This Summit provides a vital platform to forge a clear, strong, and future-oriented digital strategy. By embracing and advancing ‘Digital with Purpose,’ Europe can reassert its fundamental role as a global player, ensuring economic growth, decarbonization, security, and sustained competitiveness. Participants will explore how digital technologies from AI and data centres to smart grids and urban infrastructure can drive measurable impact across sectors. Through a curated mix of keynote interventions, strategic dialogues, and sectoral case studies, the programme will elevate Europe’s unique position to align policy, innovation, and investment ensuring that digital transformation becomes a lever for opportunity, resilience, and purposeful leadership.
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