Research & Innovation Outputs - Session, 25 March 2015
Chair: Michel Lacroix, European Commission ![]() As an early adopter of free/open source software, Michel was impressed by what the movement could achieve and since then has consistently been supporting its development.
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Panel of experts |
Sue Daley, Head of big data, mobile and cloud, Tech UK ![]() Sue leads techUK's work on big data, cloud and mobile. Prior to joining techUK in January 2015 Sue was responsible for Symantec's Government Relations in the UK and Ireland. She has spoken at events including the UK-China Internet Forum in Beijing, UN IGF and European RSA on issues ranging from data usage and privacy, cloud computing and online child safety.
Before joining Symantec Sue was senior policy advisor at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Sue has an BA degree on History and American Studies from Leeds University and a Masters Degree on International Relations and Diplomacy from the University of Birmingham.
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Gal Hammer, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat ![]() The job required a deep knowledge in various technologies, development environments and architectures. For examples: A cross-platform development, ActiveX and XPI interfaces and inter-process communications between processes and virtual machines.
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Björn Hovstadius, Business Development Manager, EIT ICT Labs ![]() Bjorn Hovstadius is a Business Development Manager with experience from working in both large international companies and entrepreneurial organizations. Bjorn brings experience in most functional areas of a company.
As founder of Pagero, a SaaS provider of e-invoicing, and other start-ups he has intimate knowledge and understanding what it takes to go from idea to business successfully.
Bjorn is affiliated with the EIT ICT Labs partner SICS Swedish ICT in the Stockholm node.
He holds a Master of Computer Science from Chalmers and an executive MBA from Stockholm School of Economics.
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James Mitchell, Co-founder & CEO of StrategicBlue
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