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VP of Sustainability, VMware

Milin Desai
VP of Security - NSBU, VMware

Alberto Acito
Head, FDI Unit, ITA – Italian Trade Agency

Alan Fritzler
Economic Graph, LinkedIn

John O’Farrell
General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Benedict Evans
Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Leila Hay
Business Development Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Laura Shores
Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Founder & Chairman, theBoardlist

James Klein
Partner, Penningtons Manches (California) LLP

Markus Lampinen
Founder & CEO, Crowd Valley

David Charron
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Věra Jourová
Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality

Eric Paul Smith
Senior Policy Advisor, Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, U.S. Department of Commerce

Risto Lähdesmäki
CEO and Founder, Idean

Guy Berger
Economist, LinkedIn

Valérie Floridia
Innovation Director North America, Executive Coach for start-ups & SMEs, EDF Innovation Lab

Lukas Repa
Deputy Head of Unit, DG COMP, European Commission

Matthew Colford
Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Michael Kennedy
VP, Global Government Relations and Public Policy, VMware

John Alioto
CTO DX Technology Evangelism & Startups, Microsoft

Joe Boggio
Vice President - Applied Innovation Exchange, Capgemini

Ashish Aggarwal
Partner, Advisor Mind the Bridge

Fabrice Pakin
CEO, Ignilife

Filippo Yacob
CEO, Primo

Dimitri Maex
President, Sentience

Peter Nelson
Public Policy Associate, K&L Gates

Gigi Wang
Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship, UC Berkeley

Jeroen Dewulf
Director of the Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley

Robert Eberhart
Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University

Matthew McGraw
Partner , BlockOne Ventures

Sanjay Poonen
COO, VMWare

Andrus Viirg
Director, Enterprise Estonia Silicon Valley

Charlotte Danielsson
Executive Director, Silicon Vikings

Emma Higham
Public Policy & Government Affairs, Google

Patrick Rumpel
Head of Audi TechHub

Lenard Koschwitz
Director, Grant Management, Allied for Startups

Sebastian Niestrath
SVP Infrastructure Platform Ventures, Innogy New Ventures LLC

Erik Stallman
Public Policy Counsel, Google

Ali Khayrallah
Engineering Director, Ericsson

Jukka Häyrynen
Executive Director, Startup Companies, Tekes

Gianni Pisanello
Marketing Director of Airline Channel Management, Amadeus IT Group

Mirek Pospisil
EU Public Policy and Government Affairs Manager, LinkedIn

Gabriel Sidhom
VP Technology Strategy and Development, Orange

Zsolt Nemeth
CEO, App-Ray

Katarzyna Balucka-Debska
Communication and Outreach for SME Policy, DG Grow, European Commission

Giordano Sassaroli
Head of Digital Services, Elite – London Stock Exchange

Patrick Consorti
EU-US Industry Partnerships, EIT Digital

Francesco Bellomi
CTO, Creactives

Elena Dokuzov
Acting Director, Cultural-Economic Centre of European Space Technologies, K-SEVT

Blaž Zafošnik
Co-Founder, Viar

Corstiaan Kuijvenhoven
Head of Corporate Development and Strategy, FiveDegrees

Martijn Hohmann
CEO, FiveDegrees

Salah Kamel
CEO, Semarchy

Juha Koponen
CEO, Swap

Jesús de la Maza
CEO, RedBorder

Cristina de la Maza
COO, RedBorder

Jouko Kaasila
Cofounder & COO, Bitbar

Maurizio Zaglio
Business Development Manager, SunAmp

Andrew Bissell
CEO, SunAmp

Tarek Ouertani
Responsible for Marketing and Partnerships, ProGlove

Thomas Kirchner
CEO, ProGlove

Atul Choudrie
CEO, OnePulse

Gennaro Varriale
CTO, Buzzoole

Fabrizio Perrone
CEO, Buzzoole

Andrea Campana
CEO, Beintoo

Anne Marie Russo
Mentor, Mind the Bridge

Gideon Marks
Business Development, EIT

Christopher ‘Che’ Mott
CEO, Global Venture Forum

Carsten Rudolph
Managing Director, BayStartUP

Janne Juhola
Partner, Innovestor Ventures Oy

Lannie Medina
Board Chair, Tech Bay Area Advocates

Dave Witzel
Chief of Conspiration, RASA

Maynard Holliday
Former Senior Technical Advisor, Under Secretary of Defense

Christopher Mondini
VP, Global Stakeholder Engagement, ICANN

Cynthia R Jaggi
Founder & CEO, Gatherwell

Anna Berns
Director, Grant Management, Benetech

Olivier Edwards
Senior Counsel, Orrick; Co-Chair, Orrick Europe Desk in SF

Zenel Batagelj
Partner, Valicon

Rok Huber
Head of Department for special development incentives

Luca Spissu
Head of Department, Sardinia Region, Italy

Jürgen Roth
European Committee of the Regions, Region of Styria

Cécile Jodogne
State Secretary, Brussels-Capital Region

Enrico Pandian
President, CheckOut Technologies

Nigel Chadwick
CEO, Stream-Technologies.com

Branko Drobnak
President, Business Angels of Slovenia

Ales Spetic
CEO, Klevio

Matej Rus
Head, Start:up Slovenia Initiative

Maja Tomanič-Vidovič
Director, Slovene Enterprise Fund

Dijana Madžarac
Secretary, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology of Slovenia

Aleš Cantarutti
State Secretary, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology of Slovenia

Tadej Slapnik
State Secretary, Office of the Prime Minister of Slovenia

Vincenzo De Cristofaro
CTO, Domec

Antonio Sorrentino
CEO, Domec

Arantza Ezpeleta Puras
Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Acciona

Maja Kieturakis
Bureau Chief San Francisco , Polish Investment and Trade Agency

Matteo Sabattini
Director IP Policy, Ericsson

Ugo Parodi Giusino
CEO, Mosaicoon

Marko Ruusinen
Founder, Silmu.IO

Julien Uhlig
CEO, Entrade

Neil Ricketts
CEO, Versarien

Eric Thelen
Director, EIT Digital Silicon Valley Hub

Oona King
Diversity Director, YouTube

Gianluca Cadeddu
General Director, Centro regionale di programmazione, Sardinia Region, Italy

Massimo Temussi
Managing Director, Agenzia Regionale del Lavoro, Sardinia Region, Italy

Tuomas Kosonen
Partner, Inventure

Steve Westly
Former Ex State Controller and Chief Financial Officer of California and Venture Capitalist

Hannu Jungman
Partner, Innovestor Ventures Oy

Irene Mingozzi
Startup International Development - Silicon Valley, ASTER

Danuta Jazłowiecka
MEP, European Parliament

Tom Byers
Entrepreneurship professor, Stanford University

Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño
President, IE University

Matt Thompson
GM Developer Evangelism, Microsoft

Telmo Pérez Luaces
Director of Innovation, Acciona

Wim De Rynck
Head of Regulatory Markets and Developments, Proximus

Marcel Dridje
President Emeritus, Sophia Business Angels

Adriano Garibotto
CSO, Creactives

Gerard De Graaf
Director Digital Single Market, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Paolo Gamberoni
CEO, Creactives

Luana Bichuetti
Former Global Head NABLAB, Anheuser-Busch InBev

Flavio Zanonato
MEP, European Parliament

Sorin Moisa
MEP, European Parliament

Brando Benifei
MEP, European Parliament

George Tilesch
US Managing Partner, Innomine Group

Andrej Kiska
Managing Director, Credo Ventures

Luca Locatelli
CEO, NearIT

Juanma Revuelta
Director General, Finnovaregio Foundation

Frédéric Rombaut
Former Head of Corporate Development, Cisco

Rannveig Fadum
Head of funding for entrepreneurs, Innovasjon Norge

Bart Bellers
Former Senior Advisor Corporate Strategy, Amadeus IT Group

Peter Mullen
Mentor, Alchemist Accelerator

Martha Ivanovas
Government Affairs Manager EMEA, Dell

Alexia Castellani
Head of Content and Marketing Communication, FacilityLive

Gianpiero Lotito
CEO, FacilityLive

Kinga Stanisławska
High Level Group Member, European Innovation Council and Venture Capitalist

Marten Mickos
Former CEO, MySQL

Sofiane Ammar
Managing Director, Thecamp Accelerator

Gené Teare
Head of Content, CrunchBase

Kristin Schreiber
Director COSME Programme, DG GROW, European Commission

Pēteris Zilgalvis
Head of Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Alberto Onetti
Chairman, Mind the Bridge

Michel Wendell
Partner, Nexit Ventures

Nuno Goncalves Pedro
Partner, Delta Partners Group

Willem Jonker
CEO, EIT DIGITAL

Marco Marinucci
CEO, Mind the Bridge

Kristen Mattern
Government Relations Senior Advisor, Dell

Richard Boly
Former career U.S. diplomat and Director of the Office of eDiplomacy

Penny Harwood
SVP, London & Partners

Melissa Blaustein
Founder, Allied for Startups

Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Former President of Estonia

Vittorio Viarengo
CMO, Skyhigh Networks

Matteo Daste
Partner, Orrick

Fabrizio Capobianco
CEO, Tok.tv

Nicholas Heller
Non Executive Director, SVC2UK

Lars Johansson
Partner, K&L Gates LLP