Programme

A sustainable future for European industry

9:30 – 9:35 - Beginning of the day

• Jennifer Baker, master of ceremonies

9:35 - 9:45 - Welcome Address

• Christa Schweng, President of the European Economic and Social Committee

9:45 - 10:10 - Keynote speeches:Strengthening Europe's open strategic autonomy

• Thierry Breton, Commissioner for the Internal Market (video message)
• Thomas Courbe, Director-General of the Directorate-General for Enterprise, French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and the Recovery
  
  Q&A

10:10 - 11:15 - Panel debate: Reconciling strategic autonomy with sustainability in Europe's industrial policy

• Sandra Parthie, rapporteur for the EESC's opinion on Updating the new industrial strategy, EESC
• Prof. Padmashree Gehl Sampath, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University
• Baiba Miltoviča, president of the section for Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society, EESC
• Eddy van Hijum, rapporteur of the European Committee of the Regions on the SME Strategy
• Carlo Calenda, MEP and rapporteur on A new long-term strategy for Europe’s industrial future, European Parliament

Q&A

11:15 - 11:30 - Break

11:30 - 12:35 - Panel debate: Unleashing an industrial policy for Europe's green and digital transition: what role for civil society?

• Daniel Montalvo, Head of Group – Sustainable resource use and industry, European Environment Agency
• Stefano Palmieri, president of the section for Economic and Monetary Union and Economic and Social Cohesion, EESC
• Véronique Willems, Secretary General, SMEunited
• Luc Triangle, General Secretary, IndustriAll Europe
• Mari-Ann Fonseca, Co-Founder & COO, Gelatex (Green Alley Awards winner 2019)

Q&A

12:35 - 13:00 - Conclusions

• Alain Coheur, president of the section for the Single Market, Production and Consumption, EESC

What lessons can we learn from our work this year?

• Pietro De Lotto, president of the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change, EESC

The importance of sectorial focus to shape EU industrial policy

• Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission

The sustainable future of European industry

Q&A

Participants will be able to speak and listen in English and French.