Summit2011 - Programme & Speakers
Towards 2020: an Open Vision for Europe
22 September 2011, Brussels, Autoworld
09:00 - 09:30 Registration and Coffee
9:30 – 11:00 Opening Address and Keynote Session
Welcome from the Conference Chair
Sachiko Muto, OFE Director
Sachiko is an OFE Director with responsibility for Government Relations. Prior to joining OFE she worked in various public affairs roles in Brussels and London. Sachiko holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Toronto and an MSc in European Politics and Policy from the London School of Economics.
OFE Opening Address
Graham Taylor - Chief Executive of OpenForum Europe, and co-founder of the organisation.
A regular speaker at international conferences, he was invited by the European Commission and Portuguese Presidency to respond to the Declaration made at the Ministerial eGovernment Conference in Lisbon in 2007, and succeeded in getting 27 other European organisations from the 'Open Community' to be co-signatories to that Statement.
With some 30 years of experience in the ICT industry, prior to OFE Graham Taylor was a Director at ICL, most recently as Managing Director of the Smart Card business, but with spells as its Software Business Development Manager, and Director of The Solution Centre, ICL's centre for the management of complex integration projects.
Opening Keynotes
Keynote: Neelie Kroes, Vice President, European Commission
Vice-President Neelie Kroes, a Dutch politician from Rotterdam, is currently serving her 2nd term in the European Commission as the new Commissioner for Digital Agenda. In 1971, she was elected to the lower house of the Dutch Parliament where she remained until 1977, when she became State Secretary for Transport, Public Works and Water Management. In 1982, after a brief return to Parliament, VP Neelie Kroes returns to office in the 1st and 2nd Lubbers Cabinets, now as the Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. After a few years out of politics, VP Kroes is appointed Commissioner for Competition in 2004.
Keynote: Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google
Prof. Hal Varian is an American economist specialised in microeconomics and information economics. He is an emeritus professor in the School of Information, the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. Prof. Varian has written two best-selling textbooks Intermediate Microeconomics and Microeconomic Analysis. Together with Carl Shapiro, he co-authored Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy and The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction. He joined Google in 2002 as a consultant and is now the company's Chief Economist.
Keynote: Severin Naudet, French Prime Minister's Office, Director, ETALAB
Mr. Severin Naudet is a Director at ETALAB which is a programme launched by the French Prime Minister's Office to establish a national government data portal to freely distribute raw data in usable formats. As part of his responsibilities, Mr. Naudet coordinates the Public Sector efforts to re-use public information as well as the creation of the data.gouv.fr portal. Before his current duties, Mr. Naudet was advisor on multimedia to the French Prime Minister and vice-president of Dailymotion.
11:00 – 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 – 13:00
Session 1 “Open Data – putting government data to work:
empowering citizens and creating value”
- moderated by Dr Tony Cornford
Dr Tony Cornford, London School of Economics
Dr. Tony Cornford is Senior Lecturer in the Information System and Innovation Group of the Department of Management at the London School of Economics. He has research interests in various aspects of healthcare information systems and has published studies on telehealth technology and health policy. Beyond the area of health, he has research interests in e-Government and open source development processes. He is presently a member of two teams undertaking evaluations of key aspects of the NHS National Programme for Information Technology. Dr. Tony Cornford has extensive publications on the field of Healthcare.
Liam Maxwell, ICT Futures, UK Cabinet Office Efficiency and Reform Group
In 2007, Liam Maxwell was elected to the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead where he took an active role in the redesign and deployment of a new IT strategy. This lead to this authority achieving one of the lowest costs per citizen for IT in the United Kingdom while providing the flexibility and platform for new innovative public services. His background is as an IT Director in Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 business service companies. He is the co-author, with Mark Thompson of Open Source, Open Standards: Reforming IT procurement in Government, a report for the Conservative Party. In 2011 Mr. Maxwell was appointed as an adviser to the Efficiency and Reform Group and the UK's Government chief information officer on the Executive's use of ICT.
Helen Darbishire, Executive Director, Access Info
Helen Darbishire is a human rights professional specialising in access to information, freedom of expression and media freedom. She has extensive experience of working to promote the right to information globally. She has worked with Article 19 and as a consultant with inter-governmental organisation including UNESCO and the Council of Europe. She holds a degree in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Durham. Ms. Darbishire is a founder and current chair of the Freedom of Information Advocates Network and is currently the Executive Director of Access Info Europe.
President, Informed
Individual
Øystein Jakobsen is a Norwegian computer engineer and an established free culture and civil liberties advocate. Amongst other, he is president of the NGO FriBit and Informed Individual, and is a member of the Free Culture Forum and Norwegian Open Data Forum.
He is a common speaker on topics such as privacy, transparency, net neutrality and copyright laws.
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00
– 15:30
Session
2 “Creating an Open climate for
entrepreneurs in Europe”
- moderated
by Georg Greve
Georg Greve, Managing Director Kolab Systems
Georg Greve is a serial entrepreneur, strategist and author. Initiator and founding president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) until 2009, Mr Greve has been involved in the inception of various non-profit and for-profit organizations around the world. Since 2010, Mr Greve is co-founder, CEO and president of the board at Kolab Systems AG, a Free Software groupware enterprise. For his accomplishments in in Free Software and Open Standards Mr Greve was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon by the Federal Republic of Germany on 18 December 2009
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO OpenERP
While still pursuing his studies in civil engineering at UCL (Louvain-la-Neuve), Fabien Pinckaers developed his company, Tiny Sprl, now Open ERP. Today, over ten years later, he has founded and managed several new technology companies, all of them based on Open Source software. Amongst such projects, Fabien Pinckaers set up such companies as OpenReport, OpenStuff and Tiny Report. He has also developed several large scale projects, such as Auction-in-Europe.com. For his many achievements in the IT sector, he has been awarded such prizes as Wired and I'Inscene.
Laura Creighton, VC
Laura Creighton was born in Canada but has been living in Sweden since the 90s. A serial entrepreneur, her latest companies are Open End AB, which makes the narrative-based collaboration tool Eutaxia, and So To Speak AB, which develops language courses for mobile phones using the Hofso Method. She is also a long-time member of the PyPy project which has produced a tool chain for developing dynamic language interpreters. Her main interests are user-interface design, privacy, and the free access to information.
Chris Taggart, CEO, OpenCorporates
Together with Rob McKinnon, Chris Taggard launched OpenCorporates on December 2010. He is also the developer behind OpenlyLocal. Originally a journalist and later magazine publisher, he now works full time in the field of open data, and is on the UK government's Local Public Data Panel, and Mayor of London's Digital Advisory Board.
15:30 – 15:50 Coffee Break
15:50
– 16:30
Keynote: Harry van Dorenmalen, IBM Chairman Europe
Harry van Dorenmalen, IBM Chairman Europe
In 2010, Harry van Dorenmalen was appointed chairman of IBM Europe. He now represents IBM with the European Commission and other institutions such as NATO and the European Defence Agency. Mr. van Dorenmalen takes, on addition to this role, the task of being the General Manager IBM Benelux and Country General Manager IBM Netherlands, which he has held since 2005. He started his career at IBM in 1982 as a programmer. Since then, he held a series of leadership positions including Vice-President of IBM's Industrial Sector business in EMEA, responsible for the Automotive and Electronics sector. Academically, Harry van Dorenmalen holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Delft.
Keynote: Joe Alhadeff, Vice President for Global Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer, Oracle
Joe Alhadeff, Vice President for Global Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer, Oracle ”An Open Vision for the Cloud: societal impacts”
Joe Alhadeff is Vice President of Global Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer for Oracle Corporation, and is responsible for coordinating and managing Oracle’s global privacy and public policy issues.
In addition, Joe has a prominent role in influential international organizations dedicated to Internet policy, security and privacy, including as the BIAC Chair to the OECD ICCP Committee, head of industry delegation to the OECD Security Steering Group, and Vice Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Electronic Business and Information Technology Committee. Domestically, Mr. Alhadeff chairs the US-Malaysia Business Council, the Information Technology Committee for the US India Business Council and the Government Affairs Committee for the Software and Information Industry Association. Prior to joining Oracle, Joe was GC and VP for Electronic Commerce for the USCIB in New York. Alhadeff holds an M.B.A. in management and information systems from New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, and a B.A. from Oberlin College.
16:30
– 18:00
Session
3 “Tackling “Societal
Challenges” through Openness”
- moderated
by Graham Taylor, OFE Chief Executive
Graham Taylor - Chief Executive of OpenForum Europe, and co-founder of the organisation.
A regular speaker at international conferences, he was invited by the European Commission and Portuguese Presidency to respond to the Declaration made at the Ministerial eGovernment Conference in Lisbon in 2007, and succeeded in getting 27 other European organisations from the 'Open Community' to be co-signatories to that Statement.
With some 30 years of experience in the ICT industry, prior to OFE Graham Taylor was a Director at ICL, most recently as Managing Director of the Smart Card business, but with spells as its Software Business Development Manager, and Director of The Solution Centre, ICL's centre for the management of complex integration projects.
Glyn Moody, Technology Writer
Glyn Moody, best known for his book Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, is a technology writer, journalist and consultant. He is the author of the blog Open Enterprise at ComputerWorldUK Magazine, where he looks at all levels of the enterprise open source stack and identifies which organisations are embracing open source and the communities of users and developers that have formed around them.
Prof. Jiri Hrebicek, Uni Brno (CZ) “eEnvironment and the Single Information Space
in Europe for the Environment
Prof. Jiri Hrebicek is a university professor at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. His research focuses on eEnvironment services, the Single Information Space in Europe for the Environment (SISE), mathematical modelling (e.g., Maple and Matlab) and corporate environmental reporting. Prof. Hrebicek is particularly interested in innovative ICT environmental management and reporting applications as well as public administrative information management instruments (e.g., eGovernment and eParticipation).
Dr Ivan Lund Pedersen, Liaison Officer, National board of e-health, Denmark “Empowering citizens through electronic medication reconciliation”
Dr. Ivan Lund Pederson is Liaison Officer at National Board of eHealth in Denmark. He is primarily responsible for the coordination of eHealth initiatives at national level in Denmark and responsible for the consolidation of the eHealth services at governmental level. Prior to this, Dr. Pederson was the National Programme Manager at Connected Digital Health in Denmark, head of the development and implementation of Eletronic Healthcare Record programme in the Sjaelland Region and Management Consultant at Ernst & Young.
Chiara Giovannini, Research & Innovation Manager, ANEC
Ms. Chiara Giovannini holds a law degree and Masters degree in European Law. She manages activities in the areas of Design for All and Information Society, including Information and Communications Technologies. She is currently a Program Manager at the European Association Representing Consumers in Standardization (ANEC).
18:00 Conference Close
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