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Closing Session

KENT ANDERSSON, VICE MAYOR & COUNCILLOR, CITY OF MALMÖ, SWEDEN

Kent Andersson is vice mayor and elected councillor in the city of Malmö with responsibility for issues concerning labour market, adult education and integration.

He is a member of the city council and the executive board in Malmö and the chairman of Medeon Science Park. He is also a member of the board of Malmö University.

Since January 2003 he is the chairman of Eurocities Committee.

SENATOR PIERRE LAFFITTE, PRESIDENT, SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS FOUNDATION, FRANCE

Senator Pierre Laffitte is the Senator of the RDSE group (Groupe du rassemblement Démocratique et Social en Europe).

He is the Vice-President of the Cultural Affairs Commission, Vice-President of the Evaluation Parliamentary Office for Technological and Scientific Choices.

He is the founder of Sophia Antipolis and of the International Association of Science Parks.He is also the President of the Sophia Antipolis Foundation. Among his other functions he is : President of the Franco-German association for Science and Technology ; Member of the Board of ’France 5’, a French broadcaster.

Senator Laffitte is alumni of the french Grandes Ecoles : Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris.

Senator Pierre Laffitte is also Doctor Honoris Causa of the Open University (UNITED KINGDOM) ; Doctor Honoris Causa of the Colorado School of Mines (USA) ; Officer of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the National Order of Merit (France), and recently was awarded of Order of Merit of the Free State of Bavaria (Germany). He has also received the Leonardo da Vinci decoration by the SEFI (the European Society in Engineering Training) and the Award De Gaulle-Adenauer.

SYLVIANE TOPORKOFF, PRESIDENT, GLOBAL FORUM & ASSOCIATE PARTNER, ITEMS INTERNATIONAL, FRANCE

Doctor Sylviane Toporkoff is a partner in the ITEMS International Consulting Company, as well as a full Professor at the University of Paris 8, Institute of European Affairs, France. She received her Doctorate. in Economics from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne.

Her special expertise includes Research & Consulting in Europe, USA & Worldwide in the field of Information Society, public policy, economic & strategic international partnerships for industrialists, operators & local authorities, marketing on issues related to e-business, local, regional and international development with NTIC, e-democracy, and telecommunication industry regulation.

Additionally, Dr.Toporkoff is an Expert to the UNESCO « Commission de la République française pour l’éducation, la science et la culture CNF » at the sub-commission « Communication New Technologies and Socio-Cultural stakes ».

Dr. Toporkoff is also the principal organizer of a series of International Forums shaping the future on New Information and Communication Technologies with the participation of top-level managers of international companies, international organizations, cities, regions worlwide. focused on strategic, political, marketing and economic issues. She has written numerous books and articles on telecommunications issues, lectured extensively, and has spoken before wide-variety of leading industry associations and forums in France and internationally.

Sylviane Toporkoff is « Chevalier of the Legion of Honour » and has been awarded with the Arts, Sciences and Letter Price.

SEBASTIEN LEVY, VICE-PRESIDENT GLOBAL FORUM & ASSOCIATE PARTNER, ITEMS INTERNATIONAL, FRANCE

Sébastien Lévy joined ITEMS International in 1996 as an associate partner & Vice-President of the « Global Forum/ Shaping the Future », an annual worldwide conference on the developments and perspectives of the Information Society.

Vice President of E.N.S.A. (European Education New Society Association) since 1997.

Sebastien Lévy works as a consultant-expert and advisor in information and communication technologies, especially in the field of e-Government & e-Democracy for Local, Regional and National Authorities.

Sébastien has lead several studies and projects in the field of ICT for ITEMS International.

CAREER RESUME : Chemical Engineer ; IBM Commercial Engineer ; Data Manager of a Data Processing Service Company ; From 1973 to 1992 : Vice President for Europe of the Edutronics Corporation US ; President of Eduvision, a pioneer company and a leader in France for Multimedia Development, Digital Image Expertise and Publisher of Educational Multimedia Supports. Since 1993 : Information & Communication Technologies Expert-Consultant.

 

Global Forum 2004 – Presentation : Bent Christensen

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Global Forum 2004 – The Broad Convergence

Global Forum 2004 :

The Global Forum 2004 was held in the City Hall of Malmö, Sweden, (only 20 minutes by train from Copenhagen International Airport) on November 4th & 5th, 2004, in the presence of the Governor of Skåne, Mr. Bengt Holgersson, the Mayor of the City of Malmö, Mr. Ilmar Reepalu, and European Commission representatives.

The two-day meeting was hosted in conjunction with the City of Malmö and was attended by senior government officials, policymakers and industry leaders from Europe, North America, the Pacific Rim, North Africa and other countries.

There were lively discussions of ways in which we can develop a successful government-private sector partnership, at the national and community levels, to create a genuine multimedia and knowledge society. We explored next-generation issues involving the Information Society, including business applications and the development of e-communities.

Speaker Programme (incl. links to CV/Bio & Presentations)

Nov 4 – WELCOMING ADDRESSES

Session Speaker Profiles

  • Ilmar Reepalu, Mayor, City of Malmö, Sweden
  • Senator Pierre Laffitte, President, Sophia-Antipolis Foundation, France
  • Sylviane Toporkoff, President, Global Forum, France
    Welcoming Speech

Nov 4 – KEYNOTE SESSION

Session Speaker Profiles

Chairman :

  • Sylviane Toporkoff, President, Global Forum & Partner, ITEMS International, France

Keynote Speakers :

Nov 4 – SESSION 1 : INFRASTRUCTURE MODELS IN EUROPE, NORTH AMERICA, ASIA & EMERGING MARKETS

Session Speaker Profiles

Chairman :

Moderator :

  • Shigehiko Naoe, Professor, Information Policy, Chuo University, Japan

Speakers :

Nov 4, SESSION 2 : MULTIMEDIA AND MULTI-CHANNEL APPLICATIONS : SOFTWARE, CONTENT & USABILITY

Session Speaker Profiles

Chairman & Moderator :

Speakers :

Nov 4, SESSION 3 : INTERNATIONAL CONVERGENCE ON REGULATORY TRENDS

Session Speaker Profiles

Chairman :

Moderator :

  • Andrew D. Lipman, Partner, Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, USA

Speakers :

Nov 4, SESSION 4 : SECURITY – CONFLICT AND CONVERGENCE

Session Speaker Profiles

Chairman :

Moderator :

  • Sergio Antocicco, President, Italian Telecommunications Users Association (ANUIT), Italy

Speakers :

Nov 4, REPORT SESSION : 4 RAPPORTEURS REPORT

Session Speaker Profiles

  • Shigehiko Naoe, Professor, Information Policy, Chuo University, Japan
  • Gilles Polin, Partner Accounts Manager, Government Enterprise and Partners Group, Microsoft EMEA, United Kingdom
    Session 2 Report
  • Andrew D. Lipman, Partner, Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, USA
  • Sergio Antoccico, President, Italian Telecommunications Users Association (ANUIT), Italy
    Session 4 Report

Nov 5, KEYNOTE SESSION

Session Speaker Profiles

Chairman :

  • Hubert Fabre, Secretary-General, Politech Institute, France

Moderator :

  • Sylviane Toporkoff, President, Global Forum & Partner, ITEMS International, France

Keynote Speakers :

Nov 5, SESSION 5 : INNOVATION AND R&D IN PUBLIC/PRIVATE/DEFENCE SECTORS

Session Speaker Profiles

Chairman & Moderator :

  • Senator Pierre Laffitte, President Sophia-Antipolis Foundation, France

Speakers :

Nov 5, SESSION 6.1 : INFORMATION SOCIETY PERSPECTIVES FOR COMMUNITIES

Session Speaker Profiles

Chairman :

Moderator :

  • Jean-Pierre Chamoux, Professor, University of Paris 5 – René Descartes, France

Speakers :

Nov 5, SESSION 6.2 : INFORMATION SOCIETY PERSPECTIVES FOR COMMUNITIES (Continued)

Session Speaker Profiles

Chair Person :

  • Desiree Miloshevic, Advisor, International Affairs and Policy Development, Afilias, United Kingdom

Moderator :

  • Jean-Pierre Chamoux, Professor, University of Paris 5 – René Descartes, France

Speakers :

Nov 5, SESSION 7.1 : LOCAL & REGIONAL AUTHORITIES : SCENARIOS, TOOLS & PERSPECTIVES

Session Speaker Profiles

Chairman :

Moderator :

  • Miriam Sapiro, President, Summit Strategies International, USA

Speakers :

Nov 5, SESSION 7.2 : LOCAL & REGIONAL AUTHORITIES : SCENARIOS, TOOLS & PERSPECTIVES (Continued)

Session Speaker Profiles

Moderator :

  • Miriam Sapiro, President, Summit Strategies International, USA

Speakers :

Nov 5, CLOSING SESSION

Session Speaker Profiles

  • Councillor Kent Andersson, Vice Mayor, City of Malmö, Sweden
  • Senator Pierre Laffitte, President Sophia Antipolis Foundation
  • Sylviane Toporkoff, President Global Forum & Associate Partner, ITEMS International, France
  • Sébastien Lévy, Vice-President Global Forum & Associate Partner, ITEMS International, France

Our Host – The City of Malmö


Malmö is the commercial centre of southern Sweden and an international city. The City is currently undergoing a radical transition from being an industrial city to becoming a city of knowledge. Older industries have been replaced by investments in new technology and training programmes of high calibre. Malmö University, which opened in 1998, is Sweden’s latest venture in the field of higher education, accommodating some 22.000 students. There are a number of well-known companies within IT and digital media fields, biotechnology and medical technology & environmental technology. Co-operation between colleges, science parks, and companies provides a sound basis for entrepreneurs and creative development in Malmö. An exceptionally well developed infrastructure makes Malmö very easy to reach, whatever means of transport you use to get here : boat, plane, train or car.

The City of Malmö :

Keynote Session – Day 2

HUBERT FABRE, SECRETARY-GENERAL, POLITECH INSTITUTE, FRANCE

Secretary-General of POLITECH Institute (Brussels), Hubert is lecturer at Paris University (Paris XI) since 1999, and an associate researcher at the Choiseul Institute (Paris).

Graduated in law, he is achieving a PhD on Confidence Building Measures related to security and environment in outer-space activities. In this specific field, he published articles on various legal and economical issues such as liability, insurance matters, European institutional evolutions, defense and security.

In regards to digital democracy and politics, his focus is on legal and social aspects and international cooperation. In addition, he is Chief Editor and development manager of the academic review of the Research Centre on Europe and the Contemporary World (CREMOC – Paris XI), as well as of POLITECH Institute’s newly created European Review of Political Technologies.

Until 2002 he is member of the Executive Board of the Outer Space and Telecommunications Law Institute (Institut de droit de l’espace et des télécommunications – IDEST) at Paris-XI University.

SYLVIANE TOPORKOFF, PRESIDENT, GLOBAL FORUM / ASSOCIATE PARTNER, ITEMS INTERNATIONAL, FRANCE

Doctor Sylviane Toporkoff is a partner in the ITEMS International Consulting Company, as well as a full Professor at the University of Paris 8, Institute of European Affairs, France. She received her Doctorate. in Economics from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne.

Her special expertise includes Research & Consulting in Europe, USA & Worldwide in the field of Information Society, public policy, economic & strategic international partnerships for industrialists, operators & local authorities, marketing on issues related to e-business, local, regional and international development with NTIC, e-democracy, and telecommunication industry regulation.

Additionally, Dr.Toporkoff is an Expert to the UNESCO « Commission de la République française pour l’éducation, la science et la culture CNF » at the sub-commission « Communication New Technologies and Socio-Cultural stakes ».

Dr. Toporkoff is also the principal organizer of a series of International Forums shaping the future on New Information and Communication Technologies with the participation of top-level managers of international companies, international organizations, cities, regions worlwide. focused on strategic, political, marketing and economic issues. She has written numerous books and articles on telecommunications issues, lectured extensively, and has spoken before wide-variety of leading industry associations and forums in France and internationally.

Sylviane Toporkoff is « Chevalier of the Legion of Honour » and has been awarded with the Arts, Sciences and Letter Price.

PATRICK DE SMEDT, CHAIRMAN, MICROSOFT EMEA

Patrick de Smedt was announced as Chairman of Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) in April 2003. In this role, Patrick works closely with Microsoft EMEA’s CEO and President, Jean-Philippe Courtois, to help Microsoft refine strategic directions and initiatives in this region. His responsibilities include being actively engaged with EU institutions.

Before his appointment as Chairman, Patrick de Smedt became Vice President for Europe, Middle East and Africa in February 2001. His responsibilities lay in Southern & Central Europe, including Austria, Benelux, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland as well as Africa.

Previous to that role, Patrick was Vice President of EMEA, responsible for Enterprise Business Development. He dedicated his time to engaging with EMEA global accounts, helping to win the top regional enterprise projects and being a spokesperson for the many CIO and CEO events across the region.

Prior to this, since July 1998, Patrick headed the Enterprise Group for Microsoft EMEA, also in a Vice President capacity, where he was responsible for Microsoft’s sales, marketing, enterprise partners and services for enterprise customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Patrick de Smedt was also General Manager of Microsoft Benelux, managing the operations in the Netherlands and Belgium subsidiaries. He founded both the Netherlands and Belgium subsidiaries in 1986 and 1989 respectively.

Patrick de Smedt began his career at Microsoft in 1983 at Microsoft France as the OEM Sales Manager for Southern Europe. In this role he was responsible for the sales of Microsoft products and applications to hardware manufacturers and large accounts in France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Benelux region.

Before joining Microsoft, De Smedt was a software manager for Altos Computer Systems and was responsible for the acquisition and support of software products on Altos hardware for the European market. De Smedt started his career at Tymshare as project leader for the Benelux region.

Born in 1955, De Smedt received a Commercial Engineer degree from the University of Louvain, Belgium in 1977, where he is a Honorary Fellow.

Speech : Enabling the Knowledge Society : Partnership & Innovation

JØRGEN FRIIS, DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL, EUROPEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS INSTITUTE (ETSI), FRANCE

Jørgen Friis was elected as Deputy Director-General of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) by the ETSI General Assembly on 6 April 2001.

He is jointly responsible for general management of the ETSI Secretariat based in Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE and is an ex-officio member of the ETSI Board.

Previously Vice President of the Network Division of Tele Danmark, Mr. Friis was responsible for access network strategy, norms and policies, systems, planning, design, registration and documentation.

Prior to joining Tele Denmark, he was Manager of the Network Section in Jutland Telephone Company, responsible for deployment of fibre cables in the trunked network and for the development of a quality system under the ISO 9000 concept.

Mr. Friis (49), has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the Engineering College of Aarhus (Denmark), has received a diploma in Organisation at Aarhus Business School, and a diploma in leadership and change from the Institute of Danish Engineers. He followed Tele Denmark executive leadership MBA program at INSEAD Business School in Fontainebleau, France.

Mr. Friis is a Danish citizen and a member of the Danish Society of Engineers.

Speech : From Innovation to Market Deployment : Where (and How) Standardization Fits ?

KATHRYN C. BROWN, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, PUBLIC POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, USA

Kathryn C. Brown is senior vice president – Public Policy Development and Corporate Social Responsibility, a position she has held since May 2004. She is responsible for policy development and issue management, public policy messaging, strategic alliances and public affairs programs, including Verizon Reads.

Prior to her current assignment, Brown was senior vice president – Public Policy Development & International Government Relations responsible for federal, state and international public policy development and international government relations for Verizon. In that role she developed public policy positions and was responsible for project management on emerging domestic and international issues. She also managed relations with think tanks as well as consumer, industry and trade groups important to the public policy process.

Before joining Verizon, Ms. Brown was a partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and a member of the firm’s Communications and Electronic Commerce practice, where she focused on the legal and regulatory challenges for communications companies in the converging telecommunications market.

For two years, Ms. Brown was the Chief of Staff of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) where she managed Chairman William E. Kennard’s agenda on all telecommunications, broadcast, and spectrum matters. She previously served as the Chief of the FCC’s Common Carrier Bureau, where she led key initiatives implementing the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Before working at the FCC, Ms. Brown was the Associate Administrator, Office of Policy Analysis and Development, at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications & Information Administration. In that position, she was closely involved in formulating and articulating the Administration’s position on the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and in promoting the deployment of advanced technologies both here and abroad. Ms. Brown also worked for eight years at the New York State Public Service Commission in various capacities, including as the Director of the Consumer Services Division and as Litigation Attorney and Managing Attorney for Telecommunications with the Office of General Counsel. Prior to joining the NYPSC, she was the Deputy Clerk of the New York State Court of Appeals.

Ms. Brown received her J.D., summa cum laude, from Syracuse University College of Law in 1980 and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Marist College in 1974. She is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia.

Ms. Brown is a native of New York and now resides in Virginia with her husband Steve and daughters Kaitlin and Meghan.

Speech : Deploying the Infrastructure of Innovation : Building America’s Broadband Future

JOHN BARKER, ASSISTANT DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF COMPETITION, CANADIAN COMPETITION BUREAU, INDUSTRY CANADA

John Barker is the Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Competition at the Canadian Competition Bureau. In that position, he is responsible for the development of effective enforcement policies and practices and for the promotion of compliance with the Competition Act within the business and legal communities.

He is a long time member of the Competition Bureau and has previously held management positions in both the Mergers and Civil Matters Branches

Speech : Technology, Deregulation and Globalization : Impact of Broad Convergence on Competition and Citizens

JOHN GAGE, VICE PRESIDENT & CHIEF RESEARCHER, SUN MICROSYSTEMS, USA

John Gage is the Chief Researcher for Sun Microsystems, an international information technology company based in California. He was one of the founders of Sun, in 1982, when a group of students and professors from Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley joined to create open systems in hardware and software.

He has served on the Boards of Trustees of the United States National Library of Medicine, FermiLabs, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, NetDay, Schools OnLine, United States National Research Council, the Internet Society (ISOC) and other scientific and educational groups.

He serves on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security, the Board of Advisors of the United States Institute of Peace, the National Academy of Sciences, and the International Advisory Board of the Malaysian Multimedia Corridor.

He attended the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard Business School, and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Speech : Identity, Security, and Governance : ICT Innovations and Applications

DR. HISHAM EL SHERIF, CEO AND CHAIRMAN, IT VENTURES, EGYPT

Dr. Hisham El Sherif is a leading authority on Telecommunications and IT in Egypt and the Middle East, and also one of the key players and voices for the global knowledge society.

Currently Chairman of IT Investments, a holding direct investment company with subsidiaries in networking and Telecommunications, software development, IT systems Integration, Media and e-Business regionally and globally.

Co-founder and Chair of the Advisory Board, for 14 years (1985-1999), of the Cabinet Information and Decision Support Centre, he was directly responsible for building 1500 centers and creating more than 40,000 jobs in the information industry as well as creating the first centralized repository of information required to support effective decision-making at the national level. Under his leadership, IDSC was selected as one of the top 100 IT organizations in the world.

Dr. El Sherif is a creative builder of Institutions and Organizations. He is directly responsible for building more than 29 technology related organizations, among them RITSEC, a regionally recognized leader in software engineering, multimedia, education, training, culture-ware and the information highway. The training institutes he helped build trained 300, 000 users by 1999, 1100 MBA’s and 11, 000 executives.

Extending his message beyond national boundaries, El Sherif is a commissioner of the Washington-based Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC). He chaired a task force that developed the « Africa Information Society Initiative » that has been adopted by all African countries. He actively served and contributed to the global development agenda jointly with the World Bank (Info Dev), UNDP, WIPO, WTO, ITC, UNCTAD, ILO, etc. In addition, he has initiated and helped to implement more than 700 programs and projects in Egypt and the Middle East, the US and Europe. Dr. El Sherif has been featured in various newspapers, magazines, and radio and television programs all over the world

Dr. El Sherif’s interests and sense of social responsibility extend beyond technology. He has been appointed as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the renowned Egyptian Museum, Chairman of the « Egypt Internet Society », Member of Council of the « Motherhood and Childhood » and Chair of « Children with Special Needs » Initiative. He is a member of The Opera Fund, Egypt Culture Fund as well as the « National Board of Archaeology », member of the board of the Future Generation Foundation (FGF). He served as a member of the US-Egypt President’s Council until 2002 and has been a professor at the American University in Cairo since 1983.

Globally recognized for his achievements, Dr. El Sherif has received several outstanding awards, among them the World First Prize in Information Systems from SIM in 1998, the Franz Edelman award for Management Achievements and its Application in 1989 and the IFORS Operation Research Third World Prize Award in 1987. In addition, the President of France awarded him the French Knighthood in 1991. Closer to home, H.E. the President of Egypt awarded Dr. El Sherif the First Order Medal of Science and Arts in 1999. Dr. El Sherif received his Ph.D. from MIT in Business and Engineering.

Speech : The Convergence of the Global Information and Knowledge Society : Progress and Challenges

 

Keynote Session Day 1

PETER HOJERBACK, CEO, ØRESUND IT ACADEMY, SWEDEN-DENMARK

Peter Hojerback is CEO of Øresund IT Academy, which is a triple-helix network organization catalyzing growth in the cross-border region between Sweden and Denmark.

Mr Hojerback has worked for twelve years in the high-tech and IT Industry. He was previously CEO of Precise Biometrics AB, a research-based development company that he took into an internationally leading position in biometrics (which replaces passwords, keys and PIN-codes with fingerprints). Mr Hojerback secured sales to customers such as the Pentagon, Gemplus and a number of banks while also listing the company on the Swedish Stock Exchange.

Earlier on, Mr Hojerback was Business Unit Manager at Axis Communications, the world number one in network cameras, and he has held a number of managerial positions within the Celcius defence group. Mr Hojerback has a Master of Science in Engineering Physics from Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Speech : The Øresund IT Project and the Øresund Region

KEIICHIRO SEKI, DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AFFAIRS DIVISION, MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS AND COMMUNICATIONS, JAPAN

Brief Career Details :

  • 1983 : Entered the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT)
  • 1989-1992 : Deputy Director, Policy Division, Communications Policy Bureau
  • 1992-1993 : Policy Secretary to the Vice Minister for Administrative Affairs
  • 1994-1997 : Chief Representative, Washington DC Representative Office of RITE (Research Institute of Telecommunications and Economics, Japan)
  • 1997-1998 : Senior Policy Advisor for Communications Policy, General Coordination Division, Communications Policy Bureau
  • 1998-1999 : Director, Multimedia Communications Office, Communications Policy Bureau
  • 1999-2001 : Senior Advisor, Budget Division, Minister’s Secretariat
  • 2001 : Senior Advisor, General Policy Coordination Division, Information and Communications Policy Bureau, MPHPT
  • 2001-2003 : Counsellor, Information and Communications Technology Policy Office, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan (in charge of IT Headquarters and nationwide ’e-Japan Strategy’)
  • 2003 (Aug) : Director, International Organizations Office, Telecommunications Bureau
  • 2004 (Jan) : Current Position

Writings Published :

  • ’Communications Policy in the UK : the OFTEL, UK Regulator’
  • ’Growing Diversity of Communications and Broadcasting Services : Emerging new problems in Telecommunications Regulatory Framework’
  • ’Improper Use of Telecommunications Services and How to Take Measures’
  • ’The Anonymity of the Senders through the Telecommunications Network : Prevention of Abuse and Protection of Communication’s Secrecy’

Speech : Network Paradigm Shift

KRZYSZTOF JAN HELLER, FORMER MINISTER OF INFRASTRUCTURE, POLAND

Aged 44, married with two children. Graduated in Physics and later obtained a Ph.D. degree from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Active in the fields of information and communication technologies since 1984. At that time he commenced work in the Institute of Computer Science of the Jagiellonian University, where he taught classes in computer science. The years 1988-1990 spent in the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. His subsequent occupation includes system administration, IT project management, programming and consulting. The projects were connected with banking, local government and manufacturing. He pioneered building Internet in Poland, for what in 2001 he was decorated with a Cross of Merit.

Since 1996 he has been involved in the telecommunication sector, initially as the head of IT department in fixed-line operator, and subsequently in the same position with one of the GSM mobile operators. In 2000 he took the position of CEO in one of the independent fixed-line telecom operators, where he undertook restructuring of the company.

In the year 2001 he became deputy minister of infrastructure, responsible for the whole communication sector, including telecommunication and postal market. Participated in EU accession negotiations. Was responsible for new legal framework for communications. Initiated many activities supporting development of Information Society, market of telecommunication services and infrastructure, restructuring and modernization of Polish Post. Currently running an independent consultancy company, advising on IT, telecommunication and postal projects.

Speaks Polish, English, German, Italian and Russian. His interests include skiing, caving and strategic games.

Speech : Current Status and Future Development of the Information Society in Poland

JØRGEN ABILD ANDERSEN, DIRECTOR GENERAL, NATIONAL IT AND TELECOM AGENCY (NITA), DENMARK

As Director General of the national regulatory authority since 1991, Jørgen Abild Andersen has been responsible for implementing the liberalisation of the Danish telecoms market.

Mr. Abild Andersen gained his extensive telecoms experience with the Danish General Directorate of Posts and Telegraphs, where he was Legal Counsel and Head of Division from 1984-1991. In that time, he played a key role in the restructuring and privatisation of the Danish telecoms sector and in the establishment of competition within mobile communications.

Jørgen has been a member of the National Telecommunications Advisory Board since 1991. Since the establishment of the National IT and Telecom Agency in April 2002, the responsibilities of Director General Jørgen Abild Andersen have been extended to cover both telecommunication and IT.

Jørgen is master of law from the University of Copenhagen in 1975. He started his professional career as a civil servant in the Ministry of Public Works. For a three year period he served as private secretary to the Minister.

Speech : Supply-Push / Demand-Pull – The Danish Approach

 

Report Session – Day 1

Session 1 :
Infrastructure Models in Europe, North America, Asia and Emerging Markets

SHIGEHIKO NAOE, PROFESSOR OF INFORMATION POLICY, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, JAPAN

Study Career :

  • 1964 Liberal Arts of International Christian University(ICU)
  • 1966 Graduate School of Public Administration, ICU (Master of Public Administration)

Job Career :

  • 1994- Present Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University
  • 1989- 1994 Director of Special Naoe’s group, InfoCom Research Institute
  • 1987- 1989 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
  • 1973- 1986 Director of Research Institute of Telecommunications and Economics
  • 1971- 1973 lecturer of Japanese Study Department, Ateneo de Manila University
  • 1966- 1971 Assistant of Social Science Department, International Christian University

Teaching :

  • 1994- Visiting Professor, Jillian University (China)
  • 2000- Visiting Professor, University of Air (Hoso Daigaku Japan)

Government :

  • 1987- Advisory Member of Telecommunications Policy Council, Ministry of Post and Telecommunications Advisory Member of Info-Communications Policy Council, Ministry of Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunications (Reform in 2001)

Publications :
« Network Industry, Its Theory and Practice », University of Air Press, 2000

Summary & Concluding Remarks :
Session 1 : Infrastructure Models in Europe, North America, Asia and Emerging Markets

Session 2 :
Multimedia and Multi-Channel Applications : Software, Content and Usability

GILLES POLIN, MANAGER, GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS AND SALES GROUP, MICROSOFT EMEA, UNITED KINGDOM

Gilles Polin is Manager, Government Solutions and Sales Group, Microsoft EMEA, responsible for developing and promoting Partners solutions in all fields of Government, such as e-Government, Central & Local/Regional Government, Justice & Law Enforcement and Healthcare across Europe.

Mr. Polin joined Microsoft EMEA in March 2002 from Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies where he was successively Software Engineer in the South-East area of France, Marketing Program Manager for HP’s software portfolio in France, Government Sales Manager for Eastern Europe based in Vienna, EU Relations Manager based in Brussels, and Marketing Manager for the Internet software business unit and then Telecom Services unit, based in Santa Clara, California.

Mr. Polin holds an MScEE from Ecole Supérieure d’Informatique-Electronique-Automatique of Paris. He was born in Lyon in 1959, is married and has a daughter. He and his family reside near Reading, U.K.

Summary & Concluding Remarks :
Session 2 : Multimedia and Multi-Channel Applications : Software, Content and Usability

Session 3 :
International Impact of Convergence on Regulatory Trends

ANDREW D. LIPMAN, VICE CHARIMAN, SWIDLER BERLIN SHEREFF FRIEDMAN, USA

Andrew D. Lipman is Vice Chairman of Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman (SBSF) and the Chairman of the firm’s telecommunications, Internet and new technologies practice. Mr. Lipman has spent more than 25 years developing the Firm’s telecommunications and information technology group into one of the largest practices of its kind in the nation. He practices in virtually every aspect of telecommunications law and related fields, including regulatory, transactional, litigation, legislative and land use. SBSF’s telecommunications group is international in scope, representing clients not only in the United States, but also in Central and South America, Europe, Asia and other parts of the world.

Mr. Lipman’s practice represents a diverse group of clients in both the private and public sectors including those in the areas of local, long distance and international telephone common carriage ; Internet services and technologies ; conventional and emerging wireless services ; satellite services ; broadcasting ; competitive video services ; telecommunications equipment manufacturing ; and other high technology applications In addition, he has managed privatizations of telecommunications carriers in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Mr. Lipman has been involved in nearly every new legal and regulatory policy at the FCC, at state PSCs, in Congress and before courts to open the US local telephone market to competition. He also helped shape crucial provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and has used similar approaches to promote the opening of foreign markets. He also obtained one of the first competitive local service and interconnection agreements in continental Europe and the first competitive fiber network application in Japan. Mr. Lipman’s expanded practice includes the strategic analysis of companies’ telecom user agreements, including renegotiating existing agreements, and when necessary, negotiating new, more favorable telecom user agreements.

For nearly a decade, while maintaining his partnership at the Firm, Mr. Lipman also served as Senior Vice President, Legal and Regulatory Affairs for MFS Communications, the nation’s largest competitive local services provider. One of the initial founders of MFS, Mr. Lipman helped guide the company from start-up to its eventual sale for $14.4 billion to WorldCom.

Mr. Lipman participated in the Legal Honors program at the U.S. Department of Transportation and served in the Office of the Secretary of Transportation.

A frequent author and speaker on telecommunications related topics, Mr. Lipman has published over 170 articles and is the author of five books, including two Dow Jones books on telecommunications. He has appeared as a commentator on National Public Radio, CSPAN, Bloomberg News Network and ABC News. In addition, Mr. Lipman has served on the editorial advisory boards of Phillips Publishing Company, Internet Law and Regulation, Telecommunications Alert, Telecommunications Reports, Telecommunications Regulatory Monitor, and The Satellite Compendium. Mr. Lipman also served as General Counsel to the International Teleconferencing Association and as Legislative/Regulatory Counsel to the International Satellite Users Association.

He is also co-founder and the first Chairman of the Association of Local Telecommunication Services (ALTS), the national trade association for competitive telecommunications carriers.

Mr. Lipman currently sits on the Board of Directors of five public companies trading on the NYSE, NASDAQ and Toronto Stock Exchange

Summary & Concluding Remarks :
Session 3 : International Impact of Convergence on Regulatory Trends

Session 4 :
Security : Conflict and Convergence

SERGIO ANTOCICCO, PRESIDENT, ITALIAN ASSOCIATION OF TELECOM USERS (ANUIT), ITALY

Sergio Antocicco graduated in Electronic Engineering from Naples University. After 5 years in the nuclear sector, he moved to Information Technology.

In 1978 he joined Confindustria, the organisation representing more the 130,000 Italian private companies, as Chief Information Officer.

Until 2001, he was Professor of Computer Science at LUISS University in Rome and Professor for the MBA programme.

From 1989 he is President of ANUIT, the Association of Italian Telecommunications Users. He is also President of ENSA, the European New Society Association.

In 1999 he was appointed by the Italian Government as Responsible for the technical infrastructure of the Control Room for the Y2K problem. He is also Chaiman of Istedil and Altoprofilo.

Summary & Concluding Remarks :
Session 4 : Security : Conflict and Convergence

Session 1 : Infrastructure Models in Europe, North America, Asia & Emerging Markets

BRENT OLSON, ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT, REGULATORY POLICY, EMERGING SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGIES, SBC TELECOMMUNICATIONS, USA

Brent Olson recently joined SBC as Assistant Vice President-Regulatory Policy, Emerging Services and Technologies. Mr. Olson’s responsibilities at SBC include helping to develop and coordinate at the federal and state levels SBC’s regulatory policies covering emerging technologies, such as broadband, IP-based services, and video technology services.

Mr. Olson has more than 10 years of telecommunications experience, most recently having served at the FCC as the Deputy Chief, Competition Policy Division of the Wireline Competition Bureau, serving as one of the senior managers in the Division, where he recently worked on the UNE Triennial Review proceeding and various broadband-related matters.

Prior to joining the FCC, Mr. Olson led and managed a team responsible for all US regulatory issues for Cable & Wireless, Inc., a global internet and telecommunications company, developing and advocating the company’s policy positions in front of the FCC and state regulatory bodies.

He is a graduate of Northwestern University and holds a JD from UCLA School of Law.

Speech :
IP and Broadband : Transforming the Communications Landscape

SHIGEHIKO NAOE, PROFESSOR OF INFORMATION POLICY, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, JAPAN

Study Career :

  • 1964 Liberal Arts of International Christian University(ICU)
  • 1966 Graduate School of Public Administration, ICU (Master of Public Administration)

Job Career :

  • 1994- Present Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University
  • 1989- 1994 Director of Special Naoe’s group, InfoCom Research Institute
  • 1987- 1989 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
  • 1973- 1986 Director of Research Institute of Telecommunications and Economics
  • 1971- 1973 lecturer of Japanese Study Department, Ateneo de Manila University
  • 1966- 1971 Assistant of Social Science Department, International Christian University

Teaching :

  • 1994- Visiting Professor, Jillian University (China)
  • 2000- Visiting Professor, University of Air (Hoso Daigaku Japan)

Government :

  • 1987- Advisory Member of Telecommunications Policy Council, Ministry of Post and Telecommunications Advisory Member of Info-Communications Policy Council, Ministry of Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunications (Reform in 2001)

Publications :
« Network Industry, Its Theory and Practice », University of Air Press, 2000

KJELL ARNE YTTERVIK, NORDIC REGION SALES LEADER – DIGITAL MEDIA, IBM, NORWAY

Kjell Arne Yttervik has been in IBM for over 3 years focusing on Broadband and new IP based services. He has the last year been Sales leader in Digital Media in the Nordic region ; Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland and the Baltics.

Before joining IBM he worked as a strategy consultant within the broadband and media environment

Speech :
New Business Models Through Partnerships Between Governemnt and Private Telcos

Description :
In several countries in the Nordics like Norway and Denmark, we see that local utility companies invest in triple play solutions. These companies are in most cases owned by the local municipalities, and acts as a tool for ensuring high speed broadband in rural areas as well as in the cities.

The utility companies invest in most cases in a full broadband infrastructure and in the service platform. The major reason for this is that most privatly owned telcos dont see the market potential in most areas in Norway or Denmark.

To ensure a market penetration high enough to build a successfull business case, these companies appeal to the local community and often get penetrations between 50 and 80%.

BERNARD MATHIEU, HEAD OF RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS PROGRAMMES, DIRECTORATE FOR PROGRAMMES AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY, CNES (FRENCH SPACE AGENCY), FRANCE

Bernard Mathieu was born in Alès (France) in 1947. He is graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Construction Aéronautique in Toulouse (ENSICA 1971) and from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in Paris (ENST 1973), and obtained a degree in Economics (Paris -Panthéon- Sorbonne 1973).

1974-1986 – CNES : R & D Radiocommunication Research Engineer and Head of Antenna Department – Mr. Mathieu started his career at the CNES Toulouse Space Centre as an engineer in the field of space telecommunications, and more particularly in technical design and development activities, in the fields of radio transmissions, ultra-high frequencies and antenna for space applications (space and ground segments) before becoming Head of the « Space Antennae » department.

1987-1991 – STAREC COMPANY : Technical Manager – Mr. Mathieu continued his career in industry as Technical Director for the STAREC company, a small to medium sized company specialised in radiocommunications and antennas for ground, airborne and space, civilian and military applications.

1992-1996 – FRENCH DEFENSE (DGA) : Third generation French military satellite communication programme manager – After a year spent with the CNES Technical and Industrial Directorate in Paris, he joined the Délégation Générale pour l’Armement (DGA) to take in charge the French third generation military space communication programme (SYRACUSE 3). Driving the French institutional team in charge of the programme, he managed the associated R & D activities and the system studies for this programme addressing several national or joint international co-operative options with European nations and the United-States (BIMILSATCOM, INMILSAT, GEFSATCOM, EUMILSATCOM).

1996-2002 – CNES HEADQUARTERS : Head of Radiocommunications Programmes – Nominated as the head of the Radiocommunications Programmes of CNES (Directorate for Programmes and Industrial Policy) his responsability covers all the activities performed at national level by the French Space Agency and in relation with the European Space Agency in the field of satellite communications, navigation, data collection and location systems and satellite based search and rescue systems such as :

  • in the telecommunication domain, the French technological programme STENTOR, the multimedia satellite communication programmes @bus/@sat, …,
  • in the navigation domain, EGNOS, the European satellite based augmentation to GPS, and GALILEO the European GNSS initiative
  • in the data collection, location systems and search and rescue systems : ARGOS, SARSAT, etc…

Since 1996, he is acting, as the French representative to the Joint Communications Board (JCB) and to the Programme Board of Satellite Navigation systems (PB-NAV) of the European Space Agency (ESA) and he is responsible for national co-ordination of CNES and French military activities in the field of satellite-based navigation and location systems.

He was recently selected as the chairman of the ESA Joint Communication Board (JCB), B. MATHIEU is also a teacher of several disciplines related to space communications and technologies in several French grandes écoles for engineering studies.

Speech :
The AGORA Initiative : Towards a Competitive Satellite « Triple Play » Broadband Services Offer for All and Everywhere

LEONARD ST-AUBIN, MINISTER COUNSELLOR, COMMERCIAL & ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, CANADIAN EMBASSY IN BERLIN, GERMANY

Leonard St-Aubin is the Minister Counsellor, Commercial & Economic Affairs, at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, Germany, a position he has held since September 2002. As Minister Counsellor, Len manages a team responsible for promoting trade, investment and science & technology exchanges between Canada and Germany, and for policy in the areas of trade and finance.

Formerly, Len was the Senior Director, Business and Regulatory Analysis in the Telecommunications Policy Branch at Industry Canada. He was responsible for policy related to competition and convergence, new media, Internet content issues and the domain name system, and for monitoring CRTC regulatory proceedings. He represented Industry Canada as ex-officio member of the board of Media Awareness Network and of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) and represented Canada as Vice Chair of the Governmental Advisory Committee to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Previously, he contributed to the development of communications law, including the 1993 Telecommunications Act and the 1991 Broadcasting Act, and to the modernisation of the Copyright Act.

Speech :
International Broadband Developments : A US and OECD View

EVA FRÖLICH, BOARD MEMBER, PUBLIC INTEREST REGISTRY (.ORG), EUROPE

Eva is a Board Member for the nonprofit organization PIR. PIR’s mission is to manage the .ORG domain in a way that educates and empowers the global noncommercial community to more effectively utilize the Internet.

Eva has more than 20 years of experience in the Telecommunications and Internet industries.

She has a depth of experience in International forums including ITU, ETSI, ICANN, and CENTR. From 1998 to 2001 Eva acted as a Board Member for CENTR.

In addition, Eva has worked for the incumbent Swedish Telecommunications Company Telia, NIC-SE the registry for the Swedish tld .se, and Neustar, the registry for .biz and .us.

Speech :
Infrastructures for Domain Names

Description :

  • Why are domain names important ?
  • What is the difference between a cctld and a gtld ?
  • Why .org ?
  • Privacy for .org ?
  • Security for .org ?

PATRIK FÄLTSTRÖM, MEMBER OF THE SWEDISH GOVERNMENT IT POLICY AND STRATEGY GROUP, SWEDEN

Patrik Fältström is a member of the Swedish Government IT Policy and Strategy Group reporting to the IT Minister Ulrica Messing. Fältström is also active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), was one of two area directors of the applications area for five years, and is now a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) since 2002.

He has been working with UNIX since 1985, and been involved in Internet-related standardization since 1989, both in Sweden and worldwide.

He is currently a consulting engineer with Cisco Systems in the team Strategic Alliances. At Cisco, Mr. Fältström is involved with many things touching content distribution systems, the domain name system, electronic mail and internet telephony. Previously, Fältström was a technical specialist in the Internet Strategies and Coordination group at Tele2, systems manager at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and a programmer in the Swedish Royal Navy.

Fältström holds an M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Stockholm.

Speech :
The Swedish Government view on Infrastructure Trends

L. MARIE GUILLORY, VICE PRESIDENT, LEGAL AND INDUSTRY, NATIONAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (NTCA), USA

Marie Guillory heads the Legal and Industry Division of the National Telephone Cooperative Association. NTCA’s L&I Division is responsible for the association’s regulatory advocacy efforts, technical and industry issues. Ms. Guillory and her staff provide substantive support to NTCA legislative and international programs staff.

Ms. Guillory’s interest in rural issues come naturally as she grew up on a family farm in southwestern Louisiana. She holds a law degree from Rutgers Law School, and undergraduate and graduate degrees from Blessed Sacrament College and Loyola University of the South respectively. She is the member of the Texas, Pennsylvania, D.C., and New Jersey bars, the bar of the United States Supreme Court and most of the federal appellate courts.

Ms. Guillory has held positions as Director of Litigation for the Office of the People’s Counsel for Washington, D.C., staff counsel for Panhandle Eastern Corporation, a diversified energy company, and appellate counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission.

Ms. Guillory has participated in a major feasibility study in Tanzania, consulted with the Universal Service Agency of South Africa and addressed universal service in a training session for Southern African regulators. In conjunction with NTCA’s international program, she frequently briefs international delegations on rural telecommunications issues.

Ms. Guillory served as a Governor Wilder appointee to the Virginia Board of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs. She has been active in political and civic circles in cities wherever she lived, serving on many community and non-profit Boards in Washington, D.C., and the Washington metro area and in Houston, Texas. She is an opera fan and her hobbies are sewing.

Speech :
NTCA Members’ Role in the USA

Description :
Ms. Guillory will discuss of the impact of rural providers on the U.S. marketplace.

In particular, she will speak about the characteristics of this different type of provider. She will talk about the broadband deployment progress of the 560 rural telephone companies that make up NTCA”s membership. She will explain the reasons behind their success and their progress in adapting to converging services and technologies.

She will also talk about the challenges facing them as VoIP becomes available and competitive pressures erode their traditional revenue streams.

DZINTARS ZARINS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ASSOCIATION OF LATVIAN COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES, LATVIA

Dzintars Zarins is currently Executive Director at the NGO « The Association of Latvian Computer Technologies ». He is also a Member of the Coordination Board for the National program « Informātika » and a Member of Legislation act elaboration for IT industry work groups.

Mr Zarins speaks Latvian (native), Russian (superior), and English (Intermediate).

Education :

  • 1977-1981 The Electromechanical Technical College of Riga, specialty of « Automatic electric communications », graduated with a wire communications qualification.
  • 1981-1984 Service at a USSR Navy, accomplishing the duties of the radio officer and cryptic equipment operator.
  • 1984-1989 Student at Riga’s Politechnical Institute, department of Automatics and Calculation Technology, graduated as an engineer of system technologies.

Work Experience :

  • 1987-1991 Technician in Riga Technical university (ex RPI) Computing system laboratory (during studies), after studies, scientific associate in development of the analog- digital equipment and equipment based on microprocessors, manufacturing in the same laboratory.
  • 1991-1992 Director in Riga Technical university- Student vocational- committee « Jaunatnes Jaunrades centrs BAITS ». The company deals in hardware delivery and software manufacturing.
  • 1992-1993 Manager in work with real estate, A/s « NIRA FONDS ».
  • 1993-1994 Assistant Director in the real estate company SIA « ANNO ».
  • 1995-1999 Director, A/s « Datorsalons ELVA » (sales of hardware and software products, computer network integration projects).
  • 1998-1999 BO VAS VITA (State’s enterprise, State Information Network Agency) as State’s Plenipotentiary.
  • 2000-2002 Advisor to the Prime minister of Latvia in the field of IT technologies.

Research :
Rationalization propositions spec. for processor field theory boarder goal achievement.

Speech :
IT Development in Latvia : Major Market Players

Description :
Mr. Zarins will report on the history of IT development, infrastructure and main « players » in the sphere of IT in Latvia.

 

Session 2 : Multimedia and Multi-Channel Applications : Software, Content and Usability

GILLES POLIN, MANAGER, GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS AND SALES GROUP, MICROSOFT EMEA, UNITED KINGDOM

Gilles Polin is Manager, Government Solutions and Sales Group, Microsoft EMEA, responsible for developing and promoting Partners solutions in all fields of Government, such as e-Government, Central & Local/Regional Government, Justice & Law Enforcement and Healthcare across Europe.

Mr. Polin joined Microsoft EMEA in March 2002 from Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies where he was successively Software Engineer in the South-East area of France, Marketing Program Manager for HP’s software portfolio in France, Government Sales Manager for Eastern Europe based in Vienna, EU Relations Manager based in Brussels, and Marketing Manager for the Internet software business unit and then Telecom Services unit, based in Santa Clara, California.

Mr. Polin holds an MScEE from Ecole Supérieure d’Informatique-Electronique-Automatique of Paris. He was born in Lyon in 1959, is married and has a daughter. He and his family reside near Reading, U.K.

Speech : Multimedia and Multi-Channel Applications : Software, Content and Usability – An Introduction

JOAKIM NELSON, HEAD OF BUSINESS STRATEGY, GSM/UMTS, SONY ERICSSON, SWEDEN

Started his business career at Swedish operator Telia after taking an M.Sc.E.E. Worked on point to multipoint radio systems for rural, metropolitan as well as indoor usage.

Joined Ericsson in 1990 to work on network and business development, primarily focused on access technologies. In 1994 he joined Ericsson mobile phone division and was involved in the creation of several industry standards such as GPRS and WAP. Headed Strategic Product Management and worked to set up the Sony Ericsson joint venture before he left the company.

Left Sony Ericsson for a rather small start-up company called Anoto that develops and markets unique Bluetooth radio-based writing device. Joakim Nelson was Vice President, Mobile Operations for two years until he went back to Sony Ericsson in 2003.

Today Joakim Nelson is head of Business Strategy, Product Business Unit GSM/UMTS.

Speech : Future Mobile Services

FRED DEUTSCH FOUNDER, VOXONIC, USA

Fred Deutsch’s creation of Voxonic stemmed from his frustration with movies dubbed in foreign languages. While on vacation in St. Tropez, France, and intent on enjoying an American movie starring Harrison Ford, dubbed in French – which he speaks fluently – Fred was acutely aware that the dubbed voices sounded nothing like the familiar voices of the movie’s well known actors.

Wasn’t there a way, he wondered, to embed the vocal tones of the original actors into the dubbed voices of the foreign language movie ?

That curiosity set Fred to work exploring the possibilities. The path was long, tortuous and costly, but the outcome was a company – Voxonic Inc – with a technology that does the job.

Speech : VOXONIC. Freedom of Speech in Every Language. Hearing is Believing.

KY-MING JEN, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AND CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER, XANDMAIL APPLICATION, FRANCE

Co-founder of XandMail, a digital communication solutions provider, Ky-Ming Jen provides technical leadership and has directed the development of all three generations of XandMail technology, enabling the deployment of 65 million e-mail boxes throughout the world. Prior to co-founding XandMail, Ky-Ming was with Telnos, working on software development projects involving the UNIX operating systems and TCP/IP networking protocols.

With more than 15 years experience developing e-mail technology, Ky-Ming is an expert in Internet messaging standards and messaging infrastructures, and more widely in digital communication solutions from collaborative work to online storage. Ky-Ming earned a degree in computer science from the University of Paris.

Speech : Convergence of Personal Storage

M-H. CAROLYN NGUYEN, VICE PRESIDENT, TECHNOLOGY & STRATEGY, EMEA, AVAYA, UNITED KINGDOM

M-H. Carolyn Nguyen is the Vice President for Technology and Strategy in EMEA. In that capacity, she is responsible for driving the technology vision and forming strategic alliances and partnerships in the region.

Carolyn joined the EMEA region in June 2004 from the Avaya CTO organization, where she created Avaya’s current strategy in converged communications and SIP. She was also the Acting Director of Strategy and Business Development for the Appliances division. Before that, she was a Brookings Congressional Fellow in 1999, where she developed technology policies and authored legislation on electronic commerce and technology commercialisation. Her previous work experience includes AT&T Bell Labs, where she was responsible for several key initiatives and development of key technologies in distributed applications and data networking protocols. These include the development of ecommerce platform software, distributed multimedia conferencing protocols, data networking protocol design and implementation, and high speed broadband access standards.

Carolyn holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University, a master from Cornell University, and a bachelor from Princeton University, all in Electrical Engineering. She also recently participated in the Executive Advanced Development Program at the London Business School. She has authored papers on electronic commerce, high speed digital subscribers loop, and high speed data networking protocols. She is the holder of several patents.

Speech : Converged Communications Services Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow

HERVÉ RANNOU, PRESIDENT, ITEMS INTERNATIONAL, FRANCE

Hervé Rannou runs ITEMS International, a company specialised in the field of New Information Technologies.

As a telecommunications engineer, he began his career at France Telecom in the field of the public infrastructure networks. Then, he worked for DAFSA (a Company working on Financial and Stock exchange Information) where he directed a project of stock exchange information international network in real time. He then joined the consulting company IBSI in 1986 – within an entity which separated from the head office to set up the AUSY group – he carried out projects and studies in the field of networks and telecommunications for tertiary and industrial companies, as well as for administrations. He took-over the Management of the Consulting Activity in 1990, and since then directed, various missions for users companies and operators.

In 1994, with Dr Sylviane Toporkoff, he launched ITEMS International in order to develop strategy consulting in ICT. He managed many international strategic studies on issues related to Telecommunications policies, IT & Software Industry, Multimedia Industry or ICT for Education. He works as a consultant with French Government, local authorities to develop ICT strategies.

He is the author of many papers. He is one of the French reference Broadband White Book main authors. In 2003, he carried out a strategic study on Software Industry for the French government. In 2004, he has managed some strategic study for players in media industry and has specifically worked on economic issues related to triple play services.

Speech : Triple Play Economic Perspectives

RANJIT MAKKUNI, PRESIDENT, SACRED WORLD FOUNDATION, INDIA

Ranjit Makkuni is a multimedia visionary, designer, musician and President of one of the most innovative design think tanks in the world, The Sacred World Foundation. The Foundation is bridging traditional and techno cultures exploring how innovation flows between both the worlds, and leads an interdisplinary team of designers, scholars, artists, programmers and scientists.

Prior to his current position, for 17 years he has been a leading researcher at the prestigious Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, a world renowned research center responsible for a great many of the innovations relating to personal computing. In 1985, Ranjit joined the System Concepts Lab of PARC, and became part of the visionary group, which developed the Smalltalk-80 Object Oriented programming language and the world’s first graphic user interface. From that base, Ranjit pioneered explorations in computer-aided design and he developed a rich research space of the Active Learning Project at PARC. The Active Learning projects conduct basic research into new paradigms for interface and presentation, as well as develop cutting edge cultural learning applications. These projects have consistently demonstrated technology paradigms that have been years ahead of the field.

With respect to basic research, Ranjit’s work explored and explores non-button pushing based, gesture-based interfaces, and new forms of multimedia access to multimedia content. The Chinese Temple Editor project developed in 1985 explored one of the first pictorial and gestural, non keyboard-based access to visual imagery. The Diagrammatic user interface in 1987 project explored visual retrieval of images through visual diagrams. The Hypertala project in 1993 explored sound based retrieval of a database of sounds. In 1993 Ranjit was part of the PARC team that invented Hyperpaper, a medium that explores `paper as an interface to multimedia imagery. In 1998, Ranjit demonstrated physical and virtual based information access through electronic augmented rings, interactive physical icons, interactive crafts, and wearable computing.

With respect to applications, Ranjit has developed many provocative demonstrations of technology in various museums, which have been years ahead of the field. In 1989, The Electronic Sketchbook of Tibetan Thangka Painting was displayed in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. This project represents one of the world’s first multimedia applications of any kind and a pioneering example of a computer based cultural learning tool, and this project continues to be an important reference in a learning field. In 1998, he led the PARC collaboration in India with India’s top scholars and artists at the Indira Gandhi Center for the Arts, New Delhi (Ministry of Culture) to develop the Gita-Govinda Multimedia Experience, a pioneering demonstration of a complex physical-virtual multimedia document, which received positive acclaim from all levels of Indian society, media. His recent work on The Crossing, has developed futuristic, mobile, multimedia and wearable computing for an in-depth presentation of India’s intellectual tradition in Banaras.

Ranjit is currently the director of the Gandhi Multimedia Museum in New Delhi, which he is building for India, presenting Gandhi’s contribution to India’s freedom struggle, class unity and race unity. The exhibit presents through modern tactile multimedia lexicon of core Gandhian values such as non violence, non possession, service to the poor, ecology, and their relevance in today’s world.

Ranjit obtained a B.Arch. from IIT, Kharagpur, and a Masters in Design Theory and Computer aided Design from University of California Los Angeles. He is a frequent speaker at the world’s leading design conferences in which he has become a spokesperson for putting forth the aesthetics and values of developing cultures. In 2000, Ranjit was nominated to be a founding member of the explorers club of the Ivrea Interaction Design Institute, Italy. He is a consultant to HP Labs Palo Alto, HP Labs India, and also is an adjunct professor at IIT Kanpur, India’s leading technology institute.

In parallel with his career as a multimedia researcher and designer he is an active sitar performer, and has performed at the world’s greatest learning centers and concert halls. Together, the proficiency in multimedia technology as well as traditional knowledge systems allows Ranjit to bridge multiple worlds, between technology and culture, techno-Man and traditional Man, and between developed and developing worlds.

Speech : Culturally Conscious Computing – The Gandhi Multimedia Museum

ALFREDO M. RONCHI, PROFESSOR OF MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING, EC MEDICI FRAMEWORK SECRETARIAT, POLITECNICO DI MILANO, ITALY

Alfredo M. Ronchi is professor of Multimedia Publishing (Politecnico di Milano Eng. Fac. & Inf. Science Dept. State Univ.) & Techniques and tools for multimedia (Politecnico Industrial Design Fac.). He is Director of a set of post-degree courses in the field of multimedia and digital communication. Alfredo Ronchi has developed his interests in 3 main converging sectors : Comp. Graphics & IVR, Hypermedia and Networking. Co-founder and Coordinator of the Computer Aided Architectural Design Laboratory (1984/1990), Founding Director of the HyperMediaGroup Laboratory (since 1990). AM Ronchi has developed and coordinated both European research and development projects (De Architectura, MOSAIC, Peripatetic, MIMS, MEDICI Framework, etc) and extra European (EuroSinosoft, Microsoft EMWAC).

Founding Chair of the Virtual Project October 93, 94 (BolognaFiere), Prog. Chair of ACM Workshop on Multimedia Virtual Exhibition : Models, Technologies and Applications (99 Orlando), Progr.Chair of the Cultural Track IX World Wide Web Conference (Amsterdam), Chair of panels « On culture in a world wide information society » WWW Conferences 2000-04 Founding Chair of the Intl Conf. Cultural Heritage Networks Hypermedia (1996-04 Milan), Co-Chair of Infopoverty Conf. (2001-04), Founding Chair of the panel « Business opportunities from cultural heritage » CeBIT (1998-04 Hannover). He had active roles in events promoted by The World Bank, Council of Europe, European Commission, IEEE.

AM Ronchi contributed as active member of « MultiMedia Access to Cultural Heritage Memorandum of Understanding », he is currently technical secretary of the European Commission MEDICI Framework, European Commission expert both in the EU Telematics, e-Content and IST programmes, Council of Europe and CNR expert enlisted in « Gran Albo dei Referee ».

Alfredo M. Ronchi is a member of the UNESCO OCCAM Mediterranean Programme, Infopoverty, Fondazione Italiana Nuove Comunicazioni, Sacred World Foundation Scientific Committee.

Speech : Long-term Preservation of Digital Content

PAUL CHESHIRE, CONSULTING DIRECTOR WELFARE SECTOR, ATOS CONSULTING, UK

Paul Cheshire of Atos Consulting has over 30 years experience in experience in business information systems, with particular skills in developing robust innovative commercial and operational solutions. He is adept at defining, directing and managing major multi-discipline programmes in the public and private sectors. He is often called upon to work in novel or complex environments, be it concerning innovation, high risk areas or politically sensitive projects.

His enviable track record as an architect of successful Business Solutions is founded on his ability to envision a holistic service delivery model, embracing the people, processes and technologies that both provide and use the service. Paul’s designs achieve this by meeting two critical criteria : they have the right balance between manual and technology processes within the business ; and the customers have a high-quality and uncomplicated experience of interacting with the business.

He is currently the Consulting Director for the Welfare sector in the UK.

Speech : Ensuring Social Inclusion When Delivering e-Services for Welfare

TERJE M. NYPAN, SENIOR ADVISOR, NORWEGIAN DIRECTORATE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE, NORWAY

Professional Education :

  • 1979 PhD in Sociology of organisations, University of Oslo
  • 1975 Agronomist, Vinterlandbruksakademiet
  • 1974 Bachelor (Cand Mag), Sociology, Political Science, History, University of Oslo
  • 1970 Statistics, University of Bergen

Work Experience :

  • 1999- Senior Advisor, Riksantikvaren, Directorate for Cultural Heritage
  • 1998 – 2000 Chair of Advisory Committee ETC CDS of the European Environment Agency,
  • 1996-1998 Project Head/Advisor, Computer Information Management, Ministry of Environment
  • 1994-1995 Senior Project Manager, PR and Communication, Burson-Martseller Norway a.s.
  • 1988-1994 C.E.O., Rubicon a.s. (Business management consulting, business development, organisation development and management coaching)
  • 1986-1987 Consultant, Mercuri Personalutvikling a.s (Management training)
  • 1984-1986 Project manager NFPU (Events management and ICT responsible)
  • 1982-1984 Project manager agricultural research and development, Noragric (Sri-Lanka)
  • 1979-81 Manager, Stiftung FAOW, Switzerland (Business development, import/export organic commodities)

Speech : The Economic potential of Cutural Heritage for the ICT Industry

 

Session 3 : International Impact of Convergence on Regulatory Trends

MICHEL HUET, INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR FOR EXTERNAL RELATIONS, FRANCE TELECOM, FRANCE

Michel HUET is Senior Corporate Vice President International Public Affairs of the France Telecom Group. His responsability includes the interface with European Community institutions.

Among other responsabilities during his career in France Telecom, Michel HUET has been Executive Vice President of TRANSPAC, Chief Operating Officer of COGECOM, Chairman of FTLIS (Group of IT companies) and chief Operating Officer of Global One.

Michel Huet graduated (Master degree) from « Polytechnique » and from the « Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications ». He has also a research degree in Applied Computer Sciences from the University of Paris VI.

Speech : Dealing with Convergence. Tension Among Objectives

ANDREW D. LIPMAN, VICE CHARIMAN, SWIDLER BERLIN SHEREFF FRIEDMAN, USA

Andrew D. Lipman is Vice Chairman of Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman (SBSF) and the Chairman of the firm’s telecommunications, Internet and new technologies practice. Mr. Lipman has spent more than 25 years developing the Firm’s telecommunications and information technology group into one of the largest practices of its kind in the nation. He practices in virtually every aspect of telecommunications law and related fields, including regulatory, transactional, litigation, legislative and land use. SBSF’s telecommunications group is international in scope, representing clients not only in the United States, but also in Central and South America, Europe, Asia and other parts of the world.

Mr. Lipman’s practice represents a diverse group of clients in both the private and public sectors including those in the areas of local, long distance and international telephone common carriage ; Internet services and technologies ; conventional and emerging wireless services ; satellite services ; broadcasting ; competitive video services ; telecommunications equipment manufacturing ; and other high technology applications In addition, he has managed privatizations of telecommunications carriers in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Mr. Lipman has been involved in nearly every new legal and regulatory policy at the FCC, at state PSCs, in Congress and before courts to open the US local telephone market to competition. He also helped shape crucial provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and has used similar approaches to promote the opening of foreign markets. He also obtained one of the first competitive local service and interconnection agreements in continental Europe and the first competitive fiber network application in Japan. Mr. Lipman’s expanded practice includes the strategic analysis of companies’ telecom user agreements, including renegotiating existing agreements, and when necessary, negotiating new, more favorable telecom user agreements.

For nearly a decade, while maintaining his partnership at the Firm, Mr. Lipman also served as Senior Vice President, Legal and Regulatory Affairs for MFS Communications, the nation’s largest competitive local services provider. One of the initial founders of MFS, Mr. Lipman helped guide the company from start-up to its eventual sale for $14.4 billion to WorldCom.

Mr. Lipman participated in the Legal Honors program at the U.S. Department of Transportation and served in the Office of the Secretary of Transportation.

A frequent author and speaker on telecommunications related topics, Mr. Lipman has published over 170 articles and is the author of five books, including two Dow Jones books on telecommunications. He has appeared as a commentator on National Public Radio, CSPAN, Bloomberg News Network and ABC News. In addition, Mr. Lipman has served on the editorial advisory boards of Phillips Publishing Company, Internet Law and Regulation, Telecommunications Alert, Telecommunications Reports, Telecommunications Regulatory Monitor, and The Satellite Compendium. Mr. Lipman also served as General Counsel to the International Teleconferencing Association and as Legislative/Regulatory Counsel to the International Satellite Users Association.

He is also co-founder and the first Chairman of the Association of Local Telecommunication Services (ALTS), the national trade association for competitive telecommunications carriers.

Mr. Lipman currently sits on the Board of Directors of five public companies trading on the NYSE, NASDAQ and Toronto Stock Exchange

FRANÇOIS VARLOOT, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, DIVISION ECONOMY AND PROSPECTIVE, FRENCH REGULATORY AUTHORITY (ART), FRANCE

François Varloot is Deputy Director, Division economy and prospective within the ART, the French regulatory authority.

He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 1987 and from Telecom Paris in 1989 with a specialization in wide-area networks and telecom economy and legislation.

He was then a telecom consultant in Cap Gemini, both handling IT projects like the GSM network management system of France Telecom and telecom projects like the Renater first French Internet backbone or the design and building of EuroDisney telecom and IT networks.

In 1993, he becomes Director of the Strategy of Unisource France, launching one of the first alternative carrier for strategic accounts in France, negotiating the AT&T/Unisource partnership and creating the Siris joint-venture with Cegetel.

In 1996, he moves to Colorado to manage the business development of the new US telecom & media division of Cap Gemini, launching telco-in-a-box wireline and wireless US carriers.

He then joins Level(3) Communications as Director International Development and Collocation Product Line, deploying miles of fiber optics and dozens of data centers and VoiP softswitches across the globe.

In 2002, after moving back to France, he joins Microsoft in charge of Telecom Business Development with the main French operators, on projects like the Orange smartphone, or the France Telecom messaging system.

Since the beginning of the year, he is in charge for the ART of several topics including universal service, regulatory qualification, voice over broadband, directory services or regulatory accounting.

Speech : Regulatory Trends in France

CHRISTINA SPECK, NTIA OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, USA

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is the US Executive Branch’s principal voice and adviser on many domestic and international communications policy issues. The Agency participates in an interagency process with the FCC, USTR, the FTC and the US State, Justice, and Treasury Departments and with other agencies of the US Department of Commerce to consult with industry, to develop US policy and to advocate US commercial interests overseas. NTIA’s Office of International Affairs (OIA) supports NTIA’s mission to champion greater foreign access by advocating for competition and liberalization of communications and information technology and services policies around the world and by participating in relevant bilateral, regional and multilateral policy discussions.

Christina Speck serves as the senior NTIA staff member responsible for the formulation, analysis and implementation of select telecommunications, Internet and e-commerce policy issues related to the European Union, its Member States, and the United States. She also oversees NTIA’s participation in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Committee on Information, Computer and Communications Policy and as a US delegate to its working parties. In June 2003, Ms. Speck was nominated Vice Chair of the OECD’s Telecom and Information Services Working Group (TISP).

Under the leadership of Robin Layton, the Associate Administrator of NTIA’s Office of International Affairs, Ms. Speck is charged with identifying technology policy developments in Europe which may create opportunities and risks for US and international communications interests and industry, which may compromise or support the objectives of current US laws, regulations and policy statements, and/or which may raise transnational policy implications. Ms. Speck plays a key role on the interagency US government US-EU communications policy working group which consults with industry, filed comments and advocates USG positions in European proceedings as well as provides background information and analysis to senior US officials and US Embassy posts. These efforts are directed towards improved monitoring, US policy development and the influencing of national and European regulatory and legislative developments.

Prior to working at NTIA, Ms. Speck worked at Ameritech corporate headquarters in Chicago from 1995-99 on International, European and US Federal and State public policy issues. During this time she represented Ameritech at ten NARUC meetings, the convention of the 50 US State and Federal regulators on communications policy issues. She has also worked at the Aspen Institute and the United Nations in Geneva as well as interned for CNN, the Associated Press, and UNHCR’s press office. She earned a Master’s Degree in Communications Management from the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication (1992) and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University (1989). She studied at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and participated in Michigan State University’s summer program on Telecommunications in Europe hosted by the Institut National de Telecommunications in Evry, France. She has been an invited participant in Young Leaders Programs sponsored by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantik Bruecke, the American Council on Germany and the Draeger Foundation, and the European Union Visitors Program.

Speech : International Broadband Developments : A US and OECD View

JACQUES POMONTI, PRESIDENT, LEGAL & ECONOMIC COMMITTEE, GENERAL COUNCIL FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, MINISTRY OF ECONOMY, FINANCE AND INDUSTRY, FRANCE

Since 1992, a Senior Adviser (Inspecteur Général) of Post & Telecommunications, President of the Legal and Economic Committee of the General Board for Information Technologies (Conseil Général des Technologies de l’Information) which is chaired by the Minister for Industry, and the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry.

Since 1989, President of Sorbonne Radio-France, French main university radio.

Since 1987, an occasional producer for television and cinema, and a Director of documentaries for French public television.

From 1983 to 1987, President of I.N.A. (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel) the national public agency for radio & television archives, professional training and communication research.

From 1981 to 1983, President of Sud-Radio, a commercial public radio for southewestern France, and General Manager of SOFIRAD (public holding for commercial radios).

From 1969 to 1981, a consultant in communication, founder and President of the consultant firm ICS Conseils.

From 1962 to 1968, General Secretary of the Club Jean Moulin, a notorious association of intellectuals, civil servants, public and private executives known for it publications, propositions and actions for a renewed and modernised democracy.

From 1958 to 1962, various responsibilities, while a student, as publisher of the education magazine « Documents Etudiants », President of the Centre Culturel de la Jeunesse Etudiante, deduty editor of the « Cahiers de la République » (a monthly publication directed by Pierre Mendés France).

Other public or private charges included : President of the European North-American Committee, member of the boards of La Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, AFP (Agence France Presse), La SEPT (first appelation of ARTE), CLT (Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télévision), Director of Africa n°1.

Publications include : « La Communication : besoin social ou marché ? » Paris, La Documentation Française 1979 – « Education et télévision, défi majeur du XXIe siècle » Paris, 1989 – « L’action audiovisuelle extérieure de la France : Pour une nouvelle dynamique de la présence française dans le monde par les médias » Paris,1997.

Speech : Effects of Convergence on the Responsibilities and Nature of the Regulatory Institutions

JEAN-FRANÇOIS TOURNU, CONSEIL SUPERIEUR DE L’AUDIOVISUEL (CSA), FRANCE

  • Administrator for French Post and Telecommunications
  • Former Director of France Telecom for the Alsace and Bourgogne Regions
  • Representative to the European Parliament for the implementation of telecommunications
  • Technical ICT Adviser to the President of the Bourgogne Region, 1993-1997.
  • Technical ICT Director at the CSA since 1997.

Speech : Standards Gum Up the Launch of Digital Terrestrial Television

JEAN-FRANÇOIS SOUPIZET, DEPUTY HEAD OF UNIT, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, DG INFORMATION SOCIETY, EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Economist specialising in international relations and global issues in the field of information and communication technologies.

JF Soupizet is Deputy Head of the international relations unit in the European Commission’s DG Information Society, and more particularly responsible for the World Summit of the Information Society and issues related to the digital divide.

Before joining the European Commission, he occupied several positions in the French Administration and the Intergovernmental Office for Informatics (IBI) – an international organization based in Rome and working under the aegis of UNESCO.

Graduate from the French National School of Statistics and Economic Administration (ENSAE -1969) in Paris, Doctor of economic sciences of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB – 2003), JF Soupizet is a member of Futuribles International, a French think tank. He has published several papers on information technologies in the context of development notably « the Information Society and the developing countries : European contribution » published in Communications & Strategies edited by IDATE, September/October 1998 and « Prospects for universal access in the Developing countries » in Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles N° 166 2nd quarter of 2000. JF Soupizet is the editor of Nord et Sud numériques, published in Paris by Hermes -Science, February 2002 and the author of « La fracture numérique Nord Sud », published in October 2004 by Economica, Paris.

Speech : Regulatory Issues and the Digital Divide

XIAOHUA ZHAO, PARTNER, HOLLAND & KNIGHT, USA

Xiaohua Zhao’s practice focuses on assisting US companies and companies from other countries to do business successfully in a foreign environment, especially in China. She also assists foreign companies to do business in the United States.

Ms. Zhao has significant experience with China telecom issues and international commercial transactions, including finding the right joint venture partners, choosing appropriate corporate entities under Chinese joint venture laws and taxation regulations, designing financial structures, assisting clients with project financing, negotiating with joint venture partners, drafting agreements and contracts, obtaining government approvals, conducting trademark registrations and enforcement, resolving labor disputes, assisting a corporation to go public, drafting Private Placement Memorandum, and defining foreign currency convertibility. She also assists clients to work with U.S. and Chinese governments in order to encourage the business environment to become more positive for private companies.

Past projects include representing major U.S. and foreign companies in infrastructure projects in China and other Asian countries, including a satellite cable TV transmission system, a satellite interactive distance learning system, a coal thermal power plant, a pumped-water power plant, and a light rail transit system. Ms. Zhao also advised U.S. companies on establishing joint ventures in various industries including wireless, Internet, software, printing media, television broadcasting, residential property assets securitization, automobile manufacturing, cosmetic productions and agriculture sectors. In addition, she has worked on numerous licensing agreements, technology transfers, encryption, trade and legislative issues.

Ms. Zhao takes proactive steps to keep the clients updated on the changes of foreign investment laws and the development of telecommunications regulations in China. A well published author and a regular speaker, Ms. Zhao has written numerous articles on Chinese telecommunications regulations and foreign investments. Her most recent speech on two major regulations, Telecommunications Regulations of the People’s Republic of China and Administrative Measures for Internet Information Services of the People’s Republic of China, was at the Annual Policy Conference held by Pacific Basin Economic Council.

Besides her legal skills, Ms. Zhao is an accomplished journalist who has won three first prizes at U.S. and international writing competitions. Before coming to the United States, Ms. Zhao worked at the Ministry of Broadcasting, Film and Television ; and the Ministry of Post and telecommunications in China.

Ms. Zhao is admitted to practice law in the State of Indiana and the District of Columbia. She is a member of the Federal Communications Bar, American Bar Association and International Bar Association. A native of Beijing and a graduate of the Beijing Language Institute, Ms. Zhao also holds a master’s degree in journalism from Indiana University School of Journalism and her J.D. from Valparaiso University School of Law.

Speech : China RFID Standards

OLOF VILHELM GUSTAV NORDLING, PRESIDENT, EU AFFAIRS OFFICE, TELIA SONERA, BELGIUM

Olof is currently President of the TeliaSonera EU Affairs office in Brussels, which he established in 1990.

Previously he was Counselor at the Swedish Embassy in Paris, France. Earlier jobs include postings for the Swedish Trade Council in Los Angeles and The Hague, and as systems analyst for Bull in France and Sweden.

Olof has an MSc from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm as well as degrees in physics, business administration and economy.

He is married and has two grown-up children.

Speech : Market Convergence and Regulatory Divergence ?

THERESA SWINEHART, GENERAL MANAGER, GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS, ICANN, USA

Theresa Swinehart joined ICANN in July 2001 as Counsel for International Legal Affairs. Her responsibilities include the organization’s work as it relates to ICANN’s Governmental Advisory Committee, country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs), and other global activities involved in the Internet’s coordination.

Prior to joining ICANN, Ms. Swinehart was Director for Global E-Commerce at MCI, where she was responsible for international issues relating to e-commerce, such as data protection, ISP liability, and monitoring emerging technical areas such as ENUM (telephone numbering on the Internet) where law and technology converge. While at MCI, Ms. Swinehart was active in the global Internet community’s discussions that led to the 1998 transition of the Domain Name System to private sector management and the establishment of ICANN. She a served as a North American representative on the ICANN Domain Name Supporting Organization’s Names Council from 1999-2001.

Prior to joining MCI in 1996, she was a consultant for a consortium of Nordic human rights institutes, and responsible for co-editing several books on human rights and development issues. While attending law school, she continued her human rights work with the International Human Rights Law Group.

Theresa is fluent in English and German, and is conversant in other languages. She holds a law degree from American University, Washington College of Law (USA), a postgraduate degree in International Studies from Universität Wien (Austria), and a BA in International Relations from the University of California, Davis (USA).

Speech : ICANN – it’s Role in WSIS, the Issue of Internet Governance, the Coordination function of the DNS

 

Session 4 : Security : Conflict and Convergence

PETER VAN ROSTE, DIRECTOR, EUROPEAN POLICY, EBAY INTERNATIONAL, EUROPE

After graduating Law School from the University of Ghent, Peter studied at Queen Mary and Westfield College in London where he obtained an LL.M. in Computer and Communication Law.

Prior to joining eBay, Peter worked as Legal Counsel, International Regulatory Affairs for UUNET and WorldCom in Brussels. His work focused on Cybercrime, Data Protection and Intellectual Property issues. He also served as president of the European Internet Service Provider Association (EuroISPA) and ISPA Belgium, and was a board member of ICRA and INCORE.

Currently Peter manages eBay’s European Public Policy group.

eBay is The World’s Online Marketplace(R). Founded in 1995, eBay created a powerful platform for the sale of goods and services by a passionate community of individuals and businesses. On any given day, there are millions of items across thousands of categories for sale on eBay. eBay enables trade on a local, national and international basis with customized sites in markets around the world. Through an array of services, such as its payment solution provider PayPal, eBay is enabling global e-commerce for an ever-growing online community. Currently eBay has 125 Million users worldwide.

Speech : Users’ Security and Privacy Needs – A Case Study

SERGIO ANTOCICCO, PRESIDENT, ITALIAN ASSOCIATION OF TELECOM USERS (ANUIT), ITALY

Sergio Antocicco graduated in Electronic Engineering from Naples University. After 5 years in the nuclear sector, he moved to Information Technology.

In 1978 he joined Confindustria, the organisation representing more the 130,000 Italian private companies, as Chief Information Officer.

Until 2001, he was Professor of Computer Science at LUISS University in Rome and Professor for the MBA programme.

From 1989 he is President of ANUIT, the Association of Italian Telecommunications Users. He is also President of ENSA, the European New Society Association.

In 1999 he was appointed by the Italian Government as Responsible for the technical infrastructure of the Control Room for the Y2K problem. He is also Chaiman of Istedil and Altoprofilo.

TRACEY B PITT, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, EUROPEAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESILIENCE AND RECOVERY ASSOCIATION (ETR2A), NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY, UNITED KINGDOM

Tracey takes over as Chief Executive of ETR2A after 3 years as Head of e.Business at Northumbria University’s e.Business Centre. She formed the e.Business Centre at Northumbria University in July 2001 as part of the University’s e.Commerce initiative.

Tracey has over 20 years experience in the field of ICT, Public Relations, and Marketing. Prior to joining Northumbria University Tracey held various Marketing and PR and IT system support positions in various industry sectors including Dot Com businesses, venture capital, clinical research and tourism. In early 2000 she began to investigate the potential of the Internet by joining UK Business Zone, a dot com start-up as PR and Marketing Manager then continued her research by taking up a position at Sunderland University’s Centre for Electronic Commerce prior to joining Northumbria University.

In early 2004 Professor Dickson – Deputy Vice Chancellor – Development recognised the potential of ETR2A as a vehicle to extend the work of the e.Business Centre and agreed to set up ETR2A as a not for profit company, limited by guarantee with no share capital, wholly owned by the university. This was done in response to the need to address telecommunication weaknesses as resilient telecommunications infrastructures become increasingly more essential in the 21st Century.

Based in the UK, ETR2A aims to extend the understanding of the relationship between telecommunications, information security and sharing and business continuity.

Tracey is a member of the ETR2A board, and a trustee of the North East E.Learning Foundation.

Speech : Information Sharing

ARVO OTT, HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF STATE INFORMATION SYSTEMS, MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS AND COMMUNICATIONS, ESTONIA

Arvo Ott was born in Tallinn on 1954, January 13. He was graduating Tallinn Technical University Department of Electrical Engineering in 1977. From 1976 to 1990 he has employed by Institute of Cybernetics – Head of Department of Speech Technology. Candidate of Technical Sciences (PhD) from 1987.

From 1993 he is Head of Department of State Information Systems of State Chancellery of Estonia. From September, 2000 he is working as Head of Department of State Information Systems of Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications. His main area of responsibility is the central coordination of state information systems of Estonia including Information Society issues.

Member of Estonian Informatics Council, Committee of Experts on Information Technology of Council of Europe, Estonian representative of International Council for IT in Government Administration (ICA).

Speech : Trust and e-Security in the Framework of National ICT Architecture

PATRICIA A. COOPER, BRANCH CHIEF, REGIONAL AND INDUSTRY ANALYSIS – INTERNATIONAL BUREAU, U.S. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (FCC), USA

Patricia Cooper joined the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in March 2002 and serves as Chief of the International Bureau’s Regional and Bilateral Affairs Branch. The International Bureau coordinates the FCC’s international outreach, and serves as the focal point for the FCC’s regulation of international telecommunication services (including the licensing of international and domestic submarine cable and satellite networks). Ms. Cooper’s Branch is responsible for managing the FCC’s bilateral relationships with regulators and policymakers across the world, and includes regional specialists with in-depth knowledge of the communications regulatory practices and markets in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. Additionally, the branch manages the FCC training efforts through the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute and the International Visitors Program.

Immediately prior to joining the FCC, Ms. Cooper directed the international regulatory and policy strategy of CoreExpress, a start-up « intelligent data delivery » company that provided business-to-business extranet services across multiple Internet Service Providers (now part of Williams Telecommunications). From 1994 to 2000, Ms. Cooper was Senior Director for Regulatory Policy at PanAmSat Corporation during its transformation from a single-satellite start-up company to what is now one of the world’s largest, privately-owned global satellite constellations. Ms. Cooper founded the company’s international regulatory practice and coordinated the company’s policy outreach on six continents for open, pro-competitive regulatory frameworks for Internet, telecommunications, broadcast and direct-to-home television services delivered via satellite. Ms. Cooper also represented the company during negotiations of the Basic Telecommunications Agreement of the World Trade Organization.

From 1989 to 1994, as an international trade specialist at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Telecommunications, Ms. Cooper counseled U.S. satellite companies on international business opportunities, regulatory practices, and telecom market access worldwide. Additionally, she served as Latin American regional specialist during the inception of the privatization and liberalization wave in the region and throughout deliberations of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). She previously worked with Motorola’s U.S. Federal Government Affairs office in Wiesbaden, Germany (1983-1986).

Ms. Cooper holds a Master’s Degree in International Economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) (1988) and Bachelor’s Degrees in Political Science and German from Kansas State University (1983).

Speech : The U.S. Experience in Network Security

JENS SÖRVIK, PROJECT OFFICER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GLOBAL TRUST CENTER PROJECT, IKED, SWEDEN

Mr. Jens Sörvik, project officer at IKED (International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development), is responsible for the Global Trust Center project, a pilot project that focuses on paving the way for the establishment of an international clearing house structure for trust in virtual relations. Mr Sörvik is also involved in the Cluster Policies Whitebook project, which aims to structure the opportunities and challenges for policymaking raised by cluster developments and serves as conference proceedings following the 6th Global Conference of the Competitiveness Institute, on the theme « Innovative Clusters – A New Challenge ».

Mr. Sörvik has an international background in both the public and private sectors. In 1997, Mr. Sörvik was at the Swedish Embassy in Venezuela, focusing on trade relations, economic background reports and managing development programs. This was followed up by a research project in Peru and publications on the country’s Pension Systems.

From 1998-2003, Mr. Sörvik worked in two different leading high-tech companies, C-Technologies and Hårdvarubolaget AB at the Swedish ICT-cluster, Ideon, and founded a third one, Bokks AB. He was mostly based in Montreal, Canada, as he lead the establishment of the company on the North American market. From work on the three companies, Mr Sörvik has extensive experience of business development, financial relations, market strategies and international sales (Nordic Countries, North America, Latin America and Spain). He has in-depth knowledge of the consumer electronics markets and Broadband hardware and new networked services, and Digital signage systems.

Speech : A Global Trust Centre and Network for Strengthening Trust and Security in the Digital Economy

NEIL EDWARDS, MANAGING PARTNER, XIAN GROUP, USA

Neil Edwards has been a vice president of business development and a general manager in VeriSign’s Naming and Directory Services Division for the last six years. For the past three years, Edwards developed specific China and Korea while expanding the company’s business footprint in these countries.

Neil recently left VeriSign in October 2004 to start his own management consulting practice. Prior to VeriSign, Edwards held senior management roles at infoUSA, Seer Technologies, KnowledgeWare, and Du Pont.

Edwards received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science from The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. He also completed graduate work at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in Durham, North Carolina.

Speech : Can Security Providers Service the Converged World ?

MAURY D. SHENK, MANAGING PARTNER, LONDON OFFICE, STEPTOE & JOHNSON, UNITED KINGDOM

Maury D. Shenk is Managing Partner of the London office of Steptoe & Johnson and is a dual-qualified US/UK lawyer. Mr. Shenk’s practice focuses on the international aspects of telecommunications and electronic commerce.

Telecommunications :
Mr. Shenk provides advice on a wide variety of regulatory, corporate and commercial telecommunications matters, and also has significant experience in telecommunications litigation.

Regulatory : Mr. Shenk handles a variety of UK regulatory matters involving Ofcom, and supervises a team of lawyers that deal with regulatory issues in other EU member states. He has extensive US regulatory experience involving the Federal Communications Commission and other agencies. Mr. Shenk also works with international telecommunications regulatory bodies, including the World Trade Organization (especially under the Basic Telecommunications Agreement) and the International Telecommunication Union.

Corporate : Mr. Shenk counsels clients in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other telecommunications transactions. His experience includes numerous satellite industry M&A transactions, structuring of wireless joint ventures, and significant privatizations and other projects involving Eastern Europe.

Commercial : Mr. Shenk advises clients on the full range of commercial issues faced by telecommunications companies, including service and interconnection agreements, purchase and lease of equipment and property, billing issues, relationships with other operators, and other matters. He has reviewed and drafted hundreds of telecommunications agreements involving a very wide variety of services.

Electronic Commerce :
Mr. Shenk provides advice on regulatory, commercial and policy matters involving electronic commerce, representing many leading technology companies from the United States and Europe. He advises clients on the legal aspects of conducting business online, including standard service agreements, web terms and conditions, and issues regarding data protection, jurisdiction, intellectual property, competition and liability in the online environment.

Mr. Shenk supervises Steptoe & Johnson’s leading encryption export/import practice, and is experienced in export licensing proceedings involving the US Department of Commerce and National Security Agency, as well as encryption exports and imports in the UK, France, Russia, China and other jurisdictions. Mr. Shenk uses a strong technical background (including experience as a computer programmer) to address the difficult technical issues presented by encryption technology.

International Law and Trade :
Mr. Shenk has experience on a wide variety of other issues relating to international law and trade. He provides advice regarding transactions, disputes, and negotiations involving the World Trade Organization. He has significant experience in dumping and subsidy remedy proceedings. Mr. Shenk also advises clients regarding international law on the protection of investment and international competition law.

Mr. Shenk is proficient in both Russian and French, is moderately proficient in Spanish, and has a working knowledge of German, Italian and Norwegian.

Speech : Liability Issues for Information Security Breaches

 

Session 5 : Innovation and R&D in Public / Private / Defence Sectors

SENATOR PIERRE LAFFITTE, PRESIDENT FOUNDATION SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS, FRANCE

Senator Pierre Laffitte is the Senator of the RDSE group (Groupe du rassemblement Démocratique et Social en Europe).

He is the Vice-President of the Cultural Affairs Commission, Vice-President of the Evaluation Parliamentary Office for Technological and Scientific Choices.

He is the founder of Sophia Antipolis and of the International Association of Science Parks. He is also the President of the Sophia Antipolis Foundation.

Among his other functions he is : President of the Franco-German association for Science and Technology ; Member of the Board of ’France 5’, a French broadcaster.

Senator Laffitte is alumni of the french Grandes Ecoles : Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris.

Senator Pierre Laffitte is also Doctor Honoris Causa of the Open University (UNITED KINGDOM) ; Doctor Honoris Causa of the Colorado School of Mines (USA) ; Officer of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the National Order of Merit (France), and recently was awarded of Order of Merit of the Free State of Bavaria (Germany). He has also received the Leonardo da Vinci decoration by the SEFI (the European Society in Engineering Training) and the Award De Gaulle-Adenauer.

JEAN LOUIS LACOMBE, VICE-PRESIDENT TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION, INDUSTRY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY, EADS, FRANCE

Mr Lacombe, 58 years, has more than 30 years experience in various management positions in technology-based sectors.

He is currently Vice-President Technology and Innovation in the Industry Research and Technology HQ Function, he is also the General Director of the recently created EADS Company Foundation for Research

From 1999 to July 2000, he was Scientific Vice-President of Aerospatiale Matra and from 1993 to 1999, he was Deputy Vice-President of Research & Technology of MATRA HACHETTE in charge of technology-based business development of all the Lagardère Group’s affiliates.

Prior to that, Mr. Lacombe had various management position at MATRA MARCONI SPACE including Scientific Manager and Deputy Technical Manager after a technical career through the different aspects deploying high-technology : Research & Development, Engineering, Equipment, Programs.

Mr Lacombe received an Engineering Degree at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers.

From 1992 to 2001 Mr Lacombe was a member of the France’s Scientific Research Board for information technology, robotics, automation, signal and image processing.

Speech : Technology and Innovation in EADS : New challenges

JACQUES BUS, HEAD OF UNIT, D4 – ICT FOR TRUST AND SECURITY, DG INFORMATION SOCIETY, EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Jacques Bus, born in the Netherlands in 1947, studied Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his PhD with a thesis in Numerical Mathematics. He worked as a researcher at CWI (Amsterdam) for 15 years.

In 1988 he joined the European Commission services in the Unit for Computer Integrated Manufacturing in the Esprit programme. Since then he has been responsible for programme wide operational and organisational affairs in the Esprit and IST programme and for Informatics support in DG Information Society.

From June 2000 till March 2004 he was Head of the Unit Software Technologies and Distributed Systems in the IST programme, which included the coordination of activities on Open Source Software within the IST programme, as well as the Preparatory Action on Security-related research.

From March 2004 he has taken responsibilities for the unit ICT for Trust and Security in the IST Programme, which includes Network and Information System Security, Trustworthy Computing and DRM, Biometrics and Identity management, Critical Infrastructure protection, as well as the tasks related to the Preparatory Action.

Speech : Future Security Research in the EU

PATRICK AUROY, DIRECTOR, FORCE SYSTEMS AND TREND ANALYSIS, FRENCH ARMAMENT AGENCY (DGA), FRANCE

Patrick Auroy, 49, « Ingénieur général hors classe » (Armament Corps), has been appointed Director of Force Systems and Trend Analysis of the « Délégation Générale pour l’Armement » (DGA, French Armament Agency) as of August 2, 2004. In this position, he acts as Senior Adviser to the « Délégué Général pour l’Armement » and Deputy National Armament Director.

Patrick Auroy is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique (1975), ENSAE (French National Aeronautics and Space Academy, 1980) and EPNER (French Flight Test Crew School, 1981). He began his career as a helicopter flight test engineer and was in charge of certification tests for the Dauphin helicopter at DGA’s Bretigny flight test center, operational authority supervising tests for military qualification and civil certification of airplanes, helicopters and airborne systems (1981-1985).

Appointed manager of the helicopter flight test department of Bretigny as of 1985 and Istres as of 1986, he has been in charge of the relocation of the department facilities. In 1988, he became technical manager of the Tiger combat helicopter program in the aeronautical programs division of DGA and initiated the Franco-German cooperation program.

In 1989, he was assigned to DGA’s Istres flight test center as technical manager.

In 1992, Patrick Auroy was appointed Technical Adviser at the Office of the « Délégué Général pour l’Armement », in charge of aeronautical and international affairs. In addition, from 1993 to 1994, he was an official representative at the Defense white paper commission and the Mission for state reform (economy sector).

Auditor at the Center for high studies in armament (CHEAr, Paris, 1995-1996), the Center for high military studies (CHEM) and the Institute for high studies in national defense (IHEDN, Paris, 1998-1999), he was Managing director of DGA’s Istres flight test center (600 employees, 120 engineers) from 1994 to 1998. He then was appointed Airspace warfare force system architect at DGA’s Directorate of force systems and trend analysis, Paris, and was in charge of strategic advanced studies for the force system, including the international discussions on missile defense from 1998 to 2002.

Since 2002, Patrick Auroy was Deputy director of the Force systems architecture department in DGA’s Directorate of force systems and trend analysis.

Speech : From R&D for Defence to R&D for Security and Defence

EDITH CRESSON, FORMER PRIME MINISTER, FRANCE

Since 2000 : President Foundation ’second chance school’ (Fondation ’Ecole de la Deuxième Chance’)

Politics and Industry Background :
Prime Minister of France (1991-1992) ; Minister of European Affairs (1988-90) ; Member of the Commission, Science, research and development ; Joint Research Centre ; human resources, education, training and youth (1995-1999) ; Member of the European Parliament Member of the Agriculture Committee (1979) ; Minister of Agriculture (1981-83) ; Chair and managing director of Services Industries Stratégies Internationales Environnement (1992) ; Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism (1983) ; Chair of the Democratic Association of French Nationals Abroad (1986-91) ; Chair and managing director of Schneider Industries Services International (1990-91) ; Elected mayor of Thuré in Vienne (1977) ; Elected Member of the Assemblée Nationale for Vienne (1981), re-elected in 1986 and 1988 ; Member of the Vienne Conseil Général (1982) ; Elected mayor of Châtellerault (1983) ; Minister of Industrial Redeployment and Foreign Trade (1984-86) ; National Secretary to the Socialist Party, with responsibility for industry (1986-88)

University Background :
Graduate of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales ; Doctorate in demography ; Doctor Honoris Causa of the Weizmann Institute and the Open University ; Director of studies in private economic research institutes (1968-74) At present Chairperson of the Institute of European Studies

Books :
’Innover ou subir’, Editor Flammarion (1998) ; ’Avec le Soleil’, Editor J.C. Lattes (1975)

Speech : European Research Issues

MOZELLE W. THOMPSON, COMMISSIONER, FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION FOR THE CONSUMER, USA

Mozelle W. Thompson was sworn in as a Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission December 17, 1997.

Mr. Thompson previously held the position of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of the Treasury where he was responsible for overseeing domestic spending and credit policies, including the operations of the Federal Financing Bank and the Office of Government Financing. Mr. Thompson was also responsible for creating the Office of Privatization, which among its activities provides guidance on the privatization of federal assets and operations, and for developing the financial assistance plan for the District of Columbia. Mr. Thompson was initially appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary in August 1993, and served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary from April 1996 until his appointment to the Commission.

Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Mr. Thompson served as Acting Executive Director and General Counsel to the New York State Finance Agency and its four sister corporations. Mr. Thompson also was an attorney with the New York firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom.

Mr. Thompson is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School. He also holds an M.P.A. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. After graduating law school, Mr. Thompson served as law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge William M. Hoeveler in Miami, Florida. He has been on the faculties of the Woodrow Wilson School and Fordham Law School, and has been an Irvine Foundation Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School.

Mr. Thompson currently serves as Chairman of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Consumer Policy Committee where he also leads the United States delegation. Mr. Thompson was past president of the International Marketing Supervision Network (IMSN), an association of international consumer protection enforcement agencies.

Mr. Thompson has been active in a number of professional and civic organizations, including the Association of Black Princeton Alumni and the Executive Board of Practicing Attorneys for Law Students, a mentoring organization assisting African-American and Latino law students. He is presently Vice President of the Columbia College Alumni Association, and is a member of the bar in New York State and the District of Columbia.

Mr. Thompson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is the son of Charles and Eiko Suzaki Thompson of West Babylon, New York.

Speech : Job Creation and Innovation Outsourcing. Fresh Look on Broadband Deployment and the Future of Competition

ANASTASE ADONIS, TELECOM DIRECTOR, OBJECTIVE NETWORKS, FRANCE

Anastase Adonis is born in 1957 and he is graduated both from Greek and French Universities in Electronics and in computer sciences respectively. He is also graduated in Business administration (IAE) and Sciences Po.

He has significant technical experience especially in R&D design and management in the areas of telecommunications & networks. As technical expert he participated in various academic and industrial R&D projects. He participated in several international projects as technical expert, in the areas of networked activities, middleware and network management, especially for topics like performance, legacy and policies.

He managed R&D teams and activities and he is actively participating in the European R&D activities. Actually he drives R&D work on middleware and advanced collaborative platforms and systems and he is advisor for R&D strategy and monitoring of R&D activities in specific industrial projects related to the advanced network management, open programmable networks.

Speech : SME’s and Emerging Markets : The Crossroad of R&D and ICT

THOMAS ANDERSSON, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD, INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT (IKED) & PRESIDENT, JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN

Thomas Andersson is president of Jönköping University and president of the board for the International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development (IKED). He is also vice president of the Italian-based International Network of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (INSME) and serves on the international advisory committee of the Competitiveness Institute and of the World Knowledge Forum, Korea.

In recent years, Thomas Andersson was senior advisor to the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA), main secretary of the Ministers’ of Finance project on the Nordic Countries and the New Economy, under the aegis of the Nordic Council of Ministers, and member of the board of Fora, a think-tank at the Danish Ministry of Industry, and of the international advisory board of Umeå School of Business and Economics.

From 1996 to 2001, Thomas Andersson was deputy director for Science, Technology and Industry at the OECD. Three divisions of that directorate fell under his responsibility – the Industry Division, the Division for Economic and Statistical Analysis and the Division for Transport. He also coordinated the technology part of the OECD Jobs Study, the OECD Growth Study and work with the World Bank on building knowledge-based economies.

Prior to the OECD, Thomas Andersson was assistant under-secretary and head of the structural policy secretariat in the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Commerce. During these years, he represented Sweden in the European Commission’s meetings for director generals for industry. Previously he headed the international research programme of the Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research in Stockholm (IUI). Thomas Andersson was appointed associate professor at the Stockholm School of Economics in 1993 and is currently professor of International Economics and Industrial Organisation at Jönköping International Business School. He has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University, Bank of Japan, Hitotsubashi University, and University of Sao Paulo.

Speech : Raising the Returns from R&D

TOMASZ RAWINSKI, MANAGER & BUSINESS AND DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST, ELECTORTECHNICAL INSTITUTE, GDANSK BRANCH, POLAND

Tomasz Rawinski, Master of Science in Electronics, is Business and Development Specialist and Manager at the Electortechnical Institute in Gdansk since 2000. He is responsible for 5th Framework Programme and national R&D projects, Internet applications for control and monitoring, power electronics systems applications for power network control, and security of power supply.

He is also Consultant and Member of the Executive Board at the Science&Technology Foundation « Gdansk », where he is a specialist in ICT consulting in particularly broadband Internet development using Fiber Optic cables on Power Lines.

He has previously been President of Board and Principal Consultant at Systemy Komputerowe ’SY-COM” S.A., Gdansk, where he made analytical work for Polish Telecom on Telecommunication Systems, QoS in Internet and business recovery planning.

Other professional experiences include : ICT consulting at the Department of Regional Development and Privatization of The Gdansk Regional Government Office as well as for several companies such as Positive SA, Comparex, Technical University of Gdańsk ; ICT Account Manager (high-end servers and high speed, Fiber Optic LANs) at SSS Swiss Security Systems Ltd., Warsaw, a subsidiary of DPT Data Promotion Trade AG, Basel, Switzerland ; Researcher in ICT at the Technical University of Gdañsk, Faculty of Ocean Engineering and Ship Technology (up to 1990 Ship Research Institute) in particular on ISDM : Inf. System Dev. Methodologies ; Inf. Systems programmer & designer and ISDM : Inf. System Dev. Methodologies specialist at ZETO Gdañsk Regional Computing Centre (located in Gdynia) ; and Head of the Computers Application Team, the Engineer’s Cooperative in Gdańsk.

He has also been Consultant on Telecommunication Solutions for the PHARE Project PL9215-05, « Social Insurance Reform » and published more than 50 reports.

Speech : A New Secure Internet – An Important ICT Research and Development Priority

 

Session 6.1 : Information Society Perspectives for Communities

GIORGIO PRISTER, EMEA SALES EXECUTIVE, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND HEALTH, IBM PUBLIC SECTOR EMEA, ITALY

Giorgio Prister joined IBM in July 1972. He has been in charge of multiple positions in manifacturing, sales, marketing and finance.

He is now responsible of Sales for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) for the Local Government and Healthcare marketplaces.

Born in Rome, Italy, G. Prister has a degree in electronic engineering from the Rome University.

Speech : On Demand : the Next Evolution of On Line Communities

JEAN-PIERRE CHAMOUX, PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITE PARIS V-RENE DESCARTES, FRANCE

A confirmed international expert for information and communication policies for over 25 years, Professor CHAMOUX joined the University Paris V – René Descartes in 2001. He was previously teaching at the University of Le Havre. Graduated as an industrial engineer from Ecole Centrale in Paris (1963) he received his doctor’s degree from the University of Paris in 1967 and a Master’s Degree from the University of Wisconsin (1964).

Appointed from 1995 to 1998 to chair the Office for Service Industries in the French government, Pr. CHAMOUX founded & chaired the research center « Droit & Informatique » in Paris from 1975 to 1998. He published several books on communications policy as well as many articles and contributions in reference books and scientific journals & the press, both in France & abroad.

From 1986 to 1989, he was Head of the French Regulatory Authority for Post & Telecommunications in the French government. Former Director of a leading legal publishing house in Paris, now a branch of Reed-Elsevier, he introduced data banks & electronic publishing in this firm from 1972 to 1986. Until 1998, Pr. Chamoux was the editor of a quarterly journal « Le Communicateur » established in 1986.

Pr. Chamoux was an Officer in the French Navy in the mid-sixties. He sails his racing yacht over the Channel waters from his base harbour in Honfleur (Normandy).

GÉRALD SANTUCCI, HEAD OF UNIT « ICT FOR BUSINESS », DG INFORMATION SOCIETY, EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Gérald Santucci has been working in the Information Society Directorate-General of the European Commission since February 1986. Since March 2004, he is head of the unit « ICT for Business ». The portfolio of ongoing and planned RTD projects covers the following areas : Reference models and technologies for business networking ; Technologies for digital ecosystems supporting regional growth and business innovation ; Ambient intelligence technologies for the product lifecycle ; Interoperability in business. His main objectives are to support the migration of e-business technologies to the ambient intelligent space and to further promote, through collaborative R&D, a culture of collaboration towards increased productivity and user satisfaction.

Over the years, Mr Santucci has gained a wide experience in the activities of the Directorate-General through his involvement in research management, including heading the Unit « Applications relating to Administrations » during 1999-2002, and the Unit « Trust and Security » during 2003.

Mr Santucci holds a B.A. from the Institut d’études Politiques de Paris, and a Ph.D. in Microeconomics from the University of Paris-XII.

Speech : Digital Business Ecosystems : A New Frontier for RTD in the Knowledge Based Economy

SOREN E. SKOVLUND, SENIOR ADVISER AND DAWN MANAGER, NOVO NORDISK, DENMARK

Dr Soren Skovlund is a senior adviser and manager of the DAWN programme at Novo Nordisk in Copenhagen.

He has university degrees in neurobiology and health psychology and has co-developed several quality-of-life instruments used in chronic diseases.

He has a background from the World Health Organisation and Odense University Hospital in Denmark and has presented at numerous scientific diabetes conferences and meetings.

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Speech : a case study of stakeholder innovation : DAWN (Diabetes Attitudes Wishes and Needs)

DR ANDREW ROBINSON, SENIOR ADVISER AND CONSULTANT & JOINT COORDINATOR E-JUSTICE PROJECT, UNITED KINGDOM

Andrew Robinson is a senior adviser and consultant to both the public and private sectors in the EU and internationally. He is joint coordinator of the eJustice project, a major initiative part-funded by the EC in its programme of ICT for Trust and Security.

His career spans major corporates, universities, regional economic development, and EC affairs. He is on the Advisory Board of the CNED, and is a consultant to Nettuno (Italy), UNESCO and the World Bank. He is regional Chairman for the Academy for Chief Executives, and Chairman of the FBC Ltd in the UK. He is a Member of the EC Speakers Panel in the UK, and Honorary Consul for France.

He is a Chevalier de l’Ordre du Merite and Chevalier des Palmes Academiques.

Speech : The eJustice Project : Acceptable Technologies for the Accepted Freedoms on Europe

PER TORPHAMMAR, SKÅNET AB, SWEDEN

SkåNet AB, Dark Fiber business development and implementation in Skåne, Sweden.

TietoEnator Trigon AB, Management consultant. Quality Assurance and Development of Dark Fiber Systems for the Swedish Power distributors. IT-strategy for Vodokanal, St Petersburg, Russia.

Scandinavian Liaison Group, SLG, (Awarded ØSK Consultant), General Specialist Resource, Automatic Toll Systems Design and Ergonomics, Alarm System Design. Business planning of the Dark Fiber Link and Cellular Phone communication at the Öresund Link.

TELUB AB, Deputy manager Fiber Optics and later Manager Technical Development for the company group.

Graduated from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (MSEE, 1975) and Ph.D. Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 1980, Per Torphammar is the author of 30 conference papers, scientific articles, and reports. He is also Assisting Professor at the University of Växjö, IT Strategy.

Speech : A Powerful Business-Driven, Public-Supported Initiative in Infrastructure in the Malmö Region

CLAES O. OLSSON, IT DIRECTOR/CIO, CITY OFFICE, CITY OF MALMÖ, SWEDEN

  • 1998 – date : IT Director/CIO, City of Malmö, Sweden
  • 1995 – 1998 : IT Director, Stena Line Ltd, UK
  • 1987 – 1995 : Branch Manager, Key Account Manager, IT Consultant Programator/Capgemini AB, Sweden
  • 1985 – 1986 : Branch Manager, Technical Systems AB, Sweden
  • 1979 – 1985 : Systems Engineering Team Manager, Project Manager, Alfa-Laval AB, Lund Sweden & NJ, USA

Claes O. Olsson holds a MSc EE from Lund University of Technology, Sweden

Speech : From Ships to Chips – Transforming Public Services to the e-Community

GENE KIMMELMAN, SENIOR DIRECTOR, PUBLIC POLICY & ADVOCACY, CONSUMERS UNION, PUBLISHER OF CONSUMER REPORTS, USA

Gene Kimmelman is the Senior Director, Public Policy & Advocacy of Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine. He is responsible for management and oversight of all national public policy and advocacy activities, and coordination between CU’s Yonkers headquarters and its three advocacy offices. Mr. Kimmelman has extensive expertise in a wide variety of public policy issues, including telecommunications, cable television, product liability, antitrust law and health care.

Mr. Kimmelman is a recognized expert on deregulation and consumer protection issues, particularly in the area of telecommunications. He was the lead consumer advocate during the federal government’s consideration of issues such as the America Online – Time Warner merger and the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Mr. Kimmelman is widely quoted on telecom issues in a variety of publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He is interviewed frequently for network and cable television news programs.

Prior to joining Consumers Union, Mr. Kimmelman served for two years as chief counsel and staff director for the Antitrust Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Prior to that, he was legislative director for the Consumer Federation of America where he directed CFA’s legislative, regulatory and judicial intervention program. Mr. Kimmelman began his career as a consumer advocate and staff attorney for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch.

Mr. Kimmelman is a Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude graduate of Brown University. He studied in Denmark as a Fulbright Fellow at Copenhagen University’s graduate program on the public sector. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia and was the recipient of the University’s Fortsman Fellowship in 1980.

Speech : Consolidation of Telecom and Media Companies : A Problem for Democracy

 

Session 6.2 : Information Society Perspectives for Communities

JEAN-PIERRE CHAMOUX, PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITE PARIS V-RENE DESCARTES, FRANCE

A confirmed international expert for information and communication policies for over 25 years, Professor CHAMOUX joined the University Paris V – René Descartes in 2001. He was previously teaching at the University of Le Havre. Graduated as an industrial engineer from Ecole Centrale in Paris (1963) he received his doctor’s degree from the University of Paris in 1967 and a Master’s Degree from the University of Wisconsin (1964).

Appointed from 1995 to 1998 to chair the Office for Service Industries in the French government, Pr. CHAMOUX founded & chaired the research center « Droit & Informatique » in Paris from 1975 to 1998. He published several books on communications policy as well as many articles and contributions in reference books and scientific journals & the press, both in France & abroad.

From 1986 to 1989, he was Head of the French Regulatory Authority for Post & Telecommunications in the French government. Former Director of a leading legal publishing house in Paris, now a branch of Reed-Elsevier, he introduced data banks & electronic publishing in this firm from 1972 to 1986. Until 1998, Pr. Chamoux was the editor of a quarterly journal « Le Communicateur » established in 1986.

Pr. Chamoux was an Officer in the French Navy in the mid-sixties. He sails his racing yacht over the Channel waters from his base harbour in Honfleur (Normandy).

DEBRA M. AMIDON, FOUNDER AND CEO OF ENTOVATION INTERNATIONAL, LTD, USA

DEBRA M. AMIDON is Founder and CEO of ENTOVATION International, Ltd. (Wilmington, Massachusetts) – a global innovation research and consulting network linking 90 countries throughout the world. Her Network has evolved into the internationally recognized ENTOVATION 100 of Global Leadership and The ENTOVATION Group – 125 from 52 countries. She’s been featured in notable biographical publications such as The International Book of Honor and the Woman of the Decade. She was announced a finalist for the 2002 Competitive Intelligence (CI) Champion of the Year.

Considered an architect of the Knowledge Economy as early as 1995, her own specialties include knowledge management, e-learning networks, customer innovation and enterprise transformation. For the last couple of years, her presentations have been heard throughout the North and South America, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Australia and South Africa. Her advice has been sought by diverse organizations such as the National Research Council, The Agility Forum, the Industrial Research Institute, the European Union, PBS, BBC and The World Bank.

Author of many seminal publications. Her newest release is – The Innovation SuperHighway (2003).

She has served in a variety of executive management positions as Assistant Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Director of a higher education consortium, was the first female dean at Babson College, established the first industrial-strength management systems research office and a variety of leadership or advisory positions, including the National Conference for the Advancement of Research, the Industrial Research Institute, and the National Science Foundation.

Among her credits is serving as a Senior research Fellow for the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin and on the faculty of Tilburg University (The Netherlands), IPADE (Mexico), the Banff Centre (Canada), Tartu University (Estonia) and the International University of Entrepreneurship. She is also the Global View editor for KnowMap – an electronic journal that is distributed electronically to countries and co-producer of I3 Update/ENTOVATION News – the original in the knowledge and innovation field.

Speech : Knowledge Innovation Principles, Practices and Policies

KIMMO AULAKE, SPECIAL ADVISER, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE, FINLAND

Kimmo Aulake is currently Special Adviser in International Affairs at the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture.

Previous positions (extract) :

  • Policy Adviser, Council of Europe, Cultural policy and Action Division
  • Special Adviser, Ministry of Education, International Affairs
  • Special Adviser, European Commission, DG X
  • Secretary General, State Committee on Audiovisual Integration
  • Project Manager, AV Eureka Center

Professional membership (extracts) :

International :

  • Council of Europe Steering Committee on Culture – CDCULT, vice-chairman, 2004 – Council of Europe, Inter-sectoral Group of Specialists on e-governance, chairman, 2004
  • Council of Europe, CDCULT’s Working Group on New Challenges for Cultural Policy, chairman, 2003 –
  • INCP, Working Group for Cultural Diversity and Globalisation, Rapporteur responsible for drafting the INCP draft Convention on Cultural Diversity, 2003
  • Coordinators’ Committee of Audiovisual Eureka, member 1993-1994 and 1996-1998
  • Executive Council of the European Audiovisual Observatory, member 1994 and 1996-1998
  • French – Finnish working group of senior officials on cultural information society, member 1999 –

National :

  • Ministry of Education and Culture, Working Group on the WTO, chairman, 2003 –
  • Ministry of Education and culture, Working Group on the Council of Europe strategy, chairman 2004 –

Kimmo Aulake holds a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Helsinki (1991).

Speech : Council of Europe Recommendation on e-Governance

DENIS ETTIGHOFFER, PRESIDENT & FOUNDER, EUROTECHNOPOLIS INSTITUTE, FRANCE

Denis Ettighoffer, age 60, management consultant and strategy for the new technologies of information and the communication, is President founder of Eurotechnopolis Institute, a cabinet of council and studies which has the vocation to think about the impacts of the distribution generalized by the NTIC. The Institute drives regularly thorough studies with the cooperation of numerous international experts.

Ex-Directeur of the development of the New Information technologies and the Communication for Bossard Consultants, Denis Ettighoffer drove numerous general studies on the impacts of the NTIC which often ended in strategic choices for his customers.

He is the author of « the Virtual Company or the New Working modes » (Odile Jacob. 1992), Price of the manager of the XXIè century in 1993. Translated into three languages and republished in 2001 in the Editions of Organization. Most of his books which were outdone or nominés approach the impact of the NTIC on the public and private organizations and the new economic models stemming from networks. « NetBrain or the role of networks in the efertilisation », favor the exchanges of ideas ; the efertilisation, is the big stake in the coming years for the Europeans.

Speech : Driving Role of the Networks of the Economic eFertilisation

EMANUELA PRANDELLI, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT, BOCCONI UNIVERSITY & SDA BOCCONI SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, ITALY

Emanuela Prandelli is Assistant Professor of Management at Bocconi University, where she is also the Coordinator of the research activities of I-LAB (Research Center on Digital Economy) and the Director of the Master in New Media. She is Senior Lecturer at the SDA Bocconi, the Graduate School of Management of Bocconi University. She holds a Ph.D. in Management from Bocconi University. She was Research Assistant at St. Gallen University in 1998 and at the Kellogg School of Management in 1999, where she also attended as visiting professor in 2001.

She teaches Marketing, Digital Marketing, e-Business and Innovation Management. She published several articles on the topic of Marketing, innovation and e-Business in top ranked international journals. She won the 2001 Accenture Award for the best management paper published in California Management Review in 2000.

Speech : Communities of Creation : Managing Distributed and Collaborative Innovation

DANIEL VAN LERBERGHE, PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, POLITECH INSTITUTE – EUROPEAN CENTER OF POLITICAL TECHNOLOGIES, BELGIUM

Daniel benefits from a unique insight both at an academic as well as at practical level of today’s Internet-based technological innovation in an increasingly global and interrelated world and International Politics.

Daniel holds a Master in International Politics from the ’Centre d’Etudes des Relations Internationales et Stratégiques’ (CERIS-ULB) from Brussels University (Belgium) and an MBA in ’Entrepreneurship and Technological Innovation’ from Swinburne University of Technology (Australia). He is also a certified Webmaster from John Bryce Training Center in Tel Aviv (Israel).

Speech : An e-Strategy for Political and Community Leaders

HELENA LINDSKOG, HELDAG AB & LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN

Helena Lindskog is a strategist, analyst, futurist, debater, columnist, strategy and management consultant.

She is CEO of HelDag AB, as well as a procurer, expert and researcher at Linköping University with a special focus on public procurement and e-commerce.

She is also technical director for STATTEL, secretary in government committees, adviser to public administrations, and business developer at Ericsson with the user perspective always in focus.

Speech : IT Oustourcing in the Public Sector

 

Session 7.1 : Local and Regional Authorities – Scenarios, Tools and Perspectives

CHRISTOPHER VARIAN, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, EUROPE, KODAK HEALTH IMAGING, UK

Chris Varian has 20 years experience in the medical imaging business in Europe. He has worked in a number of senior sales and marketing positions for 3M, Imation and Kodak health imaging. He has been responsible for the introduction of PACS and RIS with 3M as its European manager and following this was responsible for the introduction of the new Kodak health care information systems into Europe. He has been involved in the UK national health service national IT programme from its conception. He represents Kodak on the European IHE and DICOM committees and is an Industry member of the COCIR IT committee.

Varian holds a BS in diagnostic radiology and an MBA from the University of Reading UK.

He is currently the director of Public Affairs for Kodak Health Imaging .

Speech : The Transition from Island Healthcare Information Systems to Intergrated Care Record Systems

MIRIAM SAPIRO, PRESIDENT, SUMMIT STRATEGIES INTERNATIONAL, USA

Miriam Sapiro is the President of Summit Strategies International, an international consulting firm specializing in Internet policy, electronic commerce and international issues that demand strategic planning and solutions. The practice draws upon her years of experience as a senior company executive and a senior government official.

Previously Miriam was the Director of International Policy at VeriSign, Inc., and responsible for policy interests on international issues involving the Internet, electronic commerce and trade. She directed relations with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN), as well as the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). She worked on a range of information technology policy issues involving European and Asian governments, including security, privacy, trade and law enforcement. She served as Chair of the Coalition of Service Industries’ China E-Commerce Committee.

Miriam joined VeriSign after twelve years of experience with the United States Government under Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton. She was the Special Assistant to President Clinton and Counselor for Southeast European Stabilization, responsible for strengthening economic development, democracy and security throughout Southeast Europe. Prior to her appointment, she was Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council. She worked at the State Department on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and in the Office of the Legal Adviser. She was a member of the team that negotiated the 1995 Bosnia Peace Accords at Dayton, and she has represented the Government in numerous other complex negotiations.

Miriam has lectured frequently on international law, foreign policy, e-commerce developments and Internet policy issues. She has published articles on international law and foreign policy, dispute settlement, arms export controls and the Internet. She serves on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and has been active in the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council, the DC Bar and the American Bar Association. She is on the Advisory Board of the Global Internet Policy Initiative, which promotes development of the Internet in emerging markets. She is a member of the Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy, the Private Sector Expert Committee for the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas and the TechCast Panel of E-Commerce Experts at George Washington University. She is an arbitrator with WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center’s Domain Name Panel. She is an Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law and at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Miriam graduated from Williams College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and from New York University School of Law, where she was an editor of the Law Review. She did graduate work on a Rotary Fellowship at St. Antony’s College, Oxford.

BENT CHRISTENSEN, MANAGING DIRECTOR, LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL & FORMER MANAGING DIRECTOR, MEDICON VALLEY ACADEMY, SWEDEN

Bent Christensen is Managing Director for Lund University Hospital from 2004 and has been Managing Director for the Medicon Valley Academy from 2001-2004.

Previous positions include : Managing Director, Danish Hospital Evaluation Centre 1999 ; Deputy Director, Copenhagen County Hospital Organisation 1997 ; Medical Director , Gentofte University Hospital 1996 ; Medical Director, Odense University Hospital 1994 ; Head of Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Odense University Hospital 1991 ; MD Copenhagen University 1978.

Bent Christensen is a specialist in general surgery and heart & lung surgery. He has 13 scientific publications and a number of publications on hospital organisation, quality evaluation, health care development and management.

He is married with Ruth Christensen, Social- and Health Director, Herlev Municipality. They have two children, Torsten, health economist and Stine, teacher.

Speech : The Hospital of Tomorrow

ULF PERSSON, SALES MANAGER HEALTHCARE, ATOS ORIGIN, SWEDEN

Mr Ulf Persson has worked in the IT- business for more than 27 years, the first 22 years he was with IBM Sweden/ Nordic, working as a Client Manager with health countys in Sweden.

The last five years with IBM he was Nordic manager partners Public sector.

At present he is Sales manager Healthcare with ATOS Origin in Sweden

Speech : Atos Origin Global Healthcare Strategies

PATRICE CRISTOFINI, INTERNATIONAL HEALTHCARE DIRECTOR & PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERT, ATOS ORIGIN, FRANCE

He is Medical Doctor, former Intern of Paris Hospital Group (Public health D.E.S. option Occupational Health). Graduate of the Paris Faculty of Medecine (Silver medal). Specialist In Public Health and Sports Medecine.

In charge of coordination and management of International Business Healthcare projects for the company, he advises and develops the market position of the company in healthcare business for NTIC (e-health). He gives support, training and pre-sales action for major account managers at top levels (Ministries, General manager of Hospitals or Insurance companies…).

He has also managed and developed many value-propositions for e-health at international level for the executive board of SchlumbergerSema.(as champion e-health).

From a technical and scientific expertise he has in particular : Organized and participated in medical consensus meetings or international conference for e-health, wrote articles on Public Health (sports Medicine, health and safety at work), chaired and participated in forums and congresses, chaired training sessions on Medicine and law.

Author of : « Occupational Health and Public Health : What is in the future ? » Published by Editions de santé – Paris.

Represented companies or associations to negotiate with Public Bodies : Ministries, the French National Council of Doctors and Pharmacists, Trade unions and social partners , Universities, Afnor…

Member of the inter ministerial commission on sports Medicine and doping (09/98 à 03/99) and risk assessment capabilities in driving cars (2003) for healthcare French Ministry.

He has also many extraprofessional activities as : National Honorary President of AFTIM (French national association of Technicians, Engineers and Doctors in Occupational Health), more than 600 members including many international companies. Director of the quarterly publication Safety and Occupational Health. Has Participated in and Chaired numerous scientific seminars and congresses.

Administrator of the National Council for Civil Protection Protection, the European Health Club and the French society of Public Health. Member of Centrale Santé. Member of AFAQ (French Association of Quality and Accreditation). Listed in International Who’s Who of professionals 2000, and International Business Leaders Association. Member of the executive committee of « Forum Francophone des Affaires ». Gold medal of National French distinction ’étoile civique’.

Speech : Atos Origin Global Healthcare Strategies

LAURA AHO, CEO & FOUNDER, ACCESS INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING LTD, FINLAND

Laura Aho is the CEO and founder of Access International Consulting Ltd, a Finnish start-up company operating in the field of electronic service platforms and identity management systems.

For the past three years she has been adviser to cities, companies and government in electronic business development and business process re-engineering especially in the smart card market. She has consulted and co-ordinated the eTampere City Card project pilot, which she has been responsible for from the beginning.

Prior to AIC, she has worked in business development and marketing of IT companies both in Finland and abroad. She has a BBA degree in International Trade and has completed further studies in information networks thereafter.

She is a board member in the Finnish Smart Card Association.

Speech : Case eTampere : Transferring Services into eServices Through a Local Smart Card Scheme

ROSA BRUNO-JOFRÉ, PROFESSOR AND DEAN, FACULTY OF EDUCATION, QUEENS’ UNIVERSITY, CANADA

Rosa Bruno-Jofré, Ph.D. (University of Calgary) is Professor and Dean, Faculty of Education, Queens’ University. Her areas of specialization are History of Education, Teaching of History, Citizenship Education. She is currently the co-chair of the Teaching of History Research Group (approved by the Queen’s Advisory Research Council) and senior editor of Encounter/Encuentros/Rencontres jointly published by Queen’s and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

In partnership with the Kingston Software Factory and Associates, Dean Rosa Bruno Jofre has moved the Faculty of Education to the cutting edge of technology by integrating information and communication technologies into teaching and learning and developing new technologies.

In September, 2003, the Faculty officially opened the e-Learning Hub, a physical and virtual space, for experimentation and innovation in education. Key technologies at the e-Learning Hub is the Virtual Globe Classroom and other spatial-based software systems.

Speech : The World of Education – A Journey Through Space : Teaching History as a Case Study

FRANK HUNTLEY, PRESIDENT AND CTO, KINGSTON SOFTWARE FACTORY, CANADA

Frank Huntley, B.A. , Psychology and Computer Science, University of Waterloo ; Queen’s University ; M.A., Psychology, Queen’s University ; M.Sc., Computng and Information Science, Ph.D. candidate, Psychology, Queen’s University (not currently enrolled) .

Frank is President of the Kingston Software Factory (KSF) & CTO of GRIDS Ltd., Ontario, Canada.

Frank is a computer scientist, human systems psychologist and a businessperson who has been developing software and converting it into business opportunities for over 20 years. His areas of interest include human-computer interaction, with a focus on spatial data display and manipulation. Frank’s academic achievements and his twelve years of business management, twenty years of information technology development and ten years of financial management for a variety of Information Technology Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) ensures that he is able to integrate the efforts of researchers and business people to create successful businesses built on innovative technologies.

Frank is the president and CTO of the Kingston Software Factory, an innovative private-sector SME-based technology accelerator that partners with a variety of researchers at Queen’s University and other post-secondary institutions across North America. He chairs the Kingston Technology Council and sits on the board of the provincial organization responsible for fostering industrial/academic collaborations, CITO (Communications and Information Technology Ontario). He has been a reviewer for Canadian provincial and federal Computer Science research funding, and he manages Kingston’s Smart Communities group (KANnet). One of his key projects is the work with GRIDS on Discrete Global Grids as a base for 3-D mapping and advanced data integration, which is being supported by the Natural Research Council’s IRAP program, the Canadian Space Agency and Natural Resources Canada.

Speech : The World of Education – A Journey Through Space : Teaching History as a Case Study

PATRICK DUPONT, B2B DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, INGENICO, FRANCE

For the last 30 years in the Monetics business.

During 20 years at Sligos (now Atos Origin), as Senior Vice President in charge of marketing, sales and international development of the Payment System Division.

During 4 years as independent consultant, working for Banks and the French Government.

During the last 4 years at IGE (Groupment d’Interêt Economic) Bank Card and GIE Service Purchasing VISA Bank Card as manager of development for the VISA Purchasing Card acquirer network.

The 1st of July 2001 Patrick joined INGENICO as B2B development Manager.

Speech : Ingenico and e-Government

Speech : Ingenico and e-Government

COUNCILLOR MARY REID, CHAIR OF THE LOCAL E-DEMOCRACY PROJECT BOARD, UNITED KINGDOM

Mary Reid was elected to the Council of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (a London borough) in 1997. For four years she was opposition spokesperson for Education and Leisure.

When her group formed a new administration in 2002, Mary took on an Executive portfolio named Participation and Communication, which placed e-government at the heart of the three way relationship between the Council, citizens and councillors. She has established Kingston as one of the most innovative Councils in the UK in e-government.

Since November 2003 Mary has chaired the National Project for Local e-Democracy. She also serves on the e-Government Task Group of the Local Government Association, which acts as a collective voice for local councils in England.

In her professional life, for many years Mary lectured in Computing in Further Education. She is now a well established educational author, having published twelve books on ICT (Information and Communication Technology).

Mary Reid also has a small web design business, and her websites include several for Members of Parliament, as well as for community organisations. In 2002, one of her political sites won the New Statesman New Media Award for Elected Representatives.

Speech : The National Project for Local e-Democracy, England

 

Session 7.2 : Local and Regional Authorities – Scenarios, Tools and Perspectives

MIRIAM SAPIRO, PRESIDENT, SUMMIT STRATEGIES INTERNATIONAL, USA

Miriam Sapiro is the President of Summit Strategies International, an international consulting firm specializing in Internet policy, electronic commerce and international issues that demand strategic planning and solutions. The practice draws upon her years of experience as a senior company executive and a senior government official.

Previously Miriam was the Director of International Policy at VeriSign, Inc., and responsible for policy interests on international issues involving the Internet, electronic commerce and trade. She directed relations with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN), as well as the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). She worked on a range of information technology policy issues involving European and Asian governments, including security, privacy, trade and law enforcement. She served as Chair of the Coalition of Service Industries’ China E-Commerce Committee.

Miriam joined VeriSign after twelve years of experience with the United States Government under Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton. She was the Special Assistant to President Clinton and Counselor for Southeast European Stabilization, responsible for strengthening economic development, democracy and security throughout Southeast Europe. Prior to her appointment, she was Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council. She worked at the State Department on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and in the Office of the Legal Adviser. She was a member of the team that negotiated the 1995 Bosnia Peace Accords at Dayton, and she has represented the Government in numerous other complex negotiations.

Miriam has lectured frequently on international law, foreign policy, e-commerce developments and Internet policy issues. She has published articles on international law and foreign policy, dispute settlement, arms export controls and the Internet. She serves on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and has been active in the Council on Foreign Relations, the Atlantic Council, the DC Bar and the American Bar Association. She is on the Advisory Board of the Global Internet Policy Initiative, which promotes development of the Internet in emerging markets. She is a member of the Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy, the Private Sector Expert Committee for the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas and the TechCast Panel of E-Commerce Experts at George Washington University. She is an arbitrator with WIPO’s Arbitration and Mediation Center’s Domain Name Panel. She is an Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law and at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Miriam graduated from Williams College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and from New York University School of Law, where she was an editor of the Law Review. She did graduate work on a Rotary Fellowship at St. Antony’s College, Oxford.

KERSTIN WISS HOLMDAHL, LEGAL ADVISOR, SWEDISH ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES, SWEDEN

Kerstin Wiss Holmdahl is a legal advisor at the Swedish Association of Local Authorities.

She is responsible for the work with promoting e-commerce/e-procurement in local authorities and county councils.

In cooperation with The Swedish Agency for Public Management, she is also responsible for the development and recommendation of a standard for e-commerce.

Speech : E-invoices.Cooperation in Sweden for a Standard

BAUDOUIN DE SONIS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, E-FORUM ASSOCIATION, BELGIUM

Baudouin is executive director of e-Forum association, a non for profit organisation which delivers to its members, products, services and representation, to encourage e-Government excellence in Europe, improve the use of information- and communication technologies within the Public Services sector.

Prior to this appointment he was Director, Partnerships and Alliances for Groupe Bull, with responsibility to set-up right partnerships for Bull, other responsibilities were establishing consortia, joint ventures and Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV’s) for specific large bids. Baudouin was previously Director International Business for the Customer Services Division. During this time, Baudouin was mainly responsible for negotiating a number of Multi-country contracts. He has been with Bull for 9 years.

Baudouin’s career started in IBM France as sales representative and sales manager. He went on to work for General Electric (USA) as sales and marketing manager, France and Benelux and as Director EC operations. Baudouin was awarded a BA in 1979 and a Master of Business Administration degree in 1989.

Speech : eGovernment Learning Journeys : Knowledge Management in Action

JEANNETTE VIALE, VICE PRESIDENT OF TELECITIES AND SENIOR ADVISOR FOR THE BOARD OF EXECUTIVES, CITY OF NAESTVED, DENMARK

Jeannette Viale is Senior Advisor for the Board of Executives in the City of Naestved, where she is also Coordinator of Life-Long Learning initiatives. Between 2001-2002 she was Project Manager for the European Project ODA (Open Digital Administration).

Since 2003, she is Vice President of TeleCities – a network of 130 European Cities focussed on how to use technology for development of local societies in a Knowledge Based Economy (eEurope Actionplan).

She has been involved in a number of ICT projects : Project manager in a number of overall projects on implementation of new platforms and solutions (with the organisational approach), project manager of implementation of Life Long Learning concepts with focus on eCollaboration and basic computer skills, co-ordinator locally on LEIPs project, co-ordinator of an eHealth project with focus on use of pervasive healthcare and safety in a new smart-homes concept where to use wireless communication to bring relevant data (based on a high level of privacy-management) in new networked services to the citizens.

Her key qualifications include design and evaluation of Learning Processes involving ICT and virtual learning environments on line.

Ms. Viale is a member of the reference group of the Doctoral School of Organisational Learning, Danish Pedagogic University.

Speech : TeleCities – a Framework for the Knowledge Based Society

COUNCILLOR DAVID L WOOD, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CITY COUNCIL, UK

Professional Graphic Artist.

Educated : Heaton Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Newcastle Art College, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Gateshead Business School, Tyne and Wear, UK

Elected to Newcastle City Council February 2nd, 1989.
Previous Chairman of Information Technology Committee. Previous Chairman of Licensing Committee. Chairman of Walker Community Sub-Committee. Chairman of Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Committee. Non-Executive Director of Newcastle Hospitals Trust Board. Chairman of Newcastle East Labour Party. Agent to the Rt. Hon. Nick Brown, Member of Parliament (UK Government).

Speech : The Smartcard Experience for the North East of England with Regard to Local Government

TOMAZ STEBE, MAYOR OF THE MUNICIPALITY MENGEŠ, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE SLOVENIAN ASSOCIATION OF MUNICIPALITIES ; MEMBER OF THE WORKING GROUP FOR E-GOVERNMENT, SLOVENIA

Mr. Štebe has 28 years of experience in process and technical control, communication and in office automation computer system, software and hardware engineering. He has been involved in design, development, application, field tests and installations, consulting, management. Last years is active in local and regional politics with attention in ICT and also in SMEs.

Political experience : Mayor of the Municipality Mengeš, Slovenia ; Vice president of the Slovenian Association of Municipalities ; Member of the working group for eGovernment ;

Professional experience : Lotus Notes (documentation and teamwork) ; GIS and community wide telecommunication network ; Development of civil secure and trusted e-mail system ; Functional specification, design, development and application of process and machine control systems and products based on microprocessors : microcontroller multidrop LAN with redundant bus and master PC link ; machine control multi sequence / process programming macro language / system ladder logic ; Electric Power System Management SCADA/RTU system consulting ; 68000 microprocessor based fault-tolerant front-end communication computer ; Design engineer for software development for SPC Exchange Metaconta 10CN (two years with ITT-Bell Telephone Belgium).

Speech : European Information Infrastructure (EII) – From Local Authorities European Wide Perspective

 

Welcoming Address

ILMAR REEPALU, MAYOR OF MALMÖ, SWEDEN

Born in Estonia 1943, married and has 2 children. Grown up in Motala, Sweden.

Active in SSU (Social Democratic Youth Association) and SFU (Field Biologists).

Higher school certificate in Motala 1963. Military service 1963-1964.

Student at Chalmers University of Technology 1964-1970. Master of Engineering Certificate 1968. Architect Certificate 1970.

Worked as an architect 1970-1985 in Gothenburg, Borås and Malmö.

Local Municipal Commisioner in Malmö from 1985. Chairman of the Municipal Executive Board in Malmö from 1995. Board Member in « Malmö Workers Community ». Deputy Board Member in the « Social Democratic Party District of Skane ». Chairman of « The Swedish Local Goverment Association » from 1999.

SENATOR PIERRE LAFFITTE, PRESIDENT, SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS FOUNDATION, FRANCE

Senator Pierre Laffitte is the Senator of the RDSE group (Groupe du rassemblement Démocratique et Social en Europe).

He is the Vice-President of the Cultural Affairs Commission, Vice-President of the Evaluation Parliamentary Office for Technological and Scientific Choices.

He is the founder of Sophia Antipolis and of the International Association of Science Parks.He is also the President of the Sophia Antipolis Foundation. Among his other functions he is : President of the Franco-German association for Science and Technology ; Member of the Board of ’France 5’, a French broadcaster.

Senator Laffitte is alumni of the french Grandes Ecoles : Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris.

Senator Pierre Laffitte is also Doctor Honoris Causa of the Open University (UNITED KINGDOM) ; Doctor Honoris Causa of the Colorado School of Mines (USA) ; Officer of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the National Order of Merit (France), and recently was awarded of Order of Merit of the Free State of Bavaria (Germany). He has also received the Leonardo da Vinci decoration by the SEFI (the European Society in Engineering Training) and the Award De Gaulle-Adenauer.

SYLVIANE TOPORKOFF, PRESIDENT, GLOBAL FORUM & ASSOCIATE PARTNER, ITEMS INTERNATIONAL, FRANCE

Doctor Sylviane Toporkoff is a partner in the ITEMS International Consulting Company, as well as a full Professor at the University of Paris 8, Institute of European Affairs, France. She received her Doctorate. in Economics from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne.

Her special expertise includes Research & Consulting in Europe, USA & Worldwide in the field of Information Society, public policy, economic & strategic international partnerships for industrialists, operators & local authorities, marketing on issues related to e-business, local, regional and international development with NTIC, e-democracy, and telecommunication industry regulation.

Additionally, Dr.Toporkoff is an Expert to the UNESCO « Commission de la République française pour l’éducation, la science et la culture CNF » at the sub-commission « Communication New Technologies and Socio-Cultural stakes ».

Dr. Toporkoff is also the principal organizer of a series of International Forums shaping the future on New Information and Communication Technologies with the participation of top-level managers of international companies, international organizations, cities, regions worlwide. focused on strategic, political, marketing and economic issues. She has written numerous books and articles on telecommunications issues, lectured extensively, and has spoken before wide-variety of leading industry associations and forums in France and internationally.

Sylviane Toporkoff is « Chevalier of the Legion of Honour » and has been awarded with the Arts, Sciences and Letter Price.

Speech : Welcoming Speech