Digital Executive Club Brussels - an initiative of WIK and IDATE
In 2011, WIK and IDATE have founded the „Digital Executive Club Brussels" that will focus on long-term challenges in the digital industry. The Club aims to provide a discussion forum for the representatives of leading companies regarding innovations and changes in telecoms, internet and media business.
The club, which is based on personal membership, meets regularly to discuss a particular issue.
The next virtual meeting on "Broadband State aid" will be held on 29 October 2020.
Previous meetings:
6 February 2020
A new Digital agenda for Europe, challenges and opportunities
Speaker:
Javier Albares (GSMA Europe)
22 January 2020
5G Campus networks
Speaker:
Bernd Sörries (WIK)
28 November 2019
Industrial and social applications for ICT and
the implications for connectivity
Speakers:
Martin Lundborg (WIK)
Ilsa Godlovitch (WIK)
24. Oktober 2019
5G Network Slicing [From Technical Challenges to Business Cases]
Referent:
Michel Corriou (B<>com)
19 September 2019
eSIM: market developments and implications for services and competition
Speakers:
Jean-Christophe Tisseuil (GSMA)
Christin Gries (WIK)
4 July 2019
5G fixed wireless access cannibalize FTTx?
Speakers:
Jean-Luc Lemmens (IDATE DigiWorld)
Ariane Enjabal (IDATE DigiWorld)
Didier Pouillot (IDATE DigiWorld)
12 June 2019
Copper switch-off
Speakers:
Ilsa Godlovitch (WIK)
Barna Kutvolgyi (Jersey Telecom)
16 May 2019
Speaker:
Anthony Whelan (EU, DG Connect)
20 March 2019
Back from Amsterdam FTTH Council conference and
Debrief of the Mobile World Congress Barcelona
Speakers:
Roland Montagne (IDATE DigiWorld)
Jean-Luc Lemmens (IDATE DigiWorld)
14 February 2019
Technological developments and roaming
Speakers:
Ilsa Godlovitch (WIK)
René Arnold (WIK)
Scott Marcus (SeniorFellow at Bruegel)
24 January 2019
Platforms Economy
Speaker:
Alexandre de Streel (UNamur)
20 December 2018
The future of interconnection and interoperability
Speakers:
René Arnold (WIK)
Johan Keetelaar (Facebook)
Scott Marcus (Senior fellow at Bruegel)
4 October 2018
Open Data use and re-use: Widening the approach towards free flow of data
Speakers:
Martina Barbero (Deloitte)
Annette Hillebrand (WIK)
13 September 2018
Speakers:
Jeroen Cornelissen (Sopra Steria)
"Data Governance"
Prune Esquerre (IDATE DigiWorld)
"Mobile Banking"
3 July 2018
Broadband Cost Reductive Directive: challenges and opportunities
Speaker:
Ilsa Godlovitch (WIK-Consult)
14 June 2018
Future of mobile networks: 5G Trials & 2G / 3G Switch off
Speakers:
Jean-Luc Lemmens (IDATE)
Agnès Le Meil (IDATE)
24 May 2018
Business models and use cases for FTTP - Impact on future applications (5G and IOT) and socio-economic effects
Speakers:
Ilsa Godlovitch (WIK-Consult)
René Arnold (WIK-Consult)
12 April 2018
Speakers:
Jean Gonié (Veon) "GDPR"
Jacques Beraud (Italtel France) "Italtel"
15 March 2018
FTTH Panorama für Europe - back from Valencia conference and Debrief Mobile World Congress Barcelona
Speakers:
Roland Montagne (IDATE DigiWorld)
Florence Le Borgne (IDATE DigiWorld)
8 February 2018
Review of the European Telecom Regulation: What about investment and competition?
Speaker:
Anthony Whelan
18 January 2018
Modernising EU spectrum Management: Background on the European Code
Speaker:
Scott Marcus
9 November 2017
Speakers:
Artificial Intelligence: what, how, when for telcos?
Geert Kelchtermans, (Proximus)
Cognitive computing in a telecoms context
Rob an den Dam (IBM's Institute for Business Value)
12 October 2017
The future of messaging
Speaker:
René Arnold
14 September 2017
Cable Europe - The Role of Cable in 5G Deployment
Speaker:
Paulo Valente (Cable Europe)
6 July 2017
Digital China
Speakers:
Hao Yi (IDATE)
Luigi Gambardella (ChinaEU)
15 June 2017
The rise of non-telcos in broadband provision
Speakers:
Olivier Broers (Vivaqua)
Ilsa Godlovitch (WIK-Consult)
20 April 2017
Brexit: Implications for the tech sector
Spreaker:
Larry Stone (BT)
9 March 2017
Lessons from the Mobile World Congress
Speakers:
Gabriel Flichy (Orange Belgium)
Ralf Kreikamp (Huawei)
Frédéric Pujol (IDATE)
8 February 2017
Public Initiative Networks: Project Finance for Very High Speed Internet Access
Speakters:
Pierre-Michel Attali (IDATE)
Jean-Philippe Haag (Société General)
12 January 2017
Three very different examples of co-investment in the deployment of very high capacity broadband networks – in France, Portugal and Italy
Speakers:
Didier Dillard (Orange)
Nuno Oliveira (Vodafone)
Lisa di Feliciantonio (Fastweb)
8 December 2016
What is on a CTO's mind?
Speaker:
Micha Berger (Telenet)
24 November 2016
Digital Platforms: market dynamics and implications for competition
Speakers:
Benoit Tabaka, Google
René C.G. Arnold, WIK
13 October 2016
Hybrid Broadcast/Broadband
Speakers:
Cecil Ameil, SES
Florence Le Borgne, IDATE
8 September 2016
Blockchain
Speakers:
Bertrand Copigneaux (IDATE)
Burak Yetiskin (Accenture)
7 July 2016
Scenarios for future Telcos
Speakers:
Christoph Pennings (DigiWorld IDATE)
Rob van den Dam (IBM)
9 June 2016
Internet of Things: trends and implications
Speakers:
Samuel Ropert (IDATE)
René Arnold (WIK)
12 May 2016
Review of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive
Speakers:
Florence Le Borgne (IDATE)
Grégoire Polad (ACT Team)
7 April 2016
Developments in copper and FTTH technologies and
the Impact on netwok Speeds and Quality
Speaker:
Florian Damas (Nokia)
10 March 2016
Lessons from the Mobile World Congress
Speakers:
Matteo Gatta (Proximus)
Peter Olson (Ericsson)
11 February 2016
Main topics of the review of the telecoms framework in Europe
Speaker:
Anthony Whelan (European Commission)
12 January 2016
China EU Digital Alliance. 5G and beyond.
Speaker:
Luigi Gambardella (China EU)
10 December 2015
OTT players: Maket dynamics and policy challenges
Presentation of the WIK-Consult study on OTT
for the European Parliament's IMCO committee
8 October 2015
Data protection and data privacy
Speakers:
Gaëtan le Guelvoit (Digital trust and Identity lab, b<>com)
Gustav Malis (b<>com)
10 September 2015
Wireless broadband in the 700MHz band - Europe after the German auction
Speakers:
Peter Olson (Ericsson)
Dirk Grewe (Telefónica Germany) [Presentation is available for download]
9 July 2015
Internet Governance in Evolution
Speaker:
Jean-Jacques Sahel (ICANN)
18 June 2015
OTT
Speakers:
Christoph Pennings (IDATE)
Ilsa Godlovitch (WIK)
16 April 2015
After the Mobile World Congress: innovation in mobile Networks
Speakers:
Frédéric Pujol (IDATE)
Olivier Blampain (Proximus)
12 March 2015
Applications and networks: the chicken or the egg?
Speakers:
Cornelia Kutterer (EMEA at Microsoft)
Ilsa Godlovitch (WIK-Consult)
15 January 2015
IP interconnection and the PSTN phase-out
Speaker:
Dieter Elixmann (WIK)
11 December 2014
Ten key trends for the Internet
Speaker:
Vincent Bonneau (IDATE)
6 November 2014
Mobile consolidation
Speakers:
Fabio Colosani (Chair)
Dirk Grewe (Telefonica Deutschland)
Beatriz Sanz Fernández-Vega (Telefonica SA)
Gerry Fahy (Comreg)
16 October 2014
Cable Regulation in Belgium
Speaker:
Jean-Marc Harion (Mobistar)
Dirk Segers (Mobistar)
10 July 2014
Cloud TV: a game changer for the industry?
Speakers:
Victor Badin (Alphanetworks)
Jacques Bajon (IDATE)
12 June 2014
G.fast - friend or foe of FTTH
Speakers:
Dr. Stefaan Vanhastel (Alcatel-Lucent)
Dr Thomas Plückebaum (WIK-Consult)
10 April 2014
Is there a Need for a Pan-European market of TV rights?
Speakers:
Ross Biggam (Association of Commercial Television in Europe)
Dragoslav Zachariev (UniversCine)
13 March 2014
Duct Access
Speakers:
Joao Confraria (ANACOM)
Xavier Vignon (Sogetrel)
13 February 2014
Hybrid Broadcast Broadband Solutions
Speakers:
Nicolas Moulin-Fournier (Eutelsat)
Gilles Fontaine (IDATE)
16 January 2014
Can EU mobile roaming be abolished?
Speaker:
Ben Wreschner (Vodafone)
12 December 2013
What is a pan-european communication Service?
Speaker:
Adrian Comley (BT IP Connect & BT Connect Applications)
17 Oktober 2013
Ultrafast broadband: Is Europe falling behind?
Speakers:
Magnus Franklin (MLex)
Tony Henderson
12 September 2013
Big Data and the communications Industry
Speaker:
Fabien Lanne (IBM)
11 July 2013
New Generic Top-Level Domain Names
Speaker:
Nigel Hickson
13 June 2013
Challenges for broadcasters
Speakers:
Lodovico Benvenuti (Mediaset)
Ross Biggam (Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Europe)
16 May 2013
Equivalence of access - Implications of the new Commission Recommendation
Speaker:
Alan Lazarus (Openreach)
18 April 2013
FTTx, Cable, LTE, vectoring: how to meet the digital agenda goals?
Speakters:
J. Scott Marcus (WIK)
Roland Montagne (IDATE)
14 March 2013
Competition along the internet value chain
Speakers:
Dr. Jan Krancke (Deutsche Telekom)
Winston Maxwell (Hogan Lovells International)
14 February 2013
eAdvertising and Big Data
Speakers:
Matthias Kurth (Cable Europe)
Alain Maton (BIPT)
17 January 2013
Spectrum sharing
Speakers:
Frédéric Pujol (IDATE)
Ulrich Rehfuess (Nokia Siemens Networks)
13 December 2012
Voice over LTE
Speakers:
Stefan Svensson (Ericsson)
Frédéric Pujol (IDATE)
18 October 2012
European Telecom Infrastrucutre Funding
Speakers:
Anna Krzyzanowska (EU Commission)
Harald Gruber (EIB)
Tony Shortall (Telage)
20 September 2012
Internet of things/M2M
Speakers:
Gert Pauwels (Orange International)
Samuel Ropert (IDATE)
5 July 2012
Global Trends in Connected TV
Speakers:
Gilles Fontaine (IDATE)
Eric Scherer (France Télévisions)
7 June 2012
eHealth and telcos' potential involvement
Speaker:
Thierry Zylberberg (Orange)
24 May 2012
Mobile Broadband
Speakers:
Simon Hampton (Google)
Marco Harfmann (A1 Telekom Austria)
Peter Olson (Ericsson)
19 April 2012
CDN: Markets & issues
Speakers:
Martin Mc Dermott (Akamai)
Vincent Bonneau (IDATE)
16 March 2012
VDSL Vectoring
Speakers:
Thomas Plückebaum (WIK)
Olivier Duroyon (Alcatel-Lucent)
Paul Spruyt (Division Wireline Alcatel-Lucent)
Alain Maton (BIPT)
9 February 2012
IPTV new issues
Speakers:
Gilles Fontaine (IDATE)
Bruno Chauvat (Belgacom)
13 October 2011
LTE roll-out in Europe – Where do we stand?
Speakers:
Frédéric Pujol (IDATE)
Dr. Rüdiger Hahn (Federal Network Agengy)
16 June 2011
Fibre based access and the Digital Agenda: Is Europe meeting its objectives?
Speakers:
Roland Montagne (IDATE)
Karl-Heinz Neumann (WIK)
