Name: Digital Networks Act: new coordinates for the telecommunications sector
Start: 2025-12-16T00:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-16T23:59:59+01:00
Location: European Parliament, Room Weiss 1.3

The EU Commission’s proposal on the Digital Network Act redefines the rules of the TLC sector to foster technological development and available services. It aims to homogenise standards, harmonise the internal market, close Europe’s investment and infrastructure gap relative to North America and Asia, regain technological sovereignty and strategic autonomy, and ensure network security and resilience and reliable connections.

The DNA will touch on several aspects – licensing; technical rules, data management, cybersecurity, fair share mechanism for network financing – and will have a decisive impact on the ability to develop a digital environment to help expand all sectors of Europeans’ economic and social life. This development must safeguard the principle of net neutrality, guarantee competition without penalising competitive European operator aggregations at a global level, attract investment and distribute infrastructure costs fairly, and enforce the same rules for the same service types.

What solutions does the EU Commission propose? What do TLC operators need? How will the proposal be received by the European Parliament and the Member States?

Leading representatives of institutions, together with authoritative representatives of major companies operating in the sector, will discuss these questions at Connact Net & Tech 2025.

The event is organised in cooperation with the European Parliament and enjoys the highest institutional patronage.

Promoters of the Connact platform include Fastweb+Vodafone, Fibercop, Open Fiber, Tim and Wind Tre.

Programme

Time	Net & Tech 2025
2:00 pm	Accreditation
2:30 pm	Welcome speech Carlo Corazza Director of the European Parliament Liaison Office in Italy
2:35 pm	The role of TLC in the development of the single market and EU competitiveness Tullio Ambrosone AREL, Director of Single Market Lab
2:45 pm	DNA: a new genetic make-up for the digital transition Henna Virkkunen * EU Commission, Executive Vice-President for Technological Sovereignty, Security and Democracy
2:55 pm	Digital Networks Act: stakeholder demands and political responses Speakers Pilar Del Castillo * MEP, Member of ITRE, IMCO, CULT Committees Brando Benifei MEP, member INTA, AFCO, IMCO, JURI Francesco Torselli MEP, Member of INTA, EMPL, ITRE Committee Eva Spina * Ministry for Indutry and Made in Italy, Head of the Department for Digital, Connectivity and New Tech Roberto Viola * EU Commission, Director General DG CONNECT Agostino Nuzzolo TIM, General Counsel and Legal, Regulatory and Tax EVP Roberto Basso Windtre, Director External Affairs and Sustainability Lisa Di Feliciantonio Fastweb+Vodafone, Chief Communication & Sustainability Officer Simona Girolamo FiberCop, Head of European Regulatory Affairs and Antitrust Francesco Rotunno Open Fiber, Head of EU Affairs Moderate Silvia Compagnucci I-Com, Vicepresidente
4:20 pm	Conclusions Alessio Butti * Undersecretary of State with responsibility for Innovation
4:30 pm	End