Since being introduced to the public sector by the Tech4Germany Fellowship back in 2020, I strive to empower the government to think and act digital, data-driven, service oriented, and human-centric. I do this by facilitating interdisciplinary teams and empowering public servants as a product manager.

My team and I spent the last two years creating and iterating the German government's "Digitalcheck" to create an environment that enables the drafting of digital-ready policy.

Georges Lobo holds PhD in Particle Physics from the University of Paris-Sud (Orsay, France). He has been active in research in Particle and Nuclear physics for about 10 years before working in ICT. He started working at the Commission 24 years ago as a researcher and have been in charge of IT in a number of commission services as Informatics Resource Manager. Since 2012 he is working as Programme Manager in digital technologies working on a number of topics such as Internet of Things, Network Technologies, Connected Automated Driving and Smart Cities, and has joined the Interoperability unit in 2017 where he was in charge currently in charge of Digital Innovation in the public sector and GovTech issues as well as the Interoperable Europe Academy. In 2022, he joined the Next Generation Internet unit dealing with topics such as Digital Commons and Open Source innovation. He recently joined the Interoperability and Digital Government unit where focusing on Semantic Interoperability among other topics. 

 

 

Giorgia is a technologist and the privacy reference contact at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR). She received the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bologna in 2006. From 2011 to 2020 Giorgia served as a consultant for "Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale" of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in such topics as technical and semantic interoperability, (linked) open data, cloud computing. She is one of the authors of the various national technical guidelines for open data and public sector information reuse, and of the Italian network of ontologies and controlled vocabularies named OntoPiA. She has been and is involved, also as technical manager, in a number of EU and national funded projects. She is co-founder of the CNR spinoff named BUP, an innovative company working in the field of artificial intelligence.