Events
Hall A, Level 2 AUSTRIA CENTER VIENNA, BRUNO-KREISKY-PLATZ 1 1220, Vienna
Avast President of Consumer, Ondrej Vlcek, will participate in a panel, along with six other panelists, titled "Cybersecurity as key for a Digital Economy and Society" at ICT 2018: Imagine Digital - Connect Europe. The session will focus on strategic areas where the EU needs to invest in order to reinforce its cybersecurity, and thus protect its economy and society: research, innovation, and industrial capabilities. The debate will highlight examples of cybersecurity impact in different domains/application areas.
Europe needs to develop further essential capacities to secure its digital economy, society and democracy. The session aims to stimulate the debate on how to achieve this goal. The session will also make the case for the Commission’s initiatives in the area of cybersecurity research and innovation, raising awareness on various challenges in economy and society.
Ondrej Vlcek is Avast’s EVP & GM, Consumer. Prior to becoming EVP & GM, Consumer and CTO, Ondrej served as Avast’s Chief Operations Officer and before that as Avast’s Chief Technical Officer, managing research and development, including the Avast Virus Lab. He joined Avast as a software developer in 1995 and was part of the team that developed the company’s first antivirus program for Windows in 2003. He holds an M.S. in Mathematics from Czech Technical University in Prague and commenced post-graduate studies in non-linear optimization at Charles University in Prague's Faculty of Mathematics and Physics.
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