Conference | The Future of Digital Investments in the EU

This conference will bring together voices from business, academia, and policymaking to exchange ideas, spark collaborations, and define priorities for Europe’s digital transformation.

  • Which research areas should come in focus?
  • Which digital technologies should business invest in?
  • How should policy makers prepare for the transition to specific technologies?

Dag 1:

  • Moderator: Lykke Friis , CEO, Think Tank Europa

  • 9:30 | Welcome address: Caroline Stage Olsen, Danish Minister for Digitalisation

  • 9:45 | Opening speech: Roberto Viola, Director-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (tbc)

  • 10:00 | Key note: Digital competitiveness business perspective

  • 10:15 | Debate: How to align tech sovereignty with competitiveness?

  • 11:30 | Coffee break

  • 11:50 | Session: How to leverage private investments through public funding

  • 12:50 | Standing lunch in the foyer

  • 14:00 | Session: From research to market – what are the missing links?

  • 15:00 | Session: Better integration of business into the European Digital Investment Programmes

  • 16:00 | Coffee break

  • 16:20 | Session: A clean AI Continent?

  • 17:20 | Closing remarks: Minister for Higher Education and Science, Christina Egelund

  • 18:00 | Dinner & networking in the foyer

Dag 2:

  • 8:30 | Opening: EU-Commission

  • 8:45 | Joint session DEP4ALL & IDEALIST: EU funding programmes synergies in practice

  • 9:45 | Digital Europe for business – how to create value with the programme

  • 9:45 | Session: How to create an EDIC

  • 9:45 | Unlocking Horizon Europe for SMEs

  • 10:45 | Coffee break

  • 11:15 | Digital Europe implementation in practice

  • 11:15 - 13:00 | Workshop: Key considerations and priorities for R&I on digital technologies beyond 2027

  • 12:15 | Session: EU’s critical digital capacities deployment beyond 2027

  • 13:00 | Sandwich Lunch to go

  • 13:00 | Organised round trip to visit local companies and organisations of interest to the agenda