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Igor Sarkissian

Head of Policy, OPP

Mark Watts FRSA

Co-Founder, LP Brussels

Mark Wilson

Co-Founder of OPP & IF2020

Felicia Mester

Moderator, Policy Advisor Wholesale, Eurogas

Peter Liese

MEP

Trewin Restorick

CEO & Founder, Hubbub UK

Viki Cooke

Co-Founder, Britain Thinks

Fulvia Raffaelli

Head of Unit – Circular Economy and Construction, DG GROW, European Commission

Federica Sabbati

Secretary General, European Heating Industry

Cédric de Meeûs

Head of Public Affairs & Government Relations, LafargeHolcim

Johan Stiens

Head of Department, Director of Biomedical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics department (ETRO) at VUB

Benjamin Strandquist

Senior Advisor on Electrification, Bellona

Dan Smith

Partner, Headland

Manal Rachdi

OXO Architects (invited)

Luise Fischer

Moderator, Climate KIC

Monika Heiming

Executive Director, European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)

Martin Dorsman

Secretary General, European Community Shipowners’ Association (ECSA)

Mattia Pellegrini

Head of Unit - Waste Management & Secondary Materials, DG ENV, European Commission

Matthew Baldwin

Deputy Director General, DG MOVE, European Commission

Graziella Jost

Projects Director, European Transport Safety Council (ETSC)

Venetia Spencer

Secretary General, Polyolefin Circular Economy Platform (PCEP)

Eline Chivot

Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Data Innovation

Marco-Alexander Breit

Head, Artificial Intelligence Task Force, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

Susanne Dehmel

Managing Director Law and Security, Bitkom

Till Hoppe

Moderator, Handesblatt

JEAN HORNAIN

Executive Director, Citeo

Archana Jagannathan

Senior Director for Sustainable Packaging, PepsiCo Europe

Frédéric Simon

Moderator, Euractiv

Chris Daly

Supply Chain Vice-President, PepsiCo Europe

Emmanuel Katrakis

Secretary General, European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC)

Martin Sandbu

Author and European Economics Commentator, FT

Geraldine Kutas

Director General, European Crop Protection Association (ECPA)

Shada Islam

Commentator/New Horizons Project

Gemma Cranston

Director, Business and Nature Team, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

Gurpreet Brar

Global COO, Public Affairs Practice & General Manager, Brussels, Edelman

Alice Bah Kuhnke

MEP

Karen Taylor

Chair, European Network Against Racism (ENAR)

Celine Fabrequette

Moderator

Robert MacDougall

Head of Enterprise Public Policy at Vodafone Group

Maximo Miccinilli

Director, CERRE

Nikos Deligiannis

Associate Professor, ETRO at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) / Senior AI Scientist, imec

Franc Bogovic

MEP

Luisa Santos

Deputy Director General, BusinessEurope

Billy Kelleher

MEP

Catharina Sikow-Magny

Director, Internal Energy Market, DG ENER, European Commission

Kavita Ahluwalia

VP / Head of EU Office, Uniper

Maria da Graça Carvalho

MEP

Emily Rees

Senior Fellow, ECIPE, and Founder, Trade Strategies

Christophe Diercxsens

Global Public Affairs Manager, Too Good To Go

Aoife Allen

Creative Partner & Food Project Lead, Hubbub UK

Ignacio Garcia Bercero

Acting Director, DG Trade

Leen Segers, LucidWeb Founder & CEO

Founder & CEO, LucidWeb

Peter Handley

Head of the Energy-Intensive Industries and Raw Materials Unit, European Commission

Donald Hyslop

Chair, M7 Food Markets Alliance/Ex-Chair Borough Market UK/Chair Creative & Culture Skills UK

Joe Lynam

Moderator

René Büst

Senior Director & Analyst, Gartner

Victor Negrescu

MEP

Vytenis Andriukaitis

WHO Special Envoy for Europe, former European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety

Alison Crabb

Head of Unit, Skills and Qualifications, DG EMPL

Angel Martín

Director GA&P Medical Technologies EMEA, Johnson & Johnson

Toon Vos

Editor, Are We Europe

Christopher Ruff

Director for Political Outreach and Communications, DIGITALEUROPE

Dominic Jacquesson

VP Insight & Talent, Index Ventures

Benedikt Blomeyer

Moderator: Director EU Policy, Allied for Startups

Silviu Popovici

CEO, PepsiCo

Katrina Sichel

Moderator

Fernanda Viegas

Senior Research Scientist and Co-founder of the People + AI Research (PAIR) Team, Google

Andreas Cleve

Co-founder and CEO, Corti

Julia Fenart

Head of European Affairs, France Digitale

Dita Charanzovà

MEP & Vice President of the European Parliament

Bruce Buck

Chairman of Chelsea Football Club

Scale Ireland Liz McCarthy

CEO, Scale Ireland

Lord John Mann

House of Lords

Simon Taylor

Head of the Chelsea Foundation at Chelsea Football Club

Michele Brulhart

Executive Director, Copper Mark

Eva Maydell

MEP

David Weston

Editor, FORESIGHT

Jaya Ratnam

Ambassador of Singapore to the EU

Giles Dickson

CEO, WindEurope

Ashton Joseph

AI Expert, Google

Stefan Haenen

Senior Account Manager, Hill+Knowlton Strategies

Jessica Faure

Senior Account Manager, Hill+Knowlton Strategies

Claire Bury

Deputy Director General, DG SANTE, European Commission

Marie-Christine Hahn

Vice President External Affairs, Aurubis

Gordon Renouf

CEO & Co-Founder, Good On You

Michael Stanley-Jones

Co-Secretary, UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion

Dan Lahav

Computer Scientist & Debate Expert, IBM

Baptiste Carriere-Pradal

Chair, The Policy Hub

Helen Clarkson

CEO, The Climate Group

Scott Santens

Universal Basic Income (UBI) Advocate

Gal Abelson

Project manager at Algalife

Pekka Pesonen

Secretary General, COPA-COGECA

Ayca Dundar

CEO, SoluBlue

Francis Field

CTO, SoluBlue

Flora Davidson

Chief Commercial Officer, SupplyCompass

Matthew Willis

Partner, Fourtold

David Yáñez

Co-Founder & Inventor, Vortex Bladeless

Remco Brouwer

Senior Vice President Digital Transformation, Randstad

Joe Griffin

Senior Manager Sustainability Strategy, Vodafone

Miriam Buiten

Assistant Professor of Law and Economics, University of St. Gallen

Marius Vaščega

Head of Cabinet Sinkevičius, European Commission

Pēteris Zilgalvis

Head of Unit, Digital Innovation and Blockchain, Digital Single Market, DG CONNECT

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