Our speakers include a dynamic mix of political and policy decision makers, visionary scientists and innovators, European corporate and finance leaders, founders of successful European tech companies, CEOs of venture capital firms and senior representatives from the research and innovation community.

Speakers

European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation

European Commissioner for Defence and Space

European Commissioner for Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union

Member of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

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

Director, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency

EIC Board President

President of the ERC Scientific Council

President, Business Angels Europe & Director, META Group (ESIL project coordinator)

Joint CEO EBRAINS AISBL; Director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH; Director of the C. and O. Vogt Institute of Brain Research, University Hospital Düsseldorf

Founder & CEO, HEALANT

EIC Board Member, Founder & CEO of Genisys, Co-Founder of BeCentral Tech Campus

Founder, Tomorrowland

Innovation Networks manager, European Patent Academy, EPO

Director of Nicolab

CEO & Co-Founder at DeltaSpark

Director-General, The Global Startup Association

Chief Impact Officer at Contentsquare, Former Board Member at the European Innovation Council (EIC)

EIC Board Member, Honorary Professor, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (UCL IIPP) and Member of the Artificial Intelligence International Council, Spain

EIC Board member, Global Director of Innovation, Galp

Scientific officer, SME Office, Regulatory Science and Innovation Task Force

CEO & Co-founder, Axelera AI

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

President of HSL Technologies (HySiLabs)

Tech to Market Project Adviser, EIC Transition
CEO and Co-founder, Elon Road

Policy Analyst, EU Policy Lab, Joint Research Centre

Associate Professor in Inorganic Chemistry in the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at the University of Galway

EEN Slovakia project manager, EIC NCP

CEO and founder of Focused Energy

Senior Advisor, META Group

Programme Coordination Manager, EIC Pathfinder

Programme and Call Manager at EIC Accelerator, EISMEA

CEO & Co-founder, IQM Quantum Computers

CEO, Infinite Orbits

Co-founder and Venture Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners

EIC Board Member, European Innovation Council & Active Angel Investor

Chief Growth Officer, Multiverse Computing

CSO & Co-founder, Shealed

Founder and CTO of Voltrac

Head of the Taskforce on Startups and Scaleups, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

Women Leadership Programme Coordinator, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency

CEO, DSD AS Group & EIC Board Member
EIC Board Member, Managing Director at Think Tank The Company

Founding director of the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND)

Director of EuroQuity at Bpifrance

Senior Investment Officer advising the EIC Fund at the European Investment Bank

Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

Co-Founder & CTO of SpiNNcloud Systems GmbH

EIC Ambassador

President, Catalyse Europe

CEO and Co-founder, CorPower Ocean

Co-founder & CEO SOLAR MATERRIALS

Professor at Solvay Brussels School for Economics and Management

Head of Unit, EIB, EIC Investment Services to EIC Fund

Co-founder, Director and Chairman of the Board of Skyy Holdings

Chief Revenue Officer at Stripe

Shareholder and managing partner at META Group

Vice President of the European Investment Bank Group (EIBG)

CEO of the European Startup Network

Head of Unit for the EIC Accelerator, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency

Director for Innovation, Start-ups, and Investments at CEA

Policy Adviser, EIC Coordination and Analytics Team, EISMEA

Chair of Pharmaceutics at the University of Liverpool's School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Policy Advisor, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency

Member of Commissioner Zaharieva Cabinet (EC)

Co-founder, Carbon Equity

Co-Founder at Iris.ai

Co-founder & Co-CEO, Prewave

Public speaker, podcaster and athlete

Associate Professor at the Institute of Paper, Pulp and Fiber Technology at Graz University of Technology

EIC Ambassador, Founder, Experior VC and Founder, European Women in VC

Head of Sector, EIC Business Acceleration Services, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency

EIC Board Member, Co-founder of BitDegree, Ogvio and EdTech Lithuania

Chairwoman & Founding Partner, BeAble Capital

Coordinator of the Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy Networks

Innovation Procurement Programme Coordinator, European Innovation Council and SME Executive Agency (EISMEA)

Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission

Manager of the Hub for EU Defence Innovation at the European Defence Agency

Director, Cleantech for Europe

EIC Board Member, Venture Partner at Kvanted

Head of Biotope Ventures

Co-founder of JOIN Capital
Trained economist

Vice President of Startup Ecosystem at NVIDIA

EIC Programme Manager for Medical Technologies and AI in Healthcare

Biotechnologist, FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, AGRIVI