List of confirmed speakers

•   Maria Pilar AGUAR FERNANDEZ Head of Unit "Health Innovations"
  European Commission - Belgium
•   César ALIAGA Head of the Sustainable Department
  ITENE - Spain
•   Alberto Francesco ANFOSSI Secretary General
  Compagnia di San Paolo - Italy
•   Rachel ARMSTRONG Professor of Experimental Architecture
  Newcastle University - United Kingdom
•   Muriel ATTANÉ Secretary General
  EARTO - Belgium
•   Natasha AZZOPARDI MUSCAT President
  European Public Health Association - Netherlands
•   John BELL Director of Healthy Planet
  European Commission / DG RTD - Belgium
•   Álvaro BELTRÁN CEO
  Onyx Solar Energy - Spain
•   Christine BERLING Head of International & European affairs
  Ministry of Health and Solidarity - France
•   Vincent BERRUTTO Head of Unit
  European Commission EASME - Belgium
•   Richard BLUNDELL Strategy and Policy Executive
  Malta Council for Science and Technology - Malta
•   Thierry BOTTER Head of Airbus Blue Sky
  Airbus - Germany
•   Jean-Pierre BOURGUIGNON President
  European Research Council - Belgium
•   Andrea BOZIC Head of Education and Information Center
  Saponia d.d. - Croatia
•   Nicolas BRIEN CEO
  FRANCE DIGITALE - France
•   Raffaella BRUZZONE Head of EEN ALPS Office
  InHouse CCI Genova - Italy
•   Janusz BUJNICKI Member of the EC's group of Chief Scientific Advisors and Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University
  Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland - Poland
•   Samantha BURGESS Head of Marine Policy
  WWF - Belgium
•   Cecilia CABELLO VALDES Division Director
  FECYT - Spain
•   Alison CAMPBELL Director
  Knowledge Transfer Ireland - Ireland
•   Gabriele CENTI President ERIC aisbl
  ERIC aisbl and University Messina - Belgium
•   Konstantinos CHARITIDIS PROFESSOR
  NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS - Greece
•   Pierre CHEHWAN Director of Strategic-Alliance and Institutional Relationship
  NAVYA - France
•   Valentina COLLA Technical Research Manager
  Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - Italy
•   Andre CONVENTS entrepreneur Section Head
  Procter & Gamble - Belgium
•   Gianni D'ERRICO International Project Officer Officer and European Affairs
  Foundation Tuscany Life Sciences - Italy
•   Kathleen D'HONDT Policy Advisor
  Flanders Government - dep Economy, Science and Innovation - Belgium
•   Sanja DAMJANOVIC Minister of Science
  Ministry of Science of Montenegro
  Government of Montenegro - Montenegro
•   Heleen DE CONINCK Associate Professor
  Radboud University - Netherlands
•   Esteban DE MANUEL KEENOY Director
  Kronikgune - Spain
•   Corinne DE VRIES Head of Science & Innovation Support
  European Medicines Agency - Netherlands
•   Dermot DIAMOND Professor
  Dublin City University - Ireland
•   Sandrine DIXSON-DECLÈVE Co-President
  The Club of Rome - Switzerland
•   Marileen DOGTEROM Professor, Department Head
  Delft University of Technology - Netherlands
•   Pearl DYKSTRA Full Professor and vice chair of the European Commission’s Group of Chief Scientific Advisors
  Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences - Netherlands
•   Matthias EGGER President of the National Research Council
  Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF - Switzerland
•   Fulvio ESPOSITO Member
  MIUR - Italy
•   Christopher FALL Director, Office of Science
  U.S. Department of Energy - United States of America
•   Jeremy FARRAR Director
  Wellcome Trust - United Kingdom
•   Fabio FAVA Full Professor
  Alma Mater Studiorum- University of Bologna - Italy
•   Doreen FEDRIGO Head of Circular Economy Policy
  ECOS - Belgium
•   Mark FERGUSON Director General, and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of Ireland
  Science Foundation Ireland - Ireland
•   Ben FERINGA Professor
  University of Groningen - Netherlands
•   Àngel FONT VIDAL Corporate Director of Research and Strategy
  "la Caixa" Banking Foundation - Spain
•   Madeleine GABRIEL Head of Inclusive Innovation
  Nesta - United Kingdom
•   Christian GARY directeur de recherche (senior scientist)
  Inra - France
•   Sylvain GIRAUD Head of Unit
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Charles GODFRAY Director, Oxford Martin School
  Oxford Universiyu - United Kingdom
•   Helena GOMEZ MACPHERSON Deputy Director
  IAS-CSIC - Belgium
•   Marta GOMEZ QUINTANILLA HEALTH & IMI SPANISH DELEGATE
  CDTI - Spain
•   Jorge GONZALEZ Director
  ticbiomed - Spain
•   Miguel GONZALEZ-SANCHO Head of Unit
  EUROPEAN COMMISSION - Belgium
•   Julien GUERRIER Director
  EASME
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Ivo GUT Director
  Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) - Spain
•   Mordechai (Muki) HAKLAY Professor of Geographic Information Science
  UCL - United Kingdom
•   Henriette HANSEN EU Project Manager
  South Denmark European Office - Denmark
•   Jos HAVERKORT Associate Professor
  Eindhoven University of Technology - Netherlands
•   Corinna HAWKES Director, Centre for Food Policy
  City, University of London - United Kingdom
•   Jasper HEMMES Coaching & Acceleration
  EASME
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Anastasia HOFMANN Co-founder
  KITRO - Switzerland
•   Niclas HOLMBERG Managing Director - Listing Sweden
  Nasdaq - Sweden
•   Fredrik HÖRSTEDT Vice President for Utilisation
  Chalmers University of Technology - Sweden
•   Mikko HUUSKONEN Head of Division, Innovation Policy
  Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment - Finland
•   Daniela JACOB Head
  Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) - Germany
•   Philippe JACQUES Managing Director
  EMIRI - Belgium
•   Merete JOHANSSON Founder
  RealFoodSystems.org - Switzerland
•   Colin JONES Professor
  University of Leeds, UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) - United Kingdom
•   Jan-Ingvar JÖNSSON Secretary General
  Swedish Research Council - Sweden
•   Pierre JORIS Chairman
  A.SPIRE - Belgium
•   Bindi KARIA Founder
  bindi ventures - United Kingdom
•   Marie-Paule KIENY Director of Research
  Inserm - France
•   Alexey KIRICHENKO Research Collaboration Manager
  F-Secure Corporation - Finland
•   Peter KNORRINGA Professor
  Erasmus University Rotterdam - Netherlands
•   Marina KOUSSATHANA Policy Analyst
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Bernhard KOWATSCH Head of Innovation Accelerator
  World Food Programme - Germany
•   Kristin KRAAV Senior Adviser
  Estonian Research Council - Estonia
•   Wilfried KRAUS Deputy Director General
  Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany - Germany
•   Jerzy LANGER Professor emeritus
  Polish Academy of Sciences, Inst. Phys. - Poland
•   Minna LANZ professor
  Tampere University - Finland
•   Cecilia LASCHI Professor
  Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - Italy
•   Isidro LASO BALLESTEROS Deputy Head of Unit
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Jean-Marie LEHN Professor
  University of Strasbourg - France
•   Karim LEKADIR Senior Researcher
  Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Spain
•   Maria LEPTIN Director
  EMBO - Germany
•   Rachel LOMBARDI Business Development
  International Synergies Limited - United Kingdom
•   Hugo MACEDO CEO
  Smart Separations Ltd - United Kingdom
•   Naomi MACKENZIE Co-founder
  KITRO - Switzerland
•   Stewart MAGINNIS Global Director Nature-based Solutions Group
  IUCN - Switzerland
•   David MAIR Head of Unit, Knowledge for Policy: concepts and methods
  European Commission, Joint Research Centre - Belgium
•   Michael MAKANGA Executive Director
  European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) - Netherlands
•   Aleksandra MALYSKA Executive Manager
  Plant ETP - Belgium
•   Veronica MANFREDI Director
  European Commission DG ENV.C - Belgium
•   Carlo MANGO Head of Reserch and Tech Transfer
  Fondazione Cariplo - Italy
•   Ignacio MARTIN Head of Strategic Partnership
  CIRCE Foundation - Spain
•   Francisca MARTINS Student
  Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences - Portugal
•   Henrique MARTINS Chairman of the board
  SPMS-Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde, E.P.E. - Portugal
•   Oonagh MC NERNEY Director
  IRIS Technology Solutions - Spain
•   Adelio MENDES Professor
  University of Porto - Portugal
•   Rosa MENÉNDEZ President of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
  Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) - Spain
•   Wolfgang MERKEL Director
  WZB - Berlin Social Science Center - Germany
•   Pierre MEULIEN Executive Director
  Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) - Belgium
•   Fernando MORENO-HERRERO Professor
  National Center of Biotechnology (CSIC) - Spain
•   Edwin MORLEY FLETCHER CEO
  Lynkeus - Italy
•   Jamie MORRISON Director, Food Systems Programme
  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Italy
•   Birgitte NAUNTOFTE CEO
  Novo Nordisk Fonden - Denmark
•   Luis NAVARRO MANAGING DIRECTOR
  CONSORCIO FERNANDO DE LOS RÍOS - Spain
•   Stephan NEUGEBAUER Chairman ERTRAC/EGVIA
  ERTRAC - Belgium
•   Valeria NICOLOSI Professor of Nanomaterials and Advanced Microscopy
  Trinity College Dublin - Ireland
•   Alain NOGARET Professor
  University of Bath - United Kingdom
•   Margit NOLL Chair of Management Board
  FFG / JPI Urban Europe - Austria
•   Irene NORSTEDT Acting Director
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Conor O'CARROLL Owner
  SciPol - Ireland
•   Matthias OEL Director
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Jane OHLMEYER Professor, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, Arts and Humanities Research Institute
  Trinity College Dublin - Ireland
•   Carole PALECO International relations officer
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences - Belgium
•   Anna PANAGOPOULOU Director
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Nikolaos PAPADOPOULOS Professor of Allergy
  University of Athens - Greece
•   Guillaume PARROU Learning Innovation Manager
  OpenClassrooms - France
•   Simona PEDE Head of Talent Lab
  bwcon GmbH - Germany
•   Gilles PETERHANS Secretary General
  UIP - International Union of Wagon Keepers - Belgium
•   Thomas POELL Senior lecturer
  University of Amsterdam - Netherlands
•   Janez POTOČNIK Co-chair
  UNEP-International Ressource Panel - France
•   Kristala PRATHER Arthur D. Little
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology - United States of America
•   Mirko PRESSER Associate Professor
  Aarhus University - Denmark
•   Michela PUDDU CEO
  Haelixa AG - Switzerland
•   Korneel RABAEY Professor
  Universiteit Gent - Belgium
•   Navi RADJOU CEO
  NR Group - United States of America
•   Jeroen RAES Group leader
  KU Leuven - VIB - Belgium
•   Guido RASI Executive Director
  European Medicines Agency - Netherlands
•   Elisa RAVAZZOLI Senior Researcher and Group Leader
  Eurac Research - Italy
•   Kate RAWORTH author
  - United Kingdom
•   Julia REINAUD Director, Advocacy and Government Relations
  Gates Ventures - United States of America
•   Matthias REITER-PÁZMÁNDY Dep. Head of Department
  Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research, BMBWF - Austria
•   Katja REPPEL Deputy Head of Unit
  DG REGIO
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Mohamed RIDOUANI Mayor
  City of Leuven - Belgium
•   John- Arne RØTTINGEN Chief Executive
  The Research Council of Norway - Norway
•   Stephen ROWAN Vice-President Patent Granting Process
  European Patent Office - Netherlands
•   Paul RÜBIG Former Member of the European Parliament
  European Parliament - Belgium
•   Ben RUCK Senior policy adviser
  Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy - Netherlands
•   Artur RUNGE-METZGER Director
  DG Climate Action
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Alexandre SABOUNDJIAN CEO
  AudioValley - Belgium
•   Ramon SANAHUJA Director of Inmigration
  municipality of Barcelona - Spain
•   Yolanda SANZ Professor of Research
  Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) - Spain
•   Björn SAUTTER Senior Expert R&I Networks and Cooperations
  Festo AG & Co. KG - Germany
•   Hans Joachim SCHELLNHUBER Emeritus
  Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research - Germany
•   Jörg SCHERER Coordinator / Contract Manager
  European IP Helpdesk - Germany
•   Thomas SCHMICKL Professor
  University of Graz - Austria
•   Martin SEYCHELL DDG for Health
  DG SANTE
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Ricardo SILVA Head of EU Projects
  Mind the Bridge Foundation - Italy
•   Rob SMEETS Director public-private partnerships
  Philips - Netherlands
•   Dr. Klaus H. SOMMER former SVP at Engineering & Technology, former President of SPIRE, former Chairperson of SusChem
  Expert, retired from Bayer AG, former President of SPIRE, former Chairperson of SusChem - Germany
•   Roberta SONNINO Professor
  Cardiff University - United Kingdom
•   Sarah SPENCER Director of Strategy & Senior Fellow
  COMPAS, University of Oxford - United Kingdom
•   Špela STRES Head of Center
  Jožef Stefan Institute - Slovenia
•   Tobias Bade STRØM Special Adviser
  The Research Council of Norway - Norway
•   Karen SUDMEIER Senior project adviser
  United Nations Environment Programme - Switzerland
•   Nikolas TAILLIEU CEO
  BallistiX.digital - Belgium
•   Fabio TENTORI Head of Innovation Hubs and Startup Initiatives
  Enel - Lebanon
•   Anita Krohn TRAASETH Board member
  European Innovation Council Advisory Board - Norway
•   Kristina TSVETANOVA CEO & co-founder
  BLITAB Technology - Austria
•   Maria VAN DER HOEVEN senior fellow
  CIEP - Netherlands
•   Bram VANDERBORGHT professor
  Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Belgium
•   Tonny VELIN CEO
  ANSWARE - Spain
•   Arianna VIGNATI Professor
  POLITECNICO DI MILANO - Italy
•   Joachim VON BRAUN Director
  Bonn University, Center for Development Research (ZEF) - Germany
•   Max VON WOLFF Co-Founder & CEO
  XOrigin - Germany
•   Ena VOUTE Dean of faculty IDE
  TU Delft - Netherlands
•   Virginia WANGARE GREINER DIRECTOR
  Maisha e.V.-African Women in Germany - Germany
•   Markus WANKO Managing Director
  IST Cube - Austria
•   Shane WARD Professor of Biosystems Engineering
  University College Dublin - Ireland
•   Stephanie WEHNER Professor / Roadmap leader
  Delft University of Technology - Netherlands
•   Georg WINKEL Head of Office
  European Forest Institute - Germany
•   Christoph WINTERHALTER Chairman of the Executive Board
  DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V. - Germany
•   Wolfgang WOHLSEIN CEO
  wolfgang wohlsein - Austria
•   Weronika WOIŃSKA Member in Polish Chapter
  Girls In Tech - Poland
•   Christiane WOOPEN Executive Director
  Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights (CERES), Economics, and Social Sciences of Health (CERES), University of Cologne - Germany
•   Yousef YOUSEF CEO
  LG Sonic - Netherlands
•   Marco ZAPPALORTO CEO
  Nesta Italia - Italy