Tuesday, June 17, 2008, Hotel Golf Jupiter 2, 16:00 - 17:30

Co-chairs:
Tomaž Domajnko, Director
Infonet , SRC.SI Group, Systems Integration, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Janko Cajhen, Business Development Manager
Microsoft Central & Eastern Europe Region

Panelists:
Dragan Čišić, Professor & Vice Dean for Research and Technology
Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Bernhard R. Katzy, Professor & Director
University BW München & CeTIM - Center for Technology and Innovation Management, Germany & University of Leiden, The Netherlands
& Contact person, Knowledge Worker Living Lab
Giorgio Manzoni, Professor of Topography & Coordinator
Centre of Excellence TeleGeomatics, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Trieste, Italy
Ivan Pilati, Innovation Manager
Informatica Trentina S.p.A., Italy & Trentino Living Lab
Lawrence Pixa, Sr. Program Manager for the Microsoft Disaster Preparedness & Response Program
Microsoft  Worldwide Public Sector, United States
Richard Scudder, Associate Professor & Chair
Department of Information Technology and Electronic Commerce & Director,
Business Intelligence Program, Daniels College of Business, University of Denver, United States

Panel outline

For several years, the Bled eConference has been providing space for research papers, panels and workshops on the cross-border disaster response (relief). The topic has been addressed at several meetings and workshops organized in Slovenia. For example, "Safe and Secure eRegion LivingLab Workshop, University Medical Center, Ljubljana on April 22, 2005" leading to a "Draft Memorandum of Safe and Secure eRegion".

In a program of the 2007 Merkur Day - the students eConference and Executive Meeting, the following document has been delivered: "Virtual Cross-border Disaster Relief Living Lab in the eRegion - Prototype Development. Minutes of the ad-hock meeting following the panel Exploiting Information and Communication Technologies in Disaster Relief". It is envisioned that universities researching the disaster response, in cooperation with the related institutions in Austria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia and Slovenia, will engage in a joint prototype development.

ALADIN universities will be invited to consider engaging in the prototype development and testing.

The panel will open up opportunities and issues in a cross-border eRegion disaster response focusing at experimentation of the ready to use prototypes and new eCollaboration technologies. Special attention will be paid to an exploitation of the opportunities provided by an environment of the Living Labs.