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The Digital Agenda Summit which will take place at the Square Brussels Meeting Centre in Brussels on Monday 3 October 2011 is generating a lot of interest.

As fully recognised by the EU 2020 Strategy and the Digital Agenda, the Internet is increasingly changing our daily lives in a positive way and used as a key enabler for industry sectors and contributor to societal challenges such as climate change and an ageing population. High performance networks providing fast access to innovative, quality services and products are essential for the success of the Digital Agenda for Europe.

With less than 2 weeks to go until the Summit, ETNO and the Financial Times are pleased to announce that we already have over 250 senior representatives registered to attend, including members from the European Parliament, European Commission, permanent representations, national regulators and ministries and chief executives from ETNO member companies and the ICT sector at large. Participating companies include:

 

abertis telecom * Accenture * Alcatel-Lucent * Amazon EU * Apple * AT&T * Bank Austria * Bank of America Merrill Lynch * Belgacom * BH Telecom * BT * Cellex * Cisco * Colt Technology Services * Cosmote Mobile Telecommunications * Cullen International * Deutsche Telekom * eBay * Elisa Corporation * EPT Luxembourg * Ericsson * European Investment Bank * Facebook * Fastweb * GSMA * HSBC * Huawei Technologies * Hutchison Europe * KPN * Lattelecom * Magyar Telekom * Microsoft * Nokia * Nokia Siemens Networks * NTT DOCOMO * Orange France Telecom * OTE * Panasonic Europe * Portugal Telecom * Qualcomm * Radiocom * Research In Motion * RTL Group * Samsung * SES * Siminn * Skipti * Slovak Telekom * Swisscom * TDC * TDF * Telecom Italia * Telefónica * Telekom Austria * Telekom Slovenije * Telekomunikacja Polska * Telenor * TeliaSonera * The Walt Disney Company * Tim Celular * Time Warner * Türk Telekom * Verizon Communications * Vimpelcom * Vivendi * Vodafone * WestLB * Wind Telecomunicazioni * ZTE Corporation

 

Speakers include

César Alierta, Chairman and CEO,Telefónica

Hannes Ametsreiter, CEO,Telekom Austria Group

Jon Fredrik Baksaas, President and CEO,Telenor Group

Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO,Research In Motion

Franco Bernabè, Chairman and CEO, Telecom Italia

Paulo Bernardo Silva, Minister of Communications,Federative Republic of Brazil

Eelco Blok, CEO,KPN

Anne Bouverot, Director General and Member of the Board,GSMA

Chris Dedicoat, President, EMEAR,Cisco

Gary Epstein, Managing Director and General Counsel, Aspen Institute International

Luigi Gambardella, Executive Board Chairman, ETNO

Hakam Kanafani, CEO, Türk Telekom Group

William E Kennard, US Ambassador to the EU

Jean-Bernard Lévy, CEO, Vivendi

Dr Jonathan Liebenau, Reader in Technology Management, London School of Economics

Jo Lunder, CEO, Vimpelcom

Rajeev Suri, CEO, Nokia Siemens Networks

Ben Verwaayen, CEO, Alcatel-Lucent

Hans Vestberg, President and CEO, Ericsson