Live Performance
Mi.Mu. Gloves
09:25 - 09:45 / Auditorium
Chagall will deliver a live music performance, including the now famous Mi.Mu gloves!
The aim for the mi.mu glove system is to contribute substantially to the thriving community of makers, musicians, hackers and anyone interested in changing how people interact with creative arts technology. Although the primary focus is music, the mi.mu gloves have unlimited potential outside of this domain.
Introduction by
Chris Burns 
Journalist (confirmed)
Chagall van den Berg
Vocalist, Songwriter and Electronic Music Producer (confirmed)
The Machine: The future of compute technology
What can’t you ask today?
11:30 - 12:30 / Cinema
Colin I’Anson, Fellow and Chief Technologist for the IoT program in the EMEA region at HPE, will explain the exciting work that he and his team are undertaking to deliver The Machine. This, it is claimed, will reinvent the fundamental architecture of computers, enabling a quantum leap in performance and efficiency.
Colin I’Anson 
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow (confirmed)
Digital Leadership Seminar on the Cloud
12:30 - 14:30 / Restaurant
This Digital Leadership Institute seminar is an invitation-only session aimed at women decision-makers in the public and private sector: Leaders in sectors undergoing digital transformation including traditional industry, the service sector, government and academia; decision-makers in digitally-intensive businesses, startups and SMEs; policy-makers in local, regional and national governments and at European level; etc. In addition to an expert overview of the subject, participants will engage in a hands-on workshop to gain practical experience and first-hand insight into cloud-based working and computing. For this latter, each participant is requested to bring a laptop.
Participants will gain an understanding of the following:
- What is "the cloud"? Who are the major players driving the move to the cloud, and what are the issues -- challenges and opportunities -- this transformation represents?
- What are the characteristics of cloud-based working and computing, and how do they impact traditional industry, business and government?
- What opportunity does a transition to the cloud represent for public and private sector organizations, the economy, and society at large?
Cheryl D. Miller
Founder, Digital Leadership Institute (confirmed)
Nicola Walsh
Inside Sales Representative, Organisation: Amazon Web Services Public Sector EMEA (confirmed)
Giulio Soro
Head of Solutions Architecture Emerging Markets/RoEMEA Public Sector, Amazon Web Services
Rosanna Kurrer
Co-Founder and Digital Literacy Lead, Digital Leadership Institute (confirmed)
More speakers to follow
Genomics, Robotics and Health
A digital Artist impression
13:00 - 13:45 / Aquarium
The session will explore the ethics of social robot appearance and behaviour, and will investigate the emerging technology of whole genome sequencing of bacteria . What will it be like to live with robots and how might we challenge our expectations of our social lives with robots? What will genome sequencing mean to us personally, culturally and socially?
Anna Dumitriu
Bioartist (confirmed)
Alex May
Digital Artist (confirmed)
Data Protection by Design
Privacy as an engineering principle
14:45 - 16:00 / River 6
Privacy by Design has been discussed as a principle and a good practice for some time, but now it is becoming more important. The growing awareness of how the most widely used communications are open to massive surveillance leaves many users concerned and looking for options to find more privacy friendly tools for participating in the digital world. With the support of the EDPS and other Data Protection Authorities, the Internet Privacy Engineering Network (IPEN) tries to encourage exchange and cooperation between those working on engineering privacy.
With growing penetration of everybody’s daily life by connected and smart devices, used in more and more activities, the privacy engineering challenge concerns all developers and makers of devices, apps, tools and systems. In the EU, the new General Data Protection Directive which will become fully applicable on 25 May 2018 will make data protection by design and by default legal obligation. This workshop will discuss approaches to privacy engineering and current challenges and initiatives.
Aurélie Pols
Data Governance & Privacy Advocate, Krux Digital / Ethics Advisory Group EDPS (confirmed)
Jetzabel Serna
Assistant Professor, Deutsche Telekom Chair of Mobile Business and Multilateral Security (confirmed)
Estelle Massé
Policy Analyst, Access Now (confirmed)
Aristotelis Tzafalias
Policy Officer, European Commission (confirmed)
Moderated by
Achim Klabunde
Head of Sector IT Policy, European Data Protection Supervisor (confirmed)
Coding for Young People
14:30 - 17:30 / Loge 2
At this event targeting students, educators, administrators and policy-makers, expert panelists will present best practices in coding initiatives for youth from across Europe. The roundtable will be followed by an Android smartphone coding workshop for young people.
Best Practice Roundtable, 14:30 - 16:00
Cheryl D. Miller
Founder, Digital Leadership Institute (confirmed)
Valentina Platzgummer
Project Manager, Consulta Europa (confirmed)
Annika Ostergren Pofantis
Policy Officer, EU Code Week, European Commission (confirmed)
Rosanna Kurrer
Co-Founder and Digital Literacy Lead, Digital Leadership Institute (confirmed)
Janne Elvelid
Policy Officer, Digital Agenda of the EU including digital skills and jobs, European Commission (confirmed)
Katrien De Schrijver
coordinator STEM charter, STEM Platform (Confirmed)
Anne Collet
Driver Benelux, Le Wagon (confirmed)
Camille Françoise
Code Voyagers Project Lead, Libraries Without Borders (confirmed)
Friedger Müffke
Android Enthusiast, Developer, Event and Community Manager
(confirmed)
Cristina Larocca and Giuseppe Cardaci
Prism (confirmed)
Android Coding Workshop for Young People, 16:00-17:30
Following the best practices roundtable, Ms. Rosanna Kurrer, Digital Leadership Institute's Cofounder, will lead a hands-on Android Coding workshop with MIT App Inventor, targeting young people ages 11 and up.
Data Visualisation
Information, Design and Data
15:15 - 16:00 / River 1
Matthew Falla, co-founder at Signal Noise, will talk to delegates about how his company is helping (with creativity) to make sense of an increasingly data-driven world.
Matthew Falla
Partner, Signal Noise (confirmed)
Future TV ecosystem: more quality, more flexibility and more screens
15:30 - 16:30 / Aquarium
*Join this session for a chance to win an iPad in the quiz!*
In this round table we will be discussing different elements that are disrupting in the TV market and how they affect future strategies for TV market players (broadcasters: both private and public, TV network operators, telcos…)
Ivan Verbesselt
Senior Vice President, Group Marketing, NAGRA (confirmed)
Gert Marien
Incubation Manager, TV & Telco Cloud, technology Strategy, Proximus (confirmed)
Eirini Zafeiratou
Director of Public Policy, Organisation: Amazon (confirmed)
Adam Kinsley
Director of Policy, Sky
Moderated by
Ester Fernandez Montorio
Head of Marketing, Hispasat (confirmed)
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Digital Democracy Lab
Digitally-powered civic participation
16:00 - 17:00 / River 3
This session will explore how digital is empowering new forms of civic participation and disrupting traditional concepts of citizen – government interactions. The nature of our democratic institutions and their suitability for the digital age, and conversely the contribution that digital can make to developing new democratic architectures at the local, regional and international levels, will all feature.
The discussion will be lively and thought provoking, with the format designed to encourage interaction amongst the group.
Paul Adamson
Chairman, Forum Europe (confirmed)
Indy Johar
Project00 (confirmed)
Filippo Addarii
PlusValue (confirmed)
Nadia El Immam
Edgeryders (confirmed)
Virtual Reality for Pain Relief
17:00 - 17:30 / Auditorium
In this talk, Howard Rose will explain how he is working to develop VR solutions for healthcare, with some fascinating stories of how these technologies are already being used.
Howard Rose
CEO, DEEPSTREAM VR
Festival After Party
17:30 - 21:00
Includes live coverage of European Championship football games
More details to follow…
