The FTTH Conference is the largest FTTH related event in the world. It is organised by the FTTH Council Europe. The annual three-day event is held in a different European city each year – this year it will take place in Luxembourg.
aconium is organizing the Governmental Day Workshop in the course of the FTTH-Conference for the second time on 16 February 2016. The workshop aims at developing an interactive platform for the target groups and beneficiaries. Target groups are policy makers, public officers as well as regional and local authorities in the EU Member States.
Agenda and speakers
16 February 2016 | LUXEXPO Exhibition and Congress Centre, 10 Circuit de la Foire Internationale, L-1347 Luxembourg-Kirchberg
Moderation: Tony Shortall (Director at TELAGE)
- 11:00 – 11:10: Welcome and opening remarks – Johannes Feldmann, COO aconium GmbH
- 11:10 – 11:40: European Commission policy update on broadband development – Anna Kryzanowska, Head of Broadband Unit at DG Connect, European Commission
- Broadband as an enabling infrastructure for the Digital Singel Market
- 11:40 – 12:10: European Commission’s interactive broadband platform – Dr. Robert Henkel, Senior Policy Officer at DG Connect, Broadband Unit, European Commission
- Achievements and outlook
12:10 – 13:00: Lunch break
- 13:00 – 13:45: Interactive session 1 (panel discussion) – Broadband Europe NGN Awards – the winners
- Socio-economic impact and affordability category – RAIN 2, Lithuania (Egle Misiene, Chief specialist at PE “Placiajuostis internetas”)
- Open access and competition category – CAI Harderwijk open network, Netherlands (Edo Kweldam, Managing Director at CAI Harderwijk)
- Innovative model of financing, business and investment category – guifi.net, Spain (Ramon Roca, President at Guifi.net foundation)
- Future proof and quality of service category – Stokab, Schweden (Per-Olof Gustafsson, Deputy CEO at Stokab)
- 13:45 – 14:15: Vorantreiben der digitalen Agenda in Europa – Filip Meuris, Head of department at Intercommunale Leiedal
- Smart Cities as drivers for FTTH – the case of South West Flanders
- 14:15 – 14:30: Spotlight on strategies – Olivier Duroyon, Director Global Enterprise and Public Sector at Nokia
- Convergence of broadband implementation and planning on national level
14:30 – 14:45: Coffee break
- 14:45 – 16:45: Interactive session 2 – Broadband cost reduction measures (Moderation by Chris Ashe, Director of Innovation at European Institute for Innovation (EIfI)
- Practices in broadband cost reduction measures implementation in Portugal (Luis Manica, Head of broadband division at ANACOM)
- FTTB & infrastructure sharing: Using residential gas, drinking water pipes and other techniques (Christof Pauselius, Projekct Development at FRIATEC AG)
- Installing fiber cable in sewers – 100 good examples, waiting for the next 1,000 projects (Harry Aichele, CEO at FAST Opticom AG)
- energiedata 4.0 – a bridge technology to the fiber optics activities (Heiko Hummel, General Manager at energiedata 4.0 GmbH)
- Formation of working groups, thematic discussions and exchange of experience
- 16:45 – 17:00: Outlook – Tim Brauckmüller, Managing Director aconium GmbH, BCO Germany