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Framework & the private sector: What’s next?

An off-the-record discussion with the Science|Business Network

26 June 2017, Art Thema Gallery, Brussels

Agenda

17:00 Registration and welcome coffee

17:30 Welcome
By Maryline Fiaschi, Managing Director, Science|Business

17:40 Horizon 2020 and FP9: A view from the Parliament: Lieve Wierinck, Member of the
European Parliament (BE-ALDE), Shadow Rapporteur on Horizon 2020 Assessment

17:45 Framework Programme 9: 4 recommendations for business participation

• Mathias Rauch, Head, European Research Area Department; Director, EU Office

Brussels, Fraunhofer
• Philippe Barrois, Head, Novartis Corporate Affairs, Novartis International
• Fabio Fava, Professor, Industrial & Environmental Biotechnology; Rector’s Delegate,
Industrial Research, Territorial Cooperation and Innovation, University of Bologna
• Brendan Bouffler, Global Manager, AWS Research Cloud Program, Amazon

Framework Programme 9 – Reflections and Priorities

• Patrick Child, Deputy Director-General, DG Research and Innovation, European

Commission
• Keith Sequeira, Member of Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas, DG Research
and Innovation, European Commission
• Lieve Wierinck, Member, European Parliament

Moderators: Maryline Fiaschi, Managing Director, Science|Business

Richard L. Hudson, Editor-in-Chief, Science|Business

19:00 Molecular reception

 Featured Guests

Lieve Wierinck
Member, European Parliament

Before joining the European Parliament in May 2016 as a full member of

the Industry, Technology, Research and Energy Committee (ITRE) and a
substitute Member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary affairs
(ECON), Lieve Wierinck was leader of the party fraction in Zaventem.
From December 2011 until June 2014, she was a member of the Belgian
Federal Parliament, in the Committee for Public Health, Environment and Social Renewal,
and of the Advisory Committee on Societal Emancipation. Wierinck holds a pharmaceutical
degree from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel as well as a post-graduate degree of Pharmaceutical
management from the University of Hasselt.

Philippe Barrois Brendan Bouffler

Head, Novartis Corporate Affairs, Novartis Global Manager, AWS Research Cloud Program,
International Amazon

Philippe Barrois has been the head of Novartis
Corporate Affairs since April 2017. Barrois
started his career at Novartis in 1986, and has
moved through commercial roles of increasing
importance in many countries. In 2006 he was appointed head of
Emerging Growth Markets Region, Novartis Oncology, with direct
responsibility for Turkey, Russia and China, for the supervision of
the Asia Pacific/South Africa area and the two clusters Middle East
and North Africa. Since then, he has held a number of leadership
roles, including in 2011, CPO head and country president Italy, and
in 2013 CPO head and country president France. Barrois holds a
doctorate in veterinary medicine and and MBA from HEC Paris,
France.
Brendan Bouffler has 25 years of experience in the
global tech industry, creating very large systems
in high performance environments. He has been
responsible for designing and building hundreds
of High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems for commercial
enterprises as well as research and defence sectors all around the
world and has quite a number of his efforts listed in the TOP500.
Bouffler previously lead the HPC Organisation in Asia for a hardware
maker but joined Amazon in 2014 to accelerate the adoption of cloud
computing in the scientific community globally. He is also the author of
the Researcher’s Handbook – the missing manual for research in AWS.

Patrick Child Fabio Fava

Deputy Director-General, DG Research and
Innovation, European Commission.
Before taking up his role in the Directorate
General for Research and Innovation,
Patrick Child was managing director of the
European External Service with responsibility
for administration and finance, covering human resources
policy, security and the budget. Prior to this, he was director
in the External Relations Directorate General in the European
Commission responsible for the management of the network of
Commission delegations. With a background in the UK Finance
Ministry, Child joined the European Commission in 1994, where he
started in the Economic and Monetary affairs Directorate General
before becoming Commission press spokesman for economic and
monetary union from 1995-2004.
Professor, Industrial & Environmental
Biotechnology; Rector’s Delegate, Industrial
Research, Territorial Cooperation and Innovation
University of Bologna
Alongside his academic duties at the University
of Bologna, Fabio Fava is the deputy chair of
the environmental biotechnology section of European Federation
of Biotechnology (EFB) and member of the Expert Group on
biobased products, formed by the European Commission. He is the
representative of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and
Research in the Working Party on biotechnology, nanotechnology
and converging technologies at OECD, the European strategy for the
Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR), and the Western Mediterranean
Initiative (WEST MED). He is also the Italian representative at the
European Commission for several projects, such as the public private
partnership Biobased Industry and the BLUEMED initiative.

Mathias Rauch Keith Sequeira

Head, European Research Area Department;
Director, EU Office Brussels, Fraunhofer
Mathias Rauch is the Head of Department
“European Research Area” of Fraunhofer and
director of its EU Office in Brussels. Prior to
this he spent two years as a seconded national
expert with the European Commission’s Directorate General for
Research and Innovation. From 2006 to 2012 he was deputy
director of the Fraunhofer Center for International Management
and Knowledge Economy IMW in Leipzig, Germany. He is a
member of the UN Economic Commission for Europe’s Expert
Group on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies. Rauch studied
Economics, Political Science and Law in Leipzig, and holds a MA
degree in International Studies from the University of Newcastle
upon Tyne.
Member of Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos
Moedas, DG Research and Innovation, European
Commission
Keith Sequeira is a member of cabinet for
European Commissioner for Research, Science
and Innovation Carlos Moedas. Sequeira has extensive experience in
the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation as a deputy head
of unit for analysis and monitoring of national research policies, and
as a policy officer preparing the Commission proposals for Horizon
2020 and the 7th Framework Programme. He has also worked in the
Directorate General for Enterprise on the preparation of the Innovation
Union initiative, the European Innovation Scoreboard, and on public
procurement of innovation. Sequeira studied natural sciences at the
University of Cambridge, and holds a D. Phil from the University of
Sussex (Science Policy Research Unit).
 List of participants
• Mathias Aguirre Havgar, Brussels Representative, Innovation Norway
• Daniela Amadio, Acting Head, EU Research Funding Office, King’s College London
• Jaana Backman, Head, Research Services, University of Eastern Finland
• Philippe Barrois, Head, Novartis Corporate Affairs, Novartis International
• Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Vice Rector, European and International Research, University of Pisa
• Brendan Bouffler, Global Manager, AWS Research Cloud Program, Amazon
• Massimo Busuoli, Head of Brussels Office, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
• Silvana Carminati, Pre-Award, European and International Projects, Research Service, Politecnico di Milano
• Maria Luisa Carosso, EU Grants Advisor, University of Twente
• Patrick Child, Deputy Director-General, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
• Vincent Clay, Senior Manager, EU Government Affairs, Pfizer
• Philippe Codognet, Professor, Chemistry; Advisor to the Vice-President for Europe and International Relations, Pierre and Marie
Curie University (UPMC)
• Pascal Dayez-Burgeon, Head of Brussels Office, CNRS
• Lison Demichelis, European Affairs Officer, CNRS
• Antonio Di Giulio, Head of Unit, Open Innovation and Open Science, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission
• Peter Droell, Director, Industrial Technologies, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
• Consola Evans, Head, Membership Development, The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)
• Raphaël Fabian, EU Affairs Officer, Rolls-Royce
• Fabio Fava, Professor, Industrial & Environmental Biotechnology; Rector’s Delegate, Industrial Research, Territorial Cooperation
and Innovation, University of Bologna
• Frederick Fenter, Executive Director, Frontiers- Open Science Platform
• Maryline Fiaschi, Managing Director, Science|Business
• Claude Frieh, Public Policy Coordinator, Nickel Institute
• Amleto Gabellone, Programme Manager, Research Development, Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation, NATO
• Pablo Garcia Tello, Section Leader, Development of EU Projects & Initiatives, CERN
• Konstantinos Glinos, Head of Unit, International cooperation, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
• Marianne Grønsleth, Special Adviser, Research Council of Norway, Brussels Office
• Elke Grooten, Senior Director Advocacy, Novartis Europe
• Saara Harjula, Senior Advisor, EU Affairs, Helsinki EU Office
• Edit Herczog, Managing Director, Vision & Values SPRL; Member, RDA Europe Council
• Matti Hiltunen, Counsellor, Research & Innovation, Tekes – The Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation
• Marieke Hofsté-Kuipers, Project Manager, Strategic Business Development team, University of Twente
• Richard L. Hudson, Editor-in-chief, Science|Business
• Fotis Karayannis, Programme Manager, The Research Data Alliance Europe (RDA)
• Nikolaos Kastrinos, Policy Officer; Team Leader, Foresight Research & Innovation policy, European Commission
• Silke Köster-Riemann, Head, EU office, TU Berlin
• Bea Krenn, Senior Advisor, Research Funding, University of Amsterdam
• Gunnar Landgren, Advisor to the President, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Jean Lang, Associate Vice President R&D, Sanofi Pasteur
• Mika Lautanala, Executive Director, Tekes – The Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation
• Jon Legarda, Principal Researcher; Head, DeustoTech, University of Deusto
• Kamila Markram, CEO, Frontiers- Open Science Platform
• Jukka Mönkkönen, Rector, University of Eastern Finland
• James Moran, Principal Adviser, Middle East and North Africa, European Union External Action Service
• Niki Naska, Manager, Communications and Network Support, EUREKA Secretariat
• Joanna Newman, Secretary General, The Association of Commonwealth Universities
• Markus Nordberg, Head, Resources Development, CERN
• Sonia Ortega, Head, Europe Office, US National Science Foundation
• Vinny Pillay, Minister Counsellor, South Africa - Department of Science & Technology
• Mervi Pitkänen, Head, External Funding, Innovation & Technology, Rolls-Royce Marine
• Mathias Rauch, Head, European Research Area Department; Director, EU Office Brussels, Fraunhofer
• Chantelle Rijs, Corporate Strategy and Business Development Manager, Frontiers- Open Science Platform
• Andrew Roadnight, International Research Development Officer, University of Warwick
• Steve Rogers, Deputy Head of Unit, SMEs, Financial instruments and State Aid, European Commission
• Tomasz Rusek, Head of Policy, The Guild
• Heike Scheuerpflug-Hassane, Head, Research Support Department, University of Luxembourg
• Julia Schmalenberg, Senior Policy Advisor, Fraunhofer
• Keith Sequeira, Member of Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
• Eero Silvennoinen, Head, EU Affairs, Tekes – The Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation
• Manimaaran Sivasegaram, Head of Brussels Office, Innovate UK
• Laure Sonnier, EU Liaison Officer, Frontiers- Open Science Platform
• Bart Veys, Policy Officer, COST Association
• Sarika Vij, Senior Policy Officer, The Guild
• Lieve Wierinck, Member, European Parliament
• Michael Willmott, First Secretary, Science and Technology; Trade, Investment and S&T Section, Mission of Canada to the EU
• John Wood, Chair, ATTRACT Committee
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Industry

Amazon Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD)

Amgen Microsoft
Dow Europe Novartis
Frontiers Pfizer
GE Sanofi
Huawei Toyota

Academia

Aalto University Politecnico di Milano

ACU - Association of Commonwealth Universities
Aix-Marseille University
Chalmers University of Technology
ESADE Business & Law School
ETH-Zurich
Karolinska Institutet
King’s College London
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
KU Leuven
Medical University of Warsaw
NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Trinity College Dublin
TU Berlin
University College London
University of Amsterdam
University of Birmingham
University of Bologna
University of Eastern Finland
University of Luxembourg
University of Pisa
University of Twente
University of Warwick

Public organisations
Barcelona Supercomputing Center Fraunhofer
CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Innovate UK
CERN Innovation Norway
The COST Association Research Data Alliance Europe
Eureka Republic of South Africa - Department for Science and Technology
Tekes – The Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation

Consortia and EU projects Associate Members

ACM Europe Policy Committee Hospital Saint Joan de Deu

ATTRACT ICHOM – International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurements
DIRS – Deusto International Research School
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