BEST Virtual Summit > Education Beyond the Pandemic

European Universities beyond the Pandemic

Session Date: 15 June 2020 at 18:00 CEST

Description:

Panel discussion around how universities are dealing with the pandemic, what challenges and opportunities are arising, what is next for them

Speaker

Name: Fredrik Georgsson
Company: SEFI

Name: Frank Gielen
Company: IET InnoEnergy

Name: Alfredo Soeiro
Company: EDEN

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Prof.Dr.ir. Gielen has extensive experience with R&D in the telecommunication and software technology sector as well as in raising venture capital, university-industry collaborative research and spin-off creation.

Prof.Dr.ir. Gielen held a number of technical and management positions in the software industry. He started as a software architect with AT&T Bell Labs in the USA and was director of software technology at Alcatel. In 1998 he joined Tellium, a US based start-up company in optical network technology, as the VP of Software Engineering. Tellium had a successful IPO on NASDAQ in 2001. He then returned to Europe in 2001 as the CEO for Tellium EMEA.

From 2010 to 2015 he was the Director of the Incubation & Entrepreneurship at iMinds, the leading digital incubator and business accelerator in Flanders. The iStart incubation programme of iMinds was ranked number 4 in UBI’s global ranking of university accelerators in 2015.

Prof.Dr.ir. Gielen was head of the EIT Digital Professional School with the ambition to lead the innovation of professional development and executive education for companies, organisations and individuals going through a digital transformation. Since 2017 he has been the Education Director at EIT InnoEnergy. Currently he is also a professor of software technology entrepreneurship at the University of Ghent.

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