Our conference will bring together corporate and government representatives from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond to discuss critical questions around the digital economy with a focus on Europe’s next digital agenda, artificial intelligence and global cooperation.
Draft programme
More speakers will be confirmed soon
Registration
Welcome & Scene-setting
Opening
- Andrus Ansip, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Single Market
Fireside chat: Global policy frameworks for the digital economy
- Göran Marby, CEO & President, ICANN
- Margaret Peterlin, Senior Vice-President of Global external and public affairs, AT&T
Panel: ‘Defining the next digital agenda – when digital becomes the economy’
- Claire Bury, Deputy-Director General, DG Connect, European Commission
- Małgorzata Wenerska-Craps, Minister Counsellor, Head of Economics & Trade Section, Permanent Representation of Poland to the EU
- Marius Basting, Digital & Technology Manager, Europe, Caterpillar
- Maher Chebbo, Senior Executive, Chief Innovation Officer, General Electric - Global Digital Energy Solutions
Moderated by Elizabeth Crossick, Head of Government Affairs – EU, RELX Group
Break
Fireside chat: The future of data flows
- Steve Wood, Deputy Commissioner (Policy), UK Information Commissioner’s Office
- James Sullivan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Services, US Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration
Moderated by Claudia Selli, Executive Director European Legislative and Political Affairs, AT&T and Chair, AmCham EU Digital Economy Committee
Panel: ‘Fostering our digital transformation - the realities of artificial intelligence’
- Eva Maydell, Member of the European Parliament
- Lucilla Sioli, Director for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry, DG Connect, European Commission
- Andreas Hartl, Head of the Division VI B 3 (Artificial Intelligence, Data Economy), Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), Germany
- Stuart McGuigan, Global Head of Johnson and Johnson Technology
- Gerard Smit, Chief Technology Officer IBM Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Moderated by Cate Nymann, Senior Manager Government Affairs and Public Policy, CISCO, and Vice-Chair, AmCham EU Digital Economy Committee
Closing
- Mabito Yoshida, Director-General of the Global Strategy Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan
- David J. Redl, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, US Department of Commerce
Networking cocktail