2020

 

• VIRTUAL EVENT DigitalEurope event on BIM & Building twin 30.09.20

• VIRTUAL EVENT Strengthening the Single Market: the future of free movement of services The Confederation of Danish Industry 30.09.20

• VIRTUAL EVENT PURE COSMOS FINAL CONFERENCE One Stop Shop & digital applications for SMEs 29.09.20

• HYBRID EVENT Resolving plastic packaging waste: Can deposit return schemes provide a breakthrough? Euractiv supported by UNESDA & EFBW 29.09.20

• VIRTUAL EVENT ALDE Liberal Breakfast on Digital Skilling Co-Hosted with Microsoft 23.09.20

• VIRTUAL EVENT CEPS/ECONPOL: Lunch Debate Series Equality Of Opportunity: What Role For Educational Policies? 09.09.20

• VIRTUAL EVENT Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Assembling the European Circular Fashion and Textile System around EPR 02.09.20

• VIRTUAL EVENT Digital Law webinar 12.08.20

• VIRTUAL EVENT Green European Foundation and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung What future for economic and monetary policy in the EU? 16.07.20

• HYBRID EVENT Euractiv conference sponsored by Generali Investing post-COVID: Is a green recovery assured? 14.07.20

• VIRTUAL EVENT EconPol/CEPS Lunch debate on tax incentives for Research and Development 10.07.20

• VIRTUAL EVENT Boosting European Industry with 5G Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and ZVEI ThinkDigital Series 10.07.20

• HYBRID EVENT Rural Broadband: Challenges and Opportunities Euractiv event sponsored by Huawei 09.07.20

• VIRTUAL EVENT ALDE Liberal Breakfast Series 01.07.20

• HYBRID EVENT Euractiv Video Conference Sponsored by Syngenta 30.06.20

• VIRTUAL EVENT Cisco | The Future of Education amid Covid-19 and beyond 23.06.20

• HYBRID EVENT Euractiv Video Conference Sponsored by FertilizersEurope 23.06.20

• VIRTUAL EVENT EconPol - CEPs lunchtime debate 05.06.20 “Eurozone After the Coronavirus Pandemic: What are the Likely Scenarios?”

• VIRTUAL EVENT Mozilla Mornings event 04.06.20 “Advertising and micro-targeting in the DSA”

• VIRTUAL EVENT ZN Hyperchat 29.04.20 What is the impact of COVID-19 on social media?

• Mozilla Mornings 03.03.20 “From liability to responsibility: the DSA paradigm shift”

• Greiner Breakfast Debate 18.02.20 European Parliament in Brussels

• EU Cancer Plan launch 04.02.20 European Commissioner Stella Kyriakides with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

• EURES 25th Anniversary Event 30.01.20 European Commission

• Building business accountability in data privacy and cybersecurity 28.01.20 Global Public Policy Committee (GPPC)

• Ethical AI and Innovation in Practice 23.01.20 Permanent Representation of the Netherlands to the EU, presentation of the national AI Strategic Action Plan

 

2019 

 

• Greens/EFA in the European Parliament 12.12.19 HOW TO PREVENT BIAS IN AI AND ALGORITHMIC DECISION-MAKING

• Mozilla Morning 10.12.19 The future of openness and data access

• "Invented and Made in Europe" roundtable discussion 09.12.19 organized by the Permanent Representation of Hungary to the European Union and General Electric

• Women of Europe Awards 04.12.19 Jury member

• ERC: A Sustainable Future for Europe – The Contribution of Frontier Research 03.12.19 Organised by the European Research Council (ERC)

• UNI Global Union: 02.12.19 Nowhere to hide: privacy and digital rights in Amazon world

• The role of ethics in artificial intelligence and data usage 29.11.19 Euractiv

• Schibsted report launch 21.11.19 Ensuring Democracy and Freedom of Speech Online —  a need for a Balanced Regulation of Social Networks

• The Brussels 5G Assembly: Choose a Smarter Future 2011.19 Presented by Huawei

• Bayer Annual Reception 19.11.19

• Accountancy Europe 19.11.19 Digital Day 2019

• EUMICON Debate 18.11.19 #MadeInEurope. A common vision for the next five years? At European Parliament

• European Partnership for Democracy 14.11.19

• ETNO 12.11.19 Digital sustainability event

• Freedom Not Fear 08.11.19

• EuroPCom 08.11.19 Closing session

• European Boating Industry 07.11.19 “Building a sustainable leisure boating industry for Europe” in conversation with the European Commission

• RBI Gala dinner and panel 05.11.19 Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI)

• Data driven profiling 05.11.19 ENAR

• EULAR event 16.10.19 A sustainable and effective EU health policy for citizens

• SAE: Shared and micro mobility at The Autonomy summit, Paris 15.10.19

• Understanding the Post-Truth Society 11.1019 Mediterranean Conference Centre, Malta

• Regiostars Awards 09.10.19 EU Regions Week

• CESME Regions week workshop 08.10.19 Interreg Europe Project CESME – Circular Economy for SMEs

• EU Regions Week - Citizens Dialogue,  07.10.19

• Are We Europe: Code of Conscience 05.10.19

• European Institute of Innovation and Technology 12.09.19 Ten years of supporting creativity and talent Co-hosted by the European Commission and the EIT

• ORGCon 2019 13.07.19 Main stage MC

• Inter pares 11.07.19 - 12.07.19 Inter Pares event by International IDEA at European Parliament

• ETNO, DigitalEurope & GSMA reception, “Meet the new MEPs” Strasbourg, 02.07.19

• Wire summit, Iasi, Romania June 26 – 28, 2019

• UNOPs EDD event 19.06.19

• Presumption of innocence and the role of (social) media and digital technologies, 04.06.19 Fair Trials and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee

• Disinfo Lab 2019, 28.05.19

• FOSSA workshop 16.05.19 European Parliament cross-party event

• Internet Health Check 14.04.19 Mozilla Mornings Series

• Seafood Expo Global 09.05.19 WWF Austria

• EENA Conference 2019 Dubrovnik 10.04.19

• 112 Awards 2019 10.04.19

• Trust Matters! The European Elections of 2019 in the Digital Age 19.03.19 Think Digital Series for Zvei, Siemens, Google

• Committee of the Regions Summit, Bucharest 14.03.19 - 15.03.19 Debate with Young Elected Politicians and Panel on What young local and regional leaders expect from the EU

• The British Legal Technology Forum 2019, London 12.03.19 Talk on Data transfers post Brexit and GDPR

• WHAT DO SMEs EXPECT FROM THE FUTURE EU SME POLICY? 19.02.19 BusinessEurope

• Fireside chat with Director General 06.02.19 Orgalime

• Discussion with Max Schrems on mechanisms for data protection 01.02.19 CPDP 2019

• Disinformation and online advertising 31.01.19 Mozilla at CPDP 2019

• DPAs & the Media 31.01.19 CPDP 2019

• Solidar Awards 2019 29.01.19 Socialists & Democrats in European Parliament

• Competing with data – a business perspective, in conversation 17.01.19 DG Competition, European Commission

 

2018 

 

• Globsec TatraSummit 2018 05.10.18 Keynote interview with Commissioner Margrethe Vestager

• 2nd Annual Datathon Awards 02.10.18 Publications Office of the European Union

• Corporate Capture 24.09.18 ALTER-EU debate

• ThinkDigital series: "Data Economies Across the Globe: Who’s Taking the Lead for Innovation?" 05.09.18 European Parliament for Simens, Zvei and Google

• Finance 5.0  –  a challenge for cyber security?  16.07.18 Jointly organized by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) and the Austrian Federal Chancellery (BKA)

• How to reduce the impact of plastic products on the marine environment? 11.07.18 Euractiv event in association with the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment

• ThinkDigital series:Cybersecurity Breakfast at European Parliament 10.07.18 for Simens, Zvei and Google

• ThinkDigital series: AI & Liability: Which Regulatory Challenges Do We Face? 20.06.18 for Simens, Zvei and Google

• Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) conference “Consumer Protection in a Connected World” 19.06.18 Consumers International

• European Property Investor Awards 14.06.18 Pageant Media London

• Digital influencers – from myth to practice 13.06.18 Cosmetics Europe

• 1st European Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Assembly 11.06.18 - 12.06.18 Tipik for the European Commission

• EBS panel: Fake News & why it’s threatening your business 24.05.18 European Business Summit

• How To Ensure Fair Taxation In A Digitalized World? 23.05.18 European Tax Adviser Federation (ETAF) Conference

• Trusting Europe? How we (can) get citizen engagement right 22.05.18 Open Government Partnership

• Launch of Whistleblower.eu 15.05.18 Eurocadres

• 112 Awards 2018 25.04.18 EENA Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 2018

• AWEurope 2018 GDPR: How Premium Publishers Come Out Ahead 20.03.18 The Guardian Stage for Digital Content Next

• The future of Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives on ethics and AI" 07.03.18 European Greens, Office of Jan Philipp Albrecht MEP

• Artificial Intelligence: Balancing Business and Opportunity with Ethics and Responsibility Registration 22.02.18 Orange event for European Industry Day Event 2018

• From Research to Innovation: Bridging the Gap 22.02.18 FoodDrink Europe event for European Industry Day Event 2018

• When Innovation meets Policy 21.02.18 Bayer AG

• Robotics & AI – What should legislators do at national and EU level? 21.02.18 Joint Representation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the State of Schleswig-Holstein to the EU

• Open PM2 conference 01.02.18 DG Digit, European Commission

• Privacy, advertising, and trust: can we have it all? 25.01.18 CPDP panel hosted by Mozilla

• Google@Thought series 23.01.18 Breaking Stereotypes, Inspiring Girls to Aim High, Google Brussels

 

2017 

 

• Connecting Europe with Building Blocks 07.12.17 DG Digit, European Commission

• The sustainable society of the future 01.12.17 European Socialists & Democrats, Lisbon

• Artificial Intelligence for accessibility 29.11.17 EDF and Google, European Parliament

• ​Safety,​ ​Privacy​, Competition,​ ​and​ ​the​ ​IoT 28.11.17 BEUC

• FIEEC-ZVEI Cybersecurity dinner 20.11.17 European Parliament

• EU Datathon 2017 16.11.17 Publications Office of the European Union

• The Digital Transformation of European Industries 08.11.27 Siemens and ZVEI

• DISCO SOUR - TinderPolitics - Democracy in the age of algorithms 07.11.17 Hosted by MEP Brando Benifei, European Parliament

• Translating Europe Forum 2017 06.11.17 European Commission DG Translate

• Nordic Privacy Arena 23.10.17 Stockholm

• Who are the EU digital Influencers? 19.10.17 Euractiv + ZN

• INNOVEIT 2017 16.11.17 EIT, Hungary

• Re-industrialising Europe 11.10.17 The LSE Alumni Association Belgium

• Cross-border collaboration: The opportunity for  Startups & SMEs 26.10.17 Dropbox

• SWITCH Baltic conference 2017 19.09.17 Lithuania

• Better Regulation for Copyright: Academics Meet Policy Makers with Commissioner Mariya Gabriel 06.09.17 Greens, European Parliament

• Industry 4.0 and beyond: How Europe should address the digitisation of SMEs

• under a revised Strategy for Industrial Policy? 06.09.17 Siemans

• Think Digital event: Boosting Europe’s competitiveness by innovation 28.06.17 Siemens

• Cybersecurity for all: from critical infrastructures to IoT devices 16.06.17 European Commission Digital Assembly with the Maltese Presidency

• Democratic Discourse 2.0 07.06.17 European Greens at the European Parliament

• Seafood Expo Global 27.04.17 World Wildlife Federation Austria

• RightsCon 2017 29 - 31 March Panels on The outer boundaries of hacking crypto; Enabling the free flow of data globally. What rules for data transfers?; Net Neutrality Planet: What’s Next in the Global Fight For an Open Internet; and Reforming the e-Privacy Regulation: Will we bring privacy and security into the 21st century?

• Together event to mark the Treaties of Rome 24.03 PES Europe

• European Commission SG IT 21.03.17 conference and expo – e-Participation and innovative tools

• InnoApps Awards 09.02.17  Presented by Huawei and the European Young Innovators Forum (EYIF)

• ECFR Digital Power Project 30.01.17 Brussels Digital Workshop sponsored by Telefonica

• The Future of Justice Systems in the Age of Mass Surveillance 27.01.17 UK Law Societies at CPDP

• APCO and Public Affairs Council 26.01.17 Keynote speech: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly in 2017

• Voter Surveillance, Micro-Targeting and Media Manipulation 25.01.17 CPDP side event on the risks for privacy, data protection and democracy

 

2016 

 

• WATIFY launch conference 07.12.16 In association with the European Commission

• Europe Together: Prague Edition 02.12.16 Socialists & Democrats, European Parliament

• DIGITEC 29.11.16 DG ITEC European Parliament & DG DIGIT European Commission first joint annual conference

• GSMA Policy event 17.11.16 European Parliament, Members Salon

• Norwegian Consumer Council 14.11.16 AppFail Flagship Event

• Shaping the social heart of Europe 20.10.16 Socialists & Democrats, European Parliament

• Forum Europe: Public Sector Transformation 20.10.16 Discussion on Digital by Default

• ECAS Digital Democracy Day 18.10.16 Panel on “E-Participation and Political Parties: Connecting Citizens to Politicians”

• Freedom Not Fear 14.10.16 Opening panel

• EDPS-BEUC Joint Conference 29.09.16 Big data: individual rights and smart enforcement

• Free and Safe in Cyberspace 22.09.16 EU Edition 2016

• Greens European Parliament Working Group Robotics 08.09.16  Public Hearing on Merging of man and machines: questions of ethics in dealing with emerging technology

• Fastweb/NetCompetition Forum 12.07.16 Panel I: How to deliver broadband deployment and consumer welfare for Europe? Panel II: Reviewing the EU’s telecoms rules: what are the best options for the future?

• Criteo and The Future of Privacy Forum 28.06.16 Privacy by design economic value and the cost of ignoring privacy, international policy event, Paris, France

• ERRIN 13.06.16 The European Urban Agenda The Dutch Way at Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the European Union

• Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband 01.06.16 Crossborder availability of digital content

• DigitalMuse 30.04.16 Workshop coordinator

• Global Privacy Summit 2016 05.04.16 European Law in Transition: Reflections from The Chairs: Article 29 Working Party, US Federal Trade Commission, Washington D.C. US

• Startup Europe Summit 21.03.16 Panel I Intermediary Liability and its Importance to Startups, Fireside Chat: Challenges for Internationals Entering the Polish Market with Uber and Salesforce, Warsaw, Poland

• Eurocities 16.03.16 Host Eurocities Annual Social Affairs Forum, Nantes

• European Parliament GUE/NGL Group 01.03.16 Advisor on Social Media

• European Data Protection Supervisor for CPDP 2016 28.01.16 : Data Protection Day Celebration: Data, Dignity and Technology ­ Exploring digital ethics with Giovanni Buttarelli

• Housing Europe 13.01.16 Host event on Communities of the Future

 

2015 

 

• Joint  Office of the UK Law Societies 08.12.15 Expert speaker on communications and media in lobbying

• EU40 08.12.15 Debate on Digital Platforms with speakers from eBay, Microsoft, Facebook and the perm reps

• Friedrich­Naumann­Stiftung für die Freiheit 26.11.15 European and Transatlantic Dialogue Lunchtime Debate

• Forum Europe 19.11.15 Media 2015: The Future of Digital Content and Services conference

• Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D Group) 19.11.15 T​he future copyright reform

• ​Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D Group) 18.11.15 Big Data and Us – Happily ever after or content unavailable

• Freedom Not Fear 16.10.15 One-on-one with Assistant European Data Protection Supervisor

• European Greens and ALDE European Parliamentary Group 01.10.15 Expert speaker panel Internet as a commons

• EUROCITIES 21.09.15 Moderation of Migration and Asylum in Europe’s Cities

• Prysmian and Dominique Riquet MEP 02.07.15 Group​ breakfast debate on Investing in the technologies of tomorrow: Challenges of the Digital Single Market

• European Commission 17.06.2015 Digital Agenda Assembly 2015, Host and rapporteur for workshop: A Digital Single Market for Creative Content, Riga, Latvia

• EU40 and MEP Victor Negrescu 30.06.15 Chances of mHealth in a digitalised Europe​, at European Parliament

• Word Wildlife Federation and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) 04.06.15 Greening financial systems: A regional experience, at European Development Days

• Top Management Europe 28.05.15 Presentation of Top Management Big Data Seminar with Belgium Deputy Prime Minister Alexander de Croo

• Top Management Europe 23.04.15 Presentation of Top Management awards 2015

• ALTER­ EU Coalition and Vice President Sylvie Guillaume MEP 23.04.15 Presentation of  at European Parliament, Making Brussels’ lobbying fully transparent: A debate on the future of the EU lobby transparency register

• European Pirate Party Julia Reda MEP 20.04.15 Creative Commons event: The current system is not working for us

• OpenForum Europe 04.03.15 Regulating a Borderless Internet : EU vs US Perspectives on Net Neutrality

• European Youth Forum 02.03.15 A Conversation about the Participation of Young People in Democracy: Time to Act? at Swedish Perm Rep

• Microsoft 20.01.2015 YouthSpark, Panel for youth and education in digital skills and coding.

 

2014 

 

• 2014 IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 20.11.14 Fireside chat with Max Schrems

• DG ITEC Conference 2014 19.11.14 Host of a full-day event for the technology department of the European Parliament

• Freedom Not Fear 26.09.14 Data protection reform, transfers to third countries, the future of the Safe Harbour and the right to be forgotten: Discussion with Paul Nemitz, Director at EU Commission DG Justice & Simon Davies, publisher of the Privacy Surgeon and co-founder of Privacy International

• ORGALIME 25.06.14 Moderator for panel at EU Sustainable Energy Week

• Microsoft 11.06.14 In discussion with Dave Coplin author of The Rise of the Humans: How to outsmart the digital deluge

• EuroCommerce 28.05.14 Speaker at post EU elections workshop: Tips for lobbying and engagement

• European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems (EU-­LISA) 24.04.14 Moderating debate organised in conjunction with Forum Europe

• APCO and EU40 19.03.14 How will the New European Parliament Make  a Difference, a debate with MEPs from all groups

• GSMA 17.03.14 The future of telco policy

 

2013

 

• European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) 28.11.13 The Future of Identity in the Digital Age

• Huawei 13.11.13 Cyber Security White Paper Launch event

• European Commission Digital Agenda Assembly 2013 19.06.13-20.06.13 Host of Workshop 2: Going Smart and Accessible in Public Services and Cities, Dublin, Ireland