Achim Wambach, ZEW President and a director of MaCCI, gives a keynote speech on “The Digital Economy: Challenges and Prospects” at the policy event “Catching up with Silicon Valley: More is More When it Comes to Digitalisation in Germany” on 16 April 2018 in Stuttgart. The event is jointly organized by ZEW and the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing of the State of Baden-Württemberg and features additional speakers Andreas von Bechtolsheim (Co-founder of Sun Microsystems and Google’s first investor), Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut (Minister of Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing of the State of Baden-Württemberg), and Georg Müller (CEO of MVV Energie AG).