1. Member States Board on Digital Entrepreneurship
First meeting, Brussels, 28 April 2014
Agenda and objectives of the meeting
Michel Catinat
Head of Unit, DG Enterprise and Industry E4:
Key Enabling Technologies and Digital Economy

2. Agenda (1/2) Time Content Speaker(s) 10:00-10:30
Registration and welcome coffee
N/A
10:30-10:40
Welcome, agenda and objectives of the meeting
Michel Catinat (EC)
10:40-10:50
Supporting EU Digital Entrepreneurship
Presentation of the policy context and ongoing EU actions supporting Digital Entrepreneurship
Dana Eleftheriadou (EC)
10:50-11:10
Strategic Policy Forum
John Higgins (President, Strategic Policy Forum on Digital Entrepreneurship)
11:10-11:30
Doing business in the Digital Age
Bjorn Willemsens (Deloitte)
11:30-13:00
Digital Entrepreneurship Monitor
Overview of the Digital Entrepreneurship Monitor.
Novel Digital Technologies: EU overview
Pilot run of the Digital Entrepreneurship Scoreboard 2013
Member States´ Digital Entrepreneurship Initiatives
Focus on Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, France, Hungary, Malta
Moderator/Chair:
Alessandro Cenderello (EY)
Panelists:
Laura Delgado Garcia (EY)
Laurent Estourgie (EY)

3. Agenda (2/2) Time Content Speaker(s) 13:00-14:00 Networking lunch N/A
14:00-15:30
Awareness Campaign on Digital Entrepreneurship
Speaker presentations and open discussion
Overview of the Awareness campaign: objectives of the project and planned activities.
Digital awareness campaign objectives & project organization
Campaign branding & communication strategy
Campaign implementation roadmap and involvement of the Steering Board
Moderator/Chair:
Bjorn Willemsens (Deloitte)
Panelists:
Agne Vezbergiené (Deloitte)
Robert Sanders (EBN)
15:30-16:15
Open floor for discussion
16:15-16:30
Conclusion and next steps

4. Meeting objectives
Present the policy context on Digital Entrepreneurship
Introduce the ongoing EC initiatives supporting Digital Entrepreneurship
Launch a peer-to-peer discussion on what is happening already
Learn from existing initiatives in the EU 28

5. Mandate
Inform policy makers about the relevant EC policy initiative and actions on Digital Entrepreneurship;
Learn from each other and from existing studies on impactful policy initiatives related to Digital Entrepreneurship;
Contribute shaping an ambitious EU vision and strategy on Digital Entrepreneurship;
Coordinate policy actions and promote the implementation of the Digital Entrepreneurship strategy at EU, national and local level;
Advise on the on-going and future Digital Entrepreneurship actions;
Promote further the awareness campaign on Digital Entrepreneurship and the Digital Entrepreneurship Monitor, among key stakeholders, at national and local level.