Wednesday, 22 March
11:00-13:00
Silversquare Europe (Sq.de Meeûs 35, 1000 Bruxelles)
Our next event will be a panel discussion with policy experts on three of the EU’s legislative priorities. They will discuss how migration policies, the ‘digital transition,’ and the Green Deal affect ordinary Europeans and the real future of Europe.
There are six named European Union legislative priorities for 2023-24. We have chosen focus on three of these during this legislative session: Security (with a focus on migration); the Digital Transition; and the Green Deal.
To introduce these topics, we have assembled a panel of experts to analyze the EU’s language and motivations: what do the terms they use really mean; what is the real agenda; and how will these initiatives affect ordinary Europeans?
Register here.
PROGRAMME
10:45-11:00 Arrivals & Registration
11:00 -11:15 Introductory Remarks
11:15 – 12:15 Panel Discussion
12:15 – 13:00 Light lunch reception
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Dr. Norman Lewis is a writer, speaker, and consultant on innovation and technology. He is recognised worldwide as an expert on future trends and user behaviours in technology innovation and adoption. He has many years of experience working with startups in Silicon Valley and the UK. Dr. Lewis was formerly a director at PwC, responsible for their crowd-sourced innovation programme. Prior to that, he was the director of technology research at Orange, France Telecom. He is an advisory board member of Bubbletone Blockchain in Telecom—the world’s first decentralised mobile roaming service. He was also an executive board member of the MIT Communications Futures Programme and a former ITU TELECOM Forum programme committee chairman. He is a co-author of “Big Potatoes: The London Manifesto for Innovation.”
Pierre-Marie Sève graduated with a law degree from the Sorbonne University in Paris. His work focuses on building a more effective judicial system in France and providing greater protection for victims of crime. He regularly appears on French media to discuss his work.
Pieter Cleppe is the editor-in-chief of brusselsreport.eu, an international research fellow at the U.S. think tank Property Rights Alliance, a columnist for National Review Online, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, and a frequent commentator for European and international media. Between 2008 and 2020, he was the head of the Brussels office of Open Europe, which covers EU policy and Brexit. Before that, he practiced law in Belgium, served as a Belgian government cabinet adviser, and co-founded Itinera Institute, the first professional Belgian policy think tank. He holds a law degree from the Catholic University of Leuven (2004) and an LL.M in law and economics from the universities of Hamburg, Bologna, and Vienna (2005). He is listed among ZN Consulting’s “top 40 EU influencers” on Twitter.
