Past Speakers

Some of the most influential academics, as well as key industry, government and learned societies leaders have been among the keynote speakers and panellists. They have helped to establish ECSS as one of the most prominent meetings of the European Information and Computer Science community.

Academy

Ewan Birney - European Bioinformatics Institute (UK)
Manfred Broy - TU München (Germany)
Marie-Paule Cani - Ecole Polytechnique (France)
Stefano Ceri - Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Robert L. Constable - Cornell University (USA)
Roberto Di Cosmo - INRIA (France)
Anna Cox - University College London (UK)
Hannes Federrath - University of Hamburg / German Informatics Society (Germany)
Anthony Finkelstein - Alan Turing Institute, UK government (UK)
Carlo Ghezzi - Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Georg Gottlob - University of Oxford (UK)
Thomas Gross - ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Wendy Hall - University of Southampton (UK)
Lynda Hardman, CWI / Utrecht University (the Netherlands)
Mark Harman, Meta Platforms Inc. and UCL (UK)
Monika Henzinger - Univerity of Vienna (Austria)
Manuel Hermenegildo - IMDEA / UPM (Spain)
Marina  Jirotka - University of Oxford (UK)
Elham Kashefi - UK National Quantum Computing Centre (UK)
Maarja Kruusmaa - Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)
Mirella Lapata - University of Edinburgh (UK)
Friedemann Mattern - ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Kurt Mehlhorn - Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik (Germany)
Bertrand Meyer - ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
John Mylopoulos - Univerity of Trento (Italy)
Enrico Nardelli, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' (Italy)
Bart Preneel - KU Leuven (Belgium)
Walter Quattrociocchi - Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)
Wilhelm Schäfer - University of Paderborn (Germany)
Joseph Sifakis - University of Grenoble (France)
Judith Simon - University of Hamburg (Germany)
Eugene Spafford - Purdue University (USA)
Moshe Vardi - Rice University (USA)
Jochen Viehoff - Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (Germany)
Alexander Wolf - University of California at Santa Cruz (USA)
Andreas Zeller - Saarland University (Germany)

Associations

Ed Lazowska - CRA
J Strother Moore - CRA
Jon Oberlander - SICSA
John White - ACM

Government/ Policy/ Funding

Franco Acordino - EU/EC
Isidro Laso Ballesteros - EU/EC
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon - ERC
Janice Cuny - NSF
Georgi Dimitrov - EU/EC
Danny Dolev - ERC
Farnam Jahanian - NSF
Willem Jonker - EIT Digital KIC
Arthur Lupia - NSF
André Richier - EU/EC
Sonia Piedrafita Tremosa - European Education and Culture Executive Agency
Anne-Marie Sassen - Head of Unit "Programme Managers Office" at European Innovation Council and SME Executive Agency
Jeannette Wing - NSF

Industry

Sailesh Chutani - Microsoft
Mark Harris - Intel
Andrew Herbert – Microsoft
Roland Jakab - Ericsson
Leslie Lamport - Microsoft Research
Michael Müller-Wünsch - Otto GmbH & Co KG
Africa Real - HP
Alfred Spector - Google
Liba Svobodova - IBM
Pamela Zave - AT&T Labs
Ruoyi Zhou - IBM

Entrepreneurs

François Bancilhon - Data Publica
Jaan Tallinn - Skype

**Note that the affiliation indicated was the one at the time of their participation in the respective ECSS. Some speakers have changed affiliation since then.