Alexander
Kotsev
Alexander Kotsev
Team leader
Ispra | Italy
Biography
Passionate about data-driven innovation, Alex is a researcher with a track record of projects and research interests spanning across multiple domains, such as IoT, citizen science, data interoperability, spatio-temporal data and GIScience. Alex joined the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in 2012. He leads a multidisciplinary team, which investigates the organisational and technological enablers for data sharing across multiple domains and levels of governance. His practical knowledge encompasses the use of open source and proprietary data processing and analysis tools, including digital mapping, spatial databases, APIs. He has a firm understanding and contributes to the development and uptake of data sharing standards. Holding a PhD in GISCience and having completed a post-doctoral fellowship as Fulbright senior scholar, Alex continues to apply his expertise to advance the field.
Organisation
EC JRC
Academia
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
Michal Kuban
Policy Officer
Luxembourg | Luxembourg
Biography
Michal Kubáň is currently working as a Seconded National Expert in the Data Unit of DG CONNECT at the European Commission.
His main responsibility is to assist Member States with the implementation of the Open Data Directive and the Implementing Regulation on High-Value datasets. He also works on the coordination of Common European Data Spaces and implementation of the Data Governance Act. Michal has 11 years of experience working on national and EU data policies. Before joining the Commission he worked as an National Open Data Coordinator at the Ministry of Interior of the Czech Republic. He was also the main lead of the Czech Open Data Task Force Team. Before working in the civil service, Michal worked in the NGO sector as an Open data advocate.
Organisation
European Commission - DG CNECT
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
Peter Kustor
Director
Vienna | Austria
Biography
Peter Kustor is Head of Department in the Directorate General for Digitalisation and E-Government of the Austrian Federal Chancellery. His responsibility covers Legal Affairs and the Source PIN Registry Authority, eGovernment Strategy as well as EU and International Affairs.
He has been active in the fields of ICT, Digitalisation and E-Government since 20 years and is acting as Austrian representative for issues of Digital and E-Government, legal questions of digitalisation and E-Government, trust services and eID as well as legal informatics in various EU-fora and international institutions.
He is lecturer at the Austrian Academy for Public Administration, the postgraduate-program on ICT- and media law in Vienna, the Law Faculties of the University of Vienna and the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. He has been speaker at numerous national and international Conferences and events and author of a number of publications mainly dealing with issues of public international and european law, legal informatics and E-Government.
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