Silicon Sovereignty: Securing Europe's Chip Future
Speaker
Oliver Schenk
Oliver Schenk has been a Member of the European Parliament for Germany since July 2024. He belongs to the CDU and sits with the European People’s Party (EPP) group. He is a member of the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety and the Committee on Public Health. He is also a substitute member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). From 2017 to 2024 he headed the Saxon State Chancellery under Minister-President Michael Kretschmer. Before that, from 2014 to 2017, he was Director-General for health policy at Germany’s Federal Ministry of Health.
Kilian Gross
Director at the European Commission (DG CNECT), leading some of Europe’s most strategic technology portfolios: supercomputing and AI gigafactories, quantum strategy and future Quantum Act, and the EU Chips Act / microelectronics policy. Previously a key architect and lead executor of the EU AI Act.
A central EU figure shaping sovereignty across AI, quantum, and semiconductors.
Moderator
Silvana Muscella
Silvana Muscella is CEO and founder of Trust-IT Services and co-founder of the software house COMMpla. She has more than 25 years of experience as an EU strategic coordinator in digital technologies. She has led major EU initiatives on ICT standards, cloud and semiconductors, including StandICT.eu and ALLPROS.eu, and chaired the High-Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud. Since 2003 she has served as an expert evaluator for the European Commission.