PROGRAMME

IMPORTANT TO NOTE: DUE TO THE RECENT GOVERNMENTAL MEASURES, GALA IT ONE 2021 WILL BE HOSTED UNDER THE COVID CHECK REGIME. The Luxembourg government has set up a CovidCheck system applicable in Luxembourg to gatherings or events open to the public. From 1 November 2021, this system is mandatory for event organisers. Therefore, no tests will be available on-site.

"The data economy marathon"

Data has become a real asset and a lot of organizations are now data-driven to help their company gain a significant competitive advantage. CIOs, IT Managers and their team entered a marathon and each individual contributes to constantly re-imagine the business, drive greater agility, ensure the security of the processes, rethink data governance. Such as athlete, they need to stay the course together and to welcome new technologies to constantly develop their systems and this, in order to be well integrated in the data economy.

The ability to collect data has evolved and it is coming from new end points, including IoT devices. Organizations need to understand how to deal with such an amount of data as it allows better prediction of economic phenomena and influences the way they use it.

The coming years are challenging and the marathon has already begun. As the data economy takes off, disruptive technologies emerge so make a pause in your course to go further, to know how to stay ahead of the trend and how to create new opportunities for your organisations.

5:00pm | Conference moderated by Oxana Turtureanu, Co-Founder & COO, digitalUs

5:05pm | Opening words by Charlotte Boutelier & Margaux Vetzel, Managing directors, Farvest

5:10pm | Welcome words by Mario Grotz, Director General for Industry, New Technologies and Research, Ministry of the Economy; President, Luxinnovation

5:20pm | "Building a Data Science Lab in a financial company" by Yves Le Traon, Professor in Computer Science - Systems and Software Reliability - Deputy Director of SnT

5:35pm | "Capturing the potential of the new model economy" by David Dab, National Technology Officer at Microsoft Belgium and Luxembourg, Microsoft

New technology developments together with the massive production of data and algorithmic progress are fueling the development of a new wave of value creation through models. David will share his perspective on how this could unfold, the rules of the game, and what needs to be done to be able to participate and benefit, whether at company level or country level. David will amongst others discuss the importance of cloud and confidential computing as enabling technologies. He will also discuss about common misunderstandings and pitfalls that could hinder progress.

5:50pm | Q&A with Philipp Jäggi, CIO of Laboratoires Réunis and Jean-Christophe Witz, CIO of Husky Injection Molding System

Moderated by Emilia Tantar, Chief Data and AI Officer Black Swan LUX; co-convener of the CEN and CENELEC JTC 21 AI Ad-hoc WG on AI Conformity assessment, President of Luxembourg AI national mirror committee and delegate on AI standardization in the CEN CENELEC JTC 21 Strategic Advisory Group and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 42 working groups. She is member of the European Observatory of ICT Standardization WG on AI

& Alexandru Tantar, Business Analytics Group Leader, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Black Swan Lux Board Member

6:20pm |"Gaia-X : citizenship & sovereignty in a Global Data Economy" by Fabrice Aresu, Chief Executive Officer of LuxTrust

The GAIA-X initiative is sparkling attention from many industries, but at the same time, is raising questions about its drivers, actions and objectives. Engage the discussion and see where are the key business opportunities and benefits for the customers and the citizens

6:35pm | "POST and 5G, drivers of innovation and digitization in Luxembourg" by Ludovic Gilles, Head of Department - Enterprise Sales, POST Telecom

Introduction by Marc Hansen, Luxembourg Minister Delegate for Digitalisation