About the event
The Stakeholder Forum is a public event organised on a yearly basis by the European Commission and one Member State within the context of the Digitising European Industry initiative (DEI). In coordination with the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourismm this year's edition focused on “Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Hubs - beyond 2020"
Artificial Intelligence is already showing its potential to tackle long-term challenges and to provide cost effective solutions. European policies are prioritising such potential through the support of Digital Innovation Hubs, industrial partnerships and a variety of additional initiatives that include funding instruments and other opportunities. On the other hand, ethical implications and legislative initiatives are receiving a prominent position in policy projections beyond 2020.
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are quickly becoming a core element of many industrial environments, the upcoming Horizon Europe and Digital Europe programmes are shaped to strongly support investments for the development and widespread deployment of digital technologies. Discussions unfolded around the ways in which digital transformation is shaping industry around Europe and how such transformation can be channeled towards a strong and innovative industrial ecosystem.
The event provided an opportunity for different actors involved in the digital value chain to share experiences, exchange best practices and discuss the future of EU digital industrial policy. Among them were representatives from Member States and regions, national initiatives for digitalisation, industry, SMEs, academia, Digital Innovation Hubs and research and technology centres. Between keynote speeches and participatory discussions, the event offered the possibility for online feedback provision.
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13th NOVEMBER
- Khalil Rouhana, Deputy Director-General, DG Connect, European Commission
- Reyes Maroto, Spanish Minister of Industry, Trade & Tourism
- Khalil Rouhana (DG Connect, European Commission)
- Lina Galvez Muñoz (Member of the European Parliament)
- Luis Abril Mazuelas (Indra Sistemas)
- Ilona Lundström (Finnish Ministry of Employment and Economy)
- Thomas Hahn (Siemens)
Moderation by Monica Valle, Founder and director of Bit Life Media
- Jean-Luc di Paola Galloni (ARTEMIS-IA and VP Valeo)
- Zdenka Lenartová (slovak.AI)
- José María Lucía (EY España)
- Christian Bartsch (KraussMaffei)
- Juan Carlos Coma (ATOS)
14th NOVEMBER
Moderation by Monica Valle, Founder and director of Bit Life Media
- Richard Benjamins (Telefónica)
- Meeri Haataja (Saidot)
- Joanna Goodey (High-Level Expert Group on AI)
- Aida Ponce (European Trade Union Institute)
- Moisés Barrio (Spanish Council of State)
Digital Innovation Hubs - success stories
The session is co-organised with the DIHnet network
Session introduced by Matthias Kuom, European Commission
Presentation of the I4MS Disruptors Award winners by Sanyu Karani (I4MSGo / Co-Founder at FundingBox) for best Application Experiment within the I4MS initiative
Christian Dubarry (Bpifrance)
Shiva Dustdar (Innovation Finance Advisory, European Investment Bank)
Evita Feldberga (Latvian Ministry of Economy)
Jorge Portugal (COTEC Portugal)
Roi Rodriguez de Bernardo (FundingBox, AI4EU, DIH2, RobotUnion)
Pekka Sivonen (Business Finland)
AI infrastructure for industry: towards a common European ecosystem
Panel Introduced by Svenja Falk, Accenture and Ernst Stoeckl-Pukall, German Ministry of Economics and Energy
Moderation by Arian Zwegers, European Commission
- Leda Bologni (ART-ER, Strategic Value Chain "Industrial Internet of Things")
- Roger Galofré Mercadé (R&D Department at OPP Group)
- Claire Stolwijk (TNO Strategy and Policy for Innovation)
- Nuria De Lama (BDVA)
- Giovanna Galasso (PwC)
- Massimo Pellegrino (New Ventures Leader and Global Ethical AI Leader, PwC)
- Valentina Ivanova (DIGIHALL)
- Paolo Dario (The BioRobotics institute)
- Filippo Lulli (Turf Europe)
- Robert Ginthör (Big Data Lab bei Know-Center)
- Gilbert Steger (Reval)
- Florian Mohr (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
- Adam Olszewski (HPC4 Poland)
- Holger Pfeifer (Munich Innovation Hub for Applied AI)
- Fintan Buckley (Ubotica Technologies Limited)
Panel Introduced by Max Lemke, Head of Unit for Technologies and Systems for Digitising Industry and Ulla Engelmann, Head of Unit Advanced Technologies, Clusters and Social Economy, European Commission
15th NOVEMBER
Digital Innovation Hubs in the Digital Europe Programme – knowledge transfer mechanisms
- Patrick Gatellier (AI4EU, Thales Group)
- Raul Orduna (Vicomtech Research Institute)
- Tomas Karasek (IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center, VŠ)
- Ron Joosten (RINIS, Routing Institute (inter)National Information Streams)
- Haluk Gökmen (Istanbul Hub, Egesys Ltd)
- Dolores Ordóñez (Balearics Digital Innovation Hub)
- Elisa Cauhe (European Open Science Cloud-DIH)
- Marta Gutiérrez Gòmez (SigneBlock)
- Panagiotis Demestichas (Wings ICT Solutions)
- Teemu Birkstedt (Saidot)
- Andra Lutu (Telefonica)
- Francesco Ferro (PAL-Robotics)
Digital Innovation Hubs in the Digital Europe Programme Participatory feedback session
This session will be introduced and moderated by Anne-Marie Sassen, Deputy-Head of Unit for Technologies and Systems for Digitising Industry and Gabriel Rissola, policy officer JRC, European Commission
Reference Testing and Experimentation facilities for AI powered applications in the DE Programme
Panel moderated by Cecile Huet, Deputy-Head of Unit for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, European Commission
Sander Janssen (University of Wageningen)
Manuella Portier (CAP Digital)
Stefano Stramigioli (University of Twente)
Related content
News article | 12 november 2019
The European Commission has published a draft document to prepare the implementation of European Digital Innovation Hubs in the Digital Europe Programme and is seeking feedback.