Virtual Event
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November 17, 2022 - November 18, 2022
Virtual Event
Location: Paris, France
Venue: Salle Wagram, 39-41 Av. de Wagram, 75017
The Gaia-X Summit 2022 will host up to 300 physical seats and 4,500 online spots. Gaia-X reserves the right to give priority to its members and their invitees, Hubs, Lighthouses, Board of Directors, Management Team & Staff, Summit 2022 Coordinators, Speakers, & Panelists. Registration, either for physical or online participation, is mandatory.
Note: The panellists appear in alphabetical order of surname.
Breakfast Press Day – 16 November
- 08:00 – 09:00 – Press Registration
- 09:30 – 11:30 – Breakfast / Brunch for press. Networking with our Summit Committee
- Designated Summit Directors for press inquiries:
- Maximilian Ahrens, Chairman BoD Gaia-X and CTO T-Systems; Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO Gaia-X
- Additional questions and as these are driven by the above Summit Directors:
- Pierre Gronlier, CTO Gaia-X
- Roland Fadrany, COO Gaia-X
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Boris Otto, Fraunhofer-Institut für Software- und Systemtechnik Geschäftsführender Institutsleiter, BoD Member Gaia-X
- Hubert Tardieu, Independent BoD Member Gaia-X
- Jeroen Tas, BoD Member Gaia-X
- Summit Partners:
- Platinum: Dawex – Laurent Lafaye, Dawex co-CEO
- Press co-ordination:
- Vassilia Orfanou, CMO Gaia-X
- Designated Summit Directors for press inquiries:
Summit Day 1 – 17 November
Chapter 1: The Next Generation of the Data Sharing Economy
- 08:00 – 09:00 – Welcome Coffee & Onsite Registration
- 09:00 – 09:15 – Inspirational speech (1) – Jean-Noël Barrot, Ministre délégué chargé de la Transition numérique et des Télécommunications, France
- 09:15 – 09:25 – Opening Video Teaser
- 09:25 – 09:40 – State of the Union – Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO Gaia-X
- 09:40 – 10:10 – Interactive Discussion:
- Coordinator: Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO Gaia-X
- Maximilian Ahrens, Chairman BoD Gaia-X and CTO T-System
- Boris Otto, BoD Member Gaia-X
- Hubert Tardieu, Independent BoD Member Gaia-X
- Jeroen Tas, BoD Member Gaia-X
- Coordinator: Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO Gaia-X
- 10:10 – 11:45 – Gaia-X Demo Session – Technology Showcase:
- 10:10 -10:15 – Intro by Franscesco Bonfiglio, CEO Gaia-X
- 10:15 – 11:35 – Demo Showcase
- Pierre Gronlier, CTO Gaia-X
- Roland Fadrany, COO Gaia-X
- Lauresha Memeti, Technical Project Manager GXFS-DE, eco – Association of the Internet Industry
- Benoit Tabutiaux, GXFS-FR, Project Manager, TeraLab
- 11:35 – 11:45 – Q&A Session & Key takeaways
11:45 – 12:30 – Lunch Break
- 12:30 – 16:00 – Gaia-X Digital Economy – Panel Discussion (1)
- A panel discussion surrounding the current challenges/issues in the domains of Health, Finance/Banking and Energy/Sustainability, the solution that Gaia-X brings, with concrete pitches, key takeaways, and a future call to action.
- 12:30 – 12:40 – Firestarter Expert Intro – Jeroen Tas, BoD Member of Gaia-X and François Candelon, Managing Director & Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group | Global Director at BCG Henderson Institute
- 12:40 – 13:20 – Session 1. Health: A panel discussion coordinated by Jeroen Tas, BoD member of Gaia-X & Bert Verdonck, Data Spaces Expert, Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH).
- Key Panellists:
- Jasmin Schulz, PhD, Strategic Program Manager, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg
- Tim Schurig, MSc, Health-X Business Models, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
- Bruno Ristok, C&S Computer und Software GmbH, München, Germany
- Luis Marti Bonmati, Director Medical Imaging, University Hospital and Polytechnic La Fe, Valencia, Spain
- Juan Arenas Marquez, Head of ELIXIR Project Management Office, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
- Key Panellists:
- 13:20 – 14:00 – Session 2. Finance/Banking: A panel discussion coordinated by Patrick Laurens-Frings, Chief Information Officer, Caisse de Depots et Consignations with the support of Dr Stephan Bredt, Director General Economic Sector, Financial Services, Exchanges, Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport and Housing of the State of Hessen, Lead German Gaia-X Finance Domain, Co-Lead European Finance Dataspace, and stage presentation alongside 4 panellists:
- Key Panellists:
- Opportunities from the users – what is the market expectation?
- Commerzbank: Dirk Thomas, Division Head – Big Data Advanced Analytics
- BNP Paribas: Aude Gauthier-Moreau, CIB ITO Deputy Head of Core Banking
- European Central Bank: Christoph Schaper, Head of Division, Directorate General Information Systems, Innovation and Architecture Services Division
- Legal issues and opportunities
- Datasharing vs. data protection issues: Prof. Anne Riechert, Data Protection and Information Processing Law at Frankfurt University of Applied Science, Vice-Director Centre Responsible Digitality
- Compliance by design: Sandrine Bogey-Leleu, Juriste Conseil Référent, Direction juridique Groupe BPCE
- EuroDaT: what is the value proposition?
- Dr Stephan Bredt, Director General Economic Sector, Financial Services, Exchanges, Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport and Housing of the State of Hessen, Lead German Gaia-X Finance Domain, Co-Lead European Finance Dataspace
- Dreamquark & FAIC initiatives: what are they all about?
- Patrick Laurens-Frings, Chief Information Officer, Caisse de Depots et Consignations
- 14:00 – 14:40 – Session 3. Energy/Sustainability: A panel discussion about the current energy and sustainability challenges related to the digitalisation of the European energy system; the main uses cases and solutions that Gaia-X brings, projects already engaged, main accelerators, key takeaways, and a future call to action. A session coordinated by Martine Gouriet, BoD Gaia-X, Directrice des Usages numériques EDF – DSIG and stage presentation alongside 6 panellists:
- Key Panellists:
- Aniello Gentile, BoD Gaia-X and Director Global Cyber Security, Enel
- Dario Avallone, R&D Director, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SPA
- Emmanuel Besse, CEO, Atos Worldgrid
- Véronique Lacour, Group Senior Executive Vice-Président, Transformation and Operational Effectiveness, EDF
- Antonello Monti, Professor, Institute Director, RWTH Aachen University
- Günther Tschabuschnig, President, Data Intelligence Offensive (DIO)
- Key Panellists:
- 14:40 – 15:20 – Session 4. Tourism: A panel discussion on the tourism data space coordinated by Dolores Ordoñez, Coordinator at Gaia-X Hub Spain and International Head of Unit, AnySolution and Vassilia Orfanou, CMO Gaia-X, alongside 4 panellists.
- Key Panellists:
- Rehana Schwinninger-Ladak, Head of Unit, EC DG CONNECT, Unit “Data Applications and Creativity”
- Icamaan Botelho, Head of Data & Analytics, Vueling
- Roberto Tundo, Chief Technology, Innovation & Digital Officer, Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane
- Claudia Peteau, Chief Data Officer, APIDAE TOURISME
- Key Panellists:
- 15:20 – 16:00 – Knowledge Café Data Space Networking Discussion & Q&A
16:00 – 16:20 – Coffee Break
Chapter 2: Automated compliance: ‘the’ solution or ‘a’ solution?
- 16:20 – 16:35 – Inspirational Speech (2) – the European Commission angle – Ivo Volman, Director of the Data directorate in the Directorate General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology, EC
- 16:35 – 17:20 – Gaia-X Regulation – Automated Compliance: “The solution or A solution” – Panel Discussion (2) – Hubert Tardieu, Independent BoD Member – Gaia-X in cooperation with 4 panellists.
- Key Panellists:
- Martine Gouriet, BoD Gaia-X and Directrice des Usages numériques EDF – DSIG
- Prof. Dr. Jakob Rehof, Chair, Software Engineering, Technical University Dortmund Faculty of Computer Science and Director Research Strategy, Fraunhofer-ISST
- Marie-Anne Frison Roche, ComplianceTech® – Director of The Journal of Regulation & Compliance (JoRC)
- Joëlle Toledano, Conseil National du Numerique (CNNum), Chaire Gouvernance & Régulation (Université Dauphine) – Professeur émerite
- Key Panellists:
Chapter 3: Gaia-X Evolution for Business Impact
- 17:20 – 17:40 – Sovereign Intelligent Infrastructure and expansion of Gaia-X globally – Jeff De Coux, CEO of the Autonomy Institute
- 17:40 -18:00 – Introduction to three partnerships – Converging forces into a common trust infrastructure
- 17:40 – 17:50 – Introduction to Partnerships – Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO Gaia-X
- 17:50 – 17:55 – Partnership 1: iShare by the ISHARE Foundation
- Responsible: Gerard van der Hoeven
- 17:55 – 18:00 – Partnership 2: x-Road, MTÜ Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (“NIIS”)
- Responsible: Ville Sirviö
- 18:00 – 18:15 – Gaia-X Evolution & Expansion. Wrap-up of Day 1
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- Maximilian Ahrens, Chairman BoD Gaia-X and CTO T-Systems
- Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO Gaia-X
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- 18:15 – 21:00 – Networking Cocktail: Take a bite, drink some wine and visit our LH and sponsor booth
Summit Moderation: Vassilia Orfanou, CMO Gaia-X
Summit Day 2 – 18 November
Chapter 1: Business Impact. Where do we go from here?
- 08:00 – 09:00 – Onsite Registration
- 09:00 – 09:30 – Welcome Coffee & Summit Opening Video Teaser
- 09:30 – 09:40 – Inspirational Speech (3) – Olivier Sichel, Directeur Général Délégué, Groupe Caisse des Dépôts
- 09:40 – 10:20 – DSBA Interactive discussion. The need for DSBA: Progress, Next steps and our future drive & call to action
- Coordinator: Thomas Hahn, BoD Gaia-X and Chief Expert Software at Siemens.
- Overview of DSBA – Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO Gaia-X
- Overview & Radar Convergence of Data Spaces – Lars Nagel, CEO IDSA
- Overview of Convergent Architecture – Ulrich Ahle, CEO FIWARE
- Overview of DSSC – Ana García, Secretary General BDVA
- Coordinator: Thomas Hahn, BoD Gaia-X and Chief Expert Software at Siemens.
- 10:20 – 12:30 – Gaia-X Deployment Business Service (Lighthouses)
- 10:20 – 10:30 – Inspirational Speech – Catherine Jestin, BoD Member Gaia-X and Executive Vice-President Digital & Information Management, Airbus
- 10:30 – 10:40 – Data space maturity model, WEFORUM – TBA
- 10:40 – 10:50 – Intro by Roland Fadrany, COO Gaia-X
- 10:50 – 12:30 – Lighthouses Project Pitch and Demos
- 10:50 – 11:00 – Agdatahub, Sebastien Picardat, CEO Agdatahub
- 11:00 – 11:10 – Catena-X, Oliver Ganser, Head of Programme – Data Driven Value Chain at BMW Group & Head of Consortia Catena-X and Chairman of the Board Catena-X e.V.
- 11:10 – 11:20 – ELINOR-X, Stefan Metzger, Managing Director & Founder,
- 11:20 – 11:30 – EONA-X, Jean-François Cases, President, EONA-X
- 11:30 – 11:40 – EuProGigant, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Weigold, Head of Institute, Institute for Production Management, Technology and Machine Tools (PTW) at TU Darmstadt
- 11:40 – 11:50 – Mobility Data Space (MDS), Michael Schäfer, CEO, MDS Datenraum GmbH
- 11:50 – 12:00 – Smart Connected Supplier Network (SCSN), Matthijs Punter, Researcher Data Science & Smart Industry, TNO
- 12:00 – 12:10 – Structura-X, Klaus Ottradovetz, VP, Atos
- 12:10 – 12:30 – Key Conclusions, Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO Gaia-X
12:30 – 13:20 – Lunch Break
Chapter 2.1: Lighthouse Business Case Scenarios
- 13:20 – 13:50 – Parallel Sessions A
- 1. Agdatahub, Sebastien Picardat, CEO Agdatahub
- 2. Catena-X, Oliver Ganser, Head of Consortia Catena-X
- 3. ELINOR-X, Stefan Metzger, Managing Director & Founder,
- 4. EONA-X, Jean-François Cases, President, EONA-X
- 5. EuProGigant, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Weigold, Head of Institute, Institute for Production Management, Technology and Machine Tools (PTW) at TU Darmstadt
- 6. Mobility Data Space (MDS), Dr. Uwe Brandenburger, Chief Architect, MDS Datenraum GmbH
- 7. Smart Connected Supplier Network (SCSN), Matthijs Punter, Researcher Data Science & Smart Industry, TNO
- 8. Structura-X, Klaus Ottradovetz, VP, Atos
- 13:50 – 14:20 – Parallel Sessions B
- 1. Agdatahub, Sebastien Picardat, CEO Agdatahub
- 2. Catena-X, Oliver Ganser, Head of Programme – Data Driven Value Chain at BMW Group & Head of Consortia Catena-X and Chairman of the Board Catena-X e.V.
- 3. ELINOR-X, Stefan Metzger, Managing Director & Founder,
- 4. EONA-X, Jean-François Cases, Vice-President Intangibles data Value and RD, Associate General Counsel Amadeus, Vice-President-Associate General Counsel Intangibles, Data Value and R&D EONA-X President Mobility, Transport & Tourism Data Space
- 5. EuProGigant, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Weigold, Head of Institute, Institute for Production Management, Technology and Machine Tools (PTW) at TU Darmstadt
- 6. Mobility Data Space (MDS), Dr. Uwe Brandenburger, Chief Architect, MDS Datenraum GmbH
- 7. Smart Connected Supplier Network (SCSN), Matthijs Punter, Researcher Data Science & Smart Industry, TNO
- 8. Structura-X, Klaus Ottradovetz, VP, Atos
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Chapter 2.1: Partners Business Case Scenarios
- 13:20 – 13:50 – Parallel Sessions A
- Dawex, Frederic Bellaiche, PhD and Vice President Technology & Research, Dawex
- 13:50 – 14:20 – Parallel Sessions B
- Dawex, Frederic Bellaiche, PhD and Vice President Technology & Research, Dawex
Chapter 3: Hub Constellation, National & Member State Priorities
- 14:20 – 15:00 – Member States Priorities and the role of Digital and the support of Governments to Gaia-X– Panel Discussion
- A panel discussion with key European State Secretaries on the digital role in the state strategies, priorities, investments and challenges, and Gaia-X Governmental Advisory representatives discussing specific objectives and synergies cross-regions for creating a dataspace-driven economy through local hubs.
- Video Teaser Opener
- The discussion will be coordinated by Alberto Palomo, CDO of Spain and Chairman of the Gaia-X Governmental Advisory Board, with the support of Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO Gaia-X and Vassilia Orfanou, CMO Gaia-X.
- Key Panellists:
- Carme Artigas, Secretary of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence, Government of Spain
- Ernst Stoeckl-Pukall, Head of Division Digitisation, Industrie 4.0, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany
- Tito Carlos Vieira, Board Member, AMA – Agency for Administrative Modernization, Portugal
- Nena Dokuzov, Head of Project Group for New Economy and Blockchain Technologies, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, UNECE expert and Head of Delegation for Slovenia
- Representative from Slovakia TBA
- Representative from Czech Republic TBA
- A panel discussion with key European State Secretaries on the digital role in the state strategies, priorities, investments and challenges, and Gaia-X Governmental Advisory representatives discussing specific objectives and synergies cross-regions for creating a dataspace-driven economy through local hubs.
- 15:00 – 16:00 – Gaia-X Regional Hubs – Panel Discussion
- Gaia-X hubs explain their state of play and provide concrete examples of contributions to the National strategies for the digital economy, showcasing best practices and success stories.
- The discussion will be coordinated by the Hub Working group leads, Peter Kraemer, acatech, German Hub and Jelle Hoedemaekers, Agoria, Belgium Hub.
- Key Panellists:
- Helmut Leopold, Coordinator of Austrian Gaia-X Hub and Head of Center, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
- Martina Maláková, Coordinator of Slovakian Gaia-X Hub
- Peter Verkoulen, Coordinator of Dutch Gaia-X Hub, TNO
- Pablo Coca, Gaia-X Hub Spain representative and COO, CTIC Centro Tecnologico
- Anssi Komulainen, Coordinator of Finnish Gaia-X Hub and Project Manager, Sitra
- Marine De Sury, Coordinator of Gaia-X French Hub
- Gaia-X hubs explain their state of play and provide concrete examples of contributions to the National strategies for the digital economy, showcasing best practices and success stories.
16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee Break
Chapter 4: The Institutional View
- 16:30 – 17:00 – Gaia-X Political/Institutional Angle
- High representatives from European Institutions present their vision and perspective for a competitive European Market of Data.
- Thomas Courbe, Director General, Directorate-General for enterprise
- Thomas Skordas, Deputy Director-General, DG CONNECT, European Commission
- High representatives from European Institutions present their vision and perspective for a competitive European Market of Data.
Closing of the Summit Days
- 17:00 – 17:30 – Thank You: Photos & Video Take. Wrap-up of Day 2
Summit Moderation: Vassilia Orfanou, CMO Gaia-X