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Speakers of ES2030 summit chapter 3 who will participate in the open session, freely open to the public onsite and online.

Nigel Richardson
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Nigel Richardson

Speaker Chapter 3
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.

 

Vinayak Godse
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Vinayak Godse

Speaker Chapter 3
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.

Aysha Khan
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Aysha Khan

Speaker Chapter 3
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.

Lenin Gali
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Lenin Gali

Speaker Chapter 3
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

Speaker Chapter 3
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.

Rick Keating
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Rick Keating

Speaker Chapter 3
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.

Abdalla Awidi
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Abdalla Awidi

Speaker Chapter 3
4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Abdalla AwidiDirector of Stem Cell Therapy Center

I have 40 years of academic, clinical, and applied research experience in the field of hematology, oncology and stem cell transitional research. In addition, I have assumed several senior leadership positions in the academic administration research management and hospital administration.
I have organized, created, and developed multiple teams and groups to serve a noble cause of medical education, clinical practice and applied research.
I have more than 120 publications in the field of benign hematology, malignant hematology, medical oncology and stem cell research.
My google scholar total citations are 1840, with h-Index 25 and i-10 index 55.
My publications can be reached at the following link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=awidi+a

Fernando Dominguez
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Fernando Dominguez

Speaker Chapter 3
4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Fernando DominguezVP Business Development, SandboxAQ

Equal part engineer and strategist, Fernando is a passionate and driven innovator with a relentless passion for projects that make the world a better place. This drive has powered Fernando through a career in technology, most recently leading the Business organization of SandboxAQ, a company using AI and Quantum technologies to solve challenging problems with positive impact.

Fernando started his career as a professional rugby player in Europe where he played two World Cups with the Spanish Rugby National team. He then joined Google/Alphabet in 2012 to help scale its services and products across Latin America before joining its secret innovation lab in Silicon Valley, X(formerly Google X), where he spent 6 years building new companies for Alphabet.

Fernando’s education and career spans 3 continents and a variety of industries, including energy, aerospace, transportation, robotics and AQ (AI + Quantum), in both the private and public sectors. He is an experienced business professional that understands how to create empathy with partners, lead teams and propel projects from concept to launch in the most challenging environments. His multilingual education (speaking 5 languages) and international experience allows him to adapt quickly to diverse business situations and find creative solutions to complex problems. Fernando is energetic and has learned to bring the values of rugby and high level athletics to his professional career.

Gerardo Portilla Tuesta
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Gerardo Portilla

Speaker Chapter 3
4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Gerardo Portilla TuestaDirector of Engineering, Peta Optik

Gerardo Portilla  has a  PhD in robotics from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, is a researcher at ITEFI-CSIC and Director of Hardware Engineering at PetaOptik.  He has developed several innovation projects in the field of robotics focused on legged robot dynamics and artificial intelligence.

His latest development called TEFI, is a robot dog that aims to guide and assist blind or dependent people, equipped with different systems such as GPS for navigation, artificial intelligence for decision making and voice processing algorithms for interaction with the user.

Gerardo Portilla and robotic dog
Gerardo Portilla, PhD in Robotics, and his robotic dog TEFI
Stiven Kerestigian
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Stiven Kerestigian

Speaker Chapter 3
4-5 May 2023, A Coruña, Spain
Stiven KerestigianHead of Disruptive Innovation, Ikea

Stiven is a unique, purpose driven, and highly influential design and innovation leader with extensive world class experience.

He brings diverse proven success leading high performance, cross-disciplinary creative and technical teams to envision and take action in building a more desirable future.

As a curious life-long-learner and systems thinker, Stiven brings a pro-active mindset and optimism as a default setting.

As a design, strategy and innovation master, Stiven helps synthesize complexity into simple, meaningful, and actionable design driven business solutions.

Stiven is an inspiring and influential storyteller, and a passionate driver of positive impact innovation.

Because TIME is the most finite resource, Stiven simply empowers teams and organizations to invest their time meaningfully, to create positive impact in the intersections of people/planet, technology and business.