EU Top 50 ‘Hemicycle Start-up Convention’

Speakers for this event

• Becks, Bart

  Becks, Bart

  Executive Chairman, EURACTIV

  Executive Chairman, EURACTIV

• Neppel, Clara

  Neppel, Clara

  Senior Director, European Business Operations, IEEE European Public Policy Initiative

  Senior Director, European Business Operations, IEEE European Public Policy Initiative

• Oettinger, Günther H.

  Oettinger, Günther H.

  Commissioner for Budget & Human Resources

  Günther H. Oettinger is European Commissioner for Budget & Human Resources since January 2017. From November 2014 to December 2016, he held office as European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society after being European Commissioner for Energy from February 2010 to October 2014 and lastly also Vice-President of the European Commission in 2014. From 2005-2010, he was Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg (Germany) and, since 1984, a member of the regional Parliament ("Landtag"). He was the leader of the CDU Landtag group from January 1991 to April 2005. A lawyer by training, Günther H. Oettinger became actively involved in politics during his adolescence. He is a member of the Federal Executive Committee and of the Steering Committee of the CDU Germany.

  Commissioner for Budget & Human Resources

• Oliveira, Carlos

  Oliveira, Carlos

  Entrepreneur, CEO of ebankIT, President of InvestBraga and Startup Braga, Non-Executive Director of Pathena, Member of the European Innovation Council High-Level Group

  Entrepreneur, CEO of ebankIT, President of InvestBraga and Startup Braga, Non-Executive Director of Pathena, Member of the European Innovation Council High-Level Group

• Piccard, Bertrand

  Piccard, Bertrand

  Explorer, Chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation

  With his dual identity as a medical doctor and explorer, Bertrand Piccard has become an influential voice heard among the most distinguished institutions across the globe as a forward-thinking leader in progress and sustainability. He is independent, not affiliated to a particular party or lobbying group, and as such is a trusted adviser and influencer for the development of new societal solutions, and a very sought-after speaker for private and public audiences. It is in Bertrand’s DNA to go beyond the obvious and achieve the impossible, as he did with his two round-the-world flights, recently in a solar-powered airplane, and before that non-stop in a balloon. The ocean depths and the stratosphere attracted his father and grandfather; the challenges of our time fascinate him. Rather than new territories, he wants to discover new ways of doing and thinking, in particular in the field of clean technologies for a better quality of life. Bertrand is the initiator and visionary behind Solar Impulse, the very first airplane capable of flying perpetually without fuel. Taking turns at the controls with André Borschberg for the first flight around the world on solar power, his ambition is to leverage pioneering spirit for a useful contribution to the cause of renewable energies. This is why he spent the last 15 years bringing together the major partners providing technologies and funds for this adventure. Together with his wife Michèle, he conceived the Solar Impulse project as a now widely recognized platform to raise public awareness and encourage political actions in favour of clean technologies and energy efficiency, the next stage of which includes the establishment to this end of the World Alliance for Efficient Solutions under the aegis of the Solar Impulse Foundation The inspiration he received from other explorers and pioneers during his childhood gave him the desire to inspire young generations in return.

  Explorer, Chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation

• Porrino, Fabrizio

  Porrino, Fabrizio

  Senior Vice President, Global Public Affairs, FacilityLive

  Senior Vice President, Global Public Affairs, FacilityLive