Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Package

Name: Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Package
Start: 2026-06-22T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-22T14:30:00+01:00

June 22 @ 13:00 – 14:30

NGI Commons webinar: Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Package: Key Takeaways and Next Steps

Join us for this fifth edition of a series of webinars, which started in 2025. This one aims to provide a comprehensive overview of Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Package in 90 minutes.

As the European Union prepares to launch its ambitious Tech Sovereignty Package in 2026, organisations across the digital ecosystem are facing a pivotal moment. This webinar offers a clear, strategic overview of what the package means in practice, cutting through policy complexity to highlight the real implications for industry, innovation, and public infrastructure.

Led by the NGI Commons project, the session explores how this framework goes beyond regulation to reshape Europe’s digital ecosystem. Rather than adding new layers of bureaucracy, the package aims to streamline existing rules while strengthening Europe’s capabilities in critical domains such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and open-source software.

Stay tuned for more information and the agenda!

Agenda

13:00-13:05 | Welcome and introduction
Presented by Dr Monique Calisti, Martel Innovate

13:05-13:15 | Keynote speech
EC representative

13:15-13:35 | Expert Perspectives from NGI Commons

Laszlo Igneczi, OpenForum Europe
Giovanni Rimassa, Martel Innovate
Zuzanna Warso, Open Future Foundation

13:35-14:25 | High-Level Plenary Discussion Session and Q&A
Moderated by Dr Monique Calisti, Martel Innovate

Pamela Krosta-Hartl, Managing Director at ZenDiS
Astor Nummelin Carlberg, Director of Open Source Sovereignty at SUSE
Andrea Gallo, CEO at RISC-V

14:50-15:00 | Wrap-Up and Conclusion
Presented by Dr Monique Calisti, Martel Innovate, and Laszlo Igneczi, OpenForum Europe

Meet the speakers

Dr. Monique Calisti

Martel Innovate

Dr. Monique Calisti is the CEO of Martel Innovate and the President of Digital for Planet. She is a passionate entrepreneur and ICT expert with consolidated experience in research and innovation funding, strategic consulting, communication and business development of sustainable innovative solutions across several industry segments. With extensive domain knowledge in Artificial Intelligence and Next Generation Internet, Monique is engaged in several projects focusing on definition and development of advanced, human-centric, and green digital technologies. Monique holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Switzerland), and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering (University of Bologna, Italy).

Zuzanna Warso

Open Future Foundation

Zuzanna is the Director of Research at OpenFuture Foundation. She has fiftenn years of experience with human rights research and advocacy. In her work, she has focused on the intersection of science, technology, human rights and ethics. Zuzanna spent more than eight years with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, a prominent human rights non-governmental organization in Poland, where she has gained experience in advocacy and policy work.

She holds a Ph.D. in International Law and an M.A. in English Studies from the University of Warsaw. She has been involved in national and international interdisciplinary research and innovation projects, exploring the ethics of new technologies and their impact on human rights and freedoms. Before joining Open Future, Zuzanna researched the ethical and human rights challenges posed by new and emerging technologies. Since 2019 she has been acting as an independent expert to the European Commission, where she is involved in the ethics monitoring of research and innovation projects.

Dr. Giovanni Rimassa

Martel Innovate

Dr. Giovanni Rimassa is Chief Innovation Officer at Martel, supporting business development, market positioning and commercialisation activities, as well as leading initiatives around Artificial Intelligence and Computing Continuum. Giovanni holds a Ph.D. in Information Engineering (Università di Parma, Italy), with a Thesis on Runtime Support for Distributed Multi-Agent Systems. He authored more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and participated in several research projects, spanning five EC Framework Programmes and such diverse topics as cloud-edge-IoT computing, intelligent business process management, semantic knowledge management, intelligent distributed systems, smart cities, digital enhanced learning. Open Source Software accompanied him during his 25 year professional path between academia and industry, from the multi-agent middleware beginning, over to an Eclipse-based iBPMS platform, to the current Martel offering for IoT and Smart Cities.

Pamela Krosta-Hartl

ZenDiS

Pamela Krosta-Hartl, Managing Director at ZenDiS has been committed to strengthening Germany’s Digital Sovereignty for more than a decade and is co-author of several publications that have been produced since 2015 as part of the Digital Sovereignty Focus Group at the BMWi and the Digital Sovereignty Think Tank. In 2021, after more than 20 years in the private sector, she moved to the federal administration and helped build up the Federal Digital Service as part of the leadership team. Since April 2024, she’s been pushing forward Digital Sovereignty in public administration as Head of Strategy, Market & Communication at ZenDiS and took on the role of Managing Director in October 2025.

Andrea Gallo

RISC-V International

Andrea Gallo is CEO of RISC-V International. Before joining RISC-V as VP of Technology, Gallo worked in leadership roles at Linaro for over a decade as Vice President of Business Development, driving the company’s membership acquisition strategy and previously managing the Linaro Datacenter and Cloud, Home, Mobile, Networking, IoT, and Embedded Segment Groups and underlying open source collaborative projects within the Arm ecosystem.

Astor Nummelin Carlberg

SUSE

Astor Nummelin Carlberg is a leading architect of European digital sovereignty. At SUSE, he drives open source strategy and builds strategic alliances across industry and government to ensure digital sovereignty is achieved through transparent, secure, and interoperable technology free from vendor lock-in. He combines technical credibility, industry insight and policy expertise.