ECHA IT DAYS
29-30 May 2024 | Helsinki
Programme
Parts marked with (*) are streamed online.
Day 1
09.00–09.15 - Welcome to ECHA IT Days
Kai Taka-aho, Director of Information Systems, ECHA
09.15-09.30 - ECHA's new strategy
Sharon McGuinness, ECHA Executive Director
09.30-10.30 - Keynote
Jari Sarasvuo, Entrepreneur, Business Coach and Multi-talented visionary
10.30-11.00 - Coffee break
11.00-11.45 - Setting the scene for IT trends*
Heikki Lahdensuo, Gartner
11.45-12.30 - ECHA IT vision and big rocks for the next 5 years*
Loukas Georgiou, Orion Andrews, Fabrizio Francioso, ECHA
12.30-13.15 - Lunch break
13.15-13.45 - State of AI and future use cases for ECHA*
Athanasios Demiris, Panagiotis Karamertzanis, ECHA
13.45-14.15 - Transformation of regulatory processes end-to-end – TREND initiative*
Charis Vezyridou, Elina Liopa and Claudia Rimondo, ECHA
14.15-14.45 - Learnings from building software in public cloud – case ECHA CHEM*
Konstantinos Gkountanas, NRB Trasys and Dimitrios Pantazis, Uni Systems
14.45-15.00 - Coffee break
15.00-16.00 - Collaboration Workshop
Multiple topics:
- Cloud operating model
- DevOps in multi contractor ecosystem
- Power of PowerApps
- Modernisation of legacy systems
- Costs and capacity optimisation in the cloud: better code equals less costs?
- From waterfall to SAFe; the promises of modern governance
16.00-16.45 - Panel discussion on the workshop outcomes
16.45-17.00 - Closing of the day
17.00-19.00 - Evening programme
Opportunity to discuss and network on the topics of the day
Day 2
08.45-09.00 - Opening of the day
ECHA
09.00-09.30 - Case: ECHA Design system and benefits of it*
Sharon Spiteri Enden, ECHA and Toni Strandell, Reaktor
09.30-10.00 - Business-IT alignment in practice: the highs, the lows, and the in-betweens of working together with IT – ECHA CHEM*
Veronique Janaszek, Aris Vahlas, Roberta Di Blasi and François Le Goff, ECHA
10.00-10.30 - Adapting to change: navigating an evolving threat landscape and a new cybersecurity regulation*
Computer Emergency Response Team for the EU institutions, bodies and agencies (CERT-EU)
10.30-10.45 - Coffee break
10.45-11.15 - The AI opportunities and experiences in European institutions*
Petri Pääkkönen, European Medicines Agency (EMA)
11.15-11.45 - Modern data management and getting the underlaying data AI ready*
Mario Monguidi and Giancarlo Franco Costa, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
11.45-12.15 - AI in software development
Jesus Gonzalez Perez, Directorate-General for Digital Services (DIGIT)
12.15-12.45 - How AI tools are changing knowledge work – Case AI-conic Coffee
Antti Merilehto, AI-entrepreneur, Elev Consulting