Reinhard
Laroy
Frank
Leyman
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.
Parallel Track 2 (Technical): From Cloud to Edge: Implementing AI, Privacy, and the Data Act
THE ARC
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This session examines the shift from cloud to edge computing, driven by the rise of AI and concerns about sustainability and privacy. As cloud computing peaks, edge computing emerges, offering data processing and storage closer to data sources and consumers. Granting smart devices the capability to process data at the source independently greatly advances data sovereignty and privacy, where the user has full and individual control over personal data. We will explore how edge computing can democratise data, empowering users and communities in line with the AI and Data Act, and discuss its implications across various domains.
Moderation: Raf Buyle, Digitaal Vlaanderen & Athumi
Prof. Steven Latré, is VP R&D Machine Learning and AI and is leading the artificial intelligence and software research at imec, the R&D hub for nano-electronics and digital technologies. He leads an interdisciplinary team which focuses on combining sensor and chip technology with AI to provide end-to-end solutions in sectors such as health, automotive, greentech and smart industries. He also leads imec's activities that translate imec technology to large digital transformation projects with Flemish industry. Finally he's responsible for imec's embedded university groups in the field of AI and social science. Next to this, he is also a part-time professor at the University of Antwerp.
Parallel Track 2 (Technical): From Cloud to Edge: Implementing AI, Privacy, and the Data Act
THE ARC
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This session examines the shift from cloud to edge computing, driven by the rise of AI and concerns about sustainability and privacy. As cloud computing peaks, edge computing emerges, offering data processing and storage closer to data sources and consumers. Granting smart devices the capability to process data at the source independently greatly advances data sovereignty and privacy, where the user has full and individual control over personal data. We will explore how edge computing can democratise data, empowering users and communities in line with the AI and Data Act, and discuss its implications across various domains.
Moderation: Raf Buyle, Digitaal Vlaanderen & Athumi
Frank Leyman holds a Master degree in Marketing and in Applied Economics from the University of Mons in Belgium. He spent half of his career in private sector (IBM Belgium, the Belgian Telecom operator Belgacom and a smart card company Proton World) before joining public sector. Since mid 2005 he works for the Digital Transformation Office within the Federal Public Service Policy & Support (BOSA) where he heads International Relations as well as the relations with European Commission, OECD and the World Bank. He is the Chair of the OECD e-Leaders and is the Belgian representative at the Government CIO group of the European Commission. He is a guest lecturer at the KULeuven university (Institute of the Public Sector).
Parallel Track 2 (Technical): From Cloud to Edge: Implementing AI, Privacy, and the Data Act
THE ARC
Are you sure?
Do you want to register for this session?
This session examines the shift from cloud to edge computing, driven by the rise of AI and concerns about sustainability and privacy. As cloud computing peaks, edge computing emerges, offering data processing and storage closer to data sources and consumers. Granting smart devices the capability to process data at the source independently greatly advances data sovereignty and privacy, where the user has full and individual control over personal data. We will explore how edge computing can democratise data, empowering users and communities in line with the AI and Data Act, and discuss its implications across various domains.
Moderation: Raf Buyle, Digitaal Vlaanderen & Athumi