Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Package

Name: Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Package
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June 22 @ 13:00 – 14:30

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

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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 just launched 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.

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Agenda

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

13:05-13:15 | Keynote introduction
Gemma Carolillo, Deputy Head of Future Internet Unit at DG CONNECT, European Commission

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

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

Astor Nummelin Carlberg, Director of Open Source Sovereignty at SUSE
Andrea Gallo, CEO at RISC-V
David Szegedi, Chief Architect – CTO Organisation at Red Hat

14:25-14:30 | Wrap-Up, Conclusion and Next Events
Presented by 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).

Laszlo Igneczi

OpenForum Europe

Laszlo brings three decades of experience spanning EU institutions, national ministries and the private sector to OFE. His career has combined in-depth policy work, liaising with EU institutions and private actors, organisational leadership, and operational execution, always focusing on the next step in technology and crafting a regulatory response to harness the opportunities ahead.

Most recently, he served for ten years as Director of the BEREC Office, the EU Agency supporting the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications. In that role, he led the agency through a period of significant change, enabling BEREC to extend its focus from traditional telecoms regulation toward emerging challenges in the data economy, artificial intelligence, and the shift to from hardware-centric networks to cloud-based and software-defined systems.

Prior to that, he served at Hungary’s Permanent Representation to the EU and Hungary’s Ministry for Information and Communications and Ministry of Economy and Transport, coordinating legislative implementation and EU regulatory alignment. He represented Hungary in the Council Working Parties on information society and telecommunications, audiovisual media, postal services and space policy. Laszlo began his career in the private sector, spending over a decade in telecommunications during the period of market liberalisation and mass digitalisation.

Gemma Carolillo

European Commission

Gemma is Deputy Head of the Future Internet Unit at the European Commission, where she works on the Open Source policy and contributed to the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, as well as internet governance policies – including multistakeholder dialogue, .eu top level domain name regulatory framework, ICANN, internet security, resilience and openness. Previously, she contributed to several policy priorities of the EU Digital Single Market, in particular in the area of cybersecurity (policy and regulation). Gemma has an education background in business management, field where she holds a PhD.

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.

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.

David Szegedi

Red Hat