Meeting Chancellor Merkel at the IT Summit 2011

Published 5 January 2011

Yatta

Editorial team

Munich, December 6, 2011 – As German "ICT Start-up of the Year 2011" we were invited to the "IT-Gipfel 2011" (National IT Summit) where Germany's leading politicians, CEOs and CIOs debated the future of information technology.

At the Young-IT Lounge we met many interesting people, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Federal Minister of Economics and Technology Philipp Rösler, Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer, Bavarian Minister of State Manfred Zeil, and BITKOM President Dieter Kempf.

(Picture by BMWi/Schmalz - all rights reserved)

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