December 5th 2018

13.30 - 14.00 VIP exhibition tour

14.00 - 14.10 Welcome

Director General Paraskevi Michou, DG HOME, European Commission

14.10 - 14.40 Keynote speeches

Norbert Hofer, Austrian Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology
Dan Nica, Member of European Parliament
Olivier Onidi, Deputy Director General, DG Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission

14.50 - 15.10 Presentation by Babak Akhgar, Director of Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research

15.15 - 16.45 High-level panel 1

Making Europe a safer place: Demonstrating the impact of security research – Challenges and barriers

16.50 - 18.20 High-level panel 2

Projects Afterlife: From the lab to real life

18.30 - 20.30 Cocktail

December 6th 2018

09.00 - 10.30 Parallel panel discussions

Panel discussion: Citizens awareness
Panel discussion: Terrorism
Panel discussion: Border security

11.00 - 12.30 Parallel panel discussions

Panel discussion: Disaster resilient societies
Panel discussion: Radicalisation

14:00 - 15:30 Parallel panel discussions

Panel discussion: Protection of public spaces
Panel discussion: Cybercrime
Panel discussion: Maritime security

15:30 - 16:30 Closing Plenary

Laura Birkman, Ecorys, Philippe Quevauviller, DG HOME, and Montserrat Marin-Ferrer, JRC: Database of H2020 and Capacity-Building Projects: Facilitating searches via the CoU and DRMKC Explorer WebsitesPhilippe Quevauviller, DG HOME: Community of Users Outlook for 2019Closing remarks:
Ralph Hammer, Staff Group for Technology Transfer and Security Research in the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology
Mathias Oel, Director for Migration, Mobility and Innovation, DG HOME

Veronika HOFINGER

Senior researcher and scientific coordinator at the Institute for the Sociology of Law and Criminology (IRKS) in Vienna

Merel MOLENKAMP

Senior expert and programme manager for the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) project of the European Commission

Maura CONWAY

Professor of International Security in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University

Frédérique SEGOND

Associate Professor at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures

Alexandra ANTONIADIS

Head of Sector for preventing violent radicalisation within the European Commission’s DG HOME

Albin SLABE

Working at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the EU as a Justice and Home Affairs Counsellor for the area of countering terrorism and organised crime

Francesco AMODEO

Policy Officer, Inclusive Growth, Urban and Territorial Development, DG REGIO

Sébastien VIANO

Director of European Affairs and External Funding

Nicola IAROSSI

Participant of EOS Board and the Security Business Unit in ASD (Aeronautics, Space and Defence) Association

Hans DAS

Head of unit of terrorism and radicalisation service in DG HOME

Catherine PIANA

Spokesperson for Private Security Services across Europe and for Aviation Security Services internationally

Andrea SOEHNCHEN

European Project Manager

Jonathan MIDDLETON

Temporary Head of International Programmes within PSNI

Emmanuel SALIOT

Senior civil servant at the Ministry of Economy and Finance

Johann WAGNER

Member of the Centre for International Peace Operations of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Berlin/Germany

Babak AKHGAR

Member of academic advisory board of SAS UK and Board member of European Organisation for Security

Yves VANDERMEER

Lecturer in the Norwegian Police University College

Philipp AMANN

Head of Strategy of the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3)

Julia DAVIDSON

Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy

Helmut LEOPOLD

Head of Center for Digital Safety & Security

Graham WILLMOTT

head of unit for cybercrime in DG HOME of the European Commission

Cheryl BAKER

Director of the Centre for Cybersecurity & Cybercrime Investigation (CCI) at University College Dublin

Boris HEMKEMEIER

Director for Security Consulting & Research at Commerzbank in Germany

Frédéric DOMPS

Senior Policy Officer at the European Commission

Montserrat Marín FERRER

Coordinator of the Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre (DRMKC)

Stefan TANGEN

Senior advisor at the Swedish Civil Contingency Agency

Nacira BOULEHOUAT

Head of unit for "Disaster Risk Reduction, European Voluntary Humanitarian Corps" the European Commission

Marc CASTELLNOU

President of the Pau Costa Foundation and Incident Commander and Strategic Wildfire Analyst for the Catalan Fire and Rescue Service

Alexander ALMER

Head of the Geoservices & Multi Sensor Applications unit at JOANNEUM RESEARCH

Richard JAMES

Managing Director of Intensive Engagement Limited

Georgios KOLLIARAKIS

Advisor for Research Strategy at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin

Thierry HARTMANN

Department manager in charge of multilateral cooperation projects in Europe

Maggie MORT

Professor, Sociology of Science, Technology & Medicine, Dept of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK

Ingrid NYBORG

Leader of the EC Horizon 2020 research project ‘Community-Oriented Policing (COP) and Post-Conflict Police Reform’

Gilles PELAYO

Head of the Unit managing the 'Europe for Citizens' programme at the European Commission's Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency (EACEA)

Sandra SILVA

Responsible for Pre-Commercial Procurement of the Marine-EO Project

Giorgio GULIENETTI

Head of National and International Technical Collaborations within the Directorate for Innovation and Technology Governance

Dan CHIRONDOJAN

Director of the Directorate for Space, Security and Migration

Christos ECONOMOU

Head of Unit at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE)

Pascal FALLET

Senior Vice President Europe Public Security within Idemia

James FERRYMAN

Co-Chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance.

Enrique BELDA

Deputy Director General of Communication and Information Systems for Security in the Spanish Ministry of Interior

Anton MARTHA

Participant in NATO – SERA Course (Session European Responsables de Armament), and in high level Strategic Leadership Courses of the Austrian Defence College.

Aija KALNAJA

Director of Capacity Building Division at European Border and Coast Guard Agency

Gernot Grimm

Head of Staff Group for Technology Transfer and Security Research, Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology

Fabrice Leggeri

Executive Director of Frontex

Vladimir Sucha

Director-General of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

Normund Popens

Deputy Director General for Implementation in the Directorate General Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission

Alberto de Benedictis

Chair of the Protection and Security Advisory Group of the European Commission

Catherine De Bolle

Europol’s Executive Director

Jean-David MALO

Director of the Executive Agency for EIC and SMEs

Peter Goldgruber

General Secretary of the Interior

Pascal Lamy

Member of the Global Future Council on regional Governance at the World Economic Forum

Dharmendra Kanani

Director of Insights at Friends of Europe

Ivonne Herrera

Senior Scientist, SINTEF, Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, President of the Resilience Engineering Association

Vito Morreale

Director of the Industry and Security Technologies, Research and Innovation laboratory, ENGINEERING Ingegneria Informatica

Matthias Oel

Director for Borders, Interoperability and Innovation in DG Migration and Home Affairs

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