2020 EDITION
Towards a strong european Data and AI Ecosystem
Location
Berlin (Germany) + Virtual
Dates
3 -5 November, 2020
Speakers
120
Attendants
1200
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Thomas Hahn
Chief Expert Software
Siemens AG
Anja Karliczek
Federal Minister of Education and Research and Chair of Plattform ..
German government
Christoph Peylo
Global Head of Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence
Bosch Center of Artificial Intelligence/Platfo..
Feiyu Xu
Global Head of Artificial Intelligence, SAP
SAP
Frank Melzer
Member of the Management Board Product and Technology Management, ..
Plattform Industrie 4.0
Hanna Hennig
Chief Information Officer
Siemens
Henk van Houten
Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer,
Royal Philips
Henning Kagermann
Professor, former CEO of SAP
Acatech
Isabel Pozo
VP Head of Airspace Management
Airbus
Joanna Bryson
Professor of Ethics and Technology
Hertie School
Karl-Heinz Streibich
Chair of the Plattform Lernende Systeme and President of acatech -..
Plattform Lernende Systeme
Khalil Rouhana
Deputy Director-General DG CNET
European Commission
Mateo Valero
Director
Barcelona supercomputing center
Philipp Slusallek
Scientific Director & Professor
DFKI, Saarland University & Plattform Lernende..
Raja Chatila
Professor emeritus
Université Sorbonne
Rasmus Rothe
Founder
Merantix
Thomas Jarzombek
Commissioner for the Digital Industry and Start-ups and Federal Go..
German government
Thomas Wiegand
Professor / Executive Director
TU Berlin / Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut..
Volker Markl
Chief Scientist at DFKI, Full Professor, Chair of the Database Sys..
DFKI
Wolfgang Wahlster
Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Founding director and CEA of..
DFKI
ALL SPEAKERS
Ulrich Ahle
CEO
FIWARE Foundation e. V.
Sergio Albani
Head of RTDI Unit
European Union Satellite Centre
Kosmas Alexopoulos
Market 4.0 (Laboratory for Manufacturing Syste..
Daniel Alonso Román
Senior Technical Lead Big Data and AI ecosystems
BDVA
Sabine Ammon
Professor
TU Berlin
Jon Ander Gómez
Associate Professor
Universitat Politècnica de València/DeepHeal..
Charlotte Andersdotter
Head of Brussels Office
RISE
Maria Anguiano
R&D Consultant, Project Manager
DMS Accelerator
Lucile Aniksztejn
European project coordinator
Infinitech
Ana Antunes
Agronomist
SmartRural S.L
Blanca Aragon
IT Project manager
European Commission
Jurgen Assfalg
ICT Manager
Città Metropolitana di Firenze
Dario Avallone
R&D Director
Engineering
Maria BELTRAN
WeldGalaxy Project
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) - Lif..
Stelian BRAD
Full Professor in Intelligent Robotics and Innovation
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
María Ballester
Senior Project Manager
GMV Aerospace and Defence
Francesco Barbato
Policy Officer
European Commission
Martina Barbero
Operations Manager
Big Data Value Association
Jan Baumbach
Professor and scientific coordinator
Technical University Munich - Feature Cloud
Michael Beigl
Professor
KIT / TECO
Arne Berre
Chief Scientist and Innovation Director
SINTEF and NorwAI
Natalie Bertels
Senior Legal researcher
CiTiP- KU Leuven -IMEC
Gash Bhullar
Chief Executive Officer / Chairman
European Factory Foundation (EFF)
Dimitris Bilidas
Research Associate
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
David Bisset
Executive Director
euRobotics
Pierre Bitard
Director Innovation & foresight projects
ANRT - Association Nationale de la Recherche e..
Freek Bomhof
Senior Consultant
TNO
Anys Boukli
Founder and CEO
Digital Partners
Svetla Boytcheva
Senior Research Lead
Sirma AI (Ontotext)
Rob Brennan
Assistant Professor
ADAPT, Dublin City University
Martin Brynskov
Chair
Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) / Aarhus Univ..
Klemens Budde
Charité Universitatsmedizin Berlin/Plattform ..
Aljoscha Burchardt
Senior Researcher
DFKI
Wolfram Burgard
Toyota Autonomous Driving chair & University F..
Monica Caballero
R+D Project Manager
Everis
Juan Cadavid
EU Affairs Manager
CEA /REACH project
Philippe Calvez
R&D Lab Manager
ENGIE
Daniel Calvo Alonso
Head of AI, Data & Robotic unit
Atos
Alessandro Canepa
Research manager
Fratelli Piacenza S.p.A.
Juan Carlos Perez Baun
Reserch Analyst
Atos
Gabriella Cattaneo
Associate Vice President European Government Consulting at IDC EME..
IDC
Anna Cattani-Scholz
Delegate for Key Technologies - Brussels office
Helmholtz Association
Natalie Cernecka
Head of Business Development
TeraLab
Seiler, Charlotte
AI Innovation Manager
Berlin Partner
Ricardo Chavarriaga
Research Associate - Head of the CLAIRE Office Zurich
ZHAW School of Engineering - CLAIRE Office Zur..
Maria Christina Bienek
General Manager
Smart Electronic Factory e.V.
Pietro Cipresso
Professor
Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Massimiliano Claps
Research Director
IDC
Mary Cleary
Secretary General, Irish Computer Society
Irish Computer Society
Andrew Collier
Suez - Water Europe
Catherine Collin
MD, Senior Executive Consultant
University of Copenhagen - EU-STANDS4PM
Andrew Collinge
Advisor
Smart Dubai
Oscar Corcho
Professor
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Víctor Corral
Innovation Project Manager
ATOS
Anca Costea
Manager, Policies, Strategies and International Cooperation
Terrasigna
Alberto Crespo
Head of Blockchain, Identity and Privacy Unit
Atos Spain S.A.
Andrea Cruciani
CEO
Teamdev
Ed Curry
Vice President
BDVA / Insight / NUI Galway
Santiago Cáceres Elvira
Project Manager
ITI - Instituto Tecnológico de Informática
Davide Dalle Carbonare
Senior Researcher and Business Developer
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA
Nuria De Lama
Consulting Director
IDC
Stefano De Panfilis
Chief Operations Officer
FIWARE Foundation e.V.
Rocco Defina
Managing Partner
OXYS Computing
Susanne Dehmel
Managing Director
Bitkom
Tiblets Demewez
Data Scientis
Philips
Roberto Di Bernardo
Head of Open Government R&D group
Engineering
Alexandre Dolgui
IMT Atlantique
Head of Automation, Production and Computer Sc..
Alessandro Donati
Artificial Intelligence & Operations Innovation Manager
ESA
Márta Dr. Nagy-Rothengass
Head of Unit Data and matadata services, standards
European Commission - Eurostat - Unit B5
Charlotte Ducuing
PhD fellow
KU Leuven Centre for IT and IP law
Wiebke Düttmann-Rehnolt
M.D.
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Sandro D’Elia
Programme Officer - Unit A2: Technology and Systems for Digitalisi..
European Commission - Directorate General for ..
Sergiu Eftimie
QA & Automation Engineer
Digital Dryads
Brian Elvesæter
Research Scientist
SINTEF
Andrew Emerson
Application specialist
CINECA
Sebastian Enzberg
Group Manager Production Management
Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems D..
Francisco Estevan
CEO Insomnia
Insomnia
Spyros Evangelatos
Senior Research & Innovation Specialist
INTRASOFT International
Federico Facca
CTO
Martel Innovate
Rudolf Felix
Managing Director
PSI FLS Fuzzy Logik & Neuro Systeme GmbH, Plat..
Maurizio Ferraris
Senior Manager
R&I Lawyer and Ethics Expert
Fergal Finn
Standards Manager - Innovation, Policy and Business Development
National Standards Authority of Ireland
Anne Fleur van Veenstra
Director of Science Strategic Analysis & Policy
TNO
Fabiana Fournier
researcher
IBM
Chiara Francalanci
Prof.
University
Lindsay Frost
Chief Standardisation Eng.
NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH
Daniele Gadler
Data Scientist
Südtiroler Informatik AG
Giovanna Galasso
Associate Partner
Intellera Consulting
Ashok Ganesh
Director Market Perspectives & Innovation
CEN-CENELEC
Wanling Gao
Assistant Professor
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Aca..
Alexandra Garatzogianni
Head of Knowledge &Technology Transfer, Coordinator of H2020 Media..
Leibniz Information Center for Science and Tec..
Ana García Robles
Secretary General
BDVA
Antoine Garnier
Project Manager
International Data Spaces Association
Stefan Gasslitter
General Manager
Südtiroler Informatik Ag
Rita Gentili
Coldiretti
Panos Georgakis
Senior Lecturer
University of Wolverhampton
Paolo Giudici
Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the Department of Econ..
Università di Pavia
Ioana-Maria Gligor
Head of Unit European Reference Networks and Digital Health
European Commission - DG SANTE
Gerhard Goldbeck
Managing Director
Goldbeck Consulting Ltd
Jorge Gonzalez
Director
Ticbiomed
Gabriel Gonzalez Castaner
Senior Research Coordinator
Insight-Centre for Data Analytics, University ..
Arnaud Gotlieb
Senior Research Scientist
Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Marko Grobelnik
senior researcher
Jozef Stefan Institute
Sergio Gusmeroli
Research Coordinator
Politecnico di Milano
Pedro Gómez
Co-Founder & CEO
Orbem
Stefan Göllner
Innovation manager
Stifterverband / AI Campus
Sabine Hafner-Zimmermann
Senior Project Manager
AI REGIO (Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum)
Axel Hahn
Member of the Board; Chair Executive Board of Division Transportat..
OFFIS – Institut für Informatik e.V. and Pl..
Maria Hajdu
Programme Officer
European Commission
Sigang He
Europe Chief Adviser
CRRC Zhuzhou Institute
Fredrik Heintz
Professor of Computer Science
Linköping University
Ralf Heyder
Head of Administrative Office for External Networking and Strategi..
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Holger Hoos
Professor of Machine Learning
Leiden University
Cecile Huet
Deputy Head of Unit, Robotics & AI
European Commission , DG CONNECT
Esther Huyer
Senior Manager and project lead of the European Support Centre for..
Capgemini Invent
Stefan Höffken
Head of Urban Data & Platform
Tegel Projekt GmbH
Panagiotis Ilias
IT Business Analyst
ILVO (Flemish Institute for Agriculture, fishe..
Codrina Ilie
GIS/RS Specialist
Terrasigna
Massimo Ippolito
Head of Digital Innovation & Infrastructure
Comau
Todor Ivanov
Senior Consultant
Lead Consult
Tobias Jacobs
Senior Researcher
NEC Laboratories Europe
Sander Janssen
Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
Team lead Earth Informatics
Michael Jochem
Director Business Chief Digital Office Industry
Robert Bosch GmbH
Janjoost Jullens
Director
Blocklab
Joerg Kachelmann
CEO
Meteologix
Ella Kadas
Managing Director
Nocturne GmbH
Theofilos Kakantousis
VP of Product
Logical Clocks
Leonidas Kallipolitis
Technical Manager
AEGIS IT RESEARCH
Reinhard Karger
Corporate Spokesman
German Research Center for Artificial Intellig..
Elli Kartsakli
Senior Researcher
BSC
Vivian Kiousi
Senior Business Innovation Manager / Head of Transport Lab
INTRASOFT International SA
Frank Kirchner
Executive Director DFKI/Professor
DFKI/University of Bremen/Platform Lernende Sy..
Joachim Koehler
Director of Business Unit Content Technologies and Services
Fraunhofer IAIS
Mariza Konidi
Research & Innovation Communication and Project Management Special..
CUREX
Despina Kopanaki
Project Manager
FORTH
Manolis Koubarakis
Professor
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Athanasios Koumparos
Senior Software Engineer
Vodafone Innovus
Bernhard Krusche
Managing Director
Next Society Foundation
Tatu Kuivalahti
CEO
Custobar
Matthias Kuom
Policy Officer at DG CNECT
European Commission
Dimosthenis Kyriazis
Associate Professor
University of Piraeus
Georg Langs
Chief Scientist and Co-Founder
contextflow
Matyas Lazary
Pannon Business Network Association
Laure Le Bars
Research project Director
SAP
Yann Lechelle
CEO
Scaleway
Niels Linden
Senior Director
Capgemini Invent
Stefanie Lindstaedt
CEO
Know-Center GmbH
Dimitrios Liparas
Research & Innovation Manager
Intrasoft International
Kean Liu
General Manager
CRRC Zhuzhou Institute
Amy Loutfi
Professor, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Artificial Intelligence
Department of Science and Technology, Örebro ..
Paul Lukowicz
DFKI
Douwe Lycklama
Owner and founder
Innopay
Óscar Lázaro
Managing Director
Innovalia
Diego López de Ipiña
Associate Professor
European Data Incubator
Irene López de Vallejo
Director of Data & AI Ecosystems
BluSpecs
Andrea M Schillaci
Digital Marketing & Communication Officer
BigDataStack
Zoltan Mann
senior researcher
University of Duisburg-Essen
Dusica Marijan
Senior Research Scientist
SIMULA Research Laboratory
Laura Martin
R&D Consultant
Zabala Innovation Consulting
Ramon Martín de Pozuelo
Project Manager
CaixaBank
Iván Martínez
Senior Researcher
Atos Spain
Sara Mateo
Zabala Innovation Consulting
Pat McCarthy
VP Strategy and Business Planning
Huawei Ireland Research Center
Richard McCreadie
Lecturer in Information Retrieval and Data Systems
University of Glasgow
Davor Meersman
CEO
Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC)
Maurizio Megliola
Project Manager
GFT Italia
Julija Melnika
Project Manager
Tilde
Ernestina Menasalvas
Profesor
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM)
Silvia Merisio
Policy Officer at DG Connect European Commission
European Commission
Giorgio Micheletti
Consulting Director
IDC
Michela Milano
Head of the Alma Mater Research Institute for Human-Centered Artif..
University of Bologna
Tor Björn Minde
Director
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Gianluca Misuraca
Team Leader and Senior Expert on AI Diplomacy
InTouchAI.eu - International Outreach for Huma..
Yosef Moatti
Senior Researcher
Yosef Moatti
Stefano Modafferi
Senior Researcher
University of Southampton
Vittorio Monferrino
Project Leader
R&I Lawyer and Ethics Expert
Katharina Morik
Professor
TU Dortmund
Edwin Morley-Fletcher
President - Project coordinator
Lynkeus
Finbarr Murphy
Co-founder, CEO
Modular Data
Silvana Muscella
CEO
Trust-IT
Alexandra Muñoz
Science communicator
INCLIVA
Hannes Münzner
CROSS-CPP
Lars Nagel
CEO
IDSA
Chiara Napione
Data scientist
Comau
Jürgen Neises
R&I Subsidies Program Manager
Fujitsu
Clara Neppel
Senior Director
IEEE
Axel Ngonga
Full Professor of Data Science at Paderborn University
University of Paderborn, Lead of BDVA TF6 Benc..
Dmitry Nikolaevich Znamenskiy
Senior Scientists
Philips Research
Jeanette Nilsson
AI Ecosystem Driver
Research Institutes of Sweden AB (RISE)
Amalia Ntemou
Solution architect
WINGS ICT Solutions (SME)
Nuria Oliver
Co-founder and Vicepresident; Chief Data Scientist
ELLIS - The European Laboratory for Learning a..
Anibal Ollero
Full Professor
Universidad de Sevilla/euRobotics
Hodan Omaar
Policy Analyst
Center for Data Innovation
Leire Orue-Echevarria
Project Director
Tecnalia
Alicia Orós Francia
Project coordinator
Pensumo
Klaus Ottradovetz
Distinguished Expert, Member of the Atos Scientific community
Atos International Germany GmbH
Cristina Oyón
Director of Technology, Innovation and Sustainability
SPRI - Basque Business Development Agency
Dina Padalkina
Founder
Circular Berlin
Emmanuel Pajot
Secretary General
EARSC
Sebastian Pape
Senior Researcher
Goethe University Frankfurt
Tomás Pariente Lobo
AI, Data & Robotics Unit - Atos Research & Innovation
Atos
Claudia Paris
Assistant Professor
University of Trento
Jean-Christophe Pazzaglia
AICitizen Pilot lead
SAP
Fernando Perales
Head of JOT Research Lab
JOT Internet Media
Milan Petkovic
Head AI Data Science & Digital Twin
Philips
Pierluigi Petrali
Manufacturin R&D manager
Whirlpool EMEA
Marios PhD
Senior Research and Innovation Manager
INTRASOFT International
Stathis Plitsos
Director of Development
DeepSea Technologies
Johan Plomp
VTT
Senior Scientist / Project Manager
Carmen Polcaro
Project Manager
INNOVALIA
Peter Post
Vice President
Festo
Elena Poughia
CEO
Dataconomy Media GmbH
Mark Purcell
Principal Investigator
IBM Research
Anna Queralt
Senior Researcher
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Bernat Quesada
Worldline
Eduardo Quinones
Senior Researcher and Team Leader
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Lieven Raes
Smart City Expert
Information Flanders
Jenny Rainbird
Senior Research Project Manager
Inlecom Systems
Florian Rampelt
Managing Director
AI Campus / KI-Campus
Josep Redón
Principal investigator
INCLIVA
Guido Reimann
Expert Software and Digitalization and Coordinator Artificial Inte..
VDMA e.V.
Andrea Renda
Senior Research Fellow, Head of Global Governance, Regulation, Inn..
CEPS and EUI
Saila Rinne
Head of Sector - EU policies, DG CONNECT, Unit "eHealth, Well-Bein..
European Commission
Daniele Rizzi
Policy Officer
European Commission - DG CNECT - Unit G1 - Dat..
Helena Rodrigues
Programme Officer
European Commission
Vega Rodrigálvarez Chamarro
Senior Programmer Analyst
Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (ITAINNOVA)
Dominik Rohrmus
CTO
Labs Network Industrie 4.0
Artur Romão
Director, Innovation and Development
DECSIS
Kimmo Rossi
Head of sector of the DG CONNECT
European Commission
Marco Rotoloni
Senior Research Analyst
Abilab
Ioanna Roussaki
Associate Professor
National Technical University of Athens
Alon Rozen
Associate Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Dean
Ecole des Ponts Business School
Pierangela Samarati
Full professor
Università degli Studi di Milano
Gisela Sanchez
Project Manager
FINANCE INNOVATION
Pia Sandvik
CEO
RISE
Tonia Sapia
Marketing and Project Manager
FIWARE Foundation
Simon Scerri
Senior Researcher
Fraunhofer IAIS
Ina Schieferdecker
Director-General for Research for Technological Sovereignty and In..
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BM..
Ana Sebastian
Business Development Manager for EO Applications -
GMV
Harald Sehrschön
Teamleader R&D
Teamleiter F&E
Benjamin Seibel
Director CityLAB
Technologiestiftung Berlin
Klaudija Seitl
Senior Supervisor
Bank of Slovenia
Daniel Senff
Deputy Secretary General
Plattform Industrie 4.0
Florin Serban
Managing Director
Terrasigna
Anatoly Sherman
Sick GmbH and Plattform Lernende Systeme
Kaisa Sibelius
Project manager and coordinator of AI4Cities project
Forum Virium Helsinki
Anestis Sidiropoulos
Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
Alberto Sierra
Data Market Services Coordinator - (H2020ICT)
ZABALA Innovation Consulting
Siim Sikkut
Government CIO
Estonian government
Elena Simperl
Professor of computer science
King's College London
Rekha Singhal
Senior Scientist, Head Computing Systems
Tata Consultancy Services
Jaana Sinipuro
Project Director
Sitra
Arnold Smeulders
professor of AI, board member of ADRA, envoy of ELLIS
University of Amsterdam
Jan Smith
Professor
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg ..
Urszula Sobek
Project Manager
FundingBox
Paulo Soeiro
RIA STONE
Erica Spinoni
Research analyst
IDC Europe
Toni Staykova
Co-Founder and Vice President
UKeMED
Richard Stevens
Associate Vice President
IDC
Juri Stobbe
Managing Partner Germany
Taival.com
Ernst Stoeckl-Pukall
Head of the Digitization and Industry 4.0
BMWi
Louisa Stuwe
International Relations Officer
Health Data Hub
Daniel Sáez Domingo
Strategic Intelligence & Technology Transfer Director
ITI - Instituto Tecnológico de Informática
Caj Södergård
Vice President and Board Member
ADRA
Loretta TIOIELA
AI Industry and Ecosystem Strategy Advisor
Huawei
Anne-Sophie Taillandier
TeraLab Director
IMT
Yannis Theodoridis
Professor
University of Piraeus
Jack Thoms
Deputy Site Director DFKI Berlin
DFKI
Bas Tijsma
Sr. Manufacturing IT Engineer
Philips
Tjerk Timan
lead Trustworthy AI, policy analyst
TNO
Tuomo Tuikka
Lead, Data Space solutions
VTT
Habib Ullah
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Arctic University of Norway
Javier Valero
Digital Innovation Hubs Advisor - "AIR4S" DIH Manager
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM
Ville Valtonen
Reaktor Education
Pieter Van Gorp
Associate Professor
Information Systems Eindhoven University of Te..
Maria-Esther Vidal
Head of the Scientific Data Management Group and Professor
German National Library of Science and Technol..
Dimitrios Vogiatzis
Research Associate & Co-ordinator of the MS in Data Science at ACG..
NCSR "Demokritos" & The American College of G..
Yvo Volman
Director
European Commission
Luisa Volpe
Head of Policy Development
World Farmers Organisation
Ray Walshe
Asst Professor of ICT Standards
ADAPT Research Centre @ DCU
Stefan Weisgerber
Head of Digital Platforms
DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.
Andreas Weiss
Head of Digital Business Models
eco Verband der Internetwirtschaft e.V.
Marieke Willems
Project Manager
Policy Cloud
Christian Wolff
Senior Scientist
ATB Institut für angewandte Systemtechnik Bre..
Alexander Wong
Co-founder, Chief Scientist / Canada Research Chair
DarwinAI / University of Waterloo
Christos Xenakis
Professor - Project coordinator
University of Piraeus
Céline Xu
Katerina Yordanova
Researcher in law
KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CITIP)
Iskra Yovkova
Digitalisation, Innovation and Investment unit..
Daniel Zelenka
Project Manager
Siemens
Sébastien Ziegler
President / Director General
IoT Forum / Mandat International - IoT Lab
Sonja Zillner
Principal Expert
Siemens AG
Laura van Knippenberg
Consultant
Capgemini Invent
Veronika von Messling
Director General, Life Sciences Division
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
