BDVA/DAIRO General Assembly elects a new board

On the 9th of December, BDVA/DAIRO held General Assembly online. As a part of the meeting, the members were called to elect a new board of directors and the BDVA/DAIRO president and vice-presidents. 27 directors were appointed for the upcoming 2-year term. 

Newly appointed BDVA/DAIRO Board of Directors

In alfabetical order of organization:

• Antonis Ramfos, Innovation & Business Development Director at ATC – Athens Technology Centre (Greece)
• Dominique Grelet, Group VP, EU Development & Global Head of Innovation at Atos (Spain)
• Ray Walshe, Assistant Professor at Dublin City University (Ireland)
• Davide Dalle Carbonare, Senior Researcher at Engineering (Italy)
• Almudena Sánchez, Business Development Executive at GMV (Spain)
• Walter Weigel, VP of the European Research Institute at Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf GmbH (Germany)
• David Bernstein, Manager for EU and Government Programs at IBM(Israel)
• Richard Stevens, Associate Vice President at IDC (Italy)
• Stefan Van Baelen, Manager Public Funding at IMEC – Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum vzw (Belgium)
• Marc Schoenauer, Director of Research at Inria (France)
• Edward Curry, Research leader at Insight (Ireland)
• Valerio Frascolla, Director of Research and Innovation at Intel Deutschland GmbH (Germany)
• Daniel Sáez Domingo, Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Director at ITI – Instituto Tecnológico de Informática (Spain)
• Stefanie Lindstaedt, CEO of Know-Center GmbH (Austria)
• Stefan Gessler, Project Manager and Data Protection Officer NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH (Germany)
• Robert Seidl, Research Manager at Nokia (Finland)
• Rob Smeets, EU Funding Programme Manager at Philips (Netherlands)
• Jeanette Nilsson, Project Leader at RISE – Research Institutes of Sweden (Sweden)
• Laure Le Bars, Research project director at SAP (Germany)
• Thomas Hahn Chief, Expert Software at Siemens AG (Germany)
• Till Lech, Research Manager atSINTEF Digital (Norway)
• Harald Schöning, Vice President Research at Software AG (Germany)
• Codrina Maria Ilie, GIS/RS Specialist at Terrasigna (Romania)
• Henk-Jan Vink, Director Networked Information at TNO (Netherlands)
• Andrejs Vasiljevs, CEO of Tilde, SIA (Latvia)
• María Perez, Professor at UPM – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
• Tuomo Tuikka, Data Space Solutions Lead at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Finland)

During the meeting, full members voted a renewed mandate for Thomas Hahn (Siemens AG) as a President and Ed Curry (Insight) as a Vice-President for research. Two large industry Vice-Presidents will be selected in the next General Assembly. BDVA/DAIRO congratulates the appointed representatives and is looking forward to working together! BDVA/DAIRO also wishes to thank all the members who are not continuing in the Board of Directors for their contributions, dedication and hard work during the past years.