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All confirmed speakers of Ecosystems 2030 Chapter 3 hosted at Palexco, A Coruña, Spain, on 4-5 May 2023.

Nigel Richardson
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Nigel Richardson

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4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Nigel RichardsonSVP & CIO Europe at PepsiCo

Nigel Richardson is SVP & CIO at PepsiCo Europe and is accountable for all aspects of information technology and leading digital transformation. He is based in Geneva. Immediately prior to this role, Nigel served as VP Global Delivery, and prior to that as VP Global End User Services.
From 2012 to 2015 Nigel was based in Moscow as CIO for PepsiCo’s East Europe region, where he led the technology integration for a number of major acquisitions. Before, he served as CIO for UK, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa, where he led transformation programs to deliver new business capabilities through technology.
Before joining PepsiCo, Nigel worked for Mars, leading technology projects supporting a number of global and European supply chain and research and development programs. He started his career in the automotive industry as an engineer writing software for embedded systems before becoming a manufacturing manager responsible for Land Rover engine production.
Nigel holds a Master of Arts degree in engineering from the University of Cambridge.

 

Daniel Wiegand
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Daniel Wiegand

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4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Daniel WiegandCo-founder, Lilium

Mr. Wiegand is Lilium’s co-founder, Chief Engineer for Innovation and Future Programs and an Executive Director on Lilium’s board.

A specialist in propulsion, Daniel pioneered Lilium’s aircraft architecture while studying Aeronautics at the Technical University of Munich. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering with a focus on flight propulsion systems. Daniel started Lilium in 2015 together with three other co-founders.

His first patent was filed when he was still in high school. He has won multiple awards, including “Jugend forscht”, Germany’s most recognized tech competition. As a project manager at ABB in Zurich, he has gained in-depth experience in managing complex projects as well as insights into business development.

Flying has always been his passion: he started gliding at the age of 14 and became a pilot before he was allowed to drive a car.

He was named Under 35 Innovator of the Year by the MIT Technology Review.

Vinayak Godse
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Vinayak Godse

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4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Vinayak GodseCEO, Data Security Council of India

Vinayak Godse is the CEO of Data Security Council of India. He has over 27 years of experience in Information Security, IT Transformation, Intelligent Networking and Telecom Infrastructure.

Vinayak also leads the National Centre of Excellence (NCoE) for Cybersecurity Technology and Entrepreneurship, a joint initiative of DSCI and Ministry of Electronics & IT. NCoE is engaged in cybersecurity industry building, fostering security research and product engineering, and building an ecosystem for security entrepreneurship.

He has been deeply engaged with all initiatives of DSCI with government stakeholders and sectoral regulators. He was instrumental in developing DSCI Security Framework (DSF), DSCI Privacy Framework (DPF) and DSCI Certified Privacy Lead Assessor (DCPLA), DSCI Certified Privacy Professional (DCPP) certifications and conducted many of these training programs.

Prior to DSCI, he worked with the Global Consulting Practice of TCS in Information Risk Management and also worked as a Telecom Engineer at BSNL. He started his career as a lecturer in Electronics Engineering.

Omar Hatamleh
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Omar Hatamleh

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2-3 June 2022, A Coruña, Spain
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3-4 June 2021, Granada, Spain

Omar HatamlehCo-author of BetweenBrains and Executive Chairman at Ecosystems 2030

Dr. Omar Hatamleh is co-author of BetweenBrains. A book that explores the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the future of jobs, ethics, technologies and economies. Omar is former Chief Innovation Officer, Engineering at NASA (2015 – March 2020) and Executive Director of the Space Studies Program at the International Space University (2016-2019). Omar has 25 years of aerospace industry experience and has published over 33 international journal articles; he has four engineering degrees, speaks four languages, and has been an invited keynote speaker to multiple national and international events.

Aysha Khan
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Aysha Khan

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4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Aysha KhanCISO & CIO, Treasure Data

Aysha Khan is the CISO and CIO at Treasure Data, a leading enterprise CDP with more than 450 global enterprise clients.

A cybersecurity leader with over 21 years of experience managing Information Technology & Security at Fortune 500 companies, Aysha is passionate about driving business results by aligning strategy with agile execution. She has a proven track record of building effective IT, Security, and Trust functions from the ground up.

In addition, Aysha has a strong passion for diversity and inclusion and is the Executive Sponsor of Treasure Data’s DEIB initiative. In her volunteer role, she is helping create a diverse pipeline of incoming talent that can benefit from productive career development and a fully inclusive culture.

V R Ferose
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V. R. Ferose

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4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
V R FeroseSenior Vice President and Head of SAP Academy for Engineering

V R Ferose is a Senior Vice President and Head of SAP Engineering Academy (San Ramon, California). He is responsible for the building the next generation of engineering talent at SAP.

He is passionate about making a difference in the world in a meaningful way. He started the industry’s leading Autism initiative, “Autism at Work”. He is a regular speaker and gives a guest lecture at Columbia University on the topic of “Personal Leadership”.

He is the co-author of #1 Amazon bestseller “The Invisible Majority”. The book has a Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He has also co-authored the bestseller “GIFTED: Inspiring Stories of People with Disabilities” – the kannada translation won the Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award; “Innovating the World – The Globalization Advantage”; and the graphic novels “GRIT: The Major Story” and “GRIT: The Vishwas Story”.

He writes the bi-weekly column FLYLEAF for New Indian Express

Lenin Gali
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Lenin Gali

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4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Lenin GaliCIO & CISO, GIT1K

Lenin Gali is the Co-Founder, CIO & CISO advisor at Global IT 1000 (GIT1K), an executive and operator syndicate that specializes in funding and advising startups. Prior to founding GIT1K, Lenin was the CIO, CISO and SVP of Engineering at Quotient Technologies. Prior to Quotient, Lenin led cloud infrastructure, data engineering, security and privacy practices for over a decade in various roles at Ubisoft, ShareThis and at Home Shopping Network. Lenin is an author, speaker, investor, and advisor for startups where he has been actively involved for over a decade. He is also Founder, CEO and Board member of Leadership & Golf, a nonprofit, that brings current and future generations of leaders and golfers together to share, mentor, and learn about leadership and golf skills. He is based in San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

Onur Korucu
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Onur Korucu

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4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Onur KorucuVP, EMEA Consulting Practice, Privacy, TerzionDX

Onur Korucu has started and continued her professional life in multinational professional services companies such as KPMG, PwC and Grant Thornton. She had the opportunity to work as an experienced consultant and part of senior management in different world geographies. Recently she worked as a GRC, Cyber Security and Data Protection senior manager within Avanade UK & Ireland before moving into her new role; VP of Consulting Cyber Security and Data Protection at one of the Microsoft partners.

 

She is an information security, compliance, and privacy professional focused primarily on emerging technologies from information security and data protection perspectives. On top of her technical engineering degree and M.Sc degree, she obtained her LL.M in Information and Technology Law. She also completed a Business Analytics executive education program at the University of Cambridge.

She published a book about risk-based global approaches to improve data protection. She has also been publishing articles in prestigious magazines such as Harvard Business Review and Tomorrow Magazine about trending technology, cyber security and data privacy trends. She was one of the lecturers for the Cyber Security Masters programme at Sabanci University Istanbul. She is a Women in Tech world ambassador and IAPP Ireland Chapter Chair. She was nominated for the GRC Role Model of the Year 2022 and Cyber Women of the Year 2022 awards. She continues to appear in seminars, conferences around the world as a speaker. She has CISM, CDPSE, CRISC, ITIL-F, and ISO 27001 LA certifications.

Matthias Artzt
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Matthias Artzt

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4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Matthias ArtztSenior Legal Advisor, Deutsche Bank

Dr. Matthias Artzt has been an internationally recognized and certified lawyer and senior legal counsel at Deutsche Bank AG since 1999. Before joining Deutsche Bank, he worked as a lawyer at a law firm in Stuttgart, Germany.

He has been practicing data protection law for many years and was mainly involved in implementing the GDPR within Deutsche Bank AG. He advises clients globally regarding data protection issues and complex international outsourcing agreements involving data privacy-related matters and regulations.

He graduated from the University of Tübingen, obtaining his Doctor of Law degree. Moreover, he is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and, since January 2018, a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E). He was also a member of the European Advisory Board of the IAPP.

Matthias is the author of numerous articles on data protection law. He is the co-editor and co-author of the recently released Handbook of Blockchain Law (published in 2020 by Wolters Kluwer). He is also the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Blockchain Law (published in 2021 by GBBC).
Further, he is a regular panel speaker at various national and international conferences, seminars, and webinars, e.g., at the Central Bank of Brazil in 2018. He has an in-depth knowledge of the GDPR and its interfaces with other topics such as Cloud Computing, Big Data, AI, Blockchain, US-Cloud Act, Metaverse, and data privacy, as well as PSD2.

Rick Keating
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Rick Keating

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4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Rick KeatingCEO, Keating

Rick Keating is Chief Executive Officer at Keating and originator of the firm’s think. say. hear.® philosophy.

Described by clients as a master message maker and storyteller, Rick’s skills are unique, and he is currently writing a book titled after the comma® – its emphasis is on how to control the defining words that follow the comma. Rick is also a senior advisor at McKinsey.

Rick has been counseling individuals, companies and organizations with transformational ideas in the areas of sustainability, new economy, social justice, economic/financial reform, lifestyle, longevity and business for over 35 years, serving the Saudi Royal family, Paul Tudor Jones, George Soros, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Bill Porter, Bob Stiller, the Getty family, the Coors family, Zoe Cruz, Bertelsmann, Vivendi, New York Board of Trade, Clearing Corporation, International Securities Exchange, France, Israel, Australia, the Conference Board, the County of Santa Slara, Vanke, the Sandoz Foundation, Nikon, Cylance, emirates, Alain Ducasse, and many others.

Rick is the founder of Pilkrōs®, an ideation and venture collective, and the originator of before the comma® – an approach used to create a new business.
rick graduated from Villanova University and completed the MIT-Harvard public disputes and mediation program.