Back in June, we cancelled the on-site Swiss Cyber Storm 2020 conference. We also ruled out a day-long virtual happening, but we said we were looking into a brief online presentation or some fun online form.

So finally, we got it all in place! Here is the teaser:

So what is this about? It’s a talk about cyber security with two people who have something to say. We’ll have Florian Schütz, Swiss Delegate for Cyber Security and Professor Edouard Bugnion from the EPFL. We no longer have to present Florian Schütz to you, but do you also know what his job really is? We’re going to ask him. And then Ed Bugnion. He hit the news when we brought Apple and Google to the table to adjust their bluetooth stack in order allow for what they call decentralized Covid Tracing Apps. Ed is also a Vice-President of EPFL, one of the founders of VMware and generally a most interesting person.

We’re going to run this online on October 13, at 1.30pm. No registration is needed, but make sure you write down the date. The link to the talk will be posted on the SCS website in time.

About the author

Dr. Christian Folini

Program Chair Moderator Arena

netnea AG

Christian Folini is a security engineer with twenty years of experience defending web applications and the infrastructure behind them. His work has increasingly moved from the technical trenches into the political arena: he is a vocal contributor to Swiss debates on e-voting, e-collecting and the governance of cybersecurity. He represents civil society on the steering committee of the National Cyberstrategy. A PhD in medieval history taught him to explain hard technical problems in plain language. As program chair, he curates the Swiss Cyber Storm lineup and moderates it every year.
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