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Speech of Vice-President Ansip at the launch of the European Tech Alliance, Strasbourg, France
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INTRODUCING THE EUROPEAN TECH ALLIANCE
European in origin, Global in mindset
27 October 2015 | 09:30 – 12:00
Including product demonstrations and time to interact with member CEOs
Pierre Pflimlin Building (room F03101),
Allée Spach, European Parliament, 67070 Strasbourg
Hosted by Catherine Stihler MEP
Key note speech
by Andrus Ansip,
Vice President of the European Commission for the Digital Single Market
Introductory remarks
by Niklas Zennström,
CEO of Atomico & Founder of Skype European Tech Alliance President
The Alliance is a group of fast-growing tech companies that have been built in Europe. All members have recently found success and now want to scale up, so as to continue to grow and compete globally.
Europe is good at tech and the sector is already contributing enormously to the economy both in terms of driving investment and creating highly skilled jobs. The Alliance members want to use their collective experience to feed into the push to strengthen Europe’s digital economy.
PROGRAMME
Tuesday, 27th October 2015, Strasbourg
09:00-09:30
Registration & coffee
09:30-10:45
Product demonstration & interaction with member CEOs
10:45-10:50
Welcome
Catherine Stihler, Member of the European Parliament
10:50-11:00
Keynote
Andrus Ansip, Vice President of the European Commission for the Digital Single Market
11:00-11:10
Introductory remarks & official launch
Niklas Zennström, European Tech Alliance President, CEO of Atomico & Founder of Skype
11:10-12:00
Moderated interactive debate
by James Crisp, Deputy news editor at EurActiv.com
Featuring:
Andrus Ansip, Vice President of the European Commission for the Digital Single Market
CEOs of Alliance member companies
12:00-13:00
Reception