Günther Oettinger Opens Startup Europe Forum at ICT2015 in Lisbon

The European Digital Forum, an inter-disciplinary research hub co-managed by the Lisbon Council and Nesta, took centre stage at ICT 2015: Innovate, Connect, Transform in Lisbon on 20-22 October 2015. ICT 2015 is…

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Data-Driven Innovation for Growth and Wellbeing

At a time when Europe debates the reform of its data protection rules, the Lisbon Council hosted the global launch of Data-Driven Innovation: Big Data for Growth and Wellbeing, a timely…

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Leveraging Technology for Economic Vitality: How Data Analytics Will Drive Growth

An eclectic group of high-level policymakers, economists and think tankers met at the High-Level Working Dinner on How Data Analytics Will Drive Growth, the latest meeting of the Zukunftssalon: Forum for the…

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Driving the Hidden Value of Digital Trade

Two leading think tanks – the Progressive Policy Institute from Washington, DC and the Lisbon Council from Brussels – convened the High-Level Roundtable on Driving the Hidden Value of Digital Trade. At their fourth transatlantic…

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Andrus Ansip Keynotes The 2015 European Digital Forum

The 2015 European Digital Forum convened under the timely theme How the Digital Single Market Will Power a European Renaissance – and What We Need to Do About It Today. Andrus Ansip, vice-president…

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Growing the Digital Economy> A Transatlantic View

The Lisbon Council welcomed Catherine A. Novelli, senior co-ordinator for international information technology diplomacy and under secretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment of the United States (Department…

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