The current EU legislative mandate is reaching its ;It has significantly expanded the EU digital acquis, addressing pivotal areas such as artificial intelligence, data, and cloud. As the focus shifts to implementation, regulators face a crucial question: within an environment increasingly driven by economic security concerns, how to responsibly incentivise the innovative development of foundational technologies in Europe while ensuring the contestability and competitiveness of EU digital markets? 

To address this and other related topical questions, and building on its "Foundational Technologies Governance Summit" of last February, CERRE is pleased to announce a special event to take place in Brussels on Tuesday 4 June at 5 PM CET.

This will feature a fireside chat between Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, and Bruno Liebhaberg, Executive Chairman of CERRE, to be followed with a broader discussion also involving Olivier Guersent, Director General of the European Commission DG Competition, Benoît Cœuré, President of the French Autorité de la Concurrence and Prof. Viktoria Robertson, Head of the Competition Law and Digitalization Group, WU Vienna and College of Europe (Bruges).