Report
You can check all the main messages and discussions from all the sessions by downloading the report.
Day 1
11:00 - 12:30 Widening towards central and eastern Europe
- Moderator: Andrea Halmos, DG CONNECT, European Commission
- Agnieszka Gajewska, PwC CEE Public sector and Infrastructure Leader
- DigiTech 4.0 DIH, Peter Statev, Bulgaria
- hub.in Bjelovar, Ivana Jurković, Croatia
- Silesian Competence Center of Industry 4.0, Anna Timofiejczuk, Poland
- IQ Kecskemét DIH, Péter Illyés,Hungary
- RHI Hub, Catherine Evans, Ireland
- MEDISDIH, Mario Ricco, Italy
- Katja Reppel, DG REGIO, European Commission
14:00 - 16:00 Institutional opening + high-level discussion on the role of Digital Innovation Hubs to bridge the digital divide
16:30 - 18:00 DIHs to deploy AI and robotics across Europe
- Marie-Luise Neitz, Echord ++
- Minna Lanz, TRINITY - DIH Innovation Action
- Ali Muhammad, L4MS, RobotUnion and DIH^2
- Krzysztof Lipiec, PIAP-ScienTech
- Patrick Gatellier, AI4EU (AI on demand platform)
- Reinhard Lafrenz, RODIN – Coordination and Support Action on DIHs in Robotics
- Giovanna Galasso, Director, Government & Digital Innovation Team PwC (Smart Factories- training to DIHs in EU13 Member States)
Day 2
09:00 - 10:00 The role of EU initiatives in developing fully operational Digital Innovation Hubs
- Hub4MANUVAL, Francisco Blanes, Director of the Institute of Automation and Robotics of the Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain
- iMan Norte, Pedro Rocha, Director of PRODUTECH, Portugal
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Ferec Ender, Hungary
- HPC4Poland, Adam Olszewski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre, Poland
- Smart AgriHubs, Grigoris Chatzikostas, Biosense Institute, Serbia
10:00 - 11:15 Digital Innovation Hubs as brokers in cross-border collaboration
- Moderator: Max Lemke, DG CNECT, European Commission
- Flanders Make, Ger van den Kerkhof, Senior Account Manager EU Affairs, Belgium
- Minalogic, Isabelle Guillaume, Chief Executive Officer, France
- Technologies for Efficiency Digital Innovation Hub Extremadura, Cristina Gallardo, Project Manager, Spain
- Accelerating Photonics innovation for SME’s (ACTPHAST 4.0), Hugo Thienpont, Director of Brussels Photonics Team of the Vrije University of Brussel, Belgium
- VDTC of the Fraunhofer IFF, Christian Blobner, Germany
- TNO, Maurits Butter, Senior Research of industrial innovation policy
11:45 - 13:00 Success stories from supported SMEs
- Mayte Carracedo, FundingBox, I4MS-GO + DIHNET.EU
- Rainer Günzler, Hahn-Schickard, Smart4Europe SAE CSA
- Orsola de Marco, Open Data Institute, Open Data Incubator and Data Pitch
14:15 - 15:45 Parallel sessions
Workshop for SMEs: I4MS Bootcamp
Digital Innovation Hubs in the regional ecosystem
- Moderator: Gabriel Risola, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
- Krzysztof Mieszkowski, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
- Marcello Colledari, University Polytechnic of Milano (Vanguard Initiative), Italy
- Luisa Boquete Pumar, Innovation Agency of Galicia (GAIN), Spain
- Philip Piatkiewicz, Scottish Enterprise, partner of ERRIN
Skills development for the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry: the role of DIHs
- Moderator: Anne-Marie Sassen, Deputy head of Unit, Technologies and Systems for Digitising Industry Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission
- Marta Pinzonei, BeInCPPS
- Susanne Kührer, MIDIH
- Rita Gomes Bola, AMable
- Tomáš Karásek, CloudiFacturing
- Juan Manuel Jauregui, L4MS
15:45 - 17:15 Upcoming funding and collaboration opportunities
- Moderator: Andrea Halmos, Policy Officer, DG CONNECT, European Commission
- Anne Marie Sassen, DG CONNECT, European Commission: calls in 2019 (and 2020) & opportunities for DIHs under the next EU Multi-Annual Financial Framework Programme
- Katja Reppel, DG REGIO, European Commission: European Regional Development Funds for DIHs in the next Multi-Annual Financial Framework Programme
- Marie Bourdon, CARSA, DIHELP- DIH Enhanced-Learning Programme
- Grzegorz Ambroziewicz, Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME)
- Andrei Bunis, DG GROW, Advanced technologies, clusters, and social economy
- Jorge Costa-Dantas-Faria, DG RTD, Open Innovation Test Beds for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnologies
- Bjorn-Soren Gigler, DG CONNECT, European Commission: Startup Europe
High-level governance meeting with Member States
During the event, representatives of the Member States discussed the future of the DIHs under the next EU financial programme, in particular within the Digital Europe Programme. This was a restricted side-event. You can access the report and conclusions from the discussion.