Viivi
Lähteenoja
Viivi Lähteenoja
Senior advisor
Helsinki | Finland
Biography
Viivi is a data strategy, policy, and ethics professional, researcher and advocate. She works towards human-centric and ethically sustainable personal data to benefit people and societies in and with companies, nonprofits, academic institutions, and the public sector. She has appeared in events alongside pioneers like Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Lawrence Lessig, spoken at events hosted by, e.g., the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, and the European Commission, and provided expert testimony for the European Parliament on digital regulation.
Speaker session
Parallel Track 6 (Strategic and Technical): Innovation in public services
THE ARC
Pillar of the IEA , supporting the development of next generation digital public services and innovative solutions for cross-border interoperability
Moderator:
- Paula Rodriguez Müller, Scientific project officer, JRC, European Commission
- Stefanos Kotoglou, Interoperability and Digital Government, DG DIGIT, European Commission
Andre Lapa
Head of Digital Service Delivery & Content
Lisbon | Portugal
Biography
Speaker session
Parallel Track 6 (Strategic and Technical): Innovation in public services
THE ARC
Pillar of the IEA , supporting the development of next generation digital public services and innovative solutions for cross-border interoperability
Moderator:
- Paula Rodriguez Müller, Scientific project officer, JRC, European Commission
- Stefanos Kotoglou, Interoperability and Digital Government, DG DIGIT, European Commission
Reinhard Laroy
Programme manager Digital Strategy
Ghent | Belgium
Biography
At the moment, Reinhard is leading the digital policy team at Digital Flanders. He is presiding the digital strategy working group of the steering body ICT of the Flemish government and coordinating a digital strategy for Flanders. He is also the Flemish coordinator of the EU policy programme digital decade.
During 3 years Reinhard was Head of the Digital Area of Excellence on Digital Transformation within Colruyt Group. At corporate level, he supports the digital strategy and the tactical roadmaps of the 25 business units in Colruyt Group in order to increase their digital maturity (awareness, skills, agile organization, ecosystem, customer centricity, data driven decision making) and improve their digital services to better serve customer needs.
Reinhard Laroy was 5 years policy advisor to the minister of digital agenda, telecom and post and now prime minister Alexander De Croo. He was responsible for coordinating the telecom and digital agenda policy of the federal government.
During 4 years he was lecturer of the course 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on ICT and Media' of the postgraduate studies 'Advanced Master in Intellectual Property Rights and ICT Law' at the Faculty of Law of KU Leuven and he gives guest lectures from time to time.
Speaker session
Parallel Track 6 (Strategic and Technical): Innovation in public services
THE ARC
Pillar of the IEA , supporting the development of next generation digital public services and innovative solutions for cross-border interoperability
Moderator:
- Paula Rodriguez Müller, Scientific project officer, JRC, European Commission
- Stefanos Kotoglou, Interoperability and Digital Government, DG DIGIT, European Commission