Bulgarian Presidency
of the Council of the European Union

14:00-14:10

Opening speeches

14:10-14:20

Mariya Gabriel Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society

14:20-14:50

Emil Radev, Member of European Parliament

14:50-15:20

KEYNOTES: Developing a Comprehensive Regional Digital Transformation Strategy - SEIZING THE OPEN ECOSYSTEM OPPORTUNITY

15:40-16:20

CASE STUDY: Digital Transformation: Where to Start? The Digital innovation hub journey

16:20-16:40

Panel discussion – Digital economy – the regional transformation – what and how?

17:00-18:00

Parallel panel discussions Panel discussion 1 – Digitalization of Enterprises

18:00-18:30

Presentation of the concept for a Roadmap for digitizing Varna regional economy and Memorandum of Understanding on the development of the roadmap

10:00-10:10

Opening speech

10:10-10:20

Cross-industry co-creation workshop – how to co-create the regional digitalization roadmap - tasks, methods and objectives of the exercise

10:20-10:40

Introduction of workshop concept and methodology; formation of four groups, election of spokesperson for each group (Moderators)

10:40-11:10

All groups session - four parallel sessions (4 groups – industry, academia, digital industry, governmental/non-governmental) using Visual Road-mapping in a moderated process; identification of key findings concerning region’s digital transformation

11:10-11:30

Short presentation of results (spokespersons and moderators)

11:30-12:10

Execution of a World Café with 4 phases (change every 10 min.) for additional comments and supplements (all participants)

12:10-12:30

Reflection of results, validation of hypothesis and further remarks concerning:

12:30-12:50

Presentation of the Roadmap, conclusions and wrap-up

12:50-13:00

Closing speech