Florent Frederix

From 2001 on Florent held a series of senior positions at the European Commission: as Principal Administrator for Cybersecurity in the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CONNECT) and as Head of Sector for the Internet of Things and Radio Frequency Identification in the Directorate General for Information Society and Telecommunications (INFSO).
Currently he follows files such as the European approach to artificial intelligence and its deployment opportunities in the cybersecurity domain.
Prior to that, Florent was for 10 years (international) Research Programmes Manager at Alcatel (Alcatel was at that time world's largest telecommunication company, nick-named the Internet Company for their valuable contribution to broadband Internet over copper and fibre optic networks).
Prior to his stay at Alcatel he was Research and Development Manager at AESTHEDES, the company that was heralded as world leading the domain of pre-press art design systems.
He is also an Honorary Doctor of the University of Hasselt (BE) and an alumnus continuing Policy Fellow of Cambridge University’s Centre for Science and Policy