Although the protection of critical infrastructures and related public/private coordination are a national responsibility, cyber security requires a comprehensive inventory of them at the regional level, even if the national/regional distinction is not always easily achieved, as deregulation has widely encouraged mergers and cross-border cooperation between private operators. Beyond such an inventory, the implementation of a transnational cyber security cooperation framework is vital, when it comes to critical infrastructure such as energy systems. The transnational nature of energy systems is itself justified by other vital needs, such as securing supplies and regional market integration. These critical infrastructures are therefore prime targets for cyber-attacks, potentially threatening people’s lives and endangering national economies. This could be most damaging, as the impact could transcend industry sectors and spill over a country’s borders. Hence, public/private partnerships are necessary for the design and management of a systemic approach in order to ensure a sustainable defence in the face of cyber-attacks on cross border infrastructures. Especially so as the maintenance of security is more difficult to achieve in the context of overlapping public/private responsibilities, interdependent centralised/decentralised issues and crisis management which is both the responsibility of civil society as well as of governments. But how is all this to be prioritised?

Supporting Organization: World Economic Forum (WEF)
Moderator: Mr. Danil Kerimi, Director, Head of ICT Government Community, World Economic Forum (WEF)
Mr. Aibek Borangali, Executive Director, Oil-Gas and Energy Sector development, Kazenergy
Mr. Luigi Gambardella, Vice President, Telecom Italia and Chairman, ETNO
Dr. Hassan Mohamed Mahmoud, Head of Information and Communication Technology Sector, Egyptian Electricity Holding Company / Ministry of Electricity and Energy
Mr Peter Haegler, KKL Leibstaat Nuclear Power Plant, Switzerland
Mr. Jean-Luc Trolle, Nuclear Security Information Senior Advisor, Generation and Engineering Departments, EDF.
Mr Paul Wang , Director, Forensic, KPMG, Geneva, Switzerland

15:45 – 17:00 – Session 3 Protecting the energy ecosystem: Designing and managing technology for critical energy infrastructure
Energy infrastructure is composed of complex industrial environments usually underpinned by ICT systems (Industrial control systems or ICS), sometimes not designed with security in mind. While the use of ICTs in operating critical systems such as power control enables better management and increased productivity, it also creates new sources of vulnerabilities and potential exploits that can be used for targeted cyber-attacks. Since the energy sector is so diverse, ensuring business continuity and securing control systems is not a simple matter. As technology evolves, so does the sophistication in exploiting the vulnerabilities. For example, corrupted information sent by intelligent electronic devices or remote terminal units could affect negatively the processes related to energy provision. Denial of Service attacks would cause loss of availability and generate unacceptable delays and down time for critical energy services and related infrastructures, such as the power grids. Cybersecurity for the energy sector therefore requires the use of preventive and reactive security measures as well as the deployment of capabilities to proactively manage the risks. How can the technology sector contribute to managing risks in the energy infrastructure? Standardization has a key role to play and some standards already directly address industrial control system security, but these need to be pushed for wider adoption at the industry level. What role can Standards Development Organizations play in this regard? What steps need to be taken to ensure the interoperability of products and services from the early design stage?

Moderator: Dr. Reinhard Scholl, Deputy Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureaux, ITU
Mr. Aaron Boyd, Chief Strategy Officer, ABI Research
Col. Aapo Cederberg, Senior Programme Advisor, Emerging Security Challenges Programme, Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
Prof. Solange Ghernaouti, Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, Director, Swiss Cybersecurity Advisory and Research Group, University of Lausanne
Mr. Ralph Langner,Co-Founder and Managing Principal, Langner Communications and Nonresident Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Brookings Institution
Mr. Alper Özbilen, Head of IS Department, Information and Communication Technologies Authority of Turkey

17:00-17:30 – Official Closing
Mr. Houlin Zhao, Deputy Secretary-General, ITU
Mr. Denis Flory, Deputy Director General, Head, Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, IAEA
Mr Martin Michel , Vice-President, EnergyPact Foundation

17:30 onwards – Cocktails

9:00-10:00 – Coffee

10:00 – 11:30 – Official Opening and Introductive Key Note Speeches
Chairman of the Conference: Dr. Hamadoun I. Touré Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Mr. Alexandre Dimitrijevic, President, Energy Pact Foundation
H.E. Mr. Michalis Papadopoulos, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, Transportation and Networks, Greece
Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director-General, CERN*
Col. Gerald Vernez, Cyber-Defense Delegate to the Chief of Armed Forces of Switzerland
Prof. Howard A. Schmidt, Co-Founder, Ridge Schmidt Executive Cyber Solutions, Cybersecurity Coordinator and Special Assistant to the President of United States 2009 – 2012 (remote participation)
Lt.Col (Ret.) Sachin Burman, Director, National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, India
Mr. Phil Zimmermann, Creator of PGP and the Zfone/ZRTP secure VoIP standard, co-founder and President of Silent Circle.
Mr. Khalid N. Sadiq Al-Hashmi, Executive Director for Cyber Security – QCERT, Qatar NOTE: expected to speak in the afternoon based on arrival time)

11:30– 13:00 – Session 1

It is vital to a nation’s interests and socio-economic wellbeing that its critical energy infrastructure must be secure, resilient to threats, and also have the ability to recover from any attacks. With the increasing reliance on ICTs by designers of such critical infrastructure systems, and therefore the convergence of physical and digital security concerns, security concerns can emerge at national, regional and international levels. Therefore, key questions include – what safeguards are needed at these levels, especially in terms of improved cooperation frameworks? What are the hurdles to establishing these safeguards, and what are the related mitigation measures?

Supporting Organization: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Moderator: Mr. Donald D Dudenhoeffer, Nuclear Security Information Officer, IAEA
Mr Mbodji Boubacar, Special Advisor to the President, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, Senegal
Mr. Vangelis Ouzounis,  Head, Secure Infrastructures and Services, European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA)
Mr Blaise Roulet ,Secretary of State Delegate, Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Switzerland
Judge Stein Schjolberg (Ret.) Norway , Chairman of the 2007-2008 ITU global High-Level Experts Group (HLEG) on cybersecurity
Professor Tim Watson, Warwick University
Ambassador Henning Wegener, Chairman, Permanent Monitoring Panel on Information Security, World Federation of Scientists
Mr. Pavan Duggal, Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Head, Pavan Duggal Associates, President, CYBERLAWS.NET, President, MOBILELAW.NET* (Remote participation)

13:00 – 14:30 – Lunch

14:30 – 15:45 – Session 2