EuroISPA General Meeting in Brussels: a recap
Brussels, September 23-24, 2024
Last week, the EuroISPA community travelled to Brussels for the third General Meeting of the year, gathering Council and Forum members, Board Officers and Secretariat, in the EuroISPA offices.
With the European elections now behind us, a new insitutional and political scenario slowly forming, and an entire EU agenda still to shape, our members gathered to discuss the next steps for EuroISPA to expand its connections with newly-elected EU policymakers and contribute to new (and old) policy files that will be on the agenda in the next months.
The two-day meeting covered:
📌 The confirmation of Whalebone as a new EuroISPA Industry Forum member
📌 An analsys of the proposed new college of Commissioners and what this means for EuroISPA’s activities
📌 EuroISPA’s engagement strategy to approach new policymakers and share our messages for the new EU mandate
📌 Exchange on several EuroISPA statements on topics such as sustainability, GDPR, AI, CSAM and payments.
Finally, we had the pleasure of welcoming several guest speakers:
- Eric Ducoulombier, Head of Unit B3 on Retail Financial services, DG FISMA, European Commission, on addressing impersonation fraud in payments, with a focus on cooperation, consumer awareness, and liability
- Dan Nechita, Head of Cabinet of Dragoş Tudorache and Lead technical negotiator for the AI Act in the 9th European Parliament, on the challenges and opportunities for the Internet industry and the role of the AI Office after the adoption of the AI Act
- Anja Wyrobek, Advisor to MEP Birgit Sippel, LIBE Committee, on the future of privacy and data for the Internet industry and the interplay with AI
The next EuroISPA General Meeting will be held in Brussels in November – stay tuned!
