CoEnnect Digital Society

Last week @CoEnnect members @nicols_rocher and @niamhmcl06 attended the 2023 Techno-Politics Forum discussing a broad range of issues including #connectivity, #AI governance and aviation sustainability. Many thanks to @EurLiberalForum and @alva_finn for organizing this event!

This year's CoEnnect Digital Society is pleased to present Niamh McLoughlin and Nicolas Rocher as the newly appointed presidents. They have an array of exciting plans waiting for you.

Attending Prof. Tshilidzi Marwala's lecture on #AIGovernance in Brussels was a deep dive into the heart of AI's ethical and governance challenges. Kudos to the Flemish AI panel for adding depth to the discourse. A must-attend for anyone in the AI realm! 🌍🤖 #CoEnnectDigital

We are thrilled to introduce this year's CoEnnect Digital Society team⚡📱 Many exciting projects and events are in store,, so make sure to stay CoEnnected!

What have you been up to this week?We'll start! Our #WeeklyDEbrief includes: 🛡️ Digital resilience at #ASISEurope2023 💻 @EU_Council forgets to mention digital to solve the #energy crisis ♻️ Reaction to the @EU_Commission's #RightToRepair And more! ➡️ bit.ly/3FT63Bd

🎉 It's a wrap! 🖥️ Thank you for attending our event. We wanted to bring digital topics to the students of the College regardless of what they will end up doing in their future careers. 👏 And we DID IT! 🌐 Many thanks to @FourtoldTweets and @DIGITALEUROPE for your support.

@ZoeStambolliu @collegeofeurope @JChasserieau @DIGITALEUROPE Thank you for accepting our invitation and facilitating such an interesting workshop 🎉 All of the participants were delighted to gain new insights on advocacy tools in the digital 🔧

🌐 #TheFutureIsDigital is coming to an end. We are glad to welcome our last guests to discuss the fascinating topic of the development of virtual worlds : 🔷 @mjimenm from @Meta 🔷 @N_Scocchi from @FourtoldTweets, supporter of our event 🔷 @patrickgrady_ from @DataInnovation

🚨 The facilitators of the Crisis simulation workshop @asrashakoor, Marta Gómez Pérez-Gorostiaga and Cristina da Costa Ferreira are providing insights on how to manage a crisis situation. Thank you @FourtoldTweets for supporting our #TheFutureIsDigital event!

👨‍💼 Our experts @ZoeStambolliu and @JChasserieau from @DIGITALEUROPE, supporter of our event, are leading the Advocacy in Digital workshop. 🔧 The participants are discussing the variety of existing tools.

🚀 We continue our #TheFutureIsDigital event with workshops led by our digital experts. 🏦 @ntjahj is currently holding the workshop on Democracy and Digital Technology. Our participants are discussing geopolitical neutrality of the internet in the context of Ukraine.

A great pleasure to speak tech & geopolitics w esteemed panelists and College of Europe students— where 🇪🇺 stands btw 🇨🇳 and 🇺🇸, digital middle powers and alliances #TTC, semiconductors, politicisation of standards/ technical bodies & skills 4 digital foreign policy 🤖🌎 thx CoE!

Happy to be in Brugge at the connect digital society event of the @collegeofeurope on « the future is digital «! I’ll participate in a panel on AI and data with following the empathetic address note of @VeraJourova @MicrosoftEU

@BonefeldCecilia @FedericaMog @VeraJourova @collegeofeurope @DIGITALEUROPE @EU_Commission Thank you for all your enriching insights on 🇪🇺 digital challenges and @DIGITALEUROPE's support for the organization of this event!

Glad to be at #TheFutureIsDigital event with @FedericaMog, @VeraJourova, and other EU leaders. 💻 Securing a digitally resilient Europe is a big challenge… …but we’re in good hands & I hope to see these brilliant students joining the 🇪🇺 tech community soon. @CoEnnect 👏

🌐Time for the 2nd Panel on Digital Geopolitics with our guest speakers : 🔷Alexandre Ferreira Gomes from @Clingendaelorg 🔷@ringrda from @eu_EEAS 🔷@jshahin from @UvA_Amsterdam, @brussels_school & @UNUCRIS 🔷@rosannafanni from @CEPS_thinktank 🔷Kristian Bartholin from @coe

The first panel of #TheFutureIsDigital on AI and the new social contract is starting 🖥️ It is our pleasure to meet Bartlomiej Telejko from @googleeurope, Björn Juretzki from @EU_Commission, @ckutterer from @MicrosoftEU and Alexandra Stefan from @FriendsofEurope.

🔷'Nowadays, tech is not anymore a sector by itself' - thank you @BonefeldCecilia for your insightful thoughts on the current digital challenges within the European Union!

🌐 It is our honour to welcome now online @BonefeldCecilia, Director General of @DIGITALEUROPE for the second keynote speech! #TheFutureIsDigital

🔷'If we do not occupy the space of disinformation, disinformation will fill it instead. We need to change the way we communicate'. Those words particularly highlight what we are going to discuss today. Thank you for your inspiring speech Vice-President @VeraJourova!

🔷'The democracy should digitalize itself and the digital should democratize itself' - another fundamental statement made by the Vice-President of the Commission @VeraJourova.

🔷 'Technology should serve the people' stated Vice-President of the @EU_Commission at #TheFutureIsDigital. It is our pleasure to welcome her as our first keynote speaker!