The Covid-19 crisis has exposed shortcomings in the digital capacity of the European public sector, underlining the need to accelerate its technological transformation to enhance responsiveness to current needs and anticipate future challenges. Public sector modernisation was rightly identified as one of the flagships of the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) that will help Europe emerge stronger and more resilient from the current crisis. However, for Europe’s public sector digital transformation to be impactful, it is paramount to create the right conditions, from an infrastructure and policy perspective.
Against this background, the 6th edition of the Public Sector Transformation conference will analyse cloud policies for the management of the Public Sector data recently issued by a number of European Member States. It will discuss the industrial policies for the Public Sector cloud in Europe analysing the ability of small and medium European Cloud Service providers to access these markets. It will also focus on the creation of data spaces for the Public Administration and how they can incentivize the generation of news services in Europe.
09:30- 09:35
Welcome Remarks
Irena Bednarich, Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa , HPE Irena Bednarich is the Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this role, she leads HPE’s government relations and public policy team in the region and supports key public sector pursuits across EMEA.
Irena has wide-ranging experience in representing the tech sector at the European level; she currently holds several industry leadership roles including serving in her second term on the Board of DIGITALEUROPE, the EU-wide representation body for the digital and technology sectors.
After 14 years in Brussels, Irena has recently relocated to Dubai, UAE, to drive stronger alignment with the business in an important growth region. Irena is fluent in Italian, Slovenian, French, English and German and has working knowledge of Spanish.
Irena Bednarich
EMEA Director, Corporate Affairs, HPE
09:35 – 10:20
Keynote Speeches: How will the European Recovery and Resilience Plans support the digitisation of Public Sector in Europe?
Gilles Thiebaut SVP and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe, HPE Bio to be updated soon
Gilles Thiebaut
SVP and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe, HPE
10:20 – 11:35
Panel 1: National clouds: towards a public sector data sovereignty?
Irena Bednarich, Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa , HPE Irena Bednarich is the Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this role, she leads HPE’s government relations and public policy team in the region and supports key public sector pursuits across EMEA.
Irena has wide-ranging experience in representing the tech sector at the European level; she currently holds several industry leadership roles including serving in her second term on the Board of DIGITALEUROPE, the EU-wide representation body for the digital and technology sectors.
After 14 years in Brussels, Irena has recently relocated to Dubai, UAE, to drive stronger alignment with the business in an important growth region. Irena is fluent in Italian, Slovenian, French, English and German and has working knowledge of Spanish.
Moderated by: Irena Bednarich
EMEA Director, Corporate Affairs, HPE
Prof. Dr. Boris Otto, Gaia-X Board of Directors Prof. Dr. Boris Otto holds the Chair for Industrial Information Management at TU Dortmund University and is the Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST in Dortmund. He received his doctorate degree from the University of Stuttgart and his post-doctoral qualification (“habilitation”) from the University of St. Gallen. His research focuses on industrial information management, corporate data management and business networks and ecosystems. He is Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the International Data Spaces (IDS) Association.
Prof. Dr. Boris Otto
Member of the Interim Management Team and acting Interim CTO of the GAIA-X AISBL (under incorporation)
11:35- 12:50
Panel 2: National centralisation vs European decentralisation: what architecture for public administration data spaces
Edmondo Orlotti, EMEA Data and AI Business Development Executive, HPE Edmondo Orlotti runs Business Development for Artificial Intelligence at Hewlett Packard Enterprise covering Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has been addressing advanced analytics needs of industrial and academic environments from the very beginning of the deep learning age. Prior to HPE, he’s been covering several roles in sales and marketing for the Professional Division of NVIDIA. He’s also a professional journalist since 2001.
Edmondo Orlotti
EMEA Data and AI Business Development Executive, HPE
12:50 – 13:00
Closing Remarks
Irena Bednarich, Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa , HPE Irena Bednarich is the Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this role, she leads HPE’s government relations and public policy team in the region and supports key public sector pursuits across EMEA.
Irena has wide-ranging experience in representing the tech sector at the European level; she currently holds several industry leadership roles including serving in her second term on the Board of DIGITALEUROPE, the EU-wide representation body for the digital and technology sectors.
After 14 years in Brussels, Irena has recently relocated to Dubai, UAE, to drive stronger alignment with the business in an important growth region. Irena is fluent in Italian, Slovenian, French, English and German and has working knowledge of Spanish.
Irena Bednarich
EMEA Director, Corporate Affairs, HPE
Norbert Schultes, Head of the Economic Dept. at the Perm. Rep. of Germany Bio to be updated shortly
Pearse O'Donohue, Director, Future Networks, DG CONNECT, European Commission Bio will appear here shortly
Director, Future Networks, DG CONNECT
European Commission
Kristof de Spiegeleer, Founder and CEO, ThreeFold Foundation Bio to be updated shortly
Founder and CEO
ThreeFold Foundation
Gilles Thiebaut, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe, HPE Bio will appear here shortly.
Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe
HPE
Irena Bednarich, Director, European Corporate Affairs, HPE Bio will appear here shortly.
Director, European Corporate Affairs
HPE
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Luke Pearson
Event Manager
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