Tuesday, June 17, 2008, Hotel Golf Libertas, 11:00 - 12:30 

Chair:
Bror Salmelin, Policy Adviser to the Director
European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General,
ICT addressing Societal Challenges Directorate

Panelists:
Martin Curley, Senior Principal Engineer and Global Director of IT Innovation & Research
Intel Corporation & Adjunct Professor, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Michael Lyons, Chief Researcher, Services and Systems Science
ICT Futures Centre, BT Group Chief Technology Office, United Kingdom
Veli-Pekka Niitamo, Director of Research   
Business Infrastructures, Nokia, Finland    
& Director of Corporate Research Partnership Program, Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research, Helsinki School of Economics   
& Chairman, Portfolio Leadership Group, European Network of LivingLabs - ENoLL

Other panelists to be confirmed

Panel outline

The panelists will illustrate European Strategic policy and research roadmap for the new innovation paradigms for services. They will share enior industrial views from the global and European perspective.

The panelists are the members of the High Level Industry Group “Open Innovation Strategy and Policy” and the European Commission (* see the group indicated bellow).

* High Level Industry Group “Open Innovation Strategy and Policy”

Open Innovation Service Policy Group – OISPG: 

Chair:
Dr. Richard Straub, Secretary General
European Learning Industry Group & Senior Advisor to the Chairman IBM EMEA

Members:
Prof. Dr. Emile Aarts, Vice President and Scientific Program Manager
Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Dr. Martin Curley, Senior Principal Engineer and Global Director of IT Innovation & Research
Intel Corporation & Adjunct Professor, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Dr. Paul Friedel, Director of Research
France Telecom – Orange, France
Mr. Serge F. Ferré, Vice-President, Head of EU Representative Office
Nokia Corporation, Finland
Prof. Dr. Jože Gričar, eCenter Director
Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Mr. Richard Halkett, Executive Director, Policy & Research Unit;
NESTA - National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, United Kingdom
Dr. Mikko Kosonen, Executive Vice President
SITRA, Finland
Mr. Sébastien Lévy, Partner
Items International, France & Vice President, Global Forum
Dr. Michael Lyons, Chief Researcher, Services and Systems Science
BT Group Chief Technology Office, United Kingdom
Mr. Veli-Pekka Niitamo, M.Sc., Director
Nokia Research Center, Finland & Chairman, Living Labs Portfolio Group, European Network of Living Labs - ENoLL
Prof. Dr. David J. Pym, Principal Scientist
HP Labs, Bristol, United Kingdom
Dr. David Sadek, Deputy Director - R&D
Research & Strategy Direction, France Telecom - Orange, France
Dr. Bror Salmelin, Policy Advisor
Directorate-General Information Society and Media & Group initiator and contact person in the European Commission
Mr. Joachim Schaper, Vice President Research
SAP EMEA, Germany
Ms. Corinna Schulze, Government Programmes Executive
IBM EMEA

Rapporteur:
Ms. Nuria de Lama Sánchez, Head of Semantics & Service Engineering Unit
ATOS Research and Innovation, Spain