Together with its partners EhB, UCL, ULB and VUB, and with the support from Innoviris, Cyber Security Coalition, Centre for Cyber Security Belgium and Agoria, Sirris is organising an event to celebrate the successful completion of the projects in the SecurIT platform and mark the creation of the new Brussels Initiative on Cybersecurity Innovation (BICI).
Sirris is setting up an operational initiative with a goal to promote and advance collaborative innovation in cybersecurity: the new Brussels Initiative on Cybersecurity Innovation (BICI). Read more about this on their blog.
Launch of the Brussels Initiative on Cybersecurity Innovation
13h30 Welcome
Fadila Laanan, Secretary of State Brussels Region
Herman Derache, CEO Sirris
13h50 Innoviris, empowering cybersecurity innovation
Dr. Katrien Mondt, Director Innoviris
14h00 Sirris’ activities in Brussels
Prof. Philippe Thiran, Regional Director Brussels Sirris
14h10 Announcement of the Brussels Initiative on Cybersecurity Innovation
Bojan Spasic, Project Leader Software Security at Sirris
14h25 Public funding opportunities suitable for cybersecurity
Jonathan Duplicy, Innovation Advisor Digital at Innoviris
14h40 icity.brussels – Boosting Digital Transformation in the Heart of Europe
Dr. Claudio Truzzi, Program Manager icity.brussels, ULB
Industrial perspective
14h50 Secure by Design – Of Digital Airbags and Crumple Zones
Peter Spiegeleer, Enterprise Security Architect, Proximus
15h20 Blending Innovation and Consultancy: Lessons Learned From Our 5 Key Mistakes
Kurt Ceupens, Managing Director, NVISO
15h50 Coffee break
Research perspective and SecurIT experiences
16h10 BruFence, Scalable machine learning for automating defence system
Prof. Olivier Markowitch, ULB
16h20 C-Cure, Cost sensitive dynamic user authentication using reinforcement learning
Prof. Ann Nowé, VUB
16h30 SCAUT, Side-channel security for authenticated encryption
Dr. François Koeune, UCL
16h40 SeCloud, Security-driven engineering of Cloud-based applications
– Cryptography, Prof. Olivier Markowitch, ULB
– Secure programming, Prof. Coen De Roover, Prof. Elisa Gonzales Boix, VUB
– Privacy law, Ioulia Konstantinou, VUB
– SaaS architectures, Nick Boucart, Sirris
– Risk Management & governance, Prof. Georges Ataya,
Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management
17h05 SPICES, Scalable processing and mining of complex events for security analytics
Prof. Stijn Vansummeren, ULB
Getting together on cybersecurity
17h15 Matchmaking session (open floor, partner stands, drinks & finger foods, networking)
19h00 End
Info and registration