David Seoane is a Programme Manager at FundingBox with 11 years of experience on fundraising in EU programmes, including proposal preparation and evaluation, and partner search in innovation funding programmes: H2020, INTERREG, ERASMUS+, and LIFE Experience. Managing several EU funded projects under Next Generation Internet, Smart connectivity, Smart manufacturing and Smart grids initiatives.

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Digital contact-tracing and Internet privacy

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Laura Argilés is a Marketing Specialist at FundingBox. With a journalistic background, she discovered digital marketing working in several London start-ups. She accumulates experience in inbound marketing, growth hacking, community building and content marketing, among others. Interested in start-ups, entrepreneurship, tech and innovation.

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Maurits Butter is a Senior Scientist at TNO. His carrier included working for industry, government and research and technology. His aim is helping governments and industries to efficiently and effectively make use of the opportunities in innovation. Specialties: Strategy development, foresight, mapping the future, innovation, network analysis and feasibility studies.

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Bianca Muntean is the Cluster Manager of Transilvania IT, and she has over 20 years of experience in ecosystem building. She is working with local, regional and national authorities in drafting sectoral and competitiveness strategies. She is the coordinator of the fully operational Transilvania Digital Innovation Hub în Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

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Tommaso Dalla Vecchia. Development and Advocacy Manager at European Schoolnet, responsible for relations with public and private bodies supporting European Schoolnet in the field of innovation in education. He has been coordinating the network of Ed Tech and ICT companies engaged in the Future Classroom Lab, an inspirational learning technological environment.

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Xianshu Zeng. Startups Acceleration Programme Manager at ISDI Accelerator, with four years of experience working with European Commission funded ICT projects. Education: Master of Corporate Communication, IE Business School.

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Andrés Sánchez Sandaza is Director at FundingBox Communities, responsible for the growth of FundingBox Community to +25.000 innovators. As an entrepreneur, Andres has founded 3 startups, acting as CEO and Product Manager and raised several rounds of funding. He also acts as LEDGER Project Coordinator, NGI4All Project Lead and TOKEN Programme Manager in Horizon 2020 projects. He is a Cranfield MBA, Economist, Master in International Relations and Expert in European Affairs.

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Moderator: Jose Iglesias leads a globally distributed team, supporting grassroots community and ecosystem engagement across the world, helping to deliver entrepreneurial education and awareness in every corner of the world.

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Tomasz Mazuryk – Co-founder and managing partner of FundingBox Deep Tech Fund, co-founder and partner at FundingBox and main mission is to help startups grow.

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Arek Wylegalski is a Venture Capitalist with more than 9 years of experience in the financial industry and expert in making ideas happen. Wylegalski is Venture Partner at Firstminute Capital, while being an entrepreneur at Firstledger Capital and a mentor at Seedcamp. He’s experience started in Barclays Investment Bank in 2011.

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Andrea worked for 15 years in development of enterprise systems, skilling for Multimedia Applications (online streaming platforms) and Internet of Things (IoT). His main experience fields are Multidevice Applications Development, Enterprise Architectures, Cloud Computing and GIS. He is also a Senior Analyst, and researcher for Smart Cities and Innovative Startup Evolution.

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Lanfranco is currently the Smart City Program Director at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica spa (www.eng.it – Italy). He has been involved in management roles (CEO, CIO) in private companies at national and international level (Boston, MA, USA). In 1999 he moved from private to public sector as CIO of Municipality of Parma (Italy), and then to Engineering. Since 2009 he has been working in R&D Department looking at the technological transfer from Research to Innovation to the Market.

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Roberto Di Bernardo, Senior Researcher and Head of the Open Government Group (part of Open Public Service Innovation Lab). Electronic Engineer. In 2014, he got a Master in “Clinical Engineering” from University of Trieste, while in 2003 a Master in “Internet Software Engineering” from University of Catania. Since 2004 he has been working in Engineering R&D Laboratory. Involved in management and technical activities in many European projects, he is now working as R&D opportunity and networking developer for OPSI lab. He is involved in the leadership of BDVA TF7.SG8 (Smart Governance and Smart Cities) and is co-leader of Water & ICT working group in Water Europe.

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How can the medical solution based on automotive tool help hospitals

Paul Peeters works as Lead Expert at Agoria’s Innovation Centre of Expertise, is the ADMA coordinator and has led the development of the European methodology for advanced manufacturing. He guided the transition of a Belgian SME manufacturing plastic and aluminum window frames towards a private equity ownership. He worked 20 years at Philips.

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Hubert Stuczyński and Mateusz Wajda are founders of the SNIKEY company that offers solutions supporting rental of apartments and cars, including the SNIKEYbox device. They gained experience both in the consulting industry and in running their own businesses in the commercial and IT industries.

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Katherine Anderson, Communications and Community Manager at Martel Innovate, supporting the European Commission’s NGI and NGIoT initiatives, as well as projects supporting Smart Cities and AI in line with European values of privacy, trust and security. Katherine worked with the UN for 11 years in Human Rights, Health, Water and Sanitation and Environmental Data to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. She worked as a radio broadcast journalist for the BBC and holds a Masters in International Affairs and a Human Rights Law Diploma.

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Oliver Sauter is the co-founder and CEO of WorldBrain.io. The company is developing privacy focused knowledge tools to help people cope with information overload in their online research. Their mission is to build the Next Generation Internet made for collaboration and human connection. Read More: getmemex.com

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Alessandro is a 10 years experienced manager in Digital Strategy, Commercial Transformation, M&A and Pricing. His profile is completed by a triple degree program in BA from the University of Turin, ESCP Europe and London City University. After a 5 years experience in financial consulting in PwC, Alessandro joined LafargeHolcim. In Poland, he leads Strategy and digitalization spanning 360′ across all the organization.

Sustainable and efficient construction site during post-COVID-19

Daveed Benjamin is an American technologist and children’s writer. But his most important identifier is Papa. Since BS and MS in Engineering at Stanford, he has had leadership roles in startups, nonprofits, and social enterprises in emergent fields. As a “Shift Shaper,” his work focuses on collective wisdom and altering systems of consciousness for positive impact. Now as founder and CEO of WisdomTech startup Bridgit, Daveed’s focus is decentralizing knowledge & building collective intelligence.

The power of viral misinformation and fake news in COVID-19