The 13th Business & Government Executive Meeting on Cross-border Innovative eRegion

Tuesday, June 5, 2007, Hotel Golf Concordia, 14.00 – 17.30

Co-chairs:
Ivan Žerko, President
SRC.SI, Systems Integration, Slovenia
Gerhard Laga, eCenter Manager
Department Strategies, The Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, Austria

Ambassador’s Address:
H. E. Dr. József Czukor, Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary
H. E. Dr. Valentin Inzko, Ambassador of the Republic Austria
H. E. Dr. Mario Nobilo, Ambassador of the Republic of Croatia     to be confirmed
H. E. Dr. Daniele Verga, Ambassador of Italian Republic            

Presenters:
Per Blixt, Head of Unit
Unit F4, New Infrastructure Paradigms & Experimental Facilities, Information Society and Media Directorate-General, European Commission
Antonio Conte, Principal Administrator
Unit D4 - Technology for innovation; ICT industries and e-business, Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General, European Commission
Flavio Bonfatti, Associate Professor
Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Modena, Italy & SEAMLESS Project Coordinator
Other presenters to be announced
Franc Dolenc, Director of Business Unit
Iskratel, Ltd., Kranj, Slovenia
Christian Kittl, Head, Business Models Unit
Evolaris eBusiness Competence Center, Austria


16:00 – 17:30
Cross-border eInvoicing & eProcurement in the eRegion Central Europe: Issues and Opportunities for the Government Executives

Co-chairs:
Otto Peperna, Head of Unit
International Innovation and Technology, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Labour, Austria
Antti Eskola, Commercial Counsellor
Member of the eBusiness promotion team & the Ministry's liaison official to the Finnish Information Society Programme, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Finland

Presenters:
Stephan Pascall, Advisor
International Cooperation, New Member States Integration, Regional Aspects and Communications, Information Society and Media Directorate-General , European Commission
Other presenters to be announced


19:00  Departure by busses for Kunstelj Restaurant, Radovljica http://Kunstelj.net from the Bled
          Convention Centre
          Picnic Dinner sponsored by SRC.SI, Systems Integrator http://www.SRC.si/en

Outline
Numerous business and government organizations in the countries of the region are considering eCommerce an important mechanism for processes efficiency & effectiveness improvement and trade facilitation. Since 2001, business and government executive meetings are sponsored in order to increase cooperation and accelerate a development of cross-border eCommerce in eRegion. Meetings are investigating opportunities of, and interest in, international research & development projects.

The meeting’s objectives: 

• Motivating executives for e-technologies implementation and usage.
• Establishing contacts between business, informatics & logistics executives of participating organizations in the region.
• Creating a favourable climate for cross-border business & government cooperation in eCommerce development in the region.
• Indicating existing and anticipated governments’ related problems of cross-border eCommerce and presenting them to respective government agencies.
• Providing environment for business, government, and universities in the region to interact in identifying opportunities for collaboration and joint projects.

Previous Business & Government Executive Meetings