Despina Spanou
Lobbying Activity
Meeting with Nokia
13 Nov 2025 · Cybersecurity Act revision
Meeting with Club des Experts de la Sécurité de l'Information et du Numérique
13 Nov 2025 · Privacy and cybersecurity risk developments and response strategies. Review of the EU Cybersecurity Act, among other EU cybersecurity initiatives.
Meeting with Unknown Organization
13 Nov 2025 · Cybersecurity talent gap, Cybersecurity Skills Academy
Meeting with ITI - The Information Technology Industry Council
13 Nov 2025 · Digital Omnibus proposal and revision of the Cybersecurity Act
Meeting with Bitkom e.V.
13 Nov 2025 · European Business Wallets and Digital Omnibus
Meeting with Meta Platforms Ireland Limited and its various subsidiaries
12 Nov 2025 · Expansion of access to Meta Llama AI models to EU national and security defence entities.
Meeting with Oracle
13 Jun 2025 · Oracle's pledge to the EU Cybersecurity Skills Academy.
Meeting with Airbus
2 Apr 2025 · Courtesy meeting and exchange of views on recent EU files on cyber, quantum & AI.
Meeting with Dataminr
26 Mar 2025 · Presentation of Dataminr's AI tools for situational awareness.
Meeting with International Information System Security Certification Consortium, Inc.
25 Mar 2025 · Commission priorities on cybersecurity, and in particular the future of the Cybersecurity Skills Academy
Meeting with Mastercard Europe
14 Feb 2025 · Meeting in the margins of the Munich Cyber Security Conference on EU cybersecurity priorities and the role of public-private partnerships.
Meeting with IBM Corporation
14 Feb 2025 · Meeting in the margins of the Munich Cyber Security Conference on EU cybersecurity policies and the role of private sector in EU-level crisis management.
Meeting with World Economic Forum
13 Feb 2025 · Courtesy meeting in the margins of the Munich Cyber Security Conference.
Meeting with European Cyber Security Organisation
11 Feb 2025 · Update on ECSO's ongoing cybersecurity work and priorities.
Meeting with Apple Inc.
11 Sept 2024 · - Cybersecurity agenda of the next Commission - Implementation of the Cyber Resilience Act
Meeting with Meta Platforms Ireland Limited and its various subsidiaries
24 Jun 2024 · Cybersecurity
Meeting with Comité d'organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de Paris 2024
4 Jun 2024 · Cybersecurity of the Paris 2024 Games
Meeting with Mastercard Europe
4 Jun 2024 · Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Skills Academy, opening of Mastercard's first European Cyber Resilience Centre in Waterloo Belgium
Meeting with Meta Platforms Ireland Limited and its various subsidiaries
29 May 2024 · security aspects of EU tech regulation, implementation of Terrorist Content Online Regulation, AI, competitiveness
Meeting with IBM Corporation
14 May 2024 · EU Cybersecurity files
Meeting with DEKRA e.V.
13 May 2024 · EU Cybersecurity legislation Cybersecurity Skills Academy
Meeting with Ericsson
6 May 2024 · Cybersecurity
Meeting with Google
12 Apr 2024 · Cybersecurity, Cyberskills, AI
Meeting with Google
16 Feb 2024 · EU Cyber resilience
Meeting with Finland Chamber of Commerce (Keskuskauppakamari)
7 Feb 2024 · Introduction to the role of the Commission and how Cabinets work
Meeting with Oracle
24 Jan 2024 · Cybersecurity skills EU Cybersecurity Academy EU Cloud Certification
Meeting with American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union
6 Dec 2023 · EU Cybersecurity agenda
Meeting with DIGITALEUROPE
22 Nov 2023 · Cyber Resilience Act
Meeting with Teneo Brussels
21 Sept 2023 · Year for skills and Cyber Skills Academy
Meeting with Bitkom e.V.
4 Jul 2023 · cybersecurity policy and digital skills policy
Meeting with Democracy Culture Foundation
23 Jun 2023 · Creative Europe and New European Bauhaus Initiative
Meeting with Leonardo S.p.A.
8 Jun 2023 · Cybersecurity Skills Academy
Meeting with Google
24 May 2023 · Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Skills Academy
Meeting with Finland Chamber of Commerce (Keskuskauppakamari)
16 May 2023 · Migration, cybersecurity, health, education
Meeting with The Danish Chamber of Commerce
26 Apr 2023 · EU Cybersecurity Policy Agenda
Meeting with European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
21 Mar 2023 · Revision of the pharmaceutical legislation
Meeting with Microsoft Corporation
11 Jan 2023 · Cybersecurity Skills Academy
Meeting with Google
15 Dec 2022 · Cyber skills training / EU cyber academy
Meeting with Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law
14 Dec 2022 · EU-US cyber dialogue
Meeting with Forward Global
7 Dec 2022 · - Debrief on Forum International de la Cybersécurité (FIC) advisory board - Next edition of FIC 2023 in Lille
Meeting with Cisco Systems Inc.
1 Dec 2022 · - the transatlantic relationship - the EU security/cybersecurity agenda - skills - support to Ukraine
Meeting with MEDICINES FOR EUROPE
9 Nov 2022 · Pharma strategy
Meeting with Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
30 Jun 2022 · update on Zoom's new initiatives
Meeting with PPC - Public Power Corporation
15 Jun 2022 · Energy transition
Meeting with Bitkom e.V.
15 Jun 2022 · Cybersecurity skills
Meeting with Ericsson
8 Jun 2022 · Cybersecurity
Meeting with European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
29 Mar 2022 · access to medicines online portal
Meeting with Union of Greek Shipowners - ΕΝΩΣΙΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ ΕΦΟΠΛΙΣΤΩΝ
17 Mar 2022 · Greek shipping sector & Green deal
Meeting with ΟΡΓΑΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΛΙΜΕΝΟΣ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ Α.Ε.
21 Jan 2022 · update on investment plan
Meeting with Arab Air Carriers' Organization
10 Nov 2021 · VTC with the SG of the Arab Air Carriers Organisation, Mr Abdul Wahhab Teffaha
Meeting with Telefonica, S.A.
23 Sept 2021 · current security union issues
Meeting with Trellix
10 Sept 2021 · Cybersecurity and ransomware
Meeting with
1 Jul 2021 · Implementation Covid Certificate
Meeting with Trellix
25 Jun 2021 · Ransomeware
Meeting with European Confederation of Police
24 Jun 2021 · Security union
Meeting with Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe
18 May 2021 · Security union
Meeting with European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
25 Mar 2021 · Biopharmaceutical CEO Roundtable
Meeting with Microsoft Corporation
13 Nov 2020 · Pact for skills, EEA
Meeting with European Healthcare Distribution Association
12 Nov 2020 · Pharma strategy
Meeting with European Movement International
23 Oct 2020 · The priorities of the portfolio for promoting our European way of life
Meeting with European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
20 Oct 2020 · Pharmaceutical strategy
Meeting with Platform of European Memory and Conscience
8 Oct 2020 · Combating Antisemitism - supporting research and Holocaust remebrance
Meeting with Airbus
18 Sept 2020 · EU Security Union Strategy
Meeting with European Cyber Security Organisation
30 Jun 2020 · Security Union
Meeting with The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
19 Jun 2020 · Exchange of views on the COVID-19 lessons learned
Meeting with Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe
11 Jun 2020 · Exchange of views on the new Security Union Strategy
Meeting with European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations
8 Jun 2020 · Exchange of views on the new pharmaceutical strategy for Europe
Meeting with European Round Table for Industry
5 Jun 2020 · Upskilling and reskilling of the labour force
Meeting with American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union
28 May 2020 · Exchange of views on COVID-19 impact on our life
Meeting with Trellix
28 May 2020 · Briefing on McAfee’s COVID-19 cyber-threat landscape analysis
Meeting with European Cyber Security Organisation
8 May 2020 · Cybersecurity and ECSO's initiatives
Meeting with European Organisation for Security
12 Feb 2020 · European Policy on Hybrid Threats
Meeting with European Cyber Security Organisation
9 Jan 2020 · Women4Cyber
Meeting with Deloitte Services & Investments
7 Jan 2020 · World Economic Forum
Meeting with Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A
10 Dec 2019 · The team of the NGO presented to us the mission of the foundation and the programmes that they run under this NGO. On our side we asked more information about their programme, which helps refugees to open businesses and startups