Mehran Gul is a Project Lead with the Digital Transformation Initiative at the World Economic Forum in Geneva. He previously served as a National Expert at the United National Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). He received his graduate degree in International..

Piotr started his career at Cisco ten years ago by joining the European leadership team in the CEE region, which had just been created to accelerate business growth. Since 2012 he has been leading Cisco Corporate Affairs in EMEAR with..

Kieran McCarthy is a born and bred Cork man. Growing up in Ballinlough he developed a great love for his hometown and today remains dedicated to promoting the past, present and future of this city and region. After attending Colaiste Chríost..

Andrés Barreneche is a Policy Analyst at the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) of the OECD.  He co-authored the OECD report “Making Innovation Benefit All: Policies for Inclusive Growth” published in March 2017. His contribution aimed to assess..

Nicola is the Community Manager and Open Data Co-ordinator for the Smart Dublin open data portal, Dublinked. Smart Dublin is an initiative of the four Dublin local authorities to improve the Dublin region through the use of technology. Nicola is..

Nuno Nunes is Full Professor at the Department of Engineering Informatics at IST, Member of the Board of the Madeira Regional Agency RTD+I and adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. Nuno leads Madeira-ITI an autonomous research unit integrated in the..

Cofounder and coordinator of innoHUB – the first coworking space from Sekler land – Romania, within the Business Incubator of Sfantu Gheorghe. Eniko is working on a concept about how innovation hubs could be centers of value and talent capturing,..

Matt Stokes is a Researcher at Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation. His work focuses on digital social innovation and new ways of tackling social challenges through existing and emerging technologies, with a particular interest in the fields of inclusion, democracy,..

Harald Gohm has been CEO of Standortagentur Tirol since 2000. Born and raised in Landeck, he graduated from HTL (Secondary Technical College for Electrical Engineering) and studied law at Innsbruck University. His thesis on self- organised regional development was awarded..

Vazil Hudák joined the European Investment Bank as Vice-President at the beginning of October, 2016. Prior to this office, he was appointed as the Chief Negotiator of the EU Budget during the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the European..