Advisory Board #7
Speakers
CSO • Touchless Biometric Systems
Passionate Business Development and Sales Executive for more than 11 years in technology Start-Ups, from early stage to successful maturity. Over the last 20 years I have acquired a deep knowledge of the Access Control market and Biometrics, in Europe, Middle East and Asia. My atypical education degree in Finance and Marketing helps me to invest the resources where they are most effective and where they generate best value for the customers. Biometric solutions are changing the security landscape. They are becoming more popular due to their accuracy and they offer a higher level of security. The use of biometric solutions is taking off throughout the world.
Global Head of Digital Hub • SGS
Professor in Information Security • HEIG-VD
Since 2011, Sylvain Pasini has been a Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (Vaud), more precisely at the HEIG-VD. He is leading the cybersecurity research group and the competence center (https://y-security.heig-vd.ch). His main activities are applied research and teaching, both in computer security. He is also Founder and President of Black Alps, the famous Cybersecurity Conference (https://blackalps.ch). Between 2009 and 2011, he was working as cryptography expert and security architect for Nagravision (Kudelski Group), world leader in digital pay-TV industry. He has a Ph.D. in cryptography from EPFL (2009), a Master degree in Communication Systems from EPFL (2005), and a Bachelor degree in Electronics from HEPIA (2001).
CEO • Trust Valley
Lennig Pedron has expertise in cybersecurity and emerging technologies applied to the digital trust economy. She works in particular for the EPFL Innovation Park Foundation and is CEO of the Swiss initiative Trust Valley, the center of excellence in digital trust and cybersecurity. She is co-founder and president of the NGO iCON, representing an international community of over 100 digital trust experts. Lennig Pedron represents iCON at the Council of Europe. She has been Data Protection expert for the Swiss Confederation. She provides advice and training to different audiences such as the police, prosecutors or banks. She has been a judge for the 9/12 geopolitical challenge of the GCSP for 4 years and she has spoken at the Forum of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Lennig Pedron is the co-author of the book "The Fundamentals of Cyber Crisis Management" published by Ellipses in June 2022.
Coming Soon - • New Position -
Innovation Advisor • Innovaud