SPEAKERS
Kuldar Aas
Data Governance Programme Lead
Ministry of Justice and Digital Affairs of Est..
Habtamu Abie
Chief Research Scientist
Norwegian Computing Center
Carlos Agostinho
Principal Researcher
UNINOVA
Jim Ahtes
Head of Data Space Innovation
i2CAT Foundation
Esther Albertin
Product Innovation
INYCOM
Jorge Amor Rio
Head of Data & AI Infrastructure
Gradiant
Giulia Antonucci
Technical Manager
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA.
Arian Artman
Digital Sovereignty & Data Space Expert
NTT DATA
Mamoona Asghar
Senior Lecturer
University of Galway
Ana Ayerbe
Digital Strategy Director
TECNALIA
Saurav Baidya
Senior Project Leader, Public Private Partnerships, Royal Philips ..
Philips
Suzanne Barror
Health Information Programme Manager
HIQA (Health Information and Quality Authority..
Natalie Bertels
Senior Legal researcher
CiTiP- KU Leuven -IMEC
Massimo Bertoncini
Senior Innovation Manager
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica
Philip Black
Chief Strategy Officer
Brightbeam AI
Freek Bomhof
Senior Consultant
TNO
Torsten Bondo
Business Development Manager
DHI A/S
Valeria Borodin
Associate Professor
IMT Atlantique
Cristian Bosch
Data Science Architect
CeADAR - University College Dublin
Roger Briz
Project Manager
Innovalia Association
Natasha Browne
Sustainability Technologist
Teagasc
Joke Bruining
Senior Project Manager
TNO
Fred Buining
CEO & Founder
HIRO MicroDataCenters
Professor David Burn
President
University of Galway
Monica Caballero
R+D Project Manager - CyclOps coordinator
NTT DATA
Luís Campos
EU Affairs
Turismo de Portugal - Brussels Office
Orla Canavan
Industry Performance Manager
Fáilte Ireland
Erica Cascone
Communication & Dissemination Lead
Digital for Planet
Imelda Casey
Strategic Threat Analyst
National Cyber Security Centre Ireland
Silvia Castellvi
Director Research & Standardization
IDSA
Mikel Cañizo
Cloud Data Spaces Team Leader
IKERLAN
Till Christopher Lech
Research Manager- Smart Data
SINTEF Digital
Taira Colah
Consultant
PNO Innovation DIgital
Natalie Cole
Head of Innovation
Tallaght University Hospital
Diego Collarana
Head of Knowledge-Enhanced LLMs and Data Analytics
Fraunhofer FIT
John Cosgrove
Director of Smart Manufacturing
Technological University Shannon (TUS)
Eamonn Coyne
Digital Health Specialist
Department of Health Ireland
Orla Cullen
Product Marketing Manager and Evangelist for Data & Analytics
SAP
Edward Curry
Professor / Director
University of Galway / Rinn AI
Marina Da Bormida
R&I Lawyer and Ethics Expert
S&D Consulting Europe
Theodore Dalamagas
Research Director and Vice Director of Information Management Syst..
ATHENA-RC
Davide Dalle Carbonare
R&D Business Developer
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA
Nuria De Lama
Secretary General
BDVA
Stefan Decker
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Techn..
Fraunhofer FIT
Irene Dennehy
Change Management Lead
SAP
Thomas Ditlev Brunø
Associate Professor
Aalborg University
Becky Doyle
Global Vice President, Technical Support
SAP
Patrycja Dąbrowska-Wierzbicka
PL Lead Business Relation Specialist
LUMI AI Factory
Serge Eifes
Principal Data Scientist
Luxembourg National Data Service (LNDS)
David Formisano
Vice President of Digital, Interventional Cardiology Therapies
Medtronic
Valerio Frascolla
Director of Research and Innovation
Intel
Frédéric GUYOMARD
Senior Project Manager
Electricty of France
Laura Gavrilut
Project Manager
21c Consultancy
Joshua Gelhaar
Deputy Head of Department Mobility & Smart Cities
Fraunhofer ISST
Dimitrios Gerakas
AI Cybersecurity Researcher
CERTH
Stefan Gessler
Project Manager (Senior Position) and Data Protection Officer
NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH
Joost Geurts
European Affairs Manager
Inria
Damhnait Gleeson
Programme Manager Industry Decarbonisation
Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland
Delaram Golpayegani
Research Fellow
Rinn AI, Trinity College Dublin
Michele Gucciardo
Research Engineer
NEC Laboratories Europe
Daniela Hackl
National Contact Point for the Digital Europe Programme
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Thomas Hahn
Siemens Fellow
Siemens AG
Elisa Halonen
International Engagement Specialist
CSC - IT Center for Science / LUMI AI Factory
Brian Hanly
CEO
Brightbeam
Bryan Hansen
Engineering Director
Medtronic Acute Care and Monitoring
Rafiqul Haque
Research Fellow
Rinn AI
Alrun Hauke
Senior Scientific Consultant
DLR Projektträger
Markus Helfert
Director
Innovation Value Institute
Sharon Higgins
Executive Director
Ibec
Rene Hofmann
Head of Institute and Full.Prof.
TU Wien - Institute of Energy Systems and Ther..
John Hyland
Research Data Manager
Teagasc
Blanca Jordán Rodríguez
Projects' Lead for Strategic Innovation
AnySolution
Harim Jung
Global Business Development Lead
Seabury Solutions Inc.
Denia Kanellopoulou
Researcher - Head of Digital Innovation
NCSR Demokritos
Venkatesh Kannan
Associate Director
Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC)
Francesca Kay
Assistant Director General, National Data and Statistical Services
Central Statistics Office
Michalis Kefalogiannis
Head of IT Innovation Center
OTE
Michelle Kelly
EU Projects Specialist
Skillnet Ireland and SUSA Project
Axel Kießling
Senior Principal Digital & Organizational Transformation
TenneT
Thomas Komenda
Product Owner
DeltaDAO AG
Sotiris Koussouris
Managing Director
Suite5 Data Intelligence Solutions Ltd
Mark Kuehner
SAP Cross-Industry Innovation
SAP
Gabriella Laatikainen
Senior Scientist
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Misa Labarile, PhD
Policy officer
European Commission
Francisco J. Lacueva Pérez
Researcher and R&D&I project manager
ITA INNOVA
Heidi Laine
Senior Specialist
CSC – IT Center for Science
Ivan Lalaguna
CTO
Nunsys Group
Fenareti Lampathaki
Technical Director
Suite5 Data Intelligence Solutions
Elena Lazovik
Scientist Specialist on Data-driven complex digital systems
TNO
Laure Le Bars
Research project Director
SAP
Irene López de Vallejo
Head of Business Development, Member of QTAG (Quantum Tehcnologies..
Quantum Technologies I Tecnalia
Achilleas Marinakis
Innovation Engineer
Hellenic Telekom
Ricard Martínez Martínez
Associate Professor
University of Valencia
Laura Marwood
Director of Product Strategy for SAP's Autonomous Suite
SAP SE
Mike Matton
BoD member
Virtual World Association (VWA)
Yvonne McArdle
Global People & Culture Business Partner Lead
SAP
Tristan McCallum
Principal Technologist
IDA Ireland
Mick McCann
Senior Lecturer
Atlantic Technological University (Rinn AI)
Donal Óg McCarthy
Managing Director Cybersecurity
Accenture
Paul McElligott
Senior Support Consultant
SAP Ireland
Carmel McGroarty Mitchell
Business Development Manager
Rinn Artificial Intelligence
Laoise McNamara
Vice President for Research and Innovation, University of Galway
University of Galway
Riske Meijer
Senior Program Manager eHealth/MedTech at EAISI
Eindhoven University of Technology
Giorgio Micheletti
Consulting Director
IDC
Federico Milani
Deputy Head of Unit
European Commission
Izidor Mlakar
Researcher & PI
University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical En..
Stefano Modafferi
Enterprise/Research fellow
University of Southampton
Panagiotis Moraitis
Research & Innovation Project Manager
Netcompany-Intrasoft
Vito Morreale
Senior Research and Innovation Manager
Engineering
Timothy Morris
Operations Officer
BDVA
George Murgatroyd
Vice President & General Manager of Digital Technologies (Medtroni..
Medtronic Digital Technologies
Massimo Neri
Chief Technology Office
Martel Innovate
Renate Nikolay
Deputy Director-General
DG CONNECT - European Commission
Nikolay Nikolov
Senior Research Scientist
SINTEF
Jeanette Nilsson
AI Ecosystem Driver
Research Institutes of Sweden AB (RISE)
John O Sullivan
Farmer
Derreighter Organic Farm
Jason O'Brien
Secure and Responsible AI & Data Lead
Accenture
Denis O'Brien
Director of Standards and Solutions
GS1 Ireland
Noel O'Connor
Director
Rinn AI
Stephen O'Driscoll
Head of Research Centres
Research Ireland
John O'Gorman
Principle Technology Officer, Data Science and Cybersecurity
S3 Connected Health
Denis O'Hora
Associate Professor
University of Galway
Orla O'Keeffe
Head of Digital, AI and Conversion
Fáilte Ireland
Marc O'Regan
Chief Technology Officer EMEA
Dell Technologies
Dolores Ordóñez
Director
Anysolution
Leonardo Orsitto
Innovation Facilitator
Coldiretti
Francesco Osimanti
Senior Project Manager & Research Associate
The Lisbon Council
Klaus Ottradovetz
Self-employed
Julia Palma
Senior EU Affairs Manager
CeADAR, Ireland's Centre for Applied AI
Maria (Marietta) Papakonstantino..
Project Manager & Sustainability Expert
Green Supply Chain DIH
Aljosa Pasic
Senior Consultant
Bull
Lynda Peilow
The Very Reverend, Provost of Tuam
Saint Nicholas' Collegiate Church
Fernando Perales
Director - Research Lab
JOT Internet Media
Clara Pezuela
Strategic Alliances and Positioning Director
Instituto Tecnológico de Informática (ITI)
Philip Piatkiewicz
Secretary General
ADRA
Giampaolo Pileggi
Project Manager
NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH
Marta Przywała
EU Government Affairs Director
SAP
Matthijs Punter
Senoir Researcher & Consultant
TNO
Fulvia Raffaelli
Head of Unit
European Commission, DG Santé, Unit C.1
Antonis Ramfos
Director of Innovation & Business Development
ATC International
Wael Rashwan
Lecturer in Analytics
IVI, School of Buisniess, Maynooth University
Francesco Regazzoni
EU project coordinator
University of Amsterdam
Filippo Renga
Coordinator of International activities
Politecnico di Milano
Till Riedel
Lab Lead
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Ronan Rogers
Senior R&D Director
Medtronic
Savvas Rogotis
Data Ecosystem Senior Project Manager
BDVA
Brendan Rowan
Managing Consultant
Bluspecs
Peyman Sadrimajd
Founder & CEO
Kanario Limited
Joaquín Salvachúa
Professor
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Natalie Samovich
CIO
Resilientgroup
Michael Schukat
Associate Professor
University of Galway
Isabel Seguí Verdú
Project Manager
Nunsys
Robert Seidl
Researcher
Nokia Bell Labs
Sille Sepp
AI and Data Ecosystems Project Manager
BDVA
Martin Serrano
Research Scientist
University of Galway
Arsalan Shahid
Principal Solutions Director
Brightbeam AI
Dimitra Siaili
Researcher and Project Manager
ITML (TURING project)
Ricardo Simón Carbajo
Director of Innovation and Development
CeADAR - Ireland's Centre for Applied AI
Katerina Slaninova
Senior researcher
IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center
Rob Smeets
Director Public-Private Partnerships
Philips
Joe Smyth
SVP of R&D, AI & Digital
Genesys
Gürkan Solmaz
Senior Researcher of Human-centric AI Group
NEC Laboratories Europe
Richard Stevens
Associate Vice President
IDC
Tanya Suárez
CEO
BluSpecs
Daniel Sáez Domingo
Strategic Intelligence Director
ITI - Instituto Tecnológico de Informática
Irvette Tempelman-van Hunen
Deputy Director Privacy, Digital Regulation and Consumer regulator..
VNO-NCW/MKB-NederlandVNO-NCW/MKB-Nederland
Fabrice Tocco
Co-CEO and co-founder
Dawex
André Tomé
Policy Analyst
Turismo de Portugal
Sofia Tsekeridou
Senior Research & Innovation Manager
Netcompany S.A.
Kosmas Tsiakas
Research Associate
CERTH-ITI
Theodora Tsikrika
Senior Researcher
CERTH-ITI
Konstantina Tsioli
R&I Unit Leader
CORE Innovation
Tuomo Tuikka
Lead, Data Space solutions
VTT
Philip Turk
Research Scientist
SINTEF
Stefan Van Baelen
Senior Manager Public Funding - AI & Algorithms and Connected Soci..
Imec
Andrejs Vasiļjevs
Executive Chairman
Tilde
Hector Verdú
Second Deputy Mayor
Ayuntamiento San Javier
Dirk Vielsaecker
Head of Industry Collaboration & Associations
Siemens AG
Andrea Villa
Smart Industry Research Lead
Cefriel
Stefan Voigt
Chairman and CEO
Open Search Foundation e.V.
Yvo Volman
Director of Data - DG CONNECT
European Commission
Heike Vornhagen
Data Science Institute, University of Galway
Margaret Waskow
Research Associate
University of Galway
Charlotte Werther
Research Associate
Open Search Foundation e.V.
Robert Woitsch
Member of the Board
BOC Products & Services AG
Katerina Yordanova
ICT Lawyer
GATE Institute
Çağatay Yılmaz
Project Manager
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Sonja Zillner
Head of Trustworthy AI and AI Risk Management
Siemens AG
Noémie Zink
Head of data space and data management
Federal Office for Agriculture FOAG
Rafael del Hoyo
Leader of Big Data and Cognitive Systems
Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón
Jano van Hemert
Director of Data Services
Edinburgh International Data Facility
Jesús Ávila Molina
IT&S Project Director
Nunsys
Niall Ó Brolcháin
Rsearcher
University of Galway
Naoise Ó Cearúil
Chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Spok..
Irish parliament
Hilda Ó Riain
Head of Capacity Building
National Cyber Security Centre of Ireland (NCS..
Shane Ó Seasnáin
Director Digitisation & AI
VITO
