Driving Digital Jobs in Europe’ is an invitation only event hosted by Microsoft, June 18th, 2013 in Dublin. The event will bring together a group of 60 youth ambassadors from countries hardest hit by youth unemployment in Europe for a focused workshop looking at a number of challenges under the title ‘Driving Digital Jobs in Europe’. 

This presentation outlines how digital agency, and Azure specialist, Sequence, worked with Storm to leverage the benefits of Azure, and in doing so how the brought a new lease of life to the Storm models web application real estate. Richard will outline how Storm use digital as part of their business, the challenges they faced in migrating a legacy platform, how Sequence made use of the Azure toolset and...

We are organizing the second edition of Microsoft’s EU Cybersecurity Forum, which will take place on 6 June 2013 in Brussels. This full day Forum will once again feature a number of high profile speakers and cybersecurity experts from EU institutions and Member States, OECD, the US and industry. The Forum will focus on network and information security, which has...

The Microsoft 4Afrika Initiative was launched in February 2013 with the aim of actively engaging in Africa’s economic development to improve its global competitiveness.

European Youth Forum & Microsoft Europe are pleased to invite you to YO! Fest, the traditional Youth-Led Political Festival organised by the European Youth Forum every year. 

Nowadays, the quantity of data in the world is doubling roughly every 18 months, so that in the next five years, we’ll generate more data than we generated in the previous 5,000 years. This data deluge has the potential to transform many facets of society, from healthcare to education, and from commerce to the environment. The key to unlock this potential will be the ability to extract useful...

The IAMCP European Summit is the annual event that brings together members of the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners from all across Europe.

In this high level event we plan on gathering 100 young Spaniards, Startups and SMEs with the objective of establishing a forum for dialogue in which the young generation, civil society leaders, government elites, MEPs and entrepreneurs will discuss the role of youth as the key to the future in Spain’s competitiveness, in three of the areas that have been set as priorities: development of ICT skills,...

On the 28th of January (15:00-16:00 CET), CSR Europe will pre-launch the upcoming European Business Campaign on Skills for Jobs by means of a webinar, open to all members, partners and other parties that are interested to know more about the direction CSR Europe is taking with this campaign & to find out about opportunities for collaboration and engagement. 

There is a growing understanding that the way spectrum has been allocated is creating scarcity. At the same time it has also become clear that today’s wireless networks are not currently, and will not be in the future, able to keep up with the rapidly increasing demand for broadband access. Even in the most developed economies, there are gaps in coverage. Access points and base stations become...

14 million European young people are not in employment, education or training, and at the same time thousands of jobs remain unfilled.

Microsoft’s event “Transforming education to regain economic prosperity”, will seek to promote and explore new assessment methods around collaborative problem solving. The discussion with key actors involved in this project, will provide guidelines to policy makers on how to help education communities prepare for PISA 2015.

  NEW: We have just launched our Healthier Cities vision and the Coalition of Partners for Healthier Cities. Read our White Paper for Healthier Citizen in a Healthier Europe.  In an effort to ignite the innovation and economic growth through sustainable health care delivery, Microsoft and its partners are organizing a three days exclusive forum on “Innovating for Better Health: Doing New...

Microsoft is happy to sponsor this year’s European Employment Forum 2012, which will take place in Brussels on the 27th & 28th of November.

Microsoft has a longstanding commitment to privacy, and works hard to earn the trust of customers around the world by, in part, developing and adopting meaningful privacy practices. To this end we have been facilitating @Microsoft Conversations on Privacy in Washington, D.C. for over a year, on each occasion bringing together a diverse mix of stakeholders to explore some of the most pressing issues related...

In order to celebrate both SME Week and Single Market Week, Microsoft is organising the first out of a bi-monthly series of roundtables in Brussels that aim to bring face to face policy makers and innovative entrepreneurs. They will highlight the success and debate the challenges of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in Europe.

ITU together with TechAmerica Europe is organizing the second Green Standards Week from 17 to 21 September 2012 in Paris, France, which will be hosted by Microsoft.

Take your place among the leaders of Europe’s innovation community!

Check the full agenda of the event here. The EU Cybersecurity and Digital Crimes Forum was a full day conference on cyber and internet security addressing European policy makers and national security and digital crime specialists.

Removing barriers to boost cloud computing opportunities, letting our industries and SMEs grow and better compete inside and outside the European Union.

Innovate4Good@Microsoft in Brussels will bring together over 120 young Europeans in interactive workshops and activities to discuss how they can imagine and realise leadership in today’s technology driven economy.

Efficiency and Opportunity: How Cloud and Technology Innovations are Powering Digital Public Services

General theme: Innovative SMEs: the key to economic regeneration in Europe Time & Date: 09:15 – 13:00, Tuesday 27th March 2012 Venue: Renaissance Hotel, Rue du Parnasse 19, 1050 Brussels

Technology skills are vital in driving a competitive and innovative Europe, as they provide the essential tools and knowledge for the workforce to access better jobs, enhancing overall workforce employability across sectors and functions.

The roundtable discussion revolved around exploring the impact of cloud computing on the European economy and examine the challenges of the existing legislative frameworks.

Ubiquitous Computing Building on the success of last year’s Digital Values series, Microsoft is introducing a new speakers’ series called TRANSFORMATIVE CONSUMER TECHNOLOGIES. This speaker series focuses on a specific technology trend and how innovative minds are turning it into something beyond its main purpose.

Social Computing Building on the success of last year’s Digital Values series, Microsoft is introducing a new speakers’ series called TRANSFORMATIVE CONSUMER TECHNOLOGIES. This speaker series focuses on a specific technology trend and how innovative minds are turning it into something beyond its main purpose.

Fuelling the European Economy event focused on the opportunities delivered by cloud computing to reenergize productivity, efficiency and competitiveness both for private industry – big and small - and public sector, stimulating innovation, growth and the European economy. John Vassallo, Vice President EU Affairs, Microsoft - Opening speech at the "Fuelling the European Economy" Event on...

Natural Computing Building on the success of last year’s Digital Values series, Microsoft is introducing a new speakers’ series called TRANSFORMATIVE CONSUMER TECHNOLOGIES. This speaker series focuses on a specific technology trend and how innovative minds are turning it into something beyond its main purpose.

The event “Cloud Computing: Leading to growth and jobs creation in Central and Eastern Europe” will take place in Brussels on the 6th of December 2011. It is organized by MEP Rafal TRZASKOWSKI – member of the EPP Group, in partnership with Microsoft Poland – an official partner of Polish EU Presidency.

This event has taken place. You can read our post-event summary here. Microsoft is hosting its 3rd annual eHealth event that examines how ICT can enable advanced patient-centric healthcare in Europe.

The European Employment Forum 2011 is taking place in Brussels on the 22nd & 23rd of November in the frame of the Employment Week and is co-organized by the European Commission. The event will look at the labour market in the light of the significant changes that have taken place over the past few years in the global economy. Despite the often gloomy outlook, there are reasons for optimism, and...

Hosted by Microsoft and the Fraunhofer Research Institute, the roundtable helped identify the main elements of the upcoming European Cloud Strategy and how this will affect European companies, government institutions and citizens.

The rapid growth of cloud computing offers tremendous opportunities for efficiency, cost savings and innovation, all ultimately benefiting the European economy. In connection with the Digital Agenda, Vice-President Kroes has launched a public consultation to help shape a strategy to ensure we make the best use of the potential for cloud computing in the EU.

In recognition of SME Week and in celebration of entrepreneurship in Europe, we are hosting a roundtable discussion on the benefits of cloud computing for European SMEs – as creators, service suppliers, and consumers. We invite you to join this discussion, as well as a short tour of technology demos, which will concentrate on cloud services developed by European SMEs.

While the web, blogs and social networks have given users more freedom to express themselves, a substantial amount of political or otherwise motivated discourse has moved into the digital realm. Where controversial or contested content is at stake, companies in the ICT sector and policymakers face increasing challenges to respond. We all agree on the right to free expression in principle, and recognize that...

Now in its 7th year, the BizSpark European Summit brought together thought-leaders in the entrepreneurial community across Europe - investors, government representatives, start-ups, journalists and Microsoft’s network partners. The summit provided a unique platform to debate the issues facing tech entrepreneurs in Europe and see some of the best start-ups in Europe. The summit was brought to you...

New technologies become interwoven with our everyday lives and our relationship with gadgets is constantly evolving. Do the current terms and concepts of consumer protection remain valid in the digital age? What are the new vulnerabilities and do we need to re-learn consumer protection?

On 13th April, Microsoft is hosting a roundtable event to discuss recent developments in spectrum policy and their impact on the ICT industry.

Efficiency and Opportunity: how the Cloud is powering Future Government. This year, the Government Solutions Forum in Rome brought together partners, customers and international public sector experts. During the 2 days of the event, participants discussed ways to deliver more effective citizen services, showcasing a wide range of ideas and solutions.

The online world allows for people to be more connected than ever before. On the other hand, increasing connectivity intensifies the security risks.

Microsoft supports Safer Internet Day, a global campaign promoting a healthy Internet for all. Organized by Insafe and co-founded by the European Union, Safer Internet Day promotes more responsible use of online technologies and services.

Just how strong is trust in a modern society? The more we depend on technologies to carry out or mediate our everyday activities, the more we need to make sure that we trust them to do so. How do you inspire user trust without any face-to-face contact? Do we need trustmarks or rather trust user experience?

Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel and Senior Vice President for Legal & Corporate Affairs, talks to France’s Assemblée Nationale about the opportunities that cloud computing represents for the European Union.

Interoperability – the ability of different IT systems and services to work together – continues to be an important objective not only for the regulators, but for the industry. This important feature of technology enables users to control their data and allows them to work with products and services from different vendors. As interest in Cloud Computing grows, users are discovering the...

This Microsoft-hosted workshop will examine how the use of new technologies, especially cloud computing can ease the path toward e-Health. The workshop will gather together important leaders in the European Medical Community as well as Health organizations involved in innovative telemedicine projects. It is being held on November 11/12 in the Microsoft Executive Briefing Centre in Brussels.

This Microsoft-hosted workshop will examine how the use of new technologies, especially Cloud Computing can ease the path toward e-Health. The workshop will gather together important leaders in the European Medical Community as well as Health organizations involved in innovative telemedicine projects. It is being held on November 11/12 in the Microsoft Executive Briefing Centre in Brussels.

The world's premier student technology competition celebrates this year’s winners on the 6 October! The event takes place at the European Parliament and is hosted by Polish MEP Rafal Trzaskowski.

In Europe we have education placed high on the political agenda, indeed the first single EU-level strategy embracing both education and employment ‘Youth on the Move’ has recently been launched as a key facet of the Europe 2020 agenda!

The third annual conference of The State of the European Union is taking place at the Egmont Palace in Brussels on 6 June 2013.

What does the cloud mean for the future production, distribution and consumption of audiovisual services? Does it mean the end of location-based production; lower production values and more user generated content displacing high value material? How can content be made secure and monetised? Is the cloud the answer to pan-EU content availability? Will the cloud overshadow broadcast TV or provide a flash...

The potential economic gains from cloud computing are greatest when users and suppliers enjoy a large-scale, borderless market - such as the one envisioned in the Single Market initiative. However, in Europe today some barriers limiting the flow of data in the cloud still persists, thus affecting both the productivity gains for users and the number of commercial opportunities for smaller EU companies...

Hosted by Guy Kawasaki, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Follow the highlights of the event on Microsoft.eu

The European Commission as part of the EU Sustainable Energy Week (23-25 March) will once again run the Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign which contributes to realising the European Union's energy policy to amongst other things promote energy efficiency, new renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, and clean transport. The 2009 EU Sustainable Energy Week will sponsor 149 events inside and outside of...

In Europe and elsewhere, computing is experiencing a powerful transformation. Driven by continuous innovations in software, hardware and the Internet, traditional models of computing are gradually shifting.   

Safer Internet Day, organised by Insafe, will be celebrated on 9 February 2010 in more than 50 countries across the world and will this year focus on the theme “Think before you post!”

Microsoft, in partnership with European Voice and its sister publications in Washington DC, Roll Call and Congressional Quarterly, is hosting a high-level transatlantic dialogue on how technology can enable innovation and transformation in the field of health.