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Event Organisers

Forum Europe www.forum-europe.com

Forum Europe events are where people and policy meet. We have been organising policy conferences in Brussels and around Europe since 1989. Our events provide unique insights from the people behind the policy and those seeking to influence it. Our expert team develop conference programmes with impact and provide first-class event logistics.

Forum Europe is more than an event management and conference production specialist. With offices in Brussels and the UK, we operate across Europe and globally. Through our international arm, Forum Global, our events cover five continents, and engage policymakers and industry at national and regional levels around the world. Our mission is to drill down to the issues that matter, creating policy events that are ahead of the curve, facilitating frank and open debate on some of the most pressing issues facing Europe and the world today.

Platinum Sponsors

FTI Consulting www.fticonsulting.com

FTI Consulting has been at the center of the telecom, media and technology evolutions that have precipitated the changes that are so widespread today. With over 20 years of expertise working with the top telecom operators, vendors, government, and regulators in over 50 countries, it is one of the world's leading TMT (Telecoms, Media and Technology) consultancy practices. We have leading-edge know-how in operations, finance, valuations and end-to-end spectrum auction management. Our deep bench includes PhDs, MBAs, CPAs, IT and technology professionals, as well as former C-suite executives, principal investors, lenders, communications specialists and economists with many years of experience in their TMT industries. 

Microsoft www.microsoft.com

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Internet Society www.internetsociety.org

Founded by the early pioneers of the Internet in 1992, the Internet Society is a global cause driven organization working for the Internet to be open, globally-connected, secure, and trustworthy. With our members, chapters and offices around the world, we engage in a wide spectrum of Internet issues, including policy, governance, technology and development to address the challenges facing the Internet today and to shape its tomorrow.

IoT Privacy & Security is one of our key priority areas, to protect the network, users, and critical information infrastructure from cyber threats due to more insecure consumer devices connecting to the Internet every day. In line with the IoT Trust Framework developed by our Online Trust Alliance (OTA) initiative, we aim to make security a built-in feature for the rapidly growing Internet of Things, to realize its full potential to empower people, communities, and economies.

Knowledge Partners

Council www.theinternetofthings.eu

Council is a thinktank, consultancy, accelarator and forecasting group. Council hosts the full range of opinions on what will be a small avalanche of disruptive innovations. They go through the full range of emotions and conceptual breakdown that comes with grasping the territory, the full logistical, business, social and philosophical implications of the Internet of Things.  Council thinktank aims to grow into a positively critical counterpart to these negativities in focusing on the quality of interaction and potentialities of IOT for social, communicative and economic (personal fabrication, participatory finance, alternative currencies) connectivity between humans, humans and things and humans and their surroundings. Council highlights a personal history of locative media & hybrid spaces, by professionals of the i3 (Intelligent Information Interfaces) days, as well as the latest tools and applications, workshops on key issues, short keynotes and time for debate and discussion.

The Providence Group www.providencegroupdc.com

The Providence Group advises companies and organizations globally on how to manage enterprise-wide cybersecurity risks and we provide insight and counsel into the complex and changing cybersecurity regulatory, reputation and threat environment.

Media Partners

IoT Now www.iot-now.com

IoT Now - How to run an IoT enabled business.

With exclusive analyst reports and specialist journalists, IoT Now is the leading global brand covering the Internet of Things, machine-to-machine communications (M2M), embedded devices and connected consumer devices. Delivering webcasts, quarterly magazines, white-papers, daily news and expert opinion pieces, IoT Now focuses on the deployment of these technologies across the enterprise, automotive, logistics, healthcare, utilities, travel, security and smart city verticals.


To join our community, register at: www.iot-now.com 


For more information, contact: Charlie Bisnar at c.bisnar@wkm-global.com

IoT Global Network www.iotglobalnetwork.com

Discover the world of IoT.

IoT Global Network is the ultimate intelligence platform for the global machine-to-machine communication value chain.

IoT Global Network serves as an invaluable source of information for IoT decision makers in all areas of industry and public services, including consumer-related, energy, financial, industrial, healthcare, security and transportation, – and anyone else who would like to learn more about how the Internet of Things will shape tomorrow’s society.

Discover.  Learn.  Connect.  Engage.  

MLex www.mlexmarketinsight.com

MLex is an independent media organization providing exclusive market insight, analysis and commentary on regulatory risk. Our customers, the world’s leading law firms, corporations, advisory firms and regulators, rely on MLex to ensure they are well positioned to take advantage of opportunities posed by regulatory change as well as mitigate the risks.

With a track record of uncovering regulatory risk before it breaks in other news outlets, we offer up-to-the-minute coverage of regulatory threats and opportunities from the perspectives of M&A, antitrust, trade, & digital privacy and security, as well as sector-specific regulation across TMT, energy and financial services.