
2019 EDITION
Artificial Intelligence and Big Data transforming business and society
Location
Helsinki
Dates
14-16 Oct, 2019
Speakers
135
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Antti Vasara
President and CEO, VTTPresident, EARTO

Carl-Christian Buhr
Deputy Head of Cabinet of Commissioner M. Gabriel Digital Economy ..

Christoph Strnadl
VP Innovation & Architecture
Software AG

Eduardo Barredo
Director Eurostat

Ieva Martinkenaite
VP, AI and IoT Business DevelopmentTelenor

Ilona Lundström
Director General Innovation and Enterprise Financing Department Mi..

Norbert Gaus
Executive Vice PresidentDigitalization and Automation, Siemens

Oded Cohn
VP ResearchIBM Haifa

Risto Siilasmaa
Chairman of BoardNokia Corporation

Roberto Viola
Director GeneralDG Connect, European Commission

Timo Elliott
Vice-PresidentGlobal Innovation Evangelist SAP

Yannick Legre
Managing Director
EGI
ALL SPEAKERS

Pallas Agterberg
Strategy DirectorAlliander

Heikki Ailisto
Research professorVTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Nicolas Anciaux
ResearcherInria

Francesco Barbato
Policy Officer
European Commission

Alexander Benítez Buenache

Arne Berre
Chief Scientist and Innovation Director
SINTEF and NorwAI

Natalie Bertels
Valorisation Manager - Senior legal researcher
IMEC / KU Leuven / Big Data Value Association

Francisco Betti
Head of Advanced Manufacturing and ProductionWorld Economic Forum

Michele Bezzi
Research Manager
SAP Security Research

Roberto Bifulco
Senior Researcher
NEC

Ofer Biran
STSM, Manager - Cloud and Data Technologies
Haifa Research Lab, Haifa, Israel

David Bisset
Executive Director
euRobotics

Ludovic Bodin
Managing Partner, Kalibrio CapitalChair International Investment, ..

Franck Boissière
Policy Coordinator & Programme OfficerInternet of Things Unit, DG ..

Jakub Boratyński
Head of Unit
Trust and Security

Rodrigo Castiñeira
TT Project Coordinator
Indra

Grazia Cazzin
Offering managerEngineering

Bin Cheng
Senior ResearcherNEC

Till Christopher Lech
Research Manager
SINTEF

Xavier Costa-Pérez
Head of 5G Networks R&D;NEC Laboratories Europe

Marina Da Bormida
R&I; Lawyer and Ethics Expert

Davide Dalle Carbonare
Senior Researcher and Business Developer
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA

Shivaji Dasgupta

Nuria De Lama
Consulting Director
IDC

John Domingue
ProfessorOpen University

Kevin Doolin
Walton Institute

Jarmo Eskelinen
DirectorData Driven Innovation ProgrammeUniversity of Edinburgh

Maurizio Ferraris
Senior Manager
R&I Lawyer and Ethics Expert

Jose Flich
ProfessorUPV

Regine Gernert
Program Manager and International Relations
DLR Germany

Germana Gianquinto
Senior Consultant
GFT Italy

Barbara Giovanelli
EPDSSecurity and Ethics Officer

Ryan Goodman
Startup Programme ManagerOpen Data Institute

Julia Gundlach
International Affairs Forum Digital TechnologiesDFKI GmbH Germany

Sergio Gusmeroli
Research Coordinator
Politecnico di Milano

Nuria Gómez Rojo
International business partner GMV

Thomas Hahn
Chief Expert Software
Siemens AG

Thomas Hammer
Department of Corporate Technology (CT)Siemens

Allan Hanbury
Professor of Data Intelligence at Institute of Information Systems..

Seif Haridi
ProfessorKTH

Juha Heikkilä
Head of UnitDG CNECT A1. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, EC

Timo Honkela
ProfessorUniversity of Helsinki

Timo Hotti
Solutions ArchitectOP Financial Group

Björn Hovstadius
Manager, RISE Sweden

Esther Huyer
Senior Manager and project lead of the European Support Centre for..
Capgemini Invent

Jarmo Hämäläinen
Research DirectorMetsäteho

Vesa Ilmarinen
Chief Impact Officer
Platform of Trust

Antonio J.Jara

Henk Jan Vink
Managing DirectorTNO NL

Aleksi Kallio
Development managerCSC

Alexandros Kaloxylos
Executive Director
5G IA's

Samuel Kaski
Academy ProfessorFinnish Centre for AI

Gail Kent
European CommissionDirector DG CONNECT

Jon Kepa Gerrikagoitia
Research ManagerIDEKO

David Keyes
Director of the Extreme Computing Research CenterKAUST

Alexey Kirichenko

Sabrina Kirrane
Senior ResearcherVienna University

Visa Koivunen
Academy professorAalto University

Manolis Koubarakis
Professor
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Leo Kärkkäinen

Reinhard Lafrenz

Philippe Ledent
Business Unit ManagerSpacelabel

Tomas Lehtinen
Data Analytics Consultant
City of Espoo

Bernd Liepert
President
EuRobotics

Martin Linden
Data AnalystNext Kraftwerke GmbH

Stefanie Lindstaedt
CEO
Know-Center GmbH

Sveinnung Loekken

Jan Lohstroh
Secretary General ARTEMIS Industry Association

Ilona Lundström
Director General Innovation and Enterprise Financing Department Mi..

Óscar Lázaro
Managing Director
Innovalia

Irene López de Vallejo
Director of Data & AI Ecosystems
BluSpecs

Michael Malms
Michael Malms - IT Research and Innovation

Marco Marsella
Head of UnitDG Connect & European Commission

Christoph Mertens
Head of Adoption
IDSA

Andreas Metzger
Technical CoordinatorUDE/Paluno

Michela Milano
Head of the Alma Mater Research Institute for Human-Centered Artif..
University of Bologna

Stefano Modafferi
Senior Researcher
University of Southampton

Sameli Mäeenpää
Head of Data and AIOP Financial Group

Mikko Möttönen
ProfessorVTT and Aalto University

Nesli Nesli Sözer
Research Professor
VTT

Pekka Niskasaari
Project ManagerForum Virium Helsinki

Réda Nouacer
Research Programs Officer
REACH

Tero Ojanperä
Chairman and Co-founderSilo.AI
Silo AI

Lauri Oksanen
VP Research and Technology Nokia Solutions and Networks

Paul O’Connell
Senior Manager
Santander UK

Jean-Pierre Panziera
Chairman
ETP4HPC

Jari Partanen
State Secretary
Ministry Economic Affairs and Employment

Maria S. Perez
FULL PROFESSOR
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID (UPM)

Milan Petkovic
Head AI Data Science & Digital Twin
Philips

Kristiina Pietikäine

Claus Popp Larsen

Athanasios Poulakidas
DataBio coordinator
INTRASOFT

Thanasis Poulakidas
DataBio coordinatorINTRASOFT Intl

Maria Rautavirta
Director of Data Business Unit Ministry of Transport and Communica..

Savvas Rogotis
Project manager Neuropublic

Teemu Ropponen
Board Member
MyData Global

Kimmo Rossi
Head of sector of the DG CONNECT
European Commission

Marco Rotoloni
Senior Research Analyst
Abilab

Cinzia Rubattino
International Research Project ManagerGFT Italy

Jukka-Pekka Salmenkaita
Director
Elisa

Natalie Samovich
Chair of the Steering Board AIOTI

Richard Sawhney
Vice President & Data Exchange AdvisorDawex

Simon Scerri
Senior Researcher
Fraunhofer IAIS

Robert Seidl
Researcher
Nokia Bell Labs

Florin Serban
Managing Director
Terrasigna

Samuli Silanto
Business DeveloperEIT Digital

Elena Simperl
Professor of computer science
King's College London

Jaana Sinipuro
Project Director
Sitra

Richard Stevens
IDC

Alexander Stocker
Key Researcher
Virtual Vehicle Research GmH

Caj Södergård
Vice President and Board Member
ADRA

Elisa Tassoni

Tuomo Tuikka
Lead, Data Space solutions
VTT

Aneta Tumilowicz
Project ManagerNetwork Rail

Marko Turpeinen
CEO
1001 Lakes

Fernando Ubis
Research and Development ManagerVisual Components

Harri Valpola
CEO and founder Curious AI

Riikkaa Virkkunen

Yvo Volman
Director
European Commission

Rigo Wenning
Legal Counsel
W3C / ERCIM

Mika Ylihautala
CTOPhilips Radiation Oncology Solutions

Daniel Zelenka
Project Manager
Siemens

Sonja Zillner
Principal Expert
Siemens AG

Mark van Gils
Research ProfessorVTT