A Humanitarian Cyber Commons for cybersecurity and AI
With humanitarian and international actors in the conference community, this session co-creates a vision and wish-list for a Humanitarian Cyber Commons — shared, open and trustworthy data, tools and AI capabilities that help protect vulnerable populations and the organisations serving them — and turns it into a high-level, preliminary and non-committing roadmap of deliverables. Together, participants collect needs against guiding principles (strategic autonomy, neutrality, data protection, digital dignity), and identify candidate use cases and potential partners to join.
The roadmap is structured around two inputs: (a) the requirements and requests received from stakeholders, and (b) the deliverables already foreseen within our established Luxembourg Cybersecurity Factory Cyber Commons work programme.
The session then invites the audience to say what is missing from the roadmap and, realistically, in what timeline each item is genuinely needed — "yesterday" not being an accepted answer.
Output: white paper (Chatam house rules), to be distributed to the participants only, including a draft vision statement, a prioritised wish-list, and candidate use cases and partnerships.
Dr. Emilia Tantar is Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at the Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity and Head of the Luxembourg Cybersecurity Factory. She spearheaded the launch of Europe’s first cybersecurity data space in 2026, providing open-access cybersecurity datasets to strengthen AI innovation, threat intelligence and cyber resilience across Europe. A recognised leader in trustworthy AI, she chairs as President the Luxembourg National Standardisation Committee for Artificial Intelligence and as convenor CEN/CENELEC JTC 21 WG 2 on “Operational aspects and shapes practical frameworks for AI conformity assessment, as editor of the CEN/CLC/TR 17894:2024 Artificial Intelligence Conformity Assessment and upcoming European norm on AI conformity assessment. Since 2023, she acts as SBS representative, representing the interests of EU SMEs in AI standardisation activities at European and international level. With more than 20 years of experience across research, industry and public-interest innovation, she brings a clear mission to the Summit: make AI not only powerful, but include cybersecurity capabilities for AI systems as an accessible must for trustworthy and genuinely useful AI for society.
As a Cyber Commons Lead in Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity Mika Lauhde is in leading establishment of “Cyber Commons – office”, which is part of Luxembourg’s national flag ship project “Luxembourg Cyber Security Factory”. This office will be accountable of OpenSource, Open Hardware, Open Data and Open Standard development and support in Luxembourg, to enhance national resilience and digital Sovereignty. Before joining LHC, he was working as Head of Technology, leading ICRC (International Committee of Red Cross) R&D in area digital independence and neutrality development: OpenSource and Open Hardware, encryption, off grid communication, etc. Mika has also worked as Global Vice President of Cyber Security and Privacy at Huawei Technologies, where he was advising company’s top executives on policy, law, regulations, and broad cyber security trends including OpenSource technology strategy. Prior joining Huawei, he was VP of Government Relations and Business Development with SSH Communications Security, inventor of SSH protocol, where he advised governments and other stakeholders on security and privacy issues including critical infrastructure protection, compliance, software assurance as well risk and identity management globally. Ahead of that, Mika was in charge of global cyber security efforts at Nokia Oy. Among other things, he handled cyber-related government relations, criminal compliancy and Nokia’s crisis management, as well as cyber security R&D related to handsets and other manufacturing operations worldwide. Mika served for 11 years as a Member of ENISA (the European Network and Information Security Agency) and advises Europol on cyber security, telecom and privacy matters. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Maastricht University Faculty of Law’s Centre of Data Protection and Cyber Security and a Fellow at the United Kingdom’s Institution of Engineering and Technology. From 2007 to 2010 he was a member of the Finnish government’s ICT security advisory board, served as a Member of the British government’s critical infrastructure protection group CPNI from 2005 to 2009.
Omar Chibli is Head of Technology R&D at the ICRC Global Cyber Hub in Luxembourg, where he leads the exploration and testing of technologies supporting cybersecurity, resilience and technological autonomy. He also co-leads the ICRC’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO). With a background in network and core infrastructure, Omar focuses on exploring open-source and alternative technologies that can strengthen the resilience of the ICRC’s digital infrastructure and support operations in challenging environments.
Omar Mohsine, UN Open Source Coordinator
Omar Mohsine leads the open source team within the UN Office of Information and Communication Technologies and serves as the co-chair of the UN Open Source Community of Practice. With over 15 years of experience working in various capacities across different continents, Omar Mohsine is a digital cooperation and open source advocate working at the intersection of technology, policy, and multilateral collaboration. He has contributed to shaping global initiatives such as the UN Open Source Principles and plays a key role in advancing open digital ecosystems within the United Nations. His work focuses on fostering innovation, promoting collaboration across institutions, and leveraging open technologies to address global challenges.
Mithusa Kajendran is an Open Source Adoption Consultant at the United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology, where she works on advancing open source collaboration, digital innovation, and global community engagement across the UN system. She leads Reboot the Earth, a global initiative that brings youth together to use open source technologies to address global challenges and accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. She is also one of the organizers behind UN Open Source Week, a global gathering focused on advancing collaboration and dialogue around open source within the United Nations and beyond.