THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Pro>Retreat of the Scientific and Technological Centers of FBK

Trento, Italy, January 29-30 2009

January 29th

9.00-9.30 Welcome & Opening Welcome by Andrea Zanotti (president of FBK)
The FBK Research Programs
Andrea Simoni (Director Center for Materials and Microsystems – FBK)
Paolo Traverso (Director Center for Information Technology – FBK) 
 
9.30-11.00 - Nano & Micro Technologies (1)
Chairs: Pierluigi Bellutti – Head of MTLab, FBK; Lorenzo Gonzo – Head of Smart Optical Sensors and Interfaces, FBK
Bruno Murari (Scientific Advisor ST Microelectronics) - Italy - download the presentation .ppt 
Peter Seitz (Vice-President Nano-medicine, CSEM SA) - Switzerland - download the presentation .pdf 

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.00 Future Internet (1)
Chairs: Massimo Zancanaro –Head of Intelligent Interfaces & Interaction, FBK; Luciano Serafini – Head of Data & Knowledge Management, FBK
Mark Maybury (Executive Director – MITRE) – USA - download the presentation .ppt 
Klaus Tochtermann (Director Know-Center Graz) – Austria

13.00-14.30 Lunch

14.30-16.00 Nano & Micro Technologies (2)
Chairs: Alberto Lui – New Materials and Analytical Methods for Biosensors and Bioelectronics Group, FBK; Leandro Lorenzelli – BioMEMS Group, FBK
Pietro Siciliano (Resp. IMM CNR – Sezione di Lecce) – Italy - download the presentation .pdf 
David Holden (CEA- Minatec) - France - download the presentation .ppt  

16.30-18.00 Future Internet (2)
Chair: Marco Pistore – Head of Service Oriented Applications, FBK
Hendrik Berndt (VP & CTO of DoCoMo Eurolabs) – Germany/Japan - download the presentation .zip 
Roger Kilian-Kehr  (Research Architekt, SAP Research Center CEC Karlsruhe) - download the presentation .pdf 

January 30th
9.00-10.30 2009 - The Year of Innovation - The Challenges for ICT (1)
Chair: Alessandro Cimatti – Head of Embedded Systems, FBK
João da Silva (Director of the Network & Communication DG-INFSO) - download the presentation .ppt 
Malik Ghallab (CEO for Science and Technology – INRIA) - France - download the presentation .ppt 

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.30 Future Internet (3)
Chairs: Marcello Federico & Bernardo Magnini — Heads of Human Language Technologies, FBK
Yuichi Matsushima (Vice President of NICT) – Japan 
Prabhakar Raghavan (Head of Yahoo! Research) – USA

12.30-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Embedded Intelligence: Ambient Computing & Intelligent Interaction
Chair: Oliviero Stock – Senior Fellow, FBK

Ray Perrault (Director Artificial Intelligence Center – SRI) – USA - download the presentation .ppt  
Wolfgang Wahlster (CEO and Scientific Director of DFKI) - Germany - download the presentation .pdf 

15.30-16.00 Coffee break

16.00-17.30 2009 - The Year of Innovation - The Challenges for ICT (2)
Chair: Paolo Traverso, Director Center for Information Technology, FBK
Lutz Heuser (Vice President of SAP Research) – Germany
Dario Avallone (Director R&D Engineering) - Italy - download the presentation .ppt 
 

17.30-19.00 Concluding Remarks - Moderatore: Michele Lanzinger (Direttore Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali)
Lorenzo Dellai – President of the Trentino Autonomous Province
Andrea Zanotti – President of FBK
Andrea Simoni – Director Center for Materials and Microsystems
Paolo Traverso – Director Center for Information Technology
Discussion & Remarks by the Invited Speakers

19.00-20.00 Aperitif

Sala Conferenze Ovest, FBK
Via Sommarive 18, Povo, Trento, Italy

PLEASE NOTE: the talks are in English and attendance is upon invitation

As far as the Center for Information Technology is concerned, two additional days are being added to the programme, as follows:

- The first part on Wednesday, Jan. 28,  starting from 9 a.m. and dealing with the Trentino Research System
- The second part on Monday, Feb. 2, starting from 9.30 a. m. for FBK researchers only

January 28th

9.00 – 9.30    Welcome & Introduction — Paolo Traverso Director of the Center for Information Technology, FBK

9.30 – 10.00  Francesco De Natale
Director of the Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione (DISI), University of Trento

10.00 - 10.30  Imrich Chlamtac
President of the CREATE-NET Research Consortium

10.30 – 11.00  Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.30  Raffaele De Amicis
Director of the Center for Advanced Computer Graphics
Technologies (GraphiTech)

11.30 – 12.00  Corrado Priami
President & CEO of The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology (CoSBi)

12.00 – 12.30  Remo Job
Dean of Facoltà di Scienze Cognitive, Università di Trento

12.30 – 13.00  Discussion & Concluding Remarks