Global Forum - ITEMS International Global Forum 2005

Global Forum 2005 – The Broad Convergence – Act II

Le Palais d’Egmont

: Palais d’Egmont

: Palais d’Egmont

Viviane Reding at the Global Forum 2005

This year’s Global Forum/Shaping the Future 2005 has been held at the Palais d’Egmont in Brussels, Belgium, on November 7th & 8th, 2005, in partnership with the Belgian Federal Government within the framework of the 175th anniversary of its independence and the 25th anniversary of the Federal State.

This 14th Global Forum took place in the presence of representatives of the European institutions and Mr. Marc Verwilghen, Belgian Minister for Economy, Energy , Foreign Trade and Science, Mr. Peter Vanvelthoven, Belgian Minister for Employment and e-Government, Mr. Jon Leibowitz, US Commissioner FTC – Federal Trade Commission, Ms. Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society & Media and Mr. Zsolt Nagy, Romanian Minister of Communications and Information Technology.

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November 7 – WELCOME ADDRESSES

Pierre Laffitte, Senator, Alpes-Maritimes & President, Sophia-Antipolis Foundation, France
Sylviane Toporkoff, President, Global Forum, France welcoming Speech

November 7 – OPENING SESSION

MODERATOR

Pierre Laffitte, Senator, Alpes-Maritimes & President, Sophia-Antipolis Foundation, France

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Marc Verwilghen, Belgian Minister for Economy, Energy, Foreign Trade and Science Speech
Viviane Reding, Commissioner, Information Society & Media, European Commission Speech/Link to the European Commission
Kevin Martin, Chairman, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, USA
Donald Abelson, Chief, International Bureau, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, USA Opening Panels Remarks : The Impact of Convergence
Zsolt Nagy, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Romania : Romanian ICT Overview
André Santini, Former Minister, President of the Global Cities Dialogue Speech

November 7 – INTRODUCTION TO THE SESSIONS

MODERATOR

Miriam Sapiro, President of Summit Strategies International, USA & Sylviane Toporkoff

SPEAKERS

Masao Matsumoto, Director-General for Technology Policy Coordination, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) Japan : Strategies for Realizing an Ubiquitous Network Society
Patrick de Smedt, Chairman, Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa – EMEA : Enabling Innovation in the Information Society – Kathryn Brown, Senior Vice President, Public Policy Development and Corporate Social Responsibility,Verizon Communications, USA Verizon FiOS
Jean-Paul Lepeytre, Senior Vice President Services Division, Thales, France

November 7 – SESSION 1
INFRASTRUCTURES & SYSTEMS CONVERGENCE
NEW BUSINESS MODELS IN EUROPE, THE AMERICAS, ASIA & EMERGING MARKETS

CHAIRMAN

Mike Kennedy, Senior Vice President, Government Relations and Country Manager – Canada and Latin America, Motorola, Inc., USA Convergence through Seamless Mobility

MODERATOR

Sergio Antocicco, Chairman INTUG – International Telecommunications Users Groups & President ANUIT -Italian Association of Telecom Users, Italy

SPEAKERS

Brent Olson, Assistant Vice President, Regulatory Policy, Emerging Services and Technologies, SBC Services, Inc., USA : The Convergence of the Communications Marketplace and SBC’s Transition to a Multimedia Communications Company
Takahiro Yokoyama, Director, International Frequency Policy Office, Radio Department, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications – MIC, Japan Spectrum Strategy for Wireless Broadband Services
Jørgen Friis, Deputy Director-General & Margot Dor, Director Business Development, European Telecommunications Standards Institute – ETSI What Convergence Means to Us – Two Highlights
Laurent Chesnais, CEO, Netsize, France Breaking Communication Barriers
Pierre Tournassoud, Vice President Network Strategy, Alcatel Triple Play Convergence from Fixed to Mobile
Bernard Mathieu, Head of Radiocommunications Programmes, Directorate for Programmes and Industrial Policy, CNES – French Space Agency, France The Space Contribution to Digital Divide and to e-Inclusion and e-Accessibility
Robert Bednarek, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, SES-Global, Luxemburg Mobile Media and the Role of Satellites

November 7 – SESSION 2
SOFTWARE IN A EVOLVING ENVIRONMENT

CHAIRMAN & MODERATOR

Gilles Polin, eGovernment EMEA Lead, Microsoft Corporation Software in an Evolving Environment

SPEAKERS

Jesús Villasante, Head of Unit, Software Technologies and Distributed Systems, European Commission Software Technologies Research in Europe
Jacques De Kegel, Wireless Broadband & Sensing Solutions EBO, Benelux Sales Leader, IBM, Belgium SAFIR – EU Project
Hervé Rannou, President, Items International, France Software & Interoperability
Michael Stankosky, Professor, George Washington University, Department of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering 21st Century Software Engineering/Speech

November 7 – SESSION 3
CONVERGENCE, REGULATION & NET GOVERNANCE
IMPACT AT THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS

CHAIRMAN

Ash Johnston, Partner, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP

MODERATOR

Andrew Lipman, Partner, Attorney at Law, Vice President, Swidler Berlin, LLP, USA Regulation of Applications Over IP Networks – US Regulatory Treatment

SPEAKERS

Muna Nijem, CEO/Chairman of the Board of Jordan Telecommunications Regulatory Commission Convergence, Regulation and Net Governance : Impact at the National and International Levels
Michael Ridley, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary UK LLP, UK : Television Regulation The Final Frontier ?
Jean-Eric de Cockborne, Head of Unit, Audiovisual and Media Policies, European Commission
Gabrielle Gauthey, Director, Information and Communication Technologies, ARCEP Convergence and Regulation
L. Marie Guillory, Member and Founder, Guillory & Hjort, Advisors to the Rural Communications Industry, USA Rural Providers Adjust to a Regulatory Environment Changed by the Convergence of Markets and Technologies
Desiree Miloshevic, International Affairs and Policy Development Advisor, Afilias Global Registry Services, UK Private Sector Perspective on Internet Governance
Theresa Swinehart, General Manager, Global Partnerships, ICANN
Jean-François Soupizet, Deputy Head of Unit, International Relations, European Commission : Europe’s Vision of the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis
Bernard Benhamou, Director of Forecasting and Internet Governance, Agency for the Development of e- Administration – ADAE, Office of the Prime Minister, France

November 7 – SESSION 4
TRUST, SECURITY & PRIVACY IN A CONVERGENT ENVIRONMENT

CHAIRMAN

Paul Timmers, Head of Unit, eGovernment, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission, Belgium Towards the European eGovernment Policy in i2010

MODERATOR

Hugo Kerschot, Consultant eGovernment, Indigov, Belgium

SPEAKERS

Ronny Bjones, Enterprise Secutity Strategist, Microsoft EMEA HQ Electronic Identification and Authentication as a Commodity in Daily Life
Frank Delanghe, Founder & Managing Director, D-Soft, Belgium Use of e-Counters in a Secure Way
Jo Steyaert, President, Indigov, Belgium iDTV as a New Platform for eGovernment
Peter F. Brown, Senior Expert, Austrian Federal Chancellery – ICT-Strategy Unit, Chair of the CEN eGovernment Focus Group, Austria 3 Keys to eGovernment Convergence
Graham Colclough, Vice President Cap Gemini, UK Measuring eGovernment – The Challenge
Alan Shark, Executive Director, Public Technology Institute – PTI : Convergence Beyond e-Government
Alisoun K. Moore, Chief Information Officer, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA eGovernment Metamorphosis : Building an Integrated Information and Communications Technology Program Serving Citizens
Yutaka Kobayashi, Division Manager, Town Management Organization, City of Mitaka, Japan Intelligent Community of the Year
Eric Legale, Managing Director, City of Issy-les-Moulineaux, France The Example of Issy-les-Moulineaux
Daniel Van Lerberghe, President & Executive Director, Politech Institute, Belgium European e-Democracy Award 2005
Phil Noble, Founder, PoliticsOnline, USA The “Global Conversation” Project

CHAIRMAN

Anne Bolot-Gittler, Director, SBL Civil Administration, Thales, France

MODERATOR

Patrice Cristofini, Healthacare Director-Systems Integration, Atos Systems Integration, France

SPEAKERS

Ilias Iakovidis, Deputy Head of Unit, ICT for Health, DG Information Society & Media, European Commission e-Health – The Proven Benefits
Yannick Motel, Vice-Chairman, LESISS, France IT Suppliers Constraints & the Industrials Vision for Transforming e-Health
Richard Bonnar, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary UK LLP, UK Connecting the English NHS – the NHS Care Record
Edouard Varvarian, General Manager & Co-Founder, idDOON, France CipherMe – Electronic Health Records in the Hands of Patients – Owners
Patrick Sellem, Sales & Marketing Manager, TMA Medical Austria, & André Petitet, CEO, CardioGap S.A., France Mobile Care Unit Diagnostic System – Interoperability, Data Transmission and Simplicity
Mario Po’, Head of Administrative Office, Healthcare Institution Azienda ULSS n 8 di Asolo, Italy Local Health System and Services in the Global Village
Paul Cheshire, Consulting Director Welfare Sector, Atos Origin, United Kingdom Lifelong Health Records – Who Needs Them ?
Alessandra Preziosa, Researcher, Instituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy The Dream Island

November 8 – SESSION 7
CHALLENGES FOR MORE EFFICIENT E-SERVICES

CHAIRMAN
Giorgio Prister, IBM South West Europe, Government Leader, IBM, Italy Realizing the potential of governement transformation/delivering Value Services to Civil Society

MODERATOR

Hubert Fabre, Secretary-General, Politech Institute, Brussels

SPEAKERS

Lionel Chmilewsky, Vice President, International Sales, Proxim Wireless Scaleable Broadband Wireless Networks
Christine Leurquin, Senior Manager, European Programs, SES Global, Luxembourg Key Challenges for Governmental Services
Gérald Santucci, Head of Unit, ICT for Business, DG Information Society, European Commission [RFID – A Pointer to the Future-doc1058]
Gérard Ségarra, Manager of Telematics Research and Innovation Projects, Renault, France New Innovative Telematics Applications to Improve Traffic Safety and Traffic Management – With a Special Focus on Standards
Henry J. F. Ryan, Managing Director, Lios Geal Consultants Ltd, Ireland : Electronic ID A Key Gateway for Efficient e-Services
Nicolas Chung, Delegate for ICT, Education & Research, Association of the French Regions – ARF, France [The French Regions Weaving the Information Society at the Local Level-doc1063]
Irina Zalisova, Managing Director, EPMA/BMI Association, Czech Republic eGovernment 2020 Fairy Tale
Valentina Mele, Assistant Professor, Bocconi School of Management and Naples University, Italy E-Government in Large EU Cities
Alain Ducass, Head of « Digital Country Planning Team » Prime Minister Service, France e-Accessibility and e-Development in Remote Areas / presentation not available for the moment

November 8 – SESSION 8
CONTENT IN A CONVERGENT ENVIRONMENT

CHAIRMAN

Peter Schmitz, Head of New Media, EuroNews Introductory remarks

MODERATOR

Alfredo M. Ronchi, Secretary Medici Framework, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

SPEAKERS

Rudi Vansnick, Chairman, Internet Society Belgium Content in a Convergent Environment
Marco Tempra, Solution Developer, Banca Digitale Accessibile, Italy Accessible Digital Bank
Luca de Marchi, Project Manager eLearning, Asolo, Italy e-Learning in Health : From a Corporate System to a Territorial Network
Fabrizio Davide, PhD, Expert Learning Services, Research & Development in European FET Program, Italy [TILS and the European “Future & Emerging Technology” Program-doc1067]
Daniel Schütze, Project Manager R&D Art and Education, Association Memory of the Future, France LopArt Duo
Phil Archer, CTO, Internet Content Rating Association – ICRA Making Metadata Matter
Virginia Valzano, Adriana Bandiera, J.-Angelo Beraldin, SIBA, University of Lecce, Italy & NRC Canada : Carpiniana. A Virtualized Byzantine Crypt
Ranjit Makkuni, President, Sacred World Foundation, India : The Virtual Gandhi Museum
François-Xavier Schlesser, Project/ Program Manger, TV-Traffic System, RTBF, Belgium Challenges for a Public Service Broadcasting
Omar Javaid, Senior Director, MediaFLO International Business Development, Qualcomm Inc., USA : Mobile TV : What is the Formula for Compelling and Successful Service ?

November 8 – SESSION 9
INNOVATION AND R&D / REGIONAL CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE INR&D AND INNOVATION

CHAIRMAN

Pierre Laffitte, Senator, Alpes-Maritimes & President, Sophia-Antipolis Foundation, France

MODERATOR

Keith Brown, Councillor, Member Clackmannanshire Council and Rapporteur of a Recent Opinion of the Committee of Regions on eGovernment, President of the UEN-EA Group in the Committee of the Regions

SPEAKERS

Thierry Van Landegem, CTO, Alcatel, Belgium The Lever of Regional Centers of Excellence for Innovation
Thomas Andersson,President Jönköping University, and President of the Board, IKED – International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development, Sweden Science, Technology and Innovation on the Road towards European Revival
Georges Bingen, Head of Unit, Strategy & Policy, Directorate D – The Human Factor, Mobility and Marie Curie Activities, European Commission [The Evolving Role of Universities in R&D and in Regional Development-doc1076]
Gilles Berhault, President, Association for Communication and Information for Sustainable Development – ACIDD, France Ecology of the Digital Infrastructure
Denis Ettighoffer, President & Founder, Eurotechnopolis Institute, France, and Delegate of the Development du Pole R&D Groupe IGS (Institut de Gestion Social), & Yves Enregle, Co-founder & Co-CEO, Groupe IGS, France Innovation in the Century of Networks. Networks of Innovation or Creative networks ?
Isobel Harding, Head of the Information Society Unit for Yorkshire and Humber Regional Assembly and NorthlincsNet, UK Local e-Democracy National Project Lead Authority
Eikazu Niwano, Service Integration Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan Innovation, Research and Development Beyond a Card Community – PKI based Multiple Application Smart Card Management System for Global Interoperability