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Virtual Routes tackles the impact of digital and emerging technologies on global affairs. Also check out @bindinghook.bsky.social, our media outlet.
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· Nov 26
📣 Virtual Routes is here! ECCRI and ECCRI CIC are now Virtual Routes, an organization dedicated to tackling the impact of digital technologies on global affairs through research, education, and public engagement. Find out more on our new site: virtual-routes.org #VirtualRoutes
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🙌 This was Binding Hook Live — a day filled with incredible conversations and discussions on and off stage. Read more insights from Binding Hook Live by our Managing Editors James Shires and @maxwsmeets.bsky.social: bindinghook.com/insights-fro...
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This was Binding Hook Live!
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November 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
🙌 This was Binding Hook Live — a day filled with incredible conversations and discussions on and off stage. Read more insights from Binding Hook Live by our Managing Editors James Shires and @maxwsmeets.bsky.social: bindinghook.com/insights-fro...
🎞️ youtu.be/MOr-eZ_IJfo?...
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📢 We're hiring! 👋
Are you interested in contributing to the success of Virtual Routes? We’d love to hear from you!
Read more & apply: virtual-routes.org/vacancies/
Are you interested in contributing to the success of Virtual Routes? We’d love to hear from you!
Read more & apply: virtual-routes.org/vacancies/
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
📢 We're hiring! 👋
Are you interested in contributing to the success of Virtual Routes? We’d love to hear from you!
Read more & apply: virtual-routes.org/vacancies/
Are you interested in contributing to the success of Virtual Routes? We’d love to hear from you!
Read more & apply: virtual-routes.org/vacancies/
The annual European Cybersecurity Fellowship field trip - done! ✅ Thank you for hosting us @bindinghook.bsky.social, @ncsc.gov.uk, FCDO and the Estonian Embassy in London!
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The annual European Cybersecurity Fellowship field trip - done! ✅ Thank you for hosting us @bindinghook.bsky.social, @ncsc.gov.uk, FCDO and the Estonian Embassy in London!
AI over Lunch — New Interview 💭
“People expect the ones most harmed by systems to also be the ones to dismantle them.”
This week, Apolline Rolland meets Tazin Khan of Cyber Collective.
🔗 Read: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
#AIOverLunch #Cybersecurity #DigitalLiteracy #AI #TechForGood
“People expect the ones most harmed by systems to also be the ones to dismantle them.”
This week, Apolline Rolland meets Tazin Khan of Cyber Collective.
🔗 Read: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
#AIOverLunch #Cybersecurity #DigitalLiteracy #AI #TechForGood
AI over Lunch: Tazin Khan
This week, the AI lunch lands in New York, where I meet Tazin Khan, founder of Cyber Collective, a non-profit organisation that uses education and community engagement to make cybersecurity, data prot...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:57 AM
AI over Lunch — New Interview 💭
“People expect the ones most harmed by systems to also be the ones to dismantle them.”
This week, Apolline Rolland meets Tazin Khan of Cyber Collective.
🔗 Read: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
#AIOverLunch #Cybersecurity #DigitalLiteracy #AI #TechForGood
“People expect the ones most harmed by systems to also be the ones to dismantle them.”
This week, Apolline Rolland meets Tazin Khan of Cyber Collective.
🔗 Read: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
#AIOverLunch #Cybersecurity #DigitalLiteracy #AI #TechForGood
🚨 New talk: Machine Learning Security in Practice w/ Dr. Sven Herpig. From altered lane markings to neural trojans—how real are ML threats, and what matters most now?
📅 Oct 23 | 🕒 15:00 CEST | 💻 Online
Members only: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Learn more: virtual-routes.org/initiatives/...
📅 Oct 23 | 🕒 15:00 CEST | 💻 Online
Members only: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Learn more: virtual-routes.org/initiatives/...
October 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🚨 New talk: Machine Learning Security in Practice w/ Dr. Sven Herpig. From altered lane markings to neural trojans—how real are ML threats, and what matters most now?
📅 Oct 23 | 🕒 15:00 CEST | 💻 Online
Members only: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Learn more: virtual-routes.org/initiatives/...
📅 Oct 23 | 🕒 15:00 CEST | 💻 Online
Members only: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Learn more: virtual-routes.org/initiatives/...
Today, we are launching the Virtual Routes Cybersecurity Services Centre, an ambitious new project to improve the #cybersecurity of what we call “Critical Community Infrastructure”. Read more & apply here: virtual-routes.org/cybersecurit...
October 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Today, we are launching the Virtual Routes Cybersecurity Services Centre, an ambitious new project to improve the #cybersecurity of what we call “Critical Community Infrastructure”. Read more & apply here: virtual-routes.org/cybersecurit...
💭 New #AIoverLunch interview is out now! Today we'll take you to Washington, DC, where Apolline Rolland met Colin Shea-Blymyer, researcher at @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
AI over Lunch: Colin Shea-Blymyer
This week’s AI over Lunch comes from Washington DC, where we meet Colin Shea-Blymyer, researcher at the Centre for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), to talk about AI beyond the European bubble.
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October 16, 2025 at 7:12 AM
💭 New #AIoverLunch interview is out now! Today we'll take you to Washington, DC, where Apolline Rolland met Colin Shea-Blymyer, researcher at @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
👏 Three weeks to go and only a few tickets left - #BindingHookLive agenda is out now! View the agenda and request your invite: bindinghooklive.com
🗓️ #BindingHookLive agenda is out now! Check it out & request your invite: bindinghooklive.com/agenda/
October 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
👏 Three weeks to go and only a few tickets left - #BindingHookLive agenda is out now! View the agenda and request your invite: bindinghooklive.com
☕️ New AI over Lunch interview is here - this time actually over tea. Apolline Rolland sat down with @juliastamm.bsky.social, founder of #SheShapesAI: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
AI over Lunch: Julia Stamm
Today’s “AI over Lunch” has been downgraded, or perhaps upgraded, to “AI over Tea.” Arranged at the last minute in a noisy café, my guest, Dr. Julia Stamm, has come to Brussels for business.
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October 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
☕️ New AI over Lunch interview is here - this time actually over tea. Apolline Rolland sat down with @juliastamm.bsky.social, founder of #SheShapesAI: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
👋 Don't miss the first Colloquium session tomorrow!
📌 Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Diving into the Depths of the Global Spyware Market
💡 Jen Roberts (@cyberstatecraft.bsky.social) & @julianferdinand.bsky.social (Recorded Future)
🗓️ October 2, 2025
🕓 16:00 – 17:00 CET
📌 Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Diving into the Depths of the Global Spyware Market
💡 Jen Roberts (@cyberstatecraft.bsky.social) & @julianferdinand.bsky.social (Recorded Future)
🗓️ October 2, 2025
🕓 16:00 – 17:00 CET
October 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
👋 Don't miss the first Colloquium session tomorrow!
📌 Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Diving into the Depths of the Global Spyware Market
💡 Jen Roberts (@cyberstatecraft.bsky.social) & @julianferdinand.bsky.social (Recorded Future)
🗓️ October 2, 2025
🕓 16:00 – 17:00 CET
📌 Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Diving into the Depths of the Global Spyware Market
💡 Jen Roberts (@cyberstatecraft.bsky.social) & @julianferdinand.bsky.social (Recorded Future)
🗓️ October 2, 2025
🕓 16:00 – 17:00 CET
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Excited to join a discussion on the second edition of The Mythical Beast by Jen Roberts (@atlanticcouncil.bsky.social), exploring the complex networks behind the spyware ecosystem. This kicks off the new Colloquium series by @virtualroutes.bsky.social: virtual-routes.org/event/mythic...
Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Diving into the Depths of the Global Spyware Market - Virtual Routes Colloquium
The first session of the Virtual Routes Colloquium Fall/Winter series hosts Jen Roberts from Cyber Statecraft Initiative. Jen will present her research on "Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Divi...
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September 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Excited to join a discussion on the second edition of The Mythical Beast by Jen Roberts (@atlanticcouncil.bsky.social), exploring the complex networks behind the spyware ecosystem. This kicks off the new Colloquium series by @virtualroutes.bsky.social: virtual-routes.org/event/mythic...
We are excited to welcome Hedi Armulik to the team as an Events and External Relations Officer! 🤝 Read more about Hedi: virtual-routes.org/hedi-armulik...
September 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
We are excited to welcome Hedi Armulik to the team as an Events and External Relations Officer! 🤝 Read more about Hedi: virtual-routes.org/hedi-armulik...
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Some really good sessions here if you’re interested in states’ use and regulation of commercial #spyware.
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🗓️ Virtual Routes Colloquium is back with the Fall/Winter (October-December 2025) session calendar! This year, the sessions explore state use and regulation of cyber surveillance and intelligence collection capabilities. Read more and sign up: virtual-routes.org/virtual-rout...
September 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Some really good sessions here if you’re interested in states’ use and regulation of commercial #spyware.
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🗓️ Virtual Routes Colloquium is back with the Fall/Winter (October-December 2025) session calendar! This year, the sessions explore state use and regulation of cyber surveillance and intelligence collection capabilities. Read more and sign up: virtual-routes.org/virtual-rout...
September 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🗓️ Virtual Routes Colloquium is back with the Fall/Winter (October-December 2025) session calendar! This year, the sessions explore state use and regulation of cyber surveillance and intelligence collection capabilities. Read more and sign up: virtual-routes.org/virtual-rout...
🚀 From Classroom to Cyber Defence 👉 Read more about how students at ESIEA's Laval Campus turned theory into practice by building a Security Operations Centre (SOC) entirely on their own: virtual-routes.org/from-classro...
From Classroom to Cyber Defence: Students Build a SOC from Scratch - Virtual Routes
What happens when students move beyond theory and begin building the tools that underpin cybersecurity in practice? At ESIEA, the result was a fully functioning Security Operations Centre (SOC) design...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🚀 From Classroom to Cyber Defence 👉 Read more about how students at ESIEA's Laval Campus turned theory into practice by building a Security Operations Centre (SOC) entirely on their own: virtual-routes.org/from-classro...
#OpenAI and #GoogleDeepMind - battle of the two AI giants 🗓️ Join us for an online book talk with @parmy.bsky.social, presenting her book, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World, on October 15, 15:00–16:00 CET. Join the Hub: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
September 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
#OpenAI and #GoogleDeepMind - battle of the two AI giants 🗓️ Join us for an online book talk with @parmy.bsky.social, presenting her book, Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World, on October 15, 15:00–16:00 CET. Join the Hub: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
💭In our new #AIoverLunch interview, Apolline Rolland sat down with Raegan MacDonald, a leading digital rights activist, to discuss hype vs. reality in today’s AI debates. virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
AI over Lunch: Raegan MacDonald
For the second installment of the new AI over Lunch interview series, we sat down with Raegan MacDonald, a leading digital rights activist, to discuss hype vs. reality in today’s AI debates.
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September 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
💭In our new #AIoverLunch interview, Apolline Rolland sat down with Raegan MacDonald, a leading digital rights activist, to discuss hype vs. reality in today’s AI debates. virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
In the first installment of the #AIoverLunch interview series, Apolline Rolland sat down with NATO's CIO, Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer, to discuss NATO’s use of AI for security and resilience.
👉 Read the full interview: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
👉 Read the full interview: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
September 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
In the first installment of the #AIoverLunch interview series, Apolline Rolland sat down with NATO's CIO, Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer, to discuss NATO’s use of AI for security and resilience.
👉 Read the full interview: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
👉 Read the full interview: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
Thank you for hosting us for your summer school Adam Mickiewicz University! 🤝Learn more about @jamesshires.bsky.social visit to Poland and participating students here: virtual-routes.org/adam-mickiew... #GoogleOrg #CybersecuritySeminars
Adam Mickiewicz University holds Google.org cybersecurity summer school
Adam Mickiewicz University’s summer school in Poznan, supported by the Google.org Cybersecurity Seminars program, gives students from diverse backgrounds a fun, practical introduction to key cybersecu...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Thank you for hosting us for your summer school Adam Mickiewicz University! 🤝Learn more about @jamesshires.bsky.social visit to Poland and participating students here: virtual-routes.org/adam-mickiew... #GoogleOrg #CybersecuritySeminars
🔎 Communications Officer, we are looking for you! Read more about the role & apply here: virtual-routes.org/vacancies/co... #WereHiring
September 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
🔎 Communications Officer, we are looking for you! Read more about the role & apply here: virtual-routes.org/vacancies/co... #WereHiring
💭 Introducing #AI over Lunch - a new interview series exploring how leaders across sectors are grappling with the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence. Read the first interview with #NATO CIO Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
AI over Lunch: Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer
Welcome to AI over Lunch, our new interview series exploring how leaders across sectors are grappling with the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence.
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September 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
💭 Introducing #AI over Lunch - a new interview series exploring how leaders across sectors are grappling with the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence. Read the first interview with #NATO CIO Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...
We are excited to welcome @disclosing.observer to the team as our newest Senior Cybersecurity Consultant! 🤝 Read more about Max: virtual-routes.org/max-van-der-...
September 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
We are excited to welcome @disclosing.observer to the team as our newest Senior Cybersecurity Consultant! 🤝 Read more about Max: virtual-routes.org/max-van-der-...
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🎤 Speaking at #BindingHookLive: @k8em0.bsky.social, founder and CEO of @lutasecurity.bsky.social. 📩 Request your invite: bindinghooklive.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
🎤 Speaking at #BindingHookLive: @k8em0.bsky.social, founder and CEO of @lutasecurity.bsky.social. 📩 Request your invite: bindinghooklive.com
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Where is #AI really shaping #ransomware – and where is it just hype? Join experts Ciaran Martin, Jamie MacColl, Will Thomas, Taylor Grossman & Max Smeets as they discuss AI’s role in ransomware. 📅 To join, register as a member: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Where is #AI really shaping #ransomware – and where is it just hype? Join experts Ciaran Martin, Jamie MacColl, Will Thomas, Taylor Grossman & Max Smeets as they discuss AI’s role in ransomware. 📅 To join, register as a member: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
We’re hiring! 👋 If you’re passionate about driving impactful projects in a dynamic international team, we’d love to hear from you: virtual-routes.org/vacancies/
August 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
We’re hiring! 👋 If you’re passionate about driving impactful projects in a dynamic international team, we’d love to hear from you: virtual-routes.org/vacancies/