23rd NEM General Assembly – 11 May 2017

The 23rd NEM General Assembly was held on 11 May 2017, 09:00-16:30.

Venue: Hotel Crowne Plaza Le Palace, Brussels, Belgium

Agenda

09:00 – 09:20 Welcome & About NEM activities, Jean-Dominique Meunier (Technicolor, NEM Chairman)

09:20 – 09:40 Next Generation Internet for the Creative Industries, Loretta Anania (EC Unit E3 – Next generation Internet ), Albert Gauthier and Philippe Gelin (EC Unit G2 – Applications & Creativity)

09:40 – 10:00 Social media and new forms of cooperation across content and creative industries, Paolo Cesarini (Head of EC Unit I4 – Media Convergence & Social Media)

10:00 – 10:30 Creative Europe – MEDIA support to new business models proposing innovative strategies for distribution and promotion of European works online, Emmanuel Joly (DG CNECT – Media Policy), Matteo Solaro (Executive Agency EACEA – Creative Europe MEDIA)

11:00 – 12:30 Workshop on policy requirements from media community (moderator: Silvia Boi, Engineering)

• The importance to foster the dialogue between the Media sector and Policy makers (moderator: Silvia Boi, Engineering)
• VitalMedia and Policy Requirements (Giusi Caruso, Engineering)
• I3 and Policy Requirements (Simona de Rosa, T6)
• How policies can affect the Media Industry sector?
  • Mike Matton (VRT) “Media Industry vision”
  • Nicola Frank (EBU) “Media Ecosystem Vision”
• Which are the main EC priorities and activities in terms of policies for the Media sector?, How to boost the dialogue between the EC policy makers and the media sector?
  • Paolo Cesarini (Head of EC Unit Convergence and Social Media)
  • Marcel Boulogne (EC unit I-1, responsible for AVMSD)
  • Vita Jukne, (EC unit I-2, responsible for the revision of the copyright regime)
  • Ivan Brincat (EC unit I-3)

14:00 – 14:15 NEM Summit 2017 and Upcoming NEM Events Veronica Buey Cieslak (ICT Audiovisual cluster Madrid, NEM Vice-chair)

14:15 – 15:00 NEM enlargement and collaboration (moderator: Manuella Portier, Cap Digital)

• Enlargement of the NEM community to other convergence and media ecosystems
• NEM Ambassadors: a new status to boost NEM visibility all across Europe and federate the European convergence and media landscape
• Presentation of Zlin Creative Cluster (ZCC) by Mr. Jan Blažek, ZCC Vice-President, and  Dott. Martina Dlabajová, Chairman of the ZCC Supervisory Board and Member of the European Parliament

15:00 – 15:15 NEM Collaboration platform Giuseppe Vella (Engineering)

15:15 – 16:15 NEM Strategy

• Plan for establishment of NEM roadmaps and next SRIA version Pierre-Yves (Orange, NEM Vice-chair)
• NEM position papers (José Manuel Menéndez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
• NEM position paper “Innovation Support for the Creative and Cultural Industries” (Nina Klein, Frankfurt Book Fair)
• New Realities evaluation (Kathryn Geels, Digital Catapult)
• Exploring the future of content production and distribution within H2020 COGNITUS innovation action (Rajitha Weerakkody, BBC R&D)

16:15 – 16:30 Closure of the General Assembly