Thursday September 26, 2024 9:00am - 4:00pm EDT
Speakers 
CEO, LifeWatch ERIC
Christos Arvanitidis LifeWatch ERIC CEO, Seville, Spain. Research Director, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, former head of the Biodiversity laboratory.Involved in >70 projects, coordinated 10. Research Funding ID...
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Project and business developer and stakeholder engagement lead, Pensoft Publishers
Boris Barov, Project and business developer and stakeholder engagement lead, Pensoft Publishers Ltd, Bulgaria.An ecologist specializing in biodiversity conservation, restoration, and science communication. With experience ranging from working with the European Commission, governments...
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Head of Marine Observation, Flanders Marine Institute
Klaas Deneudt Head of Marine Observation Centre at Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ, Belgium). General coordinator of DTO-BioFlow project, focal point coordinator for LifeWatch Belgium and head of the Marine Observation Center at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). Marine biologist...
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Senior Strategy and Innovation Officer, EGI Foundation
Montserrat González Ferreiro (EGI Foundation, Senior Strategy and Innovation Officer, The Netherlands). Having started her career in the private engineering sector, she has specialised in supporting the European scientific community since 2009. She has held a variety of innovation...
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President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Athena RC
Founder and Managing Director of ISC Intelligence in Science, ISC Intelligence in Science
Declan Kirrane, Founder and Managing Director of ISC Intelligence in Science.Has a background in analysing the relationship between public and private R&D funding and the impact on R&D performance he has worked extensively on science and technology policy evaluation methodologies...
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Managing Director - Digital & CIO, Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Dimitris Koureas (Naturalis Biodiversity Center & DiSSCo RI).Chief Information Officer and Managing Director for Digital Strategy and Innovation at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands. Executive Director of the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) European...
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CEO, OpenAIRE
Natalia holds a Physics degree from the University of Athens, and an MS in Electrical and Computing Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and has worked for several years as a Software Engineer and Architect in the Bioinformatics commercial sector. She has expertise...
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Director of CSC Advanced Computing Facility, CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd, Finland
Per Öster (CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd, Finland), Director of CSC Advanced Computing Facility.The facility operates and develops the Finnish national computing infrastructure and hosts the EuroHPC pre-exascale system LUMI. Öster represents CSC in a several international initiatives...
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Executive Director, EMBRC-ERIC
Nicolas Pade (he/him), Executive Director of the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC-ERIC), France.Holds a PhD in molecular and spatial ecology from the University of Aberdeen (2009), his research focused on using molecular tools and satellite tracking to determine population...
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Managing Director and Founder of Pensoft Publishers, Pensoft Publishers
Lyubomir Penev, Managing Director and Founder of Pensoft Publishers.Having graduated in Biology at the University of Sofia, he also holds a Ph.D. in Ecology at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Currently, he is Professor of Ecology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia...
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Scientific Coordinator, CSC - IT Center for Science
Gabriela Zuquim (CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland).Scientific Coordinator of Biodiversity Digital Twins Project (BioDT) at CSC - IT Center for Science and Adjunct Professor in Tropical Ecology. Holds a PhD from the University of Turku, Finland and a Master's degree from the National...
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