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Congresses and symposiaPublished on 21 July 2023

Cyber-Defence Campus Conference 2023

Event Date

26
Oct
2023
  • Thursday 09:00 - 18:30
Kursaal Bern
Kornhausstrasse 3
3013 Bern

This year's Cyber-Defence (CYD) Campus Conference will take place on 26 October 2023 at the Kursaal in Bern. The core theme of the conference is Security in the Age of AI: Opportunities and Risks. The CYD Campus looks forward to welcoming experts and interested parties from govnernment, industry and academia to this conference.

Event Details

Language of the event

English

Contact

Prices

Conference Fee: CHF 100
Students: free

Program

8:30
Registration


9:00
WELCOME/INTRO
Dr. Vincent Lenders, Director of Cyber-Defence Campus,
Dr. Julian Jang-Jaccard, Conference Program Co-Chair, Cyber-Defence Campus


9:20
Florian Schütz, Director of the National Cyber Security Centre NCSC
Keynote


9:45
STARTUP 1


10:00
Dr. Heike Riel, IBM Fellow, Department Head Science & Technology
Quantum Computing - the path to quantum advantage


10:25
Coffee Break


10:45
Dominique Gruhl-Bégin, CEO of Innosuisse
Emerging and disruptive technologies: Moving the world with Swiss innovation


11:10
STARTUP 2


11:20
Prof. Torsten Hoefler, Full Professor, ETH Zurich
Towards the Age of Computation and its Implications on Security


11:45
Student Pitches


12:10
Lunch + Posters


13:15
Dr. Mart Noorma, Director NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE)
Challenges and opportunities for EDTs in cyber defence


13:45
Prof. Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Full Professor, EPFL
Distributed AI: Outlooks and Challenges


14:10
STARTUP 3


14:20
Major General Simon Müller, Chief of Cyber Command - Swiss Army
EDT integration: Operational perspective


14:50
Coffee Break


15:20
Clémence Poirier, Senior Cyber Defense Researcher, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Understanding Cybersecurity in Outer Space


15:50
Panel
Opportunities and Challenges of Quantum Technologies for Switzerland
Dr. Heike Riel (IBM Fellow, Head Science and Technology, Lead IBM Research Quantum)
Dr. Philippe Caroff (Executive Director, EPFL Center for quantum Science and Engineering)
Dr. Anu Unnikrishnan (Executive Director, ETH Quantum Center)
Dr. Andreas Masuhr (Head, Swiss Quantum Initiative (SQI))
Dr. Cornelius Hempel (Group Head, Ion Quantum Computing, Paul Scherrer Institute PSI)


16:40
Startup Challenge Award Ceremony
Dr. Colin Barschel, Head of Innovation, CYD Campus


16:55
CLOSING REMARKS


17:00
APERO / NETWORKING