09:00 - 09:30
Breakfast & Registration
09:30 - 09:45
Welcoming remarks
Oliver Grün
President (European DIGITAL SME Alliance & BITMi)
Sebastiano Toffaletti
Secretary General (European DIGITAL SME Alliance)
Emilie Prouzet
President INT Section, (European Economic and Social Committee)
09:45 - 10:15
Keynote speech
Eléonore Simonet
Minister for the Middle Class, the Self-Employed, and SMEs (Belgian Federal Government)
10:15 - 11:15
Beyond the Digital Package: How to attain European tech sovereignty and competitiveness?
Oliver Grün
President (European DIGITAL SME Alliance & BITMi)
Matthias Ecke
Member of the European Parliament
Michał Kobosko
Member of the European Parliament
11:15 - 11:30
Networking & Coffee
12:30 - 14:00
Networking Lunch
powered by
14:00 - 14:30
Keynote speech
Ekaterina Zaharieva
Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation (European Commission)
14:00 - 14:30
Keynote speech
Followed by a Fireside Chat
Eléonore Simonet
Minister for the Middle Class, the Self-Employed, and SMEs (Belgian Federal Government)
SESSION 1
14:30 - 15:30
Financing European tech leadership: How to unlock access to finance by SMEs and start-ups?
SESSION 2
14:30 - 15:30
How can a more flexible, inclusive, and transparent European standardisation system drive digital SMEs’ competitiveness?
(SBS Forum on ICT Standardisation)
SESSION 3
14:30 - 15:30
Buy European – Boosting demand for homegrown innovation with Public Procurement
15:30 - 16:00
Networking & Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Keynote speech
Caroline Stage Olsen
Minister for Digitalisation (Government of Denmark)
SESSION 1
16:30 - 17:30
Mastering the path to the Green and Digital Transition
Roberto Stasi
Senior Loan Officer (European Investment Bank)
Miriam Koreen
Senior Counsellor on SMEs - Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (OECD)
Mark Jordan
Chief Strategy Officer (Skillnet Ireland)
Idriss Brockmann-Serbis
CEO & Consultant for Sustainable Digital Transformation (NightlyCode GmbH)
Alessandro Gropelli
Director General (Connect Europe)
DIGITAL SME Awards – Green Category
SESSION 2
15:45 - 16:45
Fostering Digital Resilience in the Era of Economic Security
Matchmaking on EU funding opportunities
Session's opening
Isidro Laso Ballesteros
Senior Official (European Innovation Council)
Yasen Gyurov
Seconded National Expert - European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights (EUIPO)
16:45 - 17:00
Coffee Break
16:45 - 17:00
Keynote speech
Marietje Schaake
International Policy Director (Stanford University Cyber Policy Center)
16:30 - 18:00
From AI to Tech Continent: What is needed for the future of digital competitiveness?
17:30 - 18:00
Closing remarks
Henna Virkkunen
Executive Vice-President for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy (European Commission)