Digital Economy Conference

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8.30 Registration

Light breakfast served

9.00 Welcome

Susan Danger, CEO, AmCham EU

Introduction & scene-setting

Maxime Bureau, Chairman, AmCham EU

9.05 Keynote address 

Roberto Viola, Director General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission

9.30 Panel 1: Creating a smart policy environment for innovation, investment & competition

This panel will explore ways to strike a balance between market-driven approaches and regulation, and discuss existing challenges and opportunities in building a truly digital Single Market.

Eva Maydell, Member of the European Parliament

Kamila Kloc, Deputy Head of Cabinet of Vice-President for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip, European Commission 

Pascal Rogard, Digital counsellor, Permanent Representation of France to the EU

Susan Shook, Director & Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer, P&G

Liam Benham, ‎Vice President, Government & Regulatory Affairs, Europe, ‎IBM, and Chair, AmCham EU Policy Group

Thomas Myrup Kristensen, Managing Director EU Affairs, Head of Office Brussels, Facebook​ 

Moderated by Claudia Selli, Chair, AmCham EU Digital Economy Committee, and European Government Affairs Director, AT&T

10.30 Coffee break

10.45 Fireside chat

Johannes Gungl, CEO for Telecommunications and Postal Services of the Austrian Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and Telecommunications (RTR), and BEREC Chair for 2018

Anthony Gardner, Senior Counsel, Sidley Austin LLP, and Senior Adviser, Brunswick Global

11.15 Panel 2: People, internet & machines in a world of unlimited data  

This panel will discuss how business and society is transformed through the Internet of Things. It will feature business cases around the development of this technology, its people factor and the regulatory framework.

Dita Charanzová, Member of the European Parliament

Pearse O’Donohue, Acting Director of the Future Networks Directorate, Head of Unit for Cloud and Software, DG CONNECT

Eric Greffier, Director, Business Solutions & Expertise, Cisco France

Robert Falck, CEO & Co-Founder, Einride

Kenny Pool, Senior Solutions Architect Digital Cities, Dell EMC

Ernst Stöckl Pukall, Head of division for digitization and Industrie 4.0, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) 

Moderated by Claudio Murri, Senior Advisor, FleishmanHillard

12.15 Keynote 

Adam Shub, Chargé d'Affaires, US Mission to the EU

12.40 Closing remarks

 Susan Danger, CEO, AmCham EU

12.45 Networking lunch