Reliable, fast, and scalable digital government services have rarely been more important: The COVID-19 pandemic has made clear that public sector organisations must be able to adapt to rapidly changing environments while strengthening their resilience to external shocks. The European Commission is preparing ambitious plans to revamp Europe’s data economy, with initiatives such as the European Alliance for Industrial Data and Clouds, and with a major government and institutional summit on GAIA-X summit being held in mid-November, HPE will host its 5th “Public Sector Transformation Conference” to discuss what these trends and activities mean for the future of government IT. The conference will provide a first opportunity for businesses, EU institutions and national authorities to exchange dialogue on how the public sector (PS) can benefit from new business models in digital infrastructure and data management, and discuss the trends that will underpin the future development of public sector IT infrastructure as the EU sets itself on the path to recovery.
Dr. Markus Richter
State Secretary and Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology
German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community
Johannes Hahn
European Commissioner for Budget and Administration
Prof. Dr. Boris Otto
Member of the Interim Management Team and acting Interim CTO of the GAIA-X AISBL (under incorporation)
10:00 – 10:05
Welcome 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
EMEA Director, Corporate Affairs, HPE
10:05 – 10:55
Keynote Speeches
Dr. Markus Richter State Secretary and Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and CommunityBio to be updated soon
Johannes Hahn
European Commissioner for Budget and Administration
Dr. Markus Richter State Secretary and Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and CommunityBio to be updated soon
Dr. Markus Richter
State Secretary and Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology, German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community
Khalil Rouhana, Deputy Director General, DG CONNECT, European CommissionKhalil Rouhana is the Deputy Director-General in DG CONNECT (Communications Networks, Content & Technology) since 1/12/2016. His responsibilities include the policies for digital economy and society and notably for research, innovation and industrial strategies, digital solutions for societal challenges and governments as well as cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Before that he was Director for Digital Industry in DG CONNECT supporting the competitiveness of core digital sectors in Europe and the digitisation of all industrial sectors of the economy.
In his previous experiences in the Commission, he was the Director for Digital content & Cognitive systems, the Head of Unit in charge of ICT research and Innovation strategy, and started as a project officer in the ESPRIT programme in the areas of High Performance Computing and Future and Emerging technologies.
Before joining the Commission in 1992, he was for 5 years the director of an institute and school of engineering (Grande Ecole) in France. He started his career as research and development engineer for the aeronautics industry, worked for the French University in Beirut and created also his own engineering company. He has a master degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (Supelec, France).
Khalil Rouhana
Deputy Director General, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Gilles Thiebaut SVP and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe, HPEBio to be updated soon
Gilles Thiebaut
SVP and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe, HPE
11:00 – 12:00
Panel 1 : Shaping resilient and agile government IT infrastructure: how will the decentralized EU cloud federation work in practice and what will be the implications for national G-Clouds
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
EMEA Director, Corporate Affairs, HPE
Prof. Dr. Boris Otto, Gaia-X Board of DirectorsProf. 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)
Mário Campolargo Acting Director-General, DG DIGIT, European CommissionMário Campolargo is the Deputy Director-General at DG DIGIT (Informatics) in the European Commission with responsibility for development of Digital Services, Digital Workplace and Cloud Infrastructures. He holds responsibility for coordinating the implementation of both the ICT based Synergies and Efficiencies Programme and the European Commission Digital Strategy. Since mid-March 2020, he is also Acting Director-General during the transition period.
Previously he has occupied several positions in the European Commission DG CONNECT, his most recent post being Director for “Future Networks” (policy development and research supporting the Digital Single Market from the angles of 5G networks, IoT, Cloud and Next Generation Internet). Before that, he was successively Head of Unit for eInfrastructures and Director for “Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures”.
Before joining the European Commission in 1990, he worked for 12 years in the R&D Centre of Portugal Telecom as a researcher and manager.
He holds a Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Coimbra, a Master of Science in Computing Science from Imperial College London, a Post graduate in Management from Solvay Business School Brussels and a European Studies Diploma from Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve.
Mário Campolargo
Acting Director-General, DG DIGIT, European Commission
Pierre Chastanet, Head of Unit, Cloud & Software Unit, DG Connect, European CommissionBio to be updated soon
Pierre Chastanet
Head of Unit, Cloud & Software Unit, DG Connect, European Commission
Cedric Parent, Deputy-CEO and Chief Marketing Officer, OrangeBio to be updated soon
Cedric Parent
Deputy CEO and Chief Marketing Officer, Orange Cloud for Business
Ralph Schirmeisen, HPE Chief Technologist for Public Sector, GermanyAn experienced technologist, Ralph has spent 25 years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise advising organisations in the private and public sectors on large scale digital transformation projects and deployment of cutting edge cloud and data solutions. During his tenure at HPE Ralph has served in a number of roles including as a Chief Technologist for the healthcare industry, a Smart City lead architect and a Big Data solution architect. He is now focused on bringing his wealth of expertise to improving public sector organisations across Germany.
Ralph Schirmeisen
Chief Technologist for Public Sector, HPE
12:10 – 13:15
Panel 2 : How to turn data into insights: towards an agile and secure management of Public Sector Data
Manju George, Head, Strategy, Platform on Digital Economy and New Value Creation, World Economic ForumModerated by: Manju George
Head, Strategy, Platform on Digital Economy and New Value Creation, World Economic Forum
Federico Milani, Deputy Head of Unit, Data Policy and Innovation, DG Connect, European CommissionFederico Milani
Deputy Head of Unit, Data Policy and Innovation, DG Connect, European Commission
Miapetra Kumpula Natri MEP (S & D, FIN), Rapporteur of the Parliament’s Data StrategyMiapetra Kumpula-Natri is a MEP representing Finland and the S&D Group. She is the first vice-chair of the Artificial Intelligence in digital age (AIDA) special committee, member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and a substitute of the Committees on International Trade (INTA) and on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO). Digitalization, data economy, artificial intelligence and teleoperation markets are close to her heart, and in the European Parliament she is also known as “Madame Roaming” and “Digi-MEP”. At the moment Miapetra is the rapporteur on the European Parliament’s own-initiative report on data strategy and Parliament’s standing rapporteur on the WTO e-commerce negotiations. For 11 years, Miapetra was a member of the Finnish Parliament before joining European Parliament
Miapetra Kumpula-Natri MEP (S & D, FIN)
Rapporteur of the Parliament’s Data Strategy
Mats Nordlund, Director Research and Special Projects, Zenuity; Member of the Steering Committee of AI Innovation of SwedenDr. Nordlund has spent most of his previous career in the industry, first as head of technology strategy and technology acquisition at Saab AB Corporate Technology, and later 12 years as head of R&D for Emerson Process Management – Level and Marine. He also has a background from MIT where he, among other things. started the SDM program. He has also worked for 3 years as head of research programs at Skoltech, Moscow Russia – a new state-of-the-art university that was started in collaboration with MIT and is a key component of the federal economic modernization program. He recently conceived and established AI Sweden (www.ai.se) which is the national Swedish AI center including the National Data factory. This was done in close collaboration with the Government and Industry partners.
Mats Nordlund
(Ph.D) Director of Research at Zenseact, Sweden
Edmondo Orlotti, EMEA Data and AI Business Development Executive, HPEEdmondo 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
13:15
Closing 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
EMEA Director, Corporate Affairs, HPE
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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