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 in Brussels to discuss a particular issue.
The next meeting on "EU funding for fibre and 5G: CEF digital" will be held on 19 March 2020 in Brussels.
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)
