The speakers of the FInES Workshop on "Translating Knowledge into Growth: Views from ICT Research to Support Future Business Innovation" that is organised on May 9th, 2012 are:
Panel 1: Business values, value objects, value constellations
| Jesper Thestrup got his M.Sc. (EE) in 1974 from the Electromagnetic Institute at the Technical University of Denmark. He also holds a BSc. in Foreign Trade Studies from the Copenhagen Business School, as well as an Alpha Senior Management degree from INSEAD. He has more than 15 years of experience with top management of high-tech, electronic manufacturing companies in Europe, Asia and USA and he has great experience both as entrepreneur/implementer and as a business developer. He was Managing Director of DISA Electronics Inc. in New Jersey, USA and Dantec Measuring Technology A/S in Denmark. Since 1998 he has been Managing Director of In-JeT ApS, where he is consulting a number of small and medium-sized businesses. Moreover, he is Chairman of the Danish Electronics Panel, as well as an expert advisor for the EU Commission concerning ICT research projects. Throughout the years, he has held a number of honorary offices at home and abroad. |  |
| Simon Delaere holds Masters Degrees in Communication Sciences (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2002) and Communications Policy (University of Westminster, 2003). He joined SMIT in 2004. His research focus is on policy and regulatory issues surrounding media and ICT on the one hand, and business models for new technologies and services on the other. Currently, he coordinates the centre's involvement in number of projects on Future Internet technologies, particularly involving advances cognitive wireless networks. Issues studied in current and past projects include (spectrum) policy and business models for reconfigurable wireless networks and services, Public Service Broadcasting in the digital age, digital switch-over issues, television viewer participation and accountability, electronic archiving of audiovisual material, government policy concerning broadband test and experimentation platforms, strategies for accelerating the introduction of broadband services, and business models for electronic newspapers. |  |
Panel 2: The Sensing Enterprise
| Man-Sze Li is Director of London-based IC Focus Ltd, a research & analysis company. She has 25 years’ experience in ICT, holding senior positions on the demand and supply sides in both public and private sectors, was the elected founding chair of successive standards committees at CEN (EDI, eCommerce and then eBusiness), and has instigated and invested in several Internet start-ups. Her current research focuses on Future Internet service platforms and ecosystems, next-generation Enterprise Systems, and business-economic models & governance, with over 100 publications. She is Co-Chair of the European Commission DG INFSO Future Internet Enterprise Systems (FInES) Cluster and leads the Enterprise activity in the Future Internet Assembly. She leads the research on business value definition and analysis in the FP7/ICT NEFFICS Project. She is an initiator of the “Sensing Enterprise” concept. |  |
| Dr Oscar Lazaro graduated in Telecommunications Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) 1997, and received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Strathclyde University (Glasgow) in 2001. From 1999 to 2003 he worked at the UK Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence (MVCE) and received the national award to the best thesis on mobile multimedia in 2002 for his work on radio resource management algorithms and traffic modelling techniques. He has also been twice recipient of a Royal Academy of Engineering Grant. In 2003 he became a Research Fellow at the Institute for Multimedia, Communications and Computing (IMCO2) in Valencia and in 2004 he joined the Innovalia Association as Head of the ICT Unit, where he is currently managing director of the Innovalia Group R&D activities. Innovalia is an alliance of high-tech SMEs in the areas of ICT and manufacturing technologies and one of the 3 strategic technology groups in the Basque Country region. He is a board and founding member of the Cooperative Research Institute on Tourism and Mobile Communication Technologies (CIC Tourgune), Innovalia´s representative in the Telco Steering Committee of the EPoSS Technology Platform, Innovalia´s representative in EFFRA and is leading the Task Force at the EC on SMEs in the Future Internet. Dr Oscar Lazaro has led Innovalia technical research in various activities in FP6 and FP7 and more recently is leading the technological developments of the Spanish flagship project on sensing enterprises FASyS - Absolutely Safe and Healthy Factory. |  |
| Manfred Hauswirth is Vice-Director of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland and professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG). His research interests are on linked data streams, semantic sensor networks, sensor networks middleware, large-scale semantics-enabled distributed information systems and applications, peer-to-peer systems, Internet of things, self-organization and self-management, service-oriented architectures and distributed systems security. He has published over 150 papers in these domains and co-authored a book on distributed software architectures. Recently, he was program co-chair of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (IEEE P2P) in 2007, general chair of the Fifth European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in 2008, program co-chair of the 12th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE) in 2011, and program co-chair of the 10th International Conference on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE) in 2011. He is a member of IEEE and ACM and is on the board of WISEN, the Irish Wireless Sensors Enterprise Led Network , the scientific board of the Corporate Semantic Web research center at FU Berlin, and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Sensor Web Technologies (CLARITY) in Dublin, Ireland. |  |
| Prof. John Soldatos, PhD, (born in Athens, Greece in 1973) is with Athens Information Technology (AIT) since March 2003, where he is currently an Associate Professor. Prof. Soldatos has had an active role (wp-leader, technical manager, project manager) in several EC co-funded research projects in the scope of the ACTS, ESPRIT, FP5, FP6 and FP7 framework programmes. Dr. Soldatos has also considerable experience (senior developer, IT systems architect, team leader, technical project manager) in various enterprise ICT projects, where he worked for leading Greek enterprises (such as INTRACOM S.A, IBM Hellas S.A, PEGASUS S.A, OTE S.A). Dr. Soldatos was (in 2000) the technical manager for the software development of the portal http://www.e-go.gr. He is also the co-founder of the AspireRFID Open Source project (http://wiki.aspire.ow2.org/) (2008). Furthermore, he has been involved in several large scale industry projects (both public and private sector) as a principal IT consultant. Dr. Soldatos has also conducted more than 25 corporate training seminars (main topics being JavaEE, Oracle, RUP/XP, technical management for IT/IS). During 2007-2010, he was an Adjunct Professor in the Information Networking Institute (INI) of the Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA). As a result of his research and business activities he has co-authored more than 140 papers published in international journals, conference proceedings and magazines, while he has also co-edited two books and two journal special issues. His current research interests are in Pervasive, Autonomic and Cloud Computing, with a main emphasis on Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems and technologies, as well as their blending with Utility Computing and Social Networks. |  |
| Dr Jochen Rode holds a diploma in business & information technology as well as a masters and doctoral degree in computer science. He has a professional background in computer networks, software engineering, human computer interaction and manufacturing. Jochen joined SAP AG in 2005 and worked as development architect and program manager primarily on topics related to Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, in particular within the manufacturing industry. In 2008 he launched the SAP Research Future Factory Initiative (www.sap.com/futurefactory) and currently leads the M2M/Internet-of-Things research team at SAP Research in Dresden/Germany. |  |
Panel 3 - Next-generation Enterprise Systems – characteristics, properties andarchitectural design principles
| Dr Michele Missikoff – coordinator of the LEKS laboratory, at IASI (Institute for Systems Analysis and Informatics) of the CNR, Italian National Research Council; Senior Scientific Advisor of the CeRSI research center at LUISS University, director of CEK: Center for Enterprise Knowledge at Free University LUSPIO of Rome; rapporteur of the FInES Research Roadmap Task Force, ED INFSO, European Commission. He has a long-time research experience in databases, knowledge representation, and semantic technologies. Recently, he focused his attention on complex knowledge bases and multidimensional Ontologies and their impact on the management of large organizations, both in eGovenment and eBusiness areas. He served in the Program Committees of primary international conferences in the field and in the editorial boards of international journals. He has acted as the General Chair and Program Committee Chair in international conferences, such as CoopIS 98 and CAiSE’03 as well as Industrial Chair in VLDB’01. He is co-founder and past president of the international EDBT Foundation. He participated and led several international and national research projects. He cooperated with the European Commission in the context of the EC IST FP6 and FP7, in the ICT for eGov Unit, acting as evaluator, reviewer, and rapporteur. He is adjunct professor at the Masters in Business Administration school at LUISS University. He authored more than 150 scientific papers. |  |
| Roberto Saracco is the President of EIT Italy and Node Director of EIT Italy based in Trento (European Institute for Innovation and Technology). Up to December 2011 he was the Director of the Future Centre in Venice, responsible for innovative telecommunications architectures and scientific communications reporting directly to the Strategy Officer of Telecom Italia. During 1999 and 2000, Roberto proposed and delivered a World Bank project in the InfoDev framework to speed entrepreneurship in Latin American countries, and prior, 1999 and 2000, he proposed and carried out a World Bank project in the InfoDev framework to foster entrepreneurship in Latin America countries. Roberto chaired the Visionary Group (1996-1997) on Super Intelligent Networks to steer the cooperative research at the European Union (EU) level beyond the year 2000. He has recently served as member of the Internet 2020 Strategy Group and European Research Network (GEANT) expert group. In 1994 he launched the Marketing & Communications area in CSELT, ensuring dissemination of innovation. In the eighties, Roberto led research in Telecommunications Management in CSELT, and actively participated in standardization activities at CCITT, in the area of formal description techniques. Prior this role, he was involved in software design for the first Italian SPC systems. In addition to CCITT, Roberto has directly, and indirectly, participated in a number of international standardization organizations including OSI, ETSI and T1M1. His leadership includes chairing an EU-level group for planning, leading European research activities in the area of software technologies, and the EURESCOM group in designing the framework for European co-operation on TMN. He has led the EURESCOM group in information modelling for Pan European Services and Network Management. He is a senior member of IEEE, which he joined over 20 years ago. In the last 15 years he has held several leading roles and conducted a number of DLTs and DSPs. Currently he is the Director of the Sister and Related Societies of COMSOC. Previously he has served as VP of Member Relations, Director of Marketing, Chair of the CNOM and Enterprise Management TCs. On the FISTERA project http://fistera.jrc.es focused on steering research funding at the EU level, Roberto had the responsibility of forecasting technology trajectories for the next fifteen years in the area of information and communications technologies. He is also a leader of the Council of Advisors http://www.thecouncils.com/, and has published over 100 papers in journals and magazines, six books – including “The Disappearance of Telecommunications,” which was published in the USA by IEEE press, and several articles in the scientific section of daily newspapers. He has also delivered speeches and keynotes at many international conferences. At several stages in his career, Roberto has taught at Universities in Italy and around the world on the subject of Telecommunications, and most recently, on the New Economy. He currently lectures at the Turin Polytechnic on the aspects of multimedia and telecommunications. Starting 2012 he has retired after 40 years in the telecommunications area from Telecom Italia to lead the EIT Italy in Trento, one of the 6 European Labs set up by the European Commission to transform research results in the Information and Telecommunication areas into market innovation. |  |
| Fabio A. Schreiber is full professor of Pervasive Data Management and of Database Systems. From 1986 to 1998 he was full professor of Data Base Systems. From 1981 to 1986 he was full professor of Computer Science at the Mathematical Department of the Università di Parma. Research activity: his main research interests are in the fields of Distributed Informatics and Information Systems. His current research topics include: Database Systems for context-aware applications, Very Small and Mobile Database design methodologies and applications; Pervasive Information Systems. Other research interests include: dependability evaluation of computing and information systems and distributed information systems design. On these and other topics he authored a hundred papers published in international journals and conferences. He organized the "3rd International Seminar on Distributed Data Sharing Systems" (Parma, 1984), is member of the editorial boards of Data and Knowledge Engineering, and, from 1975 to 1993, he has been Editor-in Chief of Rivista di Informatica - the journal of the Italian Association for Informatics (AICA). He participated to several research projects, also with managerial responsibilities, among them: CNR-PFI1 DATANET on the architecture and design of distributed Data Bases (1979-1984); CNR-PFI2 LOGIDATA+ on merging logic programming and Data Base systems (1989-1994); ESPRIT EQUATOR on temporal Data Bases; ESPRIT ITHACA on tools for advanced application development, FIRB-MAIS, on Multichannel Adaptive Information Systems; ARTDECO on networked enterprise; SMScom on self-managing systems. He also participates to several projects on Information Systems and Telematics for Public Administrations and Local Authorities. For his activity on Information Systems for the Public Administrations he was bestowed the title of "Commendatore" of the Order "Al Merito della Repubblica Italiana". He is member of AICA, Senior Member of ACM, and Life Senior member of IEEE. Administrative activity: Deputy Faculty Dean of Facoltà di Ingegneria dell'Informazione (Politecnico 2007-2010); director of Informatic Engineering curriculum (Politecnico 1990-1993); director of Electronic Engineering curriculum (Politecnico 1988-1990); member of many ad-hoc Faculty committees. |  |
| Gregoris Mentzas is Professor of Information Management at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens and Director of the Information Management Unit (IMU), a multi-disciplinary research laboratory. His research activities concern knowledge and semantic technologies, service and process engineering and decision management. He has coordinated or participated in more than 40 international research projects funded by the European Commission and other funding bodies. He is an Associate Editor in five scientific journals and was Program Committee member in more than 55 international conferences like WWW, IEEE RE, ECAI, DEXA, AAAI Symposia, IFIP eGOV, PRO-VE, IDT and ESWC among others. He has been a grant evaluator for the European Commission ICT program, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation. Prof. Mentzas has (co-)authored or edited 4 books and published more than 200 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Contact him at imu.ntua.gr/gm. |  |
| Dimitris Karagiannis studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin and was visiting scientist at research institutions in the USA and Japan. From 1987 to 1992 he was scientific director for Business Information Systems at the Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Management (FAW) in Germany. Since 1993 he has been full professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Vienna. As head of the Research Group Knowledge Engineering his main research areas are Knowledge Management, Business Process Management and Meta-Modelling. Besides his engagement in national and EU-funded research projects Dimitris Karagiannis is the author of research papers, scientific conference contributions and books. He established the Business Process Management Approach, which has been successfully implemented in several industrial and service companies and is the founder of the European software- and consulting company BOC (http://www.boc-group.com), which implements software tools based on the meta-modelling approach. Recently he established the Open Model Initiative (www.openmodels.at) in Austria. |  |
