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Welcome to the RAID2026 conference by Matthew Astill, CEO, Cavendish Group International, followed by Danilo Turk, Former President of Slovenia, and Board Member, Club of Madrid
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This roundtable workshop will focus on how financial services organisations can implement rapidly evolving AI and digital regulation while continuing to innovate across increasingly cross-border markets. The discussion will explore practical questions including:
The workshop will provide an opportunity for a practical, cross-sector discussion between those developing financial and digital regulation and those responsible for implementing it, with a particular focus on the challenges and opportunities created by the rapid adoption of AI and data-driven technologies.
Format: Moderated discussion with nominated speakers and invited participants who wish to contribute.
Henna Virkkunen
This keynote will explore the tensions at the heart of Europe’s digital debate: between regulation and innovation, competitiveness and responsibility, and European sovereignty and global openness. It will consider how Europe can create the conditions for investment, innovation and growth while maintaining trust, protecting fundamental rights and ensuring the digital economy delivers broad benefits.
Speaker: Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, European Commission
This roundtable workshop will explore how Europe and its Member States can strengthen cloud and AI infrastructure to support competitiveness, innovation and technological resilience. Discussions will focus on the policy priorities underpinning the European Commission’s Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), including investment, digital infrastructure, resilience, permitting, energy and the practical conditions needed to scale AI capacity across Europe.
The workshop will bring together policymakers and industry leaders to exchange practical perspectives on enabling the development and deployment of AI infrastructure and services across Member States, while maintaining openness, security and trust. It will also examine how public and private sector collaboration can accelerate the delivery of scalable, resilient and sustainable AI capacity.
Format: Moderated discussion with nominated speakers and invited participants who wish to contribute.
This invitation-only roundtable workshop will take a practical, cross-sector look at how organisations can build a coherent approach to regulatory compliance when they are simultaneously subject to multiple, overlapping regimes governing AI, data, digital services, platforms and cybersecurity.
The discussion will consider the European framework in an international context, recognising that companies operating in Europe are often subject simultaneously to EU, UK, US and other national or regional regulatory requirements, while regulators themselves increasingly need to cooperate across borders.
The discussion will focus on the practical challenges of implementing these rules, including how organisations allocate responsibility, manage regulatory overlap and fragmentation, and translate evolving requirements into workable governance arrangements across different markets.
Format: Moderated discussion with nominated speakers and invited participants who wish to contribute.
This roundtable workshop will explore how healthcare organisations and technology providers can harness AI, data and digital technologies while navigating an increasingly complex regulatory environment. Discussions will consider the practical implications of the AI Act, GDPR, European Health Data Space (EHDS), Data Act and wider digital regulation for healthcare innovation, deployment and cross-border data use.
The workshop will bring together policymakers, regulators and healthcare and technology leaders to exchange practical perspectives on issues including responsible AI adoption, health data access and sharing, interoperability, regulatory overlap, patient trust and the conditions needed to scale digital health innovation across Europe.
The discussion will also consider how policymakers can balance innovation, patient safety, privacy and security, and how regulation can support rather than inhibit the development and deployment of new healthcare technologies.
Format: Moderated discussion with nominated speakers and invited participants who wish to contribute.
Director, European Government Affairs, Microsoft
Tomas Jakimavicius is Director of European Government Affairs within Microsoft's Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) group. Based in Brussels, he focuses on Digital Infrastructure, Cloud, Tech Sovereignty and Industrial policies impacting Microsoft and its customers’ use of and access to Microsoft’s products and services. Tomas has over 15 years of a wide-ranging senior level experience in both private and public sectors. In his career, he held leadership and advisory positions in trade associations and private sector companies and served as a diplomat representing Lithuania on tech policy at the Council of the European Union. He holds an MSc in Leadership & International Relations from Boston University and an MSc in Enterprise Information Systems from the University of Westminster.
Partner, Clifford Chance, Paris
Dessi Savova is a Partner at Clifford Chance and leads the firm's AI Steering Group, European Tech Group and Paris Tech//Digital practice. She is a recognised authority on artificial intelligence, digital regulation and technology governance, advising leading global organisations on navigating the increasingly complex web of rules governing AI, data, digital services, platforms and cybersecurity.
Dessi helps businesses develop practical and scalable compliance strategies in response to rapidly evolving regulatory frameworks, including the EU AI Act, Digital Services Act, data governance and cybersecurity regimes, and related international requirements. Her work focuses on helping organisations manage regulatory overlap, allocate responsibility across complex business and technology ecosystems, and translate legal obligations into effective governance and operational frameworks.
She advises multinational companies on the implementation of technology and AI governance programmes, risk management, compliance and regulatory engagement across multiple jurisdictions. Her experience spans the full lifecycle of digital regulation, from the design of governance and accountability structures to regulatory investigations, enforcement risks and strategic engagement with policymakers.
Dessi has worked extensively with EU institutions, regulators, think tanks and industry stakeholders on the development of AI and digital governance frameworks and is a leading voice in discussions on the future of technology regulation. She regularly convenes dialogue between business, government, academia and the scientific community on AI, digital policy, online safety and emerging regulatory developments. Through her work with leading universities and research institutions, she also contributes to advancing innovation, education and responsible technology adoption.
Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
Fritz-Ulli, LL.M. is a specialist in IT law and advises national and international clients on IT, telecommunications and data protection law. He has special experience in legal issues of digitalization and artificial intelligence.
His main areas of practice include the drafting of IT contracts and general terms and conditions of business and the support of complex data protection projects as well as advising telecommunications providers or their contractual partners on infrastructure projects and product launches. He also advises the public sector on large-volume IT and infrastructure projects, in particular the Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Construction and Home Affairs and its downstream divisions.
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