Keynote Speakers of Previous Events

CIPA/EuroMed2018

• Dr Ronald de Bruin
  Director of the COST Association
• Dr. Robert Sanderson
  Semantic Architect for the J Paul Getty Trust
• Prof. Craig Knoblock
  Research Professor of both Computer Science and Spatial Sciences
• Mrs. Diane Zorich
  Director of the Smithsonian’s Digitization Program Office (DPO)
• Dr. Kyriakos Efstathiou
  Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• Dr. Charalambos Chaitas
  Executive Director Culture, Arts and Education, Qiddiya IC, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Joan Cobb
  Principal IT Project Manager at J. Paul Getty Trust
• Harry Verwayen
  Executive Director of EU Digital Library Europeana
• Prof. Koen van Balen
  UNESCO Chair on preventive conservation, monitoring and maintenance of monuments and sites
• Deputy Commander Alberto Deregibus
  Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage
• Mrs. Nada R. Hosking
  Director, Programs & Partnerships, Global Heritage Fund
• Eleanor E. Fink
  Founder and manager American Art Collaborative Linked Open Data Initiative
• Oriana Grasso
  European Commission
• Constanze Fuhrmann
  Researcher at Fraunhofer IGD, Competence Center Cultural Heritage Digitization
• Thomas R. Kline
  Partner at Cultural Heritage Partners
• Graham Bell
  Board Member of Europa Nostra, UK National Co-ordinator for 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage, Director of North England Civic Trust
• Thomas Krauss
  Researcher at DLR, Remote Sensing Institute
• Dr. Raffaella Brumana
  Professor of Geomatics at the Politecnico di Milano, Scientific Responsible of dABCLab GIcarus
• Michael Klein
  CEO @ 7Reasons Media GmbH
• Jonathan Chemla
  ICONEM
• Professor Christer Gustafsson
  Professor in Conservation at Uppsala University, Sweden
• Prof. Vasco Fassina
  Chairman CEN TC 346 - Conservation of Cultural Heritage
• Daniel Blersch
  Workflows and market development at Zoller + Fröhlich GmbH

CIPA/EuroMed2016

• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kippes
  CEO for the Schloss Schönbrunn GmbH
• Prof. Dr. Dieter Fellner
  Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD)
• Prof. Dr. Mustafa Erdik
  President of the Turkish Earthquake Foundation
• Prof. Dr. Sarah Whatley
  Director of the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE)
• Mr. Axel Ermert
  Member of the ICOM-CIDOC Board
• Mr. Vasco Fassina
  Director of the Scientific Laboratory of Venice Superintendence
• Prof. Dr. Antonia Moropoulou
  Vice President of the Technical Chamber of Greece
• Mr. Jean-Pierre Massué

CIPA/EuroMed2014

• Gustavo Araoz
  President of ICOMOS
• Timothy P. Whalen
  Director of The Getty Conservation Institute
• Roberto Scopigno
  Director ISTI, CNR, Italy

CIPA/EuroMed2012

• Mr. Kishore Rao
  Director of UNESCO’s WHC
• Mr. Ben Kacyra
  CyArk Founder
• Michael T. Jones
  Google Chief Technology Advocate
• Mr. Thomas R. Kline
  Board of the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation
  George Washington University, Museum Studies Program
• Professor Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
  Director of the research lab MIRALab University of Geneva in Switzerland
• Professor Daniel Thalmann
  Institute for Media Innovation at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore
• Dr. Livio De Luca
  Director of the MAP laboratory, National Centre for Scientific Research
• Eleanor E. Fink
  Institute of Information Science, University of Southern California,
  The World Bank
  International Finance Corporation
• John Greaves “Mr.RFID”
  Founding chair of the US RFID standards group
• Prof. Stefan Gradmann
  Professor at School of Library and Information Science of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Dr. Cristina Sabbioni
  Acting Director of the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) within the National Research Council (CNR)
• Dr. Salvatore Siano
  Senior researcher of the Institute of Applied Physics, National Research Council, Italy

CIPA/EuroMed2010

• Mrs Jill Cousins
  Executive Director, Europeana Foundation
• Mr. Mathias Mischa Schindler
  Project Manager, Wikimedia Germany
• Mrs Anna Trigona
  Cultural Heritage, Landscape and Spatial Planning Division
  Council of Europe
• Michael Gavrielides
  Cyprus Police Headquarters, Criminal Investigation Department Inspector

CIPA/VSMM/EuroMed2008

• Javier Hernandez-Ros
  Information Society and Media DG, Information Market Unit
• John Van Oudenaren
  World Digital Library
  Library of Congress
• Massimo Negri
  Director of the European Museum Forum and
  Member of the Board of the European Digital Library
• Vassilios Tsingas
  Elliniki Photogrammetriki Ltd, Project Manager of “Development of Geographic Information Systems at the Acropolis of Athens“
• Donna J. Cox
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• David Arnold
  University of Brighton, UK

CIPA/VAST/EG/EuroMed2006

• Mr John Tolva
  Program Manager, Cultural Strategy and Programs
  IBM Corporation
• Dr Jorgo Chatzimarkakis
  Member of the European Parliament
  European Parliament Culture, Standards, Semiotics and a Bit More
• Prof. Marc Wilhelm Küster
  University of Applied Sciences Worms
• Michael Danks
  Windfall Digital
  Producer
  Holborn Studios