Agenda

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• Dr. Lorenzo Dellai, President of the Autonomous Province of Trento

• Prof. Imrich Chlamtac, President of CREATE-NET Research Centre, Trento, Italy

• On. P. Gentiloni, Member of the Italian Parliament, former Minister of Telecommunications, Rome, Italy
• Prof. G. Colombo, EIT Executive Committee and Adjunct Professor, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Dr. M. Bonifacio, Policy Adviser at the Bureau of European Policy Advisers on research, higher education and innovation policies, BEPA, Brussels, Belgium

Presentation:

Education & Entrepreneurship

Speakers:

• Prof. R. Wyss, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, and Secretary General – Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research (CLUSTER)
• Prof. Alfonso Fuggetta, CEO and Scientific Director, research and education institute (CEFRIEL), Milan, Italy

Presentation:

Research & Technology Transfer

Speakers:

• Dr. S. Wright, former Head of Strategic Research, BT Group, UK, and member of the advisory group to the European Commission on the definition and implementation of a coherent policy for research in ICT (ISTAG)
• Dr. P. Anselmo, President, Italian Business Angels Network (IBAN), Milan, Italy

• Dr. B. Jamoussi, formerly Director, Nortel Strategic Standards, Corporate CTO Office, and Chief Study Group Department (ITU-T), Geneva, Switzerland
• Mr. J. Ketchell, Director, Innovation CEN-CENELEC Management Centre, Brussels, Belgium
• Dr. M. Filipponi, Head of European Affairs Sky Italy, Brussels, Belgium

Presentation:

Industry & Business Innovation

Speakers:

• Dr. Dario Avallone,R&D Director, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Rome, Italy
• Dr. G. Silberman, Senior Vice President and Head of CA Labs, New York, USA
• Dr. Fulvio Faraci, Head of Research and Trends in Innovation Strategy, Telecom Italia, Rome, Italy

Speaker:

• Dr. Loris Di Pietrantonio, Policy Development Officer at the European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, Directorate H – ICT addressing Societal Challenges, Brussels, Belgium

Moderator: Emil Abirascid, Journalist and Innovator

Panellists:

• Dr. Paolo Bonaretti, Director ASTER, Bologna, Italy
• Dr. Paolo Anselmo, President, Italian Business Angels Network, (IBAN), Milan, Italy
• Dr. Quinto Fabbri, Marketing & Strategy Manager, Ericsson
• Dr. Afonso Ferreira, Scientific Director, CNRS, France

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Speakers:

• Dr. Sergio Bettotti,Director General, Department of Innovation and ICT Research for the Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy

An overview of the EAI approach through its two main bodies:

• EAI Strategic Forum
• EAI Community

The strength of the EAI initiative lies in the inter-relationship dependence between these two bodies representing the political strategic branch and the grassroots community of experts who, by forming a critical mass, will drive the implementation for real change.

The role and importance of the EAI Strategic Forum comprised of institutional organisations and corporate partners leveraging combined resources and expertise to define a common strategic approach to issues, policies and developments impacting pan-European innovation. The governance model will be presented and discussed. Visit: (http://eai.eu/strategic-forum).

The role and importance of the EAI Community as the operational branch of the EAI and driving bottom-up force capable of finalising needs evaluate changes and ultimately drive Innovation.
Through its web 2.0 tools the EAI community will facilitate participation and spontaneous ideas through the Science for Innovation, Business and Technology Councils (SIBs). In doing so the EAI Community empowers EAI to fulfil a significant strategic role in the European innovation cycle. Visit: http://eai.eu/the-innovation-community).

Participants are welcomed to join a preferred parallel panel session.

The European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) envisions a complete innovation cycle going from education, to research and to business that positively affects society on multiple levels. The EAI wants to create a Web 2.0 environment for supporting the ICT innovation cycle through different services. Only players of the innovation cycle can tell us what are the services they need or what they can offer! This selection of panels discuss about the needs of various component of ICT innovation cycle and propose concrete solutions for these needs in terms of services to be provided through the EAI Service Platform.

Panels Interested participants and possible service providers or bright minds with ideas and needs that match the EAI vision are also invited to submit on-line their propositions: http://eai.eu/services4innovation/

1. Education & Entrepreneurship
   Moderator: dr. Csaba A. Szabò, Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
   Exploring new curricula to change student mindset toward a more competitive and entrepreneurial orientation. Define the needs to support this evolution are and the role of EAI to fulfil those needs.
2. Research & Technology Transfer
   Moderator: Prof. Dave Robertson, Director, Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
   How to close the gap between research and commercialisation of an idea? Define what are the issuesrelated to this gap, and how this gap can be closed with the support of proper online services (e.g., online demo showroom, marketplace for ideas, etc.)
3. Standards & Regulation
   Moderator: Dr. Ultan Mulligan, Director of Strategy and New Initiatives, ETSI
   Role of standards & regulatory policies in innovation take- up.
4. Business Innovation & Corporate Involvement
   Moderator: Dr. Philippe Wacker, Executive Director, EMF
   Helping the business players to understand and communicate with the R&D world through the EAI Strategic Forum. Define which services can support the connection between corporate players and the other stakeholders of the innovation cycle.
5. Societal Impact of Innovation
   Moderator: Dr. Matteo Bonifacio, Policy Adviser at the Bureau of European Policy Advisers on research, higher education and innovation policies, BEPA, Brussels, Belgium
   Defining social impact referred to technological advancement, how these affect the surrounding community. Investigate which is the better way through EAI services to disseminate technological innovation and involve also society in the evaluation of new technologies.

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All participants are welcome to actively participate in one or more of the SIB Council discussions.

SIBs are interest groups, organised by applied technology areas and purpose, uniting separated efforts of existing European initiatives in one forum. SIBs are a meeting place, both online and in person, for leading researchers, executives, investors and government to advance science and technology by sharing ideas and jointly opening doors to innovation.

Empowered SIB working groups will convene to confirm mission statements, objectives & strategies; and to define roadmaps for future activities (http://eai.eu/what-is-a-sib-council).

SIBs planning to convene include:

- Green World (including – Energy)

- Future Internet Technologies (including Internet and Network System)

- Sib4Good (including – Sib4Peace) – Opening address by On. Mario Raffaelli, President of AMREF Italia

- Social Innovation

- Social Media

- Transportation (including -Automotive Transportation)

- Well-Being