The CEPIS Legal and Security Issues (LSI) expert group brings together experts from CEPIS Member Societies to provide independent professional expertise on IT-related legislation and cybersecurity issues (Legal and Security Issues expert group – CEPIS). Chair: Prof. Kai Rannenberg, Secretary Prof. Marko Hölbl. 
The group’s main activities are developing, discussing and promoting CEPIS opinions on current cybersecurity issues and communicating them to the relevant institutions. The group also actively participates in other cybersecurity-related organisations, such as ENISA and ECSO. 
The next CEPIS Meeting will be held on Vienna, joining in the celebrations of the 50 years of the Austrian Computing Society OCG. 
The Symposiom takes place on Friday, 16 May 2025, 10-16 hours, Heinz Zemanek Saal, Wollzeile 1, 1010 Wien. Online participation is possible. The zoom link will be distributed shortly before the meeting. 
Conference language: English, comments in German are possible.

Participation is free, registration is required by sendng an e-mail: iris25@iris-conferences.eu.

 Programme

10:00-10:15 Opening remarks: Kai Rannenberg, chair of CEPIS-LSI and future president of IFIP 

10:15-11:30 Session I – Electronic Identity and eIDAS European Digital Identity
(EUDI) Wallet, chaired by Marko Hölbl 
Electronic Identity on Austria, Peter Kustor, Federal Chancellery, Vienna 
European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet from a Human Rights Perspective, Thomas Lohninger, epicenter.works, Wien 
Practical Issues of eID, Christof Tschohl, Research Institute / Privacy Forum of OCG, Wien Discussant: Kai Rannenberg

11:30-11:45 Break

11:45-13:00 Session II – Data Governance and Data Protection, chaired by Erich Schweighofer 
Mastering Huge Data Corpora with LLMs, Anton Geist 
Practical Challenges of Data Anonymisation, Peter Kieseberg, Fachhochschule St. Pölten 
Discussant: Stefan Eder

13:00-14:00 Lunch break and networking

14:00-16:00 – Session III – Security in Cyberspace, chaired by Kai Rannenberg 
Digital Sovereignty – Time to Act!, Harald Wehnes, Universität Würzburg 
Cybersecurity in ICANN, Matthias Hudobnik, Member of ICANN’s SSAC 
Chat Control, Kai Rannenberg, Universität Frankfurt 
NIS2 and GDPR – Inconsistency questions, Stefan Eder, Benn-Ibler Rechtsanwälte / Lawthek at Cybly, Wien 
Discussant: Erich Schweighofer

16:00-16:15 Closing remarks by Kai Rannenberg