Speakers

•   Shadi ABOU-ZAHRA Accessibility Strategy and Technology Specialist
  Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
  World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - France
•   Jean-François ABRAMATIC Emeritus Senior Scientist
  Inria - France
•   Pekka ALA-PIETILÄ Chairman of Huhtamaki
  Chairman of the High Level group on Artificial Intelligence
•   Markus ASPELMEYER Professor
  Faculty of Physics
  University of Vienna - Austria
•   Jacob BANGSGAARD CEO
  ERTICO - Belgium
•   Alessandro BOGLIOLO Professor
  DiSPeA
  University of Urbino - Italy
•   Lorena BOIX ALONSO Acting Director for Policy Strategy&Outreach
  DG CONNECT
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Cecilia BONEFELD-DAHL Director General
  DIGITALEUROPE - Belgium
•   Michał BONI Member of the EP
  European Parliament - Belgium
•   Mustapha BOURAOUI Vice President Strategic Marketing
  EMEA
  STMicroelectronics - France
•   Francesca BRIA Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Barcelona City - United Kingdom
•   Nicolas BRIEN Executive Director
  FRANCE DIGITALE - France
•   Joanna BRYSON Associate Professor / Reader
  Computer Science
  University of Bath - United Kingdom
•   Jacques BUGHIN Senior Partner at McKinsey - Director of the McKinsey Global Institute
  McKinsey - Belgium
•   Gabriele BULGARINI General Manager
  Single Quantum - Netherlands
•   Claire BURY Deputy Director-General
  DG CONNECT
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Giovanni CARRADA Author / Science writer
  RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A - Italy
•   Bogdan CEOBANU Policy Officer
  European Commission - Romania
•   Pierre CHEHWAN Project Director
  NAVYA - France
•   Daniela CORDA Dr.
  Institute of Protein Biochemistry
  Italian National Research Council - Italy
•   João CORREIA NEVES Secretary of State for Economy
  Ministry of Economy - Portugal
•   Silvia COSTA MEP
  European Parliament
•   Teresa CUNHA MTConsulting - Portugal
•   Mariana DAMOVA CEO
  Business development
  Mozaika - Bulgaria
•   Bernd DATLER Managing Director
  ASFINAG Maut Service GmbH - Austria
•   Madeleine DE COCK BUNING Chair of the Board of Commissioners at the Dutch Media Authority
  Commissariaat voor de Media / Dutch Media Authority - Netherlands
•   Gerard DE GRAAF Director for the Digital Single Market
  Directorate-General Communications Networks, Content & Technology
  European Commission
•   Jean-Luc DI PAOLA-GALLONI Group Corporate Vice President, Sustainable Development & External Affairs
  Valeo - France
•   Dermot DIAMOND Professor
  INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics
  Dublin City University - Ireland
•   Andrzej DOPIERAŁA President of Asseco Data Systems Mnagement Board
  Management Board
  Asseco Data Systems - Poland
•   Shiva DUSTDAR Head of Division Innovation Finance Advisory
  Advisory Services Department
  European Investment Bank - Luxembourg
•   Kristina EDSTROM Professor
  Department of Chemistry - Angstrom Laboratory
  Uppsala University - Sweden
•   Tryggvi EDWALD Chief, Automatic Processing Systems section
  International Data Centre division
  Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization - Austria
•   Pia ERKINHEIMO Chairman of the Board
  SOLVED - The Sustainability Company - Finland
•   Dario FLOREANO Professor
  Laboratory of Intelligent Systems
  EPFL - Switzerland
•   Juergen FURIAN Founder of Pioneers.io
•   Mariya GABRIEL Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society
  European Commission
•   Patrick GATELLIER THALES - France
•   Bjorn-Soren GIGLER Digital Innovation Policy Officer
  DG CONNECT
•   Maarten GOOS Professor
  Utrecht School of Economics
  Utrecht University - Netherlands
•   Ulrich GRABENWARTER Head of Investments Technology & Innovation
  European Investment Fund
•   Thomas HAHN Chief Software Expert, CT RDA CES, Siemens AG - Germany
•   Henri HAKAMO Chief Digital Officer
  Tesi
•   Christopher HALEY Head of New Technology and Startup Research
  Nesta - United Kingdom
•   Laurent HERAULT VP European Affairs
  LETI
  CEA - France
•   Norbert HOFER Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology
  Federal Government of Austria
•   Ruth HOUBERTZ CEO & Managing Director
  Multiphoton Optics GmbH - Germany
•   Tomi ILIJAŠ CEO
  HPC
  Arctur - Slovenia
•   Willem JONKER CEO
  EIT Digital - Netherlands
•   Eva KAILI Member of the European Parliament
  European Parliament - Greece
•   Dipak KALRA President
  The European Institute for Innovation through Health Data - Belgium
•   Robert KAŁUŻA Co-Founder, COO
  Billon - Poland
•   Gerti KAPPEL Prof. Dr.
  Institute of Information Systems Engineering
  TU Wien - Austria
•   Gail KENT Director
  Directorate-General Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CONNECT)
  European Commission - Luxembourg
•   Yasir KHOKHAR CEO and Founder of Connecterra
  Connecterra - Netherlands
•   Ulrike KLEIFELD VP Strategy, Global Public Services
  SAP
•   Joanna KOPER Head of Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit
  Perspektywy Education Foundation - Poland
•   Helen KÖPMAN Deputy Head of Unit Digital Innovation & Blockchain
  DG Connect - Digital Single Market - Digital Innovation & Blockchain
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Sabine KÖSZEGI Professor of Labor Science and Organization, Chair of the Austrian Robotics Council
  Institute of Management Science
  Vienna University of Technology - Austria
•   Carlos KUCHKOVSKY Head of Research & Development
  New Digital Business
  BBVA - Spain
•   Kristjan KUHI Chief architect
  Wepower Network - Estonia
•   Miguel Angel LAGUNAS Director
  Director
  CTTC - Spain
•   Laure LE BARS Research Project Director
  SAP Research & Innovation
  SAP - France
•   Sophie LECHELER Professor of Political Communication
  Department of Communication
  University of Vienna - Austria
•   Ana Teresa LEHMANN Secretary of State for Industry of the Portuguese Government
  Secretary of State for Industry
  Portuguese Government - Portugal
•   Max LEMKE Head of Unit for Technologies and Systems for Digitising Industry
  DG Connect, European Commission
•   Stefanie LINDSTAEDT Technical University of Graz
•   Helmut LIST Chairman and CEO
  AVL List
•   Vittorio LORETO Full Professor
  Sony Computer Science Laboratories - Paris - France
•   Kęstutis LUKOŠEVIČIUS Founder and Strategy Consultant
  Administration
  UAB BaltLED - Lithuania
•   Bruno MAISONNIER Founder & CEO
  AnotherBrain - France
•   Darko MANAKOVSKI Head of Scandinavia
  Global Development
  RARE - Sweden
•   Alexandra MANIATI Senior Policy Adviser, Cybersecurity & Social Affairs
  European Banking Federation - Belgium
•   Alexios MANTZARLIS Director
  International Fact-Checking Network @ Poynter - United States of America
•   Wolfgang MARQUARDT Chairman of the Board of Directors
  Forschungszentrum Jülich - Germany
•   Ricardo MARVAO Co-founder & Head of Education
  Education
  Beta-i - Portugal
•   Julie MAUPIN Director of Social Impact & Public Regulatory Affairs
  Social Impact & Regulatory Affairs
  IOTA Foundation - Germany
•   Angelika MLINAR MEP
  ALDE Group
  European Parliament - Austria
•   Sorin MOISĂ Member of the European Parliament
  Committee on International Trade
  European Parliament - Romania
•   Wilhelm MOLTERER Managing Director, European Fund for Strategic Investments
  European Investment Bank - Luxembourg
•   Klaus MUELLER Productmanager
  Product- and Stakeholdermanagement
  KfW Capital - Germany
•   Catelijne MULLER President
  President
  ALLAI Nederland - Netherlands
•   Silvana MUSCELLA Founder & CEO
  Trust-IT Services & Chair 2nd EOSC HLEG - Italy
•   Raju NARISETTI Professor of Professional Practice & Director of Knight-Bagehot Fellowships at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
  Graduate School of Business
  Columbia University - United States of America
•   Egle NEMEIKSTYTE CEO
  Blockchain Centre Vilnius - Lithuania
•   Pearse O'DONOHUE Director, Future Networks
  DG CONNECT, Future Networks Directorate
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Eoghan O'NEILL Policy Officer - Blockchain & Digital Innovation Unit
  DG CONNECT
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Barry O'SULLIVAN Professor
  Department of Computer Science
  University College Cork - Ireland
•   Lauri OKSANEN VP Research and Technology
  Nokia Bell Labs - Finland
•   Jonas ONLAND Programleader Digital Transformation
  City of Eindhoven - Netherlands
•   Robert OVERWEG Creative Director / Lead concept and innovation
  Concept & Creation
  Triple - Netherlands
•   Minna PALMROTH Professor, director
  Department of Physics
  University of Helsinki - Finland
•   Maria PALOMBINI Director of Initiative and Opportunities Development
  Global Business Strategy & Intelligence
  IEEE Standards Association - United States of America
•   Irini PAPADIMITRIOU Creative Director
  FutureEverything - United Kingdom
•   Giovanni PAU ATOS/Renault Chair Professor
  LIP6 - NPA
  Sorbonne Université - France
•   Nemanja PETROVIC CBDO at Solelos
  business development
  Solelos - Serbia
•   Steve PHILLIPS Secretary-General
  CEDR - Belgium
•   Dr. Stefan POLEDNA Member of the Executive Board
  TTTech Computertechnik AG - Austria
•   Antonis POLEMITIS Chief Executive Officer
  Chief Executive Officer
  University of Nicosia - Cyprus
•   Johan POUWELSE Professor
  Computer Science
  Delft University of Technology - Netherlands
•   Thijs POVEL Partner
  Heads Capital - Switzerland
•   Anand PRASAD Chief Advanced Technologist
  NEC Corporation - Japan
•   Ciprian-Ion PREDA Secretary of State
  Public administration
  Ministry of Research and Innovation - Romania
•   Francesco PROFUMO President
  Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Italy
•   Kai RANNENBERG Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security at Goethe University Frankfurt - Germany
•   Jesper RASMUSSEN Flight Standards Director
  Flight Standards
  EASA - Germany
•   Teodora RAYCHINOVA Digital Policy Consultant
  Hanover Communications - Belgium
•   Marie REDMOND Professor Università Ca' Foscari
  Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
  Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia - Italy
•   Markus REINISCH Vice President, Public Policy Europe and Middle East and Africa
  Facebook - United Kingdom
•   Selma RIZVIC Associate Professor
  Department for Computer Science and Informatics
  University of Sarajevo - Bosnia And Herzegovina
•   Lula ROSSO EU Affairs Manager
  VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - Finland
•   Andrei ROTH Campus Manager
  Management
  UiPath - Romania
•   Khalil ROUHANA Deputy Director-General
  DG Communications Networks, Content & Technology
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Paul RÜBIG Member of European Parliament
  European Parliament - Austria
•   Marko RUSSIVER Founder & CEO of Guaana
  Guaana - Estonia
•   Diana RUSU Executive Director
  General Management
  Spherik Accelerator - Romania
•   Ramona SAMSON Deputy Head of Unit
  DG Research & Innovation
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Alberto SANGIOVANNI VINCENTELLI The Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner chair of EECS, Professor
  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  University of California, Berkeley - United States of America
•   Pedro SANTOS Head of Competence Center
  Cultural Heritage Digitization
  Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD) - Germany
•   Giordano SASSAROLI Head of Digital Services
  Digital Services
  ELITE - London Stock Exchange Group - Italy
•   Ingolf SCHÄDLER Deputy Director General for Innovation
  Innovation
  Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology - Austria
•   Margarete SCHRAMBÖCK Federal Minister for Digital and Economic Affairs, Austria
•   Miri SEGAL Artist
  Head of the postgraduate Fine Arts program
  Faculty of Arts - Hamidrasha, Beit Berl academic college - Israel
•   Katrina SICHEL MD
  Wit and Word Communications sprl - Belgium
•   Nina-Luisa SIEDLER Partner at DWF, a technology-oriented global law firm, and head of the international Blockchain Competence Group.
  DWF - Germany
•   Erin SIMPSON Civil Society Lead, Computational Propaganda Research Group, Oxford Internet Institute
  Oxford Internet Institute
  University of Oxford - United States of America
•   Lucilla SIOLI Director for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry at DG Connect
  Director for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry at DG Connect
  European Commission - Belgium
•   Michela SPAGNUOLO Research Director
  Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technology
  National Research Council (CNR) - Italy
•   Despina SPANOU Director for Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity
  DG Connect
  European Commission
•   Maria SPYRAKI Member of the European Parliament
  European Parliament
•   Petr ŠRÁMEK Management Director
  AI Startup Incubator - Czechia
•   Danielius STASIULIS Chairman and founder
  Startup Division
  Startup Division - Lithuania
•   Paul STEFANUT Business & Innovation Director
  Business & Innovation
  Opticsvalley - France
•   Gerfried STOCKER Managing and Artistic Director
  Ars Electronica Linz GmbH & Co KG - Austria
•   Patrizia TOIA European Parliament
•   Krisztina TOTH Director of Corporate Affairs
  Europa Media - Hungary
•   Jane TREADWELL Practice Manager
  Digital Development
  World Bank Group - United States of America
•   Catherine TREHERNE-THOMAS Business Development Manager
  Venture Capital
  Outlier Ventures - United Kingdom
•   Ilkka TUOMI Chief Scientist
  Oy Meaning Processing Ltd. - Finland
•   Mateo VALERO Director
  Direction
  Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Spain
•   Aleksander VALJAMAE Associated Professor
  Department of Digital Technologies
  Tallinn University - Estonia
•   Gintaras VILDA Vice-Minister
  Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania - Lithuania
•   Ondrej VLCEK President for Consumer Business
  Avast - Czechia
•   Frantisek VRABEL CEO
  Semantic Visions - Czechia
•   Stephanie WEHNER Professor
  QuTech
  Delft University of Technology - Netherlands
•   Dirk WERNER Director, Head of Information and Communication Technologies
  Information and Communication Technologies
  European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - United Kingdom
•   Christiane WOOPEN Chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies and Executive Director at CERES, University of Cologne - Germany
•   Mabito YOSHIDA Director-General
  Global Strategy Bureau
  Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan - Japan
•   Gillian YOUNGS Professor of Creative and Digital Economy and Dean of Arts and Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
  Faculty of Arts and Humanities
  Canterbury Christ Church University - United Kingdom
•   Tatjana ZABASU MIKUŽ Managing Partner
  South Central Ventures - Croatia
•   Sergio ZAZZERA Vice President Eni Technical Computing For Geosciences and Subsurface Operations
  Exploration
  Eni SpA - Italy
•   Peteris ZILGALVIS Head of Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission - Latvia