Global Forum 2014 : OUR PATH TO A DIGITAL CONNECTED WORLD, Geneva – Switzerland

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The Global Forum 2014 program is entitled: A CONNECTED AGE, Opportunities & Disruptions in a Time of Transformation.

It focused on several key topics which were treated at the strategy & policy levels. The sessions covers a large spectrum of the currents issues and hot topics of the digital fields: Content & Copyrights, Future of Regulation, Smart Cities, eHealth, Innovation, Security & Privacy, Data…

We depend upon Digital. A new view of the Digital Age and Digital World is forming. The twenty first century Society becomes more complex and connected. We share the sense that Digital is an integral foundation of the global society. We are part of the most complex and sophisticated system in history. Huge improvements in connectivity and access to knowledge and the considerable benefits associated with the digitization of human activities are compounded with major challenges to privacy, digital literacy and employment. Global tectonic shifts in the geography of wealth creation are underway. With the great promises of Cyber come the great challenges of disruption and transformation. As governments, businesses and citizens, how can we grasp the implications of those transformations? The formation of new strategies, policies, laws and even new social codes requires a new, inter-disciplinary approach. The Global Forum 2014 will provide much needed strategic direction and tactical guidance for those involved in dealing with the challenges of the Digital Age.

MONDAY NOVEMBER 17^th  

Welcome Addresses [8:45 am – 9:15 am]

Sébastien Lévy, Vice President Global Forum/Shaping the Future & Partner Items International; Administrator NUMA, France

Sylviane Toporkoff, President, Global Forum/Shaping the Future; Founder & Partner Items International; Professor at the Institute of European Studies, University of Paris, France

Keynotes 

Hamadoun I. Touré, Secretary-General ITU – International Telecommunication Union Address; Video

Anja Wyden Guelpa, State Chancellor of Geneva, Switzerland; Presentation

Opening Session [9:15 am – 11:00 am]

A Connected Age: Visions from EU, Americas, Asia, BRICS & Africa

Moderator: Anna Gomez, Partner Wiley and Rein, USA

Jørgen Abild Andersen, Director General Telecom (rtd.); Chairman of OECD’s Committee for Digital Economy Policy (CDEP), Denmark

Ching-Long Lu, Representative of Taipei Representative Office in France, Taiwan

Willie Lu, Co-Founder Technaut Intellectual Ventures, USA; Chief  Inventor and “Father”, Open Wireless & Mobile Cloud Platforms for Mobile Devices, USA; Presentation

Gary Shapiro, President & CEO, CEA- Consumer Electronics Association, USA; Presentation

Theresa Swinehart, Senior Advisor to the President on Global Strategy, ICANN- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Roberto Viola, Deputy Director-General, DG CONNECT, European Commission

S1: Drivers For Our Connected Age

Moderator: Lars Albinsson, Creative Director/Founder Maestro Management, Sweden; Presentation

Wladimir Bocquet, Head of Policy Planning for Government and Regulatory Affairs, GSMA Association; Presentation

Christian Buchel, Deputy-CEO & Chief Digital Officer, ERDF – Electricité Réseau de France; Vice-Président EDSO for Smart Grids, France; Presentation

Margot Dor, Strategy Development, ETSI-European Telecommunications Standards Institute; Presentation

Gabrielle Gauthey, Group Corporate President, Global Government Sector, Public Safety and Defense, Alcatel-Lucent, France; Presentation

Aarti Holla, Secretary General, ESOA – European Satellite Operators Association; Presentation

Latif Ladid, President IPV6 Forum, Luxemburg; Presentation

Gérard Pogorel, Professor of Economics and Management-Emeritus, Telecom ParisTech, France; Presentation

Gerald Santucci, Head of Unit Knowledge Sharing, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Claudia Selli, EU Affairs Director, AT&T, Belgium

Keynote Session: 21st Century Challenges – The Situation of the Digital Citizen Now

Moderator: Jay E. Gillette, Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies, University of Oulu, Finland; Senior Research Fellow and Institute Secretary Digital Policy Institute, USA; Presentation

Thomas J. Rosch, Retired Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP, USA  Presentation

Yasser Elshayeb, Director Embassies of Knowledge Initiative, The Library of Alexandria, Egypt

S2: Content, Creation, Communication, Copyrights

Moderator: Hugo Kerschot, Managing Director, IS-Practice, Belgium; See link below

Stéphanie Bacquere, Founder nod-A, France; See link below

Patrick-Yves Badillo, Professor, Director and Founder Medi@LAB-Genève, UNIGE – University of Geneva, Switzerland; See link below

Ismail Dia, Senior Director Government Accounts, Govdelivery Europe, Belgium; See link below

Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, ProfessorUNIGE – University of Geneva, Switzerland; See link below

Andrea Frascati, Business Developer Manager, Smart P@per S.p.A, Italy & Mario Po’, Executive Director, Azienda ULSS Venezia, Italy; See link below

Alfredo Ronchi, Secretary General EC MEDICI Framework; Professor Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Presentation

Alan Shark, Executive Director PTI-Public Technology Institute; Associate Professor of Practice, Rutgers University School of Public Affairs & Administration, USA; See link below

Irène Toporkoff, Cofounder and Managing Director, Worldcrunch, France; See link below

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S3: Advanced Cybersecurity & Privacy, Build Confidence & Future

Chair & Moderator: Sébastien Héon, Director of Consulting & Political Affairs, Airbus Defence & Space CyberSecurity, France; Presentation

Kevin C. Boyle, Partner, Latham & Watkins Llp; Editor, Global Privacy & Security Compliance Law Blog, USA; Presentation

Patrick Curry, CEO, MACCSA – Multinational Alliance for Collaborative Cyber Situational Awareness Ltd, United-Kingdom; Presentation

Bertrand Lathoud, Information Security Officer – EU , PayPal, Belgium; Presentation

Willie Lu, Co-Founder Technaut Intellectual Ventures, USA; Chief  Inventor and “Father”, Open Wireless & Mobile Cloud Platforms for Mobile Devices, USA; Presentation

Bror Salmelin, Adviser for Innovation Systems, DG CONNECT, European Commission; Presentation

Oliver Väärtnõu, CEO, Cybernetica AS, Estonia; Presentation

Sarah (Xiaohua) Zhao, Partner Perkins Coie LLP, China; Presentation

S4: Future of Regulation, in the Age of the Internet

Moderator: Andrew Lipman, Partner and Head of Telecom Group, Bingham McCutchen, USA

Jørgen Abild Andersen, Chairman of OECD’s Committee for Digital Economy Policy (CDEP), Denmark

Wladimir Bocquet, Head of Policy Planning for Government and Regulatory Affairs, GSMA Association

Mark Fell, Managing Director, Carre & Straus, United-Kingdom; Presentation

Frederic Geraud de Lescazes, Head of Government & Community Relations, Cisco, France

Michael Kende, Chief Economist, ISOC – Internet Society, Switzerland

Hanne Melin, Policy Strategy Counsel, eBay Inc. Public Policy Lab EMEA, Belgium

Claudia Selli, EU Affairs Director, AT&T, Belgium

S5: Connected Health

Chair/Moderator: Giampaolo Armellin, Head of Research Unit, CRG – Centro Ricerche GPI s.r.l,  Italy ; Presentation

Carmelo Battaglia, Public Administration and Institutional Relations INFOCERT, Italy; Presentation

Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, Director, Knowledge, Ethics and Research Department, WHO-World Health Organization; Presentation

Florence Gaudry-Perkins, International Director-Global Government Sector, Alcatel-Lucent HQ, France; Presentation

Antoine Geissbuhler, Professor and Chairman, Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics, UNIGE- University of Geneva, Switzerland; Presentation

Romain Lacombe, Independent Open Data Expert, France

Mario Po’ , Executive Director, Azienda ULSS Venezia &  Giuseppe Grassi, Director Cardiology Department, Venice Hospital, Venezia, Italy ; Presentation

Sinikka Salo, Deputy Mayor Healthcare and Social Welfare, City of Oulu, Finland ; Presentation

Ulrich Wuermeling, Partner Global Co-Chair of the Information Technology Industry Group, Latham & Watkins, Germany; Presentation

Alessandro Zanotelli, President and CEO, SPID, Italy; Presentation & Video

GALA DINNER with an Address from Fadi Chehadé, President & CEO, ICANN                                                           

Tuesday November 18^th  

 Gender Issues: WIL- Women in Leadership

Women in ICT: Transforming our Digital Future

Moderator: Audrey Mandela, Co-Founder, Multimap; Chair & Acting COO, Informilo; Independent Consultant, United-Kingdom

Laura Mandala, Managing Director, Mandala Research, USA; Presentation

Effat El Shooky, Technical Director, Women Business Development Center (WBDC) & Founder of Community-Based Knowledge Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Initiative (CKI&SE), Egypt

Annelise Thieblemont, Senior Director Government Affairs, Qualcomm, USA

Veronique-Ines Thouvenot, Co-founder & Scientific Director, Millennia 2025 Foundation, France; Video

  

S6: Catalysts for Innovation, Turning Ideas Into Realities

Chair: Bror Salmelin, Adviser for Innovation Systems, DG CONNECT, European Commission; Presentation

Moderator: Gary Shapiro, President & CEO, CEA – Consumer Electronics Association, USA; Presentation

Thomas Andersson, Senior Advisor Research, Innovation and Higher-Education, Sultanate of Oman

Martin Duval, CEO & Founder, Bluenove Group, France; Presentation

Effat El Shooky, Technical Director, Women Business Development Center (WBDC) & Founder of Community-Based Knowledge Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Initiative (CKI&SE), Egypt

Denis Gardin, Senior Vice-President, New Technology Ventures & Managing Director, Airbus Group Corporate Technical Office; President of TESTIA, Airbus Group, France & Pierre Langer, CEO Powidian, France; Presentation

Michael Stankosky, Research Professor, George Washington University, USA; Presentation

Yoshio Tanaka, Professor Tokyo University of Science, Japan; Presentation

Julie Wagner, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program, USA; Presentation

 

S7: Citizen-Centric Smart Cities

Chair: Ismail Dia, Senior Director Government Accounts, GovDelivery Europe, Belgium; Presentation

Moderator: Julia Glidden, President and Founder, 21c Consultancy, United-Kingdom

Doug Craig, Mayor of Cambridge, Canada; Presentation

Eric Legale, Managing Director Issy Media, France; Presentation

Ching-Chih Liao, Deputy Secretary-General Taichung City Government, Taiwan; Presentation

Samia Melhem, Lead ICT Policy Specialist, Chair eDevelopment Group, Information and Communication Technologies Sector Unit, World Bank Group; Presentation

Eikazu Niwano, Producer NTT Corporation – Research and Development Planning Department, Japan; Presentation

Takashi Obi Professor Imaging Science and Engineering Laboratory of Tokyo Tech , Japan; Presentation

Gerald Santucci, Head of Unit Knowledge Sharing, DG CONNECT, European Commission; Presentation

Peter Sonntagbauer, Senior Project Director, Cellent AG; Project Director “Future Policy Modeling” (FUPOL), Austria & Giorgio Prister, President Major Cities of Europe, Italy; Presentation

Annelise Thieblemont, Senior Director Government Affairs, Qualcomm, USA; Presentation

S8: After the Digital Revolution: Business Models 2.0

Moderator: Jean-François Soupizet, Independant Consultant,France

Olivier Gudet, Head of Telecom,SIG-Services, Switzerland; Presentation

Michal Ivantysyn, Director General ITAPA, Slovakia; Presentation

Hesham Lotfy Business Development Expert of the Public Establishment for Industrial Estates (PEIE), Oman & Andrew Robinson, Chairman ECCO – European Commercial and Consular Office, United-Kingdom; Presentation

Van Khai Nguyen, CEO, CADCAMation SA. / Association innoLAB, Switzerland; Presentation

Fabio Perossini, Managing Director, Kpeople, United-Kingdom; Presentation

Michael Stankosky, Research Professor, George Washington University, USA; Presentation

Shakeel Tufail, CEO SecureNinja, USA; Presentation

Paul Wormeli, Executive Director Emeritus Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Institute, USA; Presentation

 

S9: The Power of Data & The Internet of Things, Information Strategy: Developing New Information Products &Services

Moderator: Alan Shark, Executive Director PTI – Public Technology Institute; Associate Professor of Practice, Rutgers University School of Public Affairs & Administration, USA; Presentation

Clément Allain, R&D Project Manager Institut de l’Elevage, France; Presentation

Mariane Cimino, Consultant, France Génétique Elevage, France; Presentation

Sami Coll Research Fellow UNIGE- University of Geneva, Switzerland; Presentation

Stéphane Grumbach, Senior Scientist, INRIA, France

Jens-Henrik Jeppesen, Director European Affairs, CDT – Center for Democracy and Technology, Belgium

Jean-Henry Morin, Associate Professor of Information Systems, UNIGE – University of Geneva, Switzerland; Presentation

Hervé Rannou, CEO Items International, CEO Cityzen-Data, France; Presentation

Gerald Santucci, Head of Unit Knowledge Sharing, DG CONNECT, European Commission; Presentation

S10: Broadband For Development (Session built in collaboration with ITU)

Chair & Moderator: Jean-Pierre Chamoux, Professor Emeritus, Université Paris Descartes, France

Jean-François Bureau, Director of Institutional and International Affairs Eutelsat, France; Presentation

Jules Dégila, Independent Consultant, Benin

Ali Kone, COO & Co-Founder, Coders4Africa Inc, USA; Presentation

René Dönni Kuoni, Director Telecom Services Division OFCOM – Federal Office of Communications, Switzerland; Presentation

Mario Maniewicz, Deputy to the Director and Chief, IAP Department Radiocommunication Bureau (BR), ITU – International Telecommunication Union; Presentation

Fadhilah Mathar, Head of Strategic Planning and Partnership, Division of ICT R&D and Human Resources Development,Ministry of Communication and Information Technology,  Republic of Indonesia; Presentation

Samia Melhem, Lead ICT Policy Specialist, Chair eDevelopment Group, Information and Communication Technologies Sector Unit, World Bank Group

Madeleine Scherb, Economist/President Health and Environment Program, Cameroon; Presentation

Global Forum 2014 Documentation

LEADERSHIP – Latin America-Europe ICT Research & Innovation Partnership

Unleashing Municipal Enterprise: stimulating economic growth in the digital era 

“Open Data For Economic Growth”, report prepared by Andrew Stott , Senior Open Data Consultant, World Bank