
Karen Amram
HLF Chair & CEA Tech Head of International Foresight
The broad subject of the Summit, “Innovation Ecosystems, key-players in reinventing industry to support a resilient Society”, includes many of the current short to long-term challenges and transitions our regions are all dealing with and creates a continuity with the work carried out in 2020.
Dates: 7 to 10 November – Grenoble, France

President of GIANT & CEO of
CEA Tech

President Université Grenoble Alpes

ESRF Director

General Director Crédit Agricole Sud
Rhône Alpes

Director of Grenoble Sites Schneider Electric

Director of CEA Grenoble Site

Strategic Inward Investment Manager at Invest in Grenoble Alpes

Associate at Strategy & former French Délégué aux Territoires d’industrie

Vice President Strategic Projects at Schneider Electric

CEO and co-founder of Cloudian Inc.
Silicon Valley USA

Managing Director Caterpillar France

Marketing Mger at MWM, Germany

CEO GTECH Guidetti & CIC ORIO

French National Fencing Team Member, European Team Champion 2017, 2018 & Wolrd University Champion, 2015

Chairman of the association
assembly of the Regional Association Ruhr

General Delegate of the Strategic Committee for New Energy Systems Industry France

VP Hybrid Cloud IBM EMEA

Advisor to the Minister of the
Economy Luxemburg

Deputy Director of Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT

Director for Business Planning Sales & Strategic Partnership Programs HPE

Sr. Manager Business Development
Edmonton Global Canada

Regional director of the Ruhr Region Germany

Chief Strategy Officer imec Leuven
Belgium

Director General City of Tsukuba
Japan

CEO Innovate Edmonton

Deputy General Director Grenoble Alpes Métropole

Director of US-Asia Technology Management Center Stanford University USA

VP for International Affairs Université Grenoble Alpes France

Strategic Inward Investment Manager at Invest in Grenoble Alpes

Director General of EMBL

Former Deputy Director-General –
DG Communication Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT), European Commission

Associate Professor at the London School of Economics, Winner of Best Young Economist of France Award 2021

Director of the Technological
Research Institute IRT Nanoelec, Grenoble, France

Sociologist, President of the
Triple Helix Association, Director of the Research Centre for Business Clusters, Networks and Economic Development London UK 

Director of Industry Affairs Vice-Presidency for Innovation EPFL Switzerland

Strategic partnerships Fundamental Development Division Toyota ZEV Factory Tsukuba Japan

Senior scientist at the French
Institute of Health and Medical Research INSERM & Université Grenoble Alpes

Deputy Mayor of Tampere

Director Innovation & Commercialisation at ANSTO New South Wales Australia

Executive Director Eastern Economic Corridor of Innovation (EECi) Thailand

HLF Deputy Chair & CEA Tech Senior Technology Transfer Officer

Dean of Faculty Grenoble Ecole de Management

Startup Program Managers CEA Valorisation
Start-up Program Manager CEA Innovation

HLF Communication Manager & Start-up Show coordinator

Vice President Cyber Physical Systems programs CEA Tech Grenoble France

HLF International Relations Manager & cross disciplinary marketing manager, CEA Research & Technology division, Grenoble, France

CEO of IVEO Montreal

Sr. Manager Business Development
Edmonton Global Canada

CEO RWI Synthetics Edmonton Canada

Director Hydrogen Initiative for Edmonton Global Canada

Director of Strategy and Innovation, Argonne National Lab Chicago USA

General Delegate Tenerrdis Grenoble France

Senior Vice President ITRI Hsinchu, Taiwan
Due the current health crisis, the 2020 HLF Summit has been postponed to autumn 2021 - The HLF will be online on 1st Dec 2020 during the first HLF Connect Briefing