SCION Day 2022

Nearly 500 people attended the SCION Day on 26 January 2022 online. The day brought both SCION early adopters and academia closer together. We would like to thank all our speakers and guests for their participation. A special thanks goes to our distinguished guest speakers Dr. Andréa M. Maechler, Member of the Governing Board of the SNB, and Jos Dijsselhof, CEO of SIX, who shed light on how the banking industry uses SCION to increase cyber resilience for the Swiss financial infrastructure.

Technology and research sessions

Welcome and introductions: SCION Highlights Prof. Adrian Perrig, ETH Zürich

Use case: Defending the weakest against the strongest. Vincent Graf Narbel, Strategic Technology Advisor, ICRC

Green Routing Seyedali Tabaeiaghdaei, PhD Student, ETH Zürich

SCION End Host Bootstrapper Francois Wirz, researcher, ETH Zürich

Protecting Internet Communications with a Secure Backbone - SBAS Prof. Prateek Mittal, Princeton University

DoS Attacks in the Age of Blockchains Dr. Alberto Sonnino, Research Scientist, Meta Novi

Building the Secure Swiss Finance Network (SSFN) Fritz Steinmann, Senior Network Security Architect, SIX William Boye, Head of Network Services, Swiss National Bank (SNB)

Panel discussion: Stories from the field Sam Hitz, CTO, Anapaya Systems Daniel Bertolo, Head of Networks, SWITCH Eliseo Rodriguez, Head of Connectivity B2B, Sunrise Stefan Berg, Head of Product Management, Swisscom Thomas Wacker, Director Core Network Engineering, UBS Lead: Fritz Steinmann, Sr. Network & Network Security Architect, SIX

Demo: SCION unites multiple providers in securing data exchange from Switzerland to Paris, all the way to California. Anapaya Systems

InterCloud and SCION Benjamin Ryzman, CTO InterCloud

Business sessions - Afternoon

Welcome & Intro Christian Mauz, Partner AWK

SCION, Quo Vadis? Prof. Adrian Perrig, ETH Zürich

SCION, strategy and vision Florian Schütz, Federal Cybersecurity Delegate, National Cyber Security Centre

SCION, a growing ecosystem Martin Bosshardt, CEO, Anapaya Systems

Why European Telcos need SCION Olaf Swantee, Telecom Executive, former CEO EE, Sunrise

SCION Association Prof. Vanessa Wood, VP Knowledge Transfer and Corporate Relations, ETH Patrick Naef, Project Manager SCION Association

Q&A - Secure Swiss Finance Network (SSFN) Early Adopter Thomas Holderegger, Managing Director - Global Head of Security IT, UBS Martin Bosshardt, CEO, Anapaya Systems

Panel discussion: Enabling ecosystems to safely communicate Adrian Anderegg, Partner, AWK Group Jerome Dilouya, Founder & CEO, InterCloud Martin Leuthold, Management Board, SWITCH Markus Nispel, VP International Markets, Extreme Networks Egon Steinkasserer, CTO, Swisscom B2B Robert Wigger, Chief Business Officer, Sunrise-UPC Lead: Christopher Koch, Senior Strategy Manager, SIX

The Swiss Secure Finance Network (SSFN) and its significance for Switzerland - A central bank perspective Dr. Andréa Maechler, Member of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank (SNB)

SIX view on SCION Jos Dijsselhof, CEO, SIX