In the morning, a debate will take place at the European Parliament in Brussels where both Rafał Trzaskowski, MEP and Ronald Zink, COO EU Affairs, Associate General Counsel, Microsoft will deliver keynotes addresses.

Then, two panel discussions will follow and discuss important topics around the economic impact of cloud computing in Central and Eastern Europe based on recent studies conducted in Ukraine, Poland, Greece and Hungary.

“The impact of Cloud computing on national competitiveness” will be discussed with Rainer Zimmermann, Head of Unit, Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures, DG INFSO, European Commission, Bohdan, Wyżnikiewicz, Gdansk Institute for Market economy, Poland, James Wilson, Head of EU-Ukraine Business Council and Filip Lukaszewicz, from Bird&Bird LLP.

And “ICT for economic growth and societal welfare” will be discussed with Ioannis Tsoukalas, MEP, Peteris Zilgalvis, Head of Unit, ICT for Health, DG INFSO, European Commission, Piotr Sarnecki, Head of Brussels Office, Lewiatan (Polish Employers Confederation) and Katarzyna Balucka-Debska, ICT For Inclusion, DG INFSO, European Commission.

In the afternoon, Stavros Alexakis from Microsoft Greece and Tomasz Kozdryk from Microsoft Poland Public Sector will welcome you at Microsoft Cloud & Interoperability centre and will give a Demo tour.

Location: European Parliament, Brussels & Microsoft Cloud & Interoperability centre

Speakers & stakeholders: European Commission (DG INFSO), European Parliament, Gdansk Institute for Market economy, EU-Ukraine Business council, Bird & Bird, Lewiatan - Polish Employer Confederation.

For more information about the agenda, please click here.

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• Cloud Computing and Greek Economy’s Competitiveness
• Hungary Cloud Study
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• Cloud computing: Flexibility Efficiency Security
• ICT in National competitiveness

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