Veronica
Gaffey
Veronica Gaffey
Director-General
Brussels | Belgium
Biography
The European Commission nominated Veronica Gaffey Director-General for Digital Services (DG DIGIT) from 1st March 2022. This is the Commission department, which delivers high-performing digital services to support the Commission's internal administration. It also provides services to other EU institutions and agencies, and to public authorities in the Member States to enhance their interoperability. From 2019 to 2022 Veronica was Chair of the independent Regulatory Scrutiny Board. This Board, which is independent of the Commission services and has no policy-making responsibilities, examines the evidence base of all impact assessments for new policy proposals and most evaluations. Veronica was Director of the Paymaster's Office of the Commission from 2016 to 2019 and before that was Director of Resources in the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy in July 2015. Veronica Gaffey worked in the area of evaluation for 23 years of her career. She was Head of Evaluation in the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy of the European Commission from 2007 to 2015. She joined the Evaluation Unit in 2000 from the ESF Evaluation Unit based in the Ministry for Enterprise and Employment in Dublin, Ireland. There she managed the unit from its inception in 1992. Before that, she worked in the Ministry for Labour from 1986. Her academic background is the study of English literature.
Organisation
European Commission - Directorate General for Digital Services
EU institution
Speaker session
Digital-ready policymaking and semantics - part 1
STUDIO 213+215
The workshop will provide you insights on approaches taken to support digital-ready policymaking and the importance of semantics in these approaches. The first part of the workshop will shed the light on national and international initiatives to implement digital-ready considerations at various stages of the policymaking cycle. The second part of the workshop will follow-up on last year's focus on regulatory reporting, as well as presenting innovative approaches for the reduction of administrative burden.
The workshop is targeted to policymakers, academia, and providers of policy-making support systems interested in identifying the role that semantics and AI technologies can play in these processes.
Moderators:
- Zsofia Sziranyi, Team leader - Digital-ready policymaking, European Commission
- Cecile Guasch, Business architect enthusiast - European Commission, Interoperability and Digital Government unit
- Alessio Nardin, Legal semantics enthusiast - European Commission, Interoperability and Digital Government unit
Digital-ready policymaking and semantics - part 2
STUDIO 213+215
The workshop will provide you insights on approaches taken to support digital-ready policymaking and the importance of semantics in these approaches. The first part of the workshop will shed the light on national and international initiatives to implement digital-ready considerations at various stages of the policymaking cycle. The second part of the workshop will follow-up on last year's focus on regulatory reporting, as well as presenting innovative approaches for the reduction of administrative burden.
The workshop is targeted to policymakers, academia, and providers of policy-making support systems interested in identifying the role that semantics and AI technologies can play in these processes.
Moderators:
- Zsofia Sziranyi, Team leader - Digital-ready policymaking, European Commission
- Cecile Guasch, Business architect enthusiast - European Commission, Interoperability and Digital Government unit
- Alessio Nardin, Legal semantics enthusiast - European Commission, Interoperability and Digital Government unit
Albérica García Rodríguez
Coordinator of Data Access and Statistical Quality
Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Spain
Biography
Albérica García is the Coordinator of Data Access and Statistical Quality at the Canarian Institute of Statistics (ISTAC), the central authority within the regional statistical system and the official research hub for the Government of the Canary Islands.
With a degree in Computer Science Engineering and over 20 years of experience in both private and public sectors, Albérica has participated in numerous technology projects. She specializes in web technologies, open data, blockchain, business intelligence, and big data.
She currently collaborates on the European project Statistical Interoperability Node from ISTAC and along INE, IECA and DG Reform. This project aims to establish organizational, semantic and technical foundations for creating a space that facilitates statistical data exchange among Spanish regions and the central administration to simplify this administrative exchange process.
Speaker session
Digital-ready policymaking and semantics - part 1
STUDIO 213+215
The workshop will provide you insights on approaches taken to support digital-ready policymaking and the importance of semantics in these approaches. The first part of the workshop will shed the light on national and international initiatives to implement digital-ready considerations at various stages of the policymaking cycle. The second part of the workshop will follow-up on last year's focus on regulatory reporting, as well as presenting innovative approaches for the reduction of administrative burden.
The workshop is targeted to policymakers, academia, and providers of policy-making support systems interested in identifying the role that semantics and AI technologies can play in these processes.
Moderators:
- Zsofia Sziranyi, Team leader - Digital-ready policymaking, European Commission
- Cecile Guasch, Business architect enthusiast - European Commission, Interoperability and Digital Government unit
- Alessio Nardin, Legal semantics enthusiast - European Commission, Interoperability and Digital Government unit
Digital-ready policymaking and semantics - part 2
STUDIO 213+215
The workshop will provide you insights on approaches taken to support digital-ready policymaking and the importance of semantics in these approaches. The first part of the workshop will shed the light on national and international initiatives to implement digital-ready considerations at various stages of the policymaking cycle. The second part of the workshop will follow-up on last year's focus on regulatory reporting, as well as presenting innovative approaches for the reduction of administrative burden.
The workshop is targeted to policymakers, academia, and providers of policy-making support systems interested in identifying the role that semantics and AI technologies can play in these processes.
Moderators:
- Zsofia Sziranyi, Team leader - Digital-ready policymaking, European Commission
- Cecile Guasch, Business architect enthusiast - European Commission, Interoperability and Digital Government unit
- Alessio Nardin, Legal semantics enthusiast - European Commission, Interoperability and Digital Government unit
Dimitrios Gkatzoflias
Policy Officer
Brussels | Belgium
Biography
Dimitrios Gkatzoflias has more than 15 years of mobility and transport experience both in the public and private sector. After 8 years working in Greece at a University laboratory and a spin-off company, he joined the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Italy for 2 years as a Technical Project Officer. In 2015, he moved to Germany to work for the private sector, before re-joining the European Commission in 2022 as a Policy Officer at the Intelligent and Sustainable Transport Unit of the Directorate-General Mobility and Transport in Brussels.
Organisation
DG MOVE - European Commission
EU institution
Speaker session
Digital-ready policymaking and semantics - part 1
STUDIO 213+215
The workshop will provide you insights on approaches taken to support digital-ready policymaking and the importance of semantics in these approaches. The first part of the workshop will shed the light on national and international initiatives to implement digital-ready considerations at various stages of the policymaking cycle. The second part of the workshop will follow-up on last year's focus on regulatory reporting, as well as presenting innovative approaches for the reduction of administrative burden.
The workshop is targeted to policymakers, academia, and providers of policy-making support systems interested in identifying the role that semantics and AI technologies can play in these processes.
Moderators:
- Zsofia Sziranyi, Team leader - Digital-ready policymaking, European Commission
- Cecile Guasch, Business architect enthusiast - European Commission, Interoperability and Digital Government unit
- Alessio Nardin, Legal semantics enthusiast - European Commission, Interoperability and Digital Government unit
Digital-ready policymaking and semantics - part 2
STUDIO 213+215
The workshop will provide you insights on approaches taken to support digital-ready policymaking and the importance of semantics in these approaches. The first part of the workshop will shed the light on national and international initiatives to implement digital-ready considerations at various stages of the policymaking cycle. The second part of the workshop will follow-up on last year's focus on regulatory reporting, as well as presenting innovative approaches for the reduction of administrative burden.
The workshop is targeted to policymakers, academia, and providers of policy-making support systems interested in identifying the role that semantics and AI technologies can play in these processes.
Moderators:
- Zsofia Sziranyi, Team leader - Digital-ready policymaking, European Commission
- Cecile Guasch, Business architect enthusiast - European Commission, Interoperability and Digital Government unit
- Alessio Nardin, Legal semantics enthusiast - European Commission, Interoperability and Digital Government unit