09:30 - 10:00
Welcoming breakfast & registration
10:00 - 10:15
Room JDE 62 - Floor 6
Welcoming remarks
Sebastiano Toffaletti
Secretary General (European DIGITAL SME Alliance)
Miroslav Hajnoš
Member (European Economic and Social Committee)
Philippe Aghion
Nobel Prize in Economics 2025 & Professor (College de France)
ROOM JDE62
10:15 - 10:30
Keynote speech
10:30 - 11:30
Room JDE 62 - Floor 6
Panel -Europe's independence moment: Can technological sovereignty strengthen democracy and competitiveness?
Britta Behrendt
Department Head for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization (German Federal Chancellery)
Oliver Grün
President (European DIGITAL SME Alliance & BITMi)
Renate Nikolay
Deputy Director General (DG CNECT - European Commission)
Quentin Adam
CEO (Clever Cloud)
Michał Kobosko
Member of the European Parliament
11:30 - 11:45
Room JDE 62 - Floor 6
Networking & coffee break
11:45 - 12:45
Panel - Adoption of sovereign tech in the private sector: What is the state of play?
Raphael Auphan
COO (Proton)
Malgorzata Nikowska
Head of Unit - AI Innovation and Policy Coordination (European Commission - DG CNECT)
Ken Finnegan
CSO (Skillnet Ireland)
Alpesh Shah
Managing Director (IEEE Standards)
Kim van Sparrentak
Member of the European Parliament
Francesco Bonfiglio
Digital Transformation Expert
Alessandro Piva
Senior Director, (Osservatori Digital Innovation - Politecnico di Milano)
Panel - Building the EU Tech Offer: Sovereign solutions for global partners
Opening speech:
John Kiria
Director of Information Communication Technology (State Department For ICT & Digital Economy, Government of Kenya)
Victor Yeh
Senior Researcher (Institute for Information Industry)
Namir Anani
President & CEO (Information and Communication Technology Council)
Mercy Mugure
Chair Lady (Business Process Outsourcing Association of Kenya)
Stefan Schütze Tobar
Sector Lead Digital Services and Products (Import Promotion Desk)
Ariane Labat
Head of Unit for Digital Transformation (DG INTPA - European Commission)
Demo session with European companies
Raffaello Giarolo
Marketing Manager (vtenext)
Chono Nanton
CEO (Parragone)
Wouter Elewaut
Co-Founder (Parragone)
Sabine Delaitre
Innovation & Research Specialist (GuardedBox)
Cristian Cotosman
Solutions Architect and Manager (Moebiusol S.R.L.)
12:45 - 14:00
Atrium 6 - Floor 6
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:20
Room JDE 62 - Floor 6 & Room JDE 3252 - Floor 3
Keynote speech
Andrius Kubilius
Commissioner for Defence and Space (European Commission)
14:20 - 15:20
Panel - Securing our future: A Defence sovereign technological base for Europe
Aura Salla
Member of the European Parliament
Andrei Kelemen
CEO (Cluj IT) & Vice-President (European DIGITAL SME Alliance)
Anthony Senter
CEO & Co-Founder (ATOMNIA)
Olga Shapoval
Executive Director (Kharkiv IT Cluster)
Panel - Data, AI & energy: Powering Europe's digital future
Jutta Paulus
Member of the European Parliament
Sandra Vainute
Energy Attaché (Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the EU)
Vincent Berruto
Head of Unit for Digitalisation, Competitiveness, Research and Innovation (DG ENER - European Commission)
Miroslav Hajnoš
Member (European Economic and Social Committee)
Demo session with companies
Opening speech:
Hedi Karray
EIC Programme Manager for Artificial Intelligence (European Commission)
Daniel Zavaleta Salinas
AI Risk Assessment and Governance Specialist (YAGHMA)
Vaner Vandremini
CEO (Nocarta)
Hanna Bozakov
CEO (Tutao GmbH)
15:20 - 15:50
Room JDE 62 - Floor 6
Networking & coffee break
15:50 - 16:20
Room JDE 62 - Floor 6
Keynote speech
16:20 - 17:20
Room JDE 62 - Floor 6
Panel - Can Europe make sovereign and democratic tech a competitive choice?
Alessandro Cillario
Co-CEO & Co-Founder (CUBBIT)
Valentino Valentini
Deputy Minister for Enterprises and Made in Italy (Government of Italy)
Birgit Sippel
Member of the European Parliament (TBC)
Patrick Ohnewein
Chief Digital Officer (NOI Techpark)
Werner Stengg
Member of the Cabinet of the Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Henna Virkkunen (European Commission)
Emmanuel Pieters
Director-General in charge of SME Policy (Federal Public Service Economy of Belgium)
16:20 - 17:20
Room JDE 62 - Floor 6
Panel - Making European tech the default choice
17:20 - 17:40
Room JDE 62 - Floor 6
Keynote speech
17:40 - 19:00
Atrium 6 - Floor 6
DIGITAL SME Awards & Essay Competition ceremony Networking cocktail
1000, Brussels
Belgium
