Date and time: Tuesday, June 23, 2020, 3 pm Israel Daylight Daylight Time (UTC+3)
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This Mind the Chat with Jean-Eric Paquet (European Commission, DG Research and Innovation, director-general) is part of the Scaleup Summit.
Welcome
Ambassador Emanuele Giaufret, head of Delegation of EU to the State of Israel
Lior Navon, head of Sales and Markets Development, Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
Fireside Chat
Jean-Eric Paquet, director-general, DG Research and Innovation, EU Commission
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Agenda, Who’s Who, Expectations
Alberto Onetti, chairman, Mind the Bridge
Marco Marinucci, CEO, Mind the Bridge
Report Launch. Open Innovation Ecosystems: Israel vs Silicon Valley
Alberto Onetti, chairman, Mind the Bridge
Corporate Partners Presentations
Scaleup Landscape
Jean-Eric Paquet, director-general, DG Research and Innovation, EU Commission Interview by Marco Marinucci, Mind the Bridge Founder & CEO.
- The upcoming Horizon Europe framework
- The European Innovation Council
- The EU Green Deal: updates and opportunity for innovators (both startups and corporates)
Those are just some of the topics we plan to address during this #MindtheChat
Jean-Eric Paquet is the director-general of DG Research and Innovation of the European Commission.
He began his career in the European Commission in 1993 in the Directorate-General for Transport. In 1999 he joined the Cabinet of the Commissioner for Enlargement. In 2002 he became the deputy head of cabinet of the Commissioner for Research.
Mr Paquet was EU ambassador in Mauritania between 2004 and 2007.
He returned to DG Transport in 2007 where he led the development of the Trans-European Transport Network policy. As director for the “European Mobility Network” he was responsible for Europe’s transport infrastructure policy and investment strategies, the single European rail area, inland waterways and port policy.
He joined DG Enlargement in 2013 where he took over the Directorate in charge of relations with Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo and the Western Balkans.
In 2015 he was appointed deputy secretary-general of the European Commission in charge of Policy Coordination and Better Regulation, dealing, inter alia with the European Semester for economic policy coordination, energy and climate-related policies, and social and employment policies.
He was appointed to his current position in 2018.