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EBS is proud to introduce the European Health Summit entitled “Bolstering healthcare to drive European resilience”, set to take place on 1st December 2020 at the Egmont Palace in Brussels.

Why a European Health Summit now?
The European Health Summit comes at a critical juncture. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically brought to light the limited coordination between health systems in Europe. In addition, Europe is under extraordinary pressure on a global scale with increasing R&D relocation to other international regions and the acceleration of adoption of innovative medicines elsewhere. It is now critical, more than ever to stimulate discussions, sharing of experiences, collaboration and creating new partnerships is the key to building a more resilient model of healthcare in Europe to ensure the continued well-being of its citizens.

With the European Health Summit, we will discuss how to strengthen the healthcare landscape within Europe to avoid future health crisis and economic downturn. Through this new platform, EBS supports a high-level dialogue among the key stakeholders in both policy and business for a long-term perspective.

For more information visit: europeanhealthsummit.eu

Interested in partnering with us?
Contact: Felicia Balan, Project Manager – felicia@ebsummit.eu

We hope to see you all in December!

The third edition of the EBS Live Debate was held on 22 September 2020, featuring the views of Paolo Gentiloni, European Commissioner for the Economy, Nick Clegg, Facebook Vice President for Global Affairs and Communications, Daniel Gros, Director, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) and Chupi Sweetman, CEO and Founder of Chupi Heirloom Jewellery. Moderated by Maria Tadeo, Europe reporter for Bloomberg Television. EBS is proud to promote the public-private dialogue that is especially necessary in these challenging times. We would like to thank all participants who followed along and shared their thoughts on Twitter and Facebook. A big thank you to the speakers and moderator for their valuable discussion.

This ‘Rebooting the European Economy’ debate focused on the EU recovery plan. During the debate, the Commissioner underlined the current challenge for the EU will be to ensure the quality of financial assistance’s implementation, providing support for public investments and green and digital reforms in order to help the EU Member States come out of the coronavirus crisis stronger. Besides this financial assistance, SME business owner Chupi Sweetman outlined how the EU should support SMEs by providing mentorship and digital guidance. She also reaffirmed how it is necessary for EU entrepreneurs to change attitude towards failures and the financial system needs to allow businesses to bounce back.

When discussing the Digital transformation and competitiveness of the EU, Facebook’s Nick Clegg outlined that social media are part of the digital transformation of the economy contributing to the creation of jobs, generating sales and levelling the playing field for SMEs by enabling them to reach their customers even during the pandemic. Europe needs to ensure the proper implementation of the Digital market and to reduce its fragmentation. This fragmentation, as Daniel Gros explained, is mainly due to the fact that Member States each implement the common regulations in different ways. Therefore, the real challenge for the EU is to monitor the homogeneous implementation of these rules by national administrations and supervisors.

The full live debate is available to re-watch on our website: https://ebsummit.eu/debate

We hope to see you at EBS on November 16 and 17!

EBS 2020 is proud to present its exclusive session focused on water resources management taking place on 16 November 2020.

Water scarcity has a significant impact on the European economy, affecting industries such as agriculture, industry, and tourism. EBS 2020’s session titled “Natural Capital or how to reconcile Green and Growth: the example of water resources management” will revolve around the topic of water as an entry point into the broader discourse on climate change and how business models can integrate circularity and biodiversity more effectively on a wider scale. This session will offer an inspiring insight from major key-players such as DG Environment Director-General Fink-Hooijer, MEP Pernille Weiss, and the Western Europe President of The Coca-Cola Company, Tim Brett.

The session will be part of the EBS 2020 Theme: “Towards a Sustainable and Resilient Europe”, which aims to speed up the action to reconcile short-term economic growth and long-term sustainability of our natural resources.

The EBS2020 edition will be presented as a digital event. All EBS2020 sessions will be live-streamed and participants will have the possibility to matchmake and network with other participants online through the Active Online Pass.

Register now! ebsummit.eu/registration

Partner with us for EBS 2020!
Contact our Partnership Managers for more information: Dafné Forni dafne@ebsummit.eu

We hope to see you on 16-17 November 2020!

EBS 2020 is proud to present its exclusive session focused on Catalonia’s competitive advantage taking place on 16 November 2020.

The purpose of the event is to present Catalonia as a world-class Tech Hub investment destination and to highlight its outstanding position as a foreign investment venture. AAM, Novartis, IBM, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Hempel are just a few examples of cutting-edge multinationals investing in Catalonia. Alstom and Oracle have also chosen Catalonia for their industry 4.0 strategy.

The roundtable will focus on Catalonia’s competitive advantage as the first European Capital of Innovation (according to iCapital Prize) and on how the Catalan Government can support your future investments in this strategic location.

According to different rankings, Catalonia most R&D investments and showed the highest number of R&D jobs. According to PwC’s latest report, Barcelona stands out for its digitalisation efforts in fields such as culture and tourism, smart healthcare, smart housing and utilities. This positions the Catalan capital as the fourth most well-prepared city for the technological future, coming just after Singapore, London and Shanghai.

The session, moderated by Jennifer Baker, will be chaired by Joan Romero, Chief Executive Officer of Catalonia Trade & Investment. Two high-level representatives, Marc Gomez Managing Director & President of ABB Robotics in Spain and Jaume Vives, General Director of Roche Diagnostics will also be joining the panel to share their company’s experiences as active investors in Catalonia.

The session will be part of the EBS 2020 Theme: “Towards a Sustainable and Resilient Europe”, which aims to speed up the action to reconcile short-term economic growth and long-term sustainability of our natural resources.

The EBS2020 edition will be presented as a digital event. All EBS2020 sessions will be live-streamed and participants will have the possibility to matchmake and network with other participants online through the Active Online Pass.

Register now! ebsummit.eu/registration

Partner with us for EBS 2020!
Contact our Partnership Managers for more information: Dafné Forni dafne@ebsummit.eu

We hope to see you on 16-17 November 2020!

EBS2020 is proud to present its exclusive session titled “Europe’s Economic Recovery” taking place on 16 November 2020 / 15:30 – 16:30

The European Union is facing planetary emergencies linked to the global sanitary crisis, the environment, the economy, and our social and political systems. This EBS2020’s session will discuss the way the EU and European companies could create adaptive and long-term solutions and how the EU could seize trade opportunities that will contribute to its economic recovery.

This session will be moderated by Bloomberg Europe Reporter, Maria Tadeo and will offer an inspiring insight from major key-players such as EU Executive Vice-President, Valdis Dombrovskis, AB InBev President Europe, Jason Warner, Business Europe Director General, Markus J. Beyrer, Mastercard Senior Vice-President, Nicola Villa, and Google President for EMEA Partnerships, Diana Layfield.

The session will form part of the EBS 2020 Theme: “Towards a Sustainable and Resilient Europe”, which aims to speed up the action to reconcile short-term economic growth and long-term sustainability of our natural resources.

The EBS2020 edition will be presented as a digital event. All EBS2020 sessions will be live-streamed and participants will have the possibility to matchmake and network with other participants online through the Active Online Pass.

Register now! ebsummit.eu/registration

Partner with us for EBS 2020!
Contact our Partnership Managers for more information: Dafné Forni dafne@ebsummit.eu

We hope to see you on 16-17 November 2020!

Have a look at the list of confirmed speakers for EBS2020’s exclusive session titled “Clean Fuels for all: a pathway to reach climate neutrality in transport” 16 November 2020 / 14:00 – 15:00

This EBS2020’s session titled “Clean Fuels for all: a pathway to reach climate neutrality in transport” will discuss how the European Union and the European industry address the challenge of driving EU Transport towards climate-neutrality, and will highlight the efforts made by the European industry to transform its activities and products to contribute with practical and responsible solutions to a more sustainable transport sector and a climate-neutral future in Europe by 2050.

The session will stimulate a debate on the role played by the industry and the regulators to accelerate these developments, on which policy framework will enable this transformation, and on how to create the lead markets for low-carbon products – in particular within the current Green Deal, NextGenerationEU and tax scheme. The conversation will offer the opportunity to look into the challenges faced by specific transport sectors such as Maritime, Road & Aviation, and will highlight the importance of policymakers and of a multi-stakeholder engagement approach to guide a sustainable business transformation.

This session will feature EU Commissioner for Transport Adina Vălean, Airlines for Europe Senior Policy Director Laurent Donceel, ENI Chief Green/traditional refinery and marketing Giuseppe Ricci, and will be moderated by NBCNews & MSNBC Global Correspondent Tesa Arcilla.

The session will be part of the EBS 2020 Theme: “Rebooting the European economy: Towards a green, digital and more resilient Union“, which aims to speed up the action to reconcile short-term economic growth and long-term sustainability of our natural resources.

The EBS2020 edition will be presented as a digital event. All EBS2020 sessions will be live-streamed and participants will have the possibility to matchmake and network with other participants online through the Active Online Pass.

Register now! ebsummit.eu/registration

Partner with us for EBS 2020!
Contact our Partnership Manager for more information: Dafné Forni dafne@ebsummit.eu

We hope to see you on 16-17 November 2020!

The European Health Summit is proud to announce the participation of major key-players at its interactive panel on the potential of public-private partnerships in tackling Covid-19.

The session, titled “Covid-19: Tackling public-private partnerships for the world” will discuss the unprecedented collaborative endeavors across borders, disciplines and sectors generated by the pandemic.

Since March, the European Commission has taken several initiatives to mobilize collective intelligence and foster new partnerships to ensure global responses to this world challenge. The panel will underline European strengths and weaknesses revealed by the pandemic and discuss how to make public-private partnerships fit-for-purpose.

The session will feature Peter Piot, Special Advisor to the President of the European Commission, Philippe Aghion Professor of Economics at the College de France, Michel Goldman Founder and Co-Director of the I3h Institute, Luc Debruyne, Strategy advisor at CEPI and Andrew from the Financial Times.

The European Health Summit’s first edition will be presented as a digital event. All sessions will be live streamed on our website.

Register now! europeanhealthsummit.eu/subscribe

For more information contact our Programme Assistant: Marianne Lazarovici m.lazarovici@ebsummit.eu

We hope to see you on December 1st!

Don’t miss the European Health Summit’s special address by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.

The Summit will bring together high-level policymakers, business leaders and healthcare experts from across Europe, coming at a critical juncture as the healthcare landscape is rapidly changing. The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically brought to light the limited coordination between health systems of European countries, putting the model of European cooperation under extraordinary pressure.

More than ever, stimulating discussions, sharing of experiences and creating new partnerships is key to building a more resilient model for healthcare in Europe and to ensure the well-being of its citizens. By creating this new platform, EBS is willing to support a high-level dialogue among the key stakeholders for a long-term perspective.

The European Health Summit’s first edition will be presented as a digital event. All sessions will be live-streamed on our website.

Register now! europeanhealthsummit.eu/subscribe

For more information contact our Programme Assistant: Marianne Lazarovici m.lazarovici@ebsummit.eu

We hope to see you on December 1st!