Speakers from past editions
Miguel González-Sancho - edition 2021
Head of the Unit "Cybersecurity Technology and Capacity Building"
European Commission
Speaker at Cybershare Conference edition 2021
Miguel González-Sancho is since July 2018 Head of the Unit "Cybersecurity Technology and Capacity Building" at the European Commission, where he has worked for over 20 years, mainly on EU policy and R&D&I programmes relating to digital technologies, and before on telecoms regulation and trade policy. His previous responsibilities in the Commission included Head of Unit for eHealth, Head of Unit for Administration and Finance, Deputy Head of Unit for Policy Coordination, Deputy Head of the Unit for eInclusion, and member of cabinet of a European Commission Vice-President. Miguel holds degrees in law, international relations, business administration, accounting and auditing
Marco Barros Lourenco- edition 2021
Head of Agency Research & Innovation team
ENISA
Speaker at Cybershare Conference - edition 2021
Marco Barros Lourenco is a Technology Strategist, Futurologist and a Cybersecurity Researcher with more than two decades of experience working for international organisations in three different continents.
Marco worked as CISO for a CSDP Mission and as senior manager for United Nations and Microsoft Corporation, defining strategies for public sector modernisation, information security and risk management.
Marco Joined the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity in 2018 as Cybersecurity expert lead and since 2021, he heads the Agency Research & Innovation team.
Dan Cimpean- edition 2020, 2021
General Director
DNSC-RO
Speaker at Cybershare Conference - edition 2020, 2021
Dan accumulated over 20 years of experience in cyber security, risk management in Brussels, Bucharest and internationally.
He led professional teams that supported European Institutions, National Competent Authorities and large industry actors in defining and implementing their cyber security policies, strategies, operational and technical measures.
Since May 2020 he was appointed as General Director of CERT-RO by decision of the Romanian Prime Minister.
He has the exciting mission to lead the effort for transforming this great organisation and is committed to contribute with his mandate, will and capabilities for supporting the national strategy and priorities in the cyber security domain.
Philippe Merle - edition 2019
Head of Sector Infrastructure & Cloud Solutions Advisory Services
European Commission
French, aged 47, hold a M.Sc in IT engineering in real-time, network and distributed system from École nationale supérieure d'informatique et de mathématiques appliquées of Grenoble.
From 2001 to 2006, he worked as for the firm Esker, based in Lyon, specialised in interoperability and document management products and early provider of SaaS services
From 2007 to 2013, he joined European Commission as project and service manager in DG CONNECT and DG DIGIT, supporting the Research programs funded by European Union
From 2013 to 2014, he went back to the private sector and worked in quality of project manager for Synchrone Technologies and Amadeus on customisation technologies for the SaaS products proposed by Amadeus to its customers.
As of august 2014, he is in charge of the technical aspects of Cloud procurement for the EU Institutions, and Cloud evangelist within the Institutions
