kindly invites you to its Science in the 21st century increasingly relies on the integration of digital technologies in the scientific progress. This integration leads to the Annual Event development of ‘Open Science’ and revolutionises the scientific practice, on with potentially far reaching consequences for science, society and the economy. Europe must lead this transformation to remain at the forefront Building the digital ERA – the way to the Open Science Cloud of science and respond to the global competition. This has been recognised by European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation Carlos with Moedas, who has taken Open Science to the centre of its political agenda and the digital European Research Area (ERA). Kurt Vandenberghe Director ‘Policy Development and Coordination’ at DG Research and In- novation, European Commission (EC) Open Science must rely on carefully designed policies, digital infrastructures and services. The European Open Science Cloud brings all Patrick Aebischer of that together and represents the opportunity to create a new deal for President of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de (EPFL) science in Europe, for the benefit of economy and society. However, the question Europe faces today is how the Cloud should be set-up and Thomas Hofmann governed to be ahead of the game at global level. Professor for Data Analytics, Department of Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) The European Commission’s communication on the ‘European Cloud moderated by Initiative’ sets the outline of which direction Europe could take, and the Competitiveness Council of 27 May will hold a first debate on this complexe President of the Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation issue. (SNSF) Our Annual Event will provide part of the answer, by bringing together different perspectives on the challenges and opportunities behind the European Open Science Cloud. The presentation of the Swiss Data Science 23 May 2016 Initiative will provide a good basis for discussion on what architecture the BIP, Place Royale 11, 1000 Brussels Cloud could have.

Martin Vetterli, President of the National Research Council, SNSF After spending part of his research career in the United States of America, Martin Vetterli joined the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 1995 as professor, where he later became Vice-President for international affairs from 2004 to 2011 and, from 2011 to 2012, Dean of the School of Computer and Programme Communications Sciences. Since 2013, he is the President of the National Research Council of the SNSF. He has been appointed as president of the EPFL as of 1 January 2017. From 17:00 Registration

Kurt Vandenberghe, Director at DG Research and Innovation, EC

17:30 Welcome and vision of the SNSF on Open Science A graduate of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), the Université Catholique Martin Vetterli, President of the Research Council, SNSF de Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL) and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (S.A.I.S.), Kurt Vandeberghe is Director for ’Policy 17:45 Open Science – the view of the European Commission Development and Coordination’ at DG Research & Innovation since February 2016. Kurt Vandenberghe, Director ‘Policy Development and Before that, he was Director for 'Climate action and resource efficiency' in the Coordination’ at DG Research and Innovation, EC same DG during three years. He served in the Cabinet of Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin (1999-2004) and as Head of the Cabinet of Janez Potocnik, who was Commissioner for Research and Innovation (2004-2009) and subsequently 18:00 Open Science – why it matters for Environment (from 2010). Kurt Vandenberghe joined the European Patrick Aebischer, President of the EPFL Commission in 1996 as co-ordinator of the Commission’s Intermodal Transport Task Force and of the Transport Research Programme. 18: 15 The Swiss Data Science Initiative as an Inspiration for

Europe Thomas Hofmann, Professor for Data Analytics, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich Thomas Hofmann, Professor for Data Analytics, Department of Prof. Thomas Hofmann joined the Computer Science Department of ETH Zurich in Computer Science at the ETH Zurich 2014. His areas of interest include machine learning, data analytics, and intelligent systems, with a special focus on natural language understanding and text mining. He is also co-director of the Max-Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems and co- 18:30 Let’s build the cloud! Roundtable discussion on the founder of 1plusX, a startup developing technology for user data modeling. Before challenges ahead for the European Open Science Cloud joining ETH, Thomas held various positions in industry and academia. From 2006- 2013, he was Engineering Director at Google.ees. During this time, he was also Kurt Vandenberghe, Director ‘Policy Development and pivotal in growing the Zurich Engineering Center from 50 to 1500 employees. In Coordination’ at DG Research and Innovation, EC the years 2004 & 2005 Thomas was Professor for Intelligent Systems at TU Darmstadt and co-appointed as the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute IPSI. He Patrick Aebischer, President of the EPFL spent 7 years in the US from 1997-2004, during which time he was Assistant/Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brown University and a Thomas Hofmann, Professor for Data Analytics, Department of Postdoc at MIT and UC Berkeley. Thomas also co-founded Recommind, a San Computer Science at the ETH Zurich Francisco-based company developing eDiscovery solutions. Thomas holds a Diploma in Computer Science and a PhD (rer. nat.) from University of Bonn. Moderated by Martin Vetterli, President of the Research Coun- cil, SNSF Patrick Aebischer, President of the EPFL Patrick Aebischer was trained as an MD (1980) and a Neuroscientist (1983) at the

19:15 – 20:30 Networking reception Universities of Geneva and in . From 1984 to 1992, he worked at Brown University in Providence (Rhode Island, USA) as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Medical Sciences. In the fall of 1992, he returned to Switzerland as a Professor and Director of the Surgical Research Division and Gene

Therapy Center at CHUV, the Lausanne University Medical School Hospital. In 1999, the Swiss Federal Council appointed him president of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), an institution he will lead until the end of 2016. Patrick Aebischer is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and

Biological Engineering and a member of the Swiss Academy of Medicine and the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences. Patrick Aebischer is the founder of three

biotechnology companies and is on the board of Lonza and Nestlé. Patrick Aebischer is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Foundation and chairs

the Novartis Venture Fund.