Practical info

The Conference is directed to those responsible for formulating and developing cultural and scientific policy in innovation and technology in the Basque Country, Spain and Europe, for artists, entrepreneurs, scientists, universities, young people and the general public.

It is a meeting point and a way to raise awareness at a social, institutional, artistic, scientific and business level, of the challenges and opportunities that the digital age and ICT offers the creative world and society as a whole through the necessary innovative change in the branches of knowledge and the economy that will frame the future of Europe and the world.

The III European Conference will be held in the three participating cities of the II Conference: Bilbao, Madrid and Brussels.

There will be 40 speakers, institutional and business representatives from innovative European sectors, and organized into a number of cross-disciplinary roundtables.

One of the proposals presented at the conference will be the creation of the Global Net Society Institute based on the alliance between art, culture, education, science, innovation, technology, business, institutions and other emerging sectors of society, for debate and approval at the roundtables and working groups. The debates will be public and attendance will be free.

A space for the presentation and promotion of projects related to art, science, and technological innovation in Spain and throughout Europe.

Before the conference, online work will be carried out among the speakers and public participation will be opened up via social networks.

Venues 3 EUROPEAN CONFERENCE:

MADRID. Representation EUROPEAN COMMISSION at Spain

25th october 2011

Paseo de la Castellana, 46 E-28046 Madrid http://ec.euro pa.eu/spain