On September 12, 2024, ESBS-Austria organized the workshop ‘Technology 4 Resilience – Europe quo vadis?’ as part of the first Technology Talks Austria in the Vienna Museumsquartier. Around 70 participants took part in the event and followed the high-profile panel discussion, moderated by ESBS-Austria Chairman Stefan Rohringer, Infineon Technologies Austria.

Basically, the Technology Talks Austria was about the central question of how Europe's technology ecosystems should be designed within the framework of the ‘triple transition’ - the green, digital and social transformation - while maintaining competitiveness. Using the example of electronic software and hardware-based systems, the ESBS-Austria workshop showed, how the interaction of strength in hardware can be combined with new aspects in software development. 

Thomas Skordas, DG Connect (European Commission), Jörg Strauss, ams-OSRAM, Detlef Zerfowski, ETAS, and Christina Hirschl, Silicon Austria Labs, discussed, among other issues, the steps necessary to re-establish Europe as a central player in the technology industry, and about what measures are necessary to successfully promote 'Software made in Europe' and the corresponding ecosystems.