Octopus Presentations
These technical reports, presentations and resources do not necessarily reflect official positions of the Council of Europe.
Opening session
- Thorbjørn Jagland (Secretary General, Council of Europe)
- Almir Šahović (Ambassador, Permanent Representation Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Jean-Yves Latournerie (Préfet chargé de la lutte contre les cybermenaces, Conseiller du gouvernement, France)
- Marta Santos Pais (Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Violence against Children)
- Kamalina De Silva (Secretary of Justice, Sri Lanka)
- Uri Rosenthal (Special Envoy for the Global Conference on Cyberspace 2015, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands)
Plenary I
Cybercrime in 2015: What about the rule of law in cyberspace?
Panel: Threats in cyberspace
- Less is more in Cyber, Simon Mullis (Global technical Lead, FireEye, United Kingdom)
- Innovative Policing in the Digital World, Noboru Nakatani (Executive Director of the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI), Singapore),
- Cybercrime – The battlefield in Germany and the EU, Heiko Löhr (German Federal Criminal Police (BKA), Wiesbaden, Germany)
International policies on cybercrime: where do we stand?
- David Tait (Rule of Law Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, London)
Workshop 1: Capacity building on cybercrime: good practices and lessons
- Fighting Cybercrime: theory and practice, Geronimo Sy (Assistant Secretary of Justice, Philippines)
Panel 1: Capacity building as an international policy
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime,Tania Banuelos (Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer, UNODC)
- Global Forum for Cyber Expertise, David van Duren (Head of the GFCE Secretariat, The Netherlands)
Panel 2: Capacity building in action: ingredients and lessons learnt
- Capacity building by the Organisation of American States: Presentation / Statement and supporting points , Belisario Contreras (Programme Manager, OAS)
- Cybercrime capacity building at the World Bank, Jinyong Chung (Senior Counsel, World Bank)
- GLACY, Cybercrime@EAP II and Cybercrime@Octopus: projects of the Cybercrime Programme Office of the Council of Europe (C-PROC) in Romania, There is no such thing as “one size fits all” in capacity building (Steven Brown, Project Manager, Council of Europe)
Panel 3: Capacity building for judges and prosecutors: Judicial training – lessons
- Judicial training in action, Mamadou Diakhate (Director, Centre de Formation Judiciaire, Senegal)
Workshop 2: Evidence in the cloud: criminal justice access to data
- Technolgoy and the law, Marc Zoetekouw (Legal Advisor Operations - Cybercrime and Digital Technology) / Rob Meijer (Dutch Police, Netherlands)
- Cross-border access to data, bridging cyber-investigation needs and international law, Bert-Jaap Koops (Professor, Tillburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society, Netherlands)
- Potential Changes in the Operation of U.S. Search Warrants to Obtain Extraterritorial Data / Presentation, Joseph Schwerha (Professor, California University of Pennsylvania California, USA)
- Cloud storage and due process: A Defense Attorney's Perspective - Presentation / Report, David Aylor (Esq. Charleston, SC, USA)
- Criminal justice access to data in the cloud: challenges, Alexander Seger (Council of Europe)
Workshop 3: Victims of cybercrime: who cares?
- Victims of cybercrime: who are they and what are the issues: Presentation / Document, Marianne Junger (Professor, University of Twente, Netherlands)
- Working with youth, Janice Richardson (ENABLE)
- Romance scams as an example of serious harm, Fleur Van Eck (Fraudhelpdesk, Netherlands)
- Frederico Moyano Marques (Portuguese Association for Victim Support): Cybercrime: A new challenge for victim support / Raffaele Zallone (Lawyer, Bar of Milano, Italy): Presentation / Guidelines to fight cybercrimes and protect victims
- Effective Consumer Communication, Betsy Broder (Counsel for International Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission)
Workshop 4: Cybercrime legislation and implementation of the Budapest Convention
- Lao - Cyber Crimes Legislation and Implementation, Khamla Sounnalat (Acting head of LaoCERT / deputy director general of LANIC, Ministry of Post and Telecommunication)
- Mauritius - How to go about preparing Cybercrime legislation?, K. Gunesh-Bakaghee (Assistant Solicitor General, Attorney General's Office, Mauritius)
- Morocco - Les particularités de la législation marocaine
- Qatar - Review of the Legislative Initiatie in the Arab Region to Combat Cyber Crime: Qatar as an example, Judge Dr. Ehab Elsonbaty (Cyber Crime expert)
- Tanzania - Cybercrime legislation and implementation of Budapest Convention, Josephat Mkizungo (Senior State Attorney, Head of Cybercrime Desk under the Directorate of Public Prosecutions, Tanzania)
- Tonga - Cybercrime legislation in Tonga
Workshop 5: International cooperation: workshop for 24/7 points of contact and MLA authorities
- Cooperation in practice: obtaining subscriber information , Pedro Verdelho
- T-CY assessment of international cooperation provisions (Report with recommendations adopted in December 2014), Cristina Schulman (Ministry of Justice, Romania) / Betty Shave (Department of Justice, USA),
Workshop 6: SOP working group on standard operating procedures (presentations are not public)
Workshop 7: Policies, activities and initiatives on cybercrime of international and private sector organisations
- Bruce W. McConnell, Senior Vice President, EWI, Global Cooperation in Cyberspace Initiative of the EastWest Institute
- Christine Runnegar, Director, Public Policy, Internet Society
- David Tait, Rule of Law Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, Commonwealth initiatives on cybercrime
- Esther George, Consultant, International Association of Prosecutors, United Kingdom, Global Prosecutors E-Crime Network
- Maria Angela Biasiotti, Institute for Legal Information Theory and Techniques of the National Research Council of Italy, Florence, The EVIDENCE Project
- Cécile Barayre, UNCTAD initiatives on cybercrime
- Spanish National Police, Comisaria General de Policia Judicial, Unidad Central de Delincuencia Economica y Fiscal - Presentation
Workshop 8: Radicalisation on the Internet: the criminal justice perspective
- Project Cybercrime@Octopus, Implementation of the Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime on Xenophobia and Racism: Results of ECRI monitoring
- Valérie Maldonado, SDLC, Direction Centrale de la Police Judiciaire, Introduction / Radicalisation sur Internet
- Alexander Seger, Protocol to the Budapest Convention on Xenophobia and Racism committed through Computer Systems
- Ana Salinas de Frías (University of Malaga, Spain)
- Tarlach McGonagle (Institute for Information Law (IViR), Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam), Freedom of expression versus xenophobia, racism and incitement to crime and terrorism: where are the boundaries?
- Eirik Trønnes Hansen (prosecutor, NCIS, Norway), The experience of Norway
- Kristian Bartholin, Foreign Terrorist Fighters - The Additional Protocol to COuncil of Europe Convention No. 196
Plenary II - Closing session
Security, privacy and the rule of law in the cloud: What needs to be done?
- Eric Freyssinet (Advisor to the Prefect in charge of cyberthreats, Ministry of Interior, France)
- Jean-Philippe Walter (Président du Comité consultative Convention 108 (T-PD), Préposé fédéral suppléant, Switzerland)
Octopus takeaways
T-CY Secretariat
Alexander SEGER
Executive Secretary
Jan KRALIK
Programme Manager