Plenary

Vasile Asandei
Director General, North-East Regional Development Agency

Maricel Popa
President of Iasi County Council

Sorin Brașoveanu
President of Bacau County Council, President of the Regional Development Board North-East Region

Nicolae Hurduc
Minister for Research and Innovation, Romania

Mihai Bulai
Vice-Dean, Faculty of Geology and Geography, “Al. I. Cuza” University, Iasi

Jennifer Baker
Master of Ceremony

Signe Ratso
Deputy Director general, European Commission, Directorate General for Research, Technology and Innovation

Kevin Morgan
Professor, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK

Tal Catran
Founder TC Holdings, Israel

Kieran McCarthy
Member of the European Committee of the Regions, Member of SEDEC and COTER Commissions

Adrian Solomon

Magda de Carli

Cristian Otgon

Alina Popa

Ana-Roxana Pintilescu

Gerhard Schadler

Gabriela Macoveiu

Maja Fredotović
Parallel sessions

Zoya Damianova

Angel Prieto
Director, Business Innovation Centre of Albacette, Spain

Joao Albuquerque Silva

Marcela Mihai
Scientific Secretary, “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of Romanian Academy, Iasi, Romania

Biba Visnjicki
Fraunhofer Project Centre, University of Twente, Netherlands

Wolfgang Wittke
Advisor to the Head of Secreteriat, EUREKA

Niki Naska
Communication manager, EUREKA

Katja Reppel
Deputy Head of Smart Sustainable Growth Unit, DG Regio

Pirita Lindholm
Director, European Regions for Research and Innovation Network (ERRIN)

Frederic Pinna
Director at DEV’UP Centre-Val de Loire, France

Andrea di Anselmo
Vice-President, Meta Group, Italy

Marcin Warzocha
CEO Coolomat Sp. Z.o.o., Poland

Ciaran Dearle
Senior Expert, Directorate General for Research, Technology and Innovation, European Commission

Esteban Pelayo
Director, European Association of Regional Development Agencies (EURADA)

Joao Santos
Deputy Head of Unit for Vocational training, Apprenticeships and Adult learning – European Commission

Gianluca Coppola
Founder & President of European Digital Learning Network – D Learn

Brikena Xhomaqi
Director of Lifelong Learning Platform

Romeo Vasilache
Entrepreneurship & IPR Programs Director, Romanian-American Foundation

Willem Foorthuis
School of Financial and Economic Management, “Hanze” University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands

Michel Rod
Associate Dean, Research and International & Professor, “Sprott” School of Business, Canada

John Edwards
Policy Officer, Joint Research Centre, European Commission

Bogdan Chelariu
Coordinator of Brussels Representation Office, North-East RDA
Parallel Workshops and Hosted by Sessions

Daniel Dumitrescu

Mark Crowell

Harry Konstantopoulos

Adriana Zait

Tal Catran
Founder TC Holdings, Israel

Ionuț Țața
Founder @Iceberg / Innovation and Technology Cluster – Digital Innovation Hub, Romania

Pieter de Jong
EU Representative, WETSUS, Netherlands

Corina Forascu
Conf. univ. dr. Faculty of Information Technologies, “Al. I. Cuza” University

Katalin Alfoldi
Policy officer
COST Association

Primož Pristovšek
Head of Science Operations
Cost Association

Wolfgang Wittke
Advisor to the Head of Secreteriat, EUREKA

Carlos Garcia Delgado
Head of Sector from CTA Andalucia

Biba Visnjicki
Director Business Development at Fraunhofer Project Center at the University of Twente

Ibrahim Ethem Șahin
Head of Planning, Programming and Coordination Department at TC Middle Black Sea Development Agency

Carolina Arriagada
Expert FDI at Cities & Collaboration

Frederic Pinna
Director at DEV’UP Centre-Val de Loire, France

Myriam Martin
Manager of projects area at TICBioMed, Murcia eHealth cluster

Anett Ruszanov
Projects and Administration Manger ERRIN

Francois Brizard
Policy and Legal Officer, European Commission, DG RTD

Twan Spierts
Reporter, mojo (mobile journalism) trainer and media advisor from The Netherlands

Alin Andries
