From Insights to Impact: Advancing Europe’s Semiconductor Ambitions

Arian Zwegers serves as a Programme Officer at the European Commission's Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology, within the "Technologies & Systems for Digitising Industry" unit. He earned his PhD from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands for his work in the field of system architecting. Prior to joining the Commission, he held positions at Philips Electronics' Centre for Manufacturing Technology, Baan Development, and PlatteConsult. During his time at the Commission, his work has spanned enterprise interoperability, service engineering, and the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership, and he currently focuses on the Digitising European Industry initiative.

Marc Hijink (1969) is a financial reporter and technology columnist for the Dutch daily newspaper NRC. He covered ASML and its technology for more than a decade and reported on Europe’s role in the tech war between the US and China.

Building upon this experience he got the unique opportunity to take a three-year-long deep dive into the company’s operations and unveil its culture from the inside.

‘Focus – the ASML Way’ offers an intimate look behind the scenes of a company that shunned attention for decades but is suddenly thrust into the spotlight due to geopolitical developments and explosive growth.

‘Focus’ is an autonomous venture, made possible in part by the Dutch Fund for In depth Journalism (FBJP). The book is available worldwide and has been translated into English, Chinese, and several other languages.

Head of Unit at DG CNECT responsible for Microelectronics & Photonics, leading implementation of the EU Chips Act. Previously led cloud, software, and cybersecurity policy at EU level, including industrial data strategy and cloud infrastructure initiatives.
A core policy builder across Europe’s semiconductor, cloud, and digital infrastructure stack.
 

Dr. Roberta Fabrizi  works as  Research Analyst at Trust-IT Services S.r.l. and is part of the ALLPROS.eu 2029 Digital Europe project which acts as the Secretariat to the Industrial Alliance for Semiconductors. Food technologist by training Roberta holds a PhD in Animal and Plant Sciences from the University of Sheffield's Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, UK. In her research she looked at the way innovation is perceived and portrayed in moments of economic shift and political uncertainty. Today Roberta uses her skills in science communication, capacity building and knowledge exchange to create science dissemination content and to support EU-funded projects' communication activities and stakeholder engagement. At Trust-IT Services, Roberta puts her passion for scientific storytelling into practice by supporting the European digital innovation, sustainability and Earth Science.