27novAll Day01dec9th European Innovation Summit(All Day) Event Type:Summit
Time
November 27 (Monday) - December 1 (Friday)
Speakers for this event
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Blais, Marie-Josée
Blais, Marie-Josée
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.
Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Innovation, Ministry of the Economy, Science and Innovation, Government of Québec
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Child, Patrick
Child, Patrick
Deputy Director General, DG Research and Innovation
Deputy Director General, DG Research and Innovation
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Legre, Yannick
Legre, Yannick
Managing Director, EGI Foundation
Managing Director, EGI Foundation
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Rettich, Thomas
Rettich, Thomas
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.
Head of Research Coordination TRUMPF, Photonics21 EB member
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Robbert Fisher
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.
President, Knowledge4Innovation
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Roland Strauss
Managing Director, Knowledge4Innovation
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Schulte, Bernd
Schulte, Bernd
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.
Executive Board Member, President AIXTRON
Schedule
- Day 1
- Day 2
- Day 3
- Day 4
- 27th November 2017
18:30 Summit Opening Ceremony and Partner Reception18:30 - 20:00Venue: Members' Restaurant, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Lambert van Nistelrooij & Jerzy Buzek- 28th November 2017
8:00 Breakfast debate 8:00 - 9:30in cooperation with Photonics21
Venue: Members' Salon, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Lieve Wierinck8:00 ЕU Top 50 Welcome Breakfast8:00 - 9:00in cooperation with WATIFY
Venue: Members' Salon, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Lambert van Nistelrooij9:00 EU Top 50 'Hemicycle Start-up Convention'9:00 - 12:30Venue: Hemicycle, European Parliament
Hosting MEPs: Lambert van Nistelrooij, Jerzy Buzek, Brando Benifei & Andrey Novakov10:30 Matchmaking Event10:30 - 18:00in cooperation with WATIFY
Venue: Exhibition area, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Mady Delvaux12:30 Exhibition Opening12:30 - 13:30Venue: Exhibition area, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Mady Delvaux12:30 Lunch Debate on Quantum Technologies: ramping-up the Flagship12:30 - 14:30in cooperation with the TU Delft
Venue: Members' Salon, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Michal Boni15:00 EU Top 50 Workshop: EU support for Startups and Scaleups15:00 - 18:00Venue: CoR, JDE51
Hosting MEPs: Angelika Mlinar & Clare Moody16:00 Universities of Applied Sciences as Innovators in regional eco-systems16:00 - 18:00in cooperation with the Universities for Applied Sciences for Europe (UAS 4 Europe)
Venue: Members' restaurant, European Parliament
Hosting MEPs: Lambert van Nistelrooij & Andrey Novakov19:00 Robots and Society: How to create a safe, fair and productive society using robotics?19:00 - 22:00in cooperation with the TU Delft
Venue: Members' Restaurant, European Parliament
Hosting MEPs: Michał Boni & Lieve Wierinck19:00 Dinner debate on Key Enabling Technoloies & Industry in the future Framework Programme 19:00 - 21:30in cooperation with EMIRI, SusChem, A.SPIRE
Venue: Members' Salon, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Christian Ehler19:30 EU Top 50 Finalists Reception19:30 - 22:00Venue: Members' Salon, European Parliament
Hosting MEPs: Lambert van Nistelrooij & Brando Benifei- 29th November 2017
8:00 Breakfast Debate on Food & Agriculture: Feeding and Greening the Megacities8:00 - 9:30in cooperation with Zuid-Holland
Venue: Members' Salon, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Annie Schreijer-Pierik8:00 Breakfast Debate on 8:00 - 10:00in cooperation with IEEE
Venue: Members' Salon, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Henna Virkkunen9:00 Plenary session on the Future of Research and Innovation9:00 - 12:30Venue: ASP 5E2, European Parliament
Hosting MEPs: Jerzy Buzek & Andrey Novakov & Henna Virkunnen9:30 Innovation without boundaries: Innovation Eco-system Zuid-Holland9:30 - 11:30in cooperation with Zuid-Holland
Venue: PHS 1A002, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Lambert van Nistelrooij12:30 Lunch Debate on Artificial Intelligence: What Perspectives for Sustainable and Prosperous Future?12:30 - 14:30Venue: Members' Salon, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Eva Kaili12:30 Lunch Debate on Future research infrastructure for European leadership in circular forest bioeconomy12:30 - 15:00in cooperation with the ERIFORE project
Venue: Members' Salon, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Sirpa Pietikäinen12:30 Lunch Debate on Innovation in Medicine: Curing chronic diseases with Regenerative Medicine12:30 - 15:00in cooperation with Zuid-Holland
Venue: Members' Salon, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Lieve Wierinck16:00 JIIP Annual Symposium: Mission Orientation in R&I Policy16:00 - 19:30in cooperation with the Joint Institute for Innovation Policy
Venue: PHS 1A002, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Lieve Wierinck19:00 Dinner debate “The future of Cohesion Policy: catalysing Europe’s knowledge, creativity and ideas"19:00 - 22:00Venue: Members' Salon, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Lambert van Nistelrooij- 30th November 2017
8:30 Transatlantic ICT Forum 8:30 - 19:00in cooperation with H2020 Project Discovery
Venue: Multiple venues, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Michal Boni9:00 Plenary session "Open Science, Open Innovation - accelerating innovation process"9:00 - 11:00Venue: JAN 4Q2, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Ivana Maletić18:30 Closing Ceremony & Networking Reception on the occasion of St Andrews Day18:30 - 21:00in cooperation with Innovators Magazine
Venue: JAN 3 Expo, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Alyn Smith
27nov18:3020:00Summit Opening Ceremony and Partner Reception18:30 - 20:00
Time
(Monday) 18:30 - 20:00
Location
Members' Restaurant, European Parliament, Brussels
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum
Host
Lambert van Nistelrooij,
MEP, Chair of the K4I Forum Governing Board
Prof Jerzy Buzek,
Vice Chair of the K4I Forum Governing Board, MEP, ITRE Committee Chair, former President of the European Parliament
Speakers for this event
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Blais, Marie-Josée
Blais, Marie-Josée
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.
Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Innovation, Ministry of the Economy, Science and Innovation, Government of Québec
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Child, Patrick
Child, Patrick
Deputy Director General, DG Research and Innovation
Deputy Director General, DG Research and Innovation
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Legre, Yannick
Legre, Yannick
Managing Director, EGI Foundation
Managing Director, EGI Foundation
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Robbert Fisher
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.
President, Knowledge4Innovation
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Roland Strauss
Managing Director, Knowledge4Innovation
Speakers
Moderator: Roland Strauss,
Managing Director, Knowledge4Innovation
Robbert FIsher,
President, Knowledge4Innovation
Marie-Josée Blais,
Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Innovation, Ministry of the Economy, Science and Innovation, Government of Québec
Yannick Legre,
Managing Director, EGI Foundation
Patrick Child,
Deputy Director General, DG Research and Innovation
Time
(Tuesday) 08:00 - 09:30
Location
Members' Salon, European Parliament
Event Details
The European photonics community is ready to prepare for the next decade and implement the photonics vision for 2030. Within the last years the Photonics21 platform has grown to over
Event Details
The European photonics community is ready to prepare for the next decade and implement the photonics vision for 2030. Within the last years the Photonics21 platform has grown to over 3,300 members representing 1,700 photonics companies and research organisations. Under the umbrella of the Photonics PPP founded in 2013 the European photonics community and the European Commission lead Horizon2020 to economic success. Their fruitful cooperation strengthens the €69 billion European photonics market which maintains its leading position as second largest producer of photonics products behind China.
Over the last 10 years European photonics production has increased by over 62% with around 300,000 people employed directly in the photonics sector. By 2020 additional 42,000 new jobs could be created which further demonstrates the enormous potential of photonics technologies. In the near future, photonics will continue to have a growing impact on most areas of our lives and will lead to breakthrough innovations in a wide variety of sectors, ranging from manufacturing to healthcare and energy.
The breakfast session “Europe’s age of light! How photonics will power growth and innovation” will demonstrate the impact of photonics and will present the photonics vision for 2030 as described in the new Photonics21 vision document. This report outlines the great challenges facing Europe and the world and presents a vision of how photonics technologies which are already in the innovation pipeline today can solve these challenges by 2030 and beyond to turn this vision into reality.
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum in cooperation with Photonics21
Host
Lieve Wierinck, MEP
Speakers for this event
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Rettich, Thomas
Rettich, Thomas
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.
Head of Research Coordination TRUMPF, Photonics21 EB member
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Schulte, Bernd
Schulte, Bernd
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.
Executive Board Member, President AIXTRON
Speakers
Dr. Bernd Schulte,
Executive Board Member, President AIXTRON
Thomas Rettich,
Head of Research Coordination TRUMPF, Photonics21 EB member
28nov09:0012:30EU Top 50 'Hemicycle Start-up Convention'09:00 - 12:30
Time
(Tuesday) 09:00 - 12:30
Location
Hemicycle, European Parliament
Event Details
EU Top 50 Awards offered by: Axon Partners Group IEEE Founders Factory Firstminute Capital
Event Details
EU Top 50 Awards offered by:
Axon Partners Group
IEEE
Founders Factory
Firstminute Capital
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum
Host
Lambert van Nistelrooij, MEP
Andrey Novakov, MEP
Brando Benifei, MEP
Speakers for this event
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Becks, Bart
Becks, Bart
Executive Chairman, EURACTIV
Executive Chairman, EURACTIV
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Neppel, Clara
Neppel, Clara
Senior Director, European Business Operations, IEEE European Public Policy Initiative
Senior Director, European Business Operations, IEEE European Public Policy Initiative
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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
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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
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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
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Porrino, Fabrizio
Porrino, Fabrizio
Senior Vice President, Global Public Affairs, FacilityLive
Senior Vice President, Global Public Affairs, FacilityLive
Speakers
Günther H. Oettinger,
Commissioner for Budget & Human Resources
Bertrand Piccard,
Explorer, Chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation
Victor Negrescu,
Minister Delegate for European Affairs, Romania, Former MEP, Digital Entrepreneur
Clara Neppel,
Senior Director, European Business Operations, IEEE European Public Policy Initiative
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
Fabrizio Porrino,
Senior Vice President, Global Public Affairs, FacilityLive
Bart Becks,
Executive Chairman, EURACTIV
28nov12:3014:30Quantum Technologies: ramping-up the FlagshipLunch Debate12:30 - 14:30
Time
(Tuesday) 12:30 - 14:30
Location
Members' Salon, European Parliament
Event Details
For the 4th time QuTech/TU Delft is hosting this high-level debate on Quantum Technologies. The event will focus on the ramp-up of the FET Flagship program, that is now underway. Quantum
Event Details
For the 4th time QuTech/TU Delft is hosting this high-level debate on Quantum Technologies. The event will focus on the ramp-up of the FET Flagship program, that is now underway.
Quantum Technologies have the potential to offer groundbreaking solutions for the digital economy, especially in the field of computation, simulation and communication. Quantum computers can solve computational problems far beyond the reach of any classical super computer, for instance to find new molecules for medicine or materials. Quantum networks are protected against hackers by laws of physics. Around the world, these technologies are shifting from scientific laboratories to commercial applications. Europe is still in a leading position with excellent research carried out across the Union, but has the challenge to keep up with strategic investments from China and leading firms. A FET Flagship program was launched in 2016 to reap the benefits and boost European quantum industries.
At the lunch Jean-François Buggenhout, Deputy Head of unit for Quantum Technolgies and HPC within the European Commission, will elaborate on the status of the Quantum Flagship and the opportunities and challenges ahead. In table discussions prominent experts will discuss the following topics:
– What can we expect from the projects in the ramp-up call?
– How do we foresee the Flagship in the next Framework Program, taking the LAB-FAB-APP report of Pascal Lamy into account?
– What coordination and support is needed for the Flagship?
– How to position Europe in the international field?
Table chairs and plenary speakers include: Prof. Charles M. Marcus, Prof. Stephanie D. Wehner, Prof. Wim van Saarloos, Prof. Tommaso Calarco and Prof Zbigniew Blocki
QuTech in Delft is a world leading institute for the development of quantum computers and quantum internet. Build upon scientific excellence of academic groups, it was the first institute that combined science with engineering and technology development. Around 250 academics and engineers are working in mission driven R&D roadmaps on specific technology milestones. Industry recognizes the excellence of QuTech– 1/3 of the budget comes from industrial partners including Microsoft and Intel. See also: www.qutech.nl
Host
Michał Boni, MEP
Speakers
Jean-François Buggenhout ,
Deputy Head of Unit High Performance Computing and Quantum Technologies, European Commission
Prof. Charles M. Marcus
Director of the Center for Quantum Devices; Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Prof. Dr. Stephanie D. Wehner
Roadmap Leader Quantum Internet and Networked Computing – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor, QuTech, Delft University of Technology
Wim van Saarloos
Professor, Theoretical Physics Instituut-Lorentz
University of Leiden
Prof. Dr. Tommaso Calarco
Professor and Director of the Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, University of Ulm
Prof. Zbigniew Blocki
Director of National Science Centre of Poland
28nov15:0018:00EU support for Startups and ScaleupsEU Top 50 Workshop15:00 - 18:00
Time
(Tuesday) 15:00 - 18:00
Location
CoR, JDE51
Event Details
There is a €3 billion equity-free cash pot waiting for you to be grabbed on your way to become the next tech star in Europe and you didn’t know about
Event Details
There is a €3 billion equity-free cash pot waiting for you to be grabbed on your way to become the next tech star in Europe and you didn’t know about it? Well, unless you prefer your competitor to take it prove us your outstanding growth potential, your impact on the market and we start to be interested in you! The European funding program “SME Instrument” invests between € 50,000 and € 2.5 million in highly innovative small businesses (from EU and associated countries[1]), topped with free coaching and life-long business acceleration support to bring your innovation faster to the market.
Interested to learn more? Come and discuss directly with the “SME Instrument” team for insider tips on your application and the program and get valuable peer2peer advice by startups that successfully convinced Europe to invest in them! What are you waiting for?
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum
Host
Angelika Mlinar, MEP
Clare Moody, MEP
Speakers
Kurt Vandenberghe,
Director, Policy Development and Coordination Directorate, DG RTD
Agnieszka Stasiakowska,
Senior Business Analyst at EASME, SME Instrument team
Katja Reppel,
Deputy Head of Unit for Smart and Sustainable Growth, DG REGIO
Martin Kern,
Interim Director, EIT
Diego Pavia,
CEO, EIT InnoEnergy
Patrice Lefeu,
Executive Director, Ernst&Young
Isidro Laso Ballesteros,
Head of Sector Startup and Scaleup, DG CNECT
Bill Manos,
Business Development Consultant; Professor EPITA Graduate School
Time
(Tuesday) 16:00 - 18:00
Location
Members' Restaurant, European Parliament, Brussels
Event Details
UAS4EUROPE is a networking platform for the the Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) in Europe. Its aim is to create a stronger voice in Europe. UAS4EUROPE is a joint initiative
Event Details
UAS4EUROPE is a networking platform for the the Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) in Europe. Its aim is to create a stronger voice in Europe. UAS4EUROPE is a joint initiative from EURASHE, UASnet, swissuniversities, Hochschule Bayern (supported by BayFor e.v.) and FHK. In order to represent the UAS well, UAS4EUROPE launches position papers and organizes events to influence the European research and innovation decision-making processes. Within this context, we prepared a position paper on the FP9. See attached.
One of the main recommendation is the Smart Partnerships for Regional Impact; public and private stakeholders with strong added value on the basis of excellence. In the Netherlands a lot of Universities of Applied Sciences have a collabaration with RTO’s, companies, local governments : an open innovation lab called: Centre of Expertise. Young talents: students and researchers provide during the session an insight into the results of practice-oriented research in a regional context.
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum in cooperation with Hanze University
Host
Lambert van Nistelrooij, MEP
Andrey Novakov, MEP
Speakers for this event
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Aué, Jan-Jaap
Aué, Jan-Jaap
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.
Dean Centre of Expertise Energy, Hanze University of Applied Sciences
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Noorman, Klaas Jan
Noorman, Klaas Jan
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.
Professor of Energy Transition, Hanze University of Applied Sciences
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van Gemert, Wim
van Gemert, Wim
Professor of Energy Innovation, Hanze University of Applied Sciences
Professor of Energy Innovation, Hanze University of Applied Sciences
Speakers
Moderator: Jan- jaap Aué,
Dean Centre of Expertise Energy, Hanze University of Applied Sciences
Wim van Gemert,
Professor of Energy Innovation, Hanze University of Applied Sciences
Klaas Jan Noorman,
Professor of Energy Transition, Hanze University of Applied Sciences
List of Projects and Presenters from the Dutch Universities of Applied Science:
Ms. Sanne de Vries, Healthy Lifestyle in a Supporting Environment
Mr. Martin Bennink, Tech for Future
Ms. Richele Wind, Microbial oil project: from toiletpaper to biobased oil for paint applications
Mr. Stefan Lechner, Health Space Design / Age Simulation Suit
Anita van der Molen, Filling phantoms
Eva Commissaris, Jacket machine
Inci Aksu, Capnography during High Frequency Oscillation
Ilayda Peduk, Pharmalands
Time
(Tuesday) 19:00 - 21:30
Location
Members' Salon, European Parliament
Event Details
The Dinner debate on Key Enabling Technologies & Industry in FP9 is organized by the three big Technology Platforms – EMIRI, SUSCHEM and A.SPIRE. The purpose of the event is to
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The Dinner debate on Key Enabling Technologies & Industry in FP9 is organized by the three big Technology Platforms – EMIRI, SUSCHEM and A.SPIRE.
The purpose of the event is to advocate for “Key Enabling Technologies” not to be overlooked in terms of R&I support in frame of forthcoming FP9 discussions.
The event will be structured into 3 pillars:
- EMIRI, presenting on the importance of advanced materials & nanotech to accelerate the shift to clean energy & clean mobility to make the Energy Union a reality and contribute to re-industrialization of Europe in the field
- SUSCHEM, presenting on the importance of biotechnology to enable today and tomorrow’s bio-economy relying on alternative feedstocks
- SPIRE, presenting on the importance of process and resource efficiency to build a more sustainable industry in Europe
The idea is that each association is giving the floor to an Executive-VP, CTO or CEO from their members to deliver a strong industry-driven message to the MEP community and other policy makers present at the event.
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum in cooperation with EMIRI, SusChem and A.SPIRE
Host
Christian Ehler, MEP
Speakers for this event
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Barthélemy, Pierre
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)
Executive Director Innovation, Cefic
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Hua, Ling
Hua, Ling
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.
Senior Vice President, Head of Group Biotechnology, Clariant
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Porter, Martin
Porter, Martin
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.
Executive Director, i2-4c
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Savonen, Stefan
Savonen, Stefan
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.
Vice President Energy & Climate, LKAB
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Schröder, Robert
Schröder, Robert
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.
Member of Cabinet, Commissioner Moedas
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Vandeputte, Kurt
Vandeputte, Kurt
Senior Vice President Umicore - Rechargeable Battery Materials
Senior Vice President Umicore - Rechargeable Battery Materials
Speakers
Moderator: Martin Porter,
Executive Director, i2-4c
Robert Schröder,
Member of Cabinet, Commissioner Moedas
Kurt Vandeputte,
Senior Vice President Umicore – Rechargeable Battery Materials
Stefan Savonen,
Vice President Energy & Climate, LKAB
Ling Hua,
Senior Vice President, Head of Group Biotechnology, Clariant
Pierre Barthélemy,
SusChem and A.SPIRE Board Member
Time
(Tuesday) 19:00 - 22:00
Location
Members' Restaurant, European Parliament, Brussels
Event Details
The purpose of this dinner debate is to reflect on both sides of Robotics, the benefits and possibilities on the one hand and the risks and threats on the other
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The purpose of this dinner debate is to reflect on both sides of Robotics, the benefits and possibilities on the one hand and the risks and threats on the other hand. During this dinner debate we aim to achieve a balance between these two sides.
Robotic technology is a very powerful tool, especially with the continuous improvement of the internal Artificial Intelligence algorithms. Robots can help address the UN sustainable development goals (i.e. building infrastructure) and will benefit a lot of people.
However, as a society we should be aware of ‘the winner takes all’ effect and the high concentration of power in the hands of a few. There is an economic risk for regions that “fall behind”. Therefore, strong investments are required in research and tech transfer (e.g. innovation hubs). At the same time, there are risks regarding unethical or evil use of that concentrated power, requiring investment in research of the ethical issues, especially towards test and experiment possibilities (e.g. living labs, field labs) in order to bring this new technology into society.
Host
Michał Boni, MEP
Lieve Wierinck, MEP
Speakers for this event
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Juha Heikkilä
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.
Head of Unit Robotics and Artificial Intelligencem DG CONNECT
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Siewiorek, Robert
Siewiorek, Robert
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”.
Technology Issues Journalist, Gazeta Wyborcza
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Wisse, Martin
Wisse, Martin
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’.
Professor, TU Delft
Speakers
Prof. dr. ir. Martin Wisse,
Professor, TU Delft
Juha Heikkilä,
Head of Unit Robotics and Artificial Intelligencem DG CONNECT
Robert Siewiorek,
Technology Issues Journalist, Gazeta Wyborcza
29nov08:0010:00Blockchain Applications in Everyday LifeBreakfast Debate08:00 - 10:00
Time
(Wednesday) 08:00 - 10:00
Location
Members' Salon, European Parliament
Event Details
Blockchain is
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Blockchain is considered to affect our everyday lives the same way trust – or the lack of it – does. Traditionally, trusted third parties, such as central authorities and middlemen, have been an integral part of everyday transactions. Blockchain is said to have the potential to eliminate the need for such third parties, thus radically transforming the way interactions will occur between individuals, entities and things in an interconnected world.
This debate will focus on possible applications and limits of this technology beyond finance, from agriculture, healthcare and industrial supply chain management to the use of this technology to facilitate digital inclusion, trust, personal data agency and security.
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum in cooperation with IEEE
Host
Henna Virkkunen, MEP
Speakers for this event
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Abeloos, Benoît
Abeloos, Benoît
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.
Policy Officer, Start-ups & Innovation Unit, DG CONNECT
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Dillhyon, Michael
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.
Chief Commercial Officer at GraftWorx, Co-founder of YouBase, Founder of Healthbank
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Gilot, Bryant Joseph
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.
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
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Ivan, Cătălin Sorin
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.
MEP
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Neppel, Clara
Neppel, Clara
Senior Director, European Business Operations, IEEE European Public Policy Initiative
Senior Director, European Business Operations, IEEE European Public Policy Initiative
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Rong, Chunming
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.
Chair of IEEE Cloud Computing, Chair of IEEE CS STC on Blockchain, and Steering Chair of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)
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Willem Jonker
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.
CEO , EIT Digital
Speakers
Moderator: Clara Neppel,,
Senior Director, European Business Operations, IEEE European Public Policy Initiative
Dr. Bryant Joseph Gilot,
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
Michael Dillhyon,
Chief Commercial Officer at GraftWorx, Co-founder of YouBase, Founder of Healthbank
Prof. Chunming Rong,
Chair of IEEE Cloud Computing, Chair of IEEE CS STC on Blockchain, and Steering Chair of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)
Benoît Abeloos ,
Policy Officer, Start-ups & Innovation Unit, DG CONNECT
Prof. Dr. Willem Jonker,
CEO EIT Digital
Cătălin Sorin Ivan,
MEP
Presentation by Mr. Fabrizio Sestini,
DG CNECT
on the Horizon Prize on Blockchains for Social Good
29nov08:0009:30Food & Agriculture: Feeding and Greening the MegacitiesBreakfast Debate08:00 - 09:30
Time
(Wednesday) 08:00 - 09:30
Location
Members' Salon, European Parliament
Event Details
Zuid-Holland has a complete eco-system in place which includes pilot- and testing facilities. The horticultural sector in Zuid-Holland has solutions, such as adequate and healthy nutrition for a growing world
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Zuid-Holland has a complete eco-system in place which includes pilot- and testing facilities. The horticultural sector in Zuid-Holland has solutions, such as adequate and healthy nutrition for a growing world population, for Europe’s societal challenges. The sector provides huge opportunities to reduce the use of raw materials and emissions, for example with investments in heat and CO2 networks. In this way the sector contributes significantly to the Paris climate agreement. But to fully realise this, the sector needs more financial support and acknowledgement in European policy. More intensive triple or even quadruple helix cooperation with European partners is key for the sector to realise its full potential.
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum in cooperation with Zuid-Holland
Host
Annie Schreijer-Pierik, MEP
Speakers
Moderator: Jolanda Heistek,
Program manager for the Greenport
Martin van Gogh,
Director of Hoogendoorn, Board member of South Holland’s Economic Board
Fabio Boscaleri,
Policy Officer, Tuscany Region
Dr. Gilles Saindon,
Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Technology, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, Government of Canada
29nov09:0012:30The Future of Research and InnovationPlenary session09:00 - 12:30
Time
(Wednesday) 09:00 - 12:30
Location
ASP 5E2
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Part I – Mission orientation, instruments, impact The Lamy report on H2020, published in July 2017, makes eleven recommendations for the future of European research and Innovation, from giving a higher
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Part I – Mission orientation, instruments, impact
The Lamy report on H2020, published in July 2017, makes eleven recommendations for the future of European research and Innovation, from giving a higher priority for R&I at EU and national level, better alignment of EU, further simplification, create better synergies between EU, national and regional policies and funding schemes, mission orientation to the real engagement of citizens. The recommendations together aim at creating a higher impact that is visible for all stakeholders, including citizens.
The Plenary session at the ninth EIS takes up on the different aspects of the future of European R&I policies within the context of the development of Framework Programme 9. Starting from the challenge driven H2020, different perspectives will be discussed from the different stakeholder points of view, especially the Parliament, the Commission, academia and industry.
Key topics include the anticipated role and set up of the new European Innovation Council, will it become a separate pillar with instruments but without set objectives? What will that mean for innovation in Europa, will larger industry be involved or will it primarily concentrate of start ups and scale ups?
And what does mission orientation in the context of FP9 mean, if this approach is taken, how will it be implemented, how are the beneficiaries affected and what about the instruments? Will the EU follow the path of the well-known missions in history (man on the moon) or are different approaches more appropriate in today’s world and in the complexity of the EU? How do missions compare and relate to the societal or global challenges? How can EU, national, regional and urban policies be aligned to generate higher impacts?
New models and approaches are needed to address shorter term needs and longer term objectives. How will new partnership models to support R&I create such long term impact, for instance to align longer term strategic R&I policies and funding programmes at various levels.
A thread that accompanies sound R&I policy making is the relation between R&I and regulation. Regulatory effects on the capacity to innovate are well known, positively and negatively. Many approaches are being tested today (from sandboxing, innovation deals, to the innovation principle). The regulatory aspects will be woven into all debates.
Part II Rethinking Funding and Financing of Innovation and Research in Europe
As a logical continuation on of the first part of this session we will elaborate on facilitating funding and financing for European research and innovation activities in the years to come. What kinds of financial instruments do we need and do we also foresee blending of financial instruments to support innovation?
In recent years important lessons have been learned of how to financially support new tech-driven-companies in their commercialization of new technologies. New financial instruments have been launched under the InnovFin label which allowed the European Commission in co-operation with the EIB/EIF to stimulate investments in innovative companies. Most of the new financial instruments were based on co-financing of private capital suppliers. Also for the new framework programme the use of financial instruments for the commercialization of technology will be essential. Governments including the regions, banks, Business Angels, Venture Capitalists and even Crowd Funding platforms will have to be attracted to contribute to these innovation and where applicable to new instruments.
One of the key new instruments to increase impact of the research budget is the Innovation Radar. This instrument which will be formally launched in the beginning of next year will allow technology suppliers tech users/investors in Europe to follow progress within in research projects and will facilitate selection, financing and uptake of new technologies developed in the framework programme.
The EIB will focus on their interest and strategy with regard to investing in technology in the coming years. It has recently executed a number sector specific studies in the framework of InnovFin Advisory to better understand the key enabling technologies such as photonics, micro-electronics HPC and generic technology delivery systems such as the Digital Innovation Hubs in an effort to bridge the gap between the investor world and the world of new promising technologies. In the future this policy will be continued and reinforced to allow more innovative companies to benefit.
A private investor HeadsCapital will explain what it takes to develop research projects into investor-ready companies. How are projects selected in terms of their potential in terms of technological due diligence and finally how can they made eligible for private investors.
Finally the TU Delft will explain their strategies of how to support their tech start-ups from a practical point of view. TU Delft has started a general accelerator called “YES Delft” and more recently a mission oriented accelerator called “ROBO-VALLEY” which has begun to generate young and ambitious tech entrepreneurs. TU Delft will elaborate on their expectations of FP 9 in terms of its financial instruments to allow their Tech driven start-ups to be successful in the future.
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum
Host
Jerzy Buzek, MEP
Andrey Novakov, MEP
Henna Virkkunen, MEP
Speakers
Moderator: Robbert Fisher,
Director, JIIP and K4I President
Part I – Mission orientation, instruments, impact
Introduction and welcome:
Renzo Tomellini,
Head of Unit, Horizon 2020 Policy and Foresight, DG RTD
Marie-Josée Blais,
Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Innovation, Ministry of the Economy, Science and Innovation, Government of Québec
Industry Perspective:
Dr. Erkki Ormala,
Professor, Aalto University, Representative of IIT (Industrial Innovation in Transition project)
Dr. Lisa Dale-Clough,
Research Associate at Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Representative of IIT (Industrial Innovation in Transition project)
Željko Pazin,
Director Trade, Legal, R&D&I at Orgalime, Representative of IIT (Industrial Innovation in Transition project)
EIT Perspective:
Dr. Kirsten Dunlop,
CEO, Climate-KIC
Karen Hanghøj,
CEO, EIT Raw Materials
Science and Research Perspective:
Wolfgang Polt,
Head of the Centre of Economic and Innovation Research, Joanneum Research Ltd.
Part II – Rethinking Funding and Financing of Innovation and Research in Europe
Keynote Speaker: Gerard de Graaf,
Director Digital Single Market at DG Connect
Shiva Dustdar,
Head of Division, Innovation Finance Advisory at EIB
Prof. Dr. Willem Jonker,
CEO, EIT Digital
Duncan Jarvis,
Secretary General, EURAMET
Mathias Hiebeler,
Managing Director, Heads International & Heads Capital
Bernd Reichert,
Head of Unit “SMEs in Horizon 2020” at European Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises (EASME)
Servaas Duterloo,
Head of unit EU Research Funding & International Programmes, TU Delft
Concluding remarks:
Robbert Fisher,
Director, JIIP and K4I President
Renzo Tomellini,
Head of Unit, Horizon 2020 Policy and Foresight, DG RTD
29nov09:3011:30Innovation without boundaries: Innovation Eco-system Zuid-Holland09:30 - 11:30
Time
(Wednesday) 09:30 - 11:30
Location
PHS 1A002
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Lying below sea level, the Dutch region of Zuid-Holland is facing a huge challenge adapting to climate change. As a gateway to Europe via the port of Rotterdam, the region
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Lying below sea level, the Dutch region of Zuid-Holland is facing a huge challenge adapting to climate change. As a gateway to Europe via the port of Rotterdam, the region is investing heavily in smart and clean transport. Likewise, the metropolitan region must feed the city and provide a safe, clean and healthy environment for its citizens.
Strong economic clusters are bringing innovative solutions in response to these interrelated challenges. This is why the focus is not only on developing but also testing innovations in field labs, as a 24/7 real-life testing ground to develop solutions which can make a real contribution to solving Europe’s societal challenges. This approach demands crossovers between disciplines and sectors and sharing expertise with other European cities and regions to mobilise all competences needed, continuously improve strategies and learn from one another.
Another important contribution towards Europe’s grand societal challenges is reflected in the EUR 1 billion European investments made in the 2007-2014 period and EUR 700 million already funded in the 2014-2020 period. European investments in research and development based on excellence are important and prove the strength of our clusters.
Unique European large-scale open access R&D facilities, like the NeCEN microscope and the Bioprocess Pilot Facility, are financed by the ERDF, along with Dutch valorisation centres and incubators such as YES!Delft. Achievements include 160 start-ups, hundreds of patented technologies, active companies in more than 80 countries, invested capital of over EUR 130 million and more than 1000 jobs.
The InnovationQuarter agency supports regional economic development through a revolving fund – partly financed by the ERDF. Next to this, the partners in the region are working with the European Investment Bank on a regional investment platform to boost private investments.
These investments are an important foundation for our regional innovation ecosystem. Companies work closely together and with knowledge institutions. For instance in the field of life sciences and health companies, three universities, two medical centres and universities of applied science collaborate in the Medical Delta to develop and test solutions for today’s challenges. Especially with regard to ICT the breadth of the Zuid-Holland economy offers opportunities for crossovers. Cross-overs include the application of big data for peace and for protection from floods, 3D printing in the maritime and medical industries, and new medicines based on plant extracts. Working closely with other European regions in several EU networks, such as the Vanguard Initiative, is yet another reason for the Zuid-Holland smart specialisation strategy to be widely regarded as a basis for innovation without boundaries: cross-sectorial, cross-border and cross-fund investing.
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum in cooperation with Zuid-Holland
Host
Lambert van Nistelrooij, MEP
Speakers
Moderator: Alison Hunter,
Director, Economic and Public Policy Consultancy (EPPC)
Adri Bom-Lemstra,
Zuid-Holland, Regional Minister of Economy and Innovation
Prof. Karel Luyben ,
Rector Magnificus, TU Delft
Peter Berkowitz,
Head of Unit for Smart and Sustainable Growth, DG REGIO
Doris Schroecker,
Head of Strategy Unit for Industrial Technologies, DG RTD
Ulla Engelmann,
Head of Unit for Clusters, Social Economy and Entrepreneurship in the DG GROW
Dragoș Pîslaru,
Partner, Civitta Romania Management Consultancy (and former Romanian Minister for Labour)
Time
(Wednesday) 12:30 - 14:30
Location
Members' Salon, European Parliament
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Artificial Intelligence has been a part of all European programmes from Esprit to H2020. We invented AI approaches and techniques that empower industry, health, transportation, energy, environment and other fields.
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Artificial Intelligence has been a part of all European programmes from Esprit to H2020. We invented AI approaches and techniques that empower industry, health, transportation, energy, environment and other fields. The connection between AI, cinema and games changed entertainment industry. AI has capacity to create new professions and new activities.
The AI fever and 3rd wave impulsed by GAFA is an opportunity to consider what we have and what should be the contribution of “AI invented in Europe” to global economy.
AI produces several kinds of impacts; knowing them may help innovating really useful applications instead of replacing human.
This debate focuses on capacity of AI to address the current challenges and bring its contribution to sustainable and prosperous future.
Finally some perspectives will be found from discussion on a room for AI in Future research and innovation.
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum
Host
Eva Kaili, MEP
Speakers
Gilles Savard,
Director General, IVADO – Institute for Data Valorisation
Eunika Mercier-Laurent,
President, Global Innovation Strategies
Hugues Bersini,
Professor in Université Libre de Bruxelles and Co-Director of the IRIDIA laboratory
Susana Nascimento,
Policy Analyst at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, EU Policy Lab
Time
(Wednesday) 12:30 - 15:00
Location
Members' Salon, European Parliament
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One of the global challenges is to move from the fossil-based economy to sustainable bioeconomy. The forest-based sector has the opportunity to take the lead here by linking the whole
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One of the global challenges is to move from the fossil-based economy to sustainable bioeconomy. The forest-based sector has the opportunity to take the lead here by linking the whole value chain from the management and use of natural resources to the delivery of products and services. The forest bioeconomy has high potential in energy products, chemicals and new materials.
ERIFORE – European Research Infrastructure for Circular Forest Bioeconomy – is an infrastructure development project under the European Union’s Research and Innovation Framework Programme Horizon 2020. The ERIFORE consortium consists of 13 experienced organisations with a high professional level of specialists aiming to establish a cooperation network between European open access research infrastructures. In the long-term, the ambition is that the distributed research infrastructure for circular forest bioeconomy becomes a flagship in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI).
The event will highlight the following issues:
- There is need to develop new value added products from forest based biomass enabling implementation of European bioeconomy strategy.
- Sustainable development and enhanced utilization of the European research and innovation infrastructures require long-term commitments and new funding models.
- ERIFORE aims for an open access distributed research infrastructure which bridges science and innovation across many technology fields throughout the whole value chain.
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum in cooperation with ERIFORE
Host
Sirpa Pietikainen, MEP
Speakers
Moderator: Sune Wännström,
Senior Research Advisor, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
Humberto Delgado Rosa,
Director Natural Capital, DG ENVI
Dirk Carrez,
Executive Director of the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC)
Mika Härkönen,
ERIFORE Coordinator, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Henna Virkkunen,
MEP
Miapetra Kumpula-Natri,
MEP
Time
(Wednesday) 12:30 - 15:00
Location
Members' Salon, European Parliament
Event Details
The amount of people suffering from chronic diseases on a global level is rapidly increasing due to our ageing population. Regenerative Medicine can play a pivotal role in confronting this
Event Details
The amount of people suffering from chronic diseases on a global level is rapidly increasing due to our ageing population. Regenerative Medicine can play a pivotal role in confronting this trend and its consequences, and be a truly disruptive innovation. Regenerative medicine holds the promise to cure many chronic conditions, restoring health instead of treating and protracting decline. This improves the lives of millions and at the same time preventing lifelong, expensive care processes: cure instead of care.
Regenerative Medicine is an important topic in Leiden: together with the university, the academic hospital center (LUMC) and the Leiden Bio Science Park, it is the hub for Life Sciences & Health in the Netherlands. Leiden has half a century of experience as an innovator in Regenerative Medicine, performing the first bone marrow transplantation in Europe in 1965 and in 1966 the first kidney transplantation. Today, we discuss our ambition to be the EU-HUB for Regenerative Medicine. The Leiden, South-Holland region is thé real-life testing ground for this topic, encompassing innovative research, an ecosystem for Life Science & Health start-ups, big pharma, and an academic clinical center with GMP-facilities to test new therapeutic modalities.
Currently our expertise has led to our leadership position in two institutes: the precompetitive virtual institute on Human Organ and Disease Model Technologies. This institute develops human disease- and organ-on-a-chip technologies. We have another leadership position in the public-private consortium RegMed XB which stands for Regenerative Medicine Crossing Borders. This is a commercialization vehicle for the Leiden Regenerative Medicine Platform, together with the Leiden Bio Science Park companies such as Galapagos, Mimetas, Ncardia, as well as other Dutch and Belgian public and private partners that will work together to develop patient-driven regenerative medicine solutions to health challenges such as kidney failure and diabetes. Combining all available expertise will not only strengthen the Dutch international trendsetting position, but also the position of Europe and its member states on a world-wide level.
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum in cooperation with Zuid-Holland
Host
Lieve Wierinck, MEP
Speakers
Moderator: Jacqueline Ton,
Director of Research, LUMC
Henri Lenferink,
Mayor of Leiden
Prof. Dr. Ton Rabelink,
Professor and Head of Internal Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center; Figurehead Regenerative Medicine of Dutch Science Agenda
Maria Pilar Aguar Fernandez,
Head of Unit, Innovative tools, technologies and concepts in health research, DG Research&Innovation
Ana Hidalgo-Simon, MD, PhD,
Head of Specialised Scientific Disciplines Department, European Medicines Agency
29nov16:0019:30JIIP Annual Symposium: Mission Orientation in R&I Policy16:00 - 19:30
Time
(Wednesday) 16:00 - 19:30
Location
PHS 1A002
Event Details
This year’s symposium of the Joint Institute for Innovation Policy is dedicated to Mission Oriented Policies for research and innovation. In the running up to FP9, the Commission is considering several
Event Details
This year’s symposium of the Joint Institute for Innovation Policy is dedicated to Mission Oriented Policies for research and innovation.
In the running up to FP9, the Commission is considering several options to increase measurable impact. Mission Orientation is one of the options. The Lamy report already hinted in this direction, supported by a growing body of academic research supporting the implementation of such policies.
Designing a new FP for research at EU level is highly complex, and mission orientation could provide answers to the current challenges.
JIIP is currently carrying out two studies in the subject for the Commission, that will support the decision process to take a mission oriented approach or not. One study looks at the definition, the conceptualisation and analyses cases around the world, to understand which lessons can be drawn from these. The second study analyses how such policies could be implemented in FP9.
The symposium will be built around these two studies, and covers topics as the key characteristics of mission oriented policies, the level of mission definition, the use of instruments for implementation, the way missions should be defined involving all stakeholders including citizens, the management and mission ownership, benefits and draw backs of the approach, the alignment with national, regional and urban R&I policies and programmes and provides some examples.
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum in cooperation with JIIP
Host
Lieve Wierinck, MEP
Speakers
Robbert Fisher,
Managing Director, JIIP
Kurt Vandenberghe,
Director, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Wolfgang Polt,
Head of the Centre of Economic and Innovation Research, Joanneum Research Ltd.
David Fenner,
Saxony-Anhalt
Saara Harjula,
Helsinki EU Office
Dr. Erkki Ormala,
Professor, Aalto University, Representative of IIT (Industrial Innovation in Transition project)
Christopher Palmberg (TBC),
Chief Advisor, Tekes
Time
(Wednesday) 19:30 - 22:00
Location
Members' Salon, European Parliament
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum
Host
Lambert van Nistelrooij, MEP
Speakers
Keynote Speaker: Corina Crețu,
Commissioner for Regional Policy
Dr. Kirsten Dunlop,
CEO Climate-KIC
Luis Miguel Girão,
Founder of Artshare, the NATO Art Expert
Pirita Lindholm,
Director, ERRIN
30nov08:3019:00Transatlantic ICT Forum08:30 - 19:00
Time
(Thursday) 08:30 - 19:00
Event Details
The Transatlantic ICT Forum (TIF) is a unique platform to benefit policy debate and provide expert opinions and recommendations to transatlantic dialogues for ICT R&I cooperation. TIF has been created
Event Details
The Transatlantic ICT Forum (TIF) is a unique platform to benefit policy debate and provide expert opinions and recommendations to transatlantic dialogues for ICT R&I cooperation. TIF has been created by DISCOVERY, an H2020 project to support dialogues and ICT R&I cooperation between Europe and North America (US and Canada)
Under the umbrella of the TIF, three working groups on key thematic areas in ICT – policy and regulations, funding mechanisms and cybersecurity – bring the Forum high-level expertise and insights on subject matters. Currently, over 50 experts from Europe, the US and Canada are members of the Transatlantic ICT Forum, providing advice in the production of Input Papers and Policy Briefs for transatlantic collaboration in ICT R&I.
The Transatlantic ICT Forum 2017 event will bring together policy makers, funding agencies, thought leaders, prominent researchers and industry representatives from Europe, US and Canada to discuss and exchange views and experiences in transatlantic cooperation.
Four Panel sessions on Cybersecurity, Funding Mechanisms, Artificial Intelligence and Socia Inclusion as well as eHealth will showcase innovation and transatlantic collaboration in these areas. More than 30 influential speakers and panelists with highly-relevant credentials and expertise in the subject matter areas and global reputation through their work form the substantive content of TIF 2017.
The Transatlantic ICT Forum 2017 event also presents a unique networking opportunity, providing access to senior ICT private and public sector leadership from not only Europe but also the US and Canada and connections with international funding agency decision-makers.
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum in cooperation with the DIscovery Project
Host
Michal Boni, MEP
Speakers
09:00 – 11:00 | EP, PHS 5B1
Panel 1 – Cybersecurity: integrating solutions across EU, US, Canada
Panel Chair: Pilar del Castillo MEP & Lieve Wierinck MEP
Moderator: James Clarke,
Strategic EU Liaison Manager, Waterford Institute Of Technology – TSSG
Panel Discussion:
Alexey Kirichenko,
Research Collaboration Manager, F-Secure Corporation
Salvatore Francomacaro,
IT Security Specialist, NIST- National Institute of Standards and Technology
Paolo Balboni,
Founding Partner, ICT Legal Consulting
Nick Wallace,
Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Data Innovation
Nick Ferguson,
cyberwatching.eu
Evangelos Markatos,
Professor, FORTH and University of Crete
Fabio Martinelli,
Coordinator of Cyber Security Lab, National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
Dan Caprio,
Co-founder and Executive Chairman, The Providence Group
Alberto Leon-Garcia,
Professor, University of Toronto
Rebecca Wright,
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, USA
11:15 – 13:15 | EP, PHS 5B1
Panel 2 – Funding Mechanisms for Transatlantic Cooperation in ICT Research and Innovation
Moderator: Jostein K. Sundet,
Ph.D., Special Adviser, NordForsk
Panel Discussion:
Wolfgang Wittke,
Policy Officer – Research & Innovation Relations with the USA and Canada, European Commission, DG Research & Innovation
Dr. Sonia Ortega,
Head of Europe Office, National Science Foundation
Rebecca L. Keiser (Via Video),
Head, Office of International Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation – NSF
Jesse Szeto,
Director, Global, National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA)
Michael Willmott,
First Secretary, Science and Technology, Mission of Canada to the European Union, Government of Canada
Marie-Josée Blais,
Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Innovation, Ministry of the Economy, Science and Innovation, Government of Québec
Georg Nagel,
Coordinator International Cooperations, AiF Projekt GmbH – Project Management of BMWi and ZIM cooperation projects
Nuno Miguel Moreira,
Science Officer, International Relations Departament, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Astrid Willener,
Governing board, ERA-Net ICT-AGRI 2, Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER)
Patricia Gruber,
Technical Director, Office of Naval Research Global
Camille Sailer,
President EACCNJ, Transatlantic ICT Forum
Yolanda Ursa,
Innovation Management Director, INMARK Europa
13:30 – 15:00 | 3 JAN
Lunch at the exhibition area and a visit to the 9th EIS exhibition space
15:00 – 17:00 | EP, JAN 6Q1
Panel 3 – Digital Health and Big Data
Panel Chair: Michal Boni, MEP
Moderator: Maria Fernanda Cabrera,
Innovation Director of Life Supporting Technologies (LifeSTech) research group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
Panel Discussion:
Dr. Guy Rouleau,
Director, McGill University Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Line Linstad,
Senior Adviser at Norwegian Centre for e-Health Research
Sergio Guillen,
President of Board of Directors MySphera
Prof. Shuming Nie,
Grainger Distinguished Chair Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Francisco Lupiañez-Villanueva,
Partner and co-founder of Open Evidence
Bleddyn Rees,
Non-Executive Director, ECHAlliance
Prof. May Dongmei Wang,
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
17:00 – 19:00 | EP, JAN 6Q1
Panel 4 – Artificial Intelligence and Social Inclusion
Panel Chair: Angelika Mlinar
Moderator: Jutta Treviranus,
Professor and Director, Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) at OCAD University
Panel Discussion:
Abhishek Gupta,
AI Ethics Researcher, McGill University & District 3 Innovation Center, Concordia University
Jeanine Spence,
Experience Strategist, Current Associates
Shirley Ogolla,
Researcher, Humboldt Institute of Internet and Society (HIIG)
Ann Cavoukian (Via Video),
Distinguished Expert-in-Residence, Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence, Ryerson University
19:00 | EP, 3 JAN Exhibition space
Closing reception
Time
(Thursday) 09:00 - 11:00
Location
JAN 4Q2
Event Details
Open Science is good for business! Open Science’s principles of unrestricted access to data, ideas, results and materials allows multidisciplinary and cross-sector collaborations to transcend intellectual property restrictions in favor of
Event Details
Open Science is good for business!
Open Science’s principles of unrestricted access to data, ideas, results and materials allows multidisciplinary and cross-sector collaborations to transcend intellectual property restrictions in favor of speed of communication and transparency. The European Union is driving Open Science within many initiatives, such as the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), and has identified Open Science as being a key component of its science policy going forward. Canada has been leading its own Open Science movement, with open science projects such as the SGC, launched in 2004, and open science institutions, such as the Tanenbaum Open Science Initiative at the Montreal Neurological Institute, launched in 2016.
In this panel, representatives from academia, industry and policy-making (Canada and European Union) will address how Open Science can help transform the existing research ecosystem, as well as thrive the creation of robust and measurable economic impacts for the society:
- How open science can drive translation of scientific discoveries into commercial revenue.
- How open science improves reproducibility of scientific research.
- How can government, policy makers, industry and institutions help create social and economic value from open science?
- What are key metrics that should be looked at in terms of economic impact?
- How could Open Science help the global community to better deal with complex challenges that have stumped the scientific and innovation communities?
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum
Host
Ivana Maletić, MEP
Speakers for this event
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Karapiperis, Theodoros
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
Head of Scientific Foresight Unit, STOA
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Lapidaire, Louis
Lapidaire, Louis
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.
Director, United Academics
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Lee, Wen Hwa
Lee, Wen Hwa
Director, Disease Foundations Network, Strategic Alliances
Director, Disease Foundations Network, Strategic Alliances
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Rouleau, Guy
Rouleau, Guy
Director, McGill University Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Director, McGill University Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Speakers
Dr. Guy Rouleau,
Director, McGill University Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Wen Hwa Lee, PhD ,
Director, Disease Foundations Network, Strategic Alliances
Louis Lapidaire,
Director, United Academics
Theodoros Karapiperis,
Head of Scientific Foresight Unit, STOA
Time
(Thursday) 18:30 - 21:00
Location
European Parliament | JAN 3 Expo
Organizer
Knowledge4Innovation Forum in cooperation with Innovators Magazine
Host
Lambert van Nistelrooij, MEP and Chair of the K4I Forum Governing Board
Alyn Smith, MEP
Speakers for this event
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Robbert Fisher
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.
President, Knowledge4Innovation
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Roland Strauss
Managing Director, Knowledge4Innovation
Speakers
Susan Robertson,
Co-founder/Strategic partnerships, Innovators Magazine
Robbert FIsher,
President, Knowledge4Innovation
Roland Strauss,
Managing Director, Knowledge4Innovation
27novAll Day28EU Top 50 Startup Competition(All Day)
Time
november 27 (Monday) - 28 (Tuesday)
Event Details
The EU Top 50 Millennial Start-up Competition will be at the centre of the European Innovation Week programme. We are inviting the next generation researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs to present
Event Details
The EU Top 50 Millennial Start-up Competition will be at the centre of the European Innovation Week programme. We are inviting the next generation researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs to present their ideas and inventions in areas such as health & life science, food and agriculture, bio-, nano-, neurotech, digital technologies and deep tech materials and new production technologies, as well as energy transition, environment and climate change, transport, space, security, creative sectors and education etc.
The programme of the European Innovation Week starts with pitches of the 50 winners on 27 November. Five will be selected to speak on Tuesday morning, 28 November alongside Members of the European Commission and the European Parliament, C-level corporate representatives and investors.
The competition will be open between 16 August and 25 October 2017.
More information about the EU Top 50 Startups as well as the application procedure is available here.
Schedule
- Day 1
- Day 2
- 27th November 2017
18:30 Summit Opening Ceremony and Partner Reception18:30 - 20:00Venue: Members' Restaurant, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Lambert van Nistelrooij & Jerzy Buzek- 28th November 2017
8:00 ЕU Top 50 Welcome Breakfast8:00 - 9:00in cooperation with WATIFY
Venue: Members' Salon, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Lambert van Nistelrooij9:00 EU Top 50 'Hemicycle Start-up Convention'9:00 - 12:30Venue: Hemicycle, European Parliament
Hosting MEPs: Lambert van Nistelrooij, Jerzy Buzek, Brando Benifei & Andrey Novakov10:30 Matchmaking Event10:30 - 18:00in cooperation with WATIFY
Venue: Exhibition area, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Mady Delvaux12:30 Exhibition Opening12:30 - 13:30Venue: Exhibition area, European Parliament
Hosting MEP: Mady Delvaux15:00 EU Top 50 Workshop: EU support for Startups and Scaleups15:00 - 18:00Venue: CoR, JDE51
Hosting MEPs: Angelika Mlinar & Clare Moody19:30 EU Top 50 Finalists Reception19:30 - 22:00Venue: Members' Salon, European Parliament
Hosting MEPs: Lambert van Nistelrooij & Brando Benifei
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.
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.
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)
Bart Becks
Executive Chairman, EURACTIV
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.
Patrick Child
Deputy Director General, DG Research and Innovation
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Wen Hwa Lee, PhD
Director, Disease Foundations Network, Strategic Alliances
Yannick Legre
Managing Director, EGI Foundation
Clara Neppel
Senior Director, European Business Operations, IEEE European Public Policy Initiative
29nov08:0010:00Blockchain Applications in Everyday LifeBreakfast Debate08:00 - 10:00