The Digital Networks Act: Connectivity & Industrial Productivity
Status of 5G Deployments and Markets
Financing the Future: Consolidation & Competition
Secure Connectivity: Safeguarding the Digital Decade
6G Roadmaps and Standardisation
Satellites, NTNs & Hybrid Connectivity
Mission-Critical Connectivity: Defence & Emergency Comms
The Future Vision: Cooperation & Integration
The full programme for the event will be available shortly. Please click here to be kept informed.
The Future Connectivity Summit Europe replaces the European 5G Conference and the European Connectivity & Competitiveness Summit, providing a new, single flagship platform for connectivity, policy, and innovation. View the video highlights from the 2025 editions of these 2 events here.
Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty and Democracy, European Commission As Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, Henna Virkkunen is tasked with combatting the increasingly complex security threats facing the EU, whilst at the same time strengthening our external borders and our internal security. This goes hand in hand with her responsibility to ensure our freedoms, justice and democracy are strengthened too.
Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy
European Commission
Dariusz Standerski, Secretary of State, Ministry of Digital Affairs, Poland Dariusz Standerski – PhD in Economics, lawyer. Lecturer at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw. From 2015 to 2023, Chief Economist and member of the Management Board of the Kalecki Foundation.
From 2019 to 2023, Director of Legislation at the Left Parliamentary Club. Author of over 200 bills, including those on economic and social issues. Co-author of the analysis “Digital State. Strategy for Poland,” which presents the state of development of digital technologies in Poland, the European Union, and internationally, as well as specific tasks and goals facing Poland in the digital sphere.
Member of the Poznań branch of the Polish Economic Society. Member of the National Board of the New Left party. He hails from Rożnów in the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
Secretary of State
Ministry of Digital Affairs, Poland
Robert Mourik, Chairman, BEREC & Commissioner, ComReg Ireland Robert Mourik joined the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) as Commissioner in 2019 and is currently serving his second five-year term. Robert has almost thirty years’ experience in the telecoms sector, as an industry executive and as a Government official.
Prior to joining ComReg, he worked for Cubic Telecom, a new entrant in the automotive Internet of Things space, where he was responsible for all wholesale activities. Robert spent almost 10 years in Telefonica as the European Regulatory Strategy Director at their corporate headquarters in Madrid and as Strategy Director in Ireland. He also worked for Vodafone Group as its head of their Brussels Office and in the regulatory department in Newbury, UK.
In 1991, Robert began his career in the Dutch Department for Transport and Telecommunication, and from 1994 until 1999, he served as Telecom Attaché at the Netherlands’ Permanent Representation in Brussels. He was a Member and Chair of the Council Telecoms Working Group in 1998 when the first telecom regulatory package was adopted. Robert was born in the Netherlands and studied Economics and Public Policy at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and the University of Hull (UK).
Chairman & Commissioner
BEREC & ComReg Ireland
Anil Kumar Lahoti, Chairman, TRA India Shri Anil Kumar Lahoti, Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is an officer of the Indian Railway Service of Engineers from the 1984 batch.
He had superannuated as Chairman & CEO, Railway Board on 31st August 2023 after a career spanning about 37 years Indian Railway. He is a graduate in Civil Engineering from Madhav Institute of Technology and Science, Gwalior, with gold medal and has master’s degree in engineering (Structures) from IIT Roorkee. He has worked in various positions in the Central, Northern, North Central, Western, and West Central Railway, as well as in the Railway Board.
Chairman
TRA India
Konstantinos Masselos, President, EETT Greece Professor Konstantinos Masselos has been appointed as the President of the Hellenic Telecommunications & Post Commission (EETT) in February 2018.
He has been elected as President of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) for 2023 and also, Vice-President for 2022 and 2024. Moreover, he served as Vice-President of BEREC in 2019.
He is Professor in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Peloponnese and he served as Rector of the above University during the period 2012-2017. From 2005 to 2008, he was Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Imperial College London. Also, during the period 2010-2016 he was an Honorary Lecturer in the same Department.
During the period 2001-2004, he worked in the electronic communications industry. Since 2005 he has been collaborating as an expert with various units of the European Commission. Also, he was a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) from 2015 to 2017.
President
EETT Greece
Renate Nikolay, Deputy Director General, DG Connect, European Commission Renate Nikolay is Deputy Director-General in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT). In that role, she oversees the enforcement of the digital rulebook for platforms (Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act), the policies on digital connectivity, data, media and audiovisual as well as international and interinstitutional relations.
Between 2014 and 2022, she was Head of Cabinet of Vĕra Jourová in her roles as Commissioner for Justice and Consumers and as Vice-President for Values and Transparency.
Prior to that Renate Nikolay was Head of Unit in DG JUST and served as member in the Cabinets of Cathy Ashton and Peter Mandelson.
Renate Nikolay started her career in the European Commission in 2003 in DG Trade after having worked as a diplomat at the German Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels and at the Federal Economics Ministry in Berlin.
Renate Nikolay has a law degree from the Free University of Berlin (Erstes und Zweites Staatsexamen) and a Master of Laws as Fulbright Scholar from Washington, DC. She also participated in an Erasmus exchange with Grenoble/France.
Deputy Director General, DG Connect
European Commission
Alin Mituța, Member, European Parliament Alin Mituta, is from Romania and has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2020 representing USR PLUS. He previously served as Secretary of State and head of Prime Minister’s Cabinet in the Romanian Government and worked as a civil servant in EU institutions. He is a co-founder of PLUS party and of the RO100 civic movement, which preceded the creation of the party.
He holds degrees in European Affairs from the Institut d’études politiques de Paris, in Political Science from the Paris Nanterre University, as well as in International Relations and European Studies from the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration in Romania.
Member
European Parliament
Aleksander Soltysik, Chairman, RSPG Chief Policy Expert at International Telecommunication Policy Unit and Telecommunications Investment Unit in Department of Telecommunications of the Ministry of Digitization. Responsible for the spectrum related issues, realization of the National Broadband Plan and Operational Program Digital Poland in the area of universal access to the broadband internet. Member of the RSPG Working Group for the Digital Single Market and Peer Review. National representative at the CEPT Conference Preparatory Group.
Chairman
RSPG
Please kindly note that this is a fully in-person event, taking place at the DoubleTree by Hilton, Brussels. There will be no virtual element to this event, so please only register if you are able to physically participate in Brussels.
This is a paid event, please see registration fees for each organisation type in the table below.
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Corporate
Applies to: Corporate, Trade Associations, Law Firm/Public Affairs Firm
€145
€195
Reduced
Applies to: Not for Profit / NGO, National Regulator or Government Representative of Non-EU Member State
€95
€145
Academic / Student
Applies to: Academic / Student
€50
€90
Free
Applies to: National Regulator or Government Representative of EU Member State, EU Permanent Representatives, EU Commission / Parliament / Council, Accrediated Journalists
FREE
FREE
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The Future Connectivity Summit Europe replaces the EU 5G Conference and the European Connectivity & Competitiveness Summit, providing a new, single flagship platform for connectivity, policy, and innovation.
Click here to find out more.
Reflecting the evolving shape of Europe’s digital landscape, The Future Connectivity Summit Europe merges The European 5G Conference and The European Connectivity & Competitiveness Summit to provide a new, single flagship platform for connectivity, policy, and innovation.
Bringing together leaders from across industry, government, and technology, the Summit will be the definitive platform to shape the next generation of European connectivity and digital policy.
Building on the legacy of its predecessors, it will continue to spotlight the 5G rollout and the road to 6G, while expanding its focus to explore emerging technologies, new business models, and the pivotal role of the Digital Networks Act in driving Europe’s competitiveness, powering innovation, and reinforcing strategic autonomy.
For more information, please contact Chanice Stones on chanice.stones@forum-europe.com