SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2008

15:00 - 22:00 : Registration of the participants

MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2008

7:30 - 9:00 : Registration of the participants

9:15 : Opening of the Conference

Session chair: Prof. dr. Borka Jerman-Blažič, Head, Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks, Jožef
Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

• Slovenian Presidency Opening
  Prof. dr. Žiga Turk, Minister of Growth
  Prof. dr. Franci Demšar, Director, Slovenian research Agency
  
• EC Opening by Commissioners Viviane Reding and dr. Janez Potočnik
  
• Keynote speech: Prof. dr. William H. Dutton (UK), Oxford Internet Instititute, Director, Professor of Internet Studies:"The Next Steps to the Future of the Internet" (20 min)
  

10:30 : Coffee break

11:00 : Policy, Usages, Content, Services

The objective of this session is to outline the socio economic drivers of the on line economy and usages. It is intended to identify how the medium to long term evolution of the networked economy and society will influence technological, regulatory or policy requirements.

Speakers are invited to present a summary position paper through a 10mn speaking slot. The remaining time will be animated by a moderator Mr Peter O'Donnell and will provide opportunity for direct interactions with the audience.

• "On line usages, reshaping economies and societies"
  Mr. Andy Wyckoff
  Head of ICCP Division, OECD

• "Participative Web: what economic value, what challenges?"
  Mr. Geert Lovink
  Founder and CEO, Institute of Network Culture
  
  
• "Search Technologies in the Critical Path of the Next Generation Internet"
  Prof. Dag Johansen
  Professor University of Tromsø, and Chief scientist Fast
  
  
• "New usages and trends, stretching the limits of technology"
  Dr. Diogo Vasconcelos
  Distinguished fellow Internet Business Solutions, Cisco
  
  
• "Emerging Issues from the Public Policy Aspect"
  Mr. Davor Šoštarič
  Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Information Society Directorate, Slovenia
  

12:30 : Lunch break

14:00 : Towards a Future Internet, Global Initiatives

Session chair: Dr. Rainer Zimmermann, Head, Future Networks Unit, European Commission, DG INFSO

The objective of this session is to present key initiatives outside of Europe whose objective is to redefine Internet/global networks and service architectures to overcome anticipated bottlenecks of today's networks deriving from the ever larger set of usages and constraints that the current Internet has to face.

• "The path to the Future Internet, the US approach"
  Ms Heidi P. Dempsey
  Office Operations and Integration Manager, GENI Project

• "The path to the Future Internet, the Japanese approach"
  Dr. Fumito Kubota
  Executive Director, Japanese New Generation Network Research Center

   

14:45 : Technological developments, barriers, challenges

Session chair and moderator: Mr. Peter O’Donnell, ICT Journalist

The objective of this session is to outline particular technological aspects of the Future Internet issue and in what directions research has to be conducted in view of meeting the challenges of future on line economies and societies.

Speakers will be invited to present a summary position paper through a 10mn speaking slot. The remaining time will be animated by a moderator and will provide opportunity for direct interactions with the audience

• "Towards a future Internet of Services"
  Prof. dr. Lutz Heuser
  Vice President of SAP Research and Chief Development Architect, SAP

• "Broadband: what impact on Future Internet architectures?"
  Dr. Christian Grégoire
  Vice President and CTO, Alcatel-Lucent

• "Challenges of Future Internet"
  Dr. Jan Uddenfeldt
  Senior advisor to the CEO, Ericsson

• "What services and network architectures for an Internet of Things"
  Dr. Krishna Nathan
  Vice President, Storage System Development, IBM

• "Open Innovation in Services"
  Mr. Mike Carr
  Director research and Chief Science Officer, BT

• "New media consumption and 3D: what impact on Internet architectures?"
  Mr. Jean Charles Hourcade
  Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Thomson

16:45 : Coffee break

17:00 : Towards a European Future Internet Assembly

Session chair: Dr. João da Silva, Director, Directorate Converged Networks and Services and Mr. Mario
Campolargo, Acting Director, Directorate for Emerging Technologies and Infrastructure, DG INFSO,
European Commission

“Evolved Internet Future for European Leadership”
Prof. dr. Petri Mahonen, Project coordinator, EIFFEL, RWTH Aachen University

• FP7 Project Statements
  
  H. Abramowicz – Project 4ward
  T. Zahariadis – Project SEA
  S. Ristol – Project SOA4ALL
  N. Prasad – Project Aspire
  S. Fdida – Project OneLab2
  D. Kennedy – European Technological Platforms, NESSI, NEM and eMobility
  
• Next Step – European Commission
  
  Mr. Didier LEMOINE, Internet Expert, Bureau des affaires multilatérales, MinEFE - Direction
  Générale des Entreprises Service des technologies et de la société de l’information

18:00 : Closure of the Conference

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