Dopo mesi di assenza ritorno online con un bell’annuncio: ho avuto l’onore di essere invitato da Commissione Europea, DG Connect e Presidenza Irlandese a partecipare alla Digital Agenda Assembly 2013 che si terrà a Dublino la prossima settimana.
La Digital Agenda Assembly è il più importante evento della Commissione Europea in cui si discutono annualmente progressi, sfide e obbiettivi del futuro digitale (e non solo) dell’Unione Europea. Vi partecipano tutti i più importanti stakeholders provenienti da istituzioni, associazioni, industrie e iniziative connesse con l’Agenda Digitale Europea.
Oltre a prendere parte al meeting degli Young Advisors di Neelie Kroes e ad un workshop con i Digital Champions, parteciperò come speaker il primo giorno, all’interno del Workshop 4 che tratterà di demand stimulation e cloud. Nello specifico durante il mio panel si parlerà di che ruolo può assumere il settore pubblico per far aumentare la domanda di banda larga e servizi online.
Con me Alicia Richart Ramon, Digital Champion spagnola, Katherine Licken del Governo Irlandese, Crister Mattson di Acreo, e Youmee Baek del Ministero Coreano del Futuro e della Tecnologia.
Workshop 4: Broadband demand stimulation: the impact of cloud
Cloud as a driver for demand for high speed broadband
8:00 – 8:45 – Registration and welcome coffee
Morning session: trends and drivers of demand for broadband
9:00 – Report of the on-line activities: Carmela Asero
9:15 – Panel 1:Trends and drivers of demand for broadband. How cloud changes demand for broadband?
Moderator: Chi Onwurah, Member of the British Parliament
Panellists:
- Colm O’Neill, CEO, BT Ireland
- Gabrielle Gauthey, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, Alcatel-Lucent
- Andreas Goerdeler, German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
- Reinhard Posch, CIO for the Austrian Federal Government
- Jonathan Cave, Orange
- Jean Jacques Sahel, Microsoft
10:30 – 10:45 – Coffee break
10:45 – Panel 2: How the cloud infrastructure depends on the broadband infrastructure. How broadband is responding to the cloud. Is current capacity of broadband an inhibitor or a driver for cloud deployment?
Moderator: Chi Onwurah, Member of the British Parliament
Panellists:
- Robert Pepper, CISCO
- Rainer Zinow, Senior Vice President for cloud, SAP
- Danielle Jacobs, Chairwoman, INTUG
- JP Rangaswami, Chief Scientist, Salesforce
- Wolfgang Kopf, Vice-president Regulatory Affairs, Deutsche Telekom
12:00 – 13:30 – Lunch
Afternoon session
13:30 – Firestarter: Should there be broadband demand stimulation? If yes, by whom?
Chair Benoit Felten, Co-founder, Diffraction Analysis
- Olivier de Baillenx, Director Institutional relations, Iliad
- Daniel Pataki, Director of ETNO
14:00 – 15:00 World Café coordinated by EC
The world café is a participatory leader technique. The aim is to discuss the issues/problems identified in the field of broadband and cloud computing and propose possible solutions. These issues will be discussed in three rounds of discussion and will then be voted on. The participants will be split into 8 tables with one theme/subject. Each table will have a host that will steer the discussion and produce a mind map of the main topics discussed.
15:30 – 15:45 – Coffee break
15:45 – Panel 3: The role of public sector demand stimulation
Moderator: Alicia Richart Ramon, Spanish Digital Champion
Panellists:
Federico Morello, Young Adviser to Neelie Kroes
Katherine Licken, Irish Government
Crister Mattson, Acreo
Youmee Baek, Korean Ministry of Future and Technology
16:45 – Workshop closes
17:00 – 19:00 – Social reception, Dublin Castle
Plenary advocate: Chi Onwurah
