PromethEUs Conference “Digital for Growth: Strengthening the Single Market and Reviving EU Competitiveness”

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I-Com, on behalf of the PromethEUs network, organised the conference “Digital for Growth – Strengthening the Single Market and Reviving EU Competitiveness”.

The event will took place on Tuesday 9 April, from 17:30-19:00 CET in Brussels.

About the event:

The conference was the occasion for the PromethEUs network to present its position paper analysing the challenges to EU digital competitiveness as well as the importance of working towards a functioning single market to foster the emergence of innovative EU players. Furthermore, several guest speakers joined the event in a panel discussion on the EU path towards the Digital Single Market and the EU competitiveness on the global stage.

Please find attached the programme of the event.

Speakers

Speakers:

Pablo ARIAS ECHEVERRÍA

Pablo ARIAS ECHEVERRÍA , MEP and member D-US and ITRE Committees (TBC)

Pablo Arias Echeverría is a Spanish politician, serving as member of the European Parliament for the European People’s Party (EPP) from 2009 to 2014 and since 2019.Throughout his time in the EP, Arias Echeverría has been serving on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection(IMCO). In addition, he is part of the parliament’s delegation for relations with the United States.

Stefano DA EMPOLI

Stefano DA EMPOLI, President I-Com

Stefano da Empoli is president and principal policy analyst at I-Com, the Institute for Competitiveness, a think tank based in Rome and Brussels which he founded in 2005.He has authored numerous publications on economic themes and served in a key advisory or expert positions on a number of task forces and scientific boards, and he is Professor of political economy at the Università di Roma Tre.

Giulia DEL BRENNA

Giulia DEL BRENNA, HoU Single Market and Industrial Policy, DG GROW

Giulia Del Brenna is the Head of Unit for the DG for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs at European Commission. Del Brenna has has had a long career at the Commission,having held various portfolios since 2008.

Alessandro GROPELLI

Alessandro GROPELLI, Deputy Director General, European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO)

Alessandro Gropelli is an expert of tech, telecom and digital policy. His notable career includes working as public relations officer at the European Parliament, where he implemented the information campaign for the European Elections in Northern Italy in 2009.

Raquel JORGE

Raquel JORGE, Policy Analyst, Elcano Royal Institute

Raquel Jorge is an Analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute working on the technology and digital agenda. Her notable career includes working on the planning process of the National Strategy on Technology and Global Order at State Secretariat for Global Spain at Spain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation.

Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES

Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Vice-Chair IMCO Committee (TBC)

Maria-Manuel Leitão Marques is a Portuguese MEP, member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D). As vice chair of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), she is the parliament’s rapporteur on the European Commission’s 2022 proposal for a ban on the import and export of products made using forced labour.

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Scott MARCUS

Scott MARCUS, Associate Senior Research Fellow Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy Unit, CEPS

J.Scott Marcus’ works entail economics, political science / public administration, policy analysis, and engineering. He is author of numerous papers, a book on data network design. He either led or served as first author for numerous studies for the European Parliament, the European Commission, and national governments and regulatory authorities around the world. He also serves as member of the Scientific Committee of the Communications and Media program at the Florence School of Regulation (FSR), a unit of the European University Institute (EUI).

Sandra PARTHIE

Sandra PARTHIE, President of the Section for the Single Market, Production and Consumption (INT), European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

Sandra Parthie is a member of the EESC since 2020. Moreover, since 2015, she is running the Brussels Liaison office for private German economic think tank ‘IW’ (Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft/ German Economic Institute), presenting economic research by the Institute to stakeholders in Brussels.

Vincenzo RENDA

Vincenzo RENDA, Director for Single Market and Digital Competitiveness, Digital Europe

Vincenzo Renda has a 10-year experience in digital policy. Before joining DIGITALEUROPE, he was was Innovation Policy Officer at CECIMO, the European association of the machine tool industries and related manufacturing technologies, representing the organization in a variety of EU-funded projects on industrial technologies.

Aggelos TSAKANIKAS

Aggelos TSAKANIKAS, Scientific Advisor, IOBE

Aggelos Tsakanikas is heading the Entrepreneurship Observatory, at the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (FEIR/IOBE), the leading private think tank for economic research in Greece. Moreover , he is Associate Professor in the field of Economic Evaluation of Systems of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Director at the Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics (LIEE), National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).

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Pablo ARIAS ECHEVERRÍA , MEP and member D-US and ITRE Committees (TBC)

Stefano DA EMPOLI, President I-Com

Giulia DEL BRENNA, HoU Single Market and Industrial Policy, DG GROW

Alessandro GROPELLI, Deputy Director General, European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO)

Raquel JORGE, Policy Analyst, Elcano Royal Institute

Maria-Manuel LEITÃO-MARQUES, Vice-Chair IMCO Committee (TBC)

Scott MARCUS, Associate Senior Research Fellow Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy Unit, CEPS

Sandra PARTHIE, President of the Section for the Single Market, Production and Consumption (INT), European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

Vincenzo RENDA, Director for Single Market and Digital Competitiveness, Digital Europe

Aggelos TSAKANIKAS, Scientific Advisor, IOBE

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