European Ecommerce Leaders Forum 2025

The European Ecommerce Leaders | Forum 2025 welcomes the C-level community and key stakeholders from across Europe, including policymakers, industry leaders and experts on May 14-15 in Sofia – the European E-Commerce Business Capital for 2025. The forum will foster valuable discussions on public policy, innovation, competitiveness and best practices at the European level and facilitate knowledge sharing, policy dialogue and strategic partnership building.

The forum will be attended by representatives of the European Commission, the EC Representation in Bulgaria, Ecommerce Europe, 250 C-Level guests from all over Europe, and e-commerce associations in Europe.

Speakers

Among the confirmed speakers at European Ecommerce Leaders Forum 2025 are:

• Ms. Yordanka Chobanova – the European Commission Representation in Bulgaria
• Mr. Gero Furchheim – President of Ecommerce Europe
• Mr. Luca Cassetti – Secretary General of Ecommerce Europe
• Prof. Dr. Jesse Weltervreden – Director of the Centre for Market Insights and a member of the executive board of the School of Marketing at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
• CEO of RankmyAI, Mr. Vlad Vita – Policy Advisor at Ecommerce Europe
• Stefano Mauro – Policy Director for e-Logistics and Taxation at Ecommerce Europe
• Mr. Ivan Goychev – Deputy Mayor at Sofia Municipality, ​​​​​​​Direction “Digitalization, Innovation and Economic Development”
• Mr. Rosen Georgiev – Chief Product Officer at eBag
• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marina Stefanova – Assoc. Prof. Deputy Dean “Sustainable development, Empowerment and Engagement”, FEBA, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

Topics

The main topics in focus of this year’s program are presented in the following panels on each of the two days:

DAY 1, May 14 „Тhe road to scalability and more competitiveness”:

• Digital Transformation & Technology;
• Customer Experience (CX) Mastery;
• Sustainability in E-commerce;
• Cross-Border E-commerce.

DAY 2, May 15 „Compliance, innovation & future trends”:

• • B2B E-commerce;
  • Digital Payments, Security and Trust in E-commerce;
  • Driving Policy Dialogue;
  • E-commerce in 2030.

Hosted by

The event is hosted by Ecommerce Europe, the Bulgarian E-Commerce Association (BEA) and Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.

The organizer of the European Ecommerce Leaders | Forum 2025 is the E-commerce Success Foundation.

The forum is by invitation only. The official language is English.

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