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Wednesday 6 February 2008

PLENARY SESSION
8.00	Registration and welcome coffee
9.00	Welcome Speech Juan Carlos LÓPEZ AGÜÍ (Joint Presidents Group President / CEN President)
9.05 9.25 9.45 10.05	Moderator: Günter IDINGER (Member of CENELEC Administrative Board) Address by Jean Noël DURVY (Director "Innovation Policy"- DG ENTR - European Commission) Mieczyslaw Edmund JANOWSKI (Member of the European Parliament - Poland) Christopher MURRAY (United States Mission to the European Union - Chargé d’Affaires) Marcin KOROLEC (Secretary of State at the Ministry of Economy)
10.25	Coffee break
10.45 11.05	Industry Overview Robert NOTH (Deere & Co) Marcin KALINOWSKI (Unizeto Technologies S.A.)
11.25	Introduction to break-out sessions
11.45	Questions and Answers
12.00	Lunch

BREAK-OUT SESSIONS
13.50	Theme 1 Home and Building Electronic Systems Convenor: Dominique BECK (Hager Electro SA) Interoperability - Dream or reality? John RYAN Interoperability: a tool to achieve European energy efficiency targets? Luigi MELI (European Committee for Domestic Equipment Manufacturers) KNX- Multi-vendor and cross-discipline interworking in home and building control Joost DEMAREST (KNX Association) Homes and Buildings - The goal of integration Mike GILMORE (e-Ready Building)	Theme 2 eBusiness Interoperability Convenor: Rúnar Már SVERRISSON (Logar) Coping with multi-standard eBusiness - main keys to interoperability Jacques DURAND (Fujitsu Computer Systems) European research in enterprise interoperability Man-Sze LI (IC Focus Ltd) & Cristina MARTÍNEZ GONZÁLEZ (European Commission) Interoperability by design Scott EDWARDS (Microsoft Corp) A series of standardised messages for door Shortsea based logistics chains Mariann SUNDVOR (NorStella/Shortsea XML) Working together - The upstream oil and gas industry, PIDX and the drive to interoperability Dave WALLIS (PIDX Europe)	Theme 3 Radio Frequency Identification Devices Convenor: Kirit LATHIA (ICT Standards Board) RFID standards in action Henri BARTHEL (GS1 Global Office) The electronic passport Henk DANNENBERG (NXP Semiconductors) RFID networks Patrick GUILLEMIN (ETSI) RFID standardization activities, and the application of RFID standards in the U.S.A. Ajit JILLAVENKATESA (US National Institute of Standards and Technology)
14.55	Discussion & Conclusions	Discussion & Conclusions	Discussion & Conclusions
15.40	Coffee Break
16.05	Theme 4 Entertainment Applications Convenor: Dirk JAEGER (Technical University of Braunschweig) Standardisation of cable networks in the multimedia and digital TV environment Eberhard GAUGER (Gauger Consult) Interoperability roadmap: a requirement to approve a standard? Julian SESEÑA (ROSE Vision) Co-operability, an industry approach to interoperability David DANIELS (British Sky Broadcasting) Interoperability considerations in the SmartHouse - an entertainment perspective Stephen PATTENDEN (Telemetry Associates Ltd)	Theme 5 Case Studies on Interoperability - eHealth, eLearning, eSkills, eGovernment Convenor: David MILLER (API) Applying streamlining initiatives and automated code checking with SMARTcodes to implement interoperability through e-Government Robert C. WIBLE (FIATECH) & David R. CONOVER (International Code Council) Objective measurements of hearing aids using psychoacoustical models Andrzej DOBRUCKI & Piotr PRUCHNICKI (Institute of Telecommunications, Teleinformatics and Acoustics) Towards a European e-Competence framework - CEN/ISS e-skills workshop Geoff McMULLEN (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies) e-Accessibility Ileana MARTÍNEZ (US National Institute of Standards and Technology) & Martina SINDELAR (European Commission)	Theme 6 Technical Interoperability and Quality of Standards Convenor: Hans VAN DER VEER (Alcatel Lucent) A methodological approach to interoperability testing - Key elements to successfully drive interoperability processes Pablo KOHAN (Ximpo Group Ltd.) Interoperability test suites for standardized protocols Giulio MAGGIORE (Telecom Italia S.p.A) Why interoperability matters more than ever Robert S. SUTOR (IBM Corporation) Building interoperability into the standards engineering process Steve RANDALL (PQM Consultants) Industry view on certification of Healthcare IT product interoperability Cor LOEF (COCIR/Philips Medical Systems)
17.10	Discussion & Conclusions	Discussion & Conclusions	Discussion & Conclusions
17.55	End of DAY 1
18.30	COCKTAIL

Thursday 7 February 2008

PLENARY SESSION
9.00	Moderator: John PHILLIPS (ETSI General Assembly Chairman) Reporting on Findings & Results Convenors of the break-out sessions: - Dominique BECK (Hager Electro SA) - Rúnar Már SVERRISSON (Logar) - Kiritkumar LATHIA (ICT Standards Board) - Dirk JAEGER (Technical University of Braunschweig) - David MILLER (American Petroleum Institute) - Hans VAN DER VEER (Alcatel Lucent)
10.00	Coffee break
10.30	Panel Discussion on Conference Theme & Results Representatives of each partner organisation and industry: - Ernst-Peter ZIETHEN (CEN Vice-President Technical) - Elena SANTIAGO CID (CENELEC Director General) - Hans VAN DER VEER (Member of the ETSI Board of Directors) - Mary SAUNDERS (Member of the ANSI Board and Executive Committee) - David MILLER (American Petroleum Institute) - Marcin KALINOWSKI (Unizeto Technologies S.A.)
11.30	Questions and Answers
11.50	Closing Remarks S. Joe BHATIA (ANSI President and CEO)
12.00	Lunch
13.30	End of DAY 2