Mr Kristof Almasy

Policy officer

European Commission

Kristóf Almásy is a policy officer at the European Commission's Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT), in the Internet of Things unit.
He works on the digitalisation of mobility, notably on the deployment of the common European mobility data space.
With a background in public policy and economics, he has held various positions linked to the digital transformation of the economy in the Commission, the French Directorate General for Enterprise and in consulting.

Sessions in which Mr Kristof Almasy attends

Tuesday 31 August, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels

9:00 AM

OPENING: NEXT-GENERATION IoT FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

1 hour 15 minutes, 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Sébastien Ziegler, Mandat International / ECCP (Moderator)

Pearse O'Donohue, European Commission (Speaker)

Chaesub Lee, COLLCOMM (Speaker)

Mr Jürgen Sturm, AIOTI (Speaker)

Joann O´Brien, TM Forum (Speaker)

Thomas Hahn, Siemens AG (Speaker)

Monique Calisti, Martel Innovate (Speaker)

The rising awareness of climate change has caused the popularization of sustainability and the realization that we need to do things not only di...

2:00 PM

From Cloud to Edge to IoT for European Data

1 hour, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Panel

Rolf Riemenschneider, European Commission (Moderator)

Max Lemke, European Commission (Speaker)

Haydn Thompson, THHINK (Speaker)

As data becomes the new oil of the economy and a key asset to address societal challenges like mobility, energy, carbon-neutral cities and manuf...

3:15 PM

IoT MARKET PERSPECTIVES ON DATA ECONOMY

1 hour, 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

Alena Siarheyeva, NUMINT (Moderator)

Rolf Riemenschneider, European Commission (Speaker)

Omar Elloumi, Nokia (Speaker)

Lars Nagel, International Data Spaces Association (Speaker)

Alexander Gluhak, Urban Data Collective (Speaker)

Nicolas Kourtellis, Telefónica (Speaker)

Massive growth of devices and systems connected to the Internet raises technology and policy challenges on a new scale. With an ever more hetero...

Wednesday 1 September, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels

3:15 PM

Designing Data Spaces in Real Llife

1 hour, 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

Edward Curry, Big Data Value Association (BDVA) (Speaker)

Tuomo Tuikka, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Speaker)

Gianfranco Cecconi, Capgemini Invent (Speaker)

Angelo Marguglio, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SPA (Speaker)

Herman Pals, TNO ICT (Speaker)

Introducing data spaces into society makes us designers of a new world exploiting the sharing of data in a totally new way. As designers, we need t...

4:30 PM

IoT 4 SDGs

1 hour, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Anna Brékine, Mandat International (Speaker)

Cristina Martínez, European Commission (Speaker)

Ms Cristina Bueti, ITU - International Telecommunication Union (Speaker)

Ms Renáta Radócz, IoTLab (Moderator)

Mr David Jensen, UNEP (Speaker)

The IoT has the potential to address some of the most acute human, economic and environmental needs. It can also directly contribute to achieving t...

Thursday 2 September, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels

4:00 PM

IoT AND EDGE COMPUTING STANDARDIZATION CHALLENGES

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Georgios Karagiannis, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH (Speaker)

Anna Brékine, Mandat International (Speaker)

Adrian Quesada Rodríguez, Mandat International (Moderator)

Olaf-Gerd Gemein, Smart Cities Lab (Speaker)

Svetoslav Mihaylov, European Commission (Speaker)

The expansion of the IoT and edge computing landscape has brought opportunities but also new challenges. Standards have an essential role in the...

Friday 3 September, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels

9:00 AM

INDUSTRIAL IoT: TOWARDS THE INDUSTRY 5.0 REVOLUTION

1 hour 15 minutes, 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Pedro Maló, UNPARALLEL (Moderator)

Mr Alessandro Liani, Video Systems (Speaker)

Roberto Siagri (Keynote speaker)

Sean O´Reagain, European Commission (Speaker)

Natalie Samovich, ENERCOUTIM (Speaker)

Disclosing the key role of IoT in the so-called 4.0 revolution and how it is intertwined with other technologies that are going to fundamentally tr...

3:15 PM

IoT Powering Smart Tourism Capitals

1 hour, 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

Dolores Ordoñez, AnySolution S.L. (Moderator)

Misa Labarile, European Commission (Speaker)

Niklas Masuch, Göteborg & Co (Speaker)

Jonathan Gómez, Malaga City Hall (Speaker)

Tourism is one of the most dynamic industries in the world. And COVID19 has hit it especially hard, not only affecting companies but also the de...