Pierre is the Chief Security Officer and Advisor for Microsoft in Asia.

A Belgian citizen living in Asia for over two decades, Pierre has nearly 30 years of international experience on Information Security and Enterprise Risk Management. He designed and built complete Security and Enterprise Risk Management environments for Governments, Finance, Transport and large conglomerate industries over the World.

Pierre is currently helping several nations in Asia to build their Cyber Security Infrastructure & framework from the ground up.
• Pierre is a member of the board of advisors of Airbus Group
• Pierre also sits on the board of the Pan-Asia Risk & Insurance Management Association (PARIMA) and
• Board of the executive council of the Cloud Security Association (CSA)

Prior responsibilities:
• Worldwide Executive at IBM with responsibility for the IBM Security portfolio
• CEO Arial Group International, offering Enterprise Risk Management to Fortune 1000
• CEO TruSecure / ICSA Corp
• Client lead partner at KPMG, Greater China territory, in charge of Enterprise Risk Management, Corporate Risk & Governance
• Director PLATINUM Technologies Asia Pacific
• Advisor to many governments and Fortune 1000 organizations in Asia, Europe and Americas

Lecturer with various universities in the world
Pierre studied Computer Science at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

Synopsis - ERM 1 (Opening Plenary)
It’s dangerous in Cyberspace! We hear horror stories about hackers hiding out there waiting to grab our digital assets or resell our personal information. What is the reality? What do we need to know? What do we need to do to remain safe and happy?

Synopsis - ERM 3 (Panel Discussion)
Today, healthcare and related services are highly IT-enabled.  Administrative and operations staff as well as healthcare providers use various IT systems to schedule appointments and refer patients for management across care settings; order tests, medication and procedures; access patients’ medical records and access test results to facilitate diagnosis and decide on appropriate treatment regimes.  While we have in place measures to protect patient information confidentiality and prevent unauthorised access for patient personal data, the rising trend in cyber penetration faced by healthcare institutions that led to loss of patient personal data / information has heightened concerns over IT and cyber security breaches in particular.    

Join our distinguished Panel of subject experts and practitioners in cyber security, medical and nursing informatics as well as legal to share on what keeps them awake at night in the realm of data and information security for healthcare organisations.   They will also be discussing the challenges and issues that should be addressed as they grapple with the need to secure and safeguard confidential and sensitive patient personal data and the need to provide easy and fast access to the required information for clinicians and operations staff alike in providing direct care and related support services to assure patient safety and a good experience for our patients and their family members as well as operational efficacy to raise overall productivity for the organisation.