Making the Digital Agenda Work – the Journey from Policy to Reality
Euritas, the European Association of public ICT service providers, will be hosting a conference on European regulations regarding egovernment on November 28th, 2018 in Brussels. The conference will highlight the challenges between policy making and technical implementation and will provide a platform to discuss how to bridge the gap. Stakeholders of the public sector on European, national and regional level are invited to participate.
The European Council, Commission and Parliament have recently launched several regulations to be implemented. These regulations are General Data Protection (GDPR), electronic IDentification, Authentication and trust Services (eIDAS) and the upcoming Single Digital Gateway (SDG). All member states are required to meet the demands of these regulations.
During several panels, representatives of the European Commission, CIOs from national entities and experts from public ICT service providers will provide insights on the implementation status of these regulations and the challenges and lessons learned. They will for example discuss how to provide cloud services in accordance with the GDPR-requirements, the specific national approaches and status of implementing the eIDAS-regulation and the options of creating a user-centric approach for the Single Digital Gateway.
The summit is an invitation-only event. If you belong to the stakeholders group you can request your interest to Mrs. Zehra Kilic-Türkan (see contact details).
Details
| Session | Topic | Time | Speakers |
| Welcome | Welcome and introduction | 15 min |
Hubert Ludwig, President of Euritas Simone Puksic, Vice-President of Euritas |
| Keynote | ICT regulations and how they relate to policy goals of the European Digital Agenda | 45 min | Carl-Christian Buhr, Deputy Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel |
| Panel I GDPR |
Half year of GDPR - What are the lessons learned of the GDPR implementation? What level of data protection is adequate in order to comply with GDPR when transferring personal data outside the EU – are the existing data transfer mechanisms enough, taking the four European Essential Guarantees into account? |
1,5 h |
Presentations and panel discussion Willem Debeuckelaere, Deputy Chair of the European Data Protection Board Helle Uldbaek Sorensen, Position paper presented by Euritas Giovanni Buttarelli, European Data Protection Supervisor (tbc) Vlasta Marinovic, DPO of APIS IT – Croatia Paul Van den Berg, CIO of the Dutch Ministry of Justice |
| Lunch | |||
| Panel II eIDAS |
How is the implementation of eIDAS realized in EU countries and which challenges have occurred? What are the lessons learned?
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1,5 h |
Presentations and panel discussion Andrea Servida, Head of Unit "eGovernment and Trust" at DG CONNECT Herbert Leitold, Secretary-General of A-SIT – Austria Jens Bender, eID expert at Federal Office for Information Security – Germany Bozo Zeba, Deputy Secretary at Central State Office for the Development of the Digital Society – Croatia Freek van Krevel, Senior policy advisor EU implementaion programmes + eIDAS – The Netherlands |
| Coffee break | |||
| Panel III Single Digital Gateway |
How can Euritas contribute to a successful implementation of the SDG? What is status of the digitisation of the procedures listed in Annex II? Which additional features, components and technologies can make the Single Digital Gateway as user centric as possible? |
1,5 h
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Presentations and panel discussion Hettel Varik, Policy Assistant at the EC, Leader of the technical development of the Single Digital Gateway John-Lloyd Holler, White paper presentation by Euritas Kristian Mul, Product manager at Logius – The Netherlands Robert Krimmer, Full Professor of e-Governance, TOOP coordinator – Estonia Susanne Kroeger, e-Government department at Federal Ministry of the Interior – Germany |
| Networking opportunity |