Programme

10:00 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. Welcome

• President of the Section for the Single Market, Production and Consumption, EESC

10:10 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Keynote speech

• Hubert Gambs, Deputy Director-General DG GROW, European Commission

10:20 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. Panel discussion: Restoring Europe's industrial competitiveness after the pandemic crisis

• Moderator: Dirk Bergrath, EESC Member and Co-rapporteur of the EESC opinion on "A New Industrial Strategy for Europe"
• Carlo Calenda, MEP and rapporteur on "A new long-term strategy for Europe’s industrial future", European Parliament
• Judith Kirton-Darling, Deputy General Secretary, IndustriAll 
• Alexandre Affre, Deputy Director General, BusinessEurope
• Andrea Renda, Senior Research Fellow and Head of Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation & Digital Economy, Centre for European Policy Studies

Questions & Answers

11:20 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. Coffee break

11:50 a.m. – 12:50 a.m. Panel discussion: Industrial policy in the transition to a green and digital economy

• Moderator: Mihai Ivaşcu, Rapporteur of the EESC opinion on "A New Industrial Strategy for Europe" and Adviser to the President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Romania
• Maria da Graça Carvalho, MEP 
• Ben Butters, CEO, EUROCHAMBERS 
• Isabelle Schöman, Confederal Secretary, ETUC
• Arthur ten Wolde, Executive Director, Ecopreneur

12:50 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Closing remarks

• Carlo Calenda, MEP, rapporteur on "A new long-term strategy for Europe’s industrial future", European Parliament

Participants can speak in English, French and German and listen to English, French and German