SPEAKERS 2019
Marc Hansen
Minister Delegate for Digitalisation
After the legislative elections of 14 October 2018, Marc Hansen was appointed Minister for the Civil Service, Minister for Relations with Parliament, Minister Delegate for Digitalisation and Minister Delegate for the Administrative Reform on 5 December 2018 in the coalition government formed by the DP, the LSAP and déi gréng.
Marc Hansen started his professional career with DNR (Den Neie Radio). He worked at RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg and RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg from 1995 to 2009. From 2009 to 2011, he served as a parliamentary attaché. From 2011 to 2014, Marc Hansen was the chief executive officer and managing director of Éditions Lëtzebuerger Journal. He is also the cofounder of several innovative start-ups in the information technology sector.
Steve Collar
President and CEO - SES
Mr. Steve Collar was appointed CEO of SES in April 2018. He had been the CEO of SES Networks since May 2017. Prior to SES Networks, Mr. Collar was CEO of O3b Networks and guided the company through the successful build and launch of its constellation of state-of-the-art satellites. In 2015, O3b Networks became the fastest growing satellite operator in history. In 2016, O3b was fully acquired by SES and now forms an integral part of SES Networks.
Mr. Collar is a satellite industry veteran, having previously worked in a variety of commercial, business development and technical roles at SES World Skies, New Skies Satellites, Astrium and Matra Marconi Space (now Airbus).
Mr. Collar is a British national.
Márton Fülöp
Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Operating Officer - Docler Holding
Pascal Steichen
CEO - Securitymadein.lu
Monique Kieffer
Director - Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg
Kolos Kaszály
CTO - Docler Holding
Kolos Kaszaly is CTO at Docler Holding and he’s passionate about engineering and leadership. He coordinates engineering teams of our streaming platform. He’s working on building up the biggest engineering community in Luxembourg.
Carlos Gonser
Engineering Manager - Docler Holding
Carlos is an Engineering Manager at Docler Holding, where he leads different development teams responsible for one of the most visited streaming websites in the world. Carlos is passionate about growing engineering teams, using technology to bring high scalability to businesses and building products people care about.
Joël Grotz
Systems Architecture and Innovation Manager - SES
Joël works on the next generation of satellite communication systems. He has worked on developing real time modem systems in the past.
Muriel Hooghe
Contengency and Transition Planning Manager - SES
Muriel also spent some years in the SES Flight Dynamics team and was involved in station-keeping and collocation of the SES satellites.
Alexandru Serban
Responsible for Service Management - GovSat
Alexandru Serban has held various engineering roles, mainly on IP communications, in various telecom providers of which for more than five years in SES.
JURY 2019
OPEN DATA CHALLENGE
Thierry Degeling
Security Analyst - GOVCERT.LU
Thierry works as security analyst at GOVCERT.LU. He is one of the initiators of a project which started during the very first Game of Code in 2016 called "Transport for Luxembourg".
Francis Kaell
Responsable de la Division open data et accès à l'information - Le Gouvernement du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg
Francis Kaell is a main responsible of government’s open data project and is actually head of the open data and access to information division at Luxembourg’s information and press service SIP.
Ralph Marschall
Responsable de la digitalisation – Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg
Patrick Weber
Project Manager - Ministère de la Mobilité et des Travaux Publics
Patrick has been involved from the start in the Open Data initiative as a project manager, and has been working on the Geoportail.lu team since 2013. Previously, he spent 10 years as a data scientist (before the term even existed!), researcher and lecturer at University College London, working on Geographic Information Science projects, and completing a Computer Science Engineering Doctorate.
He is a specialist in (spatial) data analysis, processing and visualisation, developing projects in such diverse areas as business location decision-making and interactive historic data visualisation (www.bombsight.org), but also a keen interest in crowd sourcing projects such as OpenStreetMap.
Dany Thielen
Chef de division « Présence Internet » - Centre des technologies de l’information de l’Etat
Dany Thielen is responsible for Guichet.lu, the Government’s official information portal of administrative procedures for citizens and businesses.
DOCLER HOLDING'S CHALLENGE
Serge Linckels
Directeur Adjoint à la formation professionnelle - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l'enfance et de la jeunesse
Serge holds a PhD in Internet- and Systems Technologies and an engineering degree in computer science. He has been teaching technologies in Luxembourg since 1997. He has given several lectures in Germany, Switzerland, and Luxembourg, and written more than 30 conference papers on ICT in education. In addition, four published books fall under his name.
Larissa Best
CEO - Equilibre Luxembourg
Larissa is the director and co-founder of Equilibre, a Luxembourg-based think and action tank delivering research, advisory and advocacy for ‘gender complementarity’ at work – working with companies of all sizes, government bodies and associations to harnessing the power of diversity. She has been nominated president of the Luxembourg Business Angel Network and is a member of the board of the European Business Angel Network.
Xavier Buck
Serial Entrepreneur, Visionary and ICT “Guru” - EuroDNS
Xavier Buck has been an Internet Entrepreneur since 1996. He founded Datacenter Luxembourg SA in 2000, which became a leading hosting company in Europe, to be followed two years later by EuroDNS, one of the leading global Internet Registrar Groups.
Having gained experience in building companies from scratch, Xavier has decided to help talented teams and individuals with knowledge, networking and funds. For example, he invested in niche Internet start-ups like Doctena.com. Xavier recently joined the Board of known VCs as Groupe HLD, One RagTime and CDCL. Since 2014 Xavier Buck is the president of the ICT Cluster Luxembourg.
Carlos Gonser
Engineering Manager - Docler Holding
Carlos is an Engineering Manager at Docler Holding, where he leads different development teams responsible for one of the most visited streaming websites in the world. Carlos is passionate about growing engineering teams, using technology to bring high scalability to businesses and building products people care about.
Kolos Kaszály
CTO - Docler Holding
Kolos Kaszaly is CTO at Docler Holding and he’s passionate about engineering and leadership. He coordinates engineering teams of our streaming platform. He’s working on building up the biggest engineering community in Luxembourg.
GOVSAT / SES'S CHALLENGE
Muriel Hooghe
Contengency and Transition Planning Manager - SES
Muriel also spent some years in the SES Flight Dynamics team and was involved in station-keeping and collocation of the SES satellites.
Joël Grotz
Systems Architecture and Innovation Manager - SES
Joël works on the next generation of satellite communication systems. He has worked on developing real time modem systems in the past.
Martin Halliwell
Strategic Advisor - SES
Martin was appointed Strategic Advisor to the President & CEO on 1st January 2019 and worked as Chief Technical Officer from on 1st May 2011 until 31st December 2018.
Alexandru Serban
Responsible for Service Management - GovSat
Alexandru Serban has held various engineering roles, mainly on IP communications, in various telecom providers of which for more than five years in SES.
TEAMS 2019
