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Day One – 19 – 19^th October 2006
INFOBALT Conference “Mobile Europe: New Opportunities and Strategies”

• Plenary session “New Opportunities”;
• Session “Mobile signature”;
• Session “Strategies for expansion and meeting challenges”;
• Session “Mobility, wireless technologies and convergence”
• Official reception

Plenary session “New Opportunities”

• “Current trends of ICT market in Lithuania”,
  Vytautas Vitkauskas, President of Association “Infobalt”;
• “What is 2013 Ambition of Lithuania?”,
  Darius Maikštėnas, Head of Strategic Communications, Omnitel;
• “Wireless communication solutions”,
  Arvydas Paukštys, Managing Director, „Teltonika“;
• “Stay Ahead with e-Mobility”,
  Fiona Williams, Dr., Research Director, Ericsson; Chairperson of the eMobility Technology Platform.

Session “Mobile signature”

• “Lithuania leadership in Mobile signature – the dream or soon reality?”,
  Antanas Danys, Vice chairman of Hansabankas board; head of retail banking; member of Hansabank group board;
• “Receiving electronic messages from insurers, signed by electronic signature”, 
  Valdas Žekonis, Head of Department of Information System Development, State Social Insurance Board of the Republic of Lithuania under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour.
• “PKI - the long way to success”,
  Andres Aarma, Marketing Manager, SK (Certification Centre - AS Sertifitseerimiskeskus).

Session “Strategies for expansionand meeting challenges”

• “The IST 7 FWP perspectives”,
  Jacques Babot, European Commission;
• “Successful entrench of new technologies in the converging market: how to facilitate?”,
  Tomas Barakauskas, Director, Communications Regulatory Authority of the Republic of Lithuania;
• “Strategies for Mobile services expansion”,
  David Hovey, Consulting System Engineer, Cisco Systems;
• “Control Room Solutions for Police, Fire, Health”,
  Peter Haberl, Area Sales Manager Public Safety, Frequentis.

Session “Mobility, wireless technologies and convergence”

• “Mobile and wireless communications in FP6 and FP7”,
  Jorge Carvalho, scientific officer, Directorate for Information and Media, European Commission;
• “Mobility, wireless technologies and convergence”,
  Rafal Federowicz, Vertical Sales Manager, Cisco Systems;
• “Can we afford the internet?”,
  René Stockner, PhD, CEO, Giritech A/S;
• “Enterprise Fixed Mobile Convergence”,
  Roger Jones, Business Development Director, Avaya

About speakers: http://www.infobalt.lt/docs/About_speakers_conference.pdf

Day Two – 20th October 2006
IST4BALT and COMIST Workshop “IST in 7th Framework Programme: benefits for active participants”

• Plenary session;
• Session “Security - Creating trust and confidence through mobile collaboration”;
• Session “Collaboration networks and tools in IST” I;
• Session “Collaboration networks and tools in IST” II;
• Discussions and Conclusions.

Plenary session

• “COMIST ideas, aims, achievements, role in Lithuania, support of development a (Lithuanian) roadmap for collaborative innovations and clusters”,
  Assoc. prof. Rimantas Gatautis, Kaunas University of Technology;
• “IST4Balt project”,
  Jean Bonnin, EDNES President, IST4Balt Coordinator, France; Alexander Beriozko, head of department, Geophysical Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, EDNES, France;
• “Networked and Electronic Media Technology Platform”,
  Jean-Michel Dupont, Thomson, Director Cooperative Programs and  NEM Chairman Executive Board;
• “Information and Communication Technologies in FP7. The First Calls”,
  Rimantas Skirmantas, Agency for International Science and Technology Development Programmes, Lithuania.

Session “Security - Creating trust and confidence through mobile collaboration”

• “EU research in the area of trust and security in mobile environments”,
  Bart Van Caenegem, Project Officer, European Commission;
• “Multistakeholder collaboration to raise cyber security level for the wide public: practice in Lithuania”,
  Albinas Visockas, Director of Market Surveillance Department, Communications Regulatory Authority of the Republic of Lithuania;
• “ICT Trust, Security and Dependability beyond 2010”,
  James Clarke, EU  Programme Manager, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland;
• “DISCREET service provision in smart environments”, 
  Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata;
• “MDS – self-learning discovery of network misuses”,
  Michal Przybylski, OSS Solution Specialist, Telco OSS.

Session “Collaboration networks and tools in IST” (Part I)

• “Coordinated Action CLOCK”,
  Veli-Pekka Niitamo, Director of Strategic Resourcing, Nokia, Finland;
• “The Role of Universities for Regional Development”,
  Michael Boronowsky, Managing Director TZI – Center for Computing Technologies at the University of Bremen; Vice Chair of the European Community AMI@work;
• „Collaborative Platform and AMI @ Work Communities supporting balanced work and life in rural and regional settings“,
  Adam Turoviec, ITTI Ltd. - Partner, Business Development Director; Poznań University – researcher, AMI@Work Family of Communities – V-ce Chair, Poland;
• “AMI communities tools”,
  Ivan  Popov, VIRTECH Ltd. Sofia , Bulgaria.
• “eCollaboration in volcanoes monitoring”,
  Prof. Alexei Gvishiani, Director, Geophysical Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vice-president, EDNES, France;
• “LitGrid and BalticGrid – High Performance Computing Infrastructure for Academic Institutions”,
  Algimantas Juozapavicius, Dr., associate professor, vice-dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius University.

Session “Collaboration networks and tools in IST” (Part II)

• „Experiencies in the  Baltic R&D systems  transformations as particular circumstances for managing innovative processes in Lithuania“,
  Dr. Ina Dagyte, Kaunas University of Technology;
• “Clusterization in Lithuania – current situation and perspectives”,
  Dr. Giedrius Jucevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania;
• “Promotion of technology platforms’ initiatives at national level”,
  Mantas Jonauskis, Projects consultant, Lithuanian Innovations Centre;
• “Lithuania Railway and Klaipeda harbor cluster”,
  Prof. Algirdas Garalis, Siauliai University Socialy Scients Faculity, Management Departament, Lithuania;
• “The EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme Project EQN”,
  Dr. Anatoly Soloviev, senior researcher, Geophysical Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences, project engineer, EDNES, France.

About speakers: http://www.infobalt.lt/docs/About_speakers_workshop.pdf