Juan has his doctor degree in Computer Science (AI and Robotics). He is today CTO at DXC Southern Europe.

Juan’s experience as Chief Technologist has grown from Knowledge and Systems Architecture a span over 35 years. He has embraced several technical roles, most aspects of IT (from hardware-software and user-manufacture) and several industry areas. Juan now directs their team and his personal work to solve digital business needs and to balance the right compound elements for a technology solution to support business growth.

Juan has specialized in bringing together people, knowledge and technology to create value added tools to automate and simplify decision making for business and process. Juan has directly designed workplace functionality to solve business issues with business back office processes outsourcing as well as optimizing infrastructure and architecture to deliver virtual workplace at massive scale. He strongly believes in integration and interoperability obtaining the most of every Information System, once defined the business objective.

Dr. Roland Kupers is an advisor on Complexity, Resilience and Energy Transition, as well as an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Amsterdam.A theoretical physicist by training, Roland spent a decade each at AT&T and at Shell in various senior executive functions, including Vice President for Sustainable Development and Vice President Global LNG.He has published widely, including in HBR, on Project Syndicate and co-authored The Essence of scenarios (AUP 2014), Complexity and the art of public policy (PUP 2014) and Turbulence: A corporate perspective on collaborating for resilience (AUP 2014). He is also the managing director of NewEconomicMetrics BV, a fintech start-up.

Louise has a background in Engineering Physics with a Master's degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

After an internship at the European Space Agency, working on Guidance, Navigation and Control for satellites, she worked as a satellite systems engineer at OHB in Sweden and later Tekever in Portugal.

Today, she is the co-founder and COO of Valispace, a software company where she and her team are developing a browser-based collaboration platform for engineers to build better satellites, rockets, robots, and other complex hardware.

Yann Ménière joined the EPO as Chief Economist in February 2016.He was previously a professor of economics at MINES ParisTech, and also lectured on the economics of IP at Imperial College London, the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and CEIPI.His research and expertise relate to the economics of innovation, competition and intellectual property.

Stefan Moritz has a long years experience in EU-funded economic development projects with international partner networks all over the continent. After his studies in Sociology he moved to Italy where he founded 1999 together with other 4 partners the Consulting Firm AREA EUROPA scrl, with seats in Bologna and – since 2013 – in Bruxelles. He lead this company from 1999 until 2013, and manages since then the Bruxelles office.He is an experienced Project Manager for regional economic development, European network manager, workshop facilitator and strategic advisor.Stefan Moritz speaks fluently English, Italian and Spanish, plus some French and Dutch.

Cristina Oyon is Head of Strategic Initiatives at SPRI, the Business Development Agency in the Basque Country.She has broad experience in business development, research and innovation at managerial and strategic level and is currently responsible for the design and implementation of the agenda for the Basque industrial transformation, which fosters resource efficient manufacturing concepts that take advantage of digitalisation in order to add value to processes, products and services.She is member of the High Level Industrial Roundtable Industry 2030 of the European Commission, chaired by the Vice President Katainen, which gives advice on the implementation of the EU Industrial Strategy 2030.

Jorge Ramos is the President of Embraer for Europe, Middle East and Africa. His career in the Aviation business began at Embraer in 1984, with over 30 years of experience, he has worked in a variety of technical and leadership roles.Before being promoted Jorge was the President & CEO of Atech SA, an Embraer Defense and Security company dedicated to developing complex systems solutions for critical missions in public and private organizations, where he oversaw the development of command, control and intelligence solutions. Prior to that Jorge was the Vice President of Technology & Development at Embraer, between 2005 and 2012.His visionary was key in the huge advances made in the Technology Development Program. He became best known as the person responsible for the great advances Embraer achieved in Technological mastery, this influenced greatly the aircrafts built by Embraer today.He was educated at ITA the Technical Institute of Aeronautics, was a post graduate at the National Institute for Space Research and has been certified as Non-Executive Director at INSEAD (IDPC-18).

Alan received his PhD from Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) in 2013. He completed a Post-Doctorate Fellowship at University of Toronto, and in 2016 was awarded professional Systems Engineering post graduate certificate from University of California, Irvine | Extension.He is INCOSE member with AFIS (Association Française d’Ingénierie Système) and a qualified Associate Systems Engineering Professional (ASEP) and a professional member of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).As Project Manager with Pôle SCS (France) he predominately focuses on digital technologies especially Electronics, Telecommunications and Software. The main target markets are; Cyber Security, Cyber Physical Systems, Smart Cities, Retail, Transport & Logistics, Industry 4.0 and e-Health.

Theodore Roos is a Principal at Boston Consulting Group, based in the UK. He is a core member of the People and Organisation practice, where he specialises in the Future of Work topic. He was seconded to the World Economic Forum in 2017-18 where he launched their Preparing for the Future of Work project, which focused on scenarios of the future, and optimising job transitions using a big data, quantitative approach. His focus since then has been on up-skiling/re-skilling to prepare workers for the future, and on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the workplace.

Marco Siebert has been working for Deutsche Messe AG in the field of international marketing and public affairs since 2007. As Director of International Relations, Marco has been spearheading key Deutsche Messe globalization projects for well over 12 years now. Marco is responsible for political as well as economic developments with leading manufacturing countries, including leading the bilateral Partner Country Program of the Hannover Messe together with governments from the United States, India, China, Russia, Japan, Korea, Europe and Latin America. In Washington, D.C., Marco founded and manages the company’s pivotal U.S. political representation. In 2014, he implemented a strategic partnership together with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) for initiatives in emerging und less developed countries. Strategic marketing encompassing influential associations and institutions as well as pathing the way for networking between industry & politics remain a focal point for Marco in bridging technologies and cultures from all corners of our world. Marco has furthermore developed strategies, communication plans and tactical implementation instruments for campaigns, as well as being the driver behind such initiatives, throughout the America’s, Asia and Europe.Over 2 years now, Marco serves as Member of the Board of the German American Chamber of Commerce in the United States and supports the American Chamber since 2012 as a Patron Member in Germany.Marco Siebert started his career as a Key Account Manager of a large German Insurance Company. Here his responsibilities focused on technical and mechanical insurance management. In consequent years, Marco headed a wide array of international sales and marketing projects for such companies as ITT Flygt International, Thyssen Krupp and Firestone. For these companies his focus was on industrial expansion in European and U.S. markets. Marco has also served as a Senior Consultant for financial projects, marketing and communication for the German Association of Saving Banks before he became Vice President Marketing of the Saving Bank Hameln, Germany.He was born in 1971 in Hannover, Germany, is married, and has two children.

José Santos-Victor is a Full Professor at IST, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is a researcher at the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisbon) where he founded the Computer Vision and Robotics Lab (VisLab). He has been President of ISR-Lisboa since January 2015 and Coordinator of the Associated Laboratory in Robotics and Engineering Systems (LARSyS).

He was scientifically responsible for the participation of ISR-Lisbon / IST in several national and European projects in the field of robotics and artificial vision. His research interests are computer vision, robotics and learning systems, namely the link between perception and action. He has developed research that involves the modeling of biological systems and the development of biologically plausible artificial systems, including humanoid robots with cognitive and learning capabilities and human-inspired.

He was associate editor of the journals IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems. He was Vice-President of IST for international affairs from 2006 to 2015. He was Secretary General of the European network CLUSTER between July 2010 and June 2012. He coordinates the International Doctoral Program Robotics, Brain and Cognition and is currently Director of the College Brain-Cognition of the University of Lisbon.

Anand is a design thinking, CX and brand enthusiast whose 20 year career with the likes of SONY, LEGO, Samsung and IDEO has given him a unique perspective on the challenges of implementing innovation. Today he consults with global brands, teaches in several business schools such as INSEAD and FT/IE and is based in Dubai.