China, the Digital Economy and the EU Investment plan
Workshop Agenda
Venue: Room JDE 53
Committee of the Regions
Bâtiment Jacques Delors
Rue Belliard 99-101, B - 1040 Brussels
Date: Thursday, 4th June 2015
14:00-17:30
The event consists of a half-day workshop, during which a selected number of European Regions and Cities will present and discuss innovative projects in digital services (internet of things, smart cities, smart energy and cloud computing) and next generation networks (fiber deployment) to some of the biggest Chinese banks, which expressed interest in contributing financially to the Juncker Investment Plan of EUR 315bn. A roundtable with the ICT industry will conclude the session.
14:00-14:20 Keynotes speeches
Markku Markkula President of the Committee of the Regions
H.E. Ambassador Yang Yanyi Head of the Chinese Mission to the EU
14:20-14:50 ChinaEU initiative and the EU Investment Plan
Luigi Gambardella President ChinaEU
Edward Bannerman Senior Adviser to European Commission Vice-President for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Jyrki Katainen
Alessandro Carano Senior Adviser on Jobs, Growth and Investment of the European Commission, Economic and Financial Affairs (ECFIN)
14:50-15:05 Coffee Break
The rest of the workshop will proceed at closed doors, media representatives are kindly asked to leave the venue
15:05-16:00 Presentation of a selected number of projects of Regions and Cities on digital services and infrastructure
Moderator: Gianluca Attura President of Technical Board ChinaEU
Berlin City, Germany
Catalonia Region, Spain
Lodzkie Region, Poland
Tuscany Region, Italy
16:00-16:40 Roundtable with Chinese Banks
Moderator: Huang Yiyang Counselor, Head of Political Office Chinese Mission to the EU
Tan Xiangke Director of Corporate Banking ICBC Europe
Stephen Howard Head of Global Telecom, Media and Technology Research HSBC
Sheng Jin Senior Manager Agricultural Bank of China Frankfurt
He Liqin President Bank of China Brussels
16:40-17.15 Roundtable with the ICT industry
Moderator: Jorgen Gren Member of Cabinet of European Commission Vice-President Andrus Ansip
Victor Zhang President European Public Affairs and Communications Office Huawei
Lu Jian Vice-President Legal and Public Affairs, Sustainability Europe ZTE
Fred van Roosmalen Vice-President External Relations NXP Semiconductors (tbc)
Erzsébet Fitori Director European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA)
17:15-17.30 Closing remarks by Cao Yuanzheng, Chief Economist of Bank of China
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Created in 1994, the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is the European Union's assembly of regional and local representatives. It is composed of 350 members – regional presidents, mayors or elected representatives of regions and cities – from the 28 EU countries.
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