Archives for 2019

Arda Gerkens is Vice-Chairman and member of the Senate. Before that she was a member of the House of Representatives with, among other things, ICT as a focus area. In 2013, she submitted a motion to the Senate that was broadly supported by the House of Representatives, which prompted the report of the Rathenau Institute […]

Holger H. Hoos is Professor of Machine Learning at Universiteit Leiden (the Netherlands) and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (Canada), where he also holds an appointment as Faculty Associate at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and […]

Helen Brown is Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), an intergovernmental organisation established by treaty in 1899 which provides services for the resolution of disputes involving various combinations of states, state entities, intergovernmental organisations and private parties. In this capacity, she provides legal and administrative support to arbitral tribunals in PCA‑administered proceedings, […]

Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He contributes to global policy development and continued spread of the Internet. Widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served in executive positions at […]

Jeff Bullwinkel serves as Microsoft’s Associate General Counsel and Regional Director of Corporate, External & Legal Affairs for Europe.  He is based in Amsterdam and oversees the company’s legal and corporate affairs teams across the region, providing support for commercial transactions and regulatory counsel on public policy issues such as IPR, cybersecurity, competition, and international […]