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New world order: Science, technology & tradeShaping the next Framework Programme

27th June 2017Palais des Académies, Brussels

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The world is changing fast. Will technology trade barriers rise? Will relations among Europe, the US, China, Russia and other powers be upended? Will research priorities change – for climate, energy, health, defence? All of these questions will force new strategies for companies, universities and governments around the world.

The annual Science|Business Network conference focuses on how international relations in science, technology and trade could be transformed – and how these changes will, in turn, affect the EU’s next flagship R&D effort, Framework Programme 9.

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New world order: Science, technology & tradeShaping the next Framework Programme

09:00 Welcome by Richard L. Hudson, Editor-in-chief and Vice Chair of the Board, Science|Business

09:05 The new world order: What it means for research and innovation > Jean Chambaz, President, Pierre and Marie Curie University

> Christian Leffler, Deputy Secretary General for Global and Economic Issues, European External Action Service

> Joanna Newman, Secretary General, The Association of Commonwealth Universities

> Maria Fernanda Rollo, Secretary of State of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Government of Portugal

> Walter Weigel, Vice President, Huawei European Research Institute

Moderated by Richard L. Hudson, Editor-in-chief and Vice Chair of the Board, Science|Business

10:00 Keynote speech By Jyrki Katainen, Vice-President for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness,

European Commission

10:30 The impact on the next Framework Programme Q&A with Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission

11:00 Coffee

11:30 Parallel sessions: What the new world order means for …

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Healthcare. The Ebola crisis was a wake-up call for international cooperation > Heidi Larson, Director, The

Vaccine Confidence Project; Professor, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, LSHTM

> Jean Lang, Associate Vice President, R&D Projects Global Health, Partnerships & Funding, Sanofi Pasteur

> Xavier Prats Monné, Director-General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission

> Heinz-Josef Schmitt, Senior Director Pifzer Vaccines, Head (European Union) Vaccines Medicines Development Group and Scientific Affairs, Pfizer

Moderated by Monica Dietl, Senior Advisor, Science|Business

Climate & Energy. If the US is out of the picture, what’s next for climate and renewable energy research? > Patrick Child, Deputy

Director-General, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

> Jill Duggan, Director of Policy, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

> Philippe Tanguy, Vice President R&D Partnerships, Total

Moderated by Eric Drosin, Director of Strategic Development & Communications, Science|Business

Cyber Security. After Wanna Cry can we ever feel safe online again? > Edit Herczog, Managing Director,

Vision & Values SPRL; Member of the RDA World Council

> Olav Lysne, Professor, University of Oslo; Section Director, Simula Research Laboratory

> Fabio Martinelli, First Director of the Board, European Cyber Security Organisation

> Brian Roeten, COO, CopSonic

> Marietje Schaake, Member, European Parliament (video message)

Moderated by David Pringle, Senior Advisor, Science|Business

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12:30 Lunch

13:30 > Global disruptors (and creators): Projects that can make a difference Research and innovation are about a lot more than gadgets and medicines; they can provide

entirely new ways to solve old problems. Four visionary examples.

> The immunology of Alzheimer’s – Michal Schwartz, Professor for Neuroimmunology, Weizmann Institute of Science

> The open science revolution – Kamila Markram, CEO, Frontiers - Open Science Platform

> Science as diplomacy: PRIMA in the Mediterranean – Angelo Riccaboni, Chair, Prima Foundation

> The Innovation Bank – Andre Lee, Founder, Snowflake Innovations; Founder, Technology Reserve

Moderated by Richard L. Hudson, Editor-in-Chief and Vice Chair of the Board, Science|Business

14:30 > Breakouts: Making international research collaboration work Some projects only make sense in an international context. Workshops to examine a few.

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The Cloud. Despite tensions, there really is growing cross-border collaboration on making the cloud work for science. > Brendan Bouffler, Head

of Amazon Web Services’ Research Cloud Program, Amazon

> Jean-Claude Burgelman, Head of Unit, Science Policy, Foresight and Data, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission

> Robert Jones, Coordinator, Helix Nebula, CERN

> Jukka Mönkkönen, Rector, University of Eastern Finland

Moderated by David Pringle, Senior Advisor, Science|Business

Blue money: Case studies in international maritime innovation. How can we scale these up globally? > Gunnar Brink, Project Lead of

a Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE team, Fraunhofer IOSB

> John Bell, Director for Bioeconomy, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

> Amleto Gabellone, Programme Manager, Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation, NATO S&T Organisation

> Mika Lautanala, Executive Director, Tekes

> Mervi Pitkänen, Head of External Funding, Innovation & Technology, Rolls-Royce Marine

Moderated by Maryline Fiaschi, Managing Director, Science|Business

New finance models: Bridging the gap from science to start-up. > Uffe Bundgård-Jørgensen,

CEO and Founder, InvestorNet-Gate2Growth

> Candace Johnson, President, European Business Angels Network (EBAN)

> Steve Rogers, Deputy Head of Unit, SMEs, Financial instruments and State Aid, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

> Wim Vanhaverbeke, Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy, University of Hasselt

> Michael Willmott, First Secretary, Science and Technology, Mission of Canada to the EU

Moderated by John Wood, Chair, ATTRACT Project Advisory Committee

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15:30 Coffee

16:00 Getting real: How can the Framework Programme make international collaboration happen? > Presentation of the H2020 international ‘flagships’

> Maria Cristina Russo, Director for International Cooperation, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

> Science|Business Network Report: Recommendations for international collaboration

> Abdelhamid El-Zoheiry, President, Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI)

> Sonia Ortega, Head of Europe Office, US National Science Foundation

> Vinny Pillay, Minister Counsellor, Mission of South Africa to the EU, South African Department of Science & Technology

> Maria Cristina Russo, Director for International Cooperation, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

> Heinz-Josef Schmitt, Senior Director Pfizer Vaccines; Head (European Union) Vaccines Medicines Development Group and Scientific Affairs, Pfizer

Moderated by Maryline Fiaschi, Managing Director, Science|Business

17:15 Reception

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J O H N B E L L DIRECTOR FOR BIOECONOMY, DG RESEARCH AND INNOVATION, EUROPEAN COMMISSIONJohn Bell is the director for bioeconomy in DG Research & Innovation. He is responsible for leading the definition, implementation and investment of EU research and innovation policies and programmes across the bioeconomy- from agriculture and food systems, to maritime issues and investment in sustainable bio-based industries. This includes Horizon 2020, Societal Challenge 2 (worth €3.8 billion), the EU Bioeconomy Strategy, and FOOD2030- a joint undertaking amongst bio-based industries to promote food and nutrition security (worth €3.7 billion). Bell also leads marine R&I strategies including the Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance, the Bonus programme (Baltic Sea) and the BlueMed Initiative (Mediterranean).

B R E N D A N B O U F F L E RHEAD, AMAZON WEB SERVICES’ RESEARCH CLOUD PROGRAM, AMAZONBrendan Bouffler has 25 years of experience in the global tech industry creating very large systems in high performance environments. He has been responsible for designing and building hundreds of high-performance computing (HPC) systems for commercial enterprises as well as research and defence sectors all around the world. Bouffler previously lead the HPC organisation in Asia for a hardware maker but joined Amazon in 2014 to accelerate the adoption of cloud computing in the scientific community globally. He is also the author of the “Researcher’s Handbook – the missing manual for research in AWS”.

G U N N A R B R I N K PROJECT LEAD OF A SHELL OCEAN DISCOVERY XPRIZE TEAM, FRAUNHOFER IOSBAfter studies in physics and a dissertation in biophysics at the Technical University in Munich, Gunnar Brink worked as manager in biotech start-ups in the Munich area. Since 2013 he became the head of strategy and innovation management at the largest Fraunhofer Institute IOSB in Karlsruhe for computer science and autonomous mobile robotics. Since 2007 he had coordinated the Fraunhofer deep sea robot projects TieTek and DEDAVE. In 2015 he became the project leader of one of only four remaining European teams that have managed to make it into the international competition Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE semifinals. This team develops swarms of autonomous underwater and autonomous surface robots.

U F F E B U N D G A A R D-J Ø R G E N S E N CEO AND FOUNDER, INVESTORNET-GATE2GROWTHPrior to becoming the CEO of Gate2Growth in 2000, Uffe Bundgaard-Jørgensen worked as a consultant for the World Bank and DANIDA (Danish International Development Agency) in South America, Asia and Africa. In 2004, he was appointed chairman of the Danish Energy Regulatory Authority and has since served as chairman or member of the board of several SMEs. Since 2016, he has been vice-chairman of the EU Commission H2020 Risk Financing Advisory Group, and member of the H2020 Advisory Group for International Cooperation. He is also the author of: “How to Attract Investors, a personal guide to understanding their mindset and requirements”, and has conducted over 175 How to Attract Investors and Horizon 2020 SME Instrument Master Classes throughout Europe.

J E A N-C L A U D E B U R G E L M A N HEAD OF UNIT, SCIENCE POLICY, FORESIGHT AND DATA, DG RESEARCH AND INNOVATION, EUROPEAN COMMISSION Jean-Claude Burgelman is presently head of unit for Science Policy, Foresight and Data in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Research and Innovation. In 2008, he was part of the Commission’s now-defunct Bureau of European Policy Advisers as an adviser on innovation policy. He joined the Commission in 1999 as a visiting scientist to the Joint Research Centre, where he became head of the Information Society Unit in 2005.

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PAT R I C K C H I L DDEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL, DG RESEARCH AND INNOVATION, EUROPEAN COMMISSIONWith a background in the UK Finance Ministry, Patrick Child joined the European Commission in 1994, where he started in the Economic and Monetary Affairs Directorate General before becoming Commission press spokesman for the economic and monetary union from 1995 to 2004. In 2011, Child became the managing director of the European External Action Service with responsibility for administration and finance, covering human resources policy, security and budget. In April 2016, he took up his current post as deputy director general in DG Research and Innovation. He is responsible for management and implementation of the EU’s €77 billion research and innovation programme, executive agencies and other implementing bodies.

J E A N C H A M B A Z PRESIDENT, PIERRE AND MARIE CURIE UNIVERSITYJean Chambaz was elected to his second term as president in March 2016, having held the office since March 2012. After heading the Physiology and Pathophysiology Doctoral School from 2001 to 2005, Chambaz founded the Doctoral Education Institute at UPMC where he was director until until 2008. His involvement in structuring European research and the debate on new doctoral missions led to his becoming the first president of the Council for Doctoral Education at the European University Association (EUA) from 2008 to 2011. Since 2014 he has been the president of Coordination of French Research-Intensive Universities (CURIF) and continues to teach at UPMC as a professor of cell biology.

M O N I C A D I E T L SENIOR ADVISOR, SCIENCE|BUSINESSMonica Dietl is a neurobiologist, with a solid triple competence in research, European science policy and management (including change management). She conducted research at the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris (UPMC), the University of Vienna, Sandoz in Basel, and Collège de France with Rhone Poulenc Santé in Paris, before moving into the research management and science policy world. In that capacity, she was director of the Brussels office of France’s CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), has served in the European Commission DG Research as Senior Policy Officer and was director of COST (European Cooperation for Science and Technology). She is expert at developing good industry/research collaborations in many fields, including life sciences. Since June 2017 Monica Dietl is Senior Advisor at Science Business to the Healthy Measures initiative.

E R I C D R O S I NDIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS, SCIENCE|BUSINESS Eric Drosin is a connection and conversation leader, with over 20 years of experience in media, communications, advocacy and European public affairs. Drosin leveraged his experience at The Wall Street Journal Europe and Dow Jones Newswires to create and establish Toyota’s corporate identity and environmental positioning (automotive hybrid technology) across Europe. Drosin entered the field of health as director of communications for Royal DSM’s nutrition activities, helping launch the One Goal campaign (tackling malnutrition in Asia through the platform of football) with World Vision and the Asian Football Federation. Drosin is a specialist in all online and offline communications channels, having won awards for his work in both fields.

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J I L L D U G G A NDIRECTOR OF POLICY, CAMBRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP Jill Duggan has been a senior associate of CISL for two years and brings with her extensive experience of international climate and energy policy from both government and industry perspectives. Duggan is also director of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group (CLG). She has been deeply involved in the development of climate policy in the UK and Europe as well as working extensively in the United States and Canada. She was previously director of policy for Doosan Babcock before running her own consultancy, Carbon Policy Associates.

A B D E L H A M I D E L-Z O H E I RYPRESIDENT, EURO-MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY (EMUNI)After graduating from the medical school at Cairo University in 1985, Abdelhamid El-Zoheiry, was appointed to the Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery and became a full professor in 2004. From 2006 to 2014, he served as senior policy advisor to the Minister and the executive director of the research programmes at the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education. He also co-chaired several international policy committees and councils, including the Euro-Mediterranean Group of Senior Officials for Research and Innovation and the African Ministerial Council on Science and Technology. In 2012, he became the founding president of Heliopolis University in Cairo and in February 2014, he was appointed president of the Euro-Mediterranean University of Slovenia.

M A RY L I N E F I A S C H IMANAGING DIRECTOR, SCIENCE|BUSINESSMaryline Fiaschi combines experiences in media and European affairs. After six years managing EU education programmes with the European Commission, Fiaschi entered the media business in 2007 in Shanghai. She held business development positions at the Shanghai Daily and, back in Brussels, at EU affairs media company EurActiv before joining Science|Business in 2011. Today she is also an external evaluator for several EU education and R&I programmes. She holds degrees from Université La Sorbonne, Università di Bologna and Université catholique de Louvain.

A M L E TO G A B E L LO N E PROGRAMME MANAGER, CENTRE FOR MARITIME RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION, NATO SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATIONAmleto Gabellone was awarded a masters degree in electro-mechanical engineering in 1989 and and a postgraduate master in underwater acoustics in 1993, both from the University of Pisa. Prior to his current appointment at the Centre of Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) of the NATO Science and Technology Organization (STO), he joined EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia as senior officer team member and logistics expert for the capacity building of Libyan Navy/Coast Guard. From 2014 to 2016, he worked at the Italian Defence Joint Centre of Studies for Military Applications as director’s advisor and quality manager, and from 2012 to 2014 as head of CIS systems at the Navy CIS Centre in Rome.

E D I T H E R C Z O GMANAGING DIRECTOR, VISION & VALUES SPRL; COUNCIL MEMBER, RESEARCH DATA ALLIANCEEdit Herczog is the owner and managing director of Vision & Values which specializes in strategic marketing. Before funding the company, Herczog served a decade in the European Parliament as an MEP elected in Hungary. She was the vice president for the Socialists & Democrats group, responsible for oversight of internal operations. Herczog was also a rapporteur for legislation in the field of industry, technology and research. She was rapporteur for Horizon 2020 budget- the only budget line with no cut. She was also elected to the Council of Research Data Alliance (RDA) and is one of three Europeans on the board.

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R I C H A R D L . H U D S O NEDITOR-IN-CHIEF & VICE CHAIR OF THE BOARD, SCIENCE|BUSINESSRichard L. Hudson has been a leading science and technology journalist in Europe for more than 30 years. As managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe from 1997 to 2003, he helped lead a redesign of the title in 2000. He co-founded Science|Business in 2004. He is also co-author of book with Yale/IBM “fractal” mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot: “The (mis)Behavior of Markets: A fractal view of risk, ruin & reward”: Basic Books 2004. He is a graduate of Harvard, and a former Knight Fellow at MIT.

B O B J O N E SCOORDINATOR, HELIX NEBULA, CERNBob Jones is a senior member of the scientific staff at CERN and a leader of the Helix Nebula initiative, a public-private partnership to explore the use of commercial cloud services for big data science applications. He is the coordinator for the HNSciCloud Horizon 2020 Pre-Commercial Procurement project, encouraging innovative cloud services to establish a cloud platform for the European research community. Jones was previously the head of the CERN openlab project, which accelerates the development of cutting-edge solutions used by the worldwide Large Hadron Collider (LHC) community.

C A N D AC E J O H N S O NPRESIDENT, EUROPEAN BUSINESS ANGELS NETWORK (EBAN) Candace Johnson is co-initiator of SES/ASTRA and SES Global, the world’s preeminent satellite group. She is also founding president of Europe Online Investments S.A., the world’s first internet-based online service and satellite broadband network, and founder of Loral Cyberstar-Teleport Europe, Europe’s first independent private trans-border satellite communications network. Johnson is also founding president of the VATM, the Association of Private Telecom Operators in Germany and founding president of the Global Telecom Women’s Network.

J Y R K I K ATA I N E NVICE-PRESIDENT FOR JOBS, GROWTH, INVESTMENT AND COMPETITIVENESS, EUROPEAN COMMISSIONJyrki Katainen is currently the vice-president of the European Commission responsible for jobs, growth, investment and competitiveness. He joined the Commission in July 2014 as vice-president for economic and monetary affairs and the euro. Before that he served as prime minister of Finland from 2011 to 2014 and minister of finance from 2007 to 2011. From 1999 to 2014, he was a member of the Finnish Parliament for the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus). Katainen was also a member of the Finnish delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly from 2003 2007 as well as a deputy member of the Finnish delegation to the Nordic Council from 2001 to 2003.

J E A N L A N G ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT, R&D PROJECTS GLOBAL HEALTH, PARTNERSHIPS & FUNDING, SANOFI PASTEUR Jean Lang joined Sanofi Pasteur R&D in 1991. Until 2000, he conducted research in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US on vaccination devices, specific immune globulins, Japanese encephalitis and dengue vaccines. From 2001 to 2013 he developed a specific interest in flavivirus vaccine improvements and managed various multi-disciplinary teams of scientists within research and manufacturing. Since 2014, Lang’s focus has expanded to global health-driven projects, leading him to co-direct the R&D Alliance between Sanofi Pasteur and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is also the Industry Strategic Governing Group ID co-chair of the Innovative Medicines Initiative the largest European public-private partnership where he also co-leads the Biopreparedness Initiative.

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H E I D I L A R S O NDIRECTOR, THE VACCINE CONFIDENCE PROJECT; PROFESSOR, LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE & TROPICAL MEDICINE (LSHTM) Heidi Larson is an anthropologist and director of The Vaccine Confidence Project (VCP), a World Health Organisation (WHO) Centre of Excellence for addressing vaccine hesitancy. She is also a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the LSHTM and an associate clinical professor of global health at the University of Washington and the Chatham House Centre. Larson previously headed the global immunisation communication at UNICEF, served on the WHO expert group on vaccine hesitancy, and chaired the advocacy task force at Gavi. Her research focuses on the analysis of social and political factors that can affect uptake of health interventions and influence policies, specialised on risk and rumour management from clinical trials to delivery.

M I K A L A U TA N A L AEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR,TEKES - THE FINNISH FUNDING AGENCY FOR INNOVATIONMika Lautanala has over 20 years of experience in innovation funding and innovation policy. He has held various positions at Tekes - the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation. His responsibilities have covered project funding, programme management, international cooperation, development activities and various director positions. He is currently in charge of Tekes strategy, programmes, foresight and evaluation activities as well as the Tekes international networks. Lautanala has also worked for the Finnish ministry of employment and economy where he was responsible for renewal and recovery activities concerning industrial restructuring.

A N D R E L E E FOUNDER, SNOWFLAKE INNOVATIONS; FOUNDER, TECHNOLOGY RESERVE Andre Lee is the founder of Snowflake Innovations Inc., a privately owned investment holding company based in Vancouver, Canada that specializes in engineering new business platform models directed at the spaces of intangible assets, innovation and finance. He is also the founder of Technology Reserve, an innovation bank. Prior to this, he was a co-founder and manager of the Invention Development Fund, Intellectual Ventures. This fund raised a $650 million private equity fund to invest in inventions, partnering with 300 universities, research institutes and companies from Asia, Europe and North America. Lee started his career in finance at Lehman Brothers in New York.

C H R I S T I A N L E F F L E RDEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL FOR ECONOMIC AND GLOBAL ISSUES, EUROPEAN EXTERNAL ACTION SERVICEChristian Leffler’s career in international relations began in 1980 when he joined the Swedish foreign service. After establishing new working structures of the Representation, he became the first Swedish “Antici,” responsible under the Permanent Representative for policy coordination in the Council of Ministers. He joined the European Commission in 1996, where he was the director in charge of the Middle East and South Mediterranean from 2002 to 2007. In 2010, Leffler became deputy director general of the DG for development and relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States, as well as a senior adviser to EU High Representative Catherine Ashton, assisting her in the preparation for the establishment of the new EEAS.

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K A M I L A M A R K R A M CEO, FRONTIERS - OPEN SCIENCE PLATFORMKamila Markram is a neuroscientist, autism researcher and co-founder and CEO of Frontiers. She is on a mission to make research freely available for the benefit of humanity. Markram was the conceptual architect behind Frontiers’ scalable IT, raising €20 million for the company and bringing it to profitability within four years. After just 10 years, Frontiers has flourished under Markram’s leadership, gaining recognition and winning the 2014 ALPSP Gold Award for Innovation in Publishing. Markram was also named a finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Switzerland 2016, a finalist for the 2017 EU prize for women innovators, and recipient of the Stevie Female Entrepreneur of the Year Europe, Middle East and Africa 2016.

O L AV LY S N E PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO; SECTION DIRECTOR, SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORYOlav Lysne was the leader of the National Commission for Digital Vulnerability formed by the Norwegian government. The commission was active from August 2014 to September 2015, and consisted of nine experts from all relevant sectors in Norway. Their mandate was to write a report that forms the basis for the government’s cyber-policy. Since 2010 Lysne has been working on developing methods for measurement of resilience in mobile broadband networks. So far, this work has resulted in the formation of a nation-wide monitoring system of mobile broadband in Norway, funded directly by the Norwegian government. Through 2015-2018 the system is extended to four other European countries through the H2020 project MONROE.

J U K K A M Ö N K KÖ N E N RECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLANDJukka Mönkkönen has been a professor of biopharmacy since 1998. In addition to his remarkable career as a scientist and academic, he has years of experience in the development of higher education and science policy, both at national and international levels. Mönkkönen has served as dean of the faculty of pharmacy of the University of Kuopio, following which he became a dean of the faculty of health sciences of the University of Eastern Finland. In 2015, Mönkkönen was appointed academic rector of the university and he now directs the activities of the university and is responsible for its cost-effectiveness and profitability.

FA B I O M A R T I N E L L I FIRST DIRECTOR OF THE BOARD, EUROPEAN CYBER SECURITY ORGANISATIONFabio Martinelli is senior researcher at the Informatics and Telematics Institute, part of the Italian Research Council (CNR). He is the leader of the cyber security project. He is co-author of about two hundred scientific papers. His main research interests involve security and privacy in distributed and mobile systems and foundations of security and trust. He serves as first director in the board of the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO). At national level, he coordinates the CNR Cyber Security Project and co-leads the Technological Platform for National Security.

J O A N N A N E W M A N SECRETARY GENERAL, THE ASSOCIATION OF COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITIES Joanna Newman is the chief executive and secretary general of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). She is responsible for fostering and promoting the aims of the ACU in developing inter-Commonwealth relations in higher education. Before joining the ACU in April 2017, Newman was vice-principal (International) at King’s College London, where she was responsible for all international matters for the university. Prior to this, Newman represented the UK higher education sector as director of the UK Higher Education International Unit. Before this, she was head of higher education at the British Library, where she commissioned the ‘Google Generation’ report and was responsible for introducing researchers to one of the world’s greatest libraries.

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S O N I A O R T E G AHEAD OF EUROPE OFFICE, US NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Sonia Ortega has been at NSF since 1989 directing several large and complex programs spanning the gamut of education levels and disciplines. They include the Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education, the Faculty Awards for Women and the Presidential Faculty Fellows Awards that she coordinated with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. For the last couple of years, she has been a programme director for South East Asia and Pacific countries in the NSF’s office of international science and engineering. Before coming to the NSF, Ortega was a research associate at the Duke University marine laboratory, where she conducted research on the ecology of oyster populations along the North Carolina coast.

V I N N Y P I L L AYMINISTER COUNSELLOR, MISSION OF SOUTH AFRICA TO THE EU, SOUTH AFRICAN DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYVineela Pillay is currently employed by the South African Department of Science & Technology, as the senior science and technology representative to the EU. She has acquired experience in international relations, the science and technology sector as well as the environmental sector. She previously managed the portfolio of science and technology bilateral cooperation with countries in Europe & the Gulf as well as in the Americas & Asia regions at the Department of Science & Technology. She has also been involved in environmental and sustainable development issues through various roles, including as senior policy advisor in International Sustainable Development and Trade Co-operation at the South African National Department of Environmental Affairs.

M E RV I P I T K Ä N E N HEAD OF EXTERNAL FUNDING, INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY, ROLLS-ROYCE MARINEMervi Pitkänen has over 13 years of experience in leading and managing R&D functions in maritime industry companies in Finland. She has vast experience both in private and public activities in national and international maritime networks, gained whilst leading the Finnish Maritime Cluster programme (2007-2013) under the authority of the Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment. She is a member of the steering group at Tekes’ arctic seas programme and the chairman of the education and communications working group in the Finnish Marine Associations. She holds a master’s degree in naval architecture from the Helsinki University of Technology.

X AV I E R P R AT S M O N N ÉDIRECTOR GENERAL FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY, EUROPEAN COMMISSIONXavier Prats Monné has been the director general of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety since September 2015. He previously served as director general for education and culture, and as director for employment policy. He holds degrees in social anthropology from the Universidad Complutense (Madrid, Spain); in development cooperation from the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (Paris, France); and in European studies from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium), where he served as assistant professor.

D AV I D P R I N G L ESENIOR ADVISOR, SCIENCE|BUSINESSA former business journalist, David Pringle is a London-based analyst, writer and editor supporting organisations in the telecoms, media and technology sectors. Pringle also oversees the Dealing with Disruption stream for specialist research firm STL Partners. Pringle serves as an editor and presenter on Mobile World Live television at the Mobile World Congress and is a regular moderator of panel discussions at major industry conferences. Prior to founding Pringle Media in 2009, He worked at the global trade group the GSMA, providing media relations support to the CEO, chairman and other senior executives in the mobile industry. Between 2000 and 2005, He was the European technology and telecommunications correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

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M A R I A F E R N A N D A R O L LOSECRETARY OF STATE OF SCIENCE, TECHONOLOGY AND HIGHER EDUCATION, GOVERNMENT OF PORTUGAL Maria Fernanda Rollo took her PhD in contemporary history at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Lisbon’s Universidade Nova. She is an associate professor in the same faculty. As a researcher and former president of the Institute for Contemporary History, Fernanda Rollo has coordinated research projects and has published several articles in the areas of economic and social history, history of Portugal, and history of innovation and organisation of science.

A N G E LO R I C C A B O N I CHAIR, PRIMA FOUNDATION Angelo Riccaboni is full professor of management control systems at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Siena, where he was a dean from 2005 to 2010. Then, he was appointed rector of the university from 2010 to 2016. He is a member of the board of the International Association of Universities (IAU) and head of the working group on sustainability since 2012. He is a member of the Leadership Council of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), chair of the SDSN Assembly and chair of the regional centre of the SDSN for the Mediterranean since 2012. He is the president of the Partnership on Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) Foundation.

B R I A N R O E T E N COO, COPSONIC Speaking 5 languages, Brian Roeten evangelises the ultrasound technology worldwide. He started 15 years ago working for the digital audio software company GMixon which deployed its products on millions of computers. In 2013, he joined the CopSonic team to manage the business strategy and develop the relations with large corporates interested in cyber-security, e-payments, IoT and proximity detection solutions provided by this patented ultrasound technology. CopSonic is part of the EIT Digital Accelerator since 2016. It is a French company that has developed digital audio solutions and new technologies for over 20 years.

S T E V E R O G E R SDEPUTY HEAD OF UNIT, SMES, FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND STATE AID, DG RESEARCH & INNOVATION, EUROPEAN COMMISSIONSteve Rogers helps lead the team responsible for SMEs, financial instruments (including under InnovFin) and state aid. He is currently designing new R&I financing products based on crowdfunding and performance-based grants, and is also working on the pilot phase of the European Innovation Council. He has worked in other parts of the Commission on the digital single market, enterprise policy, education and cultural policy, and the enlargement of the EU. He previously held positions in British Telecom plc (innovation and development) and the International Energy Agency (economic assessment), and was founder of a publishing services company in London. He started his career as a science journalist.

M A R I A C R I S T I N A R U S S O DIRECTOR FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, DG RESEARCH AND INNOVATION, EUROPEAN COMMISSION Maria Cristina Russo joined the European Commission in 1992 as a policy officer in DG External Relations, working on relations with newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. From 1995-1999, she was a policy officer in the secretariat general in the unit responsible for relations with the Council-Coreper I. Between 2004-2010 she served within the secretariat general of the Commission as a head of unit, responsible for the units in charge of relations with the Council-Coreper I, co-decision, security and justice. Since July 2013, Russo has been responsible for promoting research and innovation cooperation with international partners as the director for international cooperation.

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H E I N Z-J . S C H M I T T SENIOR DIRECTOR PFIZER VACCINES; HEAD (EUROPEAN UNION) VACCINES MEDICINES DEVELOPMENT GROUP AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS, PFIZER Following a 3-year-fellowship at the infectious diseases service of the Memorial-Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Heinz-Josef Schmitt passed his board-certifications in microbiology, pediatrics and infectious diseases. Schmitt served as chairman of the German Vaccination Advisory board (STIKO) from 1998 to 2007 and was an advisor to the World Health Organisation from 2003 to 2007. In 2006, he received the Helmut Stickl Award from the German Academy of Pediatrics for outstanding work in promoting the use of vaccination to prevent infectious diseases. Since May 2011, he has had roles as senior director for medical and scientific affairs for vaccines in Europe for Pfizer; he now heads Pfizer’s Medicines Development Group for vaccines in the EU.

M A R I E T J E S C H A A K E MEMBER, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Marietje Schaake has been a member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Democratic Party with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe since 2009. She serves on the International Trade Committee and is the spokesperson for the ALDE Group on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. Schaake is on the committee on Foreign Affairs and the subcommittee on Human Rights. She is the founder of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Digital Agenda for Europe. She is a member of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, a Young Global Leader, a member of the Global Future Council on Future of Digital Economy and Society with the World Economic Forum.

M I C H A L S C H WA R T ZPROFESSOR FOR NEUROIMMUNOLOGY, WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE Over the past two years, Michal Schwartz has worked to develop methodologies to manipulate the immune system to defend against the effects of acute injuries, chronic neurodegenerative conditions, mental dysfunction, and brain aging. Because of her pioneering work, she has received a variety of distinctions, including the NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award (2007) and two advanced grants of the European Research Council (2008, 2017). In 2016, she published the book “Neuroimmunity: How Brain Science Will Revolutionize the Way We Live and Age”, which received accolades from the annual PROSE Awards for scholarly publishing. Schwartz received her PhD in immunology from the Weizmann Institute, Israel.

R O B E R T-J A N S M I T S DIRECTOR-GENERAL FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION, EUROPEAN COMMISSION Robert-Jan Smits is the director-general for Research and Innovation at the European Commission. In this capacity, he is responsible for defining and implementing EU policy and programmes in the field of research and innovation. Smits was one of the main architects and negotiators of Horizon 2020. He has also been instrumental in the development of several other policy initiatives in the field of European science and innovation such as the European Research Council (ERC) and the European Roadmap for large-scale facilities. Smits chairs several high-level committees such as the European Research Area Committee (ERAC) and the Steering Committee of the ERC.

P H I L I P P E A . TA N G U Y VICE PRESIDENT R&D PARTNERSHIPS, TOTALPhilippe Tanguy is a senior advisor to the chief technology officer of Total. He is in charge of strategic R&D partnerships and the Total Science Council. Before joining Total, he pursued an academic career in Canada at Dalhousie University, Laval University and Ecole Polytechnique Montreal. He also created and managed an engineering consulting company that worked with large energy and chemical companies mostly in the USA and Japan for over 20 years. Tanguy is recognised as an authority in computational process engineering and complex fluid mixing and has published over 300 scientific articles.

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M I C H A E L W I L L M OT T FIRST SECRETARY, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, MISSION OF CANADA TO THE EUROPEAN UNION Michael Willmott promotes cooperation between Canada and the European Union in science, technology and innovation by encouraging enhanced research and innovation programme linkages across all thematic areas. He also assists Canadian researchers and innovators in pursuing collaborative research and innovation partnerships in Europe through participation in Horizon 2020 and EUREKA projects. As a trade commissioner with the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service of Global Affairs Canada, his previous experience in North America includes brokering innovation and investment partnerships for Canadian start-ups and research organizations as well as seeking international partners to co-develop, license, and commercialise leading-edge technologies.

J O H N WO O DCHAIR, ATTRACT PROJECT ADVISORY COMMITTEEBefore becoming chair of the ATTRACT advisory board, John Wood was chief executive of the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils in the UK from 2001 to 2007. During this period, he was also a founding member of the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures, becoming its chair in 2004 and responsible for producing the first European Roadmap. He became the first chair of the European Research Area Board (2008 2011) and played a key role in the international negotiations establishing the Global Research Data Alliance. He was made a commander of the British Empire in 2007 for “services to science” and an “Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany” in 2010. He is also former Secretary General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.

W I M VA N H A B E RV E K EPROFESSOR OF INNOVATION MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGY, UNIVERSITY OF HASSELTWim Vanhaberveke is professor at the University of Hasselt and a visiting professor at ESADE Business School and the National University of Singapore. He published in different international journals such as Organization Science, Research Policy, California Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Small Business Economics, Journal of Business Venturing nad Technovation. He has co-edited two books about open innovation and recently published a new one: “Open innovation in SMEs”, a management guideline for small firms. His current research focuses on open innovation in SMEs, innovation ecosystems and on the implementation of open innovation practices. He co-established the European Innovation Forum in 2012 and is a co-organizer of the World Open innovation Conference 2016.

WA LT E R W E I G E LVICE PRESIDENT, HUAWEI EUROPEAN RESEARCH INSTITUTEWalter Weigel graduated from the Technical University in Munich, Germany, with a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1984 and with a Ph. D. in 1990. From 1984 to 1991, he was an assistant professor at the Institute of Data Processing at the Technical University in Munich. From 2006 to 2011, he was the director general of the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI). Between 1991 and 2015, he held several positions within Siemens AG, including vice president of external cooperation and head of standardisation in Corporate Technology, vice president of the Research & Concepts Department of the Mobile Networks Business Unit as well as head of video processing for the Semiconductor Business Unit.

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