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Rik van der Brugge is a consultant at Cinq ICT and a Cribl Certified Consultant, focused on solving data-related challenges through smart observability and efficient data pipelines.

Marc Simons is a self-employed electronics engineer in Eindhoven (Netherlands). After studying electronics at the Polytechnic University of Eindhoven, he worked for several companies in the field of surveillance and security, before founding his own company at the beginning of the century, in January 2000. He has since specialised in the development of analog electronics and embedded platforms and sensors for agricultural applications.

In 2003 he co-founded the virtual Crypto Museum, which has since received international recognition. Crypto Museum has a physical collection of historical cipher machines and equipment for espionage, that is available on-line through its website. It is the goal to analyse, describe and restore as much of the equipment as possible, and share this information with the public.

Paul Reuvers is a self-employed electronics engineer in Eindhoven (Netherlands). After studying electronics at the Polytechnic University of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, he worked for several companies in the field radio, television and broadcasting, before founding his own company in 1986. He has since specialised in the development of embedded software for a variety of applications, including agricultural platforms and sensors.

In 2003 he co-founded the virtual Crypto Museum, which has since received international recognition. Crypto Museum has a physical collection of historical cipher machines and equipment for espionage, that is available on-line through its website. It is the goal to analyse, describe and restore as much of the equipment as possible, and share this information with the public.

Thierry Marchand is Public Policy and Government Relations Manager at TikTok for the Netherlands and Luxembourg. He is the first point of contact for governments, politicians and NGO on topics such as security, privacy, online wellbeing and safety, culture and economic impact of TikTok. He is involved with new legislation and policy developments, but also compliance and public campaigns that happen on TikTok. Next to this, Thierry is also the spokesperson for TikTok in the Netherlands. He has a background in international relations and politics and has been working in the tech policy field for over 7 years now.

Adrian Taylor | Palo Alto Networks, Unit 42 | Senior Director, Incident Response 

Leading the EMEA Incident Response team at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, Adrian has a career of building agile and resilient security teams that help organisations improve how they detect and respond to security incidents. Known for his innovative, empathic and human-centred approach, Adrian bridges the technical and cultural aspects of cyber to help enterprise-scale organisations transform their cyber capabilities.

Aart Jochem was appointed CISO for the Central Government at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations in 2020.

He chairs the interdepartmental CISO council, is responsible for government-wide policy and frameworks, and coordinates the joint efforts in the field of digital resilience and privacy within the central government.

Aart was previously CISO at a pension fund provider. Prior to that, he worked as a member of the management team and head of Monitoring and Response at the National Cyber Security Center of the Ministry of Security and Justice, as a managing consultant at Capgemini, and as an innovation manager at Rijkswaterstaat (the Directorate-General for Public Works and Water Management).

Aart Jochem studied Computer Architecture and Digital Technologies at Delft University of Technology.