Dynamic Success for First-ever RoboBusiness Europe 2013

European robotics has a new, annual business conference and networking platform

It’s just what European robotics needed: a fresh, new conference concept that digs deep into the finances, investments and business strategies of robotics and its associated industries.

The timing couldn’t have been better for the first-ever Robobusiness Europe, which is the re-styled, EU-energized edition of the US-based RoboBusiness Leadership Summit.

The missing ingredient: business

RoboBusiness: “It’s where robotics means business.” Attendees reacted positively to the format, content and networking approach offered at the event, with some calling it simply, “an intelligent conference with an exceptional difference—business!”

RoboBusiness Europe concluded in Genoa (11-12 April) after a two-day conference that offered an insider’s edge to the business opportunities and market advantages of the European and global robotics market with a special focus on 7^th Framework Program projects from the European Union and a look towards and beyond Horizon 2020’s launch in January of 2014.

The perfect match

It’s the perfect match: Horizon 2020 mark’s the EC’s new Private-Public Partnership (PPP)  initiative in bringing robotics to market and RoboBusiness Europe is the conference that specializes in how to do it.

Researchers, robotics companies, start up financial institutions were all in Genoa to learn, discuss and exchange ideas about robotics technologies and what is needed by both companies and institutions in the EC’s upcoming Private-Public Partnership (PPP) initiative.

With more than forty speakers from all over Europe presenting on topics ranging from industry, commerce and agriculture, surgical and healthcare, individual robotics, emergency response and dangerous environments, plus robot sub-systems, components and operating software, the RoboBusiness audience was presented with an  insightful look-see into just what it is that Europe has in readiness for Horizon 2020.

The RoboBusiness Europe agenda was packed with on-point, insightful and actionable information delivered by some forty key robotics experts and leaders from business, industry, academia and high-tech investment firms (see speaker list).

“Research that Matters: EU Robotics Aims for the Marketplace”

Robotics Business Review interviewes Libor Kral,Head of the EU’s Robotics Unit

SPEAKERS 

Domenico Appendino, Executive Board Italian Machine Tools, Robots and Automation Manufacturers’ Association (UCIMU); Vice President, JV’s & Business Development Prima Industrie, Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline .

Lijin Aryananda, Robotics Core Technology Leader, Hocoma AG, Switzerland. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Robert Babuska, Professor of Intelligent Control and Robotics, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Arturo Baroncelli, Vice President, International Federation of Robotics(IFR); Manager, Comau (Consorzio Macchine Utensili), Italy . Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Francesco Becchi, Head, the Telerobot Concept Labs Business unit, Telerobot, Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Matteo Bonfanti Senior Analyst, Fondamenta Sgr, private equity and venture capital firm, Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Giuseppe Casalino, Professor, Scuola Politecnica, University of Genoa, Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Renaud Champion, Co-founder and Partner, Robolution Capital; Executive Director, Syrobo, France . Click to open the speaker’s ouline.

Roberto Cingolani, Scientific director, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Paolo Dario, Professor director of the Biorobotics Institute at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy . Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Ruediger Dillmann, Head of the Anthropomatics Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),  Germany . Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Vladimir Djapic, Scientist and Project Leader, Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation  (CMRE) – NATO and Technical Director, Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge – Europe (SAUC-E). Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Michele Frignani, Reactors and Safety Department, Ansaldo Nucleare, Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Paula Gomes,Consultant, Cambridge Consultants, UK. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Tom Green, Editor in Chief, Robotics Business Review, USA. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Luca Izzotti, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Product Planning, Selex ES – Polo Sosia, Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Giorgio Alessandro Karaghiosoff, General Director, Studio Karaghiosoff e Frizzi Srl, Italy . Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Libor Kral, Head, Unit A2 – Robotics in DG Communication Networks, Content & Technology, European Commission. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Clive Loughlin, Editor in chief, Industrial Robot, UK. Click to openthe speaker’s outline.

Thomas Maier, Business Development Manager, Bluetechnix GmbH, Austria. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Lorenzo Masia, Team Leader, Motor Learning and Rehabilitation Lab, Robotics Brain & Cognitive Science Dept.,  Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy . Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Massimo Mattucci, Chairman, European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA), Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Franca Melfi, Chair, Robotic Multidisciplinary Center for Surgery, University Hospital of Pisa, Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Rezia Molfino, President, Italian Association of Robotics and Automation (SIRI);Professor, Scuola Politecnica, University of Genoa, Italy.  Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Sergio Orlandi,Director of Central Engineering & Plant (CEP) Directorate ITER Organization, (formerly D.G Ansaldo Nucleare), Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Erik Pekkeriet, Senior Project Manager, Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Fiora Pirri, Professor, Alcor Lab, La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

Enrico Pittaluga, Member, Italian Business Angels Network (IBAN), Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Fabrizio Priori, Director of National Operations Centre, Vigili del Fuoco, Italy

Giuseppe Maria Prisco, Member, Italian Angels for Growth (IAG), and CEO, MEDra srl Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Claus Risager, Director, Blue Ocean Robotics, Denmark. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Patrice Robert, Robotics R&D Manager, Bouygues Travaux Public, France. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Giulio Sandini Research Director, Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Diana Saraceni, General partner, 360 Capital Partners, Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline

Per Sjoborg,editor at www.FlexibilityEnvelope.com and Robotspodcast.com. Click to open the speaker’s outline

Nick Tillett, Consultant,  Garford Farm Machinery, UK. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Tullio Tolio, Full Professor, Director, Institute of Industrial Technologies & Automation (ITIA); Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR,) Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Stefano Tonello, CEO, IT+Robotics, Italy. Click to open the speaker’s outline

Giuseppe Turchetti, Professor, Istituto di Management, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa, Italy; Fulbright Scholar. Click to open the speaker’s outline.

Frank van Heesch, Senior Research Scientist, Philips Research, Eindhoven, Netherlands. Click to open the speaker’s outline

Jan Westerhues, Investment Partner, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Germany. Click to open the speaker’s outline