Towards European Digital Sovereignty? Challenges and Opportunities

J'assiste à l'European Digital #SovereigntyDay organisé par la #FRENChTECh Brussels dans le magnifique immeuble de l'ancienne ORTF / RTB de la place Flagey. J'espère rencontrer quelques bordelais.

Au programme de la Towards European Digital Sovereignty? Challenges and Opportunities

French Tech Brussels invites stakeholders from the Tech ecosystem for a day of vibrant exchanges!

10:00 - 10:30

?? Opening: The pillars of European digital sovereignty

Caroline Vinot, Chargée d’affaires a.i. at the French Embassy in Belgium

Thibaut Kleiner , Director for Policy, Strategy and Outreach in DG CONNECT

Prof. Dr. Bruno Colmant - Economist, Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium

10:30 - 10:50

Fire chat – Can Europe win the war for talents?

Jeroen Franssen - Senior Expert Talent, Labour Market & Organization, Agoria

Vincent Charvillat - Deputy Executive Director, Institut Mines-Télécom

moderated by: Alessandra? Guion - Gambrill - CEO, Fintech Belgium

10:50 - 11:30

?? TALK: Ecosystems at the heart of the European digital sovereignty

Bart BECKS - Board Member, European Innovation Council and SMEs

Executive Agency

Clara Chappaz - Director, La French Tech

Emmanuelle Ghislain - CEO, Pulse Foundation

Héloize Rozès - CEO and Co-founder, Corma

moderated by: Nathanael Ackerman - Head of Artificial Intelligence & Digital

Minds, Service Public Fédéral Stratégie & Appui (BOSA)

11:30 - 12:00

Workshop Team France Export: V.I.E., the HR solution powered by Business France for your international development

Manal ? Business France , chargée d'affaires V.I.E, Business France Belgique

Maxime Krummenacker - V.I.E Program Manager Belgium, Business France

Belgique

Kader Ouédraogo - Chargé de développement V.I.E, Business France Belgique

11:30 - 14:00

Pitch session: Start-ups in the ‘Sovereignty’ ecosystem: discover European

solutions

14:00 - 14:45

?? TALK: Europe + Belgium + France: what opportunities and fundings for

your European digital projects?

Jeanne Andrade - International Innovation Program Manager, Bpifrance

Thibaud Elziere - Entrepreneur, Hexa

Claire Munck - CEO, BeAngels

Stéphane Ouaki ???????? -Head of Department, European Innovation Council and

SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA)

moderated by: Thibault Griez - Practices & Innovation Director, Expleo Belgium

14:45 - 15:00

Master class: Understand the European regulatory roadmap

Jerome Deroulez - Lawyer

Alessandro FIORENTINO - Professor, product owner at Adequacy

15:00 - 15:30

Deep Dive: Organisations’ security and compliance

Sylvie Angeli - Practice leader, Cyberwayfinder

Lisa Lombardi - Advisor SMEs - Digital, Union Wallonne des Entreprises

Olivier D. - Expert in cybersecurity, Expleo

moderated by: Isabelle Roccia (CIPP/E) - Managing Director Europe, IAPP

15:30 - 16:00

Deep Dive: Sovereign data and AI

Ga?l Duval - CEO, Murena

Alessandro Fiorentino - Professor, product owner at Adequacy

Stephanie Hospital - Founder & CEO OneRagtime. VC, Investor, Entrepreneur, Board Member of France Digitale

Alexandre Zapolsky , CEO - LINAGORA

Moderated by: Alain Heureux - CEO, Virtuology Academy

16:15 - 16:45

Deep Dive: Infrastructures & Apps: what sovereignty?

Quentin Adam - CEO, CleverCloud

Constance Morales - Product Marketing Manager AI, Scaleway

Anne-Sophie Tallandier - Director of Teralab at Deputy Executive Director at

Institut Mines-Télécom

moderated by: Hakima Chaouchi - Head of Digital Sovereingnty and Sobriety

strategy, Institut Mines-Télécom

16:45 - 17:15

Deep Dive: European digital identities and sovereignties

Claire Levallois-Barth - Coordinator of the Research Chair "Values and Policies of Personal Information", Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT)

Florent TOURNOIS - Directeur de projet France Identité, Ministère de l'intérieur -

ANTS

Wouter Vanderheere - Chief Strategy Officer, Itsme

moderated by : Emile Marzolf - Journalist, Acteurs Publics

17:15 - 18:00

?? TALK: Technological sovereignty towards democratic challenges

Beatrice de Mahieu - CEO, BeCode

Mark Hunyadi - Philosopher, University of Louvain

Philippe Latombe - Deputy for Vendée, commissioner at the CNIL

Jean-Paul Philippot - CEO, RTBF

moderated by: Marion Moreau - Journalist

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