Innovation matters: Debating priorities for a competitive Europe

6 September 2017, Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB), Brussels

Programme #InnovationMatters #FP9

14:30 Welcome coffee

15:00 How research and innovation can make Europe more competitive

Welcome: Richard L. Hudson, Editor-In-Chief & Vice-Chair of the Board, Science|Business

Q&A with:
• Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation

15:20 Setting EU priorities: The old budget assumptions are gone.

Farmers, scientists, entrepreneurs, regional development authorities – all is now in play.

• Markku Markkula, First Vice-President, European Committee of the Regions

• Karen Maex, Rector Magnificus, University of Amsterdam
• Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation
• Walter Weigel, Vice President, Huawei European Research Institute (ERI)

16:00 To the moon: The Lamy report urged the EU to inspire us with moon-shot missions.
A few concrete proposals from various sectors and dreamers.

• Michael Arthur, President & Provost, University College London

• Karin Dahlman-Wright, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Karolinska Institutet
• Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Vice Rector for European and International Research,
University of Pisa

16:30 Stepping up: How to build a real innovation marketplace across Europe.
If Europe is to succeed, it must build integrated, seamless market for innovation, across the
entire continent, in health, energy, transport, IP, finance and more.

Moderator: Maryline Fiaschi, Managing Director, Science|Business

• Ian Collier, Director of Operations, High Value Manufacturing Catapult

• Andreas Ebert, Regional Technical Officer, Microsoft
• Eva Grut-Aandahl, Head of EU Government Affairs, Pfizer
• Luc Soete, Professor and former Rector Magnificus, University of Maastricht; Member,
Dutch Council for Science and Technology Policy

17:15 Networking Reception

Supported by
 Featured guests

Carlos Moedas
Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, European Commission

Carlos Moedas is the EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation since 2014.
In 2011, he was elected to the Portuguese national Parliament and served as Secretary of
State to the Prime Minister of Portugal in charge of the Portuguese Adjustment Programme
until 2014. Before his life in politics he founded an investment company called Crimson
Investment Management in 2008. He also served as managing director of Aguirre Newman
between 2004 and 2008. Previously, he worked with Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs.

Michael Arthur
President & Provost, University College London

Michael Arthur is president and provost of University College London since 2013. Prior
to this, he was vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds, and formerly professor of
medicine, head of the school of medicine and dean of the faculty of medicine, health
and life sciences at the University of Southampton. Arthur is a hepatologist with research
interests developed initially at the University of California, and then as a Fulbright scholar
at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 2002. He is the former chair of the
advisory group for national specialised services at the NHS, and a former chair of both the
Worldwide Universities Network and the Russell Group of Universities.

Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi
Vice Rector for European and International Research, University of Pisa

Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi is professor in ecology and vice rector for European and
international research at the University of Pisa. His lab uses marine coastal plants and
animals as experimental model systems to address fundamental ecological questions,
including the causes and consequences of loss of biodiversity and the ecological impacts
of climate change and species invasions. He is member of the editorial board of the
ISI Journal Marine Ecology Progress Serie, of the biology and ecosystem panel of the
Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and represents CoNISMa (the Italian University
Consortium for Marine Sciences) in the University Consortia Working Group of the marine
board.

Ian Collier
Director of Operations, High Value Manufacturing Catapult

Ian Collier is director of operations for the High Value Manufacturing Catapult in the UK
since 2013. Collier has spent his career at senior levels in the automotive industry, both
with original equipment manufacturers and suppliers, including roles as manufacturing
director at Land Rover, member of the board for engineering and manufacturing at Rolls
Royce and Bentley Motor Cars, chief operating office of WilliamsF1 and managing director
of assembly and paint services Europe at Voith Industrial Services.
 Featured guests

Karin Dahlman-Wright
Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Karolinska Institutet

Karin Dahlman-Wright is pro vice-chancellor of Karolinska Institutet, where she also

serves as professor in molecular endocrinology. Dahlman-Wright is simultaneously
chairman of KI Holding and chairman of the steering group of the AstraZeneca/KI
Integrated Cardiometabolic Centre. In 2001, she founded the BEA core facility that
provides advanced services within the area of genomics and bioinformatics. Karin has
also previously served as chairman, vice chairman and as a member of evaluation panels
at the Swedish Research Council.

Andreas Ebert
Regional Technical Officer, Microsoft

Andreas Ebert is a regional technical officer for Microsoft in the EU. In this occupation,
he is responsible for the ongoing dialogue with policy decision makers on technology
policy matters with long term societal impact, like interoperability, standarisation, security,
identity, and privacy. In this capacity, Ebert is a member of multiple advisory and expert
groups in Brussels. He actively exchanges ideas in research projects and contributes to
European technology policy projects. Before joining the European Technology Office tem,
Ebert was a general manager for the Microsoft subsidiary in Austria (2001-2004), leading
the efforts for the company in three markets (consumer, SMEs and large enterprises).

Maryline Fiaschi
Managing Director, Science|Business

Maryline Fiaschi combines experiences in media and European affairs. After six years
managing EU education programmes with the European Commission, Fiaschi entered
the media business in 2007 in Shanghai. She held business development positions at
the Shanghai Daily and, back in Brussels, at EU affairs media company EurActiv before
joining Science|Business in 2011. Today she is also an external evaluator for several
EU education and R&I programmes. She holds degrees from Université La Sorbonne,
Università di Bologna and Université catholique de Louvain.

Eva Grut-Aandahl
Head of EU Government Affairs, Pfizer

Eva Grut-Aandahl became head of Pfizer’s EU representation office and European

government affairs team in 2009. Grut-Aandahl joined Pfizer in 1991 and during the past
26 years has held roles within public affairs, government affairs, brand public affairs, and
commercial support. She is a member of Pfizer’s international public affairs leadership
team and provides support to Pfizer’s executive leadership team. Grut-Aandahl is also a
founding member of Pfizer’s European Diversity & Inclusion Council, tasked with creating
leadership and development programmes for the company‘s female employees in Europe.

Richard L. Hudson
Editor-In-Chief & Vice-Chair of the Board, Science|Business

Richard L. Hudson has been a leading science and technology journalist in Europe for more
than 30 years. As managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe from 1997 to 2003, he
helped lead a redesign of the title in 2000. He co-founded Science|Business in 2004. He
is also co-author of book with Yale/IBM “fractal” mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot: “The
(mis)Behavior of Markets: A fractal view of risk, ruin & reward”: Basic Books 2004. He is a
graduate of Harvard, and a former Knight Fellow at MIT.
 Featured guests

Karen Maex
Rector Magnificus, University of Amsterdam

Karen Maex is rector magnificus of the University of Amsterdam since 2016. Prior to
this role, Maex served as dean of the university’s faculty of science at the University of
Amsterdam, and as dean of the faculty of earth and life sciences at the VU University in
Amsterdam between 2014 and 2016. She was vice rector for science, engineering and
technology at KU Leuven from 2005 to 2013, and also served on the governing board of
the European Institute for Innovation and Technology from 2008 to 2014.

Markku Markkula
First Vice-President, European Committee of the Regions

Markku Markkula is the first vice-president of the European Committee of the Regions,
having served as President from February 2015 to July 2017. A member of Espoo city
council in Finland since 1980, Markkula held its presidency from 1990 to 1992, and again
in 2010, and is now the chair of the city’s board until 2021. He also works at Aalto University
specialising in EU research, innovation and education policy. Previously, Markkula was
a member of the Finnish Parliament from 1995 to 2003, headed the Lifelong Learning
Institute, Dipoli, and was secretary-general of the International Association for Continuing
Engineering Education.

Luc Soete
Professor and former Rector Magnificus, University of Maastricht; Member, Dutch Council
for Science and Technology Policy

Luc Soete is professor of international economic relations at University of Maastricht, where

he was rector magnificus from 2012 to 2017. Soete is also a member of the Dutch Council
for Science and Technology Policy and just stepped down as chairman of the “Research,
Innovation and Science Policy Experts” advisory group at the European Commission.
After embarking on a research career in Britain and the US, he established the Maastricht
Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology in 1988, which quickly grew
into a leading research institute in the economic analysis of technological development
and innovation.

Walter Weigel
Vice President, Huawei European Research Institute (ERI)

Walter Weigel graduated from the Technical University in Munich, Germany, with a master’s
degree in electrical engineering and with a Ph. D. From 1984 to 1991, he was an assistant
professor at the Institute of Data Processing at the Technical University in Munich. From
2006 to 2011, he was the director general of the European Telecommunication Standards
Institute (ETSI). Between 1991 and 2015, he held several positions within Siemens AG,
including vice president of external cooperation and head of standardisation in corporate
technology, vice president of the research & concepts department of the mobile networks
business unit as well as head of the business segment, video processing for the
semiconductor business unit.