The Digital with Purpose (DWP) Global Summit is a flagship event for digital leaders that will convene public and private sector decision makers to accelerate the use and uptake of digital innovations that benefit society.
Become a SponsorIn a rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape, Europe faces critical questions about its global leadership and long-term competitiveness. The Digital with Purpose Global Summit 2025 offers a high-level platform to address these questions head-on—uniting voices from policy, business, and technology to define how digital transformation can reinforce Europe’s economic autonomy, innovation capacity, and green leadership. At a time when digital infrastructure, AI, and data policy are increasingly tied to strategic sovereignty and climate goals, the Summit will emphasize actionable pathways to ensure Europe leads the global digital race not only through regulation, but by enabling innovation and scale.
This Summit provides a vital platform to forge a clear, strong, and future-oriented digital strategy. By embracing and advancing ‘Digital with Purpose,’ Europe can reassert its fundamental role as a global player, ensuring economic growth, decarbonization, security, and sustained competitiveness. Participants will explore how digital technologies—from AI and data centres to smart grids and urban infrastructure—can drive measurable impact across sectors. Through a curated mix of keynote interventions, strategic dialogues, and sectoral case studies, the programme will elevate Europe’s unique position to align policy, innovation, and investment—ensuring that digital transformation becomes a lever for opportunity, resilience, and purposeful leadership.
The Digital with Purpose Global Summit 2025 is a two-day summit taking place on 27–28 October at THE EGG in Brussels.
STRATEGIC IMPERATIVES
This Summit is built around five key imperatives:
1. Place Digital as a fundamental driver of Europe’s transformational change and leadership
Develop the right policy frameworks—but with purpose. Shift the conversation from simplification to enablement and implementation, ensuring digital tools support growth and competitiveness.
2. Build Trust through transparency and evidence-based decision making
Policy decisions must be made with a strong, transparent, and evidence-based foundation. This requires deeper collaboration between regulators, business, and civil society to ensure frameworks are both practical and impactful.
3. Enable sustainable digital transformation
Redesign Europe’s digital infrastructure to secure its place as a global player —unlocking efficiencies across data centers, AI, and connectivity—while driving economic growth, enabling decarbonization, and improving citizen and customer experience.
4. Support scaling and competitiveness
Europe must become a place where companies can grow and thrive. A place that recognises the innovative power of startups and SMEs.
5. Digital as the driving force that turns environmental ambition into economic opportunity
Investing in green to drive innovation and competitive advantage. Leverage the power of digital enabled solutions to achieve greater efficiencies, emissions reductions and resilience.