Yvo Volman
Head of Unit, European Commission
Yvo Volman (1965) is head of the 'Data Policy and Innovation' unit in the Directorate General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology of the European Commission. Yvo studied at the Universities of Amsterdam and Strasbourg and holds a PhD in European law awarded by the European University Institute in Florence. He worked for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs in the areas of industrial and technology policy, before joining the European Commission in 1998. In the Commission, he dealt with legislative and strategic issues as well as funding programmes related to the information market, digitisation and data.
Yvo is speaking at
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Speakers
- Lars Nagel (Chair) CEO, International Data Spaces Association
- Simon Scerri (Chair) Senior Researcher, Fraunhofer IAIS
- Ed Curry (Chair) Vice President, BDVA / Insight / NUI Galway
- Yvo Volman (Speaker) Head of Unit, European Commission
- Dario Avallone (Speaker) R&D Director, Engineering
- Maria-Esther Vidal (Speaker) Head of the Scientific Data Management Group and Professor, German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)
- Jon Ander Gomez (Speaker) Associate Professor, Universitat Politècnica de València/DeepHealth project
- Pierre Bitard (Speaker) Director Innovation & foresight projects, ANRT - Association Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie
- Douwe Lycklama (Speaker) Owner and founder, Innopay
- Elena Poughia (Speaker) CEO, Dataconomy Media GmbH
- Yann Lechelle (Speaker) CEO, Scaleway
- Klaus Ottradovetz (Speaker) Distinguished Expert, Member of the Atos Scientific community, Atos International Germany GmbH
Description
This track will bring together leading initiatives that are paving the way for what could become functional implementations of European-governed data sharing spaces. For Europe to compete at an international level, its smaller but highly diversified data producers need to join forces. The European Data Strategy outlines a roadmap to enable and realise data sharing spaces as a means to power up AI in Europe by increasing access to data. The longterm vision is for an initial number of sector-based data sharing spaces to interoperate. The need to comply with European values, ethics and legislation when handling data should not be considered restrictive, but as a safeguard for risk-free data sharing that encourage increased participation. In this track, we want to move beyond the ‘What’ and consider ‘How’ all this can be achieved through convergence and standardization efforts by projects, organisations and other entities possessing the right technical know-how, experiences and commitment.
Nov 3 - 5, 2020