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About the Organisers and Partners

Event Partners

Forum Europe www.forum-europe.com

Forum Europe is the leading EU dedicated conference and event provider. Founded in 1989 and with offices at the heart of the European Union in Brussels, Forum Europe specialises in EU focussed political and economic conferences and debates. We work successfully with businesses, institutions, NGOs and governments alike while organising our own portfolio of sector leading events.

The Forum Europe team consists of multilingual EU policy and events specialists and our strategic services can maintain and develop your networks at EU level while delivering forums where key issues can be aired and debated.

RAND Europe www.rand.org/randeurope

RAND Europe is a not-for-profit research organisation whose mission is to help improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis. We are the European affiliate of the RAND Corporation. We conduct empirical, objective and policy-relevant research, which is widely disseminated to benefit the public interest.

RAND Europe’s work has steadily expanded to cover a kaleidoscope of policy-relevant topics from defence and security, innovation and technology policy, and criminal justice through to health and social issues. Cutting across topical areas are the methods-focused groups, including evaluation and impact measurement, and choice modelling and valuation. The mix of subject expertise, contextual understanding and innovative methodologies creates insightful yet robust analysis.

Platinum Sponsors

Dow www.dow.com

Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The Company is driving innovations that extract value from the intersection of chemical, physical and biological sciences to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, clean energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market-driven, industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 180 countries and in high-growth sectors such as packaging, electronics, water, coatings and agriculture. In 2014, Dow had annual sales of more than $58 billion and employed approximately 53,000 people worldwide. The Company's more than 6,000 product families are manufactured at 201 sites in 35 countries across the globe. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted.

Huawei www.huawei.com

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Through our dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, we have established end-to-end advantages in telecom networks, devices and cloud computing. We are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers by providing competitive solutions and services. Our products and solutions have been deployed in over 140 countries, serving more than one third of the world’s population. 

Industrial Innovation for Competitiveness (i24c)

The Industrial Innovation for Competitiveness (i24c) initiative is a new European platform set up by the European Climate Foundation.  Its mission is to strengthen Europe’s industrial leadership in the transition to a new world economy. More specifically, i24c  aims to enhance understanding and confidence in how, through a systemic focus on innovation, Europe’s industry can successfully compete and drive prosperity. Guided by a High Level Group of about 15 respected policy-makers, industrialists and other thought-leaders, i24c is co-creating with partners a new European Industrial Compact. This consists of a vision for a competitive European industry as well as evidence-base and innovation pathways to achieve this vision in the transition to a new economy.

Members of the High Level Group include Maire Geoghegan-Quinn (former European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science), Pascal Lamy (President emeritus, Notre Europe Jacques Delors Institute and former Director-General of the WTO), Gary McGann (CEO of Smurfit-Kappa), Beata Stelmach (CEO Poland and the Baltics, GE), Mikko Kosonen (CEO of Sitra).

Supporting Partner

CECIMO www.cecimo.eu

CECIMO is the European Association of the Machine Tool Industries. We bring together 15 national associations of machine tool builders, which represent approximately 1500 industrial enterprises in Europe*, over 80% of which are SMEs. CECIMO defends the common interests of its members, particularly in relation to authorities and associations, and promotes the European machine tool industries and their development in the fields of economy, technology and science. CECIMO covers 98% of the total machine tool production in Europe and about one third worldwide. It accounts for almost 150,000 employees and a turnover of over €23 billion in 2014. More than 80% of CECIMO production is shipped abroad, whereas almost half of it is exported outside Europe*.
*Europe = EU + EFTA + Turkey