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Whether you’re thinking of building your own company, joining an existing one, or forging your own unique path, the key question remains: how do you stand out? This talk invites you to:

carve out your own space — within companies, across your career, and beyond borders — to dream big and move fast, reflect on Europe’s place in the global tech scene and how we can shift the momentum, and explore the evolving role of AI and software development in shaping the future. You’ll leave with a sharper sense of how to navigate your career in a world that doesn’t stand still — and how bold ideas, when acted on, can lead to real change.

Pedro is the Head of conferencing technologies at CERN, and Ajob is a software engineer for the Indico team at CERN.

They will talk about the challenges and benefits of running an open-source project for a long time. This includes topics like their collaborations with organizations like the UN, struggles with funding, the returned benefits and more. Essentially, the good, the bad and the ugly of open source projects. CERN, is best known as the place where the web was invented and where the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, pushes the boundaries of physics.

Beyond groundbreaking science, CERN is also a pioneer in technology and open collaboration. From distributed computing to open-source software used by thousands of researchers and institutions worldwide, CERN shows how technology created for science can ripple far beyond the lab.

Polylog is a Youtube channel with 100K+ subscribers where they do deep dives into all kinds of topics in computer science, with an emphasis on algorithms.

When designing algorithms, a lot of problems become much easier to solve (or even become possible to solve at all) if you give your algorithm access to randomness. This is counterintuitive: why should tossing a coin be helpful in a fundamental way? Starting from examples like quick sort, file checksums, and checking if equations hold, Polylog will build up an understanding of randomness, how it can help us fool the evil worst-case adversary, and where even coin flips can’t save us.

In the second half of the talk, they will discuss the behind-the-scenes aspect of making science education videos. What’s the process? What’s hard about it? How are animations made? How to get started?

Two data scientists from the AMLC will present the process from intelligence to investigation using in-house tools and open-source technology.

They will show how their tools, the AMLC suite, supports this process and makes crucial data available within their organization.

At AMLC we contribute to FIOD’s intel position on money laundering and we support in developing leads into criminal investigations. This is a combined effort of our data scientists, using latest tools and technology, analysts and anti-money laundering experts.

We also research the latest innovations in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning and how these technologies can help our data.

GÉANT is an organization that collaborates with different National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Europe and beyond.

Together with these NRENs, they deliver a network for the research and education sector and provide various products and services. This presentation focuses on the services they provide to improve the network's security and maintain its availability.

Jeroen is a software developer in the Security: Products & Services team at GÉANT. This team develops security products internally and for the community. He works mainly on following projects: eduVPN, eduroam, Firewall on Demand and NeMo (anti DDoS).

Overcoming the shortfalls in enabling successful partnership with the computing industry

Ian is an education consultant with Embecosm Ltd working with William on all matters related to how schools are learning to improve the opportunities that enable young people to engage with employment in the computing world.

William is the Head of AI at Embecosm, leading efforts in developing both AI tool chains as well as general AI technology. Working collaboratively with Ian, William is also responsible for Embecosms efforts to help schools and young people to engage with employment in the technology sector, and exploring how AI can play a beneficial role for schools.

What does it really mean to make digital products accessible, and how do you ensure accessibility when your organization runs a vast ecosystem of applications?

In this talk, Aleksas and Tom will give a crash course in digital accessibility, explaining what it is, why it matters, and how Rabobank puts it into practice.

Creating one simple button might seem easy, but designing it to meet the needs of a diverse audience introduces new challenges, especially at scale. Aleksas and Tom will share how Rabobank’s Design System team and Accessibility team work together to address these challenges, build inclusive interfaces, and maintain accessibility across their digital infrastructure. Expect real-world examples and practical insights.

Aleksas is a Design System Engineer & Accessibility Advocate at Rabobank with a passion for building inclusive products from the component level up.

Tom is a Digital Accessibility Subject Matter Expert at Rabobank, empowering teams to create inclusive digital experiences through guidance, community building, and knowledge sharing.

In this talk, Victoria from ING’s Security Defence Centre and Stijn from the Red Team take you behind the scenes of how large organizations defend themselves against real cyber threats. Together they’ll walk through the main stages of a modern cyberattack and show how attackers and defenders see the same incident from completely different perspectives.

When working on a project, time and resources are always limited. This means you’ll have to make choices. Glenn will discuss the decisions developers face in such situations and how these choices affect the availability and reliability of software systems.

Glenn has been passionate about cybersecurity since childhood. Together with his brother, he created the OWASP Security Knowledge Framework, an open-source Python-Flask web application to train developers in writing secure code by design. He also served on the OWASP board of directors. Over the years, Glenn has gained extensive experience in cybersecurity within the banking sector. Today, he works as a Senior Cybersecurity Instructor at the Linux Foundation.

From clunky payment systems to seamless checkout, fintech has come a long way. Yet payments are still far from solved. Beneath the surface lie deep structural challenges, fragmented infrastructure, limited transparency, and systems that continue to favor large corporations. In this talk, Willem Pino, founding engineer at Rootline, previous experience at Adyen, shares his journey from building financial systems at leading fintechs to creating a platform designed to solve these complex problems and make financial technology accessible to everyone, not just Big Tech. He will explore how Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) architectures are enabling startups and platforms to take back control, embed payments directly into their products, and unlock a new wave of open, democratized financial innovation.

What happens when you bring revolutionary high-tech innovation into the world of farming?

At Nedap Livestock, we use sensors and data to help farmers gain truly relevant, actionable insights into their animals and transform the barn into a connected ecosystem.

During this business case, Roxie Muller, Head of Expansion at Nedap Livestock, will demonstrate how technology is transforming the industry and how ever-increasing AI capabilities can reshape professional livestock farming. These innovations help meet global demands while addressing labor shortages and raising the standard of animal well-being.

Expect an inspiring and interactive session where the current and future state of technology will be discussed. Participate in a conversation about how cows and technology can interact to shape the next generation of agritech innovation.

Curious? Sign up for this business case and join the conversation at SNiC 2025!

Matthijs and Tom from Roseman Labs will introduce the audience to the world of Multi-Party Computation (MPC), explaining in broad terms how this groundbreaking technology enables data collaboration without compromising privacy.

They will then highlight two real-world applications that demonstrate the power of MPC in practice. The first use case comes from the City of Rotterdam, where MPC made it possible to perform privacy-friendly data analyses — an achievement that earned the city the 2024 Privacy Award.

The second example focuses on how the Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) leverages Roseman Labs’ MPC software to protect sensitive data in the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape.

To conclude, Roseman Labs will dive deeper into the technology running behind their software, and how they deploy it in a secure and resilient way.