Keynote Speakers

(in alphabetical order)
Harris holds a PhD diploma from the Department of Information and Communications Systems Engineering at the University of the Aegean on open data. He is a Senior Researcher and Project Manager at the Information Systems Laboratory of the same department, working on European and National funded research and pilot application projects (ENGAGE, SHARE-PSI 2.0, EU-COMMUNITY, PADGETS, NOMAD, NET-EUCEN, PLUG-IN) for governments and enterprises. Read More…
Yannis Charalabidis is Professor of Digital Governance in the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering of the University of Aegean. In parallel, he serves as Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit of the University, designing and managing youth entrepreneurship activities, and Head of the Digital Governance Research Centre, coordinating policy making, research and pilot application projects for governments and enterprises worldwide. He has more than 25 years of experience in designing, implementing, managing and applying complex information systems as project manager, in Greece and Europe. Read More…
Dr. Fotios Fitsilis has an academic background in Law, Economics and Engineering. He has been active in a broad range of fields, from telecommunications and logistics to management and governance. After a career as a research engineer in Germany, he worked as Special Advisor for Business and Industry in the Greek Ministry of Development. Since 2007, he has been working in the Hellenic Parliament; initially as Scientific Advisor to the Speaker of the Parliament and later as Head of the Department for Scientific Documentation and Supervision in the Scientific Service. Read More…
Specialties: Digital transformation, eGovernment, value realization, benefits management, stakeholder analysis Read More…
As being Chief Executive I lead advocacy, consultancy services and management of non-profit organisations, networks and events. I foster relationships building between different stakeholders like European Union institutions, governments, city authorities, private sector and civil society. Read More…
Prof.dr. Marijn Janssen is Full Professor in “ICT and Governance” and head of the ICT section of the Technology, Policy and Management Faculty of Delft University of Technology. In a survey published in 2009 in 2014 and in 216 Marijn is ranked as one of the leading researchers in e-government. He was rank by Apolitical as one of the 100 most influential people in the Digital Government https://apolitical.co/lists/digital-government-world100 in 2018 and 2019. Read More…
Victoria Kalogirou is a Programme Manager for EU policies and a Seconded National Expert at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Informatics (Interoperability Unit – D2). She has substantial working experience in the area of eGovernment and eBusiness.Read More…
Georges Lobo holds PhD in Particle Physics from the University of Paris-Sud (Orsay, France). He has been active in research in Particle and Nuclear physics for about 10 years before working in ICT. Read More…
Dr Euripidis Loukis is Professor of Information Systems & Decision Support Systems at the Department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean. Previously, he has been Professor at the Postgraduate Program of the National Academy of Public Administration in the area of e-Government, and also at the Postgraduate Program ‘Athens MBA’ of the National Technical University of Athens and the Athens University of Economics and Business, and at the University of Thessaly, in the area of Information Systems Read More…
Specialties: Digital Government, Artificial Intelligence in Government, Digitalization and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Blockchain, Government Digitalization in China Read More…

Francesco Mureddu

Lisbon Council
Gianluca Misuraca is Senior Scientist at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre where, since 2009, is coordinating research in the area of Digital governance and Social Innovation. He is currently leading research on Digital Government Transformation as part of the Directorate for Growth & Innovation, based in Seville, Spain. Read More…

Maximilian Strotmann

Deputy Head of Unit, DG DIGIT D2 @ European Commission
Maximilian Strotmann is currently deputy head of the unit for interoperability in the European Commission’s informatics department. He has a long passion for digitalisation of public sector policies and supporting innovative startups.

Charalambos Tsekeris

Αcademic Head @ ECI
Charalambos Tsekeris (PhD), Αcademic Head at ECI, is a Research Fellow (Assistant Professor rank) on Digital Sociology at the National Centre for Social Research (Athens, Greece), and Professor Extraordinary at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University. Read More…
Experienced Business Analyst with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Skilled in Project Management, Oracle Database, Oracle Database Administration, PHP, and Oracle Reports. Read More…
Gabriela Viale Pereira is Assistant Professor for Information Systems at the Department for E-Governance and Administration at Danube University Krems (Austria) and Visiting Post-doc at EAESP/FGV (Brazil). She holds a master and a doctoral degree in Business Administration at PUCRS. Gabriela’s activities include research in electronic government and ICT-related Governance projects involving smart governance, smart cities, open data, data analytics and government 3.0.  Read More…
Since November 2005, Maria A. Wimmer is Professor for eGovernment and she chairs the research group eGovernment at the Institute for Information Systems (IS) research at Koblenz University, Germany. She studied Computer Sciences at the University of Linz, Austria. After her graduation, she had a two years stay at the National Research Council, Rome – Italy, and University of Siena (Multimedia Communications Lab), Italy, thereby investigating holistic design of safety-critical systems. Since 2000, when Maria A. Wimmer worked at the University of Linz, Austria, she managed the different projects of eGovernment research and consulting. Read More…

Speakers

(in alphabetical order)
Experienced System Analyst with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Oracle Database, Requirements Analysis, Databases, PL/SQL, and Software Development. Read More…
Konstantina Kyriakopoulou is a Consultant with Trasys International, currently involved in a variety of European projects including the Interoperability Academy and the National Interoperability Framework Observatory (NIFO). Read More…
Promoting (re-)use of public sector geo-information (PSGI) has been central to my research. My research is dedicated to the relation between policy choices, quality and use of PSGI, and other aspects that may influence use of PSGI. Clearly open data is one of the keys to the successful utilisation of PSGI. Read More…

Katarina Manojlovic

Consultant @ Trasys International
Katarina Manojlovic is a consultant at Trasys International, IT consulting division, where she started working in March 2018. Before joining Trasys International, Katarina worked in Serbia and Germany on different EU-funded projects. She has professional experience in public sector advisory and government administration in the ICT domain. She is currently engaged in several projects within EU Institutions, focusing on Interoperability and other actions related to digital single market. She holds Master’s degree in International Relations from the Belgrade University.
Ludovic Mayot is Country Manager and Delivery Executive of Trasys Luxembourg, member of Trasys International EEIG, where he started to work in January 2018. Before joining Trasys Luxembourg, he has been working for more than seven years for Wavestone and has also been working in France as well as in Germany for companies such as La Poste, Villeroy & Boch and ArcelorMittal. Read More…
Miguel holds a Telecommunication Engineer degree and a Master in Business Administration. He is IT senior official of the European Commission as well as of the the Spanish government. He has more than thirteen years of work experience as project manager of interoperability and digital solutions in national and European public administrations. Read More…
I am a proactive and creative person with a keen eye for detail. During my studies I have always been part of team and I have achieved great team-working skills and fellowship spirit. Read More…
Experienced Project/Technical Manager with track record of successful delivery of national and EU-funded research and development projects. Read More…