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DAY 1 • 9 September 2026
09:00 – 10:00
Welcome coffee and registrations
Opening
- 10:00 – 10:10
Introduction by the Master of Ceremonies
Aleksandrs Cepilovs, Research Officer, eu-LISA - 10:10 – 10:20
Introductory remarks
Louise Jevens, Chief Information Officer, Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration in Ireland - 10:20 – 10:30
Introductory remarks
Tillmann Keber, Executive Director, eu-LISA
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 12:00
SESSION 1
Setting the scene and sharing experience: Member States and Institutions
- 10:30 – 11:00
Keynote presentation
Marc Sulon, Head of F.3 Unit - Interoperability and Digitalisation, DG HOME - 11:00 – 11:30
Keynote presentation
Peter Lindlacher, Head of the Data and Analytics Services Division, European Central Bank - 11:30 – 12:00
Keynote presentation
Georgios Stavropoulos, Research Associate, CERTH-ITI
Eleftheria Katsoura, Research Associate, CERTH-ITI
Coffee break
12:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 14:00
SESSION 2
Data governance and compliance by design
- 12:30 – 13:00
Theofanis Syrigos, Head of Programme and Solutions Management Unit, eu-LISA - 13:00 – 13:20
Bart Dekempe, Associate Partner, IBM - 13:20 – 13:40
Toon Segers, Director National Security & Co-founder, Roseman Labs - 13:40 – 14:00
Nicolae Paladi, CEO, Canary Bit
Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 17:00
SESSION 3
Secure and scalable data architectures for the public sector
- 15:30 – 15:40
Joris Vankeerberghen, Head of the Smart Hosting Platform Services Sector, eu-LISA - 15:40 – 16:00
Ingrid Romjin, CEO & Co-founder, Q*Bird - 16:00 – 16:20
Jonny McCandless, Senior Solutions Architect, Elastic - 16:20 – 16:40
Derrick Struys, Director Data Services & Storage, Hewlett Packard Enterprise - 16:40 – 17:00
Guust Franssens, Solution Engineer, Microsoft
Florian Boigner, Cloud Solution Architect, Microsoft
Networking cocktail
17:30 – 19:30
DAY 2 • 10 September 2026
08:30 – 09:20
Welcome coffee and registrations
Opening
- 09:20 – 09:30
Introduction by the Master of Ceremonies
Javier Galbally, Senior Research Officer, eu-LISA - 09:30 – 10:00
Keynote presentation – ETH Zurich
Matthias Leese, Assistant Professor for Technology and Governance at ETH Zurich. Senior Lecturer for Digital Public Governance, University of Zurich
09:20 – 10:00
10:00 – 11:30
SESSION 4
Solutions for data sharing
- 10:00 – 10:30
Keynote presentation
Coen Janssen, Policy Officer, DG Connect
Gianfranco Cecconi, Data Ecosystems & Sovereign Data Lead, Capgemini - 10:30 – 10:50
Darío García Coder, Lead Architect/Technical Director, Sopra Steria
Amine Chetouane, Technology Leader & Enterprise Architect, Sopra Steria - 10:50 – 11:10
Joint presentation
Marc-Christopher Schmidt, Policy Maker & Team Leader eProcurement, DG GROW
Daniel Arosa, Executive Manager, NTT Data - 11:10 – 11:30
Frédéric Bellaiche, Vice President of Technology & Research, Dawex
Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 13:30
SESSION 5
Data exploitation, analytics and AI readiness
- 12:00 – 12:20
Domenico Borla, AI Strategist, Capgemini - 12:20 – 12:40
Jose Rui Teixeira Nunes, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services - 12:40 – 13:00
Christian Spindeldreher, Data & AI Strategist, Dell Technologies - 13:00 – 13:20
Dennis Diefenbach, CEO, The QA Company
Closing remarks
Philippe Harant, Head of the Strategy, Capabilities and Coordination Unit, eu-LISA
13:20 – 13:30