20x30 advanced
digital skills summit
13 Nov 2025
09:00 - 20:00
Les Ateliers des Tanneurs, Brussels, Belgium
What to expect
Who should attend
ADS SO4
Cluster initiatives
Digital Skills & Jobs National Coalitions
Member State representatives
Industry bodies & individual corporates
Education & Training Associations
AGENDA
- 14:00 - 14:30
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
Welcome Reception and Registration
- 14:30 - 14:40
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
Welcome by the European Commission
- 14:40 - 15:10
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
Panel on challenges and opportunities in Digital Skills
National Coalition Members
- 15:10 - 15:30
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
Presentation of Jury Members
- 15:30 - 15:40
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
Digital Skills EU Days - Opening Address
Henna Virkkunen
EVP Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy
Roxana Mînzatu
EVP Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness
- 15:40 - 16:10
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
Announcement of the European Digital Skills Awards 2025 Winners
Henna Virkkunen
EVP Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy
Roxana Mînzatu
EVP Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness
- 16:10 - 16:40
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
Testimonials from the previous editions (2023 & 2024 winners)
Leonardo Bulgarelli Freitas
IDC
- 16:40 - 17:10
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
European Digital Skills Awards 2025 Winners: Projects presentations
Henna Virkkunnen
EVP Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy
- 17:10 - 17:15
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
Closing remarks
Cedrik Neike
CEO Digital Industries, Siemens
- 17:15 - 19:00
Networking reception
- 19:00
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
Close
- 09:00 - 09:30
- Entrance
Registration
- 09:30 - 09:45
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
20x30 Advanced Digital Skills Summit Opening
Renate Nikolay
Deputy Director General | DG CNECT
- 09:45-10:05
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
ADS State-of-Play | Key findings & results
Brendan Rowan
BluSpecs | LEADSx2030
- 10:05 - 11:00
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
ADS State-of-Play | Panel discussion
Anne Bajart
Deputy Head of Unit at DG CNECT G2. Interactive Technologies, Digital for Culture and Education
Moderator
Fernando Escóbar Ruiz
Sub-Director General, Citizens, Digital Employment & Talent, Spain
Mojca Štruc
Director General of Digital Society Directorate, Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Digital Transformation
Anne Ribault-O'Reilly
Department for Further Education, Higher Education, Science and Innovation
Iris Renoy
Attaché digital economy, FPS Economy, Belgium
- 11:00-11:30
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
Scaling Skills | Infineon's blueprint for Advanced Digital Talent & Empowering Europe’s Workforce
Martina Wolfgruber
Infineon Technologies Austria AG
- 11:30-12:00
- Halle aux Fûts
Coffee Break
- 12:00 - 13:00
Delivering on the demand for digital talent
Parallel sessions for best practices and position papers from the Advanced Digital Skills Sub-Clusters
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
Data-driven talent pipelines in industry
Anu Passi-Rauste
Headai
Conal Markey
Workday
Ana M. Moreno
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Harri Ketamo
Headai
Isabela Paredes Cisneros
EMBL
- Gamay
Accreditation & the missing piece for skills recognition
Maria do Carmo Gomes
ISCTE Lisboa
Maria Chiara Demartini
University of Pavia
- Syrah
Achieving scale & sustainability in advanced programmes
Professor Minna Isomursu
University of Oulu
Martin Hayes
University of Limerick
Gianluca Misuraca
AI4Gov-X
- 13:00-14:00
- Halle aux Fûts and Mezzanine
Networking Lunch & Exhibition
Exhibition area for DIGITAL funded Advanced Digital Skills programmes
- 14:00 - 14:50
Parallel panels
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
AI Talent Development | Stories from the front line
Case studies and experiences from industry
Federico Menna
28Digital
Moderator
Juan Riva
IMMUNE Technology Institute
Gonzalo Gómez
INETUM
Erik O’Donovan
IBEC
- Gamay
Does the need for reskilling provide a window of opportunity for attracting new profiles into ICT?
Andrea Biancini
28Digital
Moderator
Dr. Claudia Igbrude
Trinity College Corporate Governance Lab, PayPal, HubSpot, EradaCollective.
Petja Eklund
YTK Fund, Finland
László Gönczy
BME
- 14:50 - 15:20
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
Navigating the challenges in advanced digital skills | Insights & impact
Tanya Suárez
BluSpecs
Moderator
Michele Tuccio
Skills and Future Readiness, OECD
David Timis
Generation
- 15:20 - 15:30
- Halle Vitrée (Main stage)
Closure
Rehana Schwinninger-Ladak
European Commission, Deputy Director for Data, Head of Interactive technologies, Digital for Culture and Education
- 15:30 - 16:00
- Halle aux Fûts and Entrance
Coffee Break & Registration
- 13:30 - 15:00
Parallel Sessions
13:30
14:00
Time
14:15
14:30
15:00
- Main Auditorium
Organisational change and the dawn of skills-based profiles
- Na Fu
Professor in HRM, Trinity Business School - Nadya Semenova
Digital Transformation Expert - Kelly Gamble
Head of Communications and Director of Private Equity, SAP - Sofia Platias
Senior International HR Business Partner, Uni Systems - Miguel Valdivieso
Head of Talent and Transformation, IBM
Making the business case for skills investments
- Laurent Muzellac
Dean, Trinity Business School - Alejandra Blázquez
Head of Cisco Networking Academy - Kamil Svec
Global Head of People, Telefonica Tech - Salvatore Moccia
Head of Education and Skills, EIT Digital
Coffee Break
- Tech-Industry Space
The perspectives of industry – acquiring talents in a fast-changing environment
- Ana Garcia Robles
Secretary General, BDVA - Maria S. Perez
Professor, UPM - Araceli Venegas-Gomez
Founder & CEO, QURECA - Michael Barngrover
Managing Director, XR4Europe - Nina Olesen
Head of Sector Skills & Human Factors, ECSO - Daniel Saez
Director of Technology Transfer, ITI - Golboo Pourabdollahian
Consulting Manager, IDC - Kristen Doran
Global HR Business Partner, SAP
Coffee Break
- Future Skills Room
Specialised project showcase
“Cloud-Powered SME Digital Transformation: Empowering European Workforce Together”
by CloudCamp4SMEs
- Irina Frigioiu
Funding Box
Specialised project showcase
“The 20X30 Digital4Business Vision: 20 Key Learnings on Fast Tracking Advanced Digital Skills for SMEs in 30 Minutes”
by Digital4Business
- Horacio González-Vélez
Professor of Computer Systems and Founding Head of The Cloud Competency Centre, National College of Ireland
Specialised project showcase
“Digital Society, Human Values, Global Citizenship”
by EURIDICE
- Anna Bon
Lecturer and Project Coordinator for the EURIDICE project
Coffee Break
15:30
16:15
Leveraging the potential of women to address the advanced digital skills gap
- Stephanie von Behr
CEO, Founderland - Maria Mezher
HR Consultant - Noelia Torres
CEO, Factoría F5 - Mark Jordan
Chief Strategy Officer, Skillnet Ireland
Financial risk and compliance in the age of AI
- Helen Packard
Data Strategy Office, Financial Conduct Authority UK - Javier Tarancón
Head of the Information Analysis and Suptech Division, Bank of Spain - Matteo Falsetta
EU Programme Manager, GFT Technologies
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Unlocking the power of data: Developing the basis for the 1st European Data Space for Skills
- Daniella Manassero
DIGITALEUROPE - Matthias De Bièvre
Founder / CEO of Visions - Anu Passi-Rauste,
CBO HeadAI - Daniel Alonso
Senior technical lead Data and AI, BDVA
Exploring Gen AI’s Impact on Legal Services
- Teresa Martín
Founding Partner, Mavens - Ciara O’Buachalla
Co-founder, DonnaAI - Giovanni Maria Riccio
Founder, E-lex - Risteard de Paor
Of Counsel, Herbert Smith Freehills
Healthcare and the data revolution
- Ernestina Menasalvas
Professor, UPM - Miguel Angel Sicilia
Director of Data Science, Ramon y Cajal Hospital Madrid - Zheshen Jiang
European Health Project Manager, CHU de Liège - Christoph Thümmler
Chief Medical Officer, 6G Health Institute
