Elmar Husmann

Elmar Husmann has over 10 years experience in running strategic innovation programmes and managing corresponding European policy relations in the domain of ICT innovation. Elmar has been a principal consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers German consulting practice leading a team on IT organization strategy and.since 2002 a senior managing consultant for IBM Business Consulting Services on innovation strategy and change. In collaboration with IBM Governmental Programmes and IBM Research, he supports IBM ICT innovation policy relations as steering committee member of the Networked European Software and Services ETP (NESSI) and as representative to the European Commission for Future Internet topics. In this context he is involved with the successful set-up of an IBM research programme on the Internet of Services – including several integrated projects funded by the European Commission - jointly with IBM research labs from Haifa, Zurich, Watson / New York and Almaden / Palo Alto. He is also a member of several a visory boards of research projects and has been in management and coordination roles for EU research projects as well as been appointed expert by the European Commission in the evaluation and review of projects. He is also a frequent speaker on technology policy topics at conferences and has been involved with events of the European Commission, The United Nations, OECD and the Club of Rome. Elmar has moderated the ELIG public policy group since 2008.