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Sectoral e-Business Watch
e-Newsletter No. 3/2009, October 2009
Special Issue - SeBW Conference 2009, Brussels, 29 October
Dear Readers,
This is a special issue of the newsletter of the Sectoral e-Business Watch (SeBW), inviting you to the project's highlight event of 2009: the annual conference which will take place in Hotel Bloom in Brussels on 29 October 2009. The conference is entitled "ICT and e-business for an innovative and sustainable economy". At the conference, the final results of the studies conducted in 2009 will be presented and discussed. Below you find the programme. A pdf version is available here.
The conference focuses on the economic impact of ICT on innovation and environmental sustainability as well as on the implications for competitiveness and policy. It is the sixth e-Business Watch Conference, first organised in 2002, regularly attracting more than 100 participants - including policy makers, representatives from business and business associations, consultants and researchers. It offers a great opportunity to exchange ideas on current and future developments in ICT and e-business. For further information, for example about the speakers, please see the conference website.
Participation is free of charge and open to all interested parties, but prior registration is required. Please note that travel and other expenses cannot be reimbursed except for invited speakers, panellists and Advisory Board members. If you are interested in participating, please register online.
We are looking forward to meeting you at the Conference!
The e-Business Watch Study Team
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Programme of the SeBW Conference 2009
29 October 2009 - Hotel Bloom, rue Royale 250, 1210 Brussels
| 08:15 – 9:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00 – 9:15 | Welcome and opening | |
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Viola Groebner, DG Enterprise and Industry, Director, B - Industrial Policy and Economic Reforms (invited) Hasan Alkas, DG Enterprise and Industry, Principal Economist, SeBW Programme Manager |
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| ICT and sustainability | ||
| 09:15 – 10:45 | ICT contribution to energy efficiency | |
| Chair: | Colette Maloney, DG Information Society and Media, Head H.4, ICT for Sustainable Growth | |
Speakers: |
Hannes Selhofer, empirica, Project Manager Roberta Bigliani, IDC Energy Insights, Research Director Reinhard Madlener, RWTH Aachen University, Professor of Energy Economics and Management |
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| Discussant: | Miguel Sánchez Fornié, European Utilities Telecom Council, Board of Directors, Chairman | |
| Discussion | ||
| 10:45 – 11.00 | Coffe Break | |
| 11:00 – 12:30 | ICT impact on greenhouse gas emissions | |
| Chair: | Hasan Alkas, DG Enterprise and Industry, Principal Economist, SeBW Programme Manager | |
Speakers: |
Ferdinand Pavel, DIW econ, Project Manager Jian Bani, SE Consult, Managing Director |
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| Discussant: | Pietro Evangelista, National Research Council (Italy), researcher (invited) | |
| Discussion | ||
| 12:30 – 13.30 | Lunch Break | |
| ICT and industrial policy | ||
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Keynote: Perspectives of ICT-related industrial policy in the EU | |
Alexander Alvaro, Member of the European Parliament |
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| 14:00 – 15:15 | ICT-related industrial policy | |
| Chair: | Manfred Bergmann, DG Enterprise and Industry, Head B/2, Development of Industrial Policy | |
Speakers: |
Graham Vickery, OECD, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry Stefan Lilischkis, empirica, SeBW Project Manager |
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| Discussant: | Peter Johnston, European Policy Centre, Senior Adviser on information and knowledge society | |
| Discussion | ||
| 15:15 – 15.30 | Coffe Break | |
| 15:30 – 16:45 | Panel discussion: ICT-related industrial policies in difficult economic times | |
| Chair: | Peter O'Donnell, Assistant Editor, European Voice | |
Panellist: |
Leo Baumann, Digitaleurope, Public Affairs Director Manfred Bergmann, DG Enterprise and Industry, Head B/2, Development of Industrial Policy Peter Johnston, European Policy Centre, Senior Adviser on information and knowledge society Bahadir Kaleağasi, Turkish Industry and Business Association, Brussels Vincent Thery, Ministry of Economics, Industry and Employment, France (invited) |
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| 16:45 – 17:00 | Conference conclusions and outlook | |
| Jean-Noël Durvy, DG Enterprise and Industry, Director, D - Innovation Policy | ||
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How to find Hotel Bloom
Directions to the venue hotel of the SeBW Conference 2009
If you need directions to the venue Hotel Bloom in Brussels, please follow the link below to be forwarded to Google Maps.
The address of the venue hotel will already be specified and you will be asked to enter your personal starting address. By then clicking on the button "Go" you will receive your individually generated route:
SeBW Brochure 2009
Paper copies available
The 2009 brochure of the SeBW has been released. A pdf version is available here.
If you would like to have paper copies of the brochure, please contact:
European Commission
DG Enterprise & Industry
Unit D4 'ICT for competitiveness and innovation'
e-mail: entr-innov-ict-ebiz@ec.europa.eu
Workshop results available
ICT impact in the energy supply industry and on greenhouse gas emissions
The results of the SeBW workshop on ICT impact in the energy supply industry and on greenhouse gas emissions in energy-intensive industries, which took place on 24 September 2009 in Brussels, are now availabe.
You can find the materials on the SeBW website at: