Webit.Festival Europe 2018 | Webit Foundation | 25 June 2018 | Arena Armeec, Sofia, bul. "Asen Yordanov" 1, 1113 БАН IV km., Sofia

Webit.Festival Europe is the leading event for digital economy and technology in Europe with special focus on the Central and Eastern Europe and the untapped potential of the region. The event gathers 5100+ people from over 90 countries.

2018 Speakers:

H.E. Boyko Borisov
Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria; Rotating President, Council of the European Union

Mariya Gabriel
Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society, European Commission

Tawakkol Karman
Nobel Prize winner, Nobel Peace Prize

Yordanka Fandakova
Mayor of Sofia

Maurice Levy
Chairman & CEO of Publicis Groupe

Sophia
Hanson Robotics Limited

Edna Conway
Chief Security Officer, Cisco

Iliyana Tsanova
Deputy Managing Director, European Fund for Strategic Investment

Matt Brittin
President, EMEA, Google

Ekaterina Zaharieva
Deputy Prime Minister for Judicial Reform and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria

Mounir Mahjoubi
Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, France

Pat Breen
Minister for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection, Ireland

Lilyana Pavlova
Minister for the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2018

Daniel Bahr
Member of the Board of Allianz Private Health Insurance, Germany; Former Federal Minister of Health in Germany

Sharan Burrow
General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation

Plamen Russev
Founder & Chairman, Webit Foundation

Jim Green
Senior Vice President, Salesforce

Esther Wojcicki
Founder, Palo Alto High Media Arts Center

Yonov Frederick Agah
Deputy Director-General, World Trade Organisation

Mari Kiviniemi
Deputy Secretary-General, OECD, United Nations

Ralph Simon
Chief Executive & Founder of Mobilium Global

Bogomil Balkansky
Vice President, Google

Carl Bildt
Chair, Global Commission on Internet Governance

Catherine Carlton
Mayor elect (2014 and 2015) Menlo Park City, Silicon Valley

Brian Behlendorf
Executive Director, Hyperledger

Juraj Vaculik
CEO, Aeromobil

Andrew Tsao
Managing director, Silicon Valley Bank

Pilar del Castillo Vera
Member of the European Parliament

Simon P. Worden
Chairman, Breakthrough Prize Foundation

Emma McClarkin
Member of the European Parliament

Eva Maydell (Paunova)
Member of the European People's Party Group, European Parliament

Răzvan Popa
Member of the European Parliament

Gal Luft
Co-Director, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security

Delphine Leroy
Policy Officer, European Commission

François Chopard
Founder & CEO, Starburst

Dr. Joseph (Yossi) Vardi

Gergana Passy
Founding President of the Digital National Alliance

Karel Obluk
General Partner, Evolution Equity Partners

Zen Chu
Founder, Accelerated Medical Ventures; Faculty Director, Hacking Medicine Institute & MIT Healthcare Ventures

Enrico Salvatori
Senior Vice President and President EMEA, Qualcomm

Rumyana Trencheva
Managing Director, SAP South-East Europe

Prof. Shafi Ahmed
Consultant Surgeon & Co-founder, Virtual Medics & Medical Realities

Eugene Borukhovich
Global Head of Digital Health Innovation, Bayer

Igor Beuker
Speaker, Publicist, Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor

Daphna Steinmetz
CTO & EVP, Strategy & Innovation GM, EMEA, Digital Turbine

Stanislav Georgiev
Head of Media Broadcasting, A1 Telekom Austria Group

Mark Val
Founder & CEO, ARX

Johann Stan
European Patent Office

Sheree Atcheson
UK Expansion Director, Women Who Code

Andreas Winiarski
Partner, Earlybird Venture Capital

Robert C. Wolcott
Founder & Executive Director, Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN)

Chris Clarke
Chief Creative Officer, DigitasLBi

Francesca Bria
Chief Technology and Digital Innovation Officer, City of Barcelona

Rick Tumlinson
Co-founder and Chair of the Board, Deep Space Industries

Floris van de Klashorst
SVP, Digital Products and Services, Volkswagen Group

David Hanson
Founder and CEO, Hanson Robotics Limited

Cristina De Juan
CEO & Founder, imtinnovation.com

Federico Flórez Gutierrez
Chief Information & Innovation Officer, Ferrovial

Jean-Philippe Aumasson
Principal Research Engineer, Kudelski Security

Rami Essaid
Co-Founder, Distil Networks

Liliana Reasor
Venture Capital Investor & CEO, Novus Ordo Capital

Ton Van't Noordende
Tech investor, IIR StartupDelta, Founder EDT Foundation.

Elena Petrova
International Business Development Executive, A1 Telekom Austria AG

Raphael Crouan
Founder & CEO, Startupbootcamp IoT Program

Michel Adam
President and CEO, FashionTV.

Paul Dowling
Co-founder & CEO, Dreamstake; Co-founder, HoxTech Angels

Aniela Russeva
Webit.Foundation

Richard Browning
Founder, Gravity

Patrick van der Smagt
Director of AI Research, Volkswagen Group

Saskia Steinacker
Vice President, Digital Excellence, Bayer

Angelo Marino
Head, Safeguarding Secure Society at Research Executive Agency, EU Commission

Maurizio Rossi
Founder CoCEO, H-FARM

Irena Komitova
Managing Partner, Creative Solutions

Benoist Grossmann
Managing Director, Idinvest Partners

Nicolas Verschelden
Head of Digital Innovation, Anheuser-Busch InBev

Thimo Schmitt-Lord
Executive Director and Head, Bayer Foundations

Lara Comi
Member of the European Parliament

Monica Monaco
Founder and Managing Director, TrustEuAffairs

Chris 'Kubby' Kubbernus
Founder & CEO at Kubb&co

Dr. Woojin Kim
Chief Medical Information Officer at the Healthcare Division of Nuance Communications

Tsahi Liberman
VP Foreign Affairs, GameIS

Sonya Richardson
President, PWN Global

Anna Radulovski
Founder and CEO, Coding Girls

Sridhar Iyengar
CEO, Elemental Machines

Ger Baron
Chief Technology Officer, City of Amsterdam

Rositsa Zaimova
Co-Founder, Dalberg Data Insights

Pearse O'Donohue
Director, Future Networks, European Commission, DG CONNECT

Martin Wezowski
Chief Designer & Futurist, SAP

Eddy Hartog
Head of Unit Smart Mobility and Living, European Commission

Nigel Ackland
An Ordinary Man

Jelena Djokovic
National Director, Novak Djokovic Foundation

Nitin Gaur
Director, IBM Blockchain Labs

Monique Morrow
President and Co-Founder, The Humanized Internet

Lieke van Kerkhoven
Co-founder, FLOOW2 Healthcare

Jon Soberg
8VC

Ashish Gadnis
Co-founder/investor, banquapp

Mariya Filipova
Associate Director, Deloitte Global Innovation

Lila Stavropoulou
Business Consultant and a Corporate Communication Scientist

Laurence Ainouz
CEO, Health:Augmented

Matt Lowe
CEO and founder of performance-io and CMO @ Artmatr

Duarte Cordeiro
Vice Mayor of Lisboa

John Nosta
Founder of Nostalab

Caritta Seppa
COO and Co-Founder, Tespack

Patrick Barwise
Emeritus professor of management and marketing, London Business School

Victor Savevski
Chief Digital Officer at Humanitas Healthcare Group

Jaya Baloo
CISO, KPN Telecom

Karel Lannoo
Chief executive, CEPS

Oluwatoyin A. Subair
Executive Chairman, Digital Play Limited

Hila Cohen
International Business Development Lead, Innovation Accelerator at World Food Programme

Yves Leterme
Secretary General – IDEA, Former Prime Minister of Belgium

Shaukat Shamim
Founder & CEO, Youplus

Tjaša Zajc
Digital Health Researcher, Business Developer, Iryo

Stefan Piech
CEO, Your Family Entertainment AG

Michele Mosca
Founder of the Institute for Quantum Computing

Matthias Settele
General Director, TV Markiza

Chris Dziadul
Co-founder and co-owner, Broadband TV News

Dobromira Boyadjieva
Senior Manager, Arthur D. Little’ TIME practice

Ethan Pierse
Partner, Borderless Ventures

Berk Uziyel
Executive Director, SPI International

Giorgia Zunino
Scientific Director Hedux.org - Strategic Project Manager ASL ROMA1

Bill Wijdeveld
Vice President Business Development, M7 Group

Alexander Renz
Managing Partner, New Mobility Consulting

Reinhard Bütikofer
Member of the European Parliament

Frederic Llordachs-Marqués
Founer, Doctoralia

Alessandro Rotilio
Inventor, Founder and CEO, Endosight

Dr. Sandeep Bansal
Founder and CEO, Medic Creations

Marika Mazzi Boém
Co-founder, the Lean in EU Women Business Angels

Sabine VanderLinden
CEO for the InsurTech Business, Startupbootcamp

Cyrille Najjar
CEO, Sensio Air

Yuri Lobyntsev
Co-founder and CTO, Cindicator

Dr. Vishal Nangalia
Founder MedicalandMe, Consultant Anaesthetist and Medical Machine Learning Ninja

Lorena Macnaughtan

Sophia Swire
Award winning Social Entrepreneur and Senior Business Development Adviser

Akash Gaurav
Blockchain Entrepreneur | CEO, Auxesis Group

Eric Klinker
President and Chief Executive Officer at BitTorrent Inc.

Jeffrey Puritt
President and CEO, TELUS International

Javier Perez
President, MasterCard Europe

Andrew Ng
Chief Scientist of Baidu; Chairman and Co-founder of Coursera

Justin Kan
Founder of Twitch & Justin.tv; Partner at Y Combinator

Mark Shuttleworth
Founder of Ubuntu and Canonical

Nicolas Cary
Co-founder, Blockchain

Gareth Williams
Founder & CEO, Skyscanner

Jason Jercinovic
President & Global Brand Director, Havas Worldwide

Mariano A. Bosaz
Global Digital Director, The Coca-Cola Company

Paul Misener
VP, Global Innovation Policy and Communications, Amazon

Raja Rajamannar
Chief Marketing Officer, Mastercard Worldwide

Sridhar Iyengar
CEO, Elemental Machines

Gary Shapiro
President & CEO, Consumer Electronics Association

Bernd Heinrichs
Managing Director IoT EMEAR, Cisco

Martin Woolley
Technical Program Manager, Bluetooth SIG

Prof. Moran Cerf
Prof. of Neuroscience and Business, Kellogg School of Management

Prof. Shafi Ahmed
Consultant Surgeon & Co-founder, Virtual Medics & Medical Realities

Dr. Lisa Latts
Deputy Chief Health Officer for IBM Watson Health

Dr. Clemens Suter-Crazzolara
VP Product Management for Health and Precision Medicine, SAP

Christoph Auer-Welsbach
Partner, IBM Ventures

Praveen Paranjothi
VC investor, European Investment Fund

Bruce Aust
Vice Chairman, NASDAQ

Dmitry Chikhachev
Co-founder & Managing Partner, Runa Capital

Jambu Palaniappan
Regional General Manager EEMEA, Uber

Dirk Ahlborn
CEO, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies

Frank Salzgeber
Head of Technology Transfer Programme Office, European Space Agency (ESA)

Sohaila Ouffata
Investment Principal BMW i Ventures

Malcolm Johnson
Deputy Secretary General, ITU

Kristalina Georgieva
CEO, World Bank

John Higgins
Director General, Digital Europe

Hila Cohen
Private Sector Partnerships Lead, Innovation Accelerator at World Food Programme

Luisella Giani
Digital Director EMEA, Oracle

Amr Salem
Global Managing Director for Smart Cities, Internet of Everything, Cisco Systems

Julie Alexander
Director, Urban Development, Siemens

Manon Jutte
Strategist Energy Transition, Alliander

Yordanka Fandakova
Mayor of Sofia

Ljubo Bešlić
Mayor, Mostar

Prof. Flavia Marzano
City Councillor for Roma Semplice, Rome

Hermano Sanches Ruivo
Councilor and Member of the Paris Agency for Development

Rumen Radev
President of Bulgaria

Binali Yildirim
Prime Minister Turkey

Dr. Wan Gang
Minister of Science and Technology, The People's Republic of China

Andrus Ansip
Vice President European Comission

Rossen Plevneliev
President Bulgaria (2012-2017)

Ilias Iakovidis
Adviser in DG Connect, EU Commission

Kaspar Korjus
e-Residency Program Director, Enterprise Estonia

General Dr. V.K. Singh
Hon'ble Minister of State, INDIA

2018 Partners

GENERAL PARTNER
• MasterCard

STRATEGIC MEDIA PARTNERS
• NetInfo
• Nova

ORGANIZERS
• Eacademy
• Webit Foundation