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Press invitation to Presidency conference Visby Agenda: creating impact for
an eUnion 2015 in Visby on 9-10 November
The media is invited to a press conference and an opportunity to
interview participants at the high-level conference Visby Agenda:
creating impact for an eUnion 2015, which is being arranged by the
Swedish Presidency of the EU.
The conference is an important step in creating a common platform for
a European IT policy agenda by 2015. Many leading representatives of
European IT policy and the business sector will attend.
Programme points:
Press conference with Minister for Communications Åsa Torstensson and
EU Commissioner Viviane Reding.
Time: Monday 9 November at 13.30
Place: The Press Centre, Wisby Strand Congress & Event, Strandvägen 4,
Visby
In connection with the meeting and time permitting, the media will be
given the opportunity to interview the meeting's speakers, including
Minister for Communications Åsa Torstensson, EU Commissioner Viviane
Reding, former UK Minister for Communications, Technology and
Broadcasting, and responsible for the Digital Britain report, Lord
Carter, and Internet profile Hans Rosling.
Also participating in the conference is outgoing President and CEO of
Ericsson, and incoming Chairman of British Petroleum, Carl Henric
Svanberg, Finland's former Prime Minister Esko Aho, currently
Executive Vice President of Nokia, and Google's Director of European
Public Policy and Government Relations Simon Hampton.
MEPs Catherine Trautmann and Pilar del Castillo, Finland's Minister of
Communications Suvi Lindén, the incoming Spanish Presidency's Minister
of State Telecommunications and Information Society Francisco Ros
Perán, and Director-General of DG Infosoc Fabio Colasanti will also
take part in the conference.
The conference will be webcast live and on-demand at:
se2009.eu/visbyagenda
To register, please send an email to Karin Flygare, Press Assistant at
the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications.
We look forward to seeing you.
Published
03 November
15:48
Council
Transport, Telecommunications and Energy
Contacts
* Karin Flygare
Press Assistant to Minister for Enterprise and Energy Maud
Olofsson
+46 8 405 23 54
+46 76 827 10 48
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