Constantijn VAN ORANJE

He is Cabinet member and senior advisor of European Vice-President Neelie Kroes, responsible for the European Digital Agenda. Until recently Constantijn was Head of the Information Policy and Economics team at RAND Europe, and Head of Brussels office of the RAND Corporation. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loredana CAPONE

She is Vice President of the Apulia Region and Regional Ministry for economic development. She is an energic and concrete person and she likes to give shapes to ideas. She believes in the importance of listening to people and that is why she spends time with the citizens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elena GENTILE

Elena Gentile is Councillor for Solidarity in the Governmental Board of Puglia Region since May 2005 and since May 2010 she is also delegate for Welfare Policies. She is pediatrician and her professional background  has driven her in the research of the integration between social and sanitary policies which is nowadays necessary when dealing with not self-sufficient and disable people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lena GUSTAFSSON

Professor Lena Gustafsson is since July 2010 Rector of Umea University in Sweden and the former Deputy Director general of Vinnova, the Swedish Governmental agency for Innovation System. She is since 1999 professor in Biotechnology at Chalmers University of Technology where she has also was Vice Rector between 2003 and 2006. Since 2009 she is President of the AAL Association.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Antonio Maria GABELLONE

He is President of the Lecce Province since 2009. Before then he was city counselor for European policies. He is a pharmacist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paolo PERRONE

He is the Mayor of Lecce since 2007. In his role he has backed the idea of "Lecce open city". He holds a degree in economics with specialization in Stockholm and Paris. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mario ALI'

Director General for the Internationalization of Research  of the Ministry of Education, University and Research. His high responsibility duties and skills include activities pertaining general coordination of Framework Programs of the European Union, bilateral and multilateral relations and Space activities both in National and European context.

 

 

 

 

 

Alexandre KALACHE

For the last forty years Alexandre Kalache has combined his medical, epidemiological and gerontological training with research, advocacy and activism on global ageing issues. Under his leadership, the World Health Organization launched the Active Ageing Policy Framework and the global movement on Age-Friendly Cities among many other enduring initiatives. He has recently been listed in the 100 most influential Brazilians.

 

 

 

 

Maria UCCELLATORE

She is the Italian Ambient Assisted Living Representative and Member of the AAL  General Assembly. She is the Head of Unit III  inside the Directorate of International Research of the Ministry Education, University and Research of ITALY. She manages European Programme  and others Intergovernative Programmes, like Eureka and COST, besides she is the Italian representative in several Europea Initiatives as JPIs, Eranet. 

 

 

 

 

 

Alain FRANCO MD, PhD

He is since 2008 the President of the International Society for Gerontechnology, ISG, based in The Netherlands. He is the Secretary General and Vice-President of the IAGG, International Association for Gerontology and Geriatrics since 2009. At last he serves since 2009 as the President of the new French National Agency for health, autonomy and technology in the Community (CNRSDA) based in Nice.

 

 

 

 

 

Misha PAVEL

He is currently a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in charge of a program called  Smart Health and Wellbeing.  Concurrently, he has an appointment as a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, at Oregon Health and Science University.

 

 

 

 

Rafael BENGOA

Minister for Health and Consumer affairs of the Basque Government (Spain). He has practised as a doctor in Spain for 7 years in both hospital and primary care. He has worked for over 15 years for the World Health Organization in Copenhagen and in Geneva where he was Director of Management of Chronic Conditions and  Director for Health System Policies until 2006.

 

Olga RIVERA

Deputy Minister for Quality, Research and Health Innovation of the Basque Government (Basque Country, Spain). Until her integration at the Health Ministry, Olga held the Chair of Organization and Business Policy at Deusto University where she was Professor for over ten years and Director of the Research Group on Innovation and Knowledge Management.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter WINTLEV-JENSEN

He is currently deputy Head of Unit in the European Commission DG Information Society responsible for development of policy and research strategy related to Information and Communication Technologies and Demographic Ageing.

 

 

 

Mike BIDDLE

Mike leads the Technology Strategy Board’s Assisted Living Innovation Platform (ALIP) which is responding to the societal challenge of the demographic shift.  Mike is also Vice President of the Ambient Assisted Living Executive Board which has similar aims and goals as part of a pan-European investment activity.Mike is also a Chartered Physicist with the Institute of Physics.

 

 

 

 

 

Pekka Kahri works as development manager at Tekes, the Finnish funding agency for technology and innovation. He is also the National Contact Person of AAL Joint Programme in Finland and was a member of the AAL Executive board 2007-2009.

 

 

Eckehard Fozzy MORITZ

He is currently director of SportKreativWerkstatt, a company masterminding, moderating, and facilitating innovation projects for public sponsors and foundations, for companies like BMW, Bosch and BASF, and for government agencies in Germany, Italy, Spain and Mexico. He holds a honorary professorship from Qufu University, China, and is adjunct professor at the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico. 

 

 

 

 

 

Anne Sophie PARENT

Mrs Parent is the director of AGE - the European Older People's Platform, which is a European confederation grouping more than 100 federations and associations of older and retired people or organisations dealing with ageing issues.
When elected member of the Social Platform Management Committee, Mrs Parent was given the task to strengthen the Social Platform's relations with the Belgian Presidency.

 

 

 

Carlos BEZOS DALESKE

He currently Director General of ValueCreation, one of the leading companies in user driven innovation in Spain and chosen by the UK based bank HSBC among spain’s top 25 most innovative companies in Spain. ValueCreation has been also chosen by Spain’s National Institute Carlos III as the user driven innovation partner for its e-health cluster.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Giampaolo ARMELLINI

He is the head of the Research and Development Laboratory at GPI (www.gpi.it), in Trento, Italy. He manages the R&D team, consisting of internal staff, PhD students and undergraduates. 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Zoltan LANTOS
He is client Management Director, Health Economy Advisor. Zoltan has been with GfK HC for four years and has 18 years of pharmaceutical and health   care business, marketing, market research expertise – both in the industry and agency side.   

 

 

 

 

Much more speakers are to be confirmed very soon..