Matthias
Palmér
Matthias Palmér
CTO and Co-founder
Stockholm | Sweden
Biography
Matthias Palmér is the cofounder and CTO of MetaSolutions, a company specialising in linked data technologies and most prominently the open source platform EntryScape. Matthias is also a consultant for the Swedish agency for digital government. For the last ten years Matthias has been the maintainer DCAT-AP-SE, i.e. the Swedish profile of DCAT-AP. He has also supported other national adaptions as well as been involved in the community and development of DCAT-AP itself.
Matthias has a PhD in media technology with focus on Linked Data, Semantic Web, and Web Architecture. He specialised in combining Linked Data with RESTful Ajax Web Applications. Matthias is also a developer and is maintaining a range of libraries in JavaScript for working with RDF, both user interfaces like RDForms and harvesting solutions for data catalogues from various source, e.g. harvesting INSPIRE into GeoDCAT-AP.
Matthias is responsible for the harvesting infrastructure for data catalogues in Sweden and is currently participating in the development of LDES as a more capable and stable solution for this. Matthias is also currently involved in initiatives around how to foster interoperability in a more structured manner by reusing parts of information models in the form of vocabularies, terminologies and application profiles.
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
Monica Palmirani
Full professor
Bologna | Italy
Biography
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
Diego Piacentini
Former Extraordinary Commissioner for the Digital Transformation of the Italian Government, former Amazon and Apple senior executive
Biography
Diego Piacentini was the Extraordinary Commissioner for the Digital Transformation of the Italian Government, reporting directly to the Prime Minister (2016-2018). In that role, he was also a member of the Science Technology and Innovation Expert Advisor group at the OECD (2017-2018) and the eGovernment Steering Board of the European Commission's DG Connect (2016-2018). He also led for the Italian Government the Innovation7@G7 (Turin, September 2017), where he pioneered the working group on the use of Artificial Intelligence in government.
The core of his business career was with Amazon and Apple, the majority of which was at Amazon (2000-2016) as Senior Vice President of the International Consumer Business and member of the senior executive team reporting to Jeff Bezos. Prior to that, Diego joined Apple Computer Italy (1987), and was General Manager and Vice President of Apple EMEA from 1997-2000.
Diego is currently a member of the Boards of Directors of DoorDash, The Economist Group, Voi Technology and Apolitical, a learning and networking platform for government. He is an Advisor for KKR and Exor Ventures and is an informal advisor/mentor to many startups across Europe, US, India and other parts of the world. He is the Founder of View Different, an investment vehicle that supports entrepreneurs looking to scale their business and/or expand beyond their domestic markets.
His NGO affiliations include: mentor for Endeavor Global and board member of Endeavor Italy, which he co-founded in 2016; the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent global health research center at the University of Washington; and the Maasai Association, supporting education and health initiatives in Kenya.
Diego graduated with a Bachelors of Science degree in Economics from Milan-based University Bocconi in 1985.
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