DISCOVER OUR INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKERS Discover the summary report Filter by topic: All topics 1. The European Green Deal 2. A Europe Fit for the Digital Age 3. Industrial Competitiveness 4. Plenary 5. Closed Roundtables 6. Your Hosts Jan Adriaenssens Director of City of Things imec Alain Alexis Head of Unit Defence, DG DEFIS European Commission Sabine Amberg-Schwab Scientist for barrier & multifunctional coatings Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research (ISC) Muriel Attané Secretary General EARTO Ana Ayerbe Manager TECNALIA TRUSTECH Alexandra Bech Gjørv President and CEO SINTEF Adrien Bécue Head of Innovation Airbus Cybersecurity Ben Bekkering Deputy Commander of the Navy (retired) Royal Netherlands Navy René Berkvens Executive Board Advisor & Former CE Damen Group John Blankendaal Managing Director Brainport Industries Friedrich Breidenbach CEO and Co-Founder Zeroplast Ignacio Calvo Herrera Civil Engineer Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Javier Coleto Sustainable Mobility Manager TECNALIA Zachary Davis Head of Section DTI Gaëlle Decroix EU affairs manager CEA Mieke De Ketelaere Program Director imec Paul de Krom Chairman Executive Board/CEO TNO Fernando Espiga Head of Energy Transition TECNALIA André Faaij Director of Science TNO Energy Transition Juan Farré CEO DTI Maria Gabrani Manager Cognitive Healthcare and Lifesciences IBM Research Zurich Michael Gahler Coordinator of the EPP Group Foreign Affairs Committee Haize Galarraga Head of Additive Manufacturing TECNALIA Alix Garin Graphic illustrator The 2nd RTO Innovation Summit Bart Groothuis Member of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee Member of European Parliament Charlotte Haug Senior Scientist SINTEF Digital Health Sabine Herlitschka Chair of ECSEL Board & CEO & CTO Infineon Technologies Austria AG Wolfgang Hribernik Head of Center for Energy AIT Jean-François Junger Deputy Head of Unit, Cybersecurity Technology & Capacity Building, DG CONNECT European Commission Pradeep Kakkattil Executive Office, Director of the Office of Innovation UNAIDS Miapetra Kumpula-Natri Representing Finland and the S&D Group Member of European Parliament Beate Kvamstad-Lervold Business Development Director Mobility SINTEF Helmut Leopold Head of Center for Digital Safety & Security AIT Cathrine Lippert Senior Consultant in the Centre for Ideas & Innovation DTI Alexander Martin Director Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS Jussi Manninen Executive Vice President VTT Robert Missen Head of Unit Innovation and Research, DG MOVE European Commission Reimund Neugebauer President Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Angelika Niebler Haslhofer Member of ITRE Committee for European People’s Party (CSU, DE) Member of European Parliament Amagoia Paskual CEO ADDILAN Jean-Eric Paquet Director-General, DG Research & Innovation European Commission Matthias Pastl Senior Vice President Group Environment of voestalpine AG Olivier Peyret President Schlumberger France Laurence Piketty Deputy CEO CEA Anton Plimon Managing Director AIT Matthijs Punter Researcher Data Science & Smart Industry TNO Iuliana Radu Director of Quantum and Exploratory Computing imec Mikko Saajanlehto Founder & CEO eLive Ecosystem Oy Diederik Samsom Head of Cabinet of EVP Frans Timmermans European Commission Pia Sandvik CEO RISE Research Institutes of Sweden Iñaki San Sebastián CEO TECNALIA Stéphane Sarrade Director of Energy Programs CEA Jiří Šedivý Chief Executive European Defence Agency Torsten Siebert Coordinator Quantum Technologies Programme Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Lucilla Sioli Director Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry, DG CONNECT European Commission Thomas Skordas Director Digital Excellence and Science Infrastructure, DG CONNECT European Commission Cathy Smith Moderator The 2nd RTO Innovation Summit Anne Christine Steenkjær Hastrup Director of the Center for Bioresources and Biorefining DTI Martin Stierle Head of Competence Unit AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH François Terrier Director of Research CEA Karl Tragl CEO Diehl Group Luc Van den hove CEO imec Mark van Gils Research Professor VTT Antti Vasara President & CEO VTT Rogier Verberk Market Director TNO Riikka Virkkunen Professor of Practice VTT Ralf B. Wehrspohn Executive Vice President, Technology Marketing and Business Models Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Sabine Amberg-Schwab Scientist for barrier & multifunctional coatings Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research (ISC)
Jean-François Junger Deputy Head of Unit, Cybersecurity Technology & Capacity Building, DG CONNECT European Commission
Angelika Niebler Haslhofer Member of ITRE Committee for European People’s Party (CSU, DE) Member of European Parliament
Thomas Skordas Director Digital Excellence and Science Infrastructure, DG CONNECT European Commission
Ralf B. Wehrspohn Executive Vice President, Technology Marketing and Business Models Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft