Europe Speakers

2026 Speakers

Mimi Billing

Europe Editor

Sifted

Claudio Gienal

Chief Transformation Officer

AXA Europe & Health

Grzegorz Ombach

SVP

Airbus

Uvashni Raman

Group Chief Financial Officer

Booking.com

Edgar van Zoelen

Chief Digital Transformation Officer

Netherlands Cancer Institute

Koen van Muijen

Chief Transformation Officer

ING NL

Jose Meroño

Chief Data Officer

The Adecco Group

Ambica Rajagopal

Group Chief Data & AI Officer

Michelin

Hiek Van der Scheer

Chief Data Officer

ABN AMRO

Shruti Sharma

Chief Data & AI Officer

Save the Children UK

Vincent Decugis

Chief Data Officer

BNP Paribas Europe-Mediterranean

Hicham Yezza

Principal Data Scientist

BBC

Garima Singh

CTO

Pandora

Philippe Rambach

SVP, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

Schneider Electric

Alex Duca

Director | Head of Automation and Operation Technology

A.P Moller Maersk

André van der Linden

Chief Information Officer

Royal FloraHolland

Floor van Eijk

CISO

NN Group

Silvia Barbera Fortuna

Senior Director - Innovation Lead Global Capabilities Optimisation & Automation

Ely Lily & Company

Anindita Misra

Global Director - Data & Applied AI/ML

Brenntag

Noemí Alonso Calvo

Senior Director, Lead Counsel, Data Protection & AI

Takeda

George Schizas

CISO

NEP Group

Mariel Alexandra Garrido Urena

VP

Vestas

Conny Ploth

VP Global AI Transformation

Santander

Jan Andreas Daske

Senior Director | Global AI & Industry Intelligence

Swisslog

Tadej Magajna

Global Associate Director, Analytics, Data Science & AI

Sandoz

Lasse Lund Sten Jensen

Director | Head of Orchestration

Novo Nordisk

Hannah Bakx

Global Head of Digital Enablement

HEINEKEN

Apoorva SL Abhinav

Head of AI & Digital Transformation

FrieslandCampina

Dirk Geiger

Senior Director & Team Lead - Humanoid Robotics

Infineon Technologies

Elena Rehman

Senior Director, EMEA land development/permitting

Microsoft

Juergen Weiss

Group Vice President, Head of Global Data, Analytics and AI Business & Technology Insights

Gartner

Omar Picone Chiodo

Global CIO & Enterprise Digital Transformation Director

Kenvue

Eyal Itsikovitz

Director of AI & ML

GSK

Ioana Tanase

BISO

Fugro

Mike Eytle

Senior Director, Head of EMEA Data Centre Delivery

Microsoft

Nelly Lund

Head of AI Experience & Adoption

Philips

Filip Nowak

Global Head of Cyber Defense

Ferrero

Ragavan Ambighananthan

Director of Software Engineering

Expedia Group

Pepijn Kooijmans

LeRobot Lead

Hugging Face

Amanj Hamid

Global Product & Transformation Leader

Schneider Electric

Roy van Griensven

Global Head of Business Transformation

LANXESS

Sanchit Juneja

Senior Director-Product (Data & AI)

Tripadvisor

Alfonso Zoia

Head of Industrial Manufacturing Engineering

Electrolux Group

Andreas Fischer

Head of Business Transformation, Continuity & Awareness

Volkswagen Group

Fabrizio Degni

Chief of AI

webuild

Dr. Jishna Pulluru

Director AI & Automation

SIXT

Avinash Jha

Senior Director, Head of API & Integrations

Volvo Group

Roel Willems

Director, Data & AI Governance - Global

Ahold Delhaize

Vikram Singh

Leader, Technology Strategy and Governance (CTIO Office)

Lyse

Promise Akwaowo

Head of Intelligent Automation

Post Office

Iulia Feroli

Founder

Back to Engineering

Irene Di Deo

Director of Intelligent Automation

Digital Innovation Observatory Network

Murat Akturk

Global Senior Director of Growth, AI & Digital Innovation

GE Healthcare

Amal Makwana

Senior Vice President - Engineering Manager, Delivery Lead

Citi

Dirk-Andrew Heil

CISO

Stadtwerke Norderstedt

Ahmed Daabis

Director of Design Development

QTS

Etelka Kovacs

VP Finance, EMEA

Digital Realty

Ryan Larsen

Vice President, Global IT Security

Olympus Corporation

Mohit Joshi

Director of Data Engineering & AI

Ford Credit

Michiel Karsemeijer

Head of AI & Data

NPO

Frank Kartmann

VP Big Data & Cloud Architecture

Deutsche Bank

Altaf Patel

VP, Data Analytics & AI

PepsiCo

El Hassan El Msaddaq

Global Head of Manufacturing Execution Systems

Robert Bosch Gmbh

Margaret O’Toole

World Wide Tech Leader - Sustainability (Principal Solutions Architect)

AWS

Hannes van de Velde

COO

In the Pocket

Evženie Tohami

Vice President

Czech & Slovak Digital Infrastructure Association

Huy Dao

Director, Data & ML Platform

Booking.com

Madhusudhan Konda

Principal Lead AI Engineer

EBRD

Mohamed Fouda

Global Director of Robotics

DHL Supply Chain

Ivan Branco

Head of Information Management, AI & Analytics

Volvo Group

Ignacio Guerra Sevillano

Senior Data Scientist

The Adecco Group

Patrick Eshuys

VP EMEA Operations DCS

Equinix

Johanna Flood

Co-Founder

dcently

Cihan Herguner

Director – EMEA Data Center Solutions

Johnson Controls

Rene Greiner

Sr. Director, Data, AI & Digital

Cargill

Devendra Sharma

Chief Data & Analytics Officer

Exadel

Shahin Shahkarami

Global VP of AI & Automation

IKEA

Parinita Kothari

Engineering Lead

Lloyds Banking Group

Daniel Gebler

CTO

Picnic

Eric Boonstra

CEO

Kevlinx

Konstantin Grigoroff

Principal AI Engineer

Shell

Shiv Dadhich

Senior Global Category Manager

Amazon Web Services

Qaisar Masoud

Sr. Manager - Digital Transformation

Philips Healthcare

Aatish Kumar

Head of Data & AI

Eneco Energy

Amit Thawani

CIO

Lloyds Banking Group

Tom Kerkhof

AI Lead

Nestlé

Hamid Raza

Head of Data

Just Group PLC

Daniele Catteddu

Chief Technology Officer

Cloud Security Alliance

Olivier Convard

VP, Global Head & Life Cycle Leader Lab Platforms Roche Diagnostics (RIS)

Roche

Candyce Costa

Founder

Female Tech Leaders Community

Håvard Lien-Kvareng

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Skygard

Pedro Gouveia

Director | Head of Process Automation

ABN AMRO Bank

Prokopis Mavridis

Principal Datacenter Architect · Microsoft Cloud Operations + Innovation

Microsoft

Andrei Baciu

VP

Romanian Parliament

Mariana Hebborn

Global Head of HR AI & Governance

Merck Group

Ali Erdem Silan

Head of Intelligent Automation CoE

ING

Brian Aarssen

Managing Director

Bergen Engines (Benelux) BV

Alina Vishniakova

Head of Technology, Technology Analytics

TUI

Cien Solon

Founder

launchlemonade

Nathalia Beekman

Enterprise Master Data

Shell

Steve Beber

Global Head of Digital Infrastructure

International Data Center Authority (IDCA)

Tadas Narutavičius

Digital Innovation Head

Roche

Rodrigo Krasnicki

Data & Analytics Lead

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

Dik Harbrecht

Head of Enterprise Data Architecture

Shell

Tamires Beltrão

Head of Data Insights

Port of Rotterdam

Ahmed Maklad

Global Head of Quality Strategy & Digital Transformation

Unilever

Eduardo Barbaro

Head of Security Analytics

ING

Cyprian Smits

Chapter Lead – Global AI

Rabobank

Senior representative, IBM

Radhika Bandarupalli

Global Head of Engineering, Data & Analytics

BAT

Senior representative, Glean

Stephanie Taylor

Executive Vice President

QTS Data Centers

Sebastian Schmidt

EVP Enterprise

Digital Science

Stuti Oberoi

Head of Data & AI Strategy, Design & Performance Management

ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

Theo Gough

Data & Analytics Head of Strategy, Governance & Experimentation Enablement

Just Eat Takeaway

Marc van Gaal

Director of Loket

Van Spaendonck

Babak Falsafi

President

SDEA

Twinkle Singh

Global Technical Program Manager

Google

Stijn Grove

Managing Director

Dutch Data Center Association

Matthias Haymoz

Executive Director

SDEA

Robin Jansen

Business Owner, AI & CRM

Rabobank

Victor Sanchez

Lead Enterprise Architect Supply Chain & Manufacturing

JDE Peet's

Olav van Raath

Head of Cyber Resilience

Zurich Insurance

Andrzej Ochocki

Head of Identity Management

Deutsche Telekom Group

Rini Icent Gopinath

Head of Information Protection

ABN AMRO Bank

Siddhartha Choudhury

Senior Product Manager - Security, Safety and Fraud

Booking.com

Julia Preiss

Director - Cyber Security GRC (IT) & ISO Germany

Bayer

Frederik de Haas van Dorsser

Director Digital Infrastructure

NIBC Bank

Stuart Frost

Head of Enterprise Security & Risk Management

UK Government, Senior Civil Service

Oscar Thøgersen

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

Skygard

Phillip Davies

CISO - Europe, India and Emerging Markets

Equifax UK

Giulia Moschini

CISO

Leroy Merlin

Svante Horn

Co-CEO and Chief Commercial Officer

Scandinavian Data Centers (SDC)

Jon Summers

Research Leader

RISE Institute of Sweden

Ross Jennings

Account-Based Experience Lead - Industrials & Electronics

Henkel Adhesive Technologies

Dr Bertie Müller

Associate Professor of Computer Science & Co-Director, Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education

Swansea University

Frank Aboki

Director - Lead Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering

Morgan Stanley

Greg Williams

Executive Editor

Exponential View

Susanna Kass

Senior Advisor to Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP), Operating Partner

Digital Gravity Infrastructure Partners

Brian Matthews

Founder & CEO

Ampera

Previous Speakers

Shahin Shahkarami

Global VP of AI & Automation

IKEA

Rodrigo Krasnicki

Data & Analytics Lead

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners

Daniela Almeida Lourenço

Global CISO

Hunkemöller

Dr. Satyajit Wattamwar

Head of Data Science

Unilever

Dimitri Van Zantvliet

Chief Information Security Officer

NS

Marco Eijsackers

Global Head of Tech Strategy

ING

Chandrashekhar Kachole

Chief Technology Officer

Wordline

Erbin Lim

Director of Engineering

Pfizer

Kerry Sheehan

Head of AI Policy - AI Taskforce

UK Government

Samwel Magesa

Chief Data Officer

NBC Bank

Marinus den Breejen

Chief Architect

Nationale-Nederlanden International

Garima Singh

Global VP & Chief Architect

IKEA

Philipp Amann

Group CISO

Österreichische Post AG

Radek Pluhar

Group Chief Executive Officer

Home Credit International

Mitali Chatterjee

Vice President

Swiss Re

Jesper Touboel

VP - EMEA Manufacturing

LEGO

Ard de Bruijne

Group IT Architect

Shell

Ahmet Hasanbeseoglu  

Global Director for IT for Supply Chain, Operations, Manufacturing, Finance and HR

JDE Peet's

Haider Alleg

General Partner

Allegory Capital

Melda Hamarat

Global Head of E-commerce

Unilever

Zhilla Noorbakhsh

Global IT Lead

ING

Katarina Kurcabova

Global Director Cloud Center of Excellence

Brenntag

Frederik Dejans

Global IoT Director

Schoeller Allibert

Nav Nair

Senior Director Commercial Analytics EMEA

Nike

Rik Goslinga

Senior Director Enterprise Customer Success Europe and Australia

PayPal

Ronald Horn

Co-Founder

Blue Ocean Development Group

Rosanna Amico

Transformation Director

Booking.com

Bob Kurpershoek

Director Innovations & Strategic Initiatives

NBCUniversal Media, LLC

Sophie Maddison

Change Management Director

Philips

Tanya Miller

Director of Zalando Workplace

Zalando SE

Ugur Basak

Director Of Engineering

TomTom

Maria Zelkovskaya

Transformation Director, Insights & Analytics, Cycles & Procurement, HQ Global

Danone

Anna Schindler

Director of the Office for Urban Development

City of Zurich

Hadassah Drukarch

Director of Policy and Delivery

Responsible AI Institute

Lucie de Nooij

Director Data, AI and Insights

Booking.com

Erik Beverlo

Director Process Automation & Digitalisation

ABN AMRO Bank

Deepti Umesh

Global Technology Manager: Commercial Data Foundations

The HEINEKEN Company

Andrii Degeler

Head of Media

TNW/Financial Times

Daniel Steel

Head of Cloud Engineering

QBE Insurance

Sinan Buyukkardes

Head of Security Architecture & Engineering

DAZN

Helal Nouri

Head of Integration Services

Rabobank

Ahmed Elnahas

Head of Engineering Enablement and Data & AI Services

NN

Dr Bakri Badawi

Head of Automation

WSP

Nir Chervoni

Head of Data Security

Booking.com

Benjamin Blaauw

Head of Development Automation

ABN AMRO Bank

Sebastian Grabowski

Head of IoT

Orange

Ceren Arigil

Head of Product – Order Promise and Allocation

IKEA

Gennaro Buccini

Head of Domain Architecture & Generative AI

Worldline

Ciprian Cordun

Head of Commercial Technology & Digital

Danone

Khagesh Batra

Head of Data Science

The Adecco Group

Mansur Arslan

Head of Digital Applications

Istanbul International Airport

Marco Pfrang

Head of Product, AI and Analytics

Adevinta

Meindert Kamphuis

Head of the AI Safety & Security Lab

State Inspectorate of Digital Infrastructure

Pedro Goncalves

Senior Advisor for EU & International Digital Policy

Altice Portugal

Anna Hakkers

Leader in Cybersecurity | Data Security

Philips

Nikolaos Theodoridis

Senior Associate, Unified Communications (UC) Specialist

Pfizer

Rob Hockey

Senior Information Security Consultant

Zurich Insurance

David Souto

Enterprise Security Architect

Airbus

Andy Fiddler

Distinguished Engineer & Principal Network Architect

BT Group

Bianca Griffioen

Transformation Lead

Ministry of Justice

Julia Kuzmicheva

Analytics Lead, Digital Centre of Excellence

Mondelēz International

Kemal Tugrul Yesilbek  

Technical Lead, Full-Stack Data Science

ABN AMRO

Michael Vogel

Performance, Automation & Analytics Lead

Bayer

Kitti Noemi Nemeth

Platform and Analytics Lead

PostNL

Vivek Kariyavula

Supply Chain IT Lead Platform Architect

Philips

Cüneyt Yildiz 

Enterprise Digitalization Management

SOCAR Türkiye

Mahmoud Yassin

Senior Data Manager

Booking.com

Alessandro Malucelli

Industrial Engineering Senior Manager

Whirlpool

Oleg Polovynko

Adviser to the Mayor of Kyiv City on Digitalization

Kyiv City Council

Adnan Hodzic

Tech Lead

ING

Marcel Verkaik

Product Owner Unified Communications

ABN AMRO Bank

Shubhabrata Roy

Senior Machine Learning Expert

Brenntag

Alejandro de la Mata

Manufacturing Process Data Acquisition and Processing eXpert

AIRBUS

Stephen Zhao

Thermal Management Director EMEA

BP

Sundas Jabeen

Web Engineer

Volvo Cars

Stijn Grove

Founder & Managing Director

Dutch Data Center Association

Robert Garskamp

Founder

IDNext

Jeannette Gorzala

Deputy Chairperson, AI Advisory Board,

Austrian Government Digital Austria

Ted Oliekan

Chief Data Officer Pandemic and Disaster Preparedness Center

Erasmus MC

Walid Hizaoui

Group Chief Strategy Officer

Gargash Group

Marine Boulot

CCO Improbable & Founder of The Metaverse Society

The Metaverse Society

Anand Rao

Professor of Communication and Chair of the Department of Communication and Digital Studies

University of Mary Washington

Sheetal Ramdas

Generative AI Project Leader

Utrecht University

Arjo van Oosten

Senior Vice President, Digital Transformation

Mendix

Ozgur Duzgunoglu

Design and Engineering Director

Telehouse Europe

Nassia Skoulikariti

IoT Content Director

Mobile Ecosystem Forum

Anna Boyle

Senior Consultant

STL Partners

Aleksandra Przegalinska

Vice-Rector

Kozminski University

Eva Groen

Agile Transformation & Professional Coach

Greentime

Benedict William Gromann

Public Policy Manager

European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO)

Stephanie Melodia

Top 20 Female Founder and Host

Strategy & Tragedy Podcast

Dr Alex Vakaloudis

Lecturer in Computer Science

Munster Technological University Ireland

Suzanne Galletly

Digital Skills Director

EXIN

Matt Bamforth

Senior Consultant

STL Partners

Stef Haartman

Program Manager Digital Trust Services

Digital ID Consortium

Benjamin Benhan

Global Privacy Attorney

eBay

Anand Gandhi

SVP Enterprise IoT Solutions

Eseye