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Speakers' corner

Opening speakers title

Opening and closing speakers

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Xavier Bettel

Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Minister for Communications and Media and for Digitalisation

Johannes Hahn

European Commissioner for Budget and Administration

Hilde Hardeman

Director-General of the Publications Office of the European Union

Veronica Gaffey

Director General for Informatics (DG DIGIT), European Commission

Natalia Aristimuño Pérez

Digital Services Director at DG DIGIT, European Commission

Franck Noël

Data, Information and Knowledge Management Services Director at Publication Office of the European Union

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Keynote speakers

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Elena Simperl

Professor of computer science at King’s College London

Muriel Foulonneau

Head of Data quality management, General Directorate of Public Finance, French ministry of economy and finance

Pierre-Antoine Champin

Data strategist W3C/ Inria

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Moderators

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Jennifer Baker

Freelance EU Correspondent, journalist, conference moderator

Florence Ranson

Independent strategic communications adviser, trainer, event moderator, founder of REDComms

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Speakers

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Stephen Abbott Pugh

Head of technology - Open Ownership

Raúl M. Abril

Project officer at European Commission DG DIGIT D2

Vladimir Alexiev

Chief Data Architect of Ontotext (Sirma AI), The Knowledge Graph Solutions group

Paloma Arillo Aranda

Knowledge Management Assistant, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg

Rahel Anne Bailie

Executive Consultant, ICP

Flores Bakker

Enterprise Architect for the Dutch ministry of Finance

Teresa Barrueco

Expert in the domain of data visualisation

Elisabetta Biasin

Researcher in Law, KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law

Asmaa Bouaamri

Institute of Library and Information Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

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Žilvinas Bubnys

Head of consolidation and summaries of EU law sector at Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg

Raf Buyle

Responsible for data and innovation at the Flemish Data Utility company, e-government strategy advisor

Caterina Caracciolo

Data exchange specialist, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, ESS division

Francesco Cartella

Team Leader and Data Scientist at the European Commission

Ann Clark

AI Ontologist, Nearmap company, Australia

David Clarke

Co-founder and CEO of Synaptica

Pieter Colpaert

Professor Knowledge on Web-Scale at Ghent University - IDLab - imec

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Peter Crocker

Co-founder & CEO of Oxford Semantic Technologies, United Kingdom

Edward Curry

Professor of Data Science and Director of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics and Data Science Institute at the University of Galway

Enrico Daga

Senior Research Fellow, The Open University, United Kingdom

Christophe Debruyne

Montefiore Institute, University of Liège, Belgium

Denis Dechandon

Head of Reference Data and Style Guide sector at the Publications Office of the European Union

Makx Dekkers

Independent Information Professional

Dennis Diefenbach

CEO, The QA Company

Daniil Dobriy

Research Assistant, Institute for Data, Process and Knowledge Management, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

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Carola Fabi

Senior statistician, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, ESS division

Gernot Friedrich

Headquarters NATO - Digital Staff, co-Chair CIS CaP and Head Information and Data Management Branch

Philippe Gelin

Head of Sector Multilingualism, DG-CNECT, European Commission

Anikó Gerencsér

Knowledge Management Assistant, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg

Alexandros Gerontas

PhD candidate, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

Veronika Heimsbakk

Managing AI Engineer, SME Semantic Technologies - Insights & Data, Capgemini, Norway

Maria Kardami

Information manager at Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg

Sos Khachikyan

Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Statistics, Armenian State University of Economics, Armenia

Bernhard Krabina

Managing partner at KM-A Knowledge Management Associates

Juraj Kuba

Legal Assistant at Publications Office of the European Union

Christine Laaboudi-Spoiden

Statistical Assistant, Eurostat

Helen Lippell

Taxonomy consultant

Miroslav Líška

Opendata and Interoperability, Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization, Slovakia

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Hagar Lowenthal

Knowledge Management Assistant, European Commission, Joint Research Centre

Wouter Lubbers

Linked Data Consultant at Semmtech, The Netherlands

Arpita Maity

Director, Product Marketing, RWS

Agata Majchrowska

AI & Data Expert, IA/CA A&R Research Scientist, Research Lab CODR.PL, WWSIS , Poland

Robert Majchrowski

Analyst, Student at the University of Leeds

Sabrina Medeiros

Assistant Professor at Lusófona University in Lisbon, Researcher at the InterAgency Institute

Enno Meijers

CTO Dutch Digital Heritage Network and Advisor Research dept. National Library of the Netherlands

Federico Milani

Deputy Head of Unit, Data Policy and Innovation, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Meg Morrissey

Co-Chair of the Language Metadata Table (LMT); Senior DAM Architect and Head of Professional Services for MediaValet

Natalie Muric

Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg

Fernando Nubla Durango

Project officer, European Commission, Belgium

Tímea Palotai Torzsás

Co-founder, Juremy Ltd., Hungary

Harshvardhan J. Pandit

Assistant Professor, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland

Spyridoula-Anna Pappa

Research And Development Specialist

Juan Martin Pelegrina

Bilbomatica, in service contract with the European Commission Joint Research Centre

Marina Razmadze

Associate Professor, Head of the Research Projects and Innovations Office, International Black Sea University, Georgia

Roberto Reale

Advisor & Project Manager, Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale, Italy

Martin Romacker

Senior Principal Scientist, Data and Information Architecture Scientific Solution Engineering & Architecture (S2EA IV), Data & Analytics Roche Innovation Center Basel

Fabian Santi

Interoperability specialist, Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO), Switzerland

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Wouter Schallier

Chief, Library and Web Services at United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Marc Christopher Schmidt

Policy Officer and Team Leader eProcurement at the European Commission

Gianluca Sensidoni

Sales & Bid Manager, Expert.ai

Olaf-Michael Stefanov

AsLing Vice President - International Association for Advancement in Language Technology

Armando Stellato

University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Simon Steuer

Head of sector, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg

Sander Stolk

Head of Innovation at Semmtech, The Netherlands

Michiel Stornebrink

Sr. Advisor Data Sharing and Semantic Interoperability, TNO, The Netherlands

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Viktória Šunderlíková

Opendata and Interoperability, Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization, Slovakia

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Efthimios Tambouris

Professor, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

Willem van Gemert

Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg

Willy Van Puymbroeck

Active Senior, European Commission

Ivo Velitchkov

Independent consultant

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Gerrit Versteegh

Linked Data Consultant at Semmtech, The Netherlands

Jef Vlegels

European Commission - Secretariat-General

Lucy Walhain

Knowledge Management Assistant, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg