Brussels will debate the European Union’s new digital agenda when the Open Forum Europe (OFE) holds its annual summit next Thursday, 10 June, in Brussels. After a keynote speech from Commissioner Neelie Kroes, Google’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer David Drummond will speak. He will outline his take on the next wave of innovations on the Internet - and what policies are required to ensure the Internet creates the maximum social and economic benefits. OFE, supported by a number of tech companies including Google, advocates an open, competitive European IT market. The summit’s packed agenda promises interesting debates on a range of subjects such as new innovation models, e-government and digital citizenship. If you have yet to sign up for the summit, do so asap at info@openforumeurope.org. OFE was launched in 2002 to promote open source software. Like many Internet companies, Google benefits from open source - we use tens of millions of lines of open source code to run our products. We also give back: we are the largest open source contributor in the world, contributing over 800 projects that total over 20 million lines of code to open source. The day before its summit, the OFE will return to its roots and host a Round Table on “Open Source Innovation in Business Models: Company and Community Integration.” Google open source guru Chris DiBona, who is responsible for our open source programmes will talk about the open source model, joined by George Greve, past President of Free Software Foundation Europe and now CEO at Kolab Systems. Maha Shaikh, senior researcher at the London School of Economics, will moderate. The Round Table will take place on Wednesday 9 June between 8:00-10:00 AM at our Brussels premises at Chaussée d'Etterbeek 180, 1040 Brussels. Yes, that’s early, so we’ll provide a light breakfast. Some seats remain so if interested in attending, please sign up here. Posted by Sebastian Müller, European Policy Manager
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