Speakers BiographyDario Tamburrano, Member of theEuropean ParliamentDario Tamburrano is an Italian environmental activistand one of the first members of the Five StarsMovement (Movimento Cinque Stelle, M5S) electedin the European Parliament in the European Freedomfor Direct Democracy (EFDD). He studied dentistry atthe University La Sapienza in Rome. In 2009, he co-

founds the “Circolo delle Decrescita Felice” (degrowth movements) and Transition Italia. Since2009 he is a member of ASPO Italia (Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas). In theEuropean Parliament, he is coordinator for the EFDD group in the Industry, Research andEnergy Committee (ITRE). Since 2015, he is vice-president of the parliamentary intergroup“Common Goods and Public Services” and of the Extended Board of European Forum forRenewable Energy Sources (EUFORES). Also, he is a member of the Scientific andTechnological Option Assessment (STOA). As STOA member, he is promoter of “Additive Bio-Manufacturing: 3D Printing for Medical Recovery and Human Enhancement” study. The studyaims at assessing potential impacts, technical barriers, regulations, safety standards andsocial/ethical concerns associated with 3D applications within the medical sector. He israpporteur of the European Energy Labelling Regulation and of the opinion on CollaborativeEconomy as well as shadow rapporteur in ITRE committee for several dossiers.

Patrizia Toia, Member of the EuropeanParliamentShe was born in Pogliano Milanese (Milan); she graduated inPolitical Science at the University of Milan. She worked asDirector of the Planning Service at Lombardy Region. Shewas regional councillor in Lombardy, with differentresponsibilities (Health, Budget). She was Member of theChamber of Deputies and in 1996 she was elected at the

Senate of the Republic. She held various institutional positions: Undersecretary of State forForeign Affairs with responsibility for Latin America, Asia and Oceania, Relations with theUnited Nations, Human Rights, Migration and Italians abroad, in 1999 she was appointedMinister for European Affairs and Minister for Relations with Parliament. In 2004 she waselected at the European Parliament, confirmed in 2009 and 2014. Member of the Group ofthe Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S & D), she is Vice-Chair of theCommittee on Industry, Research and Energy. She is also member of the Delegation forrelations with Belarus and the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly andsubstitute member of the Committee on Development. She is Head of the Italian Delegationof the S&D Group, Partito Democratico. She has recently been nominated shadow rapporteurfor the S&D for the Report “Digitising European Industry” in the ITRE Committee

Jerzy Buzek, Member of the European Parliament,ITRE committee chairPolish politician and university professor, Jerzy Buzek is a formerPrime Minister of Poland (1997-2001) and former President of theEuropean Parliament (2009-2012). A member of the EuropeanParliament since 2004, he currently chairs European Parliament’sCommittee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and theConference of Committee Chairs, responsible for legislativecoordination within the Parliament. Currently, he is responsible forthe Security of Gas Supply legislation, being formerly responsiblefor, inter alia, the EU’s 7th Framework Programme for Research andInnovation as well as the European Strategic Energy Technology

Plan (SET-Plan). In 2010, together with Jacques Delors, he proposed the creation of theEuropean Energy Community - a strategy to strengthen energy legislation and cooperationwithin and outside the EU which laid foundations for EU's Energy Union. Jerzy Buzek hasreceived honorary doctorates from numerous universities and is an honorary citizen of morethan a dozen cities in Poland.

Marco Landi, President of the Council ofEuropean DentistHe was born in February 15, 1960 and he graduated in Dentistry in1984 (University of Milan). He has been working in private dentalpractice since 1985. Post graduate courses in Legal Dentistry,Periodontal Surgery, Restorative and Prosthetic Dentistry. He isPresident of CED, elected in November 2015 with a three-yearmandate. He has been Director of CED Board (2009-2012) and CEDVice President (2012-2015). He was Member and Chair of theDentists Chamber Commission in Milan (1987-1993) and Lodi(1994-present). From 2003 to 2005 he was member of the Italian

National Dentists Chamber Commission (CAO Nazionale - Rome) and of the National Board ofPhysicians and Dentists (FNOMCeO, Rome), dealing primarily with Code of Ethics updatingand implementation of European professional directives. From 1992 to 2001 he was memberof the Central Commission for Health Professions (Ministry of Health), the national appellateCourt for disciplinary judgements. He was President 2005-2011 and from 2011 to 2016 he wasBoard Member of “Fondazione ANDI Onlus”, the Foundation for solidarity and internationalcooperation supported by the National Association of the Italian Dentists, A.N.D.I.

Pierluigi Delogu, President of the Italian DentalAssociation (AIO)He was born in Sassari in July 7th, 1962. He is graduated in Dentistryand Dental Prosthetics in 1986 at the University of Sassari. He alsogot a master degree at University of Cagliari on Orthodontics in2000. Since 1990 he is a regular member of Tweed Foundation forOrthodontic research. He is an active member of Italian Society ofOrthodontics. He achieved Italian Board of Orthodontics Certificatein 2001. He was visiting professor in Dental Anatomy, OcclusionDevelopment and Orthodontics at University of Sassari, and visitingprofessor at University Tor Vergata of Rome on Orthodontics. He

has written more than 60 publications on orthodontics, surgery, anatomy and gnathology.Now he is president of the Italian Dental Association, AIO.

Alessandro Gamberini, President of theFederation of the European Dental IndustryHe is 69 years old, his company, operating in the dental industry forabout 50 years, is enrolled all'UNIDI, Association of Italian dentalindustry for 45 years. He was a member of the Board for the past 30years and I was elected president x 4 mandates. Currently he is thePresident of FIDE, the European federation of dental industries, forthe second time.

Colette Maloney, Head of Unit, Photonics - DGCONNECTSince July 2016 Colette Maloney is Head of Unit Photonics at theEuropean Commission's Directorate-General for CommunicationsNetworks, Content and Technology. The unit is responsible forreinforcing Europe's industrial and technology leadership in"photonics". It deals with basic technology development as well asapplications in telecommunications, health and manufacturing, andcontributes in part to the Digitising European Industry initiative.

From 2004-2008 she was Head of Unit Cognitive Systems and Robotics; in 2008 she took overthe unit ICT for Sustainable Growth and in 2012 Smart Cities and Sustainability. Prior to thisshe held various assignments in the Commission in the field of ICT, from microelectronics, totelecommunications and digital content. Before joining the Commission in 1994, she heldresearch positions in Ciba, Switzerland and Dartmouth College, USA. She has a BSc inMathematics and Physics (summa cum laude) and a PhD in Physics (1982 and 1986respectively) from Trinity College Dublin. She was born in Ireland in 1962.

Tapani Piha, Head of Unit, Cross Borderhealthcare, E-Health - DG SANTEHe works as Head of Unit for Cross-Border Healthcare &eHealth in the European Commission. In addition to theimplementation of the Directive on Patients’ rights in cross-border health care, the Unit is setting up the EuropeanReference Network of specialised clinical centres and creatinga cross-border mechanism for ePrescription. It also deals withdata management and protection in healthcare, as well ashealth workforce issues. Having worked since 2001 in the

Commission, he has been responsible for policy on Health Technology Assessment (HTA),health strategy, health information, expert advice for health systems, health law, healthresearch coordination, and - managed human resources in DG Health and Consumers. Beforejoining the Commission, he carried out epidemiological and intervention research on healthbehaviours and cardiovascular disease. He held positions at the Finnish Ministry of Health,and coordinated Finland's EU policies in health in 1995-2001. At the WHO Regional Office forEurope in 1989-94 he was responsible for the Action Plan for a Tobacco-free Europe.

Salvatore Scalzo, Legal Assistant, Unit Healthtechnology and cosmetics - DG GROWSalvatore Scalzo graduated with a Master’s of Science Degree(Italian "Laurea Specialistica") in "European Studies" (with aLaw track) at La Sapienza" University in Rome and with aresearch-oriented Master Programme “Analysing Europe” atMaastricht University in The Netherlands. He has beenworking for more than five years in the EuropeanCommission. Since November 2013, he has been dealing withlegislation on medical devices (currently unit D4 of theDirectorate-General for Internal Market, Industry,Entrepreneurship and SMEs). Besides working on the

negotiations of the proposed new Regulations on medical devices, he coordinates, amongother tasks, the activities of the European Commission Expert Groups on medical softwareand medical device identification and traceability.

Jose-Lorenzo Valles, Head of Unit, Advancedmanufacturing system and biotechnologies - DGRTDMr Vallés graduated in Physics and Chemistry. He holds a Ph. D. inPhysics from the University of Barcelona (Spain), and has conductedpostdoctoral research in Computational Physics during four years atCourant Institute of New York University and the University ofMinnesota (USA). He is an Associate Professor of Condensed MatterPhysics at the University of Barcelona (at present under specialleave). Since joining the European Commission in 1991, he first

worked at the Institute for Advanced Materials (the Netherlands), then as S&T Counsellor atthe EC Delegation in China, and finally moved in 1999 to DG Research and Innovation inBrussels, where he has been Head of the Materials Unit, Head of the New Forms of ProductionUnit, and is currently Head of the Advanced Manufacturing Systems and Biotechnologies Unit.

Giorgio Magistrelli, EFDD Group adviser forAdditive ManufacturingAdmitted lawyer, during his twenty years in China and Asia-Pacific,Giorgio Magistrelli worked as a project manager, advisor forinvestment funds and PE firms, attorney, banker and managementconsultant for large and small corporations, governments, NGOs andinternational donors in emerging and mature markets. Passionateabout 3D Printing, he is the EFDD Group Project Manager for AdditiveManufacturing, contributing on evaluating specific sectorial

applications as in the medical and dental sector. He also supports the EFDD group in terms ofrelated policies and regulations evaluations and proposals with a view to creating the rightframework conditions for the development of Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing in theEU. He regularly writes for sectorial professional publications and managesEC/H2020/International donors Additive Manufacturing Projects

Peter Mercelis, Co-Founder and Director of appliedtechnologies, 3D SystemsPeter Mercelis obtained a MSc and Phd degree in electromechanicalengineering at the University of Leuven (K.U.Leuven, Belgium). HisPhd research focussed on process control in Selective LaserSintering and Melting technologies. In 2008 he co-founded thecompany LayerWise NV (Belgium) that offers engineering andproduction services in Additive Manufacturing for medical, dentaland industrial applications that was integrated in the 3D Systems

group in 2014. Peter is currently Director Applied Technologies Healthcare at 3D Systems, oneof the market leaders in the 3D printing sector. Besides its patented workflows for 3D printed

implant restorations, 3D Systems offers a broad variety of 3D printer hardware and materialsfor dental prosthetics.

Daniela Lavezzi, Sales Manager, DWSDaniela Lavezzi is Sales Manager of DWS, Italian company thatdevelops and produces 3D printers for dental sector, industrialapplications and jewellery. She is in charge of the SalesDepartment and directs the operations of the area manager team.She travels the world to create networks, to implementpartnerships and to assists the dialers in the purchasing process.Previously she has been working in the for the luxury sector forcompany such as Marco Bicego Spa, Cielo Venezia and MorellatoSpa. She is a fluent speaker of 4 languages and owns an MBA inmarketing and communication.

Martin Bullemer, Business DevelopmentManager Medical, EOSMartin Bullemer, since 2006 Business Development ManagerMedical / Dental with EOS GmbH, does have 20 years marketingand sales experience in capital investment goods with a high focusto develop solutions together with customers. With thefoundation of a mechanical engineering / fine mechanics study atthe University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg, Germany, Martinmoved into the laser / photonic business at ROFIN withresponsibility for customized solutions and as a regional managerfor laser micro solutions in Asia.

Philip Oris, Director Business DevelopmentMedical & Dental, SLM Solutions GmbHPhilip Oris obtained a postgraduate degree in biomedicalengineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium. During 1999-2002 he represented the University of Leuven in Asia Pacificwhere he was responsible for establishing a program to developmedical models, surgical tools and implants for maxillofacial &orthopaedic surgery involving additive manufacturing. During2002-2009 Philip Oris worked for Materialise NV as generalmanager in the US and Asia Pacific. During 2002-2006 he was incharge of sales & marketing of the 3D digital dentistry product line

in North-America. During 2006-2009 he was in charge of sales & marketing in Asia Pacific forthe medical, dental and additive manufacturing software products. During 2009-2016 PhilipOris was responsible for sales of high-end medical equipment related to minimally invasivesurgery, including robotic surgery and laser assisted surgery, in Europe. In 2016 he joined SLM

Solutions GmbH as their director business development medical & dental to strengthen thesegment approach, supporting the different regional teams in their marketing & sales efforts,and supporting the customers in their development of additive manufacturing expertise inthe segment.

Eric Erickson, Business Manager, DentalSolutions, EMEA, StratasysAs the Business Manager, Dental Solutions, for Stratasys inEMEA, Eric Erickson is responsible for driving the company’sdental 3D printing sales in the region and strengthening itsposition as the world’s number one supplier within this space.Assuming the role four years’ ago, Eric’s remit sees himmanage and develop customer relationships, whilecontinually endorsing Stratasys’ innovative solutionsproposition to other dental laboratories and clinics. Prior to

joining Stratasys, Eric held key product management and business development roles forother high-tech companies, and collectively has amassed over 10 years’ experience within the3D printing sector.

Vittorio Gaudino, Sisma SpA GeneralManagerVittorio Gaudino graduated - Summa Cum Laude -in Civil Engineering at Mons University in Belgium.In his professional experience he demonstratedgreat skills in leadership, business operationorganization, strategic planning and organizationalrestructuring based on matrix management. AsAskoll Tre SpA Sales Director, from 1990 to 1997 he

introduced in the household appliances market a new technology in the field of hydraulicpumps: it quickly became the benchmark, generating an annual turnover of 50 Mio EUR. From1997 to 2008, as Askoll Tre SpA General Manager he managed the Internationalization of thecompany and doubled the turnover reaching an annual 100 Mio EUR. As Askoll SpA Appliancedivision General Manager, from 2010 to February 2016 he managed the acquisition of thecompany's main competitor; afterwards he created, monitored and coached a matrixorganization able to manage eight plants around the world for an annual turnover of 300 MioEUR. Since March 2016 he faces a new challenge: as Sisma SpA General Manager, he plansand organizes the redesign of the entire group structure. The mission is to consolidate thecurrent volume of business and achieve increasingly ambitious objectives.