Objectives

We are delighted to invite you to a demonstration of the Instant Image Identifier (formerly known as the Hash Check Service), a tool designed to help users quickly and easily identify online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) for removal. The demonstration on 31 May 2022 will include presentations by industry of experiences and best practices. You will also be able to participate in fruitful discussions on the implications of, and ways how cooperation across Europe can be increased to facilitate the swift detection and removal of online CSAM.

The ongoing spread of online CSAM is harming children involved over and over again and needs to be stopped. The private sector, NGOs and national and European authorities need to cooperate to ensure that such images and videos are removed swiftly from the internet. The Instant Image Identifier allows users, such as organisations and companies offering online services, to check whether files uploaded onto their servers also exist in databases of known CSAM. The tool is free of charge, privacy friendly and makes it easy to check suspect material against known CSAM. Besides, no licensing is needed to access the tool. The tool is also unique because it contains validated hash lists from the Dutch National Police.

The Instant Image Identifier will be presented in the context of Swift Removal of CSAM, an initiative of the European Commission coordinated by PwC EU Services together with the Expertisebureau Online Kindermisbruik (EOKM; the Dutch INHOPE hotline), Web-IQ, and ESN. The project aims to build a solid foundation against CSAM by collecting hash databases and making them accessible to all those involved in the fight against CSAM.

Online

31

May 2022

10+

Speakers

Around 100

Participants

Programme

Day 1 – 31 May

09:00 - 09:15

Virtual opening & Welcome

  • Arda Gerkens (Chairperson of the event and CEO of the Dutch INHOPE hotline EOKM),
  • June Lowery Kingston (Head of Unit of Accessibility, Multilingualism and Safer Internet (CNECT G3))
  • Kristina Dervojeda (Project Manager and Leader PwC Innovation Research Centre PwC)
09:15 – 10:00

Setting the scene

Presentation of the results of the research conducted in this project.

  • Flora Slager (PwC The Netherlands)
  • Sanja Beijne (EOKM)
  • Amy Crocker (EOKM). 

This includes a presentation of:

  • the proposed solution including the Instant Image Identifier (3Is), and
  • a proposed harmonised, multi-level classification system
10:00 – 10:15

Break

10:15 – 10:45

Demonstration and implications of the Instant Image Identifier

  • Mathijs Homminga (Web-IQ)
  • Wendelina Botjes (PwC The Netherlands)
10:45 – 11:00

Tool experience

  • Jan Lewit (NASK/Dyżurnet.pl) - end-user of the tool
  • Katarzyna Nyczka (NASK/Dyżurnet.pl) - end-user of the tool
11:00– 11:15

Break

11:15– 12:00

Debate on the recent legislative developments

  • Arda Gerkens (EOKM),
  • Ruben Roex (Timelex)
  • Ella Jakubowska (EDRI)
  • Cathrin Bauer-Bulst (Head of Unit for Security in the Digital Age, DG Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission)
12:00 – 12:15

Concluding session

  • Arda Gerkens (EOKM)
12:15 – 14:00

Break

14:00 – 14:45

Virtual networking round 1

An optional networking possibility to further connect, share knowledge and experience from the field and to reflect on the virtual sessions of the morning. In the registration form the following break-out sessions can be chosen:

  • Meet the Project Team
  • Meet other participants
14:45 – 15:30

Virtual networking round 2

An optional networking possibility to further connect, share knowledge and experience from the field and to reflect on the virtual sessions of the morning. In the registration form the following break-out sessions can be chosen:

  • Meet the Project Team
  • Meet other participants
  • Meet the European Commission
16:00 – 18:00

Follow-up discussion - Physical event in Brussels

An opportunity to further connect, share knowledge and experience from the field and to reflect on the virtual sessions of the morning. Key figures will be present at stands to spark further discussion on topics such as GDPR, technical aspects of the tool and the harmonised, multi-level classification system.

Venue

Hotel NH Collection Brussels Grand Sablon
Address: Rue Bodenbroek 2, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
 

18:00 – 20:00

Networking cocktail - Physical event in Brussels

To celebrate and officially launch the new name of the tool: Instant Image Identifier.

Venue

Hotel NH Collection Brussels Grand Sablon
Address: Rue Bodenbroek 2, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

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Speakers

Cathrin Bauer-Bulst
Cathrin Bauer-Bulst
Head of Unit for Security in the Digital Age, DG Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission
Cathrin Bauer-Bulst
Cathrin Bauer-Bulst
Head of Unit for Security in the Digital Age, DG Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission

Cathrin Bauer-Bulst is Head of Unit for Security in the Digital Age in DG Migration and Home Affairs of the European Commission. Her unit develops legislative proposals and policy and coordinates EU efforts to better fight cybercrime. She also co-chairs the Commission's informal task force on electronic evidence and the Governmental Advisory Committee Working Group on Public Safety issues within ICANN. Cathrin has a background in law and IT; prior to her career at the Commission, she worked for an international law firm in Brussels and an IT consultancy in New York. She is a fully qualified lawyer trained in Germany and France and also holds a degree in history and literature from Harvard College.

Sanja Beijne
Sanja Beijne
Policy Officer/Junior researcher, EOKM
Sanja Beijne
Sanja Beijne
Policy Officer/Junior researcher, EOKM

Sanja Beijne is an experienced Policy Officer and Junior researcher at the Dutch hotline combatting child sexual abuse (EOKM). Before becoming a policy officer she worked as a CSAM analyst.

Sanja has firsthand experience with analyzing CSAM and CSEM on the internet, reviewing legislation regarding child sexual abuse, developing (internal) policies, and doing research on this subject. Aside from het work at the EOKM, she is currently assisting the Dutch government with establishing the Dutch Authority for Terroristic and Child pornographic content.

Sanja has a background in Criminology and graduated from the Erasmus University Faculty of law in Rotterdam.  During her studies she specialized in organized and organizational crime, with a special interest in cyber-related crimes.

Wendelina Botjes
Wendelina Botjes
Senior manager, Data analytics team, PWC
Wendelina Botjes
Wendelina Botjes
Senior manager, Data analytics team, PWC

Wendelina is a senior manager within the data analytics team at PwC, with a strong focus on the public sector. Wendelina has over 10 years of working experience with data and complex analyses to improve processes and policies. Her approach consists of working together with stakeholders to improve processes based on the actual status of operations. Her preferred engagements are public private partnerships (PPP) and projects where fact-based process improvements contribute to a better employee and customer (or civilian) experience. Wendelina’s educational background is in Industrial Engineering (ir.) and Occupational Psychology (Universiteit Twente), with a recent postdoc in Data Science & Business Analytics at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.

Amy Crocker
Amy Crocker
Digital Safety Advisor
Amy Crocker
Amy Crocker
Digital Safety Advisor

Amy Crocker is a digital child safety advisor with over a decade of experience at the heart of the global response to violence against children in digital environments.

After starting her career in international development for a child protection NGO, Amy went on to work in victim identification at INTERPOL and to lead the international development programme of INHOPE. She became a freelance consultant in 2017 and has since advised a wide range of organisations by applying her skills in research, advocacy, strategic development, and policy analysis. Recent clients include ECPAT International, the Global partnership to End Violence against Children, DAI/USAID, The Lucy Faithfull Foundation, Threefold Sustainability Advisory Services, and EOKM.

Amy holds a Master of Science degree in Violence, Conflict & Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese, Spanish and Latin American Studies from the University of Newcastle. British by nationality, she has lived and worked in the Netherlands since 2012.

Kristina Dervojeda
Kristina Dervojeda
Leader PwC Innovation Research Centre
Kristina Dervojeda
Kristina Dervojeda
Leader PwC Innovation Research Centre

Dr. Kristina Dervojeda specialises in policy research in the field of skills and digitalisation. Kristina leads PwC Innovation Research Centre (IRC). Specifically, Kristina advises governments and other key stakeholder groups all over the world regarding responsible digital transformation of education systems, considering also risks & challenges related to the digitalisation of education (especially for children) and co-creating solutions to mitigate these challenges. She has extensive experience with managing and supporting various large international projects for the European Commission in the role of Project Manager and Senior Expert. Kristina acts as Project Manager for the Swift Removal of CSAM initiative of the European Commission.

Arda Gerkens
Arda Gerkens
CEO, EOKM
Arda Gerkens
Arda Gerkens
CEO, EOKM

Arda Gerkens (1965) has been CEO of the Online Child Abuse Expertise Bureau (EOKM) since 2015. She is also a senator and Vice-President of the Senate. From 2002 to 2010, she was, among other things, spokesperson on sexual child abuse. After a period as director of the computer association HCC, she opted for the Child Sexual Exploitation Materials Hotline (later EOKM) in February 2015. With enthusiasm, commitment and a lot of knowledge, she has since managed this foundation that is engaged in preventing and combating online child sexual abuse through three programs: the Child Sexual Exploitation Materials (CSEM) Hotline, Stop it Now! and Helpwanted.nl.

Mathijs Homminga
Mathijs Homminga
CTO, Web-IQ
Mathijs Homminga
Mathijs Homminga
CTO, Web-IQ

Mathijs Homminga is CTO of Web-IQ. He holds a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence. He worked as a researcher in the field of autonomous systems and robotics and as a software architect for the European Space Agency and developed large scale search engines for the commercial market. He is specialized in data visualization, drives the product innovation at Web-IQ and is responsible for integrating Web-IQ's technology and data into the business of customers, like law enforcement agencies.

Ella Jakubowska
Ella Jakubowska
Policy Advisor, European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Ella Jakubowska
Ella Jakubowska
Policy Advisor, European Digital Rights (EDRi)

Ella Jakubowska is a policy advisor at Europe's largest digital human rights network. She leads the network's advocacy on fundamental rights protections in the use of biometrics, in particular in the AI Act and the Prüm II Regulation. She also leads work on ensuring rights to privacy, security and free expression in the proposed Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse. In 2021, she was named as one of Politico's top 28 most influential people in the EU tech policy space. Before joining EDRi, she worked for several years for an engineering and technology company. She holds a Masters degree in Human Rights, with a research focus on algorithmic accountability, from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jan Lewit
Jan Lewit
Specialist, NASK
Jan Lewit
Jan Lewit
Specialist, NASK

Jan works as a specialist at NASK - National Research Institute in Poland. Its key activities involve ensuring security online, so NASK acts as one of the Computer Security Incident Response Teams in Poland (CSIRTs) and coordinates responses to incidents reported by key service operators, digital service providers and local authorities. Apart from that, the Institute serves as a contact point - associated in INHOPE - for reporting illegal and harmful content, such as CSAM and CSEM, on the Internet. Jan has recently graduated in the field of cybersecurity. He is interested in security and privacy on the Internet and strongly believes that we can protect children against online threats while still respecting privacy within the cyberspace. Besides technological innovations, Jan is a fan of sports and animals.

June Lowery-Kingston
June Lowery-Kingston
Head of Unit of Accessibility, Multilingualism and Safer Internet (CNECT G3)
June Lowery-Kingston
June Lowery-Kingston
Head of Unit of Accessibility, Multilingualism and Safer Internet (CNECT G3)

June Lowery (@lk_june) is Head of Unit and Deputy to the Director at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CNECT). She has worked for the EU institutions in Luxembourg for over 25 years in a wide variety of fields including publications, finance, logistics, and digital inclusion. Her current responsibilities include web accessibility, language technology and online safety for children. 

As Equality Coordinator in DG CNECT, she also maintains an overview of the implementation of the Union of Equality within the DG. She is passionate about her job, and about making the digital world safer for children, and more accessible, inclusive and multilingual for all.

Ruben Roex
Ruben Roex
It & Data Protection Law Expert
Ruben Roex
Ruben Roex
It & Data Protection Law Expert

Practice areas

Ruben Roex performs privacy and data protection (GDPR) compliance audits for SMEs, multinationals and public sector organizations and assists clients with implementing data protection requirements in day to day activities, processes and systems. He advises clients regularly on complex issues regarding data protection law, often at the crossroads of other domains such as eHealth and Human Resources. He drafts information notices for virtually any target audience and is very well acquainted with data processing, data exchange and data sharing agreements. Ruben is well versed in data transfer matters. He also assists clients with the data protection aspects of mergers and acquisitions. He gives trainings and lectures on privacy and data protection topics and developments to company lawyers, fellow attorneys, data protection officers, students and other interested parties.

He is also experienced in all matters relating to cybersecurity and cybercrime. He advises clients on legal aspects of information security, defends clients’ interests before the courts in cybercrime related cases and regularly provides trainings on topics related to cybersecurity and cybercrime. Ruben assists clients with setting up data breach management procedures, notification procedures and processes and contingency strategies.

Ruben regularly advises on different aspects of IT and e-business, such as contracting, trust services (e.g. electronic signatures, electronic archiving, authentication, etc.), trade secrets and consumer protection. He also has a particularly strong focus on the legal aspects of e-payments, FinTech and other innovations in the payments sphere. Ruben’s expertise also covers the legal aspects of specific technologies such as drones, surveillance cameras, Internet of Things (IoT) and many others.

Academic activities and memberships

Ruben is a practice assistant in IT & data protection law at the University of Ghent. He is also a guest lecturer on IT & data protection law at VIVES University of Applied Sciences in Kortrijk.

He is a co-editor of the International Encyclopaedia for Cyber Law.

He is also a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Professional admissions

Ruben has been a member of the Dutch-Speaking Bar Association at the Brussels Bar since 2014.

Prior professional experience

Ruben has been a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT (ICRI) (currently the Centre for IT & IP Law) of the Law Faculty of the University of Leuven.

He has also been involved in the Belgian Cybercrime Centre for Research, Training and Education (B-CCENTRE).

Education

Law degree, University of Leuven (2011)

Master of laws, economics and business administration, University of Leuven (2009)

Flora Slager
Flora Slager
Data Analytics Consultant
Flora Slager
Flora Slager
Data Analytics Consultant

Flora Slager is a data analytics consultant with experience in a broad range of analytics competencies. She started her at PwC developing techniques with which to combat catastrophic forgetting in deep neural network object detectors. Her research contributed directly an AI tool designed to automate the prioritisation of reports of CSAM. 

Flora has since continued working in the public sector helping government institutions and non-governmental organisations alike get the most out of their data. Her focus lies in using data-driven insights to transform big picture ideas into impactful, tangible tools.

Flora holds a Master of Science degree in Data Science from the Erasmus School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology (minor Chemistry) and a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing from Victoria University of Wellington. Flora is Dutch by nationality, but originates from New Zealand. She has resided in the Netherlands since 2018.

Hotel NH Collection

Hotel NH Collection Brussels Grand Sablon

Rue Bodenbroek 2
1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

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