2017 ACM Europe Conference, Day One

The 2017 ACM Europe Council took place on 7th to the 8th of September 2017 in Barcelona, Spain, at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). A truly international event, this conference brought together computer scientists and practitioners from around the world to participate in panel discussions, lectures and workshops on the conference’s two main themes: Cybersecurity and High Performance Computing.

This video, from September 7 2017, includes the conferences official opening, a Turing Lecture by Silvio Micali entitled “ALGORAND: A New Distributed Ledger,” and a Cybersecurity Panel featuring:

. Chris Hankin, professor of Computing Science at Imperial College London

. Judith Gal-Ezer, professor emerita of computer science at the Open University of Israel (OUI)

. Jeremy Epstein, Deputy Division Director for Computer and Network Systems at the US National Science Foundation

. Manel Medina, full Professor and Director of MsC Cybersecurity at the Politecnic University of Catalunya (UPC)

. Gerhard Schimpf, independent consultant with experience in the banking, wholesale, airline, and utilities industries