Towards a European Partnership in AI, Data and Robotics

Speakers for this event

• Asimakopoulou, Anna Michelle

  Asimakopoulou, Anna Michelle

  Member of the European Parliament

  Anna Michelle Asimakopoulou has studied economics and law in the USA and in the UK and worked for several years as a lawyer in New York, specializing in financial transactions and international banking law. She worked as director of an NGO in Greece, focusing on ICT deployment and regional development. She also worked as an evaluator of projects funded by the European Commission and as a consultant in the private sector in Brussels and Luxembourg. She served as Deputy-Mayor of the City of Ioannina (2010-2012) and an elected member of the Hellenic Parliament (2012-2019). She was appointed Spokesperson of the New Democracy Party in 2013. She was Head of Fiscal Policy Sector (2015), Head of the Development and Competition Sector (2016) and Head of the Digital Policy, Telecommunications & Media Sector for New Democracy (2016-2019). She is currently a Member of the European Parliament and Vice Chair of the Committee on International Trade.

  Member of the European Parliament

• Gómez-Pérez, Asunción

  Gómez-Pérez, Asunción

  Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and Doctoral Studies, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Full Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

  Prof. Dr. Asunción Gómez-Pérez is Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and Doctoral Studies. at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). She is Fellow of the European Academy of Science (2018). She is Full professor on Artificial Intelligence. She has received the Award ARITMEL - National Prize of Computer Science 2015, the Annual Award of Investigation of the UPM (2015) and the National Prize Ada Byron for the Technologist Woman in its second edition (2015). She leads the Ontology Engineering Group. Her research areas include: Ontological Engineering, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Multilingualism in Information and knowledge management.

  Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and Doctoral Studies, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Full Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

• Hahn, Thomas

  Hahn, Thomas

  President BDVA

  Thomas Hahn has been Chief Software Expert at Siemens AG since 2011. After studying computer science at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen he joined the company in 1986 and worked as a product developer in the field of industrial networks in Erlangen. In 1993 he moved to Nuremberg, where he worked in product management for SIMATIC and as a project manager responsible for development of SIMATIC STEP 7. From 1997 he worked as Head of Development at Traffic Control Systems in Munich for two years. In 1999 he returned to Nuremberg, where he was Head of Software Development for Industrial Automation Systems. He held this post until 2011. In addition to his function as Chief Software Expert, he was Head of the Business Analytics and Monitoring technology field from 2011 to August 2013. Beyond his activities at Siemens, Thomas Hahn is a member or board member of various bodies, including Openlab CERN, steering committee Plattform Industrie 4.0 and chairman Labs Network Industrie 4.0. He is vice-president OPC Foundation , president Big Data Value Association and in his role inside BDVA member of the EuroHPC Advisory Committee.

  President BDVA

• Liepert, Bernd

  Liepert, Bernd

  President, euRobotics

  Dr. Bernd Liepert is the President of euRobotics aisbl, the international non-profit association for all stakeholders in European robotics. As Chief Innovation Officer at KUKA AG, Dr. Liepert was responsible for expanding innovations at KUKA. In this position he can contribute his vast robotics experience at the interface between technological innovation and the market. From 2008 to 2012 Dr. Liepert was President of EUROP, the European Robotics Technology Platform, and since then he is President of euRobotics AISBL – the European Robotics Association. euRobotics was founded in September 2012 and has become the private side of SPARC, the European Public-Private Partnership in Robotics in 2013. As president of these associations Dr. Liepert has been leading the European robotics community and representing it at high political levels.

  President, euRobotics

• Sioli, Lucilla

  Sioli, Lucilla

  Director Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry, DG Connect, European Commission

  Director Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry, DG Connect, European Commission

• Stancu, Ana-Maria

  Stancu, Ana-Maria

  euRobotics Board Member, CEO, Bucharest Promo Robots, e-Civis

  Since March 2019 Board member of euRobotics 2018 – present – CEO of Bucharest Promo Robots – the first Romanian Start-Up to offer the rental and purchase of humanoid robots in addition to RaaS services. 2009 – present – President of E-Civis, local organizing entity of the European Robotics Forum and the National Coordinator for European Robotics Week in Romania. 2007-2009 – Executive Director for the largest civic NGO in Romania, Pro Democracy Association; coordinating 10 employees, 30 branches and administrating a 1.5 million Euro budget. 2001 – 2007 – Projects Manager, Pro Democracy Association

  euRobotics Board Member, CEO, Bucharest Promo Robots, e-Civis