Friday, 31 March at House of the European Union, Dunajska cesta 20, conference room Rome, Ljubljana.
| Introductory part
Andrus Ansip, Vice President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Single Market Boris Koprivnikar, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Administration Zdravko Počivalšek, Minister of Economic Development and Technology moderated by Zoran Stančič, Head of the European Commission Representation in Slovenia |
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| 9:30 | Panel 1: Collaborative Economy as a Business Model
Marko Grobelnik, Digital Champion of the Republic of Slovenia Janja Hojnik, associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor Tea Jarc, trade union Mladi plus Claudia Martinez Felix, European Commission, Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Dirk Pilat, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation |
The conference entitled Collaborative Economy – The Path to an Acceptable Model will cover the different approaches and practices that already exist in EU countries, in order to help Slovenia set up the most suitable model of collaborative economy. The Slovenian government is in the process of setting up a comprehensive legal model to regulate and give impetus to the different forms of the collaborative economy. Furthermore, the European Commission is monitoring the rapidly changing regulatory environment and is interested in identifying possible obstacles and problems arising from divergent national regulations or regulatory gaps.
The Vice President of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip, Minister of Public Administration Boris Koprivnikar and Minister of Economic Development and Technology Zdravko Počivalšek will give keynote speeches at the conference opening.
The conference itself will be divided into three panels, each addressing a particular aspect of the collaborative economy. The first panel will introduce the collaborative economy, what it is and what kind of business models it offers. The second panel will present the challenges and opportunities from the perspective of representatives of companies that are already seizing the opportunities of the collaborative economy. The third panel will illustrate how authorities of different Member States have reacted to this new models and how they have been regulating the collaborative economy to ensure its coexistence with traditional providers. In this panel the response from the Slovenian Governemnt on how it intends to regulate this fast developping part of the economy is expected.
The European Commission Representation in Slovenia and the Ministry of Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia are organizing a conference on collaborative economy together with the Slovenian Press Agency (STA). The conference will take place on 31 March 2017 between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. at House of the European Union (Conference Room »Rim«), Dunajska cesta 20, Ljubljana.
