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APSI Conference in association with the BCC

February 03 2011 at 17:30
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About this event

  • Rick Minor, Former CEO, AOL Europe Services
  • Gilles Vanderweyen, Partner PwC Luxembourg
  • Uwe Schnepf, Director of nacamar
  • Frédéric Foeteler, Sales director, Luxtrust.
  • Facilitator: Jean Diederich, APSI President

APSI (The Association of Professionals of the Information Society) in association with the BCC invite you to a conference to be held at PwC, on Thursday 3rd February at 17:30, on the subject: The development of e-services in Luxembourg.

AGENDA

5.30 - 5.40 pm: Welcome APSI

5.40 - 6.00 pm: Trends in the Luxembourg e-Services industry

Speakers: Gilles Vanderweyen, Partner PwC Luxembourg Jean Diederich, APSI President

PwC Luxembourg, in partnership with LU-CIX, has launched an initiative called "Luxembourg an electronically supplied services centre in the horizon 2012 – 2020". This initiative aims at analyzing, through workshops, Luxembourg’s current positioning in the e-services industry in Europe and developing an action plan to make our country a place of choice for such services in the horizon 2012-2020. Gilles Vanderweyen will present the project and some identified trends in the e-services industry. Jean Diederich will then present the APSI input to this initiative.

6.00 - 6.20 pm: Opportunities in the multimedia sector

Speaker: Mr Uwe Schnepf, Director of nacamar

nacamar is a German firm offering hosting and streaming services for audio and video content as well as multimedia services. The objective of this presentation is to show concrete opportunities in the development of e-services in Luxembourg. The speaker will give his own experiences of media trends and the "to do’s" to make Luxembourg a place of choice for e-services.

6.20 - 7.00 pm: Round table on lessons learned from e-services providers

Facilitator: Jean Diederich, APSI President

Participants include: - Gilles Vanderweyen, Partner PwC Luxembourg, specialist of the ICT sector - Frédéric Foeteler, Sales director, Luxtrust - Rick Minor, Former CEO, AOL Europe Services

The objective is to give a concrete experience of the development of e-services in Luxembourg. Is Luxembourg attractive enough? The participants will share their own experience of Luxembourg as a place of choice for e-services.

7.00 pm: Cocktail

 

Please note, if you wish to attend this event there is a compulsory free online registration at www.apsi.lu/seminaire

On this occasion registration is not through the BCC website.

Sponsors

  • Corporate Telecommunications Partner

Practical information

Thursday 03 February 2011 17:30
PwC Luxembourg, 2 Rue Gerhard Mercator, L-2182 Luxembourg