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On 12 November, the NGI Commons Initiative is organising the Digital Commons Policy Summit 2026 in Brussels. Building on the previous year’s edition, this year’s summit will focus on ‘Digital commons and the Open Internet Stack for a competitive Europe’. The summit’s goal is to advance and discuss strategies to achieve European digital sovereignty and to ensure that Digital Commons have a role in the new European Open Internet Stack.
The gathering will bring together policymakers, regulators, funders and practitioners to discuss tech sovereignty and open source.
As part of the NGI Commons consortium, Open Future will lead session 2, which will be moderated by Paul Keller (Director of Policy) and titled ‘The Digital Commons Strategic Agenda’. Confirmed speakers include Jan Penfrat (EDRi, Senior Policy Advisor), Plixavra Vogiatzoglou (University of Amsterdam Institute for Information Law (IViR)), and Laszlo Igneczi (Executive Director of OpenForum Europe).
Our Director of Research, Zuzanna Warso, will also speak at the summit to discuss the Tech Sovereignty Package and the Digital Commons.
08:30 Arrival and registration.
09:00 Welcome and introduction, by Dr Monique Calisti and pening remarks by Benjamin Bögel.
09:30 Session 1: ‘Sovereignty Package and the Digital Commons’, moderated by Dr Monique Calisti with panelists Zuzanna Warso, Gemma Carolillo, Enzo Ribagnac, and Sebastiano Toffaletti.
10:45 Coffee Break.
11:00 Session 2: ‘The Digital Commons Strategic Agenda’, moderated by Paul Keller with panelists Jan Penfrat, Plixavra Vogiatzoglou, and and Laszlo Igneczi.
12:15 Lunch break and networking.
13:15 Keynote by Dr Cecilia Rikap.
13:30 Session 3: ‘DC-EDIC and The Commoners, moderated by Dr Valerian Guillier, with panelists Laurent Rojey, Emma Ghariani, Renata Àvila Pinto, and René Lührsen.
14:45 Session 4: ‘The Open Internet Stack Landscape and Context’, moderated by Dr Monique Calisti, with panelists Giovanni Rimassa, Nuria de Lama, and Michiel Leenaars.
16:00 Coffee Break.
16:30 Session 5: ‘The Commoners & Funding: Securing the Future’, moderated by Nicholas Gates, with panelists Jorge Gasos, Franzizka Bormann, Jean-François De Hertogh, Arnaud Lesur, and Rachel Foucard.
17:45 Closing remarks, wrap-up, by Dr Monique Calisti and EC statement, by Thibaut Kleiner.
