Speakers 2025

Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy

Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation

Dean, IE University and President, Jacques Delors Institute

Mayor of Lisbon

Director-General, Directorate General for Research and innovation (RTD)

EIC Board President

Acting Director for ERA & Innovation, DG Research & Innovation

CEO & Founder, .lumen

Head of Telefónica Scientific Research (Discovery), Telefónica Innovación Digital

General Partner, Kfund

Co-founder, PERSEI SPACE

Tech to Market Project Adviser, EISMEA

Founder, "Let's Just Be Imperfect, Ladies"

CEO, Connectology; EIC Board Member

CEO & Founder, WLOUNGE; EIC Board Member

Chairman, EURACTIV; Chairman, E-Health Valley; Co-founder, BeCentral; EIC Board Member

Head of Entrepreneurship Education, European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT)

Dean of Research and Innovation at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo

Chief Impact Officer, Contentsquare; EIC Board Member

Programme Coordination Manager, EISMEA

CEO & Co-founder, Hydrovolta; EIC Ambassador

Director of Business Development Department, European Union Intellectual Property Office

Investment Manager, European Investment Bank

CFO, Marvel Fusion

Innovation Manager, SPRIND-the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation

Global Director of Innovation, Galp

Scientific officer, European Medicines Agency’s SME Office

Space Business Catalyst Director, Thales Alenia Space

Innovation Director, Procter & Gamble

EIC Scaling Club Coordinator

Professor for Innovation Management, Freie Universität Berlin; EIC Board Member

Head of the Innovation and Development Accelerator, European Medicines Agency

Director of the Institute on Membrane Technology, National Research Council of Italy

Lecturer at MIT in the Field of Innovation Ecosystems and Deep Tech Ventures; EIC Board Member

Programme Coordination Manager, EISMEA

Member of the high level expert group (Heitor group)

Co-founder, ALUVIA Photonics

Adviser to the Vice-President Patent Granting Process, European Patent Office

Chief Executive & Co -founder, Amadeus Capital Partners

Entrepreneur; Co-founder, PROMETHENZ

Chief Executive Officer, Mettacomms

Head of the EIC Division, European Investment Bank

Board of Directors (Non-Executive Director), CaixaBank Payments & Consumer

Acting Head of the Taskforce on Startups and Scaleups & Head of the Innovation Policy and Access to Finance Unit, Directorate General for Research and Innovation (RTD)

Co-founder & CEO, LAM'ON; EIC Ambassador

Head of Digital Venture team, Bpifrance

Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen

Project Adviser, EISMEA

European Innovation Expert & Advisor, Connector of People and Businesses; EIC Ambassador

EIC Programme Manager for Artificial Intelligence, EISMEA

Founder & Partner, W11 Ventures; Cofounder & Chair, Startup Cyprus; EIC Ambassador; EIC Jury Member

CEO, DSD AS Group; Vice-Chair, EIC Board

Former Chief Innovation Officer, EIC Board Member

Director of Innovation Development at the Polish Development Fund (PFR)

Investment Officer & Advisor to the EIC Fund, European Investment Bank

Deputy Director in the Department for Development of Innovative Programme Management Methods, National Centre for Research and Development (Poland)

Public Funding and Innovation Program Manager, Heart Aerospace,

CEO & Co-founder, heecap

Founder & CEO, Multiverse Computing

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, Swave Photonics

EIC Ambassador; former EIC Programme Manager

Co-founder & COO, Proxima Fusion

Head of Business Development Experiments Division, ESRF – The European Synchrotron (France)

EIC Programme Manager for Architecture Engineering Construction Technologies​​, EISMEA

Co-founder of BioNanoPhotonics A/S, EIC Board Member

EIC Programme Manager for Quantum Tech and Electronics, EISMEA

Austrian National Contact Point, European Innovation Council

CEO, Seaborg Technologies

Chairman, Mind the Bridge and Full Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Insubria

Founder and CEO, Didimo, EIC Ambassador

Co-founder, RAIKU

Head of Unit of EIC Transition, EISMEA

CEO & Co-founder, Alice & Bob

Strategic Business Developer of Euro-BioImaging and Coordinator of the Euro-BioImaging Industry Board

Assistant Professor of Digital Fabrication at TU Delft

Enterprise Europe Network Advisor, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Enterprises

Rector, Open Institute of Technology (OPIT); EIC Board Member

Project Adviser, EISMEA

Head of Video & Innovation Program, SNCF Security Directorate

Principal, HTGF

Chief Patent Research and Policy Officer, European Patent Office

Head of the Microdosing Systems department at the Fraunhofer EMFT

Programme Manager, LINKS Foundation

Co-founder, Pioneer Research

Director Venture Development, imec

CEO, Starlab; CTO, Neuroelectrics

Head of Unit of the “Programme Managers Office”, EISMEA

CEO, Factory

CEO and Co-founder of BrachyDOSE; Ready2Scale participant

Head of EIC Unit in Directorate General for Research and Innovation

Founder & CEO, iGenius

Director AI Office (DG CONNECT)

Executive Director, IESE Business School's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center

Public speaker, podcaster and athlete

Team Leader & Principal Investigator, ISAR Bioscience (Munich)

Head of Sector of EIC Business Acceleration Services Global Offer, EISMEA

EIC Programme Manager for Food Chain Technologies, Novel & Sustainable Food, EISMEA

Head of the Technology Transfer and Innovation Center, Jožef Stefan Institute; EIC Board Member

Business Builder, Chairperson of privately held tech businesses

EIC Programme Manager for Health and Biotechnology, EISMEA

Founder & CEO, Lili.AI

EIC Programme Manager for Space Systems & Technologies, EISMEA

Co-founder & CEO, Baltic Innovation Agency

Innovation Procurement Advisor, EISMEA

CEO, VaultSpeed

Chief Marketing Officer, MYSPHERA

Professor, Ghent University

Founder, FinEst Bay Area

Chief Business Development Officer, Check Point Care Ltd.