2020-09-28 |
Dear Madam,
Dear Sir,
Dear Members,
Cloud Community Europe Luxembourg (CCEL), FEDIL, the Voice of the Luxembourg’s industry and ICTluxembourg, jointly invite you to attend the conference “GAIA-X : EU’s most important digital aspiration in a generation” to be held on Monday, 12th October 2020.
GAIA-X is a strategic project initiated by Europe for Europe. GAIA-X aims at developing common requirements for a federated trustworthy and secured Data Infrastructure for Europe in order to assert Europe’s data sovereignty. With GAIA-X, Europe is building the launch pad for the « Airbus of Artificial Intelligence ».
This conference will be the opportunity to give you an overview of the GAIA-X project, its goals and the added value it will bring to the Luxembourg ecosystem and Europe as a single market for the fundation of a powerful european data economy.
Please, find below the agenda. You can discover the speakers over their brief bio for your reference HERE
We look forward to virtually welcoming you.
Sincerely yours,
Yves Reding, Vincent Lekens,
Chairman, Vice-Chairman,
CCEL CCEL
15h30 Welcome of online attendees
16h00 Welcome words
Yves Reding, Chairman, CCEL
16h05 Opening speech
Franz Fayot, Minister of the Economy, Government of Luxembourg
16h10 GAIA-X, a Federated Data Infrastructure for Europe
Andreas Weiss, Director of EuroCloud Deutschland, Director of Digital Business Models division at ECO - Association of the Internet Industry
16h45 Opportunities and Challenges of the Data Economy
Federico Milani, Deputy Head of Unit of the Data Policies and Innovation Unit, European Commission
17h00 Economy of Things – GAIA-X enables new business
Nik Scharmann, Project Director « Economy of Things », Robert Bosch GmbH
17h25 Round table discussion
Moderated by Charlotte Boutelier, Head of Marketing, Farvest
Mario Grotz, Ministry of the Economy
Andreas Weiss, EuroCloud Deutschland
Nick Scharmann, Robert Bosch GmbH
Federico Milani, DG Connect, European Commission
Fabrice Hansen, Paul Wurth
Paul Timmers, University of Oxford
Yves Reding, CCEL
17h55 Conclusion and closing words
Yves Reding, Chairman CCEL, Vice-Chairman ICTLuxembourg
Please register HERE before 9 October 2020.
LOCATION
The conference will be held 100% online. The link to join the conference from your computer, tablet or smartphone will be sent to you after your registration in the confirmation email a few days before the event.