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About the Organisers, Partners & Sponsors

Event Organisers

Forum Europe www.forum-europe.com

Forum Europe is the leading EU dedicated conference and event provider. Founded in 1989 and with offices at the heart of the European Union in Brussels, Forum Europe specialises in EU focussed political and economic conferences and debates. We work successfully with businesses, institutions, NGOs and governments alike while organising our own portfolio of sector leading events.

The Forum Europe team consists of multilingual EU policy and events specialists and our strategic services can maintain and develop your networks at EU level while delivering forums where key issues can be aired and debated.

You can find out more about us by going to www.forum-europe.com

Platinum Sponsors

BSA | The Software Alliance www.bsa.org/eu

BSA | The Software Alliance is the leading global advocate for the software industry. It is an association of world-class companies that invest billions annually to create software solutions that spark the economy and improve modern life. Through international government relations, intellectual property enforcement and educational activities, BSA expands the horizons of the digital world and builds trust and confidence in the new technologies driving it forward.

eBay Inc. www.ebayinc.com

Founded in 1995, eBay Inc. connects hundreds of millions of people around the world every day, empowering them to explore new opportunities and innovate together. eBay Inc. does this by providing the Internet platforms of choice for global commerce and payments. Since its inception, eBay Inc. has expanded to include some of the strongest brands in the world, including eBay, PayPal, Marktplaats, StubHub, Shopping.com, and others. eBay Inc. is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Silver Sponsor

Pfizer www.pfizer.com

  At Pfizer, we apply science and our global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives. We strive to set the standard for quality, safety and value in the discovery, development and manufacture of health care products. Our global portfolio includes medicines and vaccines as well as many of the world's best-known consumer health care products. Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time. Consistent with our responsibility as one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, we collaborate with health care providers, governments and local communities to support and expand access to reliable, affordable health care around the world. For more than 150 years, Pfizer has worked to make a difference for all who rely on us.

Refreshment Sponsor

Copa-Cogeca www.copa-cogeca.be

Copa-Cogeca is the united voice of farmers and agri-cooperatives in the EU. Together, they ensure that EU agriculture is sustainable, innovative and competitive, guaranteeing food security to half a billion people throughout Europe. Copa represents over 13 million farmers and their families whilst Cogeca represents the interests of 38,000 agricultural cooperatives. They have 70 member organisations from the EU member states.

Knowledge Partners

Strategis Communications www.strategiscommunications.com

Strategis Communications is an independent consultancy providing strategic political, government and public affairs communication services designed to promote and protect your interests in the European Union.

Our consultants use their experience and expertise to work proactively with our clients to navigate European and global politics and law making. Our mission is to ensure that the right message is heard, by the right people, at the right time, with minimum effort and maximum impact for the client.

Grayling www.grayling.com

Grayling is committed to delivering the highest standard of communications services to our clients, through effective use of data-driven insight, creativity and experience. Armed with powerful ideas we execute across multiple channels and devices, worldwide, at unprecedented speed. We describe this as the Grayling Effect.

Our clients operate in a wide range of sectors including Energy, Environment & Sustainability; Healthcare; Technology & Telecommunications; Consumer Brands; Financial Services; Transport & Logistics and Government & Public Sector. Leveraging our network of highly qualified and experienced consultants ensures our work across sectors and geographies is always consistently exceptional.

Our vision is to transform communications; through how we work with our clients; how our clients envisage the work which we do and for the wider industry by transforming the future forms of communication.

Media Partners

viEUws www.vieuws.eu

viEUws is a new digital platform on EU policy Development. We produce high quality video interviews and debates with top-level EU decision-makers and stakeholders. We offer an innovative way for stakeholders to share their views on the issues that affect them, through the use of videos.

EU Trade Insights www.vieuws.eu/eutradeinsights

EU Trade Insights is a new, subscriber-only, online news service designed to give in-depth information on trade issues that matter to the EU, launched on Monday 13 January 2014.

Our team of expert trade journalists reports on EU related trade news, focusing in particular on trade agreements, notably on the TTIP, trade defence instruments, EU trade legislation, trade summits and the WTO. We offer breaking news stories and analyses in the format of a bi-weekly newsletter and a monthly In Focus Report.

Supported by

European Small Business Alliance www.esba-europe.org

ESBA is a non-party political European group, which cares for micro and small business entrepreneurs and the self-employed and represents them through targeted EU advocacy activities. ESBA also works towards the development of strong independent advocacy and benefits groups in European countries. ESBA is one of the largest organisations based on voluntary membership in Europe. Through its direct membership, associate membership and cooperation agreements, ESBA today represents more than one million small businesses and covers 36 European countries.