AWARDS CEREMONY DEDICATED TO WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS, WOMEN INVESTORS AND WOMEN LED VCS

Speakers for this event

• Jara Pascual

  Jara Pascual

  Founder and CEO, knowco by collabwith

  Founder and CEO, knowco by collabwith

• Karen Melchior

  Karen Melchior

  Member of the European Parliamne, Renew Europe, Denmark

  Member of the European Parliamne, Renew Europe, Denmark

• Lina Gálvez Muñoz

  Lina Gálvez Muñoz

  Member of the European Parliament, S&D, Spain

  Lina Gálvez Muñoz is a Member of the European Parliament since July 2019. In the EP, she is Vice-chair of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and member of the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA). She also belongs to the committees on Employment and Social Affairs and Women's Rights and Gender Equality. Lina Gálvez Muñoz PhD, European University Institute (Florence) is Economic History and Institutions Full Professor at the Economics Department at Pablo Olavide University (Seville). She has also been professor at the Universities of Reading (Reading), Carlos III (Madrid), and as a visiting professor at Centre for time use research at Oxford University (Oxford). She has more than hundred scientific publications and she has also been Vice-Rector of her university from 2007 to 2012 and served as Regional Minister of Knowledge, Research and University of the Government of Andalusia from 2018 to 2019.

  Member of the European Parliament, S&D, Spain

• Maria da Graça Carvalho

  Maria da Graça Carvalho

  MEP, EPP, Portugal

  Maria da Graça Carvalho is currently member of the European Parliament (2019-2024). In the European Parliament she is a full Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and a substitute Member on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) and substitute member on Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM). She follows as well the parliamentary Delegations for relations with the United States, for relations with the countries of Central America and Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. As a MEP, she was appointed rapporteur of the Specific Programme Implementing HORIZON 2020 and of the report on Simplification of the Rules of Participation in the European Programs for Research and Innovation. In 2011, she was awarded the Prize for the best MEP in the area of Research and Innovation.

  MEP, EPP, Portugal

• Mariya Gabriel

  Mariya Gabriel

  EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, and Youth

  Mariya Ivanova Gabriel is a Bulgarian politician and a member of the GERB party serving as European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, and Youth since 2019. She was previously a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2017. In the European Parliament, she served as Vice-President of the European People’s Party (EPP) group, Vice-President of EPP Women, and head of the Bulgarian EPP delegation. She was first appointed to the European Commission in 2017 as European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society to fill a spot left vacant by the departure of Kristalina Georgieva.

  EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education, and Youth

• Roland Strauss

  Roland Strauss

  Managing Director, Knowledge4Innovation

  Managing Director, Knowledge4Innovation

• Susana Solís Pérez

  Susana Solís Pérez

  Member of the European Parliament, Renew Europe, Spain

  Born in Avilés, Spain, 1971. Susana Solís is an Industrial Engineer from the University of Oviedo, Machine Engineer from the Fachhochschule de Osnabrück (Germany), and holds an MBA from the Business Institute and a Master's Degree in Marketing Management from the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid). She has over 18 years of professional experience in several multinationals in Germany (Mercedes Benz, Robert Bosch) and in Spain (Rexel, Essilor and Johnson & Johnson). In May 2015, she was elected Deputy in the Parliament of Madrid, being the spokeswoman for Ciudadanos in the Committee on Budgets, Economy, Finance and Employment. Since May 2019 she is MEP in the European Parliament in the Renew Europe Group and a member of the ITRE, REGI, ENVI, and FEMM Committees.

  Member of the European Parliament, Renew Europe, Spain