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ICANN Brussels to Host EU Briefing

February 11, 2021 by Michele Neylon Leave a Comment

ICANN’s Brussels office is hosting a webinar briefing for European stakeholders towards the end of the month.

The event, which is being held at 1530 UTC on February 26th, will focus on some recent EU initiatives on digital services and cybersecurity. While it’s an ICANN hosted event the bulk of the speakers will be from the European Commission.

At the moment there are several significant EU led projects that will have an impact on the digital economy including:

  • The Digital Services Act (DSA)
  • The EU Cybersecurity Policy Initiatives
  • The Cybersecurity Strategy
  • The revised Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2)

Here’s the full agenda:

Welcome and Opening Remarks – 5 minutes
Elena Plexida, Vice President, Government and IGO Engagement
(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -ICANN)

Introductory Remarks about the initiatives – 10 minutes
Olivier Bringer, Head of Unit “Next Generation Internet”
(European Commission)

DSA: Overview and Q/A – 40 minutes
Irene Roche Laguna, Deputy Head of Unit “Ecommerce and Platforms”
(European Commission)

EU Cybersecurity initiatives (Cybersecurity Strategy & NIS2): Overview and Q/A – 55 minutes
Gemma Carolillo, Deputy Head of Unit “Next Generation Internet”,
Benjamin Boegel, Policy Officer “Cybersecurity Policy”;
Christian D’Cunha, Policy Officer “Cybersecurity Policy”
(European Commission)

Conclusions – 10 minutes
Olivier Bringer, Head of Unit “Next Generation Internet” (European Commission)

Closing Remarks – 2 minutes
Elena Plexida, Vice President, Government and IGO Engagement (ICANN)

You can register for the event here.The event is scheduled to run from 1530 UTC to 1800 UTC (1630 – 1900 CET)

Filed Under: icann Tagged With: europe, European Commission, NIS

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

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