Natalia Aristimuño Perez

European Commission

Director of Digital Services

Biography

Natalia Aristimuño Pérez is currently Director of Digital Services at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Informatics. Before her appointment as a Director, she was responsible for the Interoperability Unit. Her past experience combines different Head of Unit positions in the domains of delivering solutions for human resources, decision-making, document and knowledge management. Since she joined the European Commission in 2000, she has been involved in developing user-friendly solutions for public administrations and the European Commission itself. She graduated Deusto University (Bilbao, Spain) with IT background and has a deep knowledge of the business domains she works with.

Organisation

European Commission

EU institution

Speaker session

(UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris

18/10 - Main conference

16:00 - 17:00

High-level panel on upcoming challenges

Closed

Madrid 1-2 at RIU Hotel

Panel discussion on the technological, societal and policy implications of the current and upcoming developments in AI and interoperability through the lens of upcoming policy acts.

Moderated by Margarida Ribeiro, Head of Sector - Digital strategy and transformation, DG DIGIT, European Commission

Jack Hamande

Director-General of the Simplification and Digital Transformation Division for the federal Belgian state

FPS Policy and Support, Belgium

Siim Sikkut

Managing Partner

Digital Nation

Pedro Tavares

Portuguese Secretary of State for Justice

Ministry of Justice, Portugal

Veronica Gaffey

Director-General

Directorate General for Informatics, European Commission

Eduard Mititelu

Secretary of State

Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization, Romania

Carme Artigas Brugal

Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Spain

Carme Artigas Brugal

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Spain

Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence

Biography

Carme Artigas is a recognized Expert in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Technology Innovation, with more than 25 years of experience the Technology sector. She co-founded and was the CEO of Synergic Partners, a Pioneer European Big Data Company, which was acquired by Telefonica group in November 2015. She continued serving as company CEO until the company’s full integration into the Telefonica Group at the en of 2018. Since 2019 until her appointment as Secretary of State, she was member of several International Advisory Boards. She was appointed by the University of Stanford (California) as Ambassador “Women in Data Science (WIDS)”. She was recognized by the American business magazine ”Insight Sucess” as the one among the 30 most influential executives with an international projection. She is among the top women in the world in the data business and she has come the public sector to make Spain a leading country in Digital transition and Technology transformation

Organisation

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Spain

National Competent Authority

Speaker session

(UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris

18/10 - Main conference

16:00 - 17:00

High-level panel on upcoming challenges

Closed

Madrid 1-2 at RIU Hotel

Panel discussion on the technological, societal and policy implications of the current and upcoming developments in AI and interoperability through the lens of upcoming policy acts.

Moderated by Margarida Ribeiro, Head of Sector - Digital strategy and transformation, DG DIGIT, European Commission

Jack Hamande

Director-General of the Simplification and Digital Transformation Division for the federal Belgian state

FPS Policy and Support, Belgium

Siim Sikkut

Managing Partner

Digital Nation

Pedro Tavares

Portuguese Secretary of State for Justice

Ministry of Justice, Portugal

Veronica Gaffey

Director-General

Directorate General for Informatics, European Commission

Eduard Mititelu

Secretary of State

Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization, Romania

Carme Artigas Brugal

Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Spain

Juan Miguel Auñón García

GMV

Senior Product Manager

Biography

Juan is a Senior Product Manager at GMV. He holds a Phd in theoretical physics and now he extrapolates the mathematical knowledge developed for academic purpose to the industry. In the projects he has been involved he has played different roles, from developing Machine Learning codes from scratch for optimization problems, to Project Management tasks, orchestrate the team to achieve the goals, solution and deployment (DataOps) design. He is especially interested in Quantum Computing, Semantic Knowledge technologies, Machine/Deep Learning Computing, and software architecture. In recent years he has specialized in privacy enhancing technologies (PET) such as Secure Multi Party Computation (SMPC) and Federated Learning and their application in data spaces

Organisation

GMV

Industry/business

Speaker session

(UTC+01:00) Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris

18/10 - Main conference

16:00 - 17:00

High-level panel on upcoming challenges

Closed

Madrid 1-2 at RIU Hotel

Panel discussion on the technological, societal and policy implications of the current and upcoming developments in AI and interoperability through the lens of upcoming policy acts.

Moderated by Margarida Ribeiro, Head of Sector - Digital strategy and transformation, DG DIGIT, European Commission

Jack Hamande

Director-General of the Simplification and Digital Transformation Division for the federal Belgian state

FPS Policy and Support, Belgium

Siim Sikkut

Managing Partner

Digital Nation

Pedro Tavares

Portuguese Secretary of State for Justice

Ministry of Justice, Portugal

Veronica Gaffey

Director-General

Directorate General for Informatics, European Commission

Eduard Mititelu

Secretary of State

Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization, Romania

Carme Artigas Brugal

Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Spain