Ieva Martinkenaite is among the key figures at Telenor Group contributing to building AI research and innovation ecosystem in Norway. She leads a team of data scientists and Machine Learning engineers in Telenor and several high profile regional and national appointments in AI. As Vice President of Telenor Research and Head of Analytics and AI team, Ieva is responsible for advancing research and driving research-based innovation in Telenor within data analytics, AI and IoT. Her work also involves advisory to Telenor executives and business leaders on digital technologies and innovation strategy. Concurrently, Ieva leads a joint AI task force of Europe’s largest telecommunication operator association ETNO and GSMA Europe.

She has more than 15 years of experience in product development, business research and advisory, and holds several Board membership positions. During 2018-2020 Ieva represented Telenor in the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence that provided ethics guidelines for Trustworthy AI and recommendations on the implementation of European Strategy on AI. Ieva holds a PhD in Strategic Management from BI Norwegian Business School.

Dr. Jean-Christophe Pazzaglia is Chief Support Architect / Center of Expertise Public Services and managed the Big Data Value ecosystem project and is leading the pilot AI4Citizen in the AI4EU project. He is actively involved in the activity related to trustworthy AI at SAP corporate level and within the Industrial Research Council for Artificial Intelligence.

While initially working on AI – multi agent systems / neural networks and reflexive languages, he started to work on ICT Security in 2000. Former director of the SAP Research Center Sophia Antipolis – France managing the team focusing on Security Engineering, he was the principal investigator for SAP of numerous research projects of the French and EU framework programs. Complementary, within SAP University Alliance, he is giving seminars on Cloud Security and SAP BI, he teaches and co-developed the OpenSAP lecture on Scratch for teenagers within the corporate Social Responsibility initiative at SAP. Jean-Christophe is Design Thinking coach and engaged with the local startup ecosystem as local contact point with the Village By CA incubator.

Prof. Dr. Milan Petković is the head of the AI Data Science & Digital Twin department at Philips, which conducts innovation projects in the domain of AI and data science in healthcare. He is also AI Lead of the Connected Care cluster at Philips and a part-time full professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Prof. Petković is also a vice president of the BDVA association and he serves on the board of ADRA (private side of new AI & Data public private partnership with the European Commission). On behalf of Philips and TU/e he participated in several standardization initiatives and led several Dutch national and EU projects.

Fabio De Pasquale Architect, with a consolidated background in Digital Transformation, Fabio works at Atos, and he is part of the Global Digital Business Development & Innovation team for the Manufacturing Industry.

He is also part of the Atos Expert Community as Senior Expert in Industry 4.0, Decarbonization and Sustainability focused to the Automotive, Discrete Manufacturing and Consumer Packaging Goods and F&B markets.