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During his 30 years in Brussels Nick has worked extensively with corporate clients on tech sector policy and regulation from the early discussions on cookies and ecommerce, telecoms regulation, to the emergence of platforms, and more recently on cloud, web 3, and AI. Prior to joining Brunswick Group Nick founded and ran his own boutique public affairs agency for 10 years.

Werner Stengg, who joined the European institutions in 1996, is currently a cabinet expert on the cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, dealing with digital matters, including the platform economy, data and artificial intelligence, and disinformation. Between 2006 and 2019, he held different head of unit positions across the European Commission, dealing with e-commerce and online platforms, public interest services, online gambling and postal services, and with the better regulation agenda. Prior to that, he was involved in mainstreaming policy evaluation across the Commission, in the negotiation of bilateral and multilateral textile trade agreements, and in the negotiations on regulatory files in the areas of aviation and maritime transport.

He earned his doctoral degree in economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

Davio Larnout is CEO at Radix, a Belgium-based Artificial Intelligence solution provider.

After working at PwC Advisory in Brussels as a Senior Technology Consultant, he decided to take a leap and founded Radix with co-founder Laurent in 2018.

In just over 5 years, Davio has grown Radix from a team of 3 to a team of 50. Radix counts hundreds of AI projects with proven impact.

As CEO, Davio’s goal is to enable Radix to achieve maximum impact and improve as many lives as possible.

Iarla Flynn is Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy with Google for Northern Europe, covering 10 countries, including the Nordics, Benelux & Ireland. In this role he engages with governments and other stakeholders to promote an open, secure & sustainable internet.

He joined the newly-formed Google public policy team in 2007 as European Public Policy Manager, before moving to Sydney, where he spent five years as Head of Public Policy for Australia and New Zealand.

He started his career in Ireland’s telecommunications sector, spending 12 years in senior roles in government and industry, building a policy and regulatory framework to deliver more competition and better choices for consumers. He holds a Masters in Economics from Trinity College Dublin.

Saskia Van Uffelen has been working in the sector of information and  communication technology (ICT) for over 25 years. She has held national and  international sales and marketing functions in leading companies such as Xerox,  Compaq, HP, Arinso, Bull, Ericsson and the French ICT group Inetum.

Since 2012, the federal government appointed Saskia Van Uffelen as ‘Digital  Skills Leader’ for Belgium representing the European Commission.

Saskia leads the National Coalition for Digital Skills & Jobs for Belgium. In  this role she focus to skill/re-skill all talents to maximize the activation of  everybody in the changing employment market going forward (DigiSkills  Belgium).

For Agoria (Federation representing the technology companies in Belgium) she  leads Digital team managing all the members of the technology, Digital and  Telecom sector.

Besides she is also actively promoting BeTheChange program leading to a  talent transition in a sustainable world.

As a manager, Saskia Van Uffelen always keeps a keen eye on the human aspects  of collaboration in a company. She focusses heavily on ensuring the synergies  between the different generations present in the workplace.

In interviews, opinion articles and her book ‘Iedereen Baas! – Tous Patron!’ she  encourages her colleagues to pay more attention to it as well.

The world, our society, is changing and is screaming for a new model. We are  living in a digital age, where everyone and everything is connected, where  competition is no longer from the sector and customers, users and citizens are in  the driver’s seat. Data is gold and sharing is the new having. Dare to help build a  new business world, with a balance between results in the short and long term.  But dare just as much to help to build another society through personal life  choices – a society that is ready for the next generation.

‘Dare for tomorrow’, the title of her latest book.

As a role model she received various awards among others

– 2011 ‘ICT Woman of the Year’ in 2011 (Data News),

– 2013 Inspiring Women in Science, Technology and research(Luxembourg),  – 2016 Gulden Spoor voor Economische uitstraling (Vlaanderen), – 2019 Leadership Award (Etion),

– Nominated as Manager of the Year 2019

Saskia Van Uffelen is married and a mother of five.

Gino Priem is Vice President R&D at Barco, a global visualization and collaboration technology company with headquarters in Belgium, where he is leading the global R&D division for the Clickshare business unit, focusing on innovation in the enterprise market.

Before joining Barco in 2016, Gino led different software development groups at Philips Consumer Lifestyle as well as various global research and innovation programs aimed at the consumer TV market. He received a PhD in Physics Engineering from Ghent University, where he did research on a variety of applications in the domain of nanophotonics and published various papers in international journals and conferences on these topics.

Paul Adamson is chairman of Forum Europe and Forum Global and founder of Encompass (previously E!Sharp), an online magazine and discussion space dedicated to covering the European Union and Europe’s place in the world.

Paul is a member of the Centre for European Reform’s advisory board and Rand Europe’s Council of Advisors. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, King’s College London, a Senior Adviser at the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Britain and Europe at the University of Surrey. He is a patron of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.

In 2012, Paul was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to promoting understanding of the European Union” and in 2016 he was made a Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite by the French government.

Staffan Lindmark has a background in the IT sector with responsibilities ranging from systems management to information security policies and procurement of IT systems and services. In 2008 he joined the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS), the national regulatory authority for electronic communications, where he stayed in several roles at the Secure Communications Department until December 2019. He is now with the Digital Development Division at the Ministry of Infrastructure.

Staffan Lindmark holds a Master of Laws degree from Stockholm University, and has previously attended both University of Glasgow and Linköping University.

Martijn Lucassen is Deputy Director of the Digital Economy Department at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. He heads a team working on issues related to telecommunications and digitalization policy, with a special focus on strategic autonomy and economic security in the digital domain, as well as cybersecurity. He has held this position since December 2020.

Before joining the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, Martijn served as a career diplomat at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from 2005 until 2020. During these years, he held several positions, including at the Netherlands’ embassy in Skopje, North Macedonia, and in the Middle East. In 2014 and 2015, he was seconded to the Office of the Quartet Representative Tony Blair, in Jerusalem, where he served as Chief of Staff. In 2017, Martijn was seconded to the Cabinet and Prime Minister’s Office, where he served as EU Advisor to Prime Minister Mark Rutte. He held this position until December 2020.

Martijn earned an MA in International Relations & Organizations, as well as an MA in Euroculture, both at the University of Groningen. He is married and has three children.

Professionally, Mr. Luykx thrives when he can start with a whiteboard, identify an opportunity, and drive this forward as a strategic project towards impact and value to the organization. Personally, he loves helping his son build the next Lego city or building project, seeing where our imagination takes us.

He is responsible for building and executing regulatory strategies at a global level. This means engaging with customers, partners, and policymakers on various dimensions of the increasingly complex regulatory landscape, with a strong focus on privacy and cybersecurity.

Mr. Luykx has provided in-house advice on policy developments, created corporate positions on key issues, and supported thought leadership.

– Fascinated by technology and intersection with policy.
– Loves cross organizational collaboration and strategic projects.
– Almost 15 years of experience in Government Relations.

Matthias Bauer is a German economist and Director at the European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE). He works on EU and global trade policy with a focus on digital and technology policymaking.

Matthias Bauer is the author of several studies, economic impact assessments and policy briefs in the fields of international trade, digital markets, the regulation of data, innovation, and intellectual property rights. He is regularly consulted by private and public sector organisations on a broad range of policy issues ranging from impact analysis to strategic advice.

Bauer grew up in Eastern Germany. He is an alumni of the US international visitor leadership program (IVLP). He studied business administration at the University of Hull, UK, and economics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. He received his Ph.D. degree after joining the Bundesbank graduate programme on the “Foundations of Global Financial Markets and Financial Stability”.

Before joining ECIPE, Matthias Bauer was the Coordinator of International Political Economy at the international cooperation division of Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin. He previously held positions at DekaBank, UBS, Mercedes-Benz China, and worked as a start-up and business development consultant. Matthias is a member of Tutwa Europe’s economic policy expert network. He is also the co-founder of the German-based Institute for Digital Education (IfODiB).

Jeremy Rollison is Head of EU Policy, European Government Affairs within Microsoft’s Corporate, External, & Legal Affairs (CELA) group. Based in Brussels, he manages the team responsible for Digital Transformation and Sustainability, focusing specifically on data policy topics. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked in the Government Relations team at Nokia in the company’s EU representative office and was previously Director of the European Digital Media Association (EDiMA; now Dot.Europe) in Brussels. He has over 15 years of experience in Brussels at the company, association, and consultancy levels, focusing and engaging with EU stakeholders on issues related to the development and delivery of online services in the single market and corresponding EU regulatory policy, with an increasing cross-sectoral policy focus linked to the digital transformation journey(s) of Microsoft customers.

Paul Adamson is chairman of Forum Europe and Forum Global and founder of Encompass (previously E!Sharp), an online magazine and discussion space dedicated to covering the European Union and Europe’s place in the world.

Paul is a member of the Centre for European Reform’s advisory board and Rand Europe’s Council of Advisors. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, King’s College London, a Senior Adviser at the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Britain and Europe at the University of Surrey. He is a patron of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.

In 2012, Paul was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to promoting understanding of the European Union” and in 2016 he was made a Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite by the French government.

Minister of Economic Affairs and Information Technology from 17 April 2023. He is a member of the Eesti 200 party.

Tiit Riisalo was born in Tallinn on 17 February 1967. He is a father of two daughters. Riisalo joined the Eesti 200 political party in 2022. Previously, he was a member of the Pro Patria and Res Publica Union (IRL) in 2012–2016 and was the party’s secretary general in 2012–2015.

Preparation of documentation and reports, as well as processing and coordination of the actions related to the participation of the Department in the Council of Ministers, the Delegated Commissions of the Government and the General Commission of Secretaries of State and Undersecretaries.

Monitoring and reporting on the acts and provisions of the Autonomous Communities; Processing of agreements regulated in Chapter VI of the preliminary title of the Law 40/2015, of October 1, on the Legal Regime of the Public Sector; Processing the publication in the “Official State Gazette” of the provisions general and administrative acts of the Ministry and its public agencies.

Doctor in Law (Complutense University of Madrid); Entry by opposition in free shift to the Superior Body of Civil Administrators of the State (Promotion L); Graduate in Law (University of Alicante); Masters in Public Law (Complutense University of Madrid), and in State Civil Administration (INAP/UIMP).

Inés Moreno-Alonso is Allied for Startups’ EU Director. In her role, she advocates for better regulation for tech startups in the European Union and beyond. With a passion for technology and entrepreneurship, Ines has dedicated her career to driving policies and initiatives that foster growth and support for startups. She collaborates with policymakers, industry stakeholders, and startup communities to address challenges and unlock opportunities that drive innovation forward, and has a seat on the European Startups Nations Alliance Advisory Board. She holds an MA from the University of Kent in Political Strategy and Communications and is based in Brussels.

Amazon Vice-President EU Public Policy, Lucy Cronin is a senior public affairs professional with 30 years’ experience, working for a wide range of highly regulated sectors impacted by international, EU, national and local policy developments. During that time, Lucy has also been a director of a range of businesses, charities and NGOs and has delivered guest lectures on political communications at Dublin City University. Lucy has a B.A. in political science from Trinity College Dublin and a Masters in International Relations from Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Born in Jemappes, Belgium, on May 8, 1979, Fabrice Brion graduated from mechanical engineering University and from the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons in Master in Innovation Management. Fabrice began his professional career at Emerson Process Management – CSI for 4 years as an industrial reliability engineer. In 2004, he decided to take a decisive turn in his life by launching his own company in predictive maintenance and reliability solutions. This is how I-care was born. In 2013, after more than 5 years of research and development, I-care launches its Wi-care TM product line based on Mr. Brion request and technical requirements, state-of-the-art vibration sensors equipped with wireless transmitters, supported by I-care TM, the online data processing portal also developed in-house. Since their launch, Wi-care TM and I-see TM have continued to improve and are now among the best solutions in the market for 4.0 maintenance. Mr. Brion is still the main shareholder of I-Care and is the CEO and Chairman of the board for almost 20 years. He is involved in the day to day job of I-Care by taking care of all the strategic tasks and by communicating about the values of I-Care.

Fabrice Brion is also President of Club Mons 2025 Entreprises, Director of BEMAS (Belgian Maintenance Association) and Industry Expert 4.0 / Maintenance 4.0 at Pole MecaTech.and president of SPARKoH.

I started my career in the digital space in Chile where I worked for 2 early-stage startups, helping them find a market and grow. Back in Belgium, I joined AppTweak when it had 7 employees and had just met product-market fit. I helped AppTweak scale and expand globally, opening offices in San Francisco, Bangalore, and Tokyo. As Chief Product Officer, I lead a team of 50+ product-tech people in building a a stellar App Store Acquisition platform for mobile leaders across the globe.

Ilsa Godlovitch is Director, Brussels at WIK-Consult. She is an expert on telecoms and the digital economy with more than 20 years experience in managing and conducting research and regulatory projects in this field. Ilsa has led studies for the European Commission on the “Review of the Broadband Cost Reduction Directive” (leading to the Gigabit Infrastructure Act) and implementation of the “Open Internet Regulations”, as well as the Impact Assessment for the “Digital Markets Act”. Ilsa has also conducted research for the European Parliament, and industry on subjects ranging from cloud interoperability to behavioural advertising and the digitisation of SMEs.

Between 2007-2012, Ilsa was Director at the pan-European trade association ECTA, where she was responsible for an annual benchmark of regulation and outcomes in the telecoms sector covering 22 countries. Between 1998-2002 Ilsa was senior advisor at the UK regulatory authority Oftel, where she was responsible inter alia for developing policy and negotiating alongside the Ministry on the e-Commerce Directive and EU Framework for Electronic Communications.

Ilsa started her career as a technology journalist, launching an early Internet magazine, Cyberia, in 1996. She then joined Microsoft and was a member of the launch team of MSN News and the Microsoft Network in the UK between 1997-1998. Ilsa has a Postgraduate Certificate in Economics from London University and an MA in Classics from Oxford University.

Professor Konstantinos Masselos has been appointed as the President of the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT) in February 2018. He has been elected to serve as Vice-Chair of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) for 2019.

In 2006 he joined University of Peloponnese, where he is currently a Professor in Computing Systems Design in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications. Konstantinos served as Rector of the above university the period 2012-2017. During the period 2005 to 2008, he was Lecturer in digital systems at the Imperial College London. Also from 2010 to 2016 he served as Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, at the Imperial College London. From 2001 to 2004 he joined Intracom Telecom SA in Greece.

Konstantinos has been involved in several research and development projects and has consulting experience in industry and public organizations. Since 2005 he has been regularly involved as an expert in different European Commission units. Additionally, Konstantinos was member of the Scientific Committee of European COoperation in Science and Technology (COST) organization from 2015 to 2017. He has authored more than 120 papers in international journals and conferences.

A Swiss and Canadian national, Daniel Friedlaender has been working in public affairs and policy for over 20 years. He holds an MA in European Political and Administrative Studies from the College of Europe, as well as an executive MBA from Imperial College, focusing on digital innovation and platform convergence.
Friedlaender started as a political staffer in Canada prior to moving to Europe, first working in strategic communications before representing the global recording industry. In 2016 he was hired to open and lead the new office of the Sky Group (later part of Comcast) in Brussels. As Head of the EU Office and Sky’s European Affairs Director, Friedlaender worked across the creative, cultural, telecoms, and technology sectors. In this role, he also chaired the European VoD Coalition and sat on the board of the Association of Commercial Television, as well as many other organisations.

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Mr. Robert Condon is now the Head of Government & Policy Advocacy Europe Middle & East Africa at Ericsson.

Mr. Condon joined Hume Brophy in 2008 and became Managing Director London in 2013. Previously, he worked at a number of other communications agencies in London and at one of the large management consultancies. I also spent time at the European Commission, lectured in European Politics and Economics and co-founded a magazine in China.

Ben Wreschner is Chief Economist for Vodafone Group. Ben has been in the Digital sector for 20 years. He has worked extensively in the policy and public affairs environment representing Vodafone at key meetings with various institutions. Ben is also the Chairman of the European Policy Group for the GSMA (Mobile industry association). Ben holds a BSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics.

Dr. Joanna Świątkowska is the COO at the European Cyber Security Organisation. In years 2020–2022, she held the role of Director in the Supply Chain Cyber and Information Security team at UBS. She was the initiator and Programme Director of the European Cybersecurity Forum – CYBERSEC from 2014 to 2019. In addition, she worked as Assistant Professor at AGH University of Science and Technology from 2018 to 2020 and cooperated with the Kosciuszko Institute as the Senior Cybersecurity Expert from 2009 to 2019.

The author of numerous articles, reports, and analyses concerning cybersecurity, Ms. Świątkowska is a recognized speaker at many national and international conferences and seminars and brings her contributions to a wide range of cybersecurity topics. She was listed among the 100 Eastern Europe’s emerging technology stars by the Financial Times & New Europe 100 for 2017, as well as inserted among the Top 20 Women in Cybersecurity by the Women in Tech Summit for 2019.

Phédra Clouner is the deputy director general of the Center for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) , the Belgian national cybersecurity agency, since its creation a little over 8 years ago. The CCB supervises, coordinates and monitors the implementation of the Belgian cybersecurity strategy, and defines and implements concrete actions for the government, operators of vital interest, private companies and the general public to raise the Belgian cyberresilience.

Before she became deputy director general of the CCB, after having obtained a Master’s degree in Ancient History and Master’s degree in Information & Communication Technology (INFODOC) at the ULB, Phédra Clouner started her carrier at the Belgian Ministry of Finance as IT Project Manager. Specializing in document management, enterprise content management and records management, she becomes responsible of information management, business intelligence and web content management at the Ministry of Justice. In parallel, she becomes chair of document@work, the belgo-Luxembourg-association for Enterprise Content Management and founds and manages the Belgian antenna of FEDISA international (the federation for information lifecycle management, storage and archiving). Given her passion for information security, she also took up a CISO function for the Ministry of Justice and evolves further in that area.

She’s Founding Member of the Women4Cyber Initiative, launched by European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO).

She’s the co-founder of the Belgian Chapter of Women4Cyber.

She’s Vice-Chair of the Belgian Cybersecurity Coalition.

She’s also member of the Advisory board of The FIC (Forum International de la Cybersécurité) .

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pclouner/

Jef Cools has studied applied economics, political sciences and public management at the universities of Hasselt, Bordeaux and Leuven. He has also completed a number of trainings on cyber security (awareness).

In 2003 he joined the Belgian High Council for the Self-Employed and the SMEs as an attaché. He was promoted project leader in 2007 and advisor in 2009.

The Belgian High Council for the Self-Employed and the SMEs is a Belgian federal advisory body and unites 180 SME business federations that represent the self-employed, liberal professions and SMEs. It has three tasks:  advising Belgian and European policy makers, facilitating collaboration between the business federations and representing the self-employed and SMEs at other institutions.

Jef Cools prepares public policy recommendations for Belgian and European policy makers and he promotes cooperation between business federations in different policy fields such as SME policy, digitalization, cyber security, data privacy and sustainable development.

Since 2018 he represents his organisation and its members at the Belgian Cyber Security Coalition. He is also member of the National Cybersecurity Council Belgium of the Centre for Cyber security Belgium, member of the steering group of the Cyber4SME policy program of the Belgian Federal Public Service Economy and representative at the European Cyber Security Organisation.

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