Programme

The event featured an interesting mix of plenary and parallel sessions, additionally to a technological exhibition space and promotional area, focusing around non technical issues as well as business, research and standards tracks. The conference included invited presentations from experts from academia, industry, and government as well as presentations from the call for participation.


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Day one - Tuesday 13/01/2009
10:30	Registration and Welcome Coffee
11:30-12:30	Opening Plenary
	Welcome Speech – Geir Horn, 3S Coordinator, SINTEF
	Internet of Services – Jesus Villasante, European Commission
	The CHALLENGERS Project – Dora Varvarigou, CHALLENGERS Coordinator, ICCS/NTUA
	The 3S Project and the ECSS - Eva Garcìa, RTDI, Spain
12:30-14:00	Networking Lunch Break
14:00-15:30	Plenary Session: Visions and Challenges for Innovation
	Building Leadership in Innovation: A Transformational Journey for Telefónica - Victor Richard Benjamins, Telefónica R&D
	Clouds - The business opportunities and the operational challenges - Paul Strong, eBay
	Standardisation Challenges - Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft Research
15:30-16:00	Networking Coffee Break
16:00-17:00	Parallel Panel Discussions
	Research Challenges Chair: Dora Varvarigou, NTUA				Business Challenges Chair: Claudio Caimi, HP	Standardisation Challenges Chair: Keith Jeffery, STFC	Non-Technical Challenges Chair: Jakub Lebuda, MOST
17:00-17:20	Email checking break
17:20-17:50	Wrap-up from sessions chairs & Networking Cocktail opening - Keith Jeffery, STFC
17:50-20:00	Networking Cocktail at the Exhibition Area
20:00	End of day one
Day two – Wednesday 14/01/2009
9:00 - 10:30	Morning Plenary Session - Roadmaps and future challenges - Chair: Michael Wilson, STFC
	The NESSI SRA – Stefano de Panfilis, Engineering, Italy
	Challengers Roadmap - Challenges and recommendations - Costis Christogiannis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
	ECSS White Paper: Initiative for the future of an integrated SSAI community - Eva Garcìa, RTDI, Spain
10:30-11:00	Networking Coffee Break
11:00- 12:00	Parallel Sessions
	Research Challenges Chair: Dora Varvarigou, NTUA				Business Challenges Chair: Santi Ristol, Atos Origin	Standardisation Challenges Chair: Philipp Wieder, Technische Universitaet Dortmund	Non-Technical Challenges Chair: Jan Kaczmarek, MOST
12:00-14:00	Networking Lunch Break and email checking time
14:00-14:30	Wrap-up from parallel session chairs Research Challenges, Business Challenges, Standardisation Challenges, Non-Technical Challenges
14:30-15:45	Needs and recommendations for a competitive Europe
	Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation -  David Callahan, European Commission
	ICT for Governance and Policy Modelling -  Maria Geronymaki, European Commission
	Open discussion with the audience on recommendations for next steps Moderator: Michael Wilson, STFC
15:45-16:00	Closing remarks - Geir Horn, 3S Coordinator and Dora Varvarigou, CHALLENGERS Coordinator
16:00	End of event