Stefan De Proft

Stefaan his professional journey started way back in 1988 as an engineer in the R&D unit of Agfa Gevaert. After some intermediate company changes, Stefaan joined IBM in 1997 as Architect for Systems management solutions first, and since 2001 for (cyber)security solutions. In his role as Security Architect, he fulfilled several positions in Benelux, Europe and at global level. Also, he achieved in 2015 his Level 3 Architect Certification (Open Group Distinguished Architect) and since 2021 he is the Benelux Architect Profession leader (across all IT domains).  In his current role as member of a WW team, he assists IBM Clients with security innovative projects.

• (University of Ghent)
• Active in the field of information security and data protection since 2002
• Security advisor/auditor with broad knowledge of all aspects of information security and with extensive eGov experience (social security, ehealth, military, …) in various roles (security consultant/officer, IT security researcher, CISO/DPO as-a-service)
• Since 2019 senior advisor Information Security & ICT at COC

• Juriste titulaire d’un master en droit à finalité civile et pénale
• Spécialisation en droit des technologies de l’information et de la communication
• Juriste depuis 2019 au sein de l’Organe de contrôle de l’information policière (COC), autorité de protection des données et de contrôle belge

• Commissioner-investigator at the Belgian Supervisory Body of Police Information
• Employed for more than 20 years in the Belgian Federal Police in different positions both at national and regional level, always related to the management of operational police information, including public order and judicial police
• Involved in the development of a national ANPR network
• Head of service at the Communication and Information Service of the District of Halle Vilvoorde
• Worked as chief operations for the Belgian Air Support Unit and for the Intelligence Department of the National Public Order Directorate.
• Involved in the functional development of several police applications, and acted as a representative in working groups with regards to police law and national guidelines for the processing of police information
• Occasionally sent abroad to participate in international information exchange centers established at the occasion of large scale international events such as G8 Summits and NATO meetings
• Participated to several international seminars and trainings
• Participate to several international courses and seminars
• Sent to Burundi twice in order to contribute to the training of local police officers and in order to develop a national communication center with regards to the 2015 national elections
• Guest lecturer at different police academies with regards to police information matters

• Full time member/director of the Belgian Supervisory Body for Police Information (COC, Data Protection Authority for police and certain law enforcement matters)
• Member of the Belgian Data Protection Authority between 2004 and 2019
• Attorney-general (senior deputy prosecutor-general) at the Ghent (Belgium) Court of Appeal
• Teaching assistant and researcher at Ghent University, Law Faculty, ‘Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy’ (IRCP) and the Interdisciplinary Knowledge and Research Platform on ‘Privacy, Information Exchange, Law Enforcement & Surveillance’
• Published more than 200 articles and a few books on police matters, data protection law and criminal and police law
• Author of multiple reports for the Standing Police Monitoring Committee,  the Belgian DPA and the Belgian Supervisory Body for Police Information

• Over 30 years of experience in IT, mainly in information security
• Expert Security Consultant at Toreon since 2019
• 8 years at Telenet, the last 4 of which as being responsible for information security (CISO-role)
• 23 years at EDS (later HP) in various technical roles including development, conducting security assessments for international clients, security incident response and forensics and a lot more…
• CISSP since 2008
• ISO27001 Lead Implementer

• PhD in secure software engineering from the KU Leuven
• 15 years of experience in cybersecurity and secure software engineering

• Application Security Expert at Toreon
• Guest lecturer at various colleges
• More than 20 years of experience in programming, testing and security

• Master degree in applied Computer science at the University of Ghent
• 20+ years of experience in cybersecurity and privacy
• Co-founder and CTO at Toreon
• Threat modeling trainer at Black Hat
• Co-founder and chapter leader of OWASP Belgium

• Partner at Qualified Audit Academy
• 20 years of Experience in Audit related to information technology, governance and privacy
• Trainer at Institute of Internal Auditors, UCL, ICHEC, ISACA, IFACI
• Secretary General of DPO-pro (Professional Assocation of DPO’s in Belgium)
• Board Member at Institute of Fraud Auditors

• Partenaire chez Calleta Consulting, fondée en 2010
• Expérimenté et certifié en tant que Data Protection Officer
• Expert en stratégie et gouvernance d’entreprise et de données
• Large expérience dans les domaines general management, finance, sales, IT et operations

• Data protection and Privacy Consultant chez ICTLex, fondée en 2012
• Vingt ans d’expérience dans la protection des données
• Juriste et avocate en droit IT
• Président DPO-Pro (association belge pour les DPO)

• Chercheur au Cyber & Data Security Lab de la Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
• Senior Consultant chez Cybersecurity-law.be
• Membre effectif de la Commission de contrôle bruxelloise

• Information Security Officer et Data Protection Officer dans le secteur des paiements des allocations de chômage de la sécurité sociale
• Actif dans le domaine de la sécurité de l’information depuis 2003
• Combine une expérience pratique dans les système IT et dans la législation en matière de respect de la vie privée :
  • Expérience IT technique en tant que IT Manager, ingénieur réseau, etc.
  • Conseiller en technologies et en sécurité de l’information auprès de l’Autorité de Protection des Données (APD – ex-Commission Vie Privée)
  • Vaste expérience dans le domaine de la législation en matière de respect de la vie privée, de la protection des données et de la norme ISO 27001
• Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) / International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) (depuis 2014)
• Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) / Technofuturtic / 2007 + Certification Exchange 2003 + Certification Active Directory

• DPO indépendant au VDAB
• Leader sur l’éthique de l’intelligence artificielle ( Digital Ethicist) et les biais discriminants
• Conseil et expert  en matière de Data Governance , Big Data et stratégie Data
• Mise en place de data roadmap, Corporate Data Model,  programme data governance et de sécurité de l’information
• Papa et sportif, passionné de vin et de lecture

• Managing Partner Data Trust Associates
• Over 10 years of experience in data management (including with Volvo) and 18 years of experience in IT.
• EU-certified Data Protection Officer (certification by the European Institute of Public Administration since 2015)
• Trainer at Vlerick Business School and I.T. Works

• Managing partner and trainer at Data Protection Institute
• Lecturer Information Security at Thomas More Hogeschool Mechelen (since 1999)
• DPO in the healthcare sector
• Member of the Flemish Supervisory Commission (Vlaamse Toezichtcommissie – VTC)
• Active in data protection and information security since 2003

• Industrial Engineer Electronics/ICT
• Active as an online blogger since 2002, always experiencing digital trends first hand
• 10 years IT consultancy experience
• Freelance marketing strategist at Intracto (since 2014)
• Lecturer at Thomas More and practice assistant at Uhasselt

• Managing Partner at Sirius Legal Lawyers, founded in 2010
• 8 years of expertise in data protection and privacy for the media, advertising and entertainment industries
• Member of the Legal Committee of BAM (Belgian Association of Marketing)
• Member of the IP Practice Group of Consulegis, an international network of independent law firms
• Experience as a lecturer of drafting techniques for commercial contracts at VUB (2005-2013)
• Experienced speaker at seminars and various training courses