On October 16, 2017, we returned with our popular Academy series to Brussels for the fourth time. Invited speaker included Paul Misener, vice president of global innovation policy at Amazon. He talked about the innovation at Amazon featuring Prime Air.

We hosted a panel discussion around the future of transport and bolstering the single market and a second panel on Entrepreneurship of the future with a focus on how Amazon works with small firms.

Participants scheduled to participate in the panels include Koen de Vos, Senior Expert, Aviation Safety, European Commission, Marc Kegelaers, CEO, Unifly.

Markus Schoeberl, Director, Seller Services Amazon Germany led a fireside chat with Markus Miklautsch, CEO Stilmelange along with Christiane Jordan, Managing Director, Madame Jordan.

A special guest Greet Dekocker, Managing Director of SafeShops.be joined the discussion.

They were participants of the “Entrepreneur of the future” competition. In addition, they talked about their personal experiences going online as a small firm.

After the event, during a walking dinner, attendees were able to have fun with our latest Amazon Echo alongside our Fire technology devices. They demonstrated our continued focus on innovation and providing opportunities to entrepreneurs and developers.

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Details of the event are available here.

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