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

Berlin (ots) - True to the motto 'The Future of Made in Europe',
the Vodafone Institute will assemble international business
executives, tech start-up founders, scientists in Berlin on 19
February. They will be joined by experts from the digital scene and
civil society to discuss their vision for a digital Europe.

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 danyal.alaybeyoglu@vodafone.com, tel. +49 172 240 3359.

Press contact:

Danyal Alaybeyoglu
Head of Media relations

Mobile: +49 172 2403359
Danyal.Alaybeyoglu@vodafone.com

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