Stefan Sipka is a policy analyst with 10 years of experience in environmental policy. Stefan was mainly affiliated with European independent policy think thanks while also collaborating with governments, industry and civil society. The main focus of his work revolves around the circular economy agenda and smarter use of resources. Since joining the European Policy Centre in 2018, Stefan has been exploring the linkages between digitalisation and sustainability and the role of policies in aligning the twin green and digital transitions.

With over 13 years working in Strategy & Operations consulting area at Deloitte Korea, he has extensive experience in developing corporate and business strategy, feasibility study on new business model, and Innovation programs of companies & Industries focused on high-level initiatives

2010 ~ 2019 CEO, Potlatch Inc.
2008 ~ 2010 CEO, The Cobalt Sky Inc.
2000 ~ 2008 Senior Manager, Energy Practice Leader, Arthur D. Little
MBA, Business Administration, Bowling Green State University

2014 ~ 2020 Head of CSC Center and CDO Business unit
2011 ~ 2014 Head of Business Planning Team
2003 ~ 2011 Head of Management Planning Team, Samsung Total
M.S, Technology Management, The State University of New York

1993-present Korea Textile Development Institute
1992-ph.D, Textile Science, Kansas State University

2018 ~ present Director, ETRI Global Cooperation Section
2015 ~ 2018 Director General, ETRI US R&D Center
2000 ~ 2015 Principal Researcher, ETRI ICT Strategy Research Team
Ph.D, Economics, Hanyang University Korea

Dr. Park is an expert in international R&D cooperation with a focus on new technology development and growth in automotive components. Recently, he completed the project that was to develope AEB system based on mono camera sensor with Spain (IDIADA).

2017~present, KETI Global Cooperation Department
2011~2017, KETI Technology policy Department
2010~2011, KETI Global Cooperation Department
2010 Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University

He has a 15 years of experience in the management of R&D program in the KIAT. He was in the international technology cooperation division for 8 years , and cooperated with Asian and European countries for R&D and technology commercialization programs. Form 2020, he is working at the KIAT Europe office in Brussels as a representative of the KIAT in Europe. He in charge of cooperating with Eureka Network, and European countries.

- 2019 ~ present : Director General, KERC
- 2013 ~ present : National Coordinator of NCP for Horizon 2020
- 2009 ~ present : Principal researcher, NRF
- 2014 ~ 2016 : Adjunct Professor, Hankook University of Foreign Studies (EU major)

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He has 14 years of experience in the management of international R&D Programs. Since 2010 he is in charge of the Spanish EUREKA office, including the coordination of EUREKA projects in Spain, the management of the national EUREKA office in CDTI.

Michael Walch is managing European research programmes at the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). As Eureka NPC, he is coordinating the lifecycle of international R&D projects. In additional roles, he works as consultant for R&D projects and technical reviewer with a long history in ICT. His lasting interest in responsible digitalization has been focussed on the fields of AI, modeling, and robotic systems.

In basic and applied research, he has contributed on fusing knowledge- & data-driven AI, building “smart“ models at different levels of abstraction, and the design & execution of autonomous systems. Michael Walch previously also worked in the private sector and with non-profit organizations on experimental development of innovative processes, products, and services focussing on organizations' strategic objectives.

Michael Walch holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Vienna, for which he has received the State Award for Best Research and the Austria Research Award for an innovative subject and high practical relevance. He was actively engaged in Horizon, CREST, and other research projects. Currently, he lives is in Vienna.

Education:
M.Sc.Tech, Material Science, University of Tartu
Area of research - surface characterization via atomic force microscopy and scanning capacitance microscopy.

Experience:
Enterprise Estonia (current position)- Intellectual Property and Innovation Advisor
University of Tartu- Technology Transfer Manager and project lead for technology transfer Network

Heikki Uusi-Honko is the Finnish representative in the Eureka High Level group, and in his current position as Head of international networks at Business Finland he works extensively with various international collaboration platforms and initiatives. He has more than 20 years’ experience on innovation policy implementation and design including working at management level with funding decisions, impact assessment, and organisational development. He has also 4 years’ experience from working as COO of Nordic Innovation in Oslo, a joint Nordic innovation agency under the auspices of the Nordic Ministry Council. He has participated in several national and international working groups, panels, and projects evaluating or developing innovation policies and specific programmes. Before joining Business Finland (then Tekes), he worked within the Nordic Iron & Steel industry, specializing in process control systems.

Mr Tom Warras is a Civil Engineer with a Master’s degree from Helsinki University of Technology (1984). He has a background in industry, and later in Tekes, Finland’s innovation agency. Tekes was merged into Business Finland in 2018, and Tom has been in charge of the Eureka project coordination and of EU programme support.

Tom is networking in the European scale to the benefit of innovative companies in all sectors, but especially in transport and mobility. He is Finland's National Project Coordinator of EUREKA network, consisting of more than 40 innovation agencies of the European countries. He is the contact person for Finnish participants of Horizon 2020 Transport Program and Energy Program. The goal of all this is to maximize funding of innovations!

Finland's Commercial Counsellor in South Korea and Country manager of Business Finland office in South Korea. Serving Finnish companies and research organizations build relationships and business in South Korea.

May 2020 ~ Present Commercial Counsellor
August 2018 ~ May 2020 Senior Director
January 2016 ~ July 2018 Director
February 2009 ~ December 2015 Project Manager

Wei Ning graduated with Master of Sciences degree from North Carolina State University in 1996. He joined the National Research Council Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) in 1997 as an International Science and Technology Advisor. Based in Vancouver, He has been involved in IRAP’s international cooperation at a national level. He is currently the National Program Lead for the Canadian International Innovation Program (Korea). During his 23 years at NRC IRAP, he has led many initiatives in the establishment of S&T partnerships between Canadian companies and organizations in South Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, and more recently Europe through the Canada EUREKA Program.

She has been the Swiss Eureka NPC since 2015 and am responsible for the coordination of all Eureka related projects for Innosuisse. Further, She is in charge of some of Innosuisse Bilateral Cooperation Agreements with Eureka and non-Eureka countries. She has a background in administration and accounting.

For the last 10 years she has worked within the area of innovation promotion and the network of Eureka and before that she worked for the Federal Office of Public Health in policy making.

Navjeev Singh is a Development Partner with Enterprise Singapore. He is currently working on setting up a long-term innovation partnership between Singapore and the EUREKA Network. To this end, he oversaw the two EUREKA GlobalStars-Singapore calls and Singapore’s participation in the EUREKA AI Call. He is also working Singapore’s application to join EUREKA as an Associate Country.

Prior to this, he spent three years with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was part of the team in charge of Singapore's 2018 ASEAN Chairmanship. Navjeev is passionate about the intersection between new technology and industry, and how it has fundamentally changed the way we live, work, and play. He has an undergraduate degree in Economics & Management from the University of Oxford, and a Masters in Digital Business from IE Business School in Madrid.

Peter F. Herrmann was born in Krefeld in Germany. He holds a master diploma in Physics from University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and a PhD in Physics from University of Geneva. He worked during 10 years in the corporate research labs from Alcatel near Paris on high Tc superconductors and their power applications, such as fault current limiters and power cables. He advanced to the manager of a research unit of two research groups “Cable Insulation and Processing” and “Superconductivity”. In 2001 he started working at Alcatel’s Optical Fibre Division where he worked on low cost access technologies, industry transfer of a speciality fibre pilot fabrication and he was organising the ‘Interdivisional Exchange Forum’ bringing together the knowledge from different Alcatel divisions involved in optical telecommunications. Since 2004 he works at EURESCOM GmbH in Heidelberg in Germany first as CELTIC Programme Coordinator. Since 2014 he is the Office Director of the CELTIC EUREKA Cluster for next-generation communications enabling the digital society. In this role he is responsible for all aspects related to the Management of the CELTIC-NEXT Cluster.

2019~Present Office Director, ITEA

2014~2019 Team manager, Cleantech and Energy Development at the same agency

2009~2014 Managing director, Health Valley (Cluster in Health and Life Science Innovation in the Netherlands)

2000 Senior project manager, Development and Innovation, East Netherlands Development Agency (Oost NL)

Director of the EUREKA Cluster SMART on Advanced Manufacturing, Responsible of Advanced Manufacturing & Raw Materials at MONDRAGON Corporation’s Innovation Department.

Joseba’s experience spans over more than 25 years in the manufacturing and production industry.
Joseba Bilbatua is responsible for Advanced Manufacturing research and Innovation projects at the headquarters of MONDRAGON Corporation. Since January 2018, he has been nominated SMART EUREKA Cluster Director, being responsible of the day-to-day coordination of SMART Cluster and the promotion of its activities. Nowadays Joseba share its position in MONDRAGON Corporation’s headquarter and in SMART EUREKA Cluster on Advanced Manufacturing.
He is as well coordinator of the Spanish Advanced Manufacturing Platform MANU-KET and member of EFFRA (Factories of the Future Research Association) and MANUFUTURE European Technology Platform.

January 2019 ~ General Manager of EUROGIA2020
August 2017~ Paycore–EVP, R&D and Innovation
July 2017–July 2018 Chairwoman of EUROGIA2020
August 2016 - August 2017 Cardtek–Country Manager, Turkey
April 2016 - August 2017 Cardtek–EVP, Regional Sales & Marketing EMEA
January 2010 - April 2016 Cardtek–CFO

Peter Connock is responsible for the management of the EUREKA cluster Penta – a public private partnership focussed on catalysing Research Development & Innovation in the micro and nanoelectronics enabled systems and applications sector in Europe.

Rémy is the Operation Manager of EURIPIDES, the industry-driven EUREKA Cluster, dedicated to Smart Systems Integration.

EURIPIDES² is a EUREKA Cluster promoting the generation of innovative, industry-driven, pre-competitive R&D projects in the area of Packaging & Integration of Micro Devices & Smart Electronic Systems.

Rémy is in charge of catalysing proposals and supporting companies in raising public funding. He has a wide knowledge of national funding schemes throughout all EUREKA Member States.

Before joining EURIPIDES, Rémy has been working in EUREKA as the French national project coordinator and involved in the design and realisation of the Eurostars Programme, dedicated to high-technology SMEs.

Previously, Rémy has been promoting cultural and scientific cooperation in French embassies abroad: Somalia, Kenya, Netherlands and Finland.