Monday 27 November 2017

18:30 – 20:00 Summit Opening Ceremony and Partner Reception

Tuesday 28 November 2017

08:00 – 09:30 Breakfast debate “Europe’s age of light! How photonics will power growth and innovation” in cooperation with Photonics21

08:00 – 09:00 EU Top 50 Welcome Breakfast in cooperation with WATIFY

09:00 – 12:30 EU Top 50 'Hemicycle Start-up Convention'

10:30 – 18:00 Matchmaking Event

12:30 – 13:30 Exhibition Opening 

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch Debate on Quantum Technologies: ramping-up the Flagship in cooperation with the TU Delft

14:00 – 18:00 EU Top 50 Workshops: EU support for Statups and Scaleups 

16:00 – 18:00 Session on ‘’Showcases of Innovations & Impact of Universities of Applied Sciences’’in cooperation with the Universities for Applied Sciences for Europe (UAS 4 Europe)

19:00 – 21:0 Networking Reception 'With or without pesticides - consumer choice in the marketplace' in cooperation with ECPA

19:00 – 22:00 Dinner debate on Robots and Society: How to create a safe, fair and productive society using robotics? in cooperation with the TU Delft

19:00 – 21:30 Dinner debate on Key Enabling Technology & Industry in the future Framework Programme in cooperation with EMIRI, SusChem, Spire

19:30 – 22:00 EU Top 50 Finalists Reception

Wednesday 29 November 2017

08:00 – 09:30 Breakfast Debate on Food & Agriculture: Feeding and Greening the Megacities in cooperation with Zuid-Holland

08:00 – 10:00 Breakfast debate on Blockchain: What Applications for Everyday Life? in cooperation with IEEE

09:30 – 11:30 Innovation without boundaries: Innovation Eco-system Zuid-Holland in cooperation with Zuid-Holland

09:30 – 12:30 Plenary Session on the Future of Research and Innovation

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch Debate on Artificial Intelligence: What Perspectives for Sustainable and Prosperous Future?

12:30 – 15:00 Lunch Debate on Future research infrastructure for European leadership in circular forest bioeconomy in cooperation with the ERIFORE project

12:30 – 15:00 Lunch Debate on Innovation in Medicine: Curing chronic diseases in cooperation with Zuid-Holland

16:00 – 19:30 JIIP Annual Symposium: Mission Orientation in R&I Policy in cooperation with the Joint Institute for Innovation Policy

19:00 – 22:00 Dinner debate “The future of Cohesion Policy: catalysing Europe’s knowledge, creativity and ideas"

Thursday 30 November 2017

08:30 – 19:00 Transatlantic ICT Forum in cooperation with H2020 Project Discovery

09:00 – 11:00 Plenary session "Open Science, Open Innovation - accelerating innovation process"

18:30 – 20:00 Closing Ceremony & Networking Reception on the occasion of St Andrews Day in cooperation with Innovators Magazine