Earlier this year, the European Commission proposed a directive on Network and Information Security (NIS). Since then, the European Parliament has been working on further improving the proposed directive with various committees delivering proposed amendments.At the same time, the Member States are working their way through the text. The dinner debate will be very timely given the crucial timing within the legislative process. The objective of the debate is to focus on the issues that are emerging from those discussions as the main topics of discussion.PROGRAMME:Welcome and introduction:Pilar del Castillo, MEP and EIF ChairSpeakers:Yvon Le Roux, Vice President, Cyber Security, Threat Response, Intelligence and Development (TRIAD), CiscoGerold Hübner, Chief Product Security Officer at SAPJonathan Sage, Governmental Programmes Executive at IBM, EMEA lead on cyber security and cloud computing policyExchange of views with participants