💡 Agenda:
09:30 Door opening 🤗
10:00 - 10:30
💬 TALK 1: The pillars of European digital sovereignty
Caroline Vinot, Chargée d’affaires ad interim at the French Embassy in Belgium
Bruno Colmant - Economist
10:30 - 10:50
Fire chat – Can Europe win the war for talents?
Jeroen Franssen - Senior Expert Talent, Labour Market & Organization, Agoria
Vincent Charvillat - Deputy Executive Director, Institut Mines-Télécom
moderated by: Alessandra Guion - CEO, Fintech Belgium
10:50 - 11:30
💬 TALK 2: Ecosystems at the heart of the European digital sovereignty
Bart Becks - Board Member, European Innovation Council and SMEs
Executive Agency
Clara Chappaz - Director, La French Tech
Emmanuelle Ghislain - CEO, Pulse Foundation
Héloize Rozès - CEO and Co-founder, Corma
moderated by: Nathanaël Ackerman - Head of Artificial Intelligence & Digital
Minds, Service Public Fédéral Stratégie & Appui (BOSA)
11:30 - 12:00
Workshop Team France Export: V.I.E., the HR solution powered by Business France for your international development
Manal El Idrissi, chargée d'affaires V.I.E, Business France Belgique
Maxime Krummenacker - V.I.E Program Manager Belgium, Business France
Belgique
Kader Ouedraogo - Chargé de développement V.I.E, Business France Belgique
11:30 - 12:30
Pitch session: Start-ups in the ‘Sovereignty’ ecosystem: discover European
solutions – part 1
12:30 - 13:00 ☕ Lunch Break (continuous)
13:00 - 14:00
Pitch session: Start-ups in the ‘Sovereignty’ ecosystem: discover European
solutions – part 2
14:00 - 14:45
💬 TALK 3: Europe + Belgium + France: what opportunities and fundings for
your European digital projects?
Jeanne Andrade - International Innovation Program Manager, Bpifrance
Thibaud Elzière - Entrepreneur, Hexa
Claire Munck - CEO, BeAngels
Stéphane Ouaki -Head of Department, European Innovation Council and
SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA)
moderated by: Thibault Griez - Practices & Innovation Director, Expleo Belgium
14:45 - 15:00
Master class: Understand the European regulatory roadmap
Jérôme Deroulez - Lawyer
Alessandro Fiorentino - Professor, product owner at Adequacy
15:00 - 15:30
Deep Dive – Organisations’ security and compliance
Sylvie Angeli - Practice leader, Cyberwayfinder
Lisa Lombardi - Advisor SMEs - Digital, Union Wallonne des Entreprises
Olivier De Visscher - Expert in cybersecurity, Expleo
moderated by: Isabelle Roccia - Managing Director Europe, IAPP
15:30 - 16:00
Deep Dive – Sovereign data and AI
Gaël Duval - CEO, Murena
Alessandro Fiorentino - Professor, product owner at Adequacy
Stephanie Hospital - Founder & CEO OneRagtime. VC, Investor, Entrepreneur
Alexandre Zapolsky, CEO - LINAGORA
16:00 - 16:15 ☕ Coffee break
16:15 - 16:45
Deep Dive – Infrastructures & Apps: what sovereignty?
Quentin Adam - CEO, CleverCloud
Anne-Sophie Tallandier - Director of Teralab at Deputy Executive Director at
Institut Mines-Télécom
moderated by: Hakima Chaouchi - Head of Digital Sovereingnty and Sobriety
strategy, Institut Mines-Télécom
16:45 - 17:15
Deep Dive – European digital identities and sovereignties
Claire Levallois Barth - Coordinator of the Research Chair "Values and Policies of Personal Information", Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT)
Florent Tournois - Directeur de projet France Identité, Ministère de l'intérieur -
ANTS
Wouter Vanderheere - Chief Strategy Officer, Itsme
moderated by : Emile Marzolf - Journalist, Acteurs Publics
17:15 - 18:00
💬 TALK 4: Technological sovereignty towards democratic challenges
Béatrice de Mahieu - CEO, BeCode
Mark Hunyadi - Philosopher, University of Louvain
Philippe Latombe - Deputy for Vendée, commissioner at the CNIL
Jean-Paul Philippot - CEO, RTBF
moderated by: Marion Moreau - Journalist
Result of the Pitch competition
18:00 🍹 Cocktail
🔍 All day long, discover the startup village!