A social entrepreneur and pioneer of experiential and cause-related marketing, Ian Spero excels in the design and construction of unconventional private/public sector alliances that deliver socioeconomic impact in a spirit of open innovation.

Following 3 decades producing multi-faceted marketing communications campaigns for blue chip clients Ian established Creative Skills for Life together with the Agile Ageing Alliance (AAA), a campaigning social movement which aims to promote development and sustainability of pioneering innovations that will empower our older selves to enjoy more meaningful Agile lives in the comfort of our own digitally enabled homes and neighbourhoods of the future.

Ian also works with Innovate UK, where he is responsible for leveraging public investment in a diverse portfolio of exciting early stage award winning businesses.

Alexander holds a tenured position as Assistant Professor of Innovation Studies, and he has a background in Science and Technology Studies (STS). He also serves as a board member of the International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG), is part of the European Innovation Platform on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA), where he leads a large pan-European commitment on "Active Aging and the Built Environment"​, and sits on the social advisory panel of the EU's Joint Programming Initiative "More Years, Better Lives" (JPI-MYBL). Before joining Utrecht University, he was a Max Weber post-doctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, and a Principal Investigator at the Center for Technology and Society at Berlin University of Technology. Alexander has studied industrial engineering in Germany, the US and The Netherlands, and he holds a PhD in sociology and business economics from Berlin University of Technology.

She is MSc in Telecommunications Engineering (2001) at the Universitat Politècnica de València. Until 2016 she has been researcher at SABIEN group, belonging to ITACA Institute, where she has participated in EU funded projects within the V, VI and VII Framework Programme dealing with health care and social services making use of Information Communication Technologies. Her research focused on the impact assessment of new technologies and services, especially on user experience and user centred design. She has been Technical Manager of VAALID (FP7-ICT-224309), universAAL (FP7-ICT-247950) and REAAL (CIP-325189). Since November 2016, she works as EU Projects Manager in MySphera company.
Within ACTIVAGE project, she is the Large-Scale Pilot Manager, having the responsibility of coordinating the definition, deployment and execution of the 9 Deployment Sites, supporting the establishment and consolidation of the local IoT ecosystems for ageing well.

Dr. Martin Serrano (PhD. MSc. Eng. BSc-Eng.) is a recognised Research Data Scientist with more than 15 years experience in industry and applied research on Semantic Interoperability and Distributed Data Systems. He is a continuous contributor to the Scientific, Research and Innovation agenda for Europe and with a wide range of successful (EUFP5-FP7/H2020) collaborative projects, Irish (HEA PRTLI, SFI) and also Enterprise Ireland (EI) innovation projects.
Dr. Serrano is the coordinator of the EU-H2020 FIESTA-IoT project (www.fiesta-iot.eu), the Data Management, IPR & Analytics Manager and leader on research activities at Insight Centre for Data Analytics. He was involved in the HEA-futurecomms project (http://futurecomm.tssg.org) where he was investigating methodologies and algorithms for the optimal use of IT technology (i.e. cloud systems and analytic systems) for remote health monitoring.
Dr. Serrano is an active member of IEEE (Computer and Communication Societies) and ACM.

Isabelle Chartier is Silver Economy & Handicap program manager at CEA-LETI and IRT Nanoelec (Public Private Partnership for Micro and Nanoelectronic innovation).
Isabelle is leading the French deployment site ISERE for ACTIVAGE (IoT Large Scale Pilot) Smart living for Ageing Well and ACTIVE HANDS (EIT Health) home-based guidance system to support individuals with cognitive disorders in daily tasks.
AHA project supported by the PTL (Product and Technology Living Lab) an experimental facility established by the IRT Nanoelec. PTL testbed is dedicated to usage conception and evaluation of IoT based technological solutions under realistic test conditions. PTL target to retrieve and merge information from environmental, physiological and activity sensors, and send higher-level information to improve safety, comfort and autonomy, with a special focus on Ambient Assisted Living for Ageing population and Silver Economy market.

He is in charge of developing and strengthening the collaborations with industry, RTOs and academics at European (EU) and international level. Within the division, he coordinates a dozen of people for EU project activities. These collaborations focus on providing to the industry the set of technologies relevant for fully exploiting microelectronics potential within its environment (essentially in terms of connectivity, embedded intelligence, power management and security). The Systems division manages and coordinates approximately 20 European projects on a yearly basis.
In line with these objectives and activities, he supports the participation of CEA Leti within EU projects in the well-being and smart living area such as ACTIVAGE (IoT Large scale Pilot) and BonVoyage (Mobility).