ICT 2018 Digital Assembly | European Commission | 4 December 2018 | Austria Center, Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1, 1220 Wien, Austria

The conference programme of the 2018 edition will feature 6 plenary sessions on topics such as Artificial Intelligence, Next Generation Internet, Digital Skills and High-Performance Computing. Speakers from policy circles, academia, civil society and industry will highlight their perspectives and priorities, and discuss how each can contribute to the successful digital transformation of Europe.

2018 Speakers

Shadi Abou-Zahra
Accessibility Strategy and Technology Specialist, Web Accessibility Initiative (Wai), World Wide Web Consortium (W3c) - France

Jean-françois Abramatic
Emeritus Senior Scientist, Inria - France

Pekka Ala-Pietilä
On the Board of Sap, Member of the High Level Group on Artificial Intelligence

Markus Aspelmeyer
Professor, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna - Austria

Jacob Bangsgaard
Ceo, Ertico - Belgium

Alessandro Bogliolo
Professor, Dispea, University of Urbino - Italy

Lorena Boix Alonso, Acting Director for Policy Strategy&outreach, Dg Connect, European Commission - Belgium

Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl
Director General, Digitaleurope - Belgium

Michał Boni
Member of the EP, European Parliament - Belgium

Mustapha Bouraoui
Vice President Strategic Marketing, Emea, Stmicroelectronics - France

Francesca Bria
Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Barcelona City, Barcelona City Council - United Kingdom

Nicolas Brien
Executive Director, France Digitale - France

Joanna Bryson
Associate Professor / Reader, Computer Science, University of Bath - United Kingdom

Jacques Bughin
Senior Partner at Mckinsey - Director of the Mckinsey Global Institute, Mckinsey - Belgium

Gabriele Bulgarini
General Manager, Single Quantum - Netherlands

Claire Bury
Deputy Director-general, Dg Connect, European Commission - Belgium

Giovanni Carrada
Author / Science Writer, Rai – Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.a - Italy

Pierre Chehwan
Project Director, Navya - France

Daniela Corda
Dr., Institute of Protein Biochemistry, Italian National Research Council - Italy

João Correia Neves, Secretary of State for Economy, Ministry of Economy - Portugal

Silvia Costa
Mep, European Parliament

Teresa Cunha
Mtconsulting - Portugal

Mariana Damova
Ceo, Business Development, Mozaika - Bulgaria

Bernd Datler
Managing Director, Asfinag Maut Service Gmbh - Austria

Madeleine De Cock Buning
Chair of the Board of Commissioners at the Dutch Media Authority, Commissariaat Voor De Media / Dutch Media Authority - Netherlands

Gerard De Graaf
Director for the Digital Single Market, Directorate-general Communications Networks, Content & Technology, European Commission

Jean-luc Di Paola-Galloni
Group Corporate Vice President, Sustainable Development & External Affairs, Valeo - France

Dermot Diamond
Professor, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City University - Ireland

Andrzej Dopierała
President of Asseco Data Systems Mnagement Board, Management Board, Asseco Data Systems - Poland

Shiva Dustdar
Head of Division Innovation Finance Advisory, Advisory Services Department, European Investment Bank - Luxembourg

Kristina Edstrom
Professor, Department of Chemistry - Angstrom Laboratory, Uppsala University - Sweden

Tryggvi Edwald
Chief, Automatic Processing Systems Section, International Data Centre Division, Comprehensive Nuclear Test-ban Treaty Organization - Austria

Pia Erkinheimo
Chairman of the Board, Solved - the Sustainability Company - Finland

Dario Floreano
Professor, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Epfl - Switzerland

Juergen Furian
Founder of Pioneers.io

Mariya Gabriel
Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, European Commission

Patrick Gatellier
Thales - France

Maarten Goos
Professor, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University - Netherlands

Ulrich Grabenwarter
Head of Investments Technology & Innovation, European Investment Fund

Thomas Hahn
Chief Software Expert, Ct Rda Ces, Siemens Ag - Germany

Henri Hakamo
Chief Digital Officer, Tesi

Christopher Haley
Head of New Technology and Startup Research, Nesta - United Kingdom

Laurent Herault
Vp European Affairs, Leti, Cea - France

Tom Hinton
Head of Issuer Services, Capital Markets, London Stock Exchange - United Kingdom

Norbert Hofer
Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology, Federal Government of Austria

Ruth Houbertz
Ceo & Managing Director, Multiphoton Optics Gmbh - Germany

Tomi Ilijaš, Ceo, Hpc, Arctur - Slovenia

Willem Jonker
Ceo, Eit Digital - Netherlands

Eva Kaili
Member of the European Parliament, European Parliament - Greece

Dipak Kalra
President, The European Institute for Innovation Through Health Data - Belgium

Robert Kałuża
Co-founder, Coo, Billon - Poland

Gerti Kappel
Prof. Dr., Institute of Information Systems Engineering, Tu Wien - Austria

Gail Kent
Director, Directorate-general Communications Networks, Content & Technology (Dg Connect), European Commission - Luxembourg

Yasir Khokhar
Ceo and Founder of Connecterra, Connecterra - Netherlands

Ulrike Kleifeld
Vp Strategy, Global Public Services, Sap

Joanna Koper
Head of Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit, Perspektywy Education Foundation - Poland

Helen Köpman
Deputy Head of Unit Digital Innovation & Blockchain, Dg Connect - Digital Single Market - Digital Innovation & Blockchain, European Commission - Belgium

Sabine Köszegi
Professor of Labor Science and Organization, Chair of the Austrian Robotics Council, Institute of Management Science, Vienna University of Technology - Austria

Carlos Kuchkovsky
Head of Research & Development, New Digital Business, Bbva - Spain

Kristjan Kuhi
Chief Architect, Wepower Network - Estonia

Miguel Angel Lagunas
Director, Director, Cttc - Spain

Laure Le Bars
Research Project Director, Sap Research & Innovation, Sap - France

Sophie Lecheler
Professor of Political Communication, Department of Communication, University of Vienna - Austria

Ana Teresa Lehmann
Secretary of State for Industry of the Portuguese Government, Secretary of State for Industry, Portuguese Government - Portugal

Max Lemke
Head of Unit for Technologies and Systems for Digitising Industry, Dg Connect, European Commission

Stefanie Lindstaedt
Technical University of Graz

Helmut List
Chairman and Ceo, Avl List

Vittorio Loreto
Full Professor, Sony Computer Science Laboratories - Paris - France

Kęstutis Lukoševičius
Founder and Strategy Consultant, Administration, Uab Baltled - Lithuania

Bruno Maisonnier
Founder & Ceo, Anotherbrain - France

Darko Manakovski
Head of Scandinavia, Global Development, Rare - Sweden

Alexandra Maniati
Senior Policy Adviser, Cybersecurity & Social Affairs, European Banking Federation - Belgium

Alexios Mantzarlis
Director, International Fact-checking Network @ Poynter - United States of America

Wolfgang Marquardt
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Forschungszentrum Jülich - Germany

Ricardo Marvao
Co-founder & Head of Education, Education, Beta-i - Portugal

Julie Maupin
Director of Social Impact & Public Regulatory Affairs, Social Impact & Regulatory Affairs, Iota Foundation - Germany

Angelika Mlinar
Mep, Alde Group, European Parliament - Austria

Sorin Moisă, Member of the European Parliament, Committee on International Trade, European Parliament - Romania

Wilhelm Molterer
Managing Director, European Fund for Strategic Investments, European Investment Bank - Luxembourg

Catelijne Muller
President, President, Allai Nederland - Netherlands

Silvana Muscella
Founder & Ceo, Trust-it Services & Chair 2nd Eosc Hleg - Italy

Raju Narisetti
Professor of Professional Practice & Director of Knight-bagehot Fellowships at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University - United States of America

Egle Nemeikstyte
Ceo, Blockchain Centre Vilnius - Lithuania

Pearse O'Donohue
Director for Future Networks, Dg Connect, European Commission

Barry O'sullivan, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University College Cork - Ireland

Lauri Oksanen
VP Research and Technology, Nokia Bell Labs - Finland

Jonas Onland
Programleader Digital Transformation, City of Eindhoven - Netherlands

Robert Overweg
Creative Director / Lead Concept and Innovation, Concept & Creation, Triple - Netherlands

Minna Palmroth
Professor, Director, Department of Physics, University of Helsinki - Finland

Maria Palombini
Director of Initiative and Opportunities Development, Global Business Strategy & Intelligence, Ieee Standards Association - United States of America

Irini Papadimitriou
Creative Director, Futureeverything - United Kingdom

Giovanni Pau
Atos/renault Chair Professor, Lip6 - Npa, Sorbonne Université - France

Nemanja Petrovic
Cbdo at Solelos, Business Development, Solelos - Serbia

Steve Phillips
Secretary-general, Cedr - Belgium

Dr. Stefan Poledna
Member of the Executive Board, Tttech Computertechnik Ag - Austria

Antonis Polemitis
Chief Executive Officer, Chief Executive Officer, University of Nicosia - Cyprus

Johan Pouwelse
Professor, Computer Science, Delft University of Technology - Netherlands

Thijs Povel
Partner, Heads Capital - Switzerland

Anand Prasad
Chief Advanced Technologist, Nec Corporation - Japan

Francesco Profumo
President, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Italy

Kai Rannenberg
Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security at Goethe University Frankfurt - Germany

Jesper Rasmussen
Flight Standards Director, Flight Standards, Easa - Germany

Teodora Raychinova
Digital Policy Consultant, Hanover Communications - Belgium

Marie Redmond
Professor Università Ca' Foscari, Dipartimento Di Studi Umanistici, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia - Italy

Andreas Reichhardt
Secretary-general, Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology

Markus Reinisch
Vice President, Public Policy Europe and Middle East and Africa, Facebook - United Kingdom

Selma Rizvic
Associate Professor, Department for Computer Science and Informatics, University of Sarajevo - Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lula Rosso
Eu Affairs Manager, Vtt Technical Research Centre of Finland - Finland

Andrei Roth
Campus Manager, Management, Uipath Inc. - Romania

Khalil Rouhana
Deputy Director-general, Dg Communications Networks, Content & Technology, European Commission - Belgium

Paul Rübig, Member of European Parliament, European Parliament - Austria

Marko Russiver
Founder & Ceo of Guaana, Guaana - Estonia

Ramona Samson
Deputy Head of Unit, Dg Research & Innovation, European Commission - Belgium

Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli
The Edgar L. And Harold H. Buttner Chair of Eecs, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley - United States of America

Pedro Santos
Head of Competence Center, Cultural Heritage Digitization, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (Igd) - Germany

Ingolf Schädler
Deputy Director-general, Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology

Margarete Schramböck
Federal Minister for Digital and Economic Affairs, Austria

Miri Segal
Artist, Head of the Postgraduate Fine Arts Program, Faculty of Arts - Hamidrasha, Beit Berl Academic College - Israel

Katrina Sichel
Md, Wit and Word Communications Sprl - Belgium

Nina-luisa Siedler
Partner at Dwf, a Technology-oriented Global Law Firm, and Head of the International Blockchain Competence Group., Dwf - Germany

Erin Simpson
Civil Society Lead, Computational Propaganda Research Group, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford - United States of America

Lucilla Sioli
Director, Directorate for Digital Industry, European Commission - Belgium

Michela Spagnuolo
Research Director, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technology, National Research Council (Cnr) - Italy

Despina Spanou
Director for Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity, Dg Connect, European Commission

Maria Spyraki
Member of the European Parliament, European Parliament

Petr Šrámek, Management Director, Ai Startup Incubator - Czech Republic

Danielius Stasiulis
Chairman and Founder, Startup Division, Startup Division - Lithuania

Paul Stefanut
Business & Innovation Director, Business & Innovation, Opticsvalley - France

Gerfried Stocker
Managing and Artistic Director, Ars Electronica Linz Gmbh & Co Kg - Austria

Patrizia Toia
European Parliament

Krisztina Toth
Director of Corporate Affairs, Europa Media Non-profit Ltd. - Hungary

Jane Treadwell
Practice Manager, Digital Development, World Bank Group - United States of America

Catherine Treherne-Thomas
Business Development Manager, Venture Capital, Outlier Ventures - United Kingdom

Ilkka Tuomi
Chief Scientist, Oy Meaning Processing Ltd. - Finland

Mateo Valero
Director, Direction, Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Spain

Aleksander Valjamae
Associated Professor, Department of Digital Technologies, Tallinn University - Estonia

Gintaras Vilda
Vice-minister, Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania - Lithuania

Ondrej Vlcek
President for Consumer Business, Avast - Czech Republic

Frantisek Vrabel
Ceo, Semantic Visions - Czech Republic

Stephanie Wehner
Professor, Qutech, Delft University of Technology - Netherlands

Dirk Werner
Director, Head of Information and Communication Technologies, Information and Communication Technologies, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - United Kingdom

Christiane Woopen
Chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies and Executive Director at Ceres, University of Cologne - Germany

Mabito Yoshida
Director-general, Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan - Japan

Gillian Youngs
Professor of Creative and Digital Economy and Dean of Arts and Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University, Uk, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church University - United Kingdom

Tatjana Zabasu Mikuž
Managing Partner, South Central Ventures - Croatia

Sergio Zazzera
Vice President Eni Technical Computing for Geosciences and Subsurface Operations, Exploration, Eni Spa - Italy

Peteris Zilgalvis
Head of Unit, Dg Connect, European Commission, Cnect, European Commission - Latvia