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The European Sunday Alliance, with the support of a number of organisations including UNI Europa, is organising a conference on Work-Life-Balance 4.0 – Challenges in a Time of Digitalisation on 15 November 2016.

Register at: www.europeansundayalliance.eu/digitalisation

Programme of the conference

Opening
Luca Jahier, President of Group III, European Economic and Social Committee
Evelyn Regner, MEP, S&D Group

Günther H. Oettinger, tbc
Commissioner, European Commission, Digital Economy & Society
Digitalisation and EU policy – the transformation and future of work and society in Europe

1st panel: New forms of employment – Flexibilisation of working time
• Delphine Latawiec, Centrale Nationale des Employés, Belgium/UNI Europa Commerce
• Employers’ representative, UNIAPAC
• Prof Dr Josef Weidenholzer,  MEP, S&D Group, Co-Chair of the InterGroup Digital Agenda
• Irene Mandl, Research Manager, Eurofound, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
• European Commission’s representative

2nd panel: Life beyond work and digitalisation – The need for unavailability
• Jean Lambert, tbc, MEP, Greens/European Free Alliance Group
• Hector Saz, Specialist teleoperator, Crowd worker, Spain
• Ingo Dachwitz, Editor, netzpolitik.org, Youth delegate in the Synod of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), Germany
• Hannes Kreller, Alliance for the Free Sunday, Germany
• H. E. Dr Bruno Feillet, Auxiliary Bishop of Reims, France

Tuesday, 15 November 2016, 09h00 – 16h00
European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
Rue Van Maerlant 2, BE-1000 Bruxelles
Moderation: Silke Wettach, Journalist, WirtschaftsWoche, Brüssel

Register at: www.europeansundayalliance.eu/digitalisation