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Conference Programme

Thursday, 2 October 2003

10.00 - 11.00	Official Opening of the Event
11.15 - 12.30	Opening Plenary session: Lucio Stanca, Italian Minister for Innovation and Technologies Erkki Liikanen, EU Commissioner for Information Society Roberto Formigoni, President of the Lombardy Region

14.00 - 16.00	Plenary session: "The Opportunities Ahead"
room	RED 1 Arena Di Verona	RED 2 Teatro Degli Arcimboldi	BLUE 1 Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma	BLUE 2 Teatro La Fenice	YELLOW 3 Teatro Giuseppe Verdi
16.15 - 17.45	Ambient Intelligence: From vision to reality	Grid @ the frontiers	Applying Ambient Intelligence: ICT and Health	Wireless in motion	Networked SMEs: Is another way of doing business possible?
18.00 - 19.00	European IST Prize Awards Ceremony
Click on a workshop for full details, and you can pose questions or consult the names of other interested people. SPOTLIGHTED TOPICS: * Broadband and Wireless applications * Nano World * Interfaces * Harnessing Computing and Knowledge Resources * SMEs

Friday, 3 October 2003

room	PLENARY Teatro Alla Scala	RED 1 Arena Di Verona	RED 2 Teatro Degli Arcimboldi	BLUE 1 Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma	BLUE 2 Teatro La Fenice	YELLOW 3 Teatro Giuseppe Verdi
09.15 - 10.00				Keynote speech: A trip into the NanoWorld	Keynote speech: Designing for effectiveness and enjoyment
10.15 - 11.45	INFO SESSION Emerging challenges in IST	Broadband in action	Shaping EU leadership in Grid research through the European Research Area	Applying micro- and nanotechnologies for ICT	Natural interaction, design and artistic creation	SMEs: Growing locally for competing globally
12.00 - 12.45			Keynote speech: Grid: the third wave of internet?			Keynote speech: From research to business: a European success story

14.00 - 15.30	INFO SESSION Visions for future research: Components, subsystems and applications	Wireless tags - a smarter and safer world?	Research infrastructures and Grid deployment	Long-term opportunities for nano-related ICT	Multimodal interfaces for workplace design	Access to finance I (first steps in collaboration with European Investment Forum)
16.00- 17.30	Towards a European Research Area in ICT	Disaster relief: Wireless to the rescue	Equal right access: The power of wireless communications	Towards an ICT policy that includes micro-, nano- and biotechnology	When technology disappears and interaction becomes natural	Access to finance II (coaching from the experts in collaboration with European Investment Forum)
Click on a workshop for full details, and you can pose questions or consult the names of other interested people. SPOTLIGHTED TOPICS: * Broadband and Wireless applications * Nano World * Interfaces * Harnessing Computing and Knowledge Resources * SMEs

Saturday, 4 October 2003

room	PLENARY Teatro Alla Scala	RED 1 Arena Di Verona	RED 2 Teatro Degli Arcimboldi	BLUE 1 Teatro Dell'Opera Di Roma	BLUE 2 Teatro La Fenice	YELLOW 3 Teatro Giuseppe Verdi
09.15 - 10.45	Opportunities for SMEs	Mobility @ work - supporting professionals on the move	Delivering the Grid to industry	International cooperation in IST	Interfaces for accessibility and integration	Software technologies: Paradigm shifts
11.15 - 12.45	INFO SESSION Security, linking technology and policy	Power to the people - an electrifying issue	Grid economy and business models	Key challenges for eGovernment research & development	Natural communication and interaction - what is needed?	SMEs: ICT, an engine for innovative business processes

14.00 - 15.30	How to make a proposal in IST: Future plans and lessons learnt from the first call	Cross-media entertainment as a driver for IST take-up	Emerging Grid applications	EUREKA clusters and actions in the IST area	Collaborative R&D and standardisation - creating business opportunities	Socio-economic aspects of IST
Click on a workshop for full details, and you can pose questions or consult the names of other interested people. SPOTLIGHTED TOPICS * Broadband and Wireless applications * Nano World * Interfaces * Harnessing Computing and Knowledge Resources * SMEs