Manel Medina

Professor at the "Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya" (UPC) since 1992 and president of the European Committee APWG (APWG.EU). Member of the assessor committee d'ISMS Forum Spain (2013...). Founder and Director d'esCERT i-UPC, Spanish incident response team in network security (1994 ...).

Previously he was Stakeholder Relations Advisor and assistant manager in ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) (2011-2014). Scientific Advisor in Barcelona Digital Technology Centre (2008-2010). Founder and president of the research center of internet applications (CANET-UPC) (2004-2006).

He has been a fill member of ESRIFIt (European Security Research and Innovation Forum) and ESRAB (2006-2009) to advise the European Commission on issues of security research and programs for R & D.

Founder of several spin-off companies:

• Safelayer Secure Communications, a provider of software PKI leader in Europe.
• Tb-Segurity InetSecur and management, information security and auditing.
• SeMarket, specializing in digital identity management and biometrics
• ReadyPeople, developer of applications for managing identity profiles on social networks and privacy aspects of geolocation services.