Agenda

Alfredo M. Ronchi - professor at Politecnico di Milano (Engineering Faculty), Expert/advisor in e- Services, Head of the JRC S2D2 (Safety, Security, Defence, Disaster Recovery and Management), Secretary General of the EC-MEDICI Framework of Cooperation, delegate at UNESCO IFAP and active member of the WSIS since the establishment (2003-/).

Mr Ronchi is member of the following Boards: Member of AI&Society board (Springer Nature), Board of Directors Global Forum (France), Member Emeritus World Summit Award Board of Directors (Austria), Board of Directors European Education New Society Association (ENSA France). Member of the Keio University NoE (Japan). Member of the Advisory Board of the School of Law under the aegis of GD Goenka University (Hyderabad, India).

He cooperated as organizer or programme chair in W3C, ACM, IEEE, ITU-WSIS conferences; since more than thirty-five years he organizes and manages international projects, conferences and workshops.
Author/contributor of more than 400 papers and various books on: e-Culture, e-Government, e-Safety & Security, and e-Services.

Peter A. Bruck is an entrepreneurial scholar with a strong record in media and tech systems and social transformation and justice. As an entrepreneur he has founded and created four research companies in applied Information and Communication Technologies and smart digital solutions and two start-ups in the eduTech space. His research work is focused on technology transfer between universities and markets with a particular interest in the interaction between cultures and technologies. He founded several research centers in universities in Canada and Austria and acted as the founding president of the University of Applied Science in Salzburg. Bruck directed several research programs in media and digital tech making academic work more relevant and impactful for advancing social justice, democratic participation and cultural sovereignty.
He has nearly 40 years’ experience in founding and managing academic and business- oriented research centers and IT companies. He created the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg and its first programs to focus on information economy and multimedia. He has acted as business consultant and policy advisor in digital technologies in Austria,
Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Portugal, the US and Canada and to the European Union. His rich experience includes working as the Chief Content Officer as member of the Board of management of the Telekom Austria Group where is also lead the business unit on Interactive Media. He founded and managed for 20 years as CEO and Chief Researcher
the Research Studios Austria FG, bringing digital innovations from universities into markets. He successfully started up several companies in the research and educational tech space and effectively concluded M&A deals.
Peter A. Bruck founded the World Summit Awards as Austrian Member State’s initiative for the UN World Summit on Information Society in 2003, with a current reach in and participation from 187 countries from around the global. This work built upon the success of the Austrian State Prize in MuliMediArt and the EU’s EUROPRIX MultiMediaArt from
1998- 2005

With a degree from the Sorbonne University in Philosophy and Literature, Pierre Bonis began his career at the French
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Acting as an advisor on digital divide issues from 2002 to 2004, in 2005 he became Head of the
NICT Office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He first joined Afnic in January 2008 as Head of Products and Partnerships,
within the Communication Department. In January 2009, he was appointed as an advisor to the Cabinet of the Secretary of
State for the Development of the Digital Economy.
He was responsible for innovation, content and international affairs. From November 2010 to February 2012, he continued to advise the Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing. Pierre Bonis joined Afnic for the
second time in October 2012. He was appointed to the post of Deputy CEO. A specialist in international cooperation issues, he was also a member of the Board of Trustees of CENTR, the Council of European National Top-level Domain Registries, from 2016 to 2020. On the recommendation of Afnic’s Board of Trustees, Pierre was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the association on 1 September 2017. In 2018, he was co-chair of the organising committee of the World Forum on Internet Governance in Paris, organised under the aegis of the United Nations. Main recent publications: - February 2019: “Digital divides” article in the collective work “Digital challenges” coordinated by Dalila Rahmouni-Syed Gaffar, Bruyland editions - September 2020: Coordinator of the “Internet, borders and territories” issue of the “Digital Challenges”series of the “Annales des mines” review. - November 2020: Co-editor with Godefroy Beauvallet of the “Digital infrastructures” article in the collective work “Digital technology, public action and democracy” published by the Rouen and Le Havre University Presses (PUHR).