08:00 – 9:00 | Registration and coffee

09:00 – 09:10

Welcome

• Pearse O’Donohue, Director for Future Networks, DG CONNECT, European Commission
• Monique Calisti, NGI Outreach Office Director, CEO at Martel Innovate

09:10 – 09:40

The perspective of the Finnish Presidency of the EU

Mikko Koskinen, State Secretary at Ministry of Transport and Communications of Finland

The perspective of a digital city

Pia Pakarinen, Deputy Mayor of the City of Helsinki

09:40 -10:00

Inspirational speech

Martin Wezowski, Chief Designer & Futurist and Chief Innovation Office at SAP

10:00 – 10:50

Shaping a new internet – Expert testimonials interview format

• Meeri Haataja, CEO of Saidot, Chair of Ethics Working Group in Finland’s AI Program, Chair of IEEE’s Ethics Certification Program for Autonomous & Intelligent Systems (download the slides here)
• Teemu Ropponen, General Manager at MyData (download the slides here)
• Adrian Perrig, Professor at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (download the slides here)
• Irene Lopez de Vallejo, Director Partnerships & Business Development at DEX

Interactive session with questions from the audience.

10:50 – 11:10 | Coffee break

11:10 – 12:00

Who’s the NGI? – A community of researchers and innovators at work

Panel discussion with three NGI projects: NGI Zero, NGI Trust and Ledger – Privacy and trust enhancing technologies; citizens retaining control over their data; and discovery and identification technologies. Main topics will be challenges, priorities, and funding opportunities.

• Andrés Sánchez Sandaz, Director at FundingBox Communities, Ledger (download the slides here)
• Michiel Leenaars, Director of Strategy at NLnet Foundation, NGI Zero (download the slides here)
• Nadim Kobeissi, Director of Symbolic Software, NGI Zero (download the slides here)
• Ruth Puente, Executive Programme Manager at Kantara Initiative, NGI Trust (download the slides here)

12:00 – 13:00

A human-centric approach to data governance

Expert panel discussion

• Francesca Bria, Senior Adviser Digital Cities and Digital Rights at United Nations
• Jaana Sinipuro, Project Director at SITRA (download the slides here)
• Cathy Mulligan, CTO of GovTech Labs and DataNet at UCL
• Olivier Bringer, Head of Unit at European Commission

Interactive session with questions from the audience.

13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break

14:00 – 14:20

The Next Generation Internet – An Internet of Humans

Roberto Viola, Director General DG Connect at European Commission

14:20 – 14:35

NGI Priorities and Future Directions – Introduction to parallel workshops

Moderated by Katja Bego, Principal Researcher at Nesta, Coordinator of NGI Forward (download the slides here)

14:35 – 16:20

Parallel Interactive Sessions

– Workshop 1 –
Where next for online identities

More info about the workshop 1

– Workshop 2 –
Mind meets machine: harnessing collective intelligence

More info about the workshop 2

– Workshop 3 –
Policy to nourish innovation: NGI trust Marks

More info about the workshop 3

– Workshop 4 –
Blockchain in action

More info about the workshop 4

16:20 – 16:40 | Coffee break and network

16:40 – 17:00

Wrap-up from workshops and open discussion

Moderated by Katja Bego, Principal Researcher at Nesta, Coordinator of NGI Forward

• Report from the four moderators of working group sessions
• Distilling the main lessons learned and Q&A session

17:00 – 17:15

NGI Funding Opportunities – Upcoming H2020 Calls

Ragnar Bergstrom, Team Leader at European Commission (download the slides here)

How to join the NGI and next appointments

Monique Calisti, NGI Outreach Office Director, CEO at Martel Innovate (download the slides here)

17:15 – 17:30

Looking at the future of NGI

Pearse O’Donohue, Director Future Networks at European Commission

– SOCIAL EVENT –

A networking session with great drinks offered to all NGI registered participants.

From 18:00

Opening Ceremony of MyData 2019 conference

Keynote speech of Imogen Heap, founder of Mycelia