Speakers September 23rd 2022
Ulrika Lindstrand
Experienced Validation Lead with a demonstrated history of working in the pharmaceuticals industry. Strong quality assurance professional skilled in Research and Development (R&D), Quality Auditing, Change Control, Validation, and GxP
Ulrika Lindstrand
President. Association of Swedish engineers
Margrethe Vestager
The responsibilities of the executive vice-president of the European Commission for a Europe Fit For The Digital Age are:
- Setting the strategic direction of the political priority “Europe Fit for the Digital Age”.
- Chairing the Commissioners’ Group on a Europe Fit for the Digital Age
- Commissioner for Competition.
- Co-leading on a strategy on small and medium-sized businesses and start-ups and a long-term strategy for the EU’s industrial future, including competition aspects.
- Ensuring synergies between civil, defence and space industries.
- Coordinating work on a European strategy on data and on a European approach to artificial intelligence, including its human and ethical implications.
- Steering work on upgrading liability and safety rules for digital platforms, services and products as part of a new Digital Services Act, ensuring working conditions of platform workers are properly addressed.
- Coordinating the Commission’s work to achieve fair digital taxation.
- Strengthening the enforcement of, and reviewing, EU competition rules.
Margrethe vestager
Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for a Europe fit for the Digital Age (Competition)
Mia Dand
Bio: Mia Dand is the CEO of Lighthouse3, an emerging technology consulting firm based in Berkeley, California. She is an entrepreneurial leader who helps global organizations responsibly adopt and scale new technologies. With a successful track record of leading multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams, Mia is exceptionally skilled at navigating large matrixed organizations and has the rare ability to think at a strategic, programmatic, and operational level.
Mia is also the founder of Women in AI Ethics (WAIE) and led the development of WAIE directory, a free online resource to help hiring managers and conference organizers recruit diverse talent. She created the first ‘100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics list” in 2018, which is now published annually.
Mia is also on the Selection Committee for Anita Borg ABIE Social Impact award committee and on the Advisory Board for Carnegie Council’s Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Politico, and Venture Beat. Pronouns: She/Her
https://www.linkedin.com/in/miadand/
Mia dand
CEO, Founder
Lighthouse3
Cristina Andersson
Cristina Andersson is an award winning and highly professional expert of leadership in the era of the new AiRo technologies. She is a WinCoach, visionary and an energy mobiliser, a true renaissance woman, who has studied her topics widely through classical singing, inventorship, ice-hockey and participating in social activities. She is a board member, teacher, trainer, a business consultant and a pioneer in social networking online. Cristina is an active blogger. Her books include ie. The Winning Helix (in English and in Finnish), a book of poems and BohoBusiness.
Specialties: Win*win(+win) a sustainable formula for winning. WinHoc a winning tactic based on initiating winning motions. business consultant since 1990. Non-fiction author, her published works include Boho Business (Talentum 2012) and The Winning Helix (WSOY 2008)
· Co-founder of the Airo Island association that focuses on innovation and business in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.
· Has given lectures on the future of work at, among others, the European Parliament and Commission.
· Coordinator of Finnish National AiRo programme for the mInistry of Healthcare and Social Affairs.
· Leisure interests include classical singing and poetry.
cristina andersson
CEO. Develor
Sara Lopez
Sara Lopez
CEO. FOunder. Yuman
Michael Birkebæk Jensen
Michael is passionate about cutting edge technologies, business and entrepreneurship and making the world a better place for all of us.
He is NewTech Lead at KPMG Denmark tasked with inventing the future of business together with a group of highly skilled individuals who strive to do the same. In his work he envision, sell and deliver projects and services within e.g. Robotics Process Automation, Virtual Agents, Bots, AI, IoT, Blockchain, Operating models and Business/Technology Strategy across industries and across Denmark, the Nordics and Europe.
In his free time he leverage his insights in technology and business to do good for the rest of society and he is engaged in a number of projects. Examples of these are management of a digital democracy project and For Good Advice NGO where we help smaller NGOs and Social Businesses.
His background for doing this work is 10 years of technology/business strategy consultancy; a master in strategy and organizational dynamics, the elite CEMS Master in International Management with focus on advanced corporate strategy; and Singularity University’s Graduate Studies Program where he learned about the technologies that will impact our society over the next 50 years and how to harvest their immense potential and manage the changes they bring with them.
Michael Birkebæk Jensen
Partner. NewTech. KPMG
Kenneth Larsen
Keystones infuse Danish startups with people and capital from a fast growing network of Danish investors, serial-entrepreneurs and executives living across the world. Kenneth Larsen is the founder of Keystones.
Kenneth Larsen
CEO. Founder. Keystones
Ulrik Max Nielsen
Plan2Fly er en plug n play løsning, der samler og faciliterer alle processer forbundet med en droneopgave ét sted – lige fra planlægning og udførelse til efterbehandling af dronedata. Platformen gør det let og overskueligt at gøre brug af droneteknologi uagtet kendskab og erfaring. Uanset om man er forhandler, køber af droneservices, dronepilot eller freelance databehandler, bliver alle processer automatiseret i én platform, således at der placeres eksperter i alle led. Plan2Fly forbinder samtlige parter og gør det muligt for kunden med få klik, at bestille et produkt, der normalt kræver koordinering med flere parter og er meget tidskrævende. Det er en let (API) integrerbar løsning til alle brancher, der har et ønske om øget digitalisering.
Ulrik Max Nielsen
Founder. Plan2Fly
Inesa Podgaiska
Former Latvian diplomat with more than 20 years experience in stakeholder management, negotiation,
advocacy and communication.
Main areas of expertise are advocating for engineers’ role in advancing responsible Artificial Intelligence
and achieving sustainable development goals; promoting engineering profession, STEM competencies and
lifelong learning opportunities; mobilising partners from countries, international organisations and business
community in the cross-border cooperation.
Current employment: Secretary General, Association of Nordic Engineers, ANE
ANE is the cooperation organisation for the trade unions representing engineering profession in the Nordic
Region: the Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers (Sveriges Ingenjörer), the Danish Society of
Engineers (IDA), the Norwegian Society of Engineers and Technologists (NITO), the Icelandic Association of
Chartered Engineers (VFÍ), and Engineers Finland. Together, ANE represents more than 500,000 engineers
in the Nordic Region.
Former jobs: the European Environment Agency, Baltic Development Forum, Permanent Representation of
the Republic of Latvia to the EU, Parliament of the Republic of Latvia.
Education: Master’s degree in diplomacy from Paris XI University. Speaks five languages: Latvian, Russian
English, French and Danish.
Received the 2019 Women Economic Forum Award Women of the Decade in Science Leadership
Included in the 2019 International open directory of Brilliant Women Working on AI and ethics
Mentor for students on the online platform Job Glasses
IneSE podgaiska
secretary general. association of nordic engineers
Michael Harboe
Michael Harboe
CEO. Virsabi
Lazaros Nal
Lazaros Nalpantidis
Professor Autonomous Ststems. DTU. Head of Group
Farzad Saber
Farzad Saber has M.Sc. in engineering, is certified in information security and has been working with different aspects of digitalization since the 90s. In the early 00s was Farzad responsible for inter-ministerial IT projects as head of division in the ministry of Finance and has also worked as consultants for many years. The work with AI and healthcare started in 2010 and resulted in developing automizing treatment of respiratory patients. Farzad is cofounder and chairman of the board in O2matic Ltd and is co-author of two AI patent applications.
Farzad Saber
CBDO and Chairman of the board at O2matic ApS
Mette Meltinis
Mette Meltinis
Coordinator.High5girls
Marianne Andersen
Marianne Andersen is an Electronics Engineer with an eMBA who has 25 years of experience within Medtech. Developing HighTech solutions for Healthcare. Also worked closely with Intuitive Surgical. The first company launching a robot for surgical procedures. In the past 5 years she has been part of RoboBusiness. An American brand working to enter Europe. She is founder of CoInsights Aps, RoboInsights and High5Girls (NGO working to open the doors of STEM to girls, www.high5girls.dk)
Marianne Andersen
Founder RoboInsights
Ole Ravn
Ole Ravn is Head of Automation and Control, Professor in Intelligent Robotics at Technical University of Denmark. He will introduce us to some of the interesting projects going on at DTU and also what robotics is used for in general.