9th European Innovation Summit

Monday 27 November 2017

18:30 – 20:00 Summit Opening Ceremony and Partner Reception

Tuesday 28 November 2017

08:00 – 09:30 Breakfast debate “Europe’s age of light! How photonics will power growth and innovation” in cooperation with Photonics21

08:00 – 09:00 EU Top 50 Welcome Breakfast in cooperation with WATIFY

09:00 – 12:30 EU Top 50 'Hemicycle Start-up Convention'

10:30 – 18:00 Matchmaking Event

12:30 – 13:30 Exhibition Opening 

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch Debate on Quantum Technologies: ramping-up the Flagship in cooperation with the TU Delft

14:00 – 18:00 EU Top 50 Workshops: EU support for Statups and Scaleups 

16:00 – 18:00 Session on ‘’Showcases of Innovations & Impact of Universities of Applied Sciences’’in cooperation with the Universities for Applied Sciences for Europe (UAS 4 Europe)

19:00 – 21:0 Networking Reception 'With or without pesticides - consumer choice in the marketplace' in cooperation with ECPA

19:00 – 22:00 Dinner debate on Robots and Society: How to create a safe, fair and productive society using robotics? in cooperation with the TU Delft

19:00 – 21:30 Dinner debate on Key Enabling Technology & Industry in the future Framework Programme in cooperation with EMIRI, SusChem, Spire

19:30 – 22:00 EU Top 50 Finalists Reception

Wednesday 29 November 2017

08:00 – 09:30 Breakfast Debate on Food & Agriculture: Feeding and Greening the Megacities in cooperation with Zuid-Holland

08:00 – 10:00 Breakfast debate on Blockchain: What Applications for Everyday Life? in cooperation with IEEE

09:30 – 11:30 Innovation without boundaries: Innovation Eco-system Zuid-Holland in cooperation with Zuid-Holland

09:30 – 12:30 Plenary Session on the Future of Research and Innovation

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch Debate on Artificial Intelligence: What Perspectives for Sustainable and Prosperous Future?

12:30 – 15:00 Lunch Debate on Future research infrastructure for European leadership in circular forest bioeconomy in cooperation with the ERIFORE project

12:30 – 15:00 Lunch Debate on Innovation in Medicine: Curing chronic diseases in cooperation with Zuid-Holland

16:00 – 19:30 JIIP Annual Symposium: Mission Orientation in R&I Policy in cooperation with the Joint Institute for Innovation Policy

19:00 – 22:00 Dinner debate “The future of Cohesion Policy: catalysing Europe’s knowledge, creativity and ideas"

Thursday 30 November 2017

08:30 – 19:00 Transatlantic ICT Forum in cooperation with H2020 Project Discovery

09:00 – 11:00 Plenary session "Open Science, Open Innovation - accelerating innovation process"

18:30 – 20:00 Closing Ceremony & Networking Reception on the occasion of St Andrews Day in cooperation with Innovators Magazine

Lambert van Nistelrooij

EPP
The Netherlands

Jerzy Buzek

EPP
Poland

Lieve Wierinck

S&D
Belgium

Brando Benifei

S&D
Italy

Andrey Novakov

EPP
Bulgaria

Michał Boni

EPP
Poland

Henna Virkkunen

EPP
Finland

Sirpa Pietikäinen

EPP
Finland

Ivana Maletić

EPP
Croatia

Barry Andrews

Renew
Ireland

Victor Negrescu

S&D
Romania

Cătălin Sorin Ivan

S&D
Romania

Miapetra Kumpula-Natri

S&D
Finland

Caroline Nagtegaal

Renew
Netherlands

Mady Delvaux-Stehres

S&D
Luxembourg

Angelika Mlinar

ALDE
Austria

Clare Moody

S&D
United Kingdom

Christian Ehler

EPP
Germany

Annie Schreijer-Pierik

EPP
The Netherlands

Alyn Smith

Greens/EFA
United Kingdom

Corina Crețu

Former European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms
European Commission

Roland Strauss

Managing Director
Knowledge4Innovation

Yannick Legre

Managing Director
EGI Foundation

Marie-Josée Blais

Assistant Deputy Minister; Science and Innovation; Ministry of the Economy; Science and Innovation
Government of Québec

Bernd Schulte

Executive Board Member
President AIXTRON

Thomas Rettich

Head of Research Coordination TRUMPF; Photonics21 EB member
TRUMPF / Photonics21

Günther H. Oettinger

Commissioner for Budget & Human Resources
European Commission

Fabrizio Porrino

Head of Secretariat
EU Unicorns Group

Carlos Oliveira

Entrepreneur; Member of the EIC HLG
ebankIT / InvestBraga and Startup Braga / Pathena / EIC HLG

Bertrand Piccard

Explorer
Chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation

Clara Neppel

Senior Director; European Business Operations
IEEE European Public Policy Initiative

Bart Becks

Executive Chairman
EURACTIV

Kurt Vandenberghe

Director Policy Development and Coordination
EU Commission

Martin Kern

Director
EIT

Katja Reppel

Deputy Head of Unit ‘Smart and Sustainable Growth’
DG REGIO; European Commission

Diego Pavia

CEO
EIT KIC InnoEnergy

Isidro Laso Ballesteros

Cabinet Expert
Commissioner Gabriel cabinet for Innovation; Research; Education; Culture and Youth; European Commission

Jan-Jaap Aué

Dean
Centre of Expertise Energy; Hanze University of Applied Sciences

Klaas Jan Noorman

Professor of Energy Transition
Hanze University of Applied Sciences

Wim van Gemert

Professor of Energy Innovation
Hanze University of Applied Sciences

Martin Wisse

Professor
TU Delft

Juha Heikkilä

Head of Unit Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
DG CONNECT

Robert Siewiorek

Technology Issues Journalist
Gazeta Wyborcza

Robert Schröder

Member of Cabinet; Commissioner Moedas
European Commission

Stefan Savonen

Vice President Energy & Climate
LKAB

Pierre Barthélemy

Executive Director Innovation
Cefic

Martin Porter

Executive Director
i2-4c

Kurt Vandeputte

Senior Vice President Umicore
Rechargeable Battery Materials

Ling Hua

Senior Vice President; Head of Group Biotechnology
Clariant

Michael Dillhyon

Chief Commercial Officer at GraftWorx; Co-founder
YouBase; Founder of Healthbank

Chunming Rong

Chair of IEEE Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing / IEEE CS STC on Blockchain / IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)

Bryant Joseph Gilot

Chief Medical Officer at Blockchain Health Company
University of Tübingen - Center for Personalised Medicine

Benoît Abeloos

Policy Officer
Start-ups & Innovation Unit; DG CONNECT

Willem Jonker

CEO
EIT Digital

Ulla Engelmann

Head of Unit for Advanced Technologies; Clusters; and Social Economy
DG GROW; European Commission

Wolfgang Polt

Head of the Centre of Economic and Innovation Research - POLICIES
Joanneum Research Ltd.

Gerard de Graaf

Director
Digital Single Market in Directorate-General; Communications Networks; Content & Technology

Shiva Dustdar

Head of Division Innovation Finance Advisory
EIB

Eunika Mercier-Laurent

Chair TC12 (AI)
IFIP

Guy Rouleau

Director
McGill University Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

Louis Lapidaire

Director
United Academics

Theodoros Karapiperis

Head of Scientific Foresight Unit
STOA