German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Open Vodafone Institute's Digitising Europe Summit in Berlin on 19 February

With the Digitising Europe Summit, the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications, the European think tank of the Vodafone Group, aims to provide a platform in the run-up to the European elections to debate the opportunities and challenges of digitisation for business, society and politics.

Chancellor Angela Merkel will open the Summit with a political keynote address. 350 guests from politics, business, science and civil society are invited. The speakers will include:

Nick Read, CEO, Vodafone Group Plc.

Philippe Donnet, Managing Director & Group CEO, Generali

Tom Enders, CEO, Airbus SE

Prof. Luciano Floridi, Professor for Philosophy und Ethics, University of Oxford

Prof. Sami Haddadin, Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence

Reiner Hoffmann, President, German Trade Union Confederation

Alex Karp, Co-Founder & CEO, Palantir Technologies Inc.

Prof. Dennis J. Snower, Ph.D., President, Global Solutions Initiative

Prof. Dr. Andreas Schleicher, OECD, Head of Directorate of Education and Skills

Margarethe Schramböck, Austrian Minister for Economy and Digitisation

The Vodafone Institute organizes the Digitising Europe Summit together with renowned partners from its international network, including United Europe e.V., the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, and Deutsche Welle as official media partner.   

To learn more visit the official conference website at www.digitising-europe.com. For interview requests to the speakers and further information on the Digitising Europe Summit, the study results and press accreditations, please contact Danyal Alaybeyoglu at [email protected], tel. +49-172-240-3359.