27novAll Day01dec9th European Innovation Summit(All Day) Event Type:Summit

 

27nov18:3020:00Summit Opening Ceremony and Partner Reception18:30 - 20:00

28nov08:0009:30Europe’s age of light! How photonics will power growth and innovationBreakfast Debate08:00 - 09:30

28nov09:0012:30EU Top 50 'Hemicycle Start-up Convention'09:00 - 12:30

28nov12:3014:30Quantum Technologies: ramping-up the FlagshipLunch Debate12:30 - 14:30

28nov15:0018:00EU support for Startups and ScaleupsEU Top 50 Workshop15:00 - 18:00

28nov16:0018:00Universities of Applied Sciences as Innovators in regional eco-systemsPlenary session16:00 - 18:00

28nov19:0021:30Key Enabling Technologies & Industry in the future Framework ProgrammeDinner Debate19:00 - 21:30

28nov19:0022:00Robots and Society: How to create a safe, fair and productive society using robotics?Dinner Debate19:00 - 22:00

28nov19:3022:00EU Top 50 Finalists Reception19:30 - 22:00

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29nov08:0010:00Blockchain Applications in Everyday LifeBreakfast Debate08:00 - 10:00

29nov08:0009:30Food & Agriculture: Feeding and Greening the MegacitiesBreakfast Debate08:00 - 09:30

29nov09:0012:30The Future of Research and InnovationPlenary session09:00 - 12:30

29nov09:3011:30Innovation without boundaries: Innovation Eco-system Zuid-Holland09:30 - 11:30

29nov12:3014:30Artificial Intelligence: What Perspectives for Sustainable and Prosperous Future?Lunch Debate12:30 - 14:30

29nov12:3015:00Future research infrastructure for European leadership in circular forest bioeconomyLunch Debate12:30 - 15:00

29nov12:3015:00Innovation in Medicine: Curing chronic diseases with Regenerative MedicineLunch Debate12:30 - 15:00

29nov16:0019:30JIIP Annual Symposium: Mission Orientation in R&I Policy16:00 - 19:30

29nov19:3022:00The future of Cohesion Policy: catalysing Europe’s knowledge, creativity and ideasDinner debate19:30 - 22:00

30nov08:3019:00Transatlantic ICT Forum08:30 - 19:00

30nov09:0011:00Open Science, Open Innovation - accelerating innovation processPlenary session09:00 - 11:00

30nov18:3021:00Closing Ceremony & Networking Reception on the occasion of St Andrews Day18:30 - 21:00

27novAll Day28EU Top 50 Startup Competition(All Day)

Benoît Abeloos

Policy Officer, Start-ups & Innovation Unit, DG CONNECT

ICT engineer with an MBA, Benoit is policy officer in the startups and innovation unit of DG Connect. He is part of the Blockchain and FinTech team where he leads the standardisation and interoperability aspects. He chairs the Interoperability and Standardisation Work Stream of the EU FinTech Task force. He is member of the ISO Technical Committee 307 on Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technologies and coordinates Commission's inputs. He worked previously as Policy Officer at the Health and Wellbeing Unit of DG Connect, where he was in charge of standardisation and of the epSOS large scale pilot project. Before joining the Commission, Benoit held different executive positions in ICT startups, in Amadeus, the technology partner of the travel industry, and in Belgacom, the Belgian Telecommunication incumbent.

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29nov08:0010:00Blockchain Applications in Everyday LifeBreakfast Debate08:00 - 10:00

Moderator: Jan- jaap Aué

Dean Centre of Expertise Energy, Hanze University of Applied Sciences

Jan-jaap Aué worked as a PhD student at the University of Groningen from 1991-1997. Hereafter, working at KNP Research from 1997 – 2002 and at TNO from 2003 – 2009, he became interested in innovation management and bringing research to business in new products and services.
In 2009 he joined Hanze University of Applied Sciences, in Groningen, as Dean of Life Sciences and Engineering, creating a Research and innovation Centre on Energy. Within this centre a unique Open Innovation Facility on Energy was created in close cooperation with industry: EnTranCe http://en-tran-ce.org/. In April 2015 he was appointed Dean of the Centre of Expertise Energy at Hanze UAS.
Jan-jaap. Aué holds a PhD In Materials Sciences form the University of Groningen.

28nov16:0018:00Universities of Applied Sciences as Innovators in regional eco-systemsPlenary session16:00 - 18:00

Barthélemy, Pierre

Executive Director Innovation, Cefic

Pierre Barthélemy obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Liège, Belgium, in 1987, in the field of lanthanide coordination chemistry, followed by one year of postdoctoral research at Florida State University. He joined Solvay in 1988 in Brussels, Belgium, and moved to various R&D, management and senior leadership roles. He worked successively in the field of fluorocarbons, peptide pharmaceutical ingredients, and materials for the emerging market of organic electronics.
Since June 2014, he has been seconded to Cefic (European Chemical Industry Council) and is now the Executive Director Research and Innovation at Cefic, leading the Research and Innovation program in collaboration with Cefic member companies, representing the priorities of the chemical industry toward the EU-institutions for innovation-related aspects.
He is a member of the board of SusChem (www.suschem.org) and A.SPIRE (www.spire2030.eu)

28nov19:0021:30Key Enabling Technologies & Industry in the future Framework ProgrammeDinner Debate19:00 - 21:30

Bart Becks

Executive Chairman, EURACTIV

28nov09:0012:30EU Top 50 'Hemicycle Start-up Convention'09:00 - 12:30

Marie-Josée Blais

Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Innovation, Ministry of the Economy, Science and Innovation, Government of Québec

Marie-Josée Blais was appointed in February 2016 as Assistant Deputy Minister for Science and Innovation. Her responsibilities include the development and implementation of Québec's research and innovation strategies. Previously, Marie-Josée held various strategic and management positions in public organizations both in Quebec and abroad. As Director of International Collaborations and Director of the Coordination for International Affairs (now Export Québec), Marie-Josée has participated in several government missions.
From 1991 to 2001, she carried out various technology assessments in the United Kingdom and then in AETMIS. She is a member of the boards of directors of key partners in research and innovation (Fonds de recherche en santé du Québec, Génome Québec, Centre de recherche industrielle du Québec), and was recently appointed a member of the Commission de l’éthique en science et en technologie. She holds a Master's Degree in Public Health from the University of Montreal and a Certificate in Health Economics from the University of Aberdeen.

27nov18:3020:00Summit Opening Ceremony and Partner Reception18:30 - 20:00

Patrick Child

Deputy Director General, DG Research and Innovation

27nov18:3020:00Summit Opening Ceremony and Partner Reception18:30 - 20:00

Dillhyon, Michael

Chief Commercial Officer at GraftWorx, Co-founder of YouBase, Founder of Healthbank

Founder of healthbank, a Geneva-based health data exchange cooperative in operation since 2013. He is also a co-founder/board member in several other innovative Heathtech initiatives, as well as currently serving as the Chief Commercial Officer of Santio, a first-of-its-kind med device platform focused on fluid management.

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29nov08:0010:00Blockchain Applications in Everyday LifeBreakfast Debate08:00 - 10:00

Gilot, Bryant Joseph

Chief Medical Officer at Blockchain Health Company and Member of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems; University of Tübingen - Center for Personalised Medicine

Bryant Joseph GILOT, MD CM DPhil MSc simultaneously holds the title of Lead for Information Exploitation at the Center for Personalised Medicine at the University of Tübingen Medical Center in Germany and Chief Medical Officer at Blockchain Health Company in San Francisco. Dr GILOT earned a Bachelor degree from Duquesne University, a Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery from McGill University, a Doctor of Philosophy in Immunology from the University of Oxford (Balliol College), and a Master of Digital Currency from the University of Nicosia. He trained in General Surgery, Cardio-thoracic Surgery, Heart and Lung Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support at institutions including Yale University, University of California (San Francisco), University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University and Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen in Germany. Dr GILOT’s experience includes two years in the Health & Financial Services Group at Accenture GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany.

He has a strong interest in bringing the capabilities of blockchain technologies to environments where the secure and rapid exchange of privileged and regulated information can be shown to deliver significant value.

Dr GILOT currently serves as a member of the IEEE working groups focusing on Personal Data and Individual Access Control as well as the IEEE P7006 Standard for Personal Data Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent working group which are both part of the the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems.

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29nov08:0010:00Blockchain Applications in Everyday LifeBreakfast Debate08:00 - 10:00

Ling Hua

Senior Vice President, Head of Group Biotechnology, Clariant

Dr. Hua obtained her Ph.D. from Rice University in Houston, Texas. She joined BioCatalytics, Inc., a startup company in Southern California, where she and her team developed and commercialized more than 50 enzymes (biocatalysts) as screening kits for pharmaceutical companies. She then joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas as Harold Jeskey Assistant Professor. She spent 3 years at SMU, teaching and doing research in enzyme catalysis. She authored more than 40 research papers, book chapters, and she is the inventor of several dozens of issued patents. She joined Danisco, Genencor Division in 2007, found its China Research Center, which then became DuPont Industrial Biosciences China Research Center. Under her leadership, her team developed numerous new products, generating millions dollars of revenues each year. She moved back to the US in 2013 to lead DuPont Industrial Biosciences R&D in Wilmington, and was responsible for its Biofuel, Bioactives and Biomaterials portfolio. Dr. Hua joined Clariant as head of Group Biotechnology in May of 2017, responsible for the future of Biotechnology at Clariant.

28nov19:0021:30Key Enabling Technologies & Industry in the future Framework ProgrammeDinner Debate19:00 - 21:30

Ivan, Cătălin Sorin

MEP

Mr. Catalin IVAN is a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. He is an economist who believes in social responsibility, the creation of individual wealth, but also cares for the environment and actively involved in the fight against poverty and reducing disparities.

In a permanent and rapidly changing world, Mr. IVAN is convinced that the future belongs to new technologies of communication and information, innovation, research, and alternative educational approaches.
Catalin IVAN was the S&D shadow rapporteur on FinTech: the influence of technology on the future of the financial sector.

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29nov08:0010:00Blockchain Applications in Everyday LifeBreakfast Debate08:00 - 10:00

Juha Heikkilä

Head of Unit Robotics and Artificial Intelligencem DG CONNECT

Since 2014 Juha Heikkilä has been the Head of the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence unit in the European Commission Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, which develops the Commission policy and activities in Artificial Intelligence. The Commission has been funding a multidisciplinary programme on Cognitive Systems, Robotics and AI since 2004, focusing on smart robots and artificial systems, and in 2014 it set up a Public-Private Partnership in Robotics. Previously, Juha Heikkilä was involved in computational and corpus linguistic research at the University of Helsinki, and he has a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge.

28nov19:0022:00Robots and Society: How to create a safe, fair and productive society using robotics?Dinner Debate19:00 - 22:00

Karapiperis, Theodoros

Head of Scientific Foresight Unit, STOA

Theo Karapiperis read Mathematical Physics at the University of Sussex, UK, and went on to earn a PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982. He worked in fundamental and applied research until 1995.
He has been working at the European Parliament (EP) in Brussels since 1995, where he held posts as administrator in the Press Service, the Secretariat of STOA (Science and Technology Options Assessment, now Panel for the Future of Science and Technology) and the Secretariat of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), where he dealt mostly with EU research policy. From 2005 to 2010 he was head of unit in charge of the Policy Department for Economic and Scientific Policy in the Directorate-General for Internal Policies (DG IPOL).
In 2010 he became head of the unit responsible for the STOA Secretariat, which has been part of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) since 2013. His unit comprises, in addition to the STOA Secretariat, the Scientific Foresight Service created in 2014 and, since 2018, the team supporting the work of the European Science-Media Hub, which promotes networking, training and knowledge dissemination at the interface of the EP, the scientific community and the media
Job title & department: Head of Unit, Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA), Directorate for Impact Assessment and European Added Value, European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), European Parliament

30nov09:0011:00Open Science, Open Innovation - accelerating innovation processPlenary session09:00 - 11:00

Louis Lapidaire

Director, United Academics

After working in the finance industry in various IT related functions from 1977, Louis Lapidaire (1959)
founded United Academics in 2010.
During the past couple of years United Academics has been at the forefront of Open Access. The
United Academics Foundation supports OA advocacy, created the Open Access Library (oalibrary.org)
with 1.2 million papers available for direct download and issues the Horizon2020 Compliance notes.
Louis is a board member of the Brussels' think tank “Knowledge 4 Innovation” and a founding member
of the Amsterdam Open Science Data Initiative. He participated in various conferences as moderator,
speaker and panelist.
Louis combines his IT and entrepreneurial skills to support United Academics and participates in
various strategic alliances to further the cause of Open Access, Open Science and Open Data.

30nov09:0011:00Open Science, Open Innovation - accelerating innovation processPlenary session09:00 - 11:00

Wen Hwa Lee, PhD

Director, Disease Foundations Network, Strategic Alliances

30nov09:0011:00Open Science, Open Innovation - accelerating innovation processPlenary session09:00 - 11:00

Yannick Legre

Managing Director, EGI Foundation

27nov18:3020:00Summit Opening Ceremony and Partner Reception18:30 - 20:00

Clara Neppel

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

28nov09:0012:30EU Top 50 'Hemicycle Start-up Convention'09:00 - 12:30

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29nov08:0010:00Blockchain Applications in Everyday LifeBreakfast Debate08:00 - 10:00

Klaas Jan Noorman

Professor of Energy Transition, Hanze University of Applied Sciences

Klaas Jan Noorman (1964), originally trained as a biologist, has a PhD in environmental sciences of the University of Groningen (1995). From 1990 to 1994 he was affiliated as a research fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies (IVEM) of the University of Groningen. From 1995 to 2000 he was a staff member of IVEM. During this period his major areas of research interest were natural capital accounting and energy analysis studies.

In 2000 he was one of the two founders and co-director of KNN Milieu, a research and consultancy firm on energy and sustainability issues. He was mainly involved in energy and climate projects and projects aimed at including sustainability principles in policy making. In 2009 he started proDO Consult B.V. As director and senior consultant he was involved in many energy-related projects.

From 2012 to 2014 he was employed at the Energy Valley Foundation as a senior manager Research and Education and seconded to the Energy Academy Europe. At the Energy Academy Europe he was manager Research and Education and responsible for setting up new research and educational programs for energy. He had -among other- special responsibility for the development of hotspots for vocational training in the North of the Netherlands, for organizing Transition Debates at an academic level about the new energy future and for developing new training methods.

In 2009 he was founder and Director of ProDO Consult. Research & Consultancy Company on Energy Transition Issues. Since then he has been involved in many energy projects as researcher, consultant, project leader and interim programme manager.

In 2017 he started as a professor Energy Innovation at the Centre of Expertise Energy of the Hanze University of Applied Sciences (Hanze UAS) in Groningen. Hanze UAS is the leader in applied research into renewable energy. It is one of the universities of applied sciences where students from various disciplines are trained in energy education and are involved in research into energy matters. As part of the Centre of Expertise Energy, the Energy Transition Centre (EnTranCe) plays a key role as a testing ground for applied sciences and innovations.
EnTranCe is the hotspot of applied sciences for businesses and innovations. It has the facilities, technologies and the best possible network to develop plans into the energy products and services the energy market demands.

28nov16:0018:00Universities of Applied Sciences as Innovators in regional eco-systemsPlenary session16:00 - 18:00

Günther H. Oettinger

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.

28nov09:0012:30EU Top 50 'Hemicycle Start-up Convention'09:00 - 12:30

Carlos Oliveira

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

28nov09:0012:30EU Top 50 'Hemicycle Start-up Convention'09:00 - 12:30

Bertrand Piccard

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.

28nov09:0012:30EU Top 50 'Hemicycle Start-up Convention'09:00 - 12:30

Fabrizio Porrino

Senior Vice President, Global Public Affairs, FacilityLive

28nov09:0012:30EU Top 50 'Hemicycle Start-up Convention'09:00 - 12:30

Moderator: Martin Porter

Executive Director, i2-4c

Dr. Martin Porter has been the Executive Director for Industrial Innovation and EU Affairs of the European Climate Foundation (ECF) and a member of its Executive Management Team since 2014. He has lead the establishment of its Industrial Innovation for Competitiveness initiative (i24c), which works in partnership with business, political and civil society leaders to play a thought-leadership role on how Europe can best secure competitive advantage in the transition to a new clean economy.
Martin is a member of the EESC’s Consultative Committee on Industrial Change, an advisor to the European Commission’s H2020 Societal Challenge 5 Advisory Group on Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials, a Senior Associate for the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and a member of the Advisory Board of UCL’s European Institute. Martin has over two decades of experience in EU affairs: he was a co-founder of Brussels’ first ‘think-do tank’, The Centre, and joined the ECF from Edelman, where he was Chair of the European Public Affairs Practice and General Manager of the Brussels office.

28nov19:0021:30Key Enabling Technologies & Industry in the future Framework ProgrammeDinner Debate19:00 - 21:30

Thomas Rettich

Head of Research Coordination TRUMPF, Photonics21 EB member

Dr. Thomas Rettich is responsible for the Research and Science Coordination at TRUMPF and
is an active member of VDMA, Photonics21 and other institutions. His background is electrical engineering, especially laser technology with a degree from RWTH Aachen. As a researcher he worked at the Fraunhofer‐Institute of Laser Technology in Aachen before moving to the TRUMPF group in 1994. Since 2010, he is responsible for the research and the science coordination of the TRUMPF group. He is well connected within the German and European research community and related industry, and he is active in relevant networks like VDMA and Photonics21. As chair of Photonics21 work group 2 on industrial manufacturing, he supported the multiannual strategic agenda process and the process to set up the recent Horizon 2020 work programmes.

28nov08:0009:30Europe’s age of light! How photonics will power growth and innovationBreakfast Debate08:00 - 09:30

Robbert Fisher

President, Knowledge4Innovation

Robbert Fisher specializes in strategy and policy in the fields of R&D, technology transfer and innovation in general. His key focus is on ICT policy.
Since 1st January 2020 he is principal associate investigator at the University de las Campinas in Sao Paolo Brazil, where he focuses on the further development of Big Data and AI for policy analysis, development and monitoring. Robbert is on the board of several start up companies, a trusted expert for the European Commission in the field of big data and AI, and since 2017 the president of K4I.
From 2011 to 2019 Robbert was the managing director of the Joint Institute for Innovation Policy, a Brussels based think tank of four renowned RTO’s (TNO, VTT, Tecanalia and Joanneum Research).
Prior to that he has founded two companies, from 1989 until 2000 he was a senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers. From 1991-1995 Robbert was seconded as an expert to the European Commission DG XIII (now DG CONNECT) in Luxembourg.
Robbert received a Master’s degree Law, Leiden University, the Netherlands with special subjects Intellectual property, Information Systems and Business economics.
He holds degrees in marketing and public relations. In addition, he is an alumnus of the PwC International Management Development Programme, and has followed executive courses at Darden Business School and Oxford Said Business School.

27nov18:3020:00Summit Opening Ceremony and Partner Reception18:30 - 20:00

30nov18:3021:00Closing Ceremony & Networking Reception on the occasion of St Andrews Day18:30 - 21:00

Roland Strauss

Managing Director, Knowledge4Innovation

27nov18:3020:00Summit Opening Ceremony and Partner Reception18:30 - 20:00

30nov18:3021:00Closing Ceremony & Networking Reception on the occasion of St Andrews Day18:30 - 21:00

Rong, Chunming

Chair of IEEE Cloud Computing, Chair of IEEE CS STC on Blockchain, and Steering Chair of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)

Prof. Chunming Rong is the chair of IEEE Cloud Computing, the chair of IEEE CS STC on Blockchain, and the steering chair of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC). At work, he is the head of the Centre for IP-based Service Innovation (CIPSI) at the University of Stavanger (UiS) and is also an adjunct Senior Scientist leading Big-Data at the IRIS research institute in Norway. In 2017, he co-founded two start-ups Dataunitor.com and BitYoga.com. He was the vice president of CSA Norway Chapter (2016-2017). His research work focuses on data science, cloud computing, security and privacy. He is an IEEE senior member and is honoured as member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) since 2011. He has extensive contact network and projects in both the industry and academic. He is also founder and Steering Chair of IEEE CloudCom conference and workshop series. He is the steering chair and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), and co-Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Cloud Computing (ISSN: 2192-113X) by Springer. Prof. Rong has extensive experience in managing large-scale R&D projects funded by both industry and funding agencies, both in Norway and EU.

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29nov08:0010:00Blockchain Applications in Everyday LifeBreakfast Debate08:00 - 10:00

Dr. Guy Rouleau

Director, McGill University Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

30nov09:0011:00Open Science, Open Innovation - accelerating innovation processPlenary session09:00 - 11:00

Stefan Savonen

Vice President Energy & Climate, LKAB

Stefan has more than 20 years of experience from the field of energy and environment, including at least ten years of them in the mining industry. Stefan has published several articles concerning the use of energy in mining industry and is also an inventor of patented technology to reduce NOx in pelletising plants.
After studies on Master’s level in energy at Mid Sweden University, Stefan worked as a university lecturer and ended up as a director of education in energy and electrical engineering,
Stefan have also experience from energy production at different management levels and is a former CEO for an energy producing company.
At LKAB Stefan started an R&D department in energy end emissions and during the last years Stefan have been responsible at group level for energy & climate.
Stefan lives in the village of Svappavaara, in the Swedish ore fields, 150 km north of the Arctic Circle.

28nov19:0021:30Key Enabling Technologies & Industry in the future Framework ProgrammeDinner Debate19:00 - 21:30

Robert Schröder

Member of Cabinet, Commissioner Moedas

Robert Schröder is Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Moedas for Research, Science and Innovation. Within the Cabinet, he is responsible for Environment, Climate Action, Energy and Agriculture, as well as regulatory innovation, programming of Horizon 2020 and synergies with the Structural Funds. Before Joining the Cabinet, Robert worked in the European Commission in DG Research and Innovation and in DG Environment.

Before joining the European Commission, Robert represented the Dutch water sector in Brussels and worked in the European Parliament as policy advisor.

28nov19:0021:30Key Enabling Technologies & Industry in the future Framework ProgrammeDinner Debate19:00 - 21:30

Dr. Bernd Schulte

Executive Board Member, President AIXTRON

Dr. Bernd Schulte was appointed member of the Executive Board of AIXTRON SE (Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer) in April 2002. Having joined AIXTRON SE as Project Manager in 1993, he assumed responsibility as Head of Product Management for Asia in 1997 and became Director of the Compound and Organic Semiconductor Business Units in 2001. On September 1, 2017, he was appointed President of AIXTRON SE.

In addition to his function at AIXTRON, Dr. Schulte had the honor to serve as the President of the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) from December 2003 until February 2007. In the course of its foundation in December 2005, Dr. Schulte was appointed Vice President of the Executive Board of the European Technology Platform “Photonics21”. Furthermore, he serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute FEP in Dresden.

Dr. Schulte holds a PhD in Physics (Dr. rer. nat.) of the Technical University of Darmstadt.

28nov08:0009:30Europe’s age of light! How photonics will power growth and innovationBreakfast Debate08:00 - 09:30

Robert Siewiorek

Technology Issues Journalist, Gazeta Wyborcza

Robert Siewiorek – PhD, literary scholar, journalist, feature writer and science popularizer interested in influence of digital technologies on humanity. An author of many popular science articles and few books. Writes for „Gazeta Wyborcza”.

28nov19:0022:00Robots and Society: How to create a safe, fair and productive society using robotics?Dinner Debate19:00 - 22:00

Kurt Vandeputte

Senior Vice President Umicore - Rechargeable Battery Materials

28nov19:0021:30Key Enabling Technologies & Industry in the future Framework ProgrammeDinner Debate19:00 - 21:30

Willem Jonker

CEO , EIT Digital

Prof. Willem Jonker (1962) has a broad background in ICT, both in industry as well as in academia. He studied mathematics and computer science at Groningen University, worked at Delft University of Technology, received his PhD from the University of Utrecht, and is a part-time full professor in computer science at Twente University.
Willem Jonker's industrial experience covers telecommunications (KPN), IT (European Computer industry Research Centre, Munich) and consumer electronics (Philips). He held several positions as researcher, international project leader, department head, sector head, and account manager. In 2006 he was appointed Vice President Philips Research. Prof. Dr. Jonker has served European ICT research in various ways amongst others as project leader, reviewer, and advisor.

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29nov08:0010:00Blockchain Applications in Everyday LifeBreakfast Debate08:00 - 10:00

Prof. dr. ir. Martin Wisse

Professor, TU Delft

Dr Martijn Wisse (1976) started a Mechanical Engineering programme at TU Delft in 1994 and has been active in robotics since 2000. He originally worked with humanoid walking robots, for which he was awarded a Veni grant in 2004 after obtaining his PhD. In 2010, he was also awarded a Vidi grant for his research on natural movement in robots. Since 2012, he has been leading the European Factory in a Day consortium, which develops ‘Plug & Work’ robot solutions for the SME sector. He also co-founded two companies: Lacquey, specialist in food-handling robots and robot systems integrator Delft Robotics.
Wisse is co-founder of the TU Delft Robotics Institute and is closely involved in regional development activities, such as the establishment of the Robo Service Centre in Delft and the launch of the International Robotics Master Class ‘Robotics for Future Presidents’.

28nov19:0022:00Robots and Society: How to create a safe, fair and productive society using robotics?Dinner Debate19:00 - 22:00

Wim van Gemert

Professor of Energy Innovation, Hanze University of Applied Sciences

28nov16:0018:00Universities of Applied Sciences as Innovators in regional eco-systemsPlenary session16:00 - 18:00

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