Dinsdag 16 januari 2024

Technologie & Innovatie

Arthur van der Wees

Europe Fit for the Digital Decade. A Status Update

EU Digital Decade 2030, data & cybersecurity strategies, challenges & opportunities for business, economy & society

Dynamics in the Digital Age
At an ever-increasing pace, technology is constantly shaping society along with every other sector of our local, regional national, European Union and global economies by giving it the impetus needed to accelerate digital transformation and to help address the societal challenges at hand - and to be expected in the mid and longer term. It also influences our sovereignty, both as individuals, organisations, society, regions, states, alliances, allies and friends, and their respective data.

Europe Fit for the Digital Decade
In this session, we will dive into both the strategic opportunities that the EU vision and related policies bring about, as well as how to strategically transform by addressing risks into enablers. We will first zoom out, to achieve the best oversight possible in the developments while seeking opportunities and identifying risks. Then we will zoom in, to comprehend the connections and intertwining of these n-dimensional puzzles, in order to pinpoint where certain existing, new or upcoming EU regulations and policies are most relevant. Next up, we will address how to strategise for organisations and their various stakeholders.

The session is aimed to anyone who is interested to figuring out how they can become Fit for the Digital Decade as a business leader, decision maker or influencer.

Arthur van der Wees is managing director of Arthur's Legal, Strategies & Systems. He is strategist, senior attorney at law and policy expert worldwide with in-depth experience of technology, cyber-physical systems, data, IoT, AI, autonomous systems, critical infrastructures, computing, spectrum, dynamic attributes, risk, safety, cybersecurity, privacy, trust, dynamic assurance, digital sovereignty, accountability and rule of law. Arthur is expert advisor to both public sector and private sector (and other) organisations in the Netherlands, EU, EEA, UK, NATO allies and friends. Amongst others, he is expert member of European Commission's Expert Group on Data Sharing, cloud and other data computing contracts, co-managed by several units of DG Justice and DG Connect. Arthur's Legal, Strategies & Systems is the independent, global strategic legal firm and knowledge partner that covers the unique combination of said domains while addressing societal challenges in this Digital Age. The firm is member of the EU Alliance of Industrial Data, Cloud and Edge where its leads the Digital Sovereignty Taskforce, co-leads the Cybersecurity Taskforce, and the Common Trust Principles for Data Sharing Taskforce. Arthur's Legal is consortium partner or (security, strategic or ethical) advisory board member to about 30 European projects on data, trust, security, privacy, ethics, accountability, opportunities and risk in Digital Ecosystems. Arthur is also co-founder and board member of several institutes including the Institute for Accountability the Digital Age, New Trust Foundation, and the Institute for Future of Living.

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