CEE Digital Summit Warsaw 2025

The sixth annual gathering of digital thinkers from across Central and Eastern Europe and beyond is right around the corner. Join us on October 9th, 2025, to discuss the key technological, regulatory and social factors affecting the digital advance of Central and Eastern Europe. This year, national policy makers from Central and Eastern Europe, EU officials, digital industry experts, researchers and civil society organisations will focus on evaluating the progress made in the digital realm of CEE in the past years, addressing the changes, achievements and shortcoming of our region on its digital path and aim to set out goals for the remaining years of the decade.

Join us this October, as we set out to foster close regional cooperation across borders and sectors and learn about CEE’s perspective on issues of:

• European Simplification and Implementation agenda
• Key EU regulatory initiatives regarding the digital domain
• Data: access, protection, Common European Data Spaces
• Human-centric approach to technological progress
• Creating market conditions for innovation and growth: funding, investments, support for SMEs
• And more

Info: How does the European regulatory agenda affect the region’s ability to innovate and grow its digital economy? Do CEE Member States make the effort to shape the European ecosystem in a way complementing the region’s strengths and allowing CEE to advance? Let’s discuss the emerging, new European approach to legislation, innovation and market stimulation.

Info: Showing appreciation for true challengers making an effort for CEE’s progress on its path of digital transformation, the CEE Digital Trident will be awarded for the fourth time. It is time to announce the laureate of CEE Digital Trident 2025.

Info: The significance of data for the development of digital public services, the economy and new digital solutions is undeniable. Creating a sound framework ensuring access to data and allowing its processing in a way that fosters innovation while guaranteeing security and respecting the rights of stakeholders creating the data economy is not a simple task.

Let’s seek the optimal way forward as we discuss the open data approach, relevant regulations affecting the data economy, and the potential of Common European Data Spaces.

Info: Striking the balance between rapid technological advance and ensuring safeguards necessary for human-centric approach to digital progress is a true challenge. Let’s consider the current ethical and social challenges stemming from the advent of new technologies.

Info: Smart spending and investments are the driving forces behind a competitive market in Europe. What is its current state, how do we ensure its growth, by using the power of public contracts and how do we avoid stifling innovative spirit and entrepreneurship in the region and across Europe? Let’s consider the existing and upcoming legal and funding tools dedicated to promoting mature European solutions and companies, means for facilitating growth of innovative SMEs and startups as well as mechanisms for supporting development of ideas and businesses in the region and beyond.

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