Speakers

• Loris Di Pietrantonio

Loris Di Pietrantonio is Policy Development Officer at the European Commission, DG Information Society and Media and is providing policy and coordination assistance to the Director in charge of the area "ICT addressing societal challenges". He has been in charge of the design of policies for digital inclusion, ICT for social care and addressing Europe's ageing challenge. He has carried out a number of impact assessment studies in these domains and has contributed to the development of the e-Inclusion Initiative in 2008. In 2004 he joined the European Commission with evaluation functions in the area of information society. From 2000 to 2004 he has been working in the business sector in the design of research and innovation strategies for sustainable transport industry. He is author of a number of publications in the area of research and industrial policy, electronic communications and transport and he occasionally lectures. He has an MA in European Economics from the College of Europe, Bruges Belgium, an MA on Energy Management from BI Norwegian School of Management and ESCP-Europe (France) and a degree in international relations from the University of Trieste.

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