10:05 – 11:00 Digital For Good Arsenal B+C The digital transformation of our economy is having an extraordinary impact on wider society, creating opportunities to improve the way we live and work in Europe and across the globe. The pace of digital transformation also presents a number of societal challenges, particularly how to ensure greater inclusion in the digital economy, where no-one is left behind.
This session will therefore focus on how we can maximize the societal benefits of digital transformation and minimize the challenges, to ensure an inclusive global digital economy. We will explore how to:. Improve how we live through better access to healthcare, increased environmental sustainability and reduced social isolation;. Improve how we work through a more accessible, diverse and inclusive workplace and increased productivity;. Open up new opportunities through greater and wider access to education, skills development opportunities, market access, and jobs. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development Cooperation, Digital Agenda, Telecom and Postal Services, Government of Belgium Chief Operating Officer, Accenture Secretary General, ESOA Chairman, Forum Europe Vice President EU Government Affairs, Microsoft Corporation. Smart Society 11:15 – 12:15 Our Children Online Arsenal C The debate around how we should be educating our children around digital, who are growing up in an exciting yet often daunting world of innovation and technological progress, has been going on for some time.
New challenges are emerging with increasing regularity and this panel will look to shed light on the latest thinking around how society needs to react to ensure that the internet is a safe and exciting place for children to be. Head of Unit, Learning, Multilingualism and Accessibility, European Commission Senior Policy & Advocacy Officer, COFACE - Families Europe Child Participation Officer, Eurochild International Advisor, Literacy, Rights & Democracy. Smart Society 11:15 – 12:15 Digital For Life Arsenal B Connectivity for connectivity’s sake or connectivity for life! Learn how being connected makes all the difference in life-threatening situations when it matters the most.
European assets are being deployed across the whole world, from within our own borders to remote islands, saving lives and bringing relief in emergency situations. Join us to learn more about what it’s like to be in the field relying on wireless communications to save lives. We will be on Facebook Live and have live sketching throughout the session. Vice President, Government Engagement, Inmarsat Senior Manager, Engineering, SES Vice President of Humanitarian Affairs, Eutelsat.
Smart Working 11:15 – 12:30 Security in IoT Chaufferie 0 Within an increasingly connected world, stronger defences are required to address cyber threats and attacks. The European Commission has identified the safety of connected products and services, to be one of the significant new challenges of the connected economy. It plans to develop a European ICT Security Framework and measures on cybersecurity standards, certification and labelling to make ICT-based systems, including connected objects, more cyber-secure. This session will look at the practical aspects of making connected systems and devices more secure from a technical and business perspective and explore what policy measures can and should be undertaken to support this objective, including the role of standards, certification and labelling.
Policy Coordinator & Programme Officer, Internet of Things Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission Chief Innovation Officer, Government Office of Estonia Digital Mobility POD IOT / IIOTSecurity Lead, Accenture Digital Principal Director, Accenture Research CTO, Trustonic. Smart Living 11:15 – 12:45 Digital Health Lab Chaufferie -1 Digital is playing an increasing role in how we think about our personal health. From wearables and apps to nanotechnologies and VR, the potential for digitally orientated innovations to make a positive impact on healthcare in Europe is clear. What innovations are we seeing in Europe and how might these be developed and applied in other areas? How can approaches to both medicine and healthcare continue to be further personalised? Through demonstrations and discussion, our speakers explore the digital healthcare future we wish to design. Founder, HealthCare Futurists CEO & Co-Founder, Braci CEO & Founder, PlayBenefit CEO & Founder, Immersive Rehab Researcher & Project Coordinator, Semeoticons / ISTI-CNR Director of Innovative Surgery, Stanford University.
Smart Society 12:30 – 13:30 Set Phasers to Stun - Innovating from Space to Earth Arsenal B Innovation is about brave first timers. Learn how satellite companies continue to make history and the headlines bringing space down to your living rooms every day of the week! How far will satellite companies go to make sure you continue to have live TV and access to connectivity everywhere you go?
Join us to see how innovation at its best is helping to make the hyper-connected world. We will be on Facebook Live and have live sketching throughout the session. Director, Mobility Solutions, Intelsat Head of On-Orbit Servicing, Airbus Defence and Space Deputy Chief Technology Officer, SES. Smart Living 12:45 – 13:15 Man Vs Machine - This Is the Final Boarding Call, Dear Human Arsenal C We're moving towards a world inhabited by AI and algorithms, and we seem insistent on doing so blindfolded and with great speed despite being constantly told that the 'robots' are coming for our jobs, our relationships. We can't hit the breaks, but we can reframe the challenge in front of us - why are we so afraid? What is it that we fear most?
Our humanity is not only our most defining characteristic, but the key to unlocking the man versus machine challenge. It's time to revisit what makes us human. Digital Sociologist & Strategist.
Smart Working 12:45 – 14:00 Workforce of the Future - Redesigning Work to Unlock Human Potential INVITATION ONLY Chaufferie 0 Over the course of the lunch, the panel will discuss how the world of work is evolving through digital and the needs and expectations of employees and employers in this new environment, including new roles and responsibilities. In addition to exploring the ways of engaging in this new world of work, the session will look at the changing nature of work in a digital world, what skills are and will be required and how will they be developed. Head of Unit, Digital Economy and Skills, European Commission Talent & Organisation Lead BeLux, Accenture Strategy Deputy Head, European Political Strategy Centre Founder & Executive Director, Digital Leadership Institute Managing Director & Chief Economist, Accenture Research Co-Founder & Managing Partner, GraduAid and Student.be. Smart Living 13:00 – 14:00 Designing Smarter Cities Chaufferie -1 The concept of the smart city has been around for a significant period of time. Indeed, the 1960’s US kids’ cartoon The Jestsons portrayed a utopian future city with flying cars, space-age living accommodation and automation on an often comedic and obstructive scale. There is increasingly a narrative developing around the smarter design of the smarter city, one where the Jestsons-like clamour for the future city is dampened and a more considered, sober but no less exciting approach is advocated.
How will digital interact with our future urban environments and how do we make sure to learn from the urban planning mistakes of the past? Chief Strategy Officer, City of Ghent Researcher, International Energy Research Centre, University College of Cork Chief Innovation Officer, Government Office of Estonia Chairman, Forum Europe. Smart Society 13:15 – 13:45 Retelling the Story of Lost Heritage Maison du Bois Stage In this talk Matthew Vincent, Co-Founder of Rekrei, will present Rekrei and discuss how technology can help in retelling the story of lost heritage. Rekrei is a platform for the digital reconstruction of lost heritage through crowdsourcing. Originally launched in 2015 as Project Mosul, the project has since expanded its focus to include global cultural heritage lost by whatever means.
Founded by two archaeologists, the project combines technology and cultural heritage, with the aim of virtual interaction with cultural heritage that has been lost either through human interventions or natural means. Thanks to a collaboration with The Economist Media Lab, Rekrei was able to achieve one of its first goals: the creation of a virtual museum to give people the possibility to experience the Mosul Cultural Museum using some of the models created by the public participation. Now, Rekrei is looking forward and looking to make the retelling of cultural heritage accessible by anyone in the public.
Co-Founder & Developer, Rekrei. Smart Living 13:45 – 14:45 Planes, Trains & Automobiles Arsenal B Glued to your emails? Can’t get enough Netflix? Need to surf 24/7? Connectivity anywhere, anytime - no problem! The collaboration between sectors is reaching its goal: planes, trains and automobiles are all being connected to give you a safer, more productive, entertaining trip. Ride with us through this session to find out more!
Customer Engineer, Hispasat Director, Mobility Solutions, Intelsat Senior Advisor, ESOA Senior Advisor, Inmarsat Connected Car Program. Smart Working 14:15 – 15:15 Invest in Europe! Chaufferie -1 Europe is ripe with entrepreneurial talent and nurturing the environment in which tech businesses can be launched and grown is key for Europe’s competitiveness and prosperity. This session will highlight examples of great European businesses who are scaling up, and analyse the investment climate in which they and others are operating.
Is Europe an attractive place to invest in digital and e- commerce businesses? What are the EU institutions doing to support the European digital eco-system and investment environment? MEP, European Parliament Head of Public Policy, Naspers Founder & President, European Young Innovators Forum Director Public Affairs, Allied for Startups Co-Founder & CEO, Videopath SVP Global Public Affairs, FacilityLive Senior Policy Officer, European Commission.
Smart Society 14:15 – 15:30 Digital Innovation in Public Service: Government as a Platform Chaufferie 0 Practitioners from public administrations across Europe will highlight how they are embedding a “government as a platform approach” to design public policies and implement initiatives to co-create public services that foster sustainable economic growth and social wellbeing. Policy Developer, European Commission Director, Competitiveness and Employment, Paris City Council, France Digital Officer, Digital City of Groningen Innovation Advisor & Cluster Manager, impulse.brussels EU Government Relations Manager, Accenture Programme Manager, Business Service Portal, Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance. Smart Living 14:40 – 15:10 3D Scanning and the Ghosts of Cities' Past Maison du Bois Stage What if there was a forum where past, present and future versions of a city exist simultaneously? Where visions for the future could be experienced at a 1:1 scale and discussed publicly, letting people confront, understand, and contribute to changes in their communities? What if this was possible with a device you are already carrying in your pocket? For designers, low-cost 3D technology is a powerful tool.
For the public, it means proposals for urban development can be assessed as intuitively as the real world. This talk explores how technology can make urban development more inclusive. Architectural Designer, The Palimpsest / Curtis + Ginsberg Architects LLP.
Smart Society 14:45 – 15:30 Digital For Society Arsenal C The Internet has made the world smaller and more connected, yet for many it has also meant less face to face social interaction. But how are innovators reacting to this phenomenon? How can digital platforms be used to bring social benefits? This session will explore fascinating examples of community and human to human interaction, facilitated by digital, that would not otherwise be possible. Co-Founder & CEO, Helpfulpeeps Founder, Be My Eyes Digital Sociologist & Strategist. Smart Living 15:00 – 16:00 The Future of Connectivity - HAPS, Satellite, WiGig Arsenal B Connectivity is undoubtedly the key driver of socio-economic development in the world today. Policymakers across the world are preoccupied with how to propel citizens into the Gigabit Society.
Innovation & new business models are the answer and between them, High Altitude Platforms (HAPS), satellites and WiGig (next generation WiFi) will all be instrumental. Join us for a lively discussion that will open your eyes to today’s most revolutionary technologies and give you the opportunity to exchange with the minds that are shaping the future! We will be on Facebook Live and have live sketching throughout the session. Head of Global Connectivity Policy and Planning, Facebook Programme Director, BluWireless Technology Principal Consultant, Avanti Communications Group. Smart Society 15:30 – 15:50 The People's NSA!
Chaufferie -1 The standard quip is that people don't lack information - they have too much. But with fake news, propaganda, and misinformation being propagated around the world by governments, movements and businesses, it is harder than ever to find the truth. Our traditional gatekeeper, media, has lost its economic model at the same time it is being dragged into the political process some say because it has failed to address the needs of whole classes of voters. A new group of non-profit investigative organizations are seeking to fill the void with credible, non-political information but they face many technical and financial problems. A growing chasm is spreading between governments and wealthy businesses which have lots of sophisticated information tools and the public which have few. Where is this all going?
What is the future of information for the people? OCCRP, a pioneering investigative reporting organization, sees challenging times ahead but proposes a creative solution to the problem: ‘The People's NSA.’ Editor & Co-Founder, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).
Smart Society 15:30 – 17:30 Let's Hack The Law - How to leverage technology to improve law and policy? Maison du Bois Stage Law and policy are often portrayed in the media as an obstacle to the digital revolution. While regulators might struggle to grasp and adapt to the information society, it is time to start looking at the interaction between those spheres from a more creative perspective. Instead of looking at how regulation affects technology, why don't we ask what regulation can learn from technology? Imagine a society where lawyers learn from developers and start working in an open and collaborative way, where regulators learn from innovators and use technological tools to improve transparency or where judges are assisted by artificial intelligence to improve the speed of judicial proceedings. In this workshop, we will show how to leverage technology to improve law and policy. This workshop is hosted by Brussels Legal Hackers.
The Legal Hackers is a global movement of lawyers, policymakers, technologists, and academics spread over more than 50 cities around the world. We explore and develop creative solutions to some of the most pressing issues at the intersection of law and technology. In the other words, we ask how we can apply the hacker ethic to the conservative legal field. Join us to discover the potential of this new perspective and the legal hackathons which have been organized all over the world in the past years. These deal with a wide range of issues from privacy by design to access to justice, from publication of local laws to legal software without forgetting citizens and refugees' rights. Blockchain has even been applied to the old-fashioned contracts! We are doers and this will be reflected in our session by helping you to try 'hacking' the law for yourself in jam sessions.
We will tackle what you care most about whether that is parking tickets, direct democracy, consumer rights, the use of emojis in court, free access to legal information, the contracts of tomorrow or an issue that crosses your mind a few seconds before we start. No prior knowledge required, ideas and an open-mind is all you need. Founder, Brussels Legal Hackers Lawyer, Brussels Legal Hackers Co-Founder, lexnet.io Founder, lexnet.io Founder, Rijeka Legal Hackers. Smart Working 15:45 – 17:00 Digital Innovation in Financial Services: A Game Changer?
Chaufferie 0 Innovation, strategy and digital managers of financial institutions from across Europe will highlight how concretely digital technologies - artificial intelligence, blockchain, social media, Cloud - are changing their organisations’ governance, operating models, users’ engagement strategies and workforce to respond to societal, economic and sustainable expectations. It will also be an opportunity to reflect upon remaining challenges encountered and further requirements to transform financial services organisations. Co-Chair, Fintech Task Force & Adviser for Investment and Company Reporting, European Commission Renewable Energy and Sustainable Economy Expert, ING Belgium Head of International Payments and Collections, BNP Paribas Managing Director, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, Financial Services, Accenture CIO, Belfius Bank. Smart Living 15:45 – 17:15 Startup Workshop Technology for Smarter Societies Arsenal C The Belgium startup ecosystem is slowly but aggressively catching up with other parts of Europe in terms of the number of productive startups that are being formed yearly to build smarter societies.
ICT is an essential ingredient in every smart city project, and to fully benefit from it, collaboration is necessary between field actors. Following outputs from a national study conducted by the Smart City Institute (SCI), the collection, processing, and sharing of data remains a major challenge. Smart cities startups will join the debate to discuss and challenge how working together and collaborating can foster more productivity and better-built technologies. How can they compete while collaborating? What challenges can this pose for beginners? Mature corporations such as Microsoft, Accenture, Google and Amazon are developing partnerships either amongst each other or with other small businesses to advance technological developments.
But as a startup without a very solid position in the marketplace, how can they manage these collaborations while maintaining originality and a competitive edge? Founder & Executive Director, Digital African Woman Co-Founder & Program Director, Digital African Woman Co-Founder, PinWin Founder, RobinFood.store Manager, Business Strategy Practice BeLux, Accenture Strategy Cofounder & Managing Director, CyberWayFinder Senior Policy Officer, European Commission.
Smart Society 15:50 – 16:10 In Defence of Data: What role for data in a post-truth world? Chaufferie -1 Can everything really be subjective? Is it now impossible to separate facts from propaganda? And where might we find ourselves challenged and our opinions shifted? It would appear that while we now have the possibility to access more information than ever before, we are arguably becoming more entrenched in existing views and positions. From a position of strength only a few years ago, data and data driven decision-making is perhaps now in need of a renaissance. In this post-truth, post-expert world, how might hard data and the insights it leads to be re-centred?
Senior Data-Visualisation Journalist, The Financial Times. Smart Living 16:15 – 17:30 A Vision for AI in Europe Arsenal B This panel will look at the economic and societal opportunities and challenges presented by AI and how Europe can take a leadership position in the development and use of AI, both from an economic and public policy perspective. MEP, European Parliament Head of Unit, Robotics & Artificial Intelligence, DG Connect, European Commission Managing Director, Emerging Technology Group, Accenture Founder & CEO, Ubermetrics Technologies Managing Director & Chief Economist, Accenture Research.
Smart Living 17:00 – 20:00 BE.VR and Women in XR Europe Meetup Session Pre-Registration Required Chaufferie -1 Co-hosted by BE.VR - Virtual Reality in Belgium and Women in XR Europe, this Meetup will gather entrepreneurs, enthusiasts and experts who will explore what VR innovation is taking place in Europe and globally, and how these innovations can be transformative. Talks: - Isabel Van De Keere (Immersive Rehab) - Debby Shepard (AltspaceVR) - Samuel Mound (Vcult): Decision-making tools in VR for retailers, real estate developers and HR services - Romain Thomas (Homido): Broadcast tools for 360 video Registrations via. CEO & Founder, Immersive Rehab Co-Founder & CEO, LucidWeb International Market Development, AltspaceVR.
Smart Working 18:00 – 20:00 Brussels Data Science Community Meetup Session Pre-Registration Required Arsenal C The mission of Brussels Data Science Community is to educate, inspire and empower scholars and professionals to apply data sciences to address humanity’s grand challenges. Agenda: - Update of the activities of the community - Gert De Geyter, TEDx Ghent Talk - Understanding the universe by recreating nature's intelligent composition - Leo Exster to summarise what happened during HackBelgium - Announcing DigitYser + open discussion to define priorities Registrations via. Founder, Brussels Data Science Community. Smart Working 18:00 – 22:00 Blockchain.Vlaanderen Meetup Session Pre-Registration Required Arsenal B The Blockchain Vlaanderen Meetup brings together developers, businesses, startups and anyone that doesn't fit in any of the former categories to share their vision, developments and research related to this technology.
Programme: 18:00 Welcome 18:30 Eddy Wagenaar (BlockchainFederation): Hybrid Blockchain: the future or patch of stability 19:00 Karim Grini (Accenture): A Standard Assessment and Testing Framework for Blockchain Technology 19:30 Break 20:00 Dimitri Verhelst (Juru): Identity Solution on the Blockchain 20:30 Raf Ganseman (CGI): There's Music in the Blockchain 21:00 Networking Registrations via. Technology Expert, Accenture Digital Transformation Consultant, CGI CEO & Founder, European Blockchain Federation. Alexander De Croo Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development Cooperation, Digital Agenda, Telecom and Postal Services, Government of Belgium Alexander De Croo is Deputy Prime Minister for Open VLD and Minister of Development Cooperation, Digital Agenda, Telecom and Postal Services in the Michel I Government. As Minister of Development Cooperation, he focuses on strengthening human rights and promoting local economic growth in the partner countries. The Digital Agenda, Telecom and Postal Services portfolio focuses on the maximisation of the economic potential of the digital economy. Tibor Navracsics European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, European Commission Tibor Navracsics holds degrees in law from the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of Budapest's ELTE University and a PhD in political sciences.
In 1999 he became an Associate professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, ELTE. Between 1997–2000, he assumed the position of the Secretary-General of the Hungarian Political Science Association and he was also Head of the Department of the Prime-Minister's Office until 2002. In 2003 he became Chef de Cabinet to the President of the Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union and between 2006–2010 he was an elected Member of Parliament as well as a Member of the Parliamentary Committee for Constitutional, Judicial and Procedural Affairs. He also served as Fidesz National Assembly representative from 2006 until October 2014. Between 2010 and 2014 he was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration and Justice. In 2014 he also assumed the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
In November 2014, Tibor Navracsics became European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport. Kaja Kallas MEP, European Parliament Kaja Kallas is an Estonian politician. She is currently a Member of the European Parliament elected from Estonia and belongs to the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE).
She has previously worked as an attorney-at-law and been a Member of the Parliament of Estonia (Riigikogu), where she chaired the Economic Affairs Committee. She is also Vice-Chairman of the Estonian Reform Party. As an attorney, she specialised in European and Estonian competition law. In the European Parliament, Kaja Kallas serves on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and is Vice-Chair of the Delegation to the EU–Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. She is also a substitute for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) and the Delegation for Relations with the United States. She was a rapporteur for the jointly drafted strategic report 'Towards a Digital Single Market Act' that calls for ambitious action to remove barriers in the digital world as well as to avoid hindering the technological revolution by overregulating the sector.
Jo Deblaere Chief Operating Officer, Accenture Jo Deblaere is Accenture’s chief operating officer, responsible for leading the company’s business operations globally, executing Accenture’s business strategy and ensuring operational excellence company-wide. Deblaere is also group chief executive – Europe with overall leadership responsibility for more than 20 countries. In addition, Mr. Deblaere leads enterprise risk management for Accenture, working across the company to identify, assess and actively manage enterprise risks.
He is a member of Accenture's Global Management Committee and chairs Accenture’s Capital and Investment Committees. Brando Benifei MEP, European Parliament Brando Benifei, 31, European Federalist, is one of the youngest MEPs and is from La Spezia, Italy. He has been chair of European affairs for the Young Democrats and Vice-President of ECOSY (youth organization of PES) for 4 years and was part of the PES working group which originally drafted the European Youth Guarantee.
His main fields of legislative work in the EP are Employment and social affairs and Foreign affairs. He is co-chair of the Youth Intergroup and vice-chair of the Disability Intergroup. Among his parliamentary activities in the Committee of Employment and Social Affairs, he was responsible for key legislative and non-legislative reports on the social inclusion and integration of refugees into the EU labour market; youth employment policy such as the Youth Guarantee and the Youth Employment Initiative. He is very active on digitalisation and innovation, throughout different platforms and networks, most recently specifically on the copyright reform. Anna Sort CEO & Founder, PlayBenefit A nurse with a mission: Make health fun. Passionate about video games and engagement design.
Entrepreneur, blogger and lecturer. Nurse by profession, and a Master’s graduate on Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media with a singular ICT-Health specialisation. Currently leading engagement design projects in a wide range of industries, working as a professor in several international universities (Stanford, Universitat de Barcelona, UAB) and collaborating in Serious Gaming projects and congresses. In 2016 Anna was chosen to be one of the 10 founding members of the Women of Health IT Community, created by HIMSS Europe to empower women in the health IT sector.
Karl-Filip Coenegrachts Chief Strategy Officer, City of Ghent Karl-Filip Coenegrachts is Master of Laws, specialized in European Law. From 1997 to 2000 he worked for the Belgian Ministry of Justice as co-ordinator for the European Union and Schengen. In 2001 he started in Ghent as advisor to the Vice Mayor responsible for personnel and IT. In that capacity he co-founded Digipolis, the intermunicipal organisation for ICT for the cities of Ghent and Antwerp, and Gentinfo, the first local citizen service centre in Europe. In 2004 he became head of Department of Strategy and International Relations of the City of Ghent and Chief Strategy Officer in 2015. His responsibilities include the long term strategy of Ghent including the implementation of horizontal policies, smart city/citizen strategy, data and information management, international relations, policy participation and European funding programmes.
He is currently also Ghent representative and President of the Executive Committee of Eurocities. Robert Pepper Head of Global Connectivity Policy and Planning, Facebook Robert Pepper helps lead Facebook’s connectivity and technology policy activities focusing on new technology development, deployment and adoption. Pepper previously was Cisco’s Vice President for Global Technology Policy for more than a decade, working with governments across the world helping them develop their digital strategies and address areas such as ICT and development, broadband plans, IP enabled services, wireless and spectrum policy, the Internet of Things, security, privacy and Internet governance.
Pepper was Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy and Chief of Policy Development at the FCC for 16 years beginning in 1989 where he led teams designing and implementing the first U.S. Spectrum auctions, developing policies promoting the development of the Internet, implementing telecommunications legislation, and planning for the transition to digital television.
Before joining the FCC, Pepper was Director of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy. His government service also included Acting Associate Administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and initiating a program on Computers, Communications and Information Policy at the National Science Foundation. His academic appointments included faculty positions at the Universities of Iowa, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, and as a research affiliate at Harvard University. He chairs the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy and has served on the board of the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute, the U.S.
Department of Commerce’s Spectrum Management Advisory Committee and the UK’s OFCOM Spectrum Advisory Board. Pepper received his BA. From the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lucilla Sioli Head of Unit, Digital Economy and Skills, European Commission Lucilla Sioli is the Head of the Digital Economy and Skills unit within the Directorate-General Connect. Her unit monitors trends and performance in the digital economy and is responsible for country monitoring in digital in the context of Europe2020, and for the publication of the Digital Agenda Scoreboard. The unit also manages the oversight of the Grand Coalition for Digital Jobs which addresses the impact of ICT on labour markets. She holds a Ph.D.
In economics from the University of Southampton and one from the Catholic University of Milan. Sioli has been a civil servant with the European Commission since 1997. Isabel Van De Keere CEO & Founder, Immersive Rehab Dr Isabel Van De Keere is the CEO and Founder of Immersive Rehab, a Virtual Reality healthtech startup that focuses on the creation and development of interactive environments & games in Virtual Reality that improve the effectiveness of physical & neuro-rehabilitation. Following a long physical rehab period Isabel went through herself due to a work accident, she decided to start Immersive Rehab in September 2016. With a background in Electro-Mechanical Engineering and as a Biomedical Engineering Scientist, Isabel is passionate about healthcare technologies, digital health, immersive technologies (VR/AR) and its applications in healthcare, using tech for good, social entrepreneurship, and promoting women in tech. Leen Segers Co-Founder & CEO, LucidWeb Leen has helped build startups in technology and media for almost ten years.
From evangelising social media to monetising online video, she has experienced the frontlines of the startup world. As the COO of Tech.eu, she helped the company turn a profit within her first year there.
In 2015 she enjoyed her first VR experience and was immediately enchanted by the prospect of a new venture. Convinced that the future of mobile video will be virtual, she founded LucidWeb, a VR and WeBVR consulting and software development company.
Lisa Talia Moretti Digital Sociologist & Strategist Lisa Talia Moretti is an award-winning digital sociologist and strategist with 10 years experience based in London. Over the last decade, she's worked across the entire content lifecycle studying the relationship between technology, brand and audiences for brands like Adobe, IpSoft, Hyatt Hotels, Dulux, Starwood Hotels, IKEA, seventeen magazine and National Geographic. During this time, Lisa has also presented keynotes and run workshops to audiences from a wide range of business backgrounds on the impact, opportunities and challenges of digital technology. Lisa is an Associate Lecturer in the Institute of Management Studies department at Goldsmiths College, University of London and a visiting teacher at Cardiff University and Plymouth University. Her teaching area of expertise is Digital Research Methods. Lisa's research collaborations with Goldsmiths College and IpSoft, Adobe, Mindshare and Rackspace on virtual reality, augmented reality, wearable technology and virtual assistants have gained international coverage with CNN, BBC, Fast Company, Campaign, Techcrunch, Forbes and others.
Tobias Gantner Founder, HealthCare Futurists Tobias is a restless resident of different worlds, a roaming renaissance man: A medical doctor by training, a health economist and jurist by education, a philosophy aficionado by academic passion and curious by default. He has worked in a number of leading positions in patient care and major industry companies such as Siemens, Novartis, Bayer Healthcare and J&J. He is the founder of the HealthCare Futurists network and the Director of the European Center for Patient Centric Innovation and Medical Entrepreneurship which is affiliated with UNU MERIT.
The HealthCare Futurists is an international and independent network, think tank, incubator and catalyst for innovation in health-care, life sciences and medicine. The HCFs consist of renowned experts and thriving professionals of diverse disciplines with a persistent passion for patients. The HCFs have successfully completed innovation labs with major health-care industry companies and health-care providers alike.
They provide guidance to startups and are engaged in medical enlightenment to the public. The HCFs are initiators and home to the innovate.healthcare hackathon. Peter Kerstens Co-Chair, Fintech Task Force & Adviser for Investment and Company Reporting, European Commission Peter Kerstens is Co-Chair of the Fintech Task Force and Adviser to the Director for investment and company reporting at the European Commission's DG for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, focusing on technology transformation and security questions. He is a career official with extensive experience in EU policy and legislation in a range of areas. Prior to his current position, he worked on international financial services regulation, equivalence and financial sector sanctions. From 2008 until 2013 he was Finance Counsellor at the EU Delegation to the USA in Washington DC. Prior to his posting to Washington DC, Mr.
Kerstens was a Member of Internal Market and Services Commissioner Charlie McCreevy's Private Office where he was responsible for services policy and institutional relations. From 2001 until 2004, he was a Member of the Private Office of Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner David Byrne, covering institutional relations for the health and consumer protection portfolio and advising the Commissioner on competition policy, justice and home affairs and economic and monetary policy. Kerstens joined the European Commission in 1996 and also held positions in the Directorate-General for Enterprise and the Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection. Prior to joining the European Commission, he worked as a public affairs consultant in Brussels advising major financial services and direct marketing companies on EU affairs.
Kerstens holds a magna cum laude Master degree in European affairs from the College of Europe in Bruges and a magna cum laude Master degree in political science from the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is a Dutch national.
Andrew Faiola Director, Mobility Solutions, Intelsat Andrew leads the Mobility Solutions sales team in Europe. If it floats, flies, or rolls, we’ve got it covered. Prior to this, Andrew led the European sales team and also led Intelsat’s Global Accounts teams on the Mobility and Broadband side of the business. Prior to joining Intelsat, Andrew was European Sales Director at New Skies Satellites in the UK, and held various sales and marketing roles at ESATEL Communications, a small, independent teleport in the USA. In what seems like another life, he worked in the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), the Embassy of Mexico in Washington, DC, and at NASA, where he conducted project development and implementation work for Latin America and the Asia-Pacific involving the provision of Internet service and remote sensing for environmental purposes. He has also authored publications about the North American DTH market, distance learning in America, U.S.
Foreign policy toward Latin America, and Latin American economic development. He received a BA in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis, and an MA in International Affairs from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. Intelsat S.A. (NYSE: I) is the world’s leading provider of satellite services, delivering high-performance connectivity solutions for media, fixed and mobile broadband infrastructure, enterprise and government and military applications for more than 50 years.
Intelsat’s satellite, teleport and fiber infrastructure is unmatched in the industry, setting the standard for transmissions of video and broadband services. From the globalization of content and the proliferation of HD, to the expansion of cellular networks and mobile broadband access, with Intelsat, envision your future network, connect using our leading satellite technology and transform your opportunities. EnvisionConnectTransformwith Intelsat.
For more information, visit www.intelsat.com. Drew Sullivan Editor & Co-Founder, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) Drew Sullivan is the Editor and Co-Founder of OCCRP and served as its first director. He founded and is Executive Director of the Journalism Development Network, an innovative media development organization with programs worldwide. He has served on the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors and the National Institute for Computer Assisted Reporting. Prior to establishing OCCRP, he founded the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIN) in Bosnia and Herzegovina and served as its director and editor. As a journalist and editor, his teams have been awarded the European Press Prize, Global Shining Light Awards, Daniel Pearl Awards; the Online Journalism Award for investigative reporting; the Tom Renner Award recognising outstanding crime and corruption reporting and many other international awards. He has spearheaded investment in technology as a means to innovate and revolutionize investigative journalism.
Before becoming a journalist, he was an aerospace engineer on the Space Shuttle Project for Rockwell International Space Systems. Juan Arregui Mc Gullion Policy Developer, European Commission Mr Mc Gullion joined the European Commission in 2004.
Since 2010, he works for the Communications Networks, Content & Technology Directorate General (DG CNECT) in the unit responsible for Public Services. Prior, he worked in the Strategy and Policy unit of the same Directorate General.
Before joining the EC, he worked as liaison to the Brussels representations of two English regions: North of England and Lancashire, fostering communication between EU authorities and constituents in the UK region focusing on funding opportunities, policy developments and raising the profile of the region in the Brussels scene. Tommy Vandepitte Lawyer, Brussels Legal Hackers Tommy is a self-employed in-house lawyer with a keen interest in technology and financial law. An alumnus of the KULeuven, he started as a trainee attorney. Attracted to the early implementation of the law rather than litigation, he soon switched to in-house. His longest employment was with KBC where he first worked in the legal department and then as (first) data protection officer in the compliance department. Nowadays he freelances, generally in the financial sector.
Fabrizio Porrino SVP Global Public Affairs, FacilityLive Expert advisor to key decision makers such as CEOs, Commissioners, Ministers and Presidents in the areas of ICT, innovation, startup, tech and policy-making. Today in his role as SVP Global Public Affairs, Fabrizio is responsible for the global positioning of FacilityLive: 'The European Search Platform of the Future”. Fabrizio is a regular speaker at international events and he is often invited as an External Expert by various EU Institutions. Fabrizio fulfills other roles such as Brussels Ambassador of Startup Europe India Network, Member of the Steering Group and Skills Issue Leader of European Tech Alliance (acting also as a Spokesperson during the launch at the European Parliament in Strasbourg in 2015), Member of the Steering Committee of the European Business Summit, Board Member of the European e-Skills Association.
He is also co-founder and VP of Digit@lians - the professional network of Italians working in ICT. Also, Fabrizio is a former Board Member of ANITEC (the Italian Association of ICT services and technologies Member of Confindustria and Board Member of DIGITALEUROPE). Before joining FacilityLive, Fabrizio worked for the Think Tank of the European Parliament, for the European Commission, and for Yahoo! In Dublin and in California.
He is an Alumni of the College of Europe in which he attended after being awarded a scholarship by the Italian Government. His master thesis on 'Web Search Engines and Sponsored Links: A Tale of Two-sided Markets?” was one of the first dissertations produced on the topic, and is currently available at the College of Europe's library. Sara Colantonio Researcher & Project Coordinator, Semeoticons / ISTI-CNR Sara Colantonio is currently a Researcher at the Institute of Information Science and Technology “A. Faedo” of the Italian National Research Council (ISTI-CNR) in Pisa, as a member of the “Signals and Images” Lab. Her academic career started with a M.Sc.
Degree (Hons.) in Computer Science and a Ph.D. Degree in Information Engineering, both from the University of Pisa.
In 2008 and 2009, she received a grant funded by FINMECCANICA for investigation in the field of diagnostic imaging. Her research interests also include machine learning, image understanding, decision support theory, and personal informatics. She has co-authored over 70 scientific papers, and worked in several national and international projects. She conceived and coordinated the EU FP7 Project SEMEOTICONS, whose main outcome is a smart mirror, called Wize Mirror, for self-monitoring individuals’ risk of cardio-metabolic diseases.
Cheryl Miller Founder & Executive Director, Digital Leadership Institute Cheryl Miller is CEO of Zen Digital Europe and Founder and Executive Director of the Digital Leadership Institute, a Brussels-based, international NGO whose global mission is to bridge the gender gap and digital divide worldwide by educating and empowering digital leaders of today and tomorrow. Cheryl is a serial social entrepreneur with twenty years of international experience in the tech and ICT sectors, and her work to promote ESTEAM (entrepreneurship, science, technology, engineering, arts & mathematics) and leadership to youth and women has been recognised by the United Nations, European Parliament and European Commission. She is consulted worldwide as an expert on topics related to digital inclusion, digital literacy, gender equality, youth and female leadership, and education and entrepreneurship, particularly in STEM fields. Philippe Van Impe Founder, Brussels Data Science Community Philippe Van Impe is a Founding Partner of the Brussels Data Science Community, a large open community of specialists in data and business. The community's activities aim to bridge the gap between businesses and academia, through regular meetups, training and ‘Data for Good’ projects, where members contribute their skills to work on projects with NGO’s, public institutions and start-ups. Philippe is also the Founder of the European Data Innovation Hub, which connects and supports data professionals throughout Europe to share and discuss best practices in open data, big data and data innovation.
Philippe is a Social Entrepreneur simultaneously pursuing both a financial & a social return on investment. Roman Miletitch Founder, OpenTechSchool Brussels PhD student in Artificial Intelligence, award winning digital artist, founder of OpenTechSchool Brussels (opentechschool.org/brussels), lead community manager of Hack League (hackleague.io) and event planner (foodandcode.com). Roman is a Jack of all trades and thrives on applying what he learned from one field to another. Coding from roofs, subways or abandoned buildings, he’s always eager to explore the creative possibilities of this digital medium. Khadijat Zahrah Abdulkadir Founder & Executive Director, Digital African Woman Khadijat Abdulkadir is the Founder and Executive Director of Digital African Woman, a social enterprise focused on developing tech startups across Africa and Diaspora.
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Currently a Master candidate in Business Engineering and Management Science from Solvay Brussels school of Economics and Management, Khadijat also holds a double Bachelor of Science degree in Anthropology and Environmental Science. A certified SAP Business Consultant and ABAP programmer with experiences from corporations such as Aramark, Accenture and Microsoft USA. She has held several positions including, Environmental Program Analyst, IT Program Manager and SAP Business Analyst. In her Passion for Business development, Khadijat has acquired experiences training over 600 hundred startups across Africa and Europe, equipping them with specialized training to build and scale sustainably across various markets especially within Africa. She is most passionate about empowering young women with the technology skills and tools necessary to be fully active innovators and entrepreneurs in the 21st century.
She focuses her projects on entrepreneurship, innovation and access for women especially in Sub-Sahara Africa. Through Digital African Woman, Khadijat serves as the country manager and Belgian representative for the Startup Europe Awards. Her work has been featured in Forbes USA, Tropics Magazine SA, and People Centered Internet- Silicon Valley. Long Pham Researcher, International Energy Research Centre, University College of Cork Long Pham is a researcher of the International Energy Research Centre, University College Cork since January 2014, after spending more than five years with IBM in Vietnam. Her focus is on resident engagement for smart city programs, local policy development and regulation for technology adoption.
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Apart from her research work, Long works on UCC’s internationalisation strategy, bringing the educational institutions in Vietnam and Ireland closer in research collaboration and student recruitment. She utilises her strong and well-connected networks with Vietnamese country leaders to meet goals for UCC and Ireland as a whole, especially in the education sector. Long was an executive at IBM’s Governmental Programs for over five years and worked closely with Vietnamese and American governments on technology and free trade policies at all stages, including the formation of policies, drafting legal documents, and revising and evaluating the final documents. While being in I.
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