European Data Summit 2024

03:00pm Welcome Address

Christoph Brand

Member of Executive Board, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Iris Plöger

Member of Executive Board, Federation of German Industries

03:15pm Opening Keynote

Enabling Innovation. Boosting Competition.

Daniela Kluckert

Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Digital and Transport

03:30pm – 04:15pm Panel I

Data Innovation in Europe – One Click Away?

Thomas Jarzombek

Member of the German Parliament, CDU/CSU  

Iris Plöger

Member of Executive Board, Federation of German Industries

Jaana Sinipuro

DataSpace Europe Oy, Finnland

Lina Rusch / Moderation

Tagesspiegel Background

04:15pm – 04:30pm Keynote

Leverage in Competition: Innovation

Gary Hilgemann

Founder & CEO of REBOTNIX

04:30pm – 04:45pm Keynote

How data usage Xcelerates digital ecosystems in industries

Gerhard Kress

Siemens AG

Pencho Kuzev / Moderation
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung 
 

04:45pm – 05:15pm Break

05:15pm – 06:00pm Panel II

Implementing new rules for innovative data economy

Christina Schmidt-Holtmann
Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Bjoern Juretzki
European Commission, DG Connect

Sebastian Rockstroh
AUDI AG

Micheal Dose / Moderation

Federation of German Industries

06:00pm Keynote

Big Tech, AI, and Europe’s digital sovereignty

Max von Thun                                                 
Open Markets Institute

06:15pm – 07:00pm Panel III
The great US-Europe antitrust convergence?

Vittorio E. Cottafavi                                                           
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division

Thorsten Käseberg 

Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Simonetta Vezzoso

University of Trento                         

Samuel Stolton

Bloomberg / Moderation

07:00pm – 07:15pm Break

07:15pm – 08:00 Panel IV
DMA Enforcement: Where do we go from here?

Michael Koenig

European Commission, DG Competition

Sophie Gappa

Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Mark Buse                                                      

Match Group 

Francesco Versace

Spotify

Simonetta Vezzoso

University of Trento / Moderation                

08:00pm – 08:15pm

Six horsemen of the digital apocalypse

Johnny Ryan / Pencho Kuzev  
 

08:15pm Reception

09:00am – 09:10am Welcome Remarks

Thomas Koenen                                                                                                              Federation of German Industries
09:10am – 09:25am Keynote

Stephen Anderson
Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs,
U.S. Department of State

09:25am – 10:30am Panel I
The EU AI Act: A bittersweet ending?

Ian Brown
Centre for Technology and Society, Fundação Getulio Vargas Law School,

Rio de Janeiro

Kai Zenner
UN Secretary-General’s 'High-Level Advisory Body on AI'/ 

Head of Office, A. Voss, MEP

Jeremy Rollison
Government Affairs Microsoft

Corinna Visser 

Table.Briefings / Moderation                                          

10:30am – 10:45am – Break

10:45am - 10:55am Keynote
European Health Data Space
Fulvia Raffaelli (v)                                                                                                   

European Commission, DG for Health and Food Safety

10:55am – 11:40am Panel II
European Health Data Space: 2024 a Breakthrough Year?
Fulvia Raffaelli                                                                                                             

European Commission, DG for Health and Food Safety

Dorothee Stamm                                                                                                     

Medtronic GmbH

Nick Schneider                                                                                                           

German Federal Ministry of Health

Beatrice Kluge                                                                                                           

gematik GmbH

Maro Bader
Roche Pharma AG
Pencho Kuzev / Moderation                                                                                               

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

11:40am – 12:00 pm Break

12:00pm – 12:20 pm Keynote                                                                                       

Time for Implementation: Completed Framework for the Digital Economy?    Renate Nikolay (v) 

Deputy Director-General, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Michael Dose / Moderation
Federation of German Industries

12:20pm – 01:15pm Panel III                                                                                        Beyond compliance - Building balanced business models

Jaana Sinipuro

Data Intermediary, Finnland

Eric Pol

MyData

Mariane ter Veen

Innopay, Amsterdam

Pencho Kuzev / Moderation

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

01:15pm – 02:00pm Panel III
Fair access to data for research purposes?

Ruppert Stüwe                                                                                                                   

Member of the German Parliament, SPD 

Sicco Lehmann-Brauns                                                                                                     

SIEMENS AG

Sonja Schimmler                                                                                                                   

TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS

Aline Blankertz                                                                                                           

Wikimedia

02:00pm – 02:45pm Networking Lunch

02:45pm – 03:10pm Keynotes

Europe’s most hyped law in the election year: the GDPR
Alena Buyx
Chairwoman, German Ethics Council / Technical University of Munich 
Karolina Mojzesowicz (v)
European Commission, DG for Justice and Consumers

03:10pm – 03:45pm Panel IV
Europe’s most hyped law in the election year: the GDPR
Johnny Ryan                                                                                                             

Director of Enforce, Irish Center for Cilvil Liberties
Claus Ulmer
Deutsche Telekom AG
Alena Buyx
Chairwoman, German Ethics Council / Technical University of Munich
Karolina Mojzesowicz (v)
European Commission, DG for Justice and Consumers
Oshrit Aviv / Moderation
Entero, Israel

03:45pm – 04:15pm Panel V
PayOrOkay
Frederick Richter
Stiftung Datenschutz                                                                                                             

Johnny Ryan                                                                                                                     

Director of Enforce, Irish Center for Cilvil Liberties
Oshrit Aviv / Moderation
Entero, Israel

04:15pm Keynote

The State of Play of Open Data in G20

David Zamora                                                                                                                       

Global Data Barometer, Costa Rica

04:30pm – 05:15pm Panel VI                                       

Open Data: Transparency by default?

Bernadine Fernz

Open Contracting Partnership, UK

Gaurav Godhwani 

Civic Data Lab, India

Winfried Veil

German Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community

David Zamora

International Open Data Barometar, Costa Rica

Walter Palmetshofer 

Open Knowledge Foundation / Moderation

05:15pm – 05:30pm Break

05:30pm – 06:15pm Panel VII

Level Playing Field in Accessing Vehicle Data?                                                       

Andreas Wiebe                                                                                                                   

Georg-August-University of Göttingen

Juan Hahn                                                                                                                             

Hahn Network

Thorge Erichsen                                                                                                                     

Daimler AG

Begoña Gonzalez Otero / Moderation                                                                             

Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

06:15pm – 06:30pm Keynote

Unlocking post-Brexit opportunities - UK‘s Data Protection and Digital Information Bill

Owen Rowland

Deputy Director for Data Protection Policy, UK

Michael Dose / Moderation
Federation of German Industries                         

06:30pm Reception

09:30am Welcome Address

Nikolaus von Peter

Representation of the European Commission, Germany

09:35am Keynote

Clear Incentives for Disruptive Innovations in Europe?

Damian Boeselager

Member of the European Parliament, Volt, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance

09:45am – 10:30am Panel I

Clear view on our objectives for the digital economy – Outlook for the New European Commission

Damian Boeselager

Member of the European Parliament, Volt, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance

Max von Thun                                                 
Open Markets Institute, Washington

Raphaël Daniel

OVHcloud, France

Constance Chucholowski / Moderation

Candid Public Affairs

10:30am – 10:45am Keynote

EU Digital Legislation as a “Wimmelpicture”? What Children’s Books Can Teach Us About Laws

Heiko Richter

Max-Planck-Institute for Competition and Innovation

10:45am – 11:30am Panel II
Cadenabbia Memorandum on European Cloud Policy

Francisco Mingorance

CISPE

Laura Balke

European Commission, DG Connect

Marco Schuldt

Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Francesco Bonfiglio
CEO Dynamo / The European Cloud Alternative

Pencho Kuzev / Moderation

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

11:45am – 12:00pm Keynote
Cloud busting - Assessing the impact of software licensing practices on competition

Chris Woolcott   

12:30pm – 01:15pm Panel II

GAIA-X as enabler for Data Sovereignty: Expectation vs. Reality

Ulrich Ahle

CEO GAIA-X

Ernst Stöckl-Pukall                                          

Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Jean Pascal Riss

Schneider Electric, Paris

Mark Kühner

SAP

Maxence Demerle / Moderation 

Medef, France          

01:15pm – 02:00pm Panel III
Protecting the Data InnoNation: the NIS 2 Directive and the resilience of our economy

Stefan Braun

Chief Information Security Officer, Henkel

Lena Düpont

Member of the European Parliament, CDU/CSU, EPP

Barbara Kluge
German Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community

Dennis-Kenji Kipker

Bremen University of Applied Sciences / cyberintelligence.institute, Frankfurt a.M.   

Ferdinand Gehringer / Moderation

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.

02:00pm – 02:45pm
Fireside with Silke Hossenfelder

Head of the General Department, Federal Cartel Office, Germany 

and 

Oles Andriychuk
Newcastle University

Pencho Kuzev
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung / Moderation

02:45pm Closing remarks of the 6. European Data Summit & Reception