EuroPCom 2015: 6th European Conference on Public Communication
The sixth edition of the European Conference on Public Communication, EuroPCom, will be held in Brussels on the 21st and 22nd of October 2015.
Together, communication managers and senior EU experts from local, regional, national and European authorities will attend lectures, debates and interactive workshops and will discuss major challenges in both EU and public communication.
In total more than 80 expert speakers and 1,000 participants from all EU member states are expected to join.
They will attend a series of key note lectures, workshops and thematic debates on the major topics of this year's conference: how to regain the citizens' trust in the EU and how to develop a locally-anchored two-way dialogue. The programme will also include interactive networking and conversation sessions on specific themes.
Among the confirmed speakers are Sir Martin Sorrell (CEO of the WPP group), Steven Clift (Director of e-democracy.org), Per Slingmann (political communications expert), Emily O’Reilly i (European Ombudsman), Alex Aiken (Executive Director of the UK Government Communication Service), Dado Van Peteghem (digital transformation expert), Alberto Alemanno (EU Professor) and many others.
During EuroPCom the European Commission will be running a second regional Eurobarometer i survey, in follow-up of the similar study in 2012. The survey will map the opinion of 50,000 citizens in more than 170 regions of the 28 EU member states.
The annual EuroPCom conference is organised by the European Committee of the Regions, in cooperation with the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of the EU and the EESC. This year, the conference will be organised back-to-back with the annual meeting of more than 500 Europe Direct i Information Centres.
More information
An up-to-date overview of all sessions and speakers can be found here.