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8:30-9:30
Registration and Welcome Coffee
14:00 – 14:10
9:30-9:45
Welcome and Introduction by the chairperson
John Higgins CBE, Director General, DIGITALEUROPE
9:45-10:00
European Commission High-Tech Policies and Initiatives: Digital Single Market Strategy, Innovation and high-tech skills in Europe
Slawomir Tokarski, Director, European Commission, DG GROW
10:00-10:20
Keynote: Vision and Scenarios of new Disruptive Technological Trends and Future Potential Impact
Technological Trends and Future Potential Impact
Martin Canning 
PDF, Group Vice-President European Consulting, IDC
10:20-10:40
Keynote: High-tech Leadership and Innovation Skills from an Industrial and Global Perspective
Prof. Jan Willem Velthuijsen 
PDF, Chief Economist, PwC Europe and Managing Partner of PwC Strategy & Economics
10:40-11:00
Keynote: High-Tech and Leadership Skills for a Digital Single Market
Nicolas Schmit, Minister of Labour, Employment and the Social and Solidarity Economy, Luxembourg
11:00-11:30
BREAK
11:30-11:50
High-Tech Leadership: Increasing Europe’s Talent Pool: Are we ready for successful High-Tech Innovation?
- Estimates of high-tech leadership and innovation skills needs
- Demand and supply and forecasted excess demand
- Foresight until 2020 and beyond
- Key findings and conclusions
11:50-12:20
Making High-Tech Innovation happen in Europe: Proposals for a European Agenda towards 2020 and Beyond
- Best practices in Europe and the rest of the world
- There is a job to do! A new ambitious agenda
- Recommendations for action and tentative roadmap
- EC, Stakeholders and Member state commitment and action
12:20-13:20
LUNCH
13:20-14:30
Expert Panel Discussion: Working Together Towards High-Tech Leadership in Europe: Better Anticipating and Managing Change
Chairperson: John Higgins CBE, Director General, DIGITALEUROPE
- Freddy Van den Wyngaert, Chairman of the Board, EuroCIO – The European CIO Association and CIO, Agfa ICS, Belgium
- Rodrigo Miranda, CEO, ISDI Institute for the Internet Development, Spain
- Christian Pagel, Head of Information Technology Management / CIO, ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions GmbH, Germany
- Laurent Zibell, Policy Advisor IndustriALL European Trade Union, Belgium
- Samuli Siren, Partner, Partner, Redstone Digital, Germany
- Silvia Leal, IT Programmes Academic Director, IE Business School, Spain
14:30-15:00
BREAK
15:00-16:15
Expert Panel Discussion: The importance of a European Innovation and Leadership Skills Agenda: Key messages, priorities and the Way Forward
Chairperson: John Higgins CBE, Director General, DIGITALEUROPE
- Kristina Dervojeda, Senior Manager Innovation Policy Research, Leader PwC Innovation Research Centre, PwC Woman of the Year 2012, The Netherlands
- Frank Gielen, Director of Education, EIT InnoEnergy
- Malin Rosqvist, PROMPT leader, Board member, Swedsoft, Project Coordinator, SoftWare Center, University of Mälardalen, Sweden
- Mika Helenius, Secretary General, TIVIA, Finland
- George Sharkov, National Cybersecurity Coordinator, Adviser on Cyber Defense, Ministry of Defense, Director, ESI CEE European Software Institute – Center Eastern Europe, Bulgaria
- Oliver Grün, CEO, BITMI, Germany and President, European Digital SME Alliance
16:15-16:30
Summary, Conclusions, Next Steps
John Higgins CBE, Director General, DIGITALEUROPE
Werner B. Korte, Director, empirica