Seth van Hooland
European Commission
Team leader SEMIC
Biography
Seth has spent two decades bringing experts and stakeholders together to enable a common understanding of data.
Organisation
European Commission
EU institution
Speaker session
The workshop on “AI in digital-ready policy design and legal drafting” will explore how tools powered by AI technologies can support policymakers in their digital-ready policy journey. The workshop will highlight potential tools and features, such as the Policy Screening Prototype (SeTA) and smart functionalities for legal drafting (LEOS). It is targeted at professionals from the public sector, academia and industry working on policy design and legal drafting, and interested in identifying the role that AI technologies can play in these processes.
Moderated by Carlos Torrecilla, Head of Unit, Digital Economy, Joint Research Centre
Willy Van Puymbroeck
European Commission
Active senior
Biography
Willy Van Puymbroeck obtained a PhD in Physics from the University of Antwerp in 1981. Before joining the European Commission in 1988 he worked as a Software Engineer in the telecommunication industry. His main activity then concerned on programming languages and proof systems.
At the European Commission he held different position mainly working in DG CONNECT in various domains such as Integrated Manufacturing, Semiconductors and eGovernment. In 2018 he moved to DG DIGIT to take the responsibility for ‘IT Solutions for Legislation, Policy and HR’. Since 2020 he is an active senior in the Commission working on the LEOS – Legislation Editing Open Software – project.
Organisation
European Commission
EU institution
Speaker session
The workshop on “AI in digital-ready policy design and legal drafting” will explore how tools powered by AI technologies can support policymakers in their digital-ready policy journey. The workshop will highlight potential tools and features, such as the Policy Screening Prototype (SeTA) and smart functionalities for legal drafting (LEOS). It is targeted at professionals from the public sector, academia and industry working on policy design and legal drafting, and interested in identifying the role that AI technologies can play in these processes.
Moderated by Carlos Torrecilla, Head of Unit, Digital Economy, Joint Research Centre
Alberto Abella
FIWARE
Data Modelling Expert
Biography
Alberto Abella is Ph.D. in Business (Open data) and Telecommunications Engineer and Master in Total Quality Management, Business Administration, and Business Organization. He works as a Data Modelling Expert and Technical Evangelist at FIWARE and currently is the responsible person for the smart data models initiative.
This is an agile standardization initiative to map existing semantics and new needs in an open licensed repository. Formerly he worked as Senior Manager at desideDatum for the business lines of Data governance, open data, and smart cities and in other IT firms for the last 25 years. He is a researcher on data, data-reusability, agile standardization, open data, big data, and its use in several environments like Smart cities with more than 20 scientific publications.
He belongs to the 100 of COTEC network as expert on Open Data and is founder and former board member of Iniciativa Barcelona Open data and founder of the Spanish chapter of OKFN. He coordinated the I, II, and III white paper on software libre in Spain from 2003 to 2007.
He is a co-author of the I, II, III adn IV reports on the situation of open data in Spain (2017-2023). Recently he has been granted by StandICT to create this report "Data sovereignty AI classification for data spaces" https://algorithmclassification.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/REPORT_ALBERTO_ABELLA_DATA_SOVEREIGNITY_v1.05.pdf
Speaker session
The workshop on “AI in digital-ready policy design and legal drafting” will explore how tools powered by AI technologies can support policymakers in their digital-ready policy journey. The workshop will highlight potential tools and features, such as the Policy Screening Prototype (SeTA) and smart functionalities for legal drafting (LEOS). It is targeted at professionals from the public sector, academia and industry working on policy design and legal drafting, and interested in identifying the role that AI technologies can play in these processes.
Moderated by Carlos Torrecilla, Head of Unit, Digital Economy, Joint Research Centre