Thank you to everyone who attended the FT ETNO Digital Agenda Summit 2011 which took place on 3 October in Brussels. The event was a huge success attracting over 280 senior representatives from ICT companies, industry associations, members from the European Parliament and European Commission, permanent representations and national regulators and ministries.

Photos from the Summit are now available to view and download here
Speaker presentations and audio files are now available to view and download here
The full Summit video is now available to view here
The Summit video (edited highlights) is available to view here
Post event press articles are available to read here

 Summit overview

As fully recognised by the EU 2020 Strategy and the Digital Agenda, the Internet is increasingly changing our daily lives in a positive way and used as a key enabler for industry sectors and contributor to societal challenges such as climate change and an ageing population. High performance networks providing fast access to innovative, quality services and products are essential for the success of the Digital Agenda for Europe.

The exponential growth in data traffic over fixed and mobile broadband networks, driven mainly by over-the-top (OTT) applications such as video, requires huge investment in order to deploy additional network capacity. A new equilibrium will be essential to ensure that players generating large amounts of data traffic also contribute to the investment challenge ahead. Without clear economic and investment incentives, network congestion will increasingly affect innovation and growth.

At this crucial time, ETNO and the Financial Times are proud to present a Summit to foster dialogue between all actors of the Internet eco-system to debate how to allow innovative services to be launched, how the current commercial model may need to evolve and how new revenues can be generated to justify infrastructure investments. It will also look at the role policy makers can take in supporting these initiatives to achieve a viable, sustainable Internet for the benefit of all.

Decisions taken now will affect the way the Internet is developed and used and we are proud to convene a distinguished speaker line up to discuss the way forward.  The Summit will feature a keynote presentation from European Commissioner Neelie Kroes and two high-level CEO panel debates. Proceedings will be chaired by Michael Skapinker, Assistant Editor and Editor, Special Reports, Financial Times.

Chair Michael Skapinker Assistant Editor and Editor Special Reports Financial Times

Keynote Neelie Kroes European Commissioner for Digital Agenda

Speakers include

César Alierta, Chairman and CEO, Telefónica
Hannes Ametsreiter, CEO, Telekom Austria Group
Jon Fredrik Baksaas, President and CEO, Telenor Group
Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO, Research In Motion
Franco Bernabè, Chairman and CEO, Telecom Italia
Paulo Bernardo Silva, Minister of Communications, Federative Republic of Brazil
Eelco Blok, CEO, KPN
Anne Bouverot, Director General and Member of the Board, GSMA
Chris Dedicoat, President, EMEAR, Cisco
Gary Epstein, Managing Director and General Counsel, Aspen Institute International
Luigi Gambardella, Executive Board Chairman, ETNO
Hakam Kanafani, CEO, Türk Telekom Group
William E Kennard, US Ambassador to the EU
Jean-Bernard Lévy, CEO, Vivendi
Dr Jonathan Liebenau, Reader in Technology Management, London School of Economics
Pierre Louette, EVP, Group General Secretary and France Carriers Division, France Telecom - Orange
Jo Lunder, CEO, VimpelCom
Mark Page, Global Leader, Communications, Media and High Tech practice, A.T. Kearney
Duco Sickinghe, CEO, Telenet
Ben Verwaayen, CEO, Alcatel-Lucent
Hans Vestberg, President and CEO, Ericsson