Welcome Cocktails & Gala Dinner

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Day 2: Keynote Opening

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Jay Edwin Gillette, Chair/Moderator of the Session

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Christian Buchel, Deputy-CEO, Chief Digital & International Officer (CDIO),ENEDIS; Vice-Chairman of EDSO, France

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Julia Glidden, General Manager, IBM Global Government Industry, USA

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Yoshio Tanaka, Professor, Tokyo University of Science (TUS), Graduate School of Innovation Studies, Japan

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Khaled Sedrak, Founder & CEO, NxtVn, Belgium

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Gwenael Prie, Lead Digital Specialist AFD – Agence Francaise de Developpement, France

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Session 6: Innovation/Open Innovation is a Digital World

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Session 10: Digital Communities

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Day 2: StartUp Competition

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The 2016 Global Forum featured many innovative speakers on digitization. It is the 25th Global Forum, befittingly gathered in Eindhoven, the Brainport of the digital eco – system.  The conference featured an inaugural, collaborative event. There is no innovation without startups – so GISCO, the Global Innovation Startup Competition was added to the agenda.

17 companies competed, representing eight nations, covering three continents. The jury consisted of pioneers in the startup industry in the EU and the US (Silicon Valley), including distinguished Global Forum speakers and steering committee members.

The winners are: LocaidMe (Prague/Silicon Valley), a safety app to detect threats in real time in public places in an actionable format.  Second place went to Strategic Security (Virginia, USA), a network vulnerability scanning solution. Third place went to Semiotic Labs, an Amsterdam based equipment failure detection and monitoring solution company that works with private sector and government entities.

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Day 1: Opening Session-Future Vision

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Day 1: Welcome Addresses from Arsovska-Tomovska, Bressers & Brouwers

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Marta Arsovska-Tomovska, Minister of Information Society and Administration, Macedonia

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Mark Bressers, Director or the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Innovation Regulatory Reform and ICT Policy Department, Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Netherlands

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Joep Brouwers, Vice Director, Brainport Development, the Netherlands

Day 1: Welcome Address by Sebastien Levy, VP Global Forum

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Global Forum 2016: About the Venue-The Evoluon Center

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Eindhoven’s Evoluon is an out-of-this-world building that serves as a multi-purpose conference and events center. Shaped like a flying saucer, it was commissioned by Dr. Frits Philips — who made the first sketches of it on a napkin — and built by architect Louis Kalff in 1966. An innovative building and a proud icon of science and technology, it has always attracted a large number of visitors thanks to its unique interactive exhibitions. The Evoluon is located in the Eindhoven Brainport region, which is known as a technology and innovation incubator.

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Global Forum 2016 – The Philips Museum Reception

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Welkom in Eindhoven!

The 2016 Global Forum started Sunday with a reception for VIP and Sponsors. The event was hosted by the City of Eindhoven at The Philips Museum housed in the original factory built in . Philips, an electronics company of which the Dutch are extremely proud, was established by Gerard Philips in Eindhoven in 1891. The company initially grew rich by producing light bulbs but many branches of high technology development were later added to this unique, resoundingly Dutch company. Guests were treated to docent led tour of the museum which shows a comprehensive history of the Philips Company and their development of a vast range of products since their formation. The Vice Mayor welcomed guests to the City of Eindhoven, and remarked about the significance of the innovative forum in the Brainport of the Netherlands. View video an photos

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