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| Start | Title | Speaker |
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| 9:00 | Registration | |
| 10:00 | Introduction | Conference Chair: Prof. Keith Jeffery, President of ERCIM |
1. RTD/standards interfacing in the FP7 Programme |
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| 10:15 | The importance of research/standards
interfacing in furthering Europe's competitive position in ICT Expectations for FP7 |
Mrs. Susan Binns, Director Lisbon Strategy and Policies for the Information Society DG Information Society & and Media, European Commission (Replacing Peter Zangl) |
| 10:40 | Using ICT research to further standardization Future trends and developments in standardization that could be driven by research |
Dr. Walter Weigel, Director General ETSI |
| 11:05 | ETPs and standards development The role of European technology Platforms in RTD/standards interfacing |
Dr. Alexander Roth, Siemens Corporate Technology |
| 11:30 | Coffee break | |
2. Research/standards interfacing as a tool for industrial & societal progress |
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| 12:00 | Benefiting from standardization as an SME company Using research projects as a tool for accessing European standardization processes |
Manon van Leeuwen, Director Information Society, Fundecyt |
| 12:20 | eGovernment, standardization and public procurement Standards and research for interoperable eGovernment applications |
Peter Brown, CEN eGovernment Focus Group |
| 12:40 | Standardization and innovation How ICT standardization can help projects bringing their results to the market |
Antonio Conte, Principal Administrator, European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
3. Seizing the opportunities in standardization as a research project |
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| 14:15 | The standardization challenge Addressing the challenges in research/standards interfacing as a research project |
Prof. David De Roure, University of Southampton |
| 14:40 | Boosting the exploitation of research project's results Maximizing the benefits that standardization can bring to research projects |
Prof. Josep Blat, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona |
| 15:05 | Bridging the standardization gap Optimizing the interface to standardization in a research project's work plan |
Prof. Michael Lawo, University of Bremen |
| 15:30 | Tea break | |
4. The perspective for the near future: what can be done to help research projects benefiting from interfacing with standardization in FP7 |
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| 16:00 | The COPRAS Generic Guidelines interactive platform How the standards community will facilitate its interfacing with research in FP7 |
Mr. Kiritkumar Lathia, ICT Standards Board |
| 16:20 | Panel discussion What are the challenges to be addressed in RTD/standards interfacing in FP7 |
Moderator: Prof. Keith Jeffery Panellists: Dr. Andrew Houghton, Principal Scientific Officer, European Commission, DG Information Society Dr. Alexander Roth, Siemens Corporate Technology John Ketchell, COPRAS Steering Group Prof. Michael Lawo, University of Bremen Manon van Leeuwen, Director Information Society, Fundecyt |
| 17:00 | Closing Remarks | |
Josep Blat is professor of Computer Science at
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) since 1998 where he is currently
director of the Institut Universitari de
l'Audiovisual, after being head of the Departament de
Tecnologia and of the Escola Superior
Politècnica. He was previously at Universitat
de les Illes Balears where he was head of its Dpt of Maths
& Computer Science from 1988 till 1994. He graduated from Universitat de València in 1979, got his Ph D
(Mathematics) at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh) in 1985 and has
developed post-doctoral work at Université
Paris-Dauphine where he has been visiting professor.
After his initial research work in Applied Nonlinear Analysis, he passed to modelling and mathematical analysis of images (collective prize Philip Morris France 1991). His current research interests include cooperative environments; intelligent web portals; educational telematics; multimedia and GIS; computational educational toys; advanced 3D graphics (human modelling and animation) , interactive games, digital cinema, ICT acessibility, human computer interaction, ambient intelligence, residential gateways. More…
Peter Brown is founder of Pensive.eu, a
consultancy, research and software development company based in
Vienna, Austria. He is currently Chair of the CEN eGovernment Focus
Group and until July 2006 was Senior Expert on eGovernment strategy in
the Austrian Federal Chancellery where he promoted work on
pan-European eGovernment services, electronic identity management and
EU “Information Society” policies.
From 2000 to 2004, Peter led data standardisation and interoperability efforts in the European Parliament and introduced the EU institutions to XML standards, business-centred information modelling, information architecture, and most recently to Topic Maps. He is the author of “Information Architecture with XML – a Management Strategy” (John Wiley and Sons, 2003), works regularly in many European languages, lectures extensively in Europe and North America and has worked as an expert for projects in Africa and Latin America.
Antonio Conte graduated in Electronic Engineering
from the University “La Sapienza” in Rome (1984).
Moving to DG Enterprise & Industry in 1999, he was in charge of the management of sectoral consensus-building initiatives and, successively, of the development of standardisation policy and activities in support of the e-Europe Action Plans. He currently advises on ICT standardisation policy matters with a particular focus on e-business, e-government and security issues. More…
Andrew Houghton is Principal Scientific Officer in
the Directorate-General Information Society and Media (DG INFSO) of
the European Commission, in Brussels, Belgium. He received a B.Sc.
degree from the University of Sussex, UK, and a Ph.D. from the
University of Nottingham, UK. After five years with BT Research
Labs, he joined STC /Northern Telecom Optoelectronics, where he was
involved in engineering and production of devices for optical
communications systems. In 1992 he joined the European Commission, as
a Project Officer. He is currently responsible for projects in the
Unit D1 “Future Networks,” which is responsible for the
Strategic Objectives “Broadband For All” and “Mobile
and Wireless Beyond 3G” of the Information Society Technologies
(IST) FP6 Research Programme.
Keith
Jeffery is currently Director IT and International Strategy
of CCLRC, based at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in UK. Previously he
was Director IT and Head of Business and Information Technology
Department providing services to CLRC, national services to the UK
academic community and undertaking research and development projects
funded by the UK Research Councils, government departments, the
European Commission and commerce and industry internationally.
Keith has extensive experience in consultancy, project management and product development both within the public sector and the commercial sector. He has been involved actively in EC-funded projects as reviewer, coordinator, system architect and in technical and exploitation roles. He was editor-in-chief and later chairman for the Next Generation GRIDs expert group of DG INFSO F2. More…
John Ketchell is the CEN Director of Pre-Standards,
which includes in particular the Workshop and Focus Group operations
of CEN's Information Society Standardization System (ISSS). This was
created on 1 July 1997 as a focal point for standards-related
activities in this area. Previously, he was responsible for external
coordination activities within the European Telecommunications
Standards Institute (ETSI), where he was also responsible for the
secretariat of a High-Level Task Force and subsequent arrangements
concerning the reorganization of the Institute's activities. He was
the Secretary to the European Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) Standards Board (ICTSB) from its inception.
An economist and linguist, John's previous career was in the United Kingdom public administration, with a marked bias towards European Union matters, including the regulatory and standards aspects of radiocommunications.
He currently chairs the COPRAS Steering Group of the five partner organizations, which manages this project.
Mr. Lathia is Chairman of ICTSB and has more than
thirty years of management experience within telecommunications
industry and has worked within all stages of life cycle from customer
requirements and conceptual design through to field installation and
hand-over of telecommunications systems to customers.
At ETSI, he has been member of the ETSI Board and has held chairmanship of various strategic committees, including the Finance Committee, and has been a key player in establishing 3GPP. More…
Prof. Dr. Michael Lawo is with TZI at the
Universität Bremen since 2004 as the Technical Manager of the EC IP
2004-004216 wearIT@work. At the Universities of Bochum and Essen he
studied structural engineering and specialized in applied computer
sciences. His scientific career continued in robotics at the Nuclear
Research Centre Karlsruhe. Later he was 15 years in management, IT
management, and consulting positions in industry. He is author,
co-author and co-publisher of six books and more than 120 papers on
numerical methods and computer applications, optimization, robotics,
virtual reality, IT-security, and wearable computing.
Drs. Manon van Leeuwen obtained her University
Degree in Business Economics at the University of Tilburg (The
Netherlands), specialising in organisational processes (focus on
culture, structure and internal communication). She obtained a Master
of the University Pontificia Commillas, ICADE Madrid, and is realising
her Ph.D. in “New tendencies in Company Management” of the
University of Valladolid (Spain).
She is currently Director of Information Society at Fundecyt and formerly has been Director of the Department for European Programmes of the Foundation University-Enterprise of Valladolid. As an expert on issues related to the Information Society, Knowledge Society and Knowledge Management she has been a professor and speaker on courses and seminars. More…
Dr. Alexander Roth holds a master degree in general
physics from the Technical University of Munich and a PhD in the field
of Biophysics. Previous to joining Siemens AG he has worked as a
research fellow at the University of California Los Angeles in the
field of soft condensed matter and at Technical University of Munich
on polymeric materials.
Since April 2005 within Siemens AG, Dr. Alexander Roth is responsible for the market access through standardization and regulation of emerging technologies. More…
Dr. Walter Weigel graduated from the Technical
University in Munich, Germany, with a Master Degree in electrical
engineering in 1984 and with a Ph. D. degree in 1990. From 1984 to
1991 he was assistant professor at the Institute of Data Processing at
the Technical University in Munich, where he managed a European
ESPRIT research-project with the University of Nancy, France, on
speech recognition.
Dr. Walter Weigel was until August 2006 the Head of “Standardization & Regulation” of Siemens AG, Munich, Germany, and worked for Siemens since 1991 in several positions including Head of the Research & Concepts-department of the Mobile Networks business unit as well as for the semiconductor business unit (today Infineon) as Head of the business segment Video Processing. More…
Peter Zangl has been associated with the European
Commission since 1978 in various functions. Since 2001, he is Deputy
Director General of DG INFSO, in which function he was, among other
things, responsible for the Eurostat Task Force (2003). Before that,
he was Director for Southern Mediterranean, Near and Middle East, and
Director for European Social Fund and for Resources Management. An
economist by training, he has also worked at the Directorate General
for Budgetary Affairs and the Directorate General for Economic and
Monetary Affairs. Before joining the EC, Peter Zangl studied Economics
in France (University of Rouen) and in Germany (University of
Cologne), where he also graduated, and held a post as research
assistant at the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für
Wirtschafts-forschung in Essen (Germany).