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…

Spiros Alexakis is a Member of the Board at CAS Software AG. Spiros studied Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe and visited a post graduate course in Economics. Since 1996 he is in the position of Director Innovation and Business Design, managing international activities. Spiros has significant experience in leading of large, international projects. Read More…

Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos is the Secretary General at the General Secretariat of Information Systems for Public Administration of the Hellenic Ministry of Digital Governance and a Professor in the Department of Informatics and Telematics in the area of Information systems and Simulation. He served as Rector of Harokopio University (9/2011 – 1/2016). Read More…
Cesar Casiano is a researcher at KU Leuven, he worked in the H2020 its4land project and he is currently researching on urban water transitions in Mexico and Europe. He is member of the National Research System in Mexico (SNI-CONACYT) and qualified university lecturer in The Netherlands (UTQ/BKO). Read More…
Young high potential PhD Researcher / Policy Officer with outstanding academic records (MSc London School of Economics / MSc University of Leuven). Experience in Belgian and European governance & regulation, government relations, public affairs and international relations as well academic research on a variety of topics related to the Belgian and European governmental levels.  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…
Joep Crompvoets is Professor in Information management in the Public Sector and senior researcher in thee domains: e-Government, Digital Government, Public Sector innovation, GIS, and Spatial Data Infrastructures. Read More…
Dr. Vasiliki Diamantopoulou is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering at the University of the Aegean and a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Digital Systems at the University of Piraeus. Currently, she is participating in a number of European H2020 projects, focusing on Security and Privacy Requirements in various environments (Cloud Computing, Connecting Vehicles). Read More…
Yogesh K. Dwivedi is a Professor of Digital Marketing and Innovation at the Swansea University, Founding Director of the Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC) and Co-Director of Research at the School of Management, Swansea University, Wales, UK. Professor Dwivedi is also currently leading the International Journal of Information Management as its Editor-in-Chief. Read More…
Elsa Estevez is the chair holder of the UNESCO Chair on Knowledge Societies and Digital Governance at Universidad Nacional del Sur, an Independent Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), and Full Professor at the National University of La Plata, all in Argentina. 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…
Cécile is a business architect at the European Commission where she supports mainly the Legal interoperability and the e-procurement ISA2 action. Cécile also contributes to standardisation activities since 2009.  Read More…
Tomasz Janowski is the Head of the Department of Informatics in Management, Faculty of Economics and Management, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland; Invited Professor at the Department for E-Governance and Administration, Faculty of Business and Globalization, Danube University Krems, Austria; and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Government Information Quarterly, Elsevier. 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…
Aggelos Karvounis is a Head Officer at the Department of Interoperability and Electronic Services of the Ministry of Finance (General Secretariat of Information Systems). He is responsible for the (technical) functionality of the electronic payment platform (e-Paravolo) as well as the Greek Interoperability Center. Read More…
Prof. Robert Krimmer is Full Professor of e-Governance at University of Tartu, Estonia. His research is focused on electronic participation and democracy, as well as e-voting, the transformation of the public sector, and all issues further developing a digital society. Robert is also Associate Editor of the international scientific journal Government Information Quarterly (GIQ), where he is in charge of participation issues. Read More…
I am an associate professor (docent) in information systems research and I have authored and co-authored scientific publications in journals, as well as conference papers in proceedings, conference/workshop papers, and research reports. I am part of the editorial board for Government Information Quarterly and am engaged in two international conferences on digital government: IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government (EGOV-CeDem-ePart), and Digital Government Society’s Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o). 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…
Interoperability enthusiast and technology strategy professional, holding more than 12 years of professional experience, always keen to find (simple) solutions to (complex) problems. Fierce supporter of diversity and inclusion, both at professional and societal environments. Currently providing high level consultancy services to the EC in the area of technology strategy and digital public services transformation, with specific focus on interoperability maturity, especially at a trans-European level. Read More…
Sehl Mellouli is a full Professor at the department of Information System at Laval University, Canada. He holds a PhD in computer science from Laval University, a MBA in Information Technology from Laval University, and he is an engineer in Computer Science by the École Nationale des Sciences Informatiques of Tunisia.  Read More…
Professor Dr. Ines Mergel is full Professor of Public Administration – Digital Governance at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz and Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (Class of 2018). Read More…
Gianluca Misuraca is a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Design of Politecnico di Milano. He is a former Senior Scientist at the European Commission’s Directorate General Joint Research Centre in Seville, Spain, where, since February 2009 until August 2020, he was part of the Growth & Innovation Directorate and coordinated research in the area of Digital Governance and Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector. Read More…
Francesco Mureddu is director at the Lisbon Council. Mr Mureddu is an analyst and strategist in innovation and technology policies with a special focus on digital transformation, big data and artificial intelligence, e-government, smart cities, ict-enabled social innovation, future science, citizen science. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Cagliari and a master’s degree in economics from KU Leuven. Read More…
Experienced Director Of Information Technology with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry. Skilled in Computer Science, Application Development, IT Security, Networks, Databases and Proposal Writing. Read More…
Günther Schefbeck has been working for the Austrian Parliamentary Administration since 1986, from 1993 to 2016 as the head of the department “Parliamentary Documentation, Archives, and Statistics”, and since 2016 as the head of the staff unit “Parliamentary Research”; he is also the secretary of the Science Committee and the Committee on Research, Innovation and Technology of the Austrian National Council. Read More…
Antonis Ch. Stasis is the Head of the Directorate of Electronic Government in the Hellenic Ministry of Digital Governance. He has a PhD degree as Computer Engineer from the National Technical University of Athens. He is responsible in the Ministry for structural funds programs and especially for e-Government and administration reform.  Read More…
Slim is expert in service design and business modelling. He holds a doctorate in information systems from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and in computer science from the Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble, France). He is employed as a senior researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST).  Read More…
I am a PhD Researcher at the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology in Tallinn (TalTech), Estonia. I am currently working as an External Expert for the European Commission’s AI Watch team, where I am contributing to the research activities on the use of AI within public services and co-author of the AI Watch – Artificial Intelligence in Public Services report. 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…
Richard Wacker is Head of Research of the YellowMap AG and Innovation Manager at CAS Software AG. He is responsible for Innovation Projects in both companies in fields like Artificial Intelligence, Map-Based Technology and Services, Location Intelligence and Cloud Computing. Read More…