Keynote Speakers

Žiga Turk

Žiga Turk is a Professor and Chair in Construction Informatics at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, and Secretary General of the Reflection Group on the Future of Europe. The independent Reflection Group was established under the Conclusions of the European Council, with the objective of assisting the European Union more effectively anticipate and meet challenges in the longer term horizon of 2020 to 2030. The group is chaired by Felipe Gonzales and has in all 12 members. It started its work in December 2008 and shall present its report to the European Council meeting of June 2010.

In Slovenia he has been known as the founding editor of the Moj Mikro magazine (1984). He has been setting up Web servers since 1993. His most popular Internet inventions are the Virtual Shareware Library (that later evolved into shareware.com) and the Woda database tool. His academic interests include construction informatics (construction information technology), computer integrated construction, internet, Web and grid computing, design communication, philosophy of conceptual modeling and CAD.

In 2007 and 2008 dr. Turk was a Minister for growth in the government of Slovenia, national coordinator for the Lisbon Strategy, chief negotiator for the Slovenia's accession to the OECD, chairman of the national Sustainable Development Council and Chairman of the Competitiveness Council. His other activities outside of the academia include: Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Telekom Slovenia and Mobitel, member of the Reform Council, Vice Chair of the Strategic Council for Culture, Education and Science etc.

During the Slovenian presidency to the EU, he was in charge of the updates to the Lisbon Strategy and involved in the management of the energy and climate change package. His interest include creativity, entrepreneurship, open access to knowledge, open innovation, renewable energy, r&d policy etc.

Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google.
Vint is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company.

Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP/IP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. In 1997, President Clinton recognized their work with the U.S. National Medal of Technology. In 2005, Vint and Bob received the highest civilian honor bestowed in the U.S., the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes the fact that their work on the software code used to transmit data across the Internet has put them "at the forefront of a digital revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication, and entertainment."

From 1994-2005, Vint served as Senior Vice President at MCI. Prior to that, he was Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), and from 1982-86 he served as Vice President of MCI. During his tenure with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1976-1982, Vint played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies.

Since 2000, Vint has served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and he has been a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1998. He served as founding president of the Internet Society (ISOC) from 1992-1995 and was on the ISOC board until 2000. Vint is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.

Vint has received numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet, including the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computer Machinery, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, among many others.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and more than a dozen honorary degrees.

Taken from: http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html

Researcher and consultant Anthony Williams is the coauthor with Don Tapscott of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, the breakthrough introduction to the new economics transforming business and competition with the emergence of web 2.0.

Based on the largest investigation of strategic IT in business ever conducted, Wikinomics shows Web 2.0's interactive technology platforms make new ways of value creation not just possible but imperative.

For more than a decade Anthony has researched the impacts of new technologies on social, political and economic life. He has authored numerous influential reports on strategy, innovation and intellectual property, including a global effort to understand how transparency is revolutionizing business and redefining the corporation�s role is society.

He was a core member of an esteemed research team that charted a new course for governance and government for twenty top government agencies around the world, and is the author of a major study entitled Government 2.0: Wikinomics, Government & Democracy, and several articles on the topic.

Anthony Williams' work has been featured in such publications as BusinessWeek the Globe and Mail and the Times of India, and is widely circulated in proprietary syndicated research programs. He has advised both Fortune 500 firms and international institutions, including the World Bank.

Taken from: http://www.leighbureau.com/speaker.asp?id=397

Urban Funered
Urban Funered is a Special Adviser within the Ministry of Finance in Sweden, and is project leader for the Ministerial eGovernment Meeting and Conference that will be held during the Swedish presidency of the European Union. He has been working for the Swedish Government Offices since 2007, and was prior thereto in private practice and banking as a lawyer in Sweden and New York. Urban Funered holds a Jur Lic, LLM and LLB in Business Administration and Economics from Lund University in Sweden, and a LLM from London University.

Conference Chair

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.

Session 1

Chair

Susanne Zuehlke - Partner - Latham & Watkins

Susanne Zuehlke is partner in the Brussels office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the firm's Global Antitrust and Competition Practice. She is a German and New York qualified lawyer and is registered as a foreign lawyer with the Brussels bar. Ms. Zuehlke has been practicing competition and trade law in Brussels, Berlin and Frankfurt since 1999. She was named one of the top 40 antitrust lawyers under 40 in the world in the recent survey by Global Competition Review (GCR, May 2008). She frequently publishes articles on issues of EU competition law and is a member of the American Bar Association and the German-American Lawyers Association.

Håkon Wium Lie - CTO, Opera

Håkon Wium Lie joined Opera in 1999 as the Chief Technology Officer. Prior to his position at Opera, Wium Lie worked for W3C, where he proposed the concept of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). He is a knowledgeable speaker on languages for the Web, as well as the past, present and future of the Web. Prior speaking engagements include XTech, International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2), Atypi and Seybold. Wium Lie has also written for The Register, CNET and A List Apart. After receiving his Master’s degree from MIT Media Lab, Wium Lie worked as a research scientist at Norwegian Telecom Research and later at CERN, the birthplace of the Web. From 1995 to 1999, Wium Lie worked for W3C, after which he joined Opera. He has also received a PhD degree from the University of Oslo in 2006. In 1999, Technology Review included him on the TR100 list, “a group of one hundred young innovators in technology from around the world”. Wium Lie was also honored by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as one of the “Technology Pioneers” in 2000 and 2001.

Taken from: http://www.opera.com/company/executive/

Daniel Dardailler - Associate Chair, W3C/ World Wide Web Foundation

Daniel Dardailler is W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Associate Chair for Europe, Director of International Relations. He also work for the Web Foundation, a new organisation whose mission is to advance the Web to benefit humanity.

He's served on the ICANN Board of Directors as W3C liaison and is also a member of the UN Internet Governance Forum advisory group.

Daniel joined the W3C team in Sophia-Antipolis, France, in July 1996. In 1997, he launched the Web Accessibility Initiative and was the Technical Director of the activity til 2003. As such, he participated in the design of some important standards like HTML, CSS, WAI Guidelines. From 2000 to 2005, Daniel was W3C Europe operational Director.

Prior to joining W3C, from 1990 to 1996, Daniel was working in Cambridge, USA, as a software designer and programmer for the X Window System Consortium and before that the OSF/TheOpenGroup. From 1986 to 1990, he was a Unix/Graphics engineer at the Bull Research Center in France.

Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science in Digital Typography and Networking from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (1989).

The following picture is the only one I know of me with a tie, besides my wedding's. Enjoy.

Taken from http://www.w3.org/People/danield/bio.html

Sten Tamkivi - Skype Evangelist and Head of Skype Estonia

Sten Tamkivi is Skype’s Chief Evangelist, building relationships with engineering communities, media, governments and academia around the world. Based in Tallinn, he also looks after Skype Estonia, our largest office globally as local General Manager.

Sten joined Skype in 2005 and has held various executive positions as the Head of Operations, overseeing our sites and servers, internal IT, security, and productivity tools; as manager of the engineering for Skype Devices; General Manager of Skype’s eCommerce activities, responsible for developing next-generation commerce around Skype’s core communication offering; and more recently as GM of Desktop clients, focussing on the development of landmark Skype 4.0 for Windows release.

Prior to Skype, Sten was business development director at Helmes, a Tallinn-based software development and IT-consulting company. His client roster included major regional financial institutions, telecoms and utilities.

Having begun his career as a programmer and web designer, Sten co-founded and managed Halo Interactive DDB Estonia, the country’s first full service digital media agency. It was at Halo, while working on a web portal project, that he first met the future founders and core engineers of Skype.

Sten has studied Public Relations and Communication at the University of Tartu, Estonia.

Taken from: http://about.skype.com/executiveteam/stentamkivi/

Robert Stillman, CRAI

Bob Stillman specializes in the analysis of competition issues and in the quantification of damages in commercial litigation. Based in London, Dr. Stillman has worked on some of the European Commission's leading Article 82 cases (Microsoft and Qualcomm) as well as various mergers and cartel investigations. He has supervised the economic analysis for clients involved in market investigations before the U.K. Competition Commission. A significant portion of his current caseload involves matters in South Africa, where he has participated in numerous merger proceedings and other matters involving the South African Competition Commission and Tribunal.

Education
Ph.D. Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
M.Sc. Economics, London School of Economics
A.B. Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Taken from: http://www.crai.com/ecp/staff/stillman_r.htm

Mitchell Baker - Chairperson - Mozilla Foundation

Winifred Mitchell Baker, better known simply as Mitchell Baker is the Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and Chairperson and former Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client.

Trained as a lawyer, Baker coordinates business and policy issues and sits on both the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors and the Mozilla Corporation Board of Directors. In 2005, Time magazine included her in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world and she has been affectionately given the title of "Chief Lizard Wrangler" at the Mozilla Corporation.

Session 2

Chair

Trond Arne Undheim - Chair OFE Standards SIG/Oracle

Trond is the Director of Standards Strategy and Policy in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (the EMEA region) for Oracle Corporation. He writes the weekly blog Trond's Opening Standard, chairs the OFE Standardization Interest Group, and participates in the CEN/ISSS European e-Business Interoperability Forum.

He has worked at the European Commission where he led ePractice.eu, the good practice initiative. He speaks six languages, has co-founded several start-ups including a think tank and a consulting firm. He obtained his Ph.D. (2002) in Technology Studies and Sociology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and lives in London. Trond recently published the book Leadership From Below .

He is also the founding Editor of the European Journal of ePractice , reaching thousands of decision makers in public and private sector across the world. Trond can be reached via LinkedIn, his corporate blog, Trond's Opening Standard or through his Facebook discussion group. For published articles, see here for speeches, see the Slideshare profile.

Taken from: http://www.openforumeurope.org/about/biogs/trond

Adam Jollans is currently leading the worldwide Open Source & Linux strategy for IBM Software Group. This role covers a wide spectrum of activities, from understanding the market and working with customers, to developing IBM’s OpenSource & Linux software strategy, to briefing analysts and press.

He is based in Hursley, England, and has been involved with Linux since 1998. He joined IBM in 1984, and since then has worked in a range of technical, sales and marketing roles - most of them associated with PC and small systems hardware and software.

He graduated from the University of Cambridge, England in 1980 with a degree in Computer Science, and is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the British Computer Society.

Taken from: http://iotc.firstport.ie/speaker/16/

Matt Asay - VP of Business Development, Alfresco

Matt Asay is the vice president of Business Development for Alfresco, a leading open-source content management and collaboration company. Matt writes CNET's open source blog, chairs the Open Source Business Conference, and serves on the advisory boards of SugarCRM, Lucide Imagination, Volantis, Jaspersoft, Openbravo, and other leading open-source companies. Matt earned his juris doctorate at Stanford Law School where his research focused on open-source licensing issues under Professor Lawrence Lessig's guidance.

Prof. Dr. Luc Soete, Director, UNU MERIT

Luc Soete (Brussels, 1950) is Director of UNU-MERIT (the United Nations University- Maastricht Economic and social Research and training centre on Innovation and Technology) which emerged out of the integration of UNU-INTECH (the United Nations University Institute for New Technologies) and the University of Maastricht research institute MERIT. He is also Professor of International Economic Relations (on leave) at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Maastricht.

Professor Soete was the founding director of MERIT, which he set up in 1988, and oversaw the integration in 2005 of MERIT into UNU-INTECH to form the new research and training centre, UNU-MERIT. He is a member of the Dutch scientific advisory body Adviesraad voor Wetenschap en Technologie (AWT).

Before coming to Maastricht in 1986, he worked at the Department of Economics of the University of Antwerp (previously known as UFSIA), the Institute of Development Studies and the Science Policy Research Unit both at the University of Sussex, and the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Professor Soete completed his first degrees in economics and development economics at the University of Ghent, Belgium, before obtaining his DPhil in economics at the University of Sussex. His research interests cover the broad range of theoretical and empirical studies of the impact of technological change, in particular new information and communication technologies on employment, economic growth, and international trade and investment, as well as the related policy and measurement issues.

Taken from: http://www.merit.unu.edu/about/profile.php?id=10

James is the Director of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI). He is also the U.S. co-chair of the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Working Group on Intellectual Property, chair of Essential Inventions, an advisor to the X-Prize Foundation on a prize for TB diagnostics, and a member of the UNITAID Expert Group on Patent Pools, the MSF Working Group on Intellectual Property, the Stop-TB Partnership working group on new drug development, and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards. He advises UN agencies, national governments, international and regional intergovernmental organizations and public health NGOs, and is the author of a number of articles and monographs on innovation and intellectual property rights. In 2006, Knowledge Ecology International received a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.

James was previously Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a lecturer at Rutgers University, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University. He holds a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Taken from: http://www.keionline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52

Sebastiano Toffaletti - Secretary General, PIN-SME

11/1997 – 11/2003 Providing education and training:
Università degli studi di Bologna (Italy).
Title of qualification awarded: Master Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management

04/2003 - 08/2003 Providing education and training:
Laboratoire de modelization en mecanique (Paris, France).
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: Fluid dynamics
Title of qualification awarded:
Leonardo exchange program

09/2000 - 07/2001 Name and type of organization providing education and training: Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain)
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered:
Civil engineering
Title of qualification awarded:
Erasmus exchange program

Work Experience

12/2007 – ongoing PIN-SME, PanEuropean ICT & eBusiness Network for SMEs, Secretary General

12/2005 – ongoing NORMAPME, European Office of SMEs for Standardisation, Standardisation Project Manager

06/2004 – 11/2005 Volvo Truck Corporation, Automotive sector, manufacturer, Technical Sales Engineer

Taken from: http://www.pinsme.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69:sebastiano-toffaletti-curriculum-vitae-&catid=41:vitae&Itemid=74

Aslam Raffee - CIO Dept of Science and Technology, Govmt of South Africa

Aslam Raffee is the CIO of the Department of Science and Technology in the Government of South Africa . He is an executive member of the Government IT Officers Council (GITOC), and is the current chairperson of the GITOC Open Source and Open Standards working group.

In February 2007 Cabinet adopted the Policy on Free and Open Source Software use for South African Government, which was presented by the workgroup. The workgroup also made significant input into the latest version of the Minimum Interoperability Operating Standards Handbook for Government.

Mr Raffee is a member of the Information Soceity and Development cluster working group on electronic documentation. He is also a member of the South African Bureau of Standards EGovernment working group as well as Technical Committee 71: Information Technology.

He has a Bcomm:Management degree from the University of South Africa.