MYDATA 2016 - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Managing Consultant
- Managing Consultant ( Privacy, Big - Data, Sustainability ) at Capgemini Consulting
Andre Walter is a managing consultant within the Cybersecurity & Privacy competence center at Capgemini Consulting in the Netherlands. He is seasoned privacy & data protection professional with more than 10 years of experience in risk & process management (Privacy, SOX, PCI-DSS, business continuity) and a strategy/policy formulation and implementation specialist. Moreover, privacy means more to him than sorely compliance - in his view - mastering the privacy challenge enables sustainable digital opportunities. Before joining Capgemini Consulting, he partnered with international law and auditing firms in the field of privacy, worked at Vodafone as Senior Program Manager Privacy and as Product Manager in the CCTV recording industry.
Andre has an extended background in Telecommunications (global mobile operator, mobile network equipment manufacturer, IoT) Within Capgemini Consulting, he has been responsible for various projects in the area of data protection and privacy.
Andre holds an Executive International MBA (Maastricht University , 2013) and a BSc degree in Telecommunications (Fachhochschule Osnabrück, 1994). He is a certified privacy professional holding the IAPP credentials of Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM).
Benjamin André was trained as an engineer and worked in IT at the French TOTAL company as a software consultant and project manager for several years. In 2006, Benjamin had a side project that aimed at gathering his financial data from several bank on a personal server. He quickly realized that he would be able to connect this data with bills from utilities and e-commerce sites. This led to Cozy Cloud being founded. Since then Cozy has grown to 22 employees who work within a strong ecosystem and has recently raised 4M from Innovacom and MAIF. Cozy's goals is to create an open-source tool that will empower each individual with personal data.
Bo Harald started his career in banking in the 1970's by promoting and building electronic banking, payments and e-business services. He has developed Nordea's Electronic Banking and payments operations until 2005, when he changed companies and started working with Tieto as the Head of Executive Advisors.
He has also served as the the Chairman to the EU Expert Group on Electronic Invoicing, Chairman of Mobey (Mobile Financial Services Forum) and has held and holds directorships in various companies and associations.
He has been named as one of the most influential technologists of the 20th century by Institutional Investor. He has been awarded for advancing the Information Society by the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications.
At the moment he works as an independent advisor, has a chairmanship at ZEF Solutions and continued work in the publicly funded Real Time Economy program.
His public blog is available at: http://boharald.blogspot.com
Job Titles:
- CEO of Fing
- Founder and CEO of the Next - Generation Internet Foundation
Biography
Daniel Kaplan, 53, is the founder and CEO of the Next-Generation Internet Foundation (FING), a nonprofit Think-&-Do-Tank that produces and shares novel and actionable ideas to anticipate digital transformations.
In 1986, he cofounded one of the world's first digital communication agencies, JKLM, which he headed until the early 1990s.
Since the 1990's, Daniel Kaplan has been deeply involved in the Internet's development and evolution. He was VP-Membership of the Internet Society worldwide, and contributed to the creation of ICANN. He served in the European Commission's e-Europe's Experts Chamber and currently sits in France's National Digital Council.
Mr. Kaplan has written or directed more than 25 books and public reports on the internet, mobility and ubiquitous networking, ambient intelligence, e-inclusion, e-commerce, e-education, electronic media, cities and sustainable development, privacy and digital identities…
Within Fing, he has been instrumental in launching the MesInfos project, whose goal is to "empower people with their own data".
Job Titles:
- Lead Technologist in Personal Data and Trust of Digital Catapult
Biography
Dr. Michele Nati is Lead Technologist for Personal Data and Trust at Digital Catapult, where is setting the strategy and the delivery plan to unlock the potential of personal data sharing for creating new Internet of Things and Smart Services while retaining user privacy, trust and confidence. He also manages the Personal Data and Trust Network (http://pdtn.org) aiming at building and nurturing a community for responsible innovation around personal data.
Before joining DIGICAT, he matured over 10 years of research and development in Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things. He was Senior Research Fellow at ICS, University of Surrey, where it was Principal Investigator (PI) for the EU FP7 Project on Internet of Things, SocIoTal (http://sociotal.eu) and Co-Investigator IoT-Lab (http://www.iotlab.eu), working on privacy issues in mobile phone sensing and crowdsourcing area.
Prior to join Surrey he obtained a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2008 from the University of Rome "La Sapienza." and he worked as researcher at the Northeastern University of Boston, and for the NEXSE/WLAB, a company based in Rome. He published a number of peer-reviewed articles and he has been involved in a number of EU and UK funded projects. His main interests are on design, implementation and evaluation of efficient context-aware solutions for modern smartphones, to reduce their energy consumption while increasing the users' data sharing in a privacy-preserving environment.
Irene is a Professor of Marketing and Service Systems and the Director of the International Institute for Product and Service Innovation at WMG, University of Warwick. She is also a Senior Member at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Irene was an entrepreneur and practitioner for 16 years before switching to an academic career. During her time in industry she occupied a number of senior positions in industry rising to become CEO of SA Tours and Travel group of companies (Singapore, Malaysia, China and UK) and founded Empress Cruise Lines, a company with an annual turnover of USD250m which she sold in 1996. An industrial economist through her doctoral training, Irene's research lies in the trans-disciplinary understanding of value and the design of markets and economic/business models. She is the recipient of several ESRC fellowship appointments, including being one of the 6 UK Advanced Institute of Management (AIM) research Services Fellows, the ESRC/NIHR Placement Fellow and more recently, one of the five ESRC/InnovateUK Innovation Caucus Thought leaders. Both an entrepreneur and an academic, Irene is passionate about the link between practice and research. She is an advisor to startups on new financial models in digital businesses.
Julian Ranger is a serial Angel investor and entrepreneur with a history of innovation and success within networks, data and interoperability.
He founded digi.me in 2009 to unlock the power of personal data and reimagine the web as the Internet of Me, putting users back in control of their own information. Now with over 375,000 users in 150 countries, the ability to add full personal health and financial data and exchange or trade it for personalised benefits is coming later this year.
After early work as an aeronautical engineer, Julian founded STASYS Ltd in 1987, specialising in interoperability and the military internet, and grew it to a staff of 230, with subsidiaries in the United States, Germany, Malaysia and Australia prior to its sale to Lockheed Martin in 2005.
Noted for his privacy and personal data expertise, Julian is in worldwide demand as a speaker.
An investor in more than 20 start-up businesses, including firms such as Hailo, DataSift and Astrobotic, he is also a Virgin Galactic future astronaut.
Job Titles:
- Systems Architect, Software Engineer
Justin Richer is a systems architect, software engineer, standards editor, and service designer with over fifteen years of industry experience. He is the author of the upcoming book OAuth2 In Action from Manning Publications. He has directly contributed to a number of foundational security protocols including OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, as well as being the editor of several extensions RFC's and the pioneering Vectors of Trust. He is the founder and maintainer of the MITREid Connect open source project. An ardent proponent of open standards and open source, he believes in solving hard problems with the right solution, even if that solution still needs to be invented.
Job Titles:
- Senior Researcher at the SKIL
Michele is senior researcher at the SKIL (Semantic and Knowledge Innovation Lab) Joint Open Lab of TIM - Telecom Italia, located in Trento. His current research interests include Privacy, the innovation in the field of Personal Data Management, Cloud Technologies, Pervasive Computing and Big Bata.
Michele collaborated to the Mobile Territorial Lab (MTL) project coordinating the activities concerning personal data management, notably he is responsible of My Data Store, the project of TIM that proposes novel solutions for the creation of an ecosystem of trusted personal data-driven services.
He participates in many projects related to privacy, trust and the data-driven service design. Among the other experiences he coordinates the relations of the TIM Joint Open Labs with the European Institute of Technology (EIT Digital) and, in particular, he is responsible for TIM within the European Trusted Cloud Ecosystem high impact initiative.
Michele is MSc in Computer Science and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the ICT Int. School at the University of Trento (2011). Among his past experiences, Michele was visiting researcher at the Concordia University of Montreal (Canada) and collaborated with the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) research institute (formerly ITC-IRST).
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Specialist in Open
- Vice - Chairman of Open Knowledge Finland / Member of HIIT MyData Research Group
Mika Honkanen is specialist in Open data and MyData. He is Vice Chairman of the Board at Open Knowledge Finland and a member of the HIIT MyData research group. He is also working as an advisor for the Finnish government about issues related in Open data. Mr. Honkanen has passion on knowledge-based value creation, startups, lean, open knowledge, MyData and international cooperation. He has many different kind of positions of trust (e.g. in ICANN and Startup Finland).
Job Titles:
- Head of Experience and Labs at Meeco
Biography
Nathan is Head of Experience and Labs at Meeco where he leads product and experience strategy, as well as execution of Meeco Labs across Europe. Prior to this Nathan managed product innovation portfolio's for large corporates in Australia, and was founding CEO of a sports analytics startup. In a previous life he was also a golfer.
Job Titles:
- Research Director at IPR University Center / Senior Research Scientist at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT
Olli Pitkänen is a Research Director at IPR University Center. He is also a senior research scientist at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT and he has a title of docent at Aalto University and a title of docent at University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law. He holds a doctorate in information technology, a master's degree in software engineering, and a master's degree in laws. He has worked as a researcher and a teacher at Aalto University, at Helsinki University of Technology and at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT since 1993. He is a part-time expert member (a judge) at the Market Court and a vice member of the Copyright Council. Prior to academia he had worked as a software engineer and practiced law in the private sector. He has also been a member of the board in several IT companies. In 1999-2001 and 2003, he was a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley. He has also been a visitor at The Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and Information & Communication Technology, K.U. Leuven, Belgium. His research interests include legal, societal, and ethical issues related to future media, digital services, and information and communication technologies (ICT).
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate at Lexia
Job Titles:
- Chief Digital Officer at MAIF
Romain Liberge, 33, is Chief Digital Officer at MAIF, a P2P insurance company based in France. He as over ten years digital and strategy experience gained from La Netscouade, a digital agency, and the European Institutions. Since the beginning of 2015, he is responsible for the digital strategy of MAIF and the transformation of the company. Within MAIF, he has pioneering a new self data strategy by empowering people with their own data. MAIF is one of the key partners of MesInfos project, lead by FING.
Samuel Rinnetmäki is a hobbyist programmer interested in the role of sensors and APIs in the digital transformation hype and future ecosystems. His projects include smart watch applications, public transit information interfaces, and a self-tracking software suite.
Apart from the data available through APIs he also uses spreadsheets and self-made software to collect information about his mood, time use, expenses, consumption of energy, gasoline, water etc.
Samuel has been active in the Open Knowledge Finland's MyData working group for several years. He likes to participate in collaborative projects and hackathons. He crowdfunds projects and invests minor amounts of money in cool startups.
Samuel has a background in software engineering, identity and access management, enterprise integration and IT strategy. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering and a master's degree in leadership. He currently works as an Enterprise Architect in the Finnish Centre for Pensions. He is also a board member in the internet service provider Sange. In the rare occasions when he's not working, playing with his kids or programming, he sails an F18 catamaran.
Sean Bohan provides strategic thinking around the topics of Intentcasting, Personal Data, Personal Clouds, User Sovereignty and disrupting online advertising for the benefit of the users, publishers and the Web.
His background includes managing multimillion-dollar P&L, entrepreneurship, strategic thinking/doing and serving as a leader and partner to virtual teams, agencies, and communities.
He has extensive experience creating and executing innovative ideas for brands across diverse industries, from finance and fashion to health, technology, and entertainment.
He is actively involved in defining the future of User Agency, Intentcasting, and Personal Data as a member of the ProjectVRM Steering Committee at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center
Job Titles:
- Head of Development at Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Biography
Teppo Valtonen has more than 10 years of experience in researching and developing tools, practices and processes for working with knowledge. He is interested in the feasible and ethical use of data from employees, the tools they use, and their work environment - both physical and virtual - and has organized the Quantified Employee 2014 conference.
His core expertise is understanding both technology and human behaviour, cognition and physiology. He has been doing and managing projects, products and services especially to help understand the cognitive demands of work and to improve efficiency and work flow.
He is an active lecturer on topics such as cognitive ergonomics, digitalization, automation and the quantification of work. At the end of the day, he aims for designing work that supports learning, decision-making, creativity, well-being and sustainable productivity.
Job Titles:
- Commercial Product Manager, Information Services, Lindorff Finland
Biography
Tero Almi has 10 years of experience at Lindorff in the area of BtoB and BtoC crediting. Currently Tero works as Commercial Product Manager responsible for Lindorff's information services in Finland. Tero is actively seeking possibilities how data related to payments could best serve the needs of industries and people. Tero has regular interaction with creditors and other experts in the field of credit data management.