aconium “Governmental Day” Workshop at FTTH CONFERENCE in Valencia 2018

13 February 2018 | FERIA VALENCIA, Avinguda de les Fires 1, 46035 València (Spain)

Moderation: Tony Shortall (Director at TELAGE)

• 14:00 – 14:05: Welcome and opening remarks – Tim Brauckmüller, Managing Director at aconium, BCO Germany
• 14:05 – 14:35: European Commission policy update – Carlota Reyners Fontana, Head of Unit B5, European Commission DG Communications Networks, Contents and Technology Investment in High-Capacity Networks
  • Broadband development, initiatives, actions (e.g. Broadband platform)
  • BCO Networks
  • Funding possibilities (e.g. Connecting Europe Broadband Fund)
  • Connectivity for a European gigabit society
  • 5G and converged networks
  • WiFi4EU and Broadband Europe
• 14:35 – 15:30: Planning successful broadband rollout! Best Practices from European regions – Winners of the European Broadband Awards
  • Colchester Business Broadband, UK – Steven Eke, Project Manager Colchester, Borough Council
  • Coviolo Wireless, Italy –Valeria Montanari, Assessor Digital Agenda Reggio Emilia
  • Optic fiber to al houses on Gotland, Sweden – Anne Ståhl Mousa, IT Strategy and International Officer Gotland County
  • Initial impulse Glass-Fiber-City Lauchhammer, Germany – Heinz-Peter Labonte, Chair KOMBUNT

15:30 – 16:00: Coffee Break

• 16:00 – 16:10: Tackling the digital rural divide – Peyman Khodabakhsh, CORA Project Partner aconium, Germany
  • Ideas from the Interreg NSR project Connecting Remote Areas with digital infrastructure and services
• 16:10 – 16:20: Building a collaborative economy over networks as in commons – Roman Rocca, Project Manager, Gulfi-net foundation, Spain
  • Local/regional example for tackling the rural divide
• 16:20 – 16:45: Multilogues – Tackling the rural digital divide – All participants; Moderation: Darijus Valiucko, Project Manager, aconium
• 16:45 – 17:20: Round table presentations – All participants
• 17:20 – 17:30: Workshop summary – Tim Brauckmüller, Managing Director at aconium, BCO Germany
  • Summary of outputs of the workshop and outlook