Past Speakers
Some of the most influential academics, as well as key industry, government and learned societies leaders have been among the keynote speakers. They have helped to establish ECSS as one of the most prominent meetings of the European Information and Computer Science community.
Academy
- Ewan Birney - European Bioinformatics Institute
- Manfred Broy - TU München
- Marie-Paule Cani - Ecole Polytechnique
- Stefano Ceri - Politecnico di Milano
- Robert L. Constable - Cornell University
- Roberto Di Cosmo - INRIA
- Anna Cox - University College London
- Hannes Federrath - University of Hamburg / Former President of German Informatics Society
- Anthony Finkelstein - Alan Turing Institute, UK government
- Carlo Ghezzi - Politecnico di Milano
- Georg Gottlob - University of Oxford
- Thomas Gross - ETH Zurich
- Wendy Hall - University of Southampton
- Monika Henzinger - Univerity of Vienna
- Manuel Hermenegildo - IMDEA / UPM
- Marina Jirotka - University of Oxford
- Elham Kashefi - UK National Quantum Computing Centre
- Maarja Kruusmaa - Tallinn University of Technology
- Leslie Lamport - Microsoft Research
- Mirella Lapata - University of Edinburgh
- Friedemann Mattern - ETH Zurich
- Kurt Mehlhorn - Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
- Bertrand Meyer - ETH Zurich
- John Mylopoulos - Univerity of Trento
- Bart Preneel - KU Leuven
- Walter Quattrociocchi - Sapienza Università di Roma
- Wilhelm Schäfer - University of Paderborn
- Joseph Sifakis - University of Grenoble
- Judith Simon - University of Hamburg
- Eugene Spafford - Purdue University
- Moshe Vardi - Rice University
- Jochen Viehoff - Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
- Alexander Wolf - University of California at Santa Cruz
- Andreas Zeller - Saarland University
Associations
- Ed Lazowska - CRA
- J Strother Moore - CRA
- Jon Oberlander - SICSA
- John White - ACM
Government/ Policy/ Funding
- Franco Acordino - EU/EC
- Isidro Laso Ballesteros - EU/EC
- Jean-Pierre Bourguignon - ERC
- Janice Cuny - NSF
- Georgi Dimitrov - EU/EC
- Danny Dolev - ERC
- Farnam Jahanian - NSF
- Willem Jonker - EIT Digital KIC
- Arthur Lupia - NSF
- André Richier - EU/EC
- Sonia Piedrafita Tremosa - European Education and Culture Executive Agency
- Jeannette Wing - NSF
Industry
- Sailesh Chutani - Microsoft
- Mark Harris - Intel
- Andrew Herbert – Microsoft
- Roland Jakab - Ericsson
- Michael Müller-Wünsch - Otto GmbH & Co KG
- Africa Real - HP
- Alfred Spector - Google
- Liba Svobodova - IBM
- Pamela Zave - AT&T Labs
- Ruoyi Zhou - IBM
Entrepreneurs
- François Bancilhon - Data Publica
- Jaan Tallinn - Skype
**Note that the affiliation indicated was the one at the time of their participation in the respective ECSS. Some speakers have changed affiliation since then.