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In February 2020, the European Commission published the European Data Strategy, which emphasised the need to grow European digital infrastructure capabilities. The EU plans to invest €4bn-6bn into building new data infrastructures: €2bn is envisaged to come from the EU budget, and the Member States will contribute the rest. Part of this budget will be invested in the creation of data spaces in strategic sectors, including health. The purpose of such data spaces will be to support the development of national electronic health records, boost cross-border exchanges of data, and improve the interoperability of health data to support research.
The Commission will first propose a legislative framework for establishing health data spaces that will lay down provisions for governance structures that allow for access to, and exchange of, health data to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation.
In this context, Forum Europe and HPE organised a high-level roundtable analysing data spaces in healthcare and discuss concrete use cases. The discussion allowed policymakers to exchange views with stakeholders and obtain evidence-based insights from industry, health professionals, and researchers and discussed the most important elements that need to be considered when designing health data flows in Europe. It will also included the presentation of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models (swarm learning) which are the next-frontier for health data spaces and will showcase how the insights can be generated without moving the data collected at the edge.
Dr. Markus Richter
State Secretary and Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology
German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community
Johannes Hahn
European Commissioner for Budget and Administration
Prof. Dr. Boris Otto
Member of the Interim Management Team and acting Interim CTO of the GAIA-X AISBL (under incorporation)
Gilles Thiebaut, SVP and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe, HPE As Managing Director for the Northern Western Europe region (France, Belgium, Denmark, Finland and Lithuania, Luxembourg , Netherland, Norway and Sweden) Gilles is responsible for developing and driving growth potential in the region and to extend HPE’s leadership position in these markets.
Before leading the Northern Western Europe organization, Gilles Thiebaut had been the Managing Director of France for 3 years.
Prior tenures include Vice President of ESSN (Servers, Storage and Network division) for Global Western Europe area in 2007 and VicePrésident of Indirect Sales in Europe, Middle Est and Africa, which represent over 70% of the revenue generated in the region.
At the outset of his career, Gilles Thiebaut worked at Xerox as part of the sales organization. Since then he has built extensive leadership and operational knowledge at country and regional levels, while delivering impressive results in terms of revenue growth & organisational transformation.
Gilles sits on the Executive Committee of the AmCham EU and is a regular keynote speaker to events on digital transformation & the future of IT.
He holds a Master in Business Administration from the Solvay Business School and from the Insead. Gilles is the happy father of 4 and enjoys playing tennis, jogging and cooking for his family & friends.
SVP and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe
HPE
Prof.Dr. Joachim Schultze, Professor and Director Systems Medicine, DZNE Biography to follow shortly.
Professor and Director Systems Medicine
Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V (DZNE)
Dr Sebastian Dries, Head of healthcare department, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST Biography to follow shortly.
Head of healthcare department
Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST
Roel Sijstermans, CIO, Netherlands Cancer Institute Roel Sijstermans has been IT manager at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) since 2017.
In the last few years, the NKI transformed its ICT environment to a software-defined and cloud-ready infrastructure, with a focus on end user computing.
Before this, Roel worked as the lead information manager on different projects among which the implementation of an EHR for oncology.
Roel has a master degree in Medical Informatics and started after his study several years at the faculty of Medicine in Amsterdam, implementing e-learning innovations in medical education. In 2010 Roel worked on a national level to improve an innovate higher education and research within the Netherlands.
CIO
Netherlands Cancer Institute
Hartmut Schultze, Business Architect Data Lifecycle Practice, HPE Since 2015 Hartmut Schultze engages in Memory-Driven Computing in customer use cases. In his various roles he always strove to create value by exploiting technology, optimizing environments, introducing automation and acting as a change agent to make it happen.
Between 2001 and 2014 Hartmut led several international customers accounts in his role as Account Executive within outsourcing services.
Previously, Hartmut worked as a consultant in different customer situations.
Hartmut Schultze studied software and automation technology at the University of Stuttgart and holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering.
Business Architect Data Lifecycle Practice
HPE
Saila Rinne, Head of Sector, Unit eHealth, Well-being and Ageing, DG CNECT, European Commission Saila Rinne is the Head of Sector for policy in the unit “eHealth, Well-Being and Ageing” at the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) of the European Commission. Her unit works on supporting innovative digital health technologies, services and products that foster high quality and efficient health and care delivery and citizen empowerment in managing their own health.
Head of Sector, Unit eHealth, Well-being and Ageing
DG CNECT, European Commission
Irena Bednarich, EMEA Director, Corporate Affairs, HPE Irena Bednarich is Director of Corporate Affairs for Continental Europe, Middle East and Africa at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this role, she is driving HPE’s corporate affairs strategy in the region and is supporting strategic public sector pursuits.
Irena has wide-ranging experience in representing the tech sector at European level.
She is a Board member of DIGITALEUROPE, the advocacy group acting on behalf of the information technology, consumer electronics and telecommunications sectors.
She has chaired the Digital Enterprise Group in DIGITALEUROPE for two terms and, for almost a decade, led the organisation’s Copyright Working Group. Irena has also served as President of EURIMAG, the voice of the European printing industry, based in Brussels.
Copyright policies were always at the center of her expertise. For her work and efforts on copyright levies, both in Brussels and internationally, she has been awarded the European Counsel Award for Intellectual Property 2009, granted by the International Law Office, in collaboration with the Association of Corporate Counsel.
EMEA Director, Corporate Affairs
HPE
Irena Bednarich, EMEA Director, Corporate Affairs, HPE Irena Bednarich is Director of Corporate Affairs for Continental Europe, Middle East and Africa at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this role, she is driving HPE’s corporate affairs strategy in the region and is supporting strategic public sector pursuits.
Irena has wide-ranging experience in representing the tech sector at European level.
She is a Board member of DIGITALEUROPE, the advocacy group acting on behalf of the information technology, consumer electronics and telecommunications sectors.
She has chaired the Digital Enterprise Group in DIGITALEUROPE for two terms and, for almost a decade, led the organisation’s Copyright Working Group. Irena has also served as President of EURIMAG, the voice of the European printing industry, based in Brussels.
Copyright policies were always at the center of her expertise. For her work and efforts on copyright levies, both in Brussels and internationally, she has been awarded the European Counsel Award for Intellectual Property 2009, granted by the International Law Office, in collaboration with the Association of Corporate Counsel.
EMEA Director, Corporate Affairs
HPE
10:00 – 10:05
Welcome Remarks
Irena Bednarich, Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa , HPE Irena Bednarich is the Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this role, she leads HPE’s government relations and public policy team in the region and supports key public sector pursuits across EMEA.
Irena has wide-ranging experience in representing the tech sector at the European level; she currently holds several industry leadership roles including serving in her second term on the Board of DIGITALEUROPE, the EU-wide representation body for the digital and technology sectors.
After 14 years in Brussels, Irena has recently relocated to Dubai, UAE, to drive stronger alignment with the business in an important growth region. Irena is fluent in Italian, Slovenian, French, English and German and has working knowledge of Spanish.
Irena Bednarich
EMEA Director, Corporate Affairs, HPE
10:05 – 10:25
Keynote Speech
Gilles Thiebaut, SVP and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe, HPE As Managing Director for the Northern Western Europe region (France, Belgium, Denmark, Finland and Lithuania, Luxembourg , Netherland, Norway and Sweden) Gilles is responsible for developing and driving growth potential in the region and to extend HPE’s leadership position in these markets.
Before leading the Northern Western Europe organization, Gilles Thiebaut had been the Managing Director of France for 3 years.
Prior tenures include Vice President of ESSN (Servers, Storage and Network division) for Global Western Europe area in 2007 and VicePrésident of Indirect Sales in Europe, Middle Est and Africa, which represent over 70% of the revenue generated in the region.
At the outset of his career, Gilles Thiebaut worked at Xerox as part of the sales organization. Since then he has built extensive leadership and operational knowledge at country and regional levels, while delivering impressive results in terms of revenue growth & organisational transformation.
Gilles sits on the Executive Committee of the AmCham EU and is a regular keynote speaker to events on digital transformation & the future of IT.
He holds a Master in Business Administration from the Solvay Business School and from the Insead. Gilles is the happy father of 4 and enjoys playing tennis, jogging and cooking for his family & friends.
Gilles Thiebaut
SVP and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe, HPE
10:25 – 11:25
Panel Discussion
Irena Bednarich, Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa , HPE Irena Bednarich is the Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In this role, she leads HPE’s government relations and public policy team in the region and supports key public sector pursuits across EMEA.
Irena has wide-ranging experience in representing the tech sector at the European level; she currently holds several industry leadership roles including serving in her second term on the Board of DIGITALEUROPE, the EU-wide representation body for the digital and technology sectors.
After 14 years in Brussels, Irena has recently relocated to Dubai, UAE, to drive stronger alignment with the business in an important growth region. Irena is fluent in Italian, Slovenian, French, English and German and has working knowledge of Spanish.
Irena Bednarich
EMEA Director, Corporate Affairs, HPE
Saila Rinne, Head of Sector, Unit eHealth, Well-being and Ageing, DG CNECT, European Commission Saila Rinne is the Head of Sector for policy in the unit “eHealth, Well-Being and Ageing” at the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) of the European Commission. Her unit works on supporting innovative digital health technologies, services and products that foster high quality and efficient health and care delivery and citizen empowerment in managing their own health.
Saila Rinne
Head of Sector, Unit eHealth, Well-being and Ageing, DG CNECT, European Commission
Dr Sebastian Dries, Head of healthcare department, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST Biography to follow shortly.
Dr. Sebastian Dries
Head of healthcare department, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST
Hartmut Schultze, Business Architect Data Lifecycle Practice, HPE Since 2015 Hartmut Schultze engages in Memory-Driven Computing in customer use cases. In his various roles he always strove to create value by exploiting technology, optimizing environments, introducing automation and acting as a change agent to make it happen.
Between 2001 and 2014 Hartmut led several international customers accounts in his role as Account Executive within outsourcing services.
Previously, Hartmut worked as a consultant in different customer situations.
Hartmut Schultze studied software and automation technology at the University of Stuttgart and holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering.
Hartmut Schultze
Business Architect Data Lifecycle Practice, HPE
Prof.Dr. Joachim Schultze, Professor and Director Systems Medicine, DZNE Biography to follow shortly.
Prof. Dr. Joachim Schultze
Professor and Director Systems Medicine, Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V (DZNE)
Roel Sijstermans, CIO, Netherlands Cancer Institute Roel Sijstermans has been IT manager at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) since 2017.
In the last few years, the NKI transformed its ICT environment to a software-defined and cloud-ready infrastructure, with a focus on end user computing.
Before this, Roel worked as the lead information manager on different projects among which the implementation of an EHR for oncology.
Roel has a master degree in Medical Informatics and started after his study several years at the faculty of Medicine in Amsterdam, implementing e-learning innovations in medical education. In 2010 Roel worked on a national level to improve an innovate higher education and research within the Netherlands.
Roel Sijstermans
CIO, Netherlands Cancer Institute
11:25 – 12:00
Q&A and Closing Remarks
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