Join representatives of the EU institutions, member states, businesses and other experts for a discussion on the roadmap to build a successful European Cloud Federation. As Germany and France present GAIA-X – a proposal for a decentralised cloud infrastructure – and as the European Commission prepares the follow-up to its Data Strategy, Forum Europe & HPE are pleased to host this discussion on the policies, business models and investments needed to design the blueprint for Europe’s future data economy infrastructure. The discussion will also analyse critical aspects of the project such as European data monetisation and data ownership.
The previous edition of the Public Sector Transformation event looked at how AI and high performance computing is being deployed across the public sector to provide participants an understanding of the opportunities that lie ahead in the next stage of the public sector modernisation process.
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The discussion will run on Forum Europe’s virtual event platform and there are no fees to participate. Click here to register your place.
09:55 – 10:00
Opening Remarks
Irena Bednarich, Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa , HPEIrena 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
Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa, HPE
10:00 – 10:10
Pearse O'Donohue, Director for Future Networks, DG Connect, European CommissionBio to be updated shortly
Pearse O’Donohue
Director for Future Networks, DG Connect, European Commission
10:10 – 10:20
Norbert Schultes, Head of the Economic Dept. at the Perm. Rep. of GermanyBio to be updated shortly
Norbert Schultes
Head of the Economic Dept. at the Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU
10:20 – 11:30
Discussion
Irena Bednarich, Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa, HPEIrena 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
Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa, HPE
Gilles Thiebaut, Senior VP and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe, HPEAs Managing Director for the Northern Western Europe region (France, Belgium, Denmark, Finland and Lithuania, Luxembourg , Netherland, Norway and Sweden) Gilles is responsible for developing and driving growth potential in the region and to extend HPE’s leadership position in these markets.
Prior to this position, Gilles Thiebaut had been Managing Director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise France for 3 years. Graduate from the Solvay Business School and from the Insead, Gilles Thiebaut started his career in 1995 at Xerox. Two years later,
he joined HP, where he held several commercial and management
functions. In 2007, Gilles was appointed Vice President of ESSN (Servers, Storage and Network division) for Global Western Europe area and in 2011 Gilles became Vice-Président for Europe ,Middle Est and Africa for the Indirect Sales, overseeing the network of resellers, distributors, alliances, SMB segments and Service Providers.
Over the course of his more than 22 year-career, Gilles has built extensive leadership and operational knowledge at country and regional level and has delivered impressive results in terms of revenue growth and organisational transformation organizations and is well recognized in the IT industry.
Gilles Thiebaut
Senior VP and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe, HPE
Kristof de Spiegeleer, Founder and CEO, ThreeFold FoundationBio to be updated shortly
Kristof de Spiegeleer
Founder and CEO, ThreeFold Foundation
Pearse O'Donohue, Director for Future Networks, DG Connect, European CommissionBio to be updated shortly
Pearse O’Donohue
Director for Future Networks, DG Connect, European Commission
11:30
Closing Remarks
Norbert Schultes, Head of the Economic Dept. at the Perm. Rep. of GermanyBio to be updated shortly
Pearse O'Donohue, Director, Future Networks, DG CONNECT, European CommissionBio will appear here shortly
Director, Future Networks, DG CONNECT
European Commission
Kristof de Spiegeleer, Founder and CEO, ThreeFold FoundationBio to be updated shortly
Founder and CEO
ThreeFold Foundation
Gilles Thiebaut, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe, HPEBio will appear here shortly.
Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe
HPE
Irena Bednarich, Director, European Corporate Affairs, HPEBio will appear here shortly.
Director, European Corporate Affairs
HPE
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Applies to: European Commission/ Parliament/ Council, EU Permanent Representations, Journalist/Press
* Please note that fees do not include Belgian VAT @ 21%, and this amount will be added to the total price when you are invoiced.
Group discounts were available when registering multiple delegates on the same booking, as shown below.
| Number of delegates | Group discount |
|---|---|
| 3 – 5 | 10% |
| 6 - 8 | 20% |
| 9+ | 25% |
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