Delivering a Green and Digital Recovery through Connectivity

5G Users Forum: Empowering EU Smart Manufacturing

Broadband World Forum 2020

We are pleased to continue our partnership with the Broadband World Forum: this time, the event goes fully virtual. As a media partner for this event, we are able to offer a free visitor ticket to ETNO Members and Observers. At the event there will be 4000+ top telco and enterprise professionals to learn from, connect and drive digital transformation globally. Do you qualify for the discount? Book your ticket at this link.

Lise Fuhr, ETNO Director General, will deliver a keynote presentation on Green Broadband, looking at the European Green Deal and the importance of reducing our carbon footprint for the broadband industry. The session will take place on 15 October, from 10h40 – 10h00 CEST. Claiming your free visitor ticket will grant you access to Lise's keynote presentation.

Other speakers include:

• Akos Bona - Digital Skills & Jobs EU Coalition, European Commission
• Christian Gacon - VP Fixed Networks Design, Orange France
• Matteo Gatta - Technology Strategy & Innovation Director, Proximus
• Erno Doorenspleet - Vice President, Security Strategy, KPN
• Kevin Brown - Managing Director, Security, BT
• Alberto Sempere - Global Director of Security Products, Telefonica
• Kimmon Pentikäinen - Vice President Business Development, Elisa
• Manuel Paul - Senior Expert, International Standardization, Deutsche Telekom

To consult the agenda and full line-up of speakers, please visit this link.

Register for your free ticket here 

5G Users Forum: Empowering EU Healthcare

POLITICO - ETNO Virtual Brussels Playbook Interview with EU Commissioner Thierry Breton

Attend this event virtually by clicking here.

POLITICO and ETNO are bringing you an exciting Virtual Brussels Playbook interview featuring European Commissioner for the internal market Thierry Breton on September 1 in Brussels.

5G: Empowering Recovery and Fighting Misinformation

3 June: Co-hosted by leading MEPs, as well as the GSMA and ETNO, we discussed the role that 5G can play in the coming months, as Europe copes with the coronavirus recession. During the discussion, not only we informed about 5G technology and use cases, but we also discussed the impact that misinformation is having on the public discourse around mobile networks.

A recording of the integral webinar is available at this link. 

The State of Digital Communications 2020

28 January 2020, Panoramique Hall @ The Square

- entrance on Rue Coudenberg, Brussels -

Europe has a new political agenda: Industrial policies for digital leadership, digital sovereignty, the role of tech in the European Green Deal and the EU approach to Artificial Intelligence have all entered the policy debate at the highest level. At the same time, consumers and innovators move fast and European digital markets are shaping the way in which we interact, produce and create socio-economic opportunities.

As 5G and fibre have started enabling new smart communication systems, come get the latest on the technological and political debate around digital communications and their role in delivering on the priorities of the new European Commission.

Agenda:

16h00 – 16h05: Welcome and introduction remarks

• Steven Tas, Chairman to the Executive Board, ETNO
• Lise Fuhr, Director General, ETNO

16h05 – 17h00: Keynote Panel: Europe’s New Playbook for Digital Policy

• HE Ambassador Goran Štefanić, Deputy Permanent Representative, Croatia
• Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Member of the European Parliament, S&D
• Ursula Pachl, Deputy Director General, BEUC
  Moderated by Frances Robinson, Journalist

17h00 – 17h15: Unveiling: The State of Digital Communications 2020 Report

• Rupert Wood, Research Director, Analysys Mason

17h15 – 18h15: The Role of Technology in Delivering Europe’s New Political Goals

• Bjørn Taale Sandberg, SVP Telenor Research
• Enrique Medina Malo, Chief Policy Officer, Telefónica
• Reinald Kruger, Group Public Policy Development Director, Vodafone Group 
• Eirini Zafeiratou, Director Public Policy EMEA, Amazon
  Moderated by Frances Robinson, Journalist

18h15 – 19h30: Digital Drinks

After the event, you can join us for a digital cocktail and innovation show:

• 3D printed food, forgotten vegetables: tackling food waste can be done in creative ways. Experience a recipe in the shape of the event hashtag #StateofDigi. Here you can get a preview, powered by 3DbyFlow. 
• Virtual Reality, in practice: attendees will have the opportunity to embark on a digital adventure and take a ride with the ICAROS VR Experience, brought to participants by Inno4Events. 

Cannot make it? Follow the live discussion and ask your questions to the moderator via Twitter by using #StateofDigi.

The registrations for this event have been closed due to a high number of requests. 

FT-ETNO Summit 2019

Pioneering and Protecting: Looking Ahead to a New Decade

Brussels | 02 December 2019

Our tenth annual summit takes place amid fresh European leadership, including a new Parliament and Commission, and the prospect of continued political uncertainty at home and beyond.

Against this backdrop, we will examine new political and societal sentiments towards technology, as well as the key themes of trust, responsibility and sustainable development. We will also debate whether political and business leaders should collaborate to update industrial and competition policy in an ever more connected world.

Updated information on speakers and agenda available at this link. 

FT Future of News Europe 2019

ETNO is delighted to once again be partnering with Financial Times for the Future of News Europe summit, which will take place on 26 November in Amsterdam.

Europe's newsrooms are facing multiple challenges as they adjust to a more populist environment, greater competition from digital rivals and continued financial constraints. Attend this intimate gathering of 150+ top editors, executives and dealmakers from across print, TV and digital, to:

• Learn how media outlets are coping with digital, political and societal disruption
• Discover how traditional media brands have embraced digital, and how newer digital-first brands have won credibility
• Debate whether emerging technologies such as AI can benefit the news business
• Question what policymakers can do to boost transparency and trust in the media
• Explore the latest techniques to lure new readers including membership models and platform partnerships

For the latest details on agenda and speakers and registration, please follow this link.

As a media partner of the Summit, a 15% discount is available for ETNO members and observers. To redeem the discount, please quote the following marketing code when completing your registration: ETNO15