Speakers and Moderators (by alfabetic order)
Keynote speaker:
Gérald Santucci has been working in the Information Society and Media Directorate-General of the European Commission since February 1986. In March 2007, he was appointed Head of the Unit Networked Enterprise & Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The adoption by the European Commission, in March 2007, of a Communication on RFID has constituted a first milestone towards the achievement of a European policy framework regarding RFID. Work underway includes the follow-up of a Recommendation on the implementation of privacy and information security principles in RFID-enabled applications (adopted by the EC on 11 May 2009) and a new series of global consultations on the Internet of Things. Over the years, Mr Santucci has gained extensive experience in the activities of the Directorate-General through his involvement in research management, including heading the Unit “Applications relating to Administrations” (i.e. eGovernment) 1999-2002, the Unit “Trust and Security” 2003, and "ICT for Enterprise Networking" 2004-2006. Mr Santucci was also the "father" of the AIM exploratory action (Advanced Informatics in Medicine), launched in 1989 under the RACE programme (R&D on Advanced Communications Technologies for Europe)
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Dagfinn Bach
President and R&D director, Bach Technology
As one of the pioneers in the online music business working for Western Norway Research Institute (1986-1995), he became the leader of a cluster of very early pilot projects on MP3 in music production and distribution (1991-1993), digitisation of music archives (1992-1994), and one of the first mixed-mode audio/multimedia CD-ROMs in 1992. He was the initiator and coordinator of several important European Commission funded projects, and was appointed as external expert and evaluator for the INFO2002 Multimedia Rights Management Systems call for proposals in 1998. He was hired as consultant for Nokia Ventures Organisation for conducting a feasibility study on mobile distribution of music in the Chinese mainland market. (1998-1999). He founded the aggregation company Artspages International AS in 1999 and in 2007 he was one of the co-founders of the MPEG-7 technology company Bach Technology AS, working closely with the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technologies. He currently holds the positions as R&D director of Bach Technology AS.
mediadeals
Thierry is founder of Pan European Investment Network Media Deals focussing on cross border Media investment. He is also CEO of peacefulfish, a consultancy specialised in the financing of the content industry. He offers 15 years experience in the communication and entertainment industry. After graduating in Paris, he worked in London as a business consultant for entertainment companies and telecom operators, then in France and Germany in Business Development for Vivendi and for ARTE (Franco-German TV station) in Strasbourg. He then completed an MBA at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy and at UCLA in Los Angeles, where he specialized in film financing and e-commerce. He then worked on film projects in the USA with Mandalay Entertainment before becoming Head of Strategic Development for the Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam, near Berlin. His work at peacefulfish includes the development of specific financial instruments for the content industry including tax credit for film and TV as well as specialized public/private funds.
Håvard Bell
Co-Founder, Head of Sales and Chief Technology Officer at Catenda AS.
Håvard Bell has been working with information retrieval and software interoperablity in the contruction sectors from the reseach institute SINTEF. SINTEF is the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia. Catenda is a new spin-off from SINTEF, operating in the areas of software development and interoperability for the the construction sectors. (More info to come).
Arne Jørgen Berre
Coordinator of the Innovation Resource Network SOA in pracsis.
Arne Jørgen Berre has worked with model based and object oriented software development at SINTEF in Oslo since 1985. He is involved in projects regarding the standardization of UML and MDA in OMG. At the moment he works with model based integration and interoperability in both national and EU projects regarding eBusiness and eGovernment. He is also in charge of two user groups though The Norwegian Data group: "Application integration, methods and architecture" and "SOA interest group".
Sara Brinch
Representing the Innovation Resource Network JoinGame.
Sara Brinch is PhD in media studies, and holds a position as Associate Professor in visual communication at the Department of Art and Media Studies, NTNU. She is the Innovation Resource Network JoinGame's research executive.
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University of Cambridge
Telenor is Norway's leading supplier of telecommunications- and data services, distributed over both fixed and mobile network infrastructure. The Telenor Group is now the 7th largest provider of mobile communications - represented in fourteen countries across the world. Part of the Telenor Group, Telenor Objects delivers a managed service for connected objects. The aim is to increase the number of devices connected to the network infrastructure so that the customers can benefit from real time information on their assets. Telenor Objects believes there will be a shift from vertically integrated closed solutions to a layered open approach where devices will communicate using a wide range of communications systems with software applications - through a new infrastructure we call Object Service Enablement Functions (OSEF).
Software Developer - TextUrgy
Min He has been working as a developer for textUrgy since 2008. TextUrgy's primary goal is to develop semantic text navigation technology which can be used in combination with traditional keyword search engines to improve the search process for users. Min He has got a masters degree in computer science from the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing. He has a background from text mining in biomedicine.
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Trond Heier has extensive experience from developing and managing growth companies. His most recent engagement was to take the Norwegian open source company Linpro from a post-startup company to an important IT industry player. When leaving the company in May 2009, he held the position as co-CEO of Redpill Linpro AB, a pure play Nordic open source service provider with approximately 200 employees.
Trond Heier has previously been CEO of the fast growing seafood company Royal Supreme Seafood AS and of venture capital company Intermedia Invest AS, and he has served as Director International markets in Software Innovation ASA.
Heier has been chairman of the Norwegian Software Industry Association and vice chairman of ICT-Norway. He is currently heading ICT-Norway's forum for open source software.Heier holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and an MBA from Insead, France.
CommITment
Pia Virmalainen Jøsendal
Computas AS.
Pia Virmalainen Jøsendal has since 2008 been working at Computas AS and has continuously been involved in Semantic Web activites including ontology modelling in the Media Zone architecture as well as giving presentations and lectures on semantic web. She has MSc in humanistic informatics from the University of Bergen.
Kirsti Kierulf
Director Innovation and Technology, Accenture.
Ownership and management of growing privately held companies in niches in the ICT-industry. Entrepreneurship through sales and partnership. Using national and international networks to establish and grow profiting business relationships for partners and investors. Kirsti Kierulf is the lead on the Fast/Microsoft Innovation Center at Accenture on search technologies and works with large clients around the world to support their businesses in utilizing search and other disruptive technologies. Her responsibilities also include running large innovation programs as well as working closely with the academic partners. (More info to come)
Øyvind Kristiansen
Development engineer on EC projects, Q-Free.
Øyvind Kristiansen has been working in research and development for Q-Free since 2003. In 2004, he was assigned to EC research projects. Through his career, he has gained experience both within Q-Free's existing platforms and technologies, within standardization and development of new products. Q-Free is a leading global supplier of solutions and products for Road User Charging and Traffic Surveillance.
Bård Krogshus
CEO, InfoSector AS.
Infosector is a Norwegian company active in international business clustering and SME development in the media and ICT sectors, incl. R&D projects. In 1996 Bård Krogshus founded the Multimedia Forum Norway which, in 2001, merged with the software and hardware associations to ICT-Norway, the largest Norwegian association for ICT business units. Bård Krogshus is working with ICT-Norway in innovation projects and networks. Bård Krogshus was the coordinator of the EUREKA Umbrella EUROLEARN which merged with the MULTIMEDIA Umbrella into the eConTec Umbrella in July 2005. Bård Krogshus is member of the advisory group for ICT and Content statistics in Statistics Norway. Special areas of expertise are e-Learning and e-Content projects, business databases, news agent, standard classifications, semantic mapping and knowledge technologies. Infosector hosts the coordination and operations of www.ematch.eu - the business and project matchmaking tools and services. Krogshus is also the coordinator of the Innovation Resource Network FreeNet, processing Open Source Sofware projects.
Man-Sze Li
FInES Cluster Co-Chair
Chief Editor of EC publications: Enterprise Interoperability Research Roadmap (V4.0); Value Proposition for Enterprise Interoperability Report; and FInES Cluster Position Paper
Man-Sze Li is Director of IC Focus Ltd, a London-based research and analysis company in ICT. She has been involved in the ICT industries for over 20 years, holding senior positions on the demand and supply sides, in the civil service, in standardisation, and with analyst companies. Previous positions include Chief Technical Officer of CommerceWorks, Managing Director eCommerce of Portfin Group, Senior Consultant of Level-7 and of Ovum, Assistant Director EDI Standards at the UK government agency SITPRO, and Group Head of CIT Research. In addition, she has been involved in the establishment of 9 Internet start-up companies and was the founding chair of several European standardisation groups at CEN in the application area, having been a founding technical expert of the International Standard UN/EDIFACT in the 1980s. In recent years, her research interest focuses on Future Internet, Enterprise Systems, Service Utility, and related business models and governance aspects (see, e.g. www.e2esu.eu). She has published over 100 papers, authored two books, and was a main author of several reports published by the European Commission (see, e.g. http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/enet/ei-isg_en.html). She is Co-Chair of the Commission DG INFSO’s Future Internet Enterprise Systems (FInES) Cluster and its predecessor the Enterprise Interoperability (EI) Cluster. She holds a BA Hons Degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and undertook Masters study in Political Science at the London School of Economics.
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Margaretha Mazura
Secretary General, EMF.
Margaretha Mazura graduated from the University of Vienna as a Doctor in Law and holds a Diploma of Advanced European Studies of the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium. She became an independent consultant for European Affairs in Brussels in 1994. Since 1999, Dr. Mazura has been Deputy Secretary General of the European Multimedia Forum (EMF), since 2007 she is Secretary General of EMF. She advises enterprises on enhancement of their company profile and business performance, and EU funding opportunities. Furthermore, she develops business models in an e-environment, and collaborates on regulatory and policy matters for e-business and the Future Internet.
She acted repeatedly as administrative and technical co-ordinator in EU projects, and is invited at international workshops (e.g. USA, Latin America, India) to present EU funding programmes and provide a practitioner’s view on economic and business trends in the ICT field. She has been the spiritus rector of the LEXELERATOR platform, a Wiki on legal issues for e-business geared at the layman. Since 1999, she is a listed expert for the European Commission and was called upon for project evaluations and reviews in programmes such as ICT (networke enterprise, networked media, semantics, language technologies, international cooperation etc.), LLP (eLearning, Minerva, Multilingualism), eContent, eTEN and GROWTH. From 2002 to 2006, she was elected second Vice-President of Termnet, the international network of terminology. Margaretha Mazura is a honorary member of ADI – the Association of Internet lawyers of Chile. Furthermore, she is a free—lance writer and organizer of cultural events.
Christel de Maeyer
Technical University HOWEST, Belgium
Christel De Maeyer is been active in the multimedia/new media industry since 1989. In these early days, Christel was active in productions for the edutainment market, the florishing cd-rom market until the mid 90’s. Later worked as project manager on numerous online projects, mainly for the media industry. By 2000 Christel created a Macromedia Authorized training center (later Adobe), which was succesfully sold to an international group in 2004. Since 2007 Christel is active at the Technical University HOWEST, where she clusters new media companies for the Flemisch Region. Working on an accelerators for the creative bachelors (Multimedia and communication, Digital art and entertainment and product design) within the technical University.
Marius Mikalsen
SINTEF
Marius Mikalsen is a research scientist in SINTEF’s ICT department. Mr. Mikalsen holds a masters degree in informatics in Computer Science from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology from 2002. He is Group leader of the Health Informatics group within SINTEF ICT. He has been involved since 2001 in numerous commission-funded RTD projects in different roles: as technical participant, work-package leader and coordinator (coordinator of the e-inclusion project EU-IST MPOWER). He is currently deputy project manager of the upcoming integrated project universAAL.
Ingvild Myhre
Founder and partner of Rådgiverne LOS, Member of the programme board VERDIKT (Strategic Research Programme at The Research Council of Norway).
Geir Nerbø
Director of Business Development - Oil, Gas and Mining, IDENTEC SOLUTIONS Norway AS.
Geir Nerbø has since Apr. 2008 been working with RFID based security solutions within the Oil, Gas and Mining industry at IDENTEC SOLUTIONS Norway AS. IDENTEC SOLUTIONS is the global leader in active wireless tracking solutions. A commitment to developing groundbreaking, industry-specific tracking solutions featuring proprietary patented technology has placed IDENTEC SOLUTIONS in the international forefront as a technology provider for innovation and as a complete solution provider in the automotive, oil, gas and mining industries.
August Nilssen
Project manager ICT, Standards Norway
Standards Norway is the national standardisation body, responsible for all standardisation areas, except the electro technical area and telecommunication. Standards Norway is the Norwegian member of CEN and ISO. Mr. Nilssen is manager for national standardisation committees within; eBusiness, Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC), Unique Identification Numbering Schemes, IT-Governance, Innovation Processes among others. Mr. Nilssen represents Standards Norway in several committees in ISO and CEN. Previously manager for eforum, a desimmination network within Standards Norway and member of the RFID Networking Forum, program committee.
Josef Noll
University of Oslo, Norway
Prof. Dr. Josef Noll is professor at the University of Oslo in the area of Mobile Services. His group ConnectedLife concentrates on the working areas mobile-based trust and authentication, personalised and context-aware service provisioning, and the evolution towards beyond 3G systems. He is also Senior Advisor in Movation, Norway's open innovation company for mobile services. He is also steering board leader of Mobile Monday Norway, the Norway section of the worldwide community for nerds and professionals in mobile services.
Gérald Santucci has been working in the Information Society and Media Directorate-General of the European Commission since February 1986. In March 2007, he was appointed Head of the Unit Networked Enterprise & Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The adoption by the European Commission, in March 2007, of a Communication on RFID has constituted a first milestone towards the achievement of a European policy framework regarding RFID. Work underway includes the follow-up of a Recommendation on the implementation of privacy and information security principles in RFID-enabled applications (adopted by the EC on 11 May 2009) and a new series of global consultations on the Internet of Things. Over the years, Mr Santucci has gained extensive experience in the activities of the Directorate-General through his involvement in research management, including heading the Unit “Applications relating to Administrations” (i.e. eGovernment) 1999-2002, the Unit “Trust and Security” 2003, and "ICT for Enterprise Networking" 2004-2006. Mr Santucci was also the "father" of the AIM exploratory action (Advanced Informatics in Medicine), launched in 1989 under the RACE programme (R&D on Advanced Communications Technologies for Europe)
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Ovidiu Vermesan
Coordinator of the Innovation Resource Network RFID.
RFID-RNET is a National Resource Network with the strategic objective to generate projects based on RFID technology with direct business involvement. The Resource Network is an arena for generating research, innovation activities and projects related to RFID technologies, at the national level in the view of global development. Dr. Vermesan received SINTEFs 2003 award for research excellence for his work on the implementation of a biometric sensor system. He is currently working with projects addressing nanoelectronics integrated systems, communication and embedded systems, integrated sensors, wireless identifiable systems and RFID for future IoT architecture with applications in green automotive, healthcare, oil and gas and energy efficiency in buildings. He is actively involved in the activities of the European Technology Platforms ENIAC, ARTEMIS, EPoSS.
Kaja Vik
Representing the Innovation Resource Network AV-Arena Norway
Midgard Media Lab - NTNU took an intitiative in establishing the professional network AV Arena Norway. The network's goal is to enchance and strengthen the visibitity of Norway as a forefront of digital media competence by building a bridge between R&D, industry and public government bodies. One of the ways has been to use the Norwegian Research Network in the early piloting and through trial and error method find the commercially most promising ideas for further development.In June 2007 Norwegian Research Council granted additional funding to the network in order that AV Arena Norway Network could grow to be one of the country's most influential professional network within digital media technologies. This validates the vision which Midgard has had from the beginning, the view where the collaboration between diciplines (technology, medicine and humaniora), industry and official sector was seen as a beneficial in order to fuel new activities withing the new digital media.
Philippe Wacker
Executive Director, EMF
Philippe Wacker specialises in supporting digital content & technology organisations in their international development. As an advisor to numerous multinational corporations, high-tech SMEs, as well as the European Commission and EUREKA, Philippe has gathered extensive experience at European and international level over 20 years. From 1994 to 2007, he managed the worldwide network of the EMF, the main European trade association promoting the competitiveness of the converging digital media industries in the global market place. In this capacity, he was at the helm of a "cluster" comprising more than 5000 companies throughout Europe & the world, dozens of trade associations and numerous experts covering all professional specialities which are of relevance to the digital industries. In 2003, Philippe co-founded the E-Accelerator, the one-stop-shop service platform for ICT & digital media companies seeking to expand internationally. He is currently Executive Director of the EMF and co-founder-partner of The Bayard Partnership, a company specialising in change management and interim management.
Olaf Østensen
Head of a technology department within the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority under the Ministry of the Environment.
Olaf Østensen is responsible for the Norwegian geoportal, an essential component of the national geospatial infrastructure serving a broad set of communities. He is the Chair of ISO/TC 211 and has been actively engaged in standards development within the field of geographic information since the early 1980s. Mr. Østensen has been an active contributor to the development of policies and technologies for geospatial infrastructure at the international level.