Saskia Maresch is a Project Manager in the Innovation department at the German Institute for Standardization and has a M.Sc. in industrial engineering from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Her area of responsibility is the management of national and European research and development projects in the field of standardization, e.g. in issues of energy, city resilience and robotics.

Dr. Arantxa Rentería has a doctor´s degree in Computer Engineering, (2010, U. of Deusto), an MSc in Robotics & Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (1988, Faculty of Engineering, Bilbao) and the degree in Computer Sciences (1987, University of Deusto). Since then, she has been working in Robotiker-Tecnalia in the field of robotics and automation, where she currently is Project Manager in the Health Division.

She has worked in many projects, both on research and on development of industrial systems. She has managed projects related to robotized cells, mobile robotics, data acquisition and monitoring systems, human-machine interfaces, robot simulation, automation for environmental engineering, robotic teleoperation (with two related patents). She has directed several post-graduate theses related to robotics and robot simulation applications. She has attended different Congresses, Symposiums and Seminars as a speaker, being author of many papers and a book on Robotics. She also worked as assistant professor of robotics during 1997-2000, at the University of Deusto in Bilbao.

Since 1989 she has been working in the preparation of several proposals for European and national programs. She has been involved in projects dealing with accessible applications and mobile robotics for cognitive rehabilitation, (COMPANIONABLE, HAPTIMAP, RUBICON), surgical robots (BROCA), cobots and exoskeletons (INBOTS).

Massimo Di Pardo is a Mechanical engineering at the Fiat Research Centre (CRF), where he is involved in activities concerning to manufacturing technologies, in particular joining technologies. In 2003 he created, and since then leads, a work-group dedicated to the “Industrial Ergonomics”. He is involved in the development of methodologies and technologies for the efficiency improvement of workplaces including Human Robot Collaboration, exoskeletons and other innovative technologies. Since 1998, he has participated and coordinated several national and EU funded projects

He received the MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering and the PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Roma TRE (Italy) in 2004 and 2009 respectively. He developed his Master’s thesis at Harvard Medical School, Boston, on human motion analysis. Diego is currently the Head of the Neuromuscular Coordination Lab, at the Cajal Institute (Spanish National Research Council), and Coordinator of the European Project EUROBENCH (www.eurobench2020.eu). He is interested in understanding motor control principles behind coordination, and finding new therapeutic applications based on the development of wearable robots and neuroprosthetics. His research questions are: Which are the key mechanisms of human coordination? How can they be restored in people with neurological injuries? How can Robotics help us in this process? He is also coordinating the benchmarking robotics community (www.benchmarkinglocomotion.org).

Francesco Ferro is the CEO and co-founder of PAL Robotics, a leading service robotics company that operates worldwide, with over 15 years of experience. PAL Robotics’ mission is to enhance people’s quality of life through service robotics and automation technologies. Robots can make a difference by collaborating with humans, providing support for domestic tasks and increasing efficiency in healthcare and industrial workflows.

Nicola Vitiello is Associate Professor with The BioRobotics Institute (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, SSSA, Pisa, Italy) where he leads the Wearable Robotics Laboratory. He is co-author of more than 70 ISI/Scopus papers and co-inventor of more than 20 patents/patent applications. He served as the Scientific Secretary of the EU FP7 CA-RoboCom project, and he was the scientific coordinator of the EU FP7 CYBERLEGs project. Currently he is the scientific coordinator of the H2020-ICT-CYBERLEGs Plus Plus project and the national project MOTU funded by INAIL. He has been or is partner of several EU collaborative projects. He is co-founder, director and advisor of IUVO Srl, a spin-off company of SSSA.

Igor Aristizabal, as member of the deep tech venture builder TECNALIA VENTURES, is the Manager of TECNALIA’s Related Companies Portfolio. Related with its activity, Igor Aristizabal has been responsible of leading the market launching process of KIRUBOTICS, a new company oriented to industrialise, certify, manufacture and commercialise surgical robots.

Prof. Enrico Bonadio is Senior Lecturer in Law at The City Law School, where he teaches various modules on intellectual property (IP) law. He holds law degrees from the University of Florence (PhD) and the University of Pisa (LLB), and is Associate Editor and Intellectual Property Correspondent of the European Journal of Risk Regulation.
Enrico is Visiting Professor in IP Law at Université Catholique de Lyon (France) and University of Turku (Finland) as well as visiting lecturer at the LLMs in Intellectual Property offered by WIPO in Turin (Italy) and Ankara (Turkey). Enrico has also been a Visiting Scholar at Melbourne Law School (University of Melbourne, 2013) and City University New York (CUNY Law School, 2016). He is member of ATRIP (International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property) and The Law Society of England and Wales. He regularly lectures, publishes and advises in the field of UK, European and international intellectual property law.

Sylvie Bove comes with a long experience of life sciences, both pharma, medtech and digital health, mostly from global commercial roles such as VP global marketing at Coloplast A/S , senior Director Global Marketing at Ferring Pharmaceuticals, as well as board member in biotechs and medtechs, executive coach and mentor. In the last 10 years her focus has been innovation in life science, among others at Lund University but lately as CEO of EIT Health: Sylvie moved to Munich in 2015 to build the team, develop the strategy and deliver the Business Plans for the years 2016 to 2018. She came back to Sweden and joined the Smile Incubator and in May 2020 she joined RISE Institutes of Sweden as VP health and Life Science. She is also a board member of Swelife, and serves on a number of advisory boards.

Sylvie is passionate about innovation and uses coaching based leadership to create change and facilitate innovation in healthcare. She has a B. Sc. In Economics and Business administration from Uppsala University, an E*MBA from SIMI/CBS and a Master in Coaching Based Leadership. She will bring her experience and large international network to further develop Life Science at RISE.

Björn-Erik Erlandsson, Ph. D. Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, Applied Electronics. Professor, Senior Advisor at Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, technology and quality in health care. Research and development, quality and regulatory issues from international industries, Siemens and Nobel Industries. Director of Medical Informatics and Technology, University Hospital, Umeå and Academic Hospital, Uppsala, Professor Medical Technology. Standardization work in medical technology and health informatics, chairman of SIS/TK334, Swedish HoD at standardization organizations; CEN and ISO, Chairman of the JWG on Software and Medical Equipment (SAMD) within CEN/CENELEC. Convenor ISO/TC215 Health Informatics Standardization, WG1 Architecture, Framework and Models. Board member in HL7 Sweden.

Fabio Bonsignorio is founder and CEO of Heron Robots. He has been until 2019 a visiting professor at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy).He has been a professor at the University Carlos III of Madrid (www.uc3m.es, roboticslab.uc3m.es) where he has been awarded the Santander Chair of Excellence in Robotics in 2009. He has been working in the R&D departments of several major Italian and American companies, mainly in the applications of intelligent systems and technology transfer with cordination/management responsibilities for some 20 years. He is author or co-author of more than 150 publications in the areas of robotics, cognition and manufacturing systems in the last three years, since he became an almost full time researcher. His first paper on robot control dates back to 1985.

Bernd Bertelmann is a German lawyer by training and holds a Phd from Saarland University as well as an LL.M. in European Law from Exeter University. Having previously worked for the Research Directorate of the European Court of Justice as well as the Commission’s Legal Service, he is currently dealing with questions relating to civil liability for damage caused by Artificial Intelligence as a policy officer with the Directorate General for Justice of the European Commission

Vincent C. Müller is Professor for Philosophy of Technology at the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) – as well as University Fellow at the University of Leeds , Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, London, President of the European Society for Cognitive Systems and Chair of the euRobotics topics group on ‘ethical, legal and socio-economic issues’. He was Professor at Anatolia College/ACT (Thessaloniki) (1998-2019), Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University (2005-6) and James Martin Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (2011-15). He studied philosophy with cognitive science, linguistics and history at the universities of Marburg, Hamburg, London and Oxford.

Müller is known for his research on theory and ethics of disruptive technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI). He has published widely on the philosophy of AI and cognitive science, philosophy of computing, philosophy of language, applied ethics, etc. (citations >250/year). Müller edits the “Oxford handbook of the philosophy of artificial intelligence” (OUP), wrote the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on Ethics of AI and Robotics and has a book forthcoming with OUP on “Can Machines Think?”. He presents invited papers around the world ca. once a month and he has organised ca. 25 conferences or workshops, among them a prominent conference series on the Philosophy and Theory of AI (PT-AI). Currently, Müller is principal investigator (PI) on the H2020 EU project “Inclusive Robotics for a Better Society” (INBOTS), Co-I and on the Scientific Committee of the H2020 AI platform project AI4EU (20M€), Co-I and on the Management Board on the NWO project “Ethics of Disruptive Technologies” (26.8M€). Müller is one of the 32 experts on the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), he is a member of the OECD Network of Experts on AI and one of two ‘Key Experts’ (PI) in the “International Alliance for human-centric AI” (IA-AI) (2.5M€), consulting the EU on the coordination of AI-policy with other global actors. He has generated ca. 4.5 mil.€ research income for his institutions. More information at http://sophia.de/research.htm and http://www.sophia.de

Fiachra obtained a BA in Philosophy and English from University College Dublin. Following this, he completed a Masters in Film Studies in UCD. After working in an academic publishing company, he obtained his doctorate from the school of Politics, International Studies, and Philosophy Queens University Belfast in 2009. He wrote his thesis on the patenting of biotechnological products (GM crops) in order to analyse issues of justice in relation to patenting, technology, international trade, and the environment. He has been lecturing History of Ideas and Philosophy of Science in DCU. He has worked on various aspects of applied ethics, including the ethical and social implications of virtual reality and social networking in association with the EU’s Reverie Project, and the ethical implications of human enhancement technologies. He is currently working as a Marie Curie ASSISTID Fellow looking at the ethics of the development, use and distribution of assistive technologies (AT) for people with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorder.

Daniel W. Linna Jr. has a joint appointment at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and McCormick School of Engineering as a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Law and Technology Initiatives. Dan’s teaching and research focus on innovation and technology, including computational law, artificial intelligence, data analytics, leadership, operations, and innovation frameworks. Dan is also an affiliated faculty member at CodeX — The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. Dan received his BA from the University of Michigan, received a second BA and an MA in public policy and administration from Michigan State University, and graduated magna cum laude, Order of the Coif from the University of Michigan Law School. Dan began his legal career with a one-year judicial clerkship for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge James L. Ryan. After his clerkship, he joined Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, where he was elected equity partner in 2013. Before law school, Dan was an information technology manager, developer, and consultant.

From January 2009, Member of the European Economic and Social Committee representing consumers and from April 2013 to September 2015 President of Consultative Commission on Industrial Change. – From December 2007 to December 2016, Manager of Asociación General de Consumidores (ASGECO) and Manager of Unión de Cooperativas de Consumidores y Usuarios de España (UNCCUE), representative of these entities in Consumers International, and ACI Consumers Europe. – From October 2004 to December 2007, Manager of Unión de Cooperativas Madrileñas de Trabajo Asociado. EDUCATION AND TRAINING – From October 1983 to June 1993, Economics graduate. – From February 1993 to April 1993. Postgraduate in European Community • Name and type of organisation providing education and training – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid – Escuela Diplomática (Diplomatic School)

Maarten Goos is an Instituut Gak Endowed Professor at Utrecht University. His research focusses on labor markets, technological progress, job polarization, job tasks and worker competencies, monopsony, labor market intermediation, labor market regulation, social security and inequality.

He received his PhD from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2006 and held positions at Erasmus University Rotterdam and KU Leuven before joining Utrecht University in 2015.

He has held visiting positions at Princeton University, the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE, MIT, and Boston University, and he has been involved in multiple initiatives by the European Commission and national policy institutes.

Full Professor of Management and Vice-Rector for Economic Policy at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). He holds a Bachelor and Master (BBA/MBA) in Business Administration from the UCM. In 1994 he received his PhD in Management, with honors, from the Complutense University. He has the Diploma on Management Research (2001), Royal Complutense College at Harvard, Harvard University.

He is Co-Director of the Research Group in Production and Information Technology and Communications (GIPTIC) of the UCM and Senior Editor of the Journal of Globalization, Competitiveness and Governability (Georgetown University). He has been Editor in Chief of Universia Business Review (first Spanish business management journal to be indexed in the SSCI-JCR), Vice-Dean of Economic Affairs and of Academic Organization in the Faculty of Economic and Business (UCM); Head of the Department of Management (UCM); External Examiner of the University of Wales; Visiting Research Scholar at The Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University; and Director of the Chair UCM-Foundation Orange for the Development of the Information Society.

Of the more 20 competitive research projects, in which it has participated (international, nationals, regions and universities), seven have done so as Principal Investigator. He has participated in nine Research Chairs, seven as Director of the same. He has supervised 9 Doctoral Theses (PhD) defended and has formed part of more than 30 Doctoral Thesis Committee. Over more 65 publications in scientific journals such as: Research Policy, Telecommunications Policy, Journal of Business Research, Technovation, Small Business Economics, Management Decision, The Service Industries Journal, Business Service: An International Journal, International Journal of Technology Management, Group Decision & Negotiation, Universia Business Review, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, etc.

He is in possession of the Cross of Naval Merit with White Decoration (Spanish Navy)

Licence in Labour by the Complutense University of Madrid, Labour and Social Security Inspector at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security ( Spain ) Diplome d’Etudes Superieures en Droit du travail. Université de Geneve, 1994 ILO specialist since 1989. Associated expert in labour law and labour legislation (LEGREL Geneva), young professional in labour inspection (ADMITRA Geneva) Specialist in labour law and labour relation (LEGREL Geneva), Senior specialist in labour law, labour relations and labour administration in Lima. Senior specialist in Fundamental Principle and rights (DECLARATION Geneva). Senior specialist on Labour administration inspection (LABADMIN Geneva), Technical Adviser on Workplace Compliance, Special Adviser on the Regional office for Europe and Central Asia. Since August 2016, Coordinator of the Future of Work Initiative

Roberto Suárez Santos was appointed Secretary-General of the International Organisation of Employers (IOE) on 26 October 2018, having held the post of Deputy Secretary-General since December 2012.
Prior to joining the IOE, Roberto was ILO Programme Director for the promotion of youth employment in the Maghreb region. He previously worked at the Spanish Confederation of Employers’ Organisations in areas ranging from comparative labour policies and labour relations to youth unemployment and social and employment policy. He was BUSINESSEUROPE’s Vice President for Labour Affairs for several years. He also was Vice-President of Business at OECD’s Employment and Labour Affairs Committee, and a member of various follow-up committees for the European Social Fund and the EU Economic and Social Committee.

Roberto’s experience extends to academia, having served as associate professor of European Social Law at both the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in Spain.
Roberto is a lawyer with experience in European and international labour law, as well as in international relations.

IOE is the largest private sector network in the world. With 159 business and employer organisation members in 150 countries, IOE is the powerful and balanced voice of business at the international level.

Dr Luke McDonagh has been widely published in peer-review journals including Modern Law Review and Intellectual Property Quarterly. He has published reports commissioned by the UK Intellectual Property Office and by the European Parliament. He is an academic member of the EU Horizon2020-funded INBOTS consortium along with his City colleague Dr Enrico Bonadio.

Rita de la Feria is Professor of Tax Law at the University of Leeds, and an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation.

Professor de la Feria research focus primarily on tax law and policy, and she has published widely on these areas, including five books, and over 60 journal articles and book chapters. She has been a visiting professor or scholar at various Universities around the world, including Trinity College, Dublin, NYU, University of New South Wales, McGill University, University of Lisbon, and Leiden University. She is actively engaged in global tax policy discussions, and has provided tax policy and legal drafting advice to several Governments worldwide, and has testified before five elected Parliaments.

Professor de la Feria was listed two years running (2015-2016) in the Global Tax 50, as one of the most influential tax people in the World; was co-recipient of the 2016 Outstanding Women in Tax Award; and in 2019 was recognised in the 100 Years of Women in Tax, as one of the most influential women in tax in the last 100 years.

Santiago Mediano is an expert lawyer in Intellectual and Industrial Property, and Competition Law and is head of the Firm’s Enforcement Department. He works on the national and international market, forms part of the USA Desk and works closely with the Firm’s offices in Portugal and Qatar. He has been one of Spain’s top intellectual-property lawyers for more than 20 years and enjoys international renown.eacher and contributor on courses and conferences and Master’s programmes on Intellectual Property at the Madrid universities Universidad Complutense, Universidad Autónoma and Universidad Carlos III and the World Intellectual Property Organisation. He is a regular speaker for professional associations and bodies.

President of the Madrid Bar Association (ICAM) and member of the Spanish Royal Academy for Jurisprudence and Legislation, ALADDA (the Spanish Literary and Artistic Association for the Defence of Author’s Rights), Dialogo (Spanish-French association for the development of bilateral relations between France & Spain), French Chamber of Commerce, Madrid Cultural Centre for the Armies and the Anthroposophical Society in Spain.

Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges since 2000. Mr Roccatagliata has been working for the European commission since 1994; first as a legal expert, then as member of Commissioner Monti’s cabinet (1997-2003: MARKT, portfolio: free movement of persons and services; COMP, portfolio: State aid). He is currently principal administrator in DG TAXUD where he mainly deals with fiscal aspects of European companies, relationships between international tax agreements and EU law, and taxation aspects of EU policy for development. In this capacity, he is also the delegate of the EU Commission in various international tax committees (OECD-CFA, UN-DESA). He previously worked as a legal advisor at the International Department of the Italian Ministry of Finance (1984-1994) and as a tax inspector in local tax offices (1978-1984).

Mr. Roccatagliata (Law Diploma, 1982; Master in European Studies, 1986; Master in Business Administration, 1988) became a professor in law in 1987. He taught European and/or International tax law, as a visiting professor, at many European universities (Bocconi Milano, Roma I, Napoli II, Suor Orsola Napoli, Palermo, Deusto Bilbao, Barcelona, Lille II, Louvain). From 2000 to 2007 he has been in charge of the course of the European tax law at the University of Liège. He published several books and articles on international and EU tax law.

He is a member of various fiscal associations (IFA, ANDAF, EATLP), board of universities and scientific reviews (CeRTI/Bocconi, Diritto e Pratica Tributaria Internazionale).

Principal Investigator at the UCM of the EU project H2020 “Inclusive Robotics for a Better Society (INBOTS)” and leader of its WP2 on ethical, legal, social and economic (ELSE) issues. Prof. Grau leads the AudIT-S project on “Legal and financial significance of sustainability audit schemes through smart data management” (PID2019-105959RB-I00I). Leader of the Research Group 970774 IUS-SustentaRSE “Law for Sustainable Development”. Member of the Subcommittee on Environmental Taxation, appointed by the UN Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters.