Europe at crunch time for its digital future
DIGITALEUROPE's Summer Summit returned at a decisive moment. With key regulatory debates reaching a tipping point, the focus shifted from ambition to execution — building trusted infrastructure, securing investment and aligning sustainability with technological growth.
Discussions went straight to the core: how to design rules on AI, data and critical technologies that enabled innovation while strengthening resilience and competitiveness.
Rules for AI, data & critical tech
Speakers debated frameworks to enable innovation while strengthening resilience — from the Digital Omnibus to trusted data and the AI rulebook.
Trusted infrastructure & investment
The Summit explored how to build resilient infrastructure and secure the investment Europe needed to reduce strategic dependencies and scale at speed.
Sustainability & competitiveness
Discussions examined how to align the energy footprint of data centres and next-generation AI with decarbonisation, security and long-term growth.
Speakers shaping Europe's digital sovereignty
EU leadership, national ministers, ambassadors and industry executives — together on one stage in Brussels.
Titles correct as of the time of participation.
One afternoon, framed for Europe's decisive year
Brussels + Online. Programme from the most recent edition; times in CEST.
Registration and networking lunch
Europe’s digital future: Presidency Priorities
Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl · Ioannis Vrailas · Taurimas Valys · Una Fitzpatrick
Europe’s Data Dilemma: Protect Privacy, Share Data, or Stay Competitive?
Moderated by Milda Basiulyte · Mikael Bäck · Marina Kaljurand · Dariusz Standerski
EU–Türkiye: Building a More Competitive Digital Partnership
Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl · Muhammet Kasım Gönüllü · Erdem Erkul
Networking coffee break
Advancing digital sovereignty through public procurement
Moderated by Ray Pinto · Britta Behrendt · Alex Kaluzny · Thibaut Kleiner · Michel Lorgeré · Hans Roth
Sovereignty to Scale: Building Europe’s Tech Market
Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl · Enrico Letta
Bridging the Atlantic: Transatlantic tech cooperation
Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl · Andrew Puzder
Data centres and chips at the EU crossroads: Energy, Policy and AI ambition
Moderated by Vincenzo Renda · Stavros Athanasiou Kalafatis · Audrey Scozzaro Ferrazzini · Adéle Naudy-Chambaud · Manuel Mateo Goyet
Closing remarks
Everything you need to know
2027 date to be announced. Check back soon for the next edition.
In person in Brussels, with full online participation for the hybrid audience.
All sessions are available on demand, and the full event photo gallery is online to browse and download.
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