
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