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EU Ministerial Conference on Critical Information Infrastructure Protection
27-28 April 2009, Tallinn, Estonia

Agenda

Monday, 27 April 2009
14:00 Ministerial Meeting (Venue: Ministers and delegations, Radisson SAS Conference Centre)
14:15 Remarks by Ms. Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Information Society and Media
14:30 Remarks by Mr. Juhan Parts, Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications
14:45 Tour de table on theissues raised in the background paper

16:00    Coffee break
16:30    Tour de table continues
17:45    Conclusions
18:15    Ministerial meeting ends, Group photo

  Ministers      
18:30 Transfer and tour of the Demo Centre (Ministers)      
19:50 Transfer from Demo Centre to the restaurant “Tchaikovsky” (Ministers)      
20:00 VIP Dinner hosted by Mr. Juhan Parts, Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications (Ministers, Restaurant “Tchaikovsky”)     Conference participants
      15:00 Transfer and visit of the Demo Centre - Group 1
      16:30 Transfer and visit of the Demo Centre - Group 2
      18:30 Ice-breaker for Delegations and confere participants at Radisson SAS
      19:45 Transfer from Radisson SAS to the Kadriorg Foreign Art Museum (Delegations and confere participants, invited guests)
      20:00 Reception hosted by Ms. Marika Priske, Permanent Secretary of the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications (Delegations and confere participants, Kadriorg Foreign Art Museum)
         

Tuesday, 28 April 2009

(All events are held in Radisson SAS)

Welcome and Keynotes
09:00 Address by H.E. Mr Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of the Republic of Estonia  (Confirmed)
   
09:15 Mr. Ivan Langer, Minister of Interior, Czech EU presidency (Confirmed)
09:30 Mr. Antti-Ilmari Peltomäki, Deputy Director-General, Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission (Confirmed)
09:45 Mr. Juhan Parts, Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications of Estonia (Confirmed)
10:00   Ms. Asa Torstensson, Minister for Communications, incoming Swedish EU presidency (Confirmed)
10.15 Press Conference

10:30     Panel I “The significance of Critical Information Infrastructures for the EU”
  • European Information Society and cross-border interdependence
  • Resilient Information Society as a vehicle for economic growth
  • The risks to critical information infrastructures
  • The role of public awareness in building European resilience to cyber threats
  • The role of public and private stakeholders in ensuring security and resilience
Moderator: Mr Edward Lucas, the Economist (Confirmed)
Panellists: Ms. Suvi Linden, Minister of Communications,
Finland (Invited)
  Mr. Ben Verwaayen, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent (Confirmed)
  Mr. Johan Martenson, PTS, Sweden (Confirmed)
Mr. Pascal Chauve, Deputy Director, Strategy and Policy, Prime Minister’s
Office, SGDN, DCSSI, France

11:30 Coffee Break

12.00 Panel II “The Challenges for the EU”
  • Improving the preparedness at national and EU level
  • Cooperation in Protecting the European Critical Information Infrastructure
  • Information sharing and coordination between Member States
  • The governance challenge: building a European Public-Private Partnership for Resilience
  • International Cooperation
Moderator:  Mr. Lars D. Nicander Director of the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies (CATS) at the Swedish National Defence College (SNDC) (Confirmed)
Panellists:  Mr. Witold Drozdz, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of
Interior
and Administration, Poland (Confirmed)
Mr. Michael Hange, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Federal Ministry of
Interior, Germany (Invited)
  Mr. Gregory Paulger, Director, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission (Confirmed)
  Mr. Michael Hange,
  Mr. Agostino Ragosa, CIO, Poste Italiane Group S.p.a. (Confirmed)
  Mr. John Turner, Vice President, Symantec (Confirmed)
13.00     Lunch

14:30     Working groups

Working Group 1: European Private Public Partnership for Resilience

Moderator:  Mr. Karl Rauscher, Executive Director, Bell Labs Network Reliability & Security Office, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent (Confirmed)
Panellists:   Mr. Thomas Kristmar, Danish National IT and Telecom Agency (Confirmed)
  Mr. Mikko Hypponen, CTO, F-Secure (Confirmed)
  Mr. Andrea Servida, European Commission (Confirmed)
  Mr. Steve Purser, ENISA's Head of Technical Department (Confirmed)
  Ms. Annemarie Ziestra, Program Manager, NICC, Netherlands (Confirmed)

Working Group 2: International Cooperation and Legal Instruments

Moderator: Mr. Sten Tamkivi, Skype (Confirmed)
Panellists: Mr. Alexander Seger, Council of Europe (Confirmed)
  Mr. John Kneuer, former US Assistant Secretary of Commerce (Confirmed)
  Mr. Manuel Pedrosa de Barros, ANACOM, Portugal (Confirmed)
Mr. Geoff Smith, BERR, UK (Confirmed)
  Mr. Masayuki Ogata, Acting Counsellor, National Information Security Centre, Japan (Confirmed)
  Mr. Ake Holmgren, Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) (Confirmed)

Working Group 3: Defending the Critical Information Infrastructure

Moderator: Mr. Ferenc Suba, CERT Hungary (Confirmed)
Panellists: Mr. Scott Borg, US Cyber Consequences Unit (Confirmed)
  Mr. Peter Burnett, CPNI-UK (Confirmed)
 
  Mr. Scott McIntyre (Confirmed)
  Mr. Paul Nicholas, Principal Security Strategist, Microsoft (Confirmed)
  Mr. Damir Rjanovic, CISCO PSIRT (Confirmed)

16.00     Coffee Break

16:30     Plenary: On the way forward
Report from the working groups
    • European Private Public Partnership for Resilience
    • International Cooperation and Legal Instruments
    • Defending the Critical Information Infrastructure
Moderator: A representative of the Presidency and Estonia
Open discussion
17:00     Conclusion
17.30     Drinks and Reception