Global Forum 2013 in Trieste
Partial list of participants
From the European Commission
Franco Accordino, DG CONNECT, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and
Technology, Head of Task Force "Digital Futures"
Giangaleazzo Cairoli, Honorary Director
Michel Catinat, DG Enterprise and Industry, Head of Unit for Key Enabling Technologies and ICT
Nicole Dewandre, Adviser for Societal Issues, "Digital's Social Sciences and Humanities" DG CONNECT
Bror Salmelin, Adviser, Innovation Systems, DG CONNECT
Gérald Santucci, Head of Unit Knowledge Sharing, DG Connect
Roberto Viola, Deputy Director-General, DG Connect
From Federal, International, National, Regional & Local Governmental Organizations
Jorgen Abild Andersen, Chairman of OECD's ICCP Committee; Director General Telecom, Danish
Business Authority - Ministry of Business and Growth, Denmark
Bernard Benhamou, Inter-Ministerial Delegate on Internet Usage, Ministry of Digital Economy &
Research, France
Amb. Giovanni Caracciolo di Vietri, CEI, Central European Initiative
Roberto Cosolini, Mayor City of Trieste, Italy
Donald Davidson, Chief Information Officer CIO, Department of Defense, US Department of State,
USA
Eric Legale, Managing director City of Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Ching-Chih Liao, Deputy Secretary-General - Taichung City, Taiwan
Marek Canecky, Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic
Antoine Mocilnikar, Délégation interministérielle à la Méditerranée (DiMed), Premier Ministre,
France
Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Commissioner FTC Federal Trade Commission, USA
Iryna Polishchuk, Member National Commission for the State Regulation of Communications and
Informatization –NCCIR, Ukraine
Michèle Thonnet, Official Representative e-Health , Responsible for European and International
Partnerships and Relations MISS (eHealth Department) Ministry of Health, France
Olivier Väärtnõu, Strategy Director Government Office of Prime Minister, Estonia
Mark Whaley, Councilor City of Waterloo, Canada
Suresh Yadav, Officer on Special Duty to the President of India, India
Representative from Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan
Camera di Commercio representatives Trieste
Provincia di Trieste representatives
Region of FVG representatives
Confindustria representatives
USTR, USA, representative
We are working with other countries, China, Africa……
Companies and Organizations
21c Consultancy- Julia Glidden, Managing Director, the United-Kingdom
Alcatel Lucent, Gabrielle Gauthey, Executive Vice President, Global Government & Public Affairs &
Olivier Duroyon, Director Public Affairs France
All in Ibiza, Yago Torres Garcia, Founder, Spain
AT&T, Brent Olson, Vice President - Public Policy, USA
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Austrian Federal Economic Chamber- WKO - Hans- Jürgen Pollirer, Chairman Information &
Consulting Division, Austria
AXA Matrix Risk, Gisèle Ducrot, Casualty Peril Expert, France
Azienda ulss VENEZIA Mario Po’, Executive Director, Italy
Bingham McCutchen, Andrew Lipman, Partner and Head of Telecom Group, USA
Cabinet Samman a French company (2 delegates)
Cassidian CyberSecurity, Sébastien Héon, Director of Institutional Relations; Fréderic Polycarpe, Head
of International Sales & Programmes, France
CEA-Consumers Electronics Association, Gary Shapiro, President &CEO, USA
Centre for eGovernance Development for South East Europe – CEGD, Blaz Golob, Founding director;
Chairman of GFS GoForeSight Institute, Slovenia
Chamber of Commerce and Industry Nice-Côte d'Azur, Jean-Christophe Clément, Expert Energy,
France
Coders4Africa, Amadou Daffe, CEO/Co-Founder, Senegal / USA
Consip S.p.A, Luca Mastrogregori, Head of eProcurement Strategies Department, Italy
Consumers Electronics Association-CEA, Gary Shapiro, President & CEO, USA
Dedalus representatives
Disney, Thomas Spiller, Vice President, Public Policy, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Belgium
Dreyfus & Associés, Emmanuel Harrar, Partner, France
EADS, Denis Gardin Senior Vice-President & Head of VoltAir Systems, France
eBay Inc. Public Policy Lab EMEA, Hanne Melin, Policy Strategy Counsel, Belgium
Ernst & Young, Federico Maffezzini, Partner; Financial Business Advisors, , Italy
ESA, Patrice Langlumé, President, France
ESTECO SpA – AREA Science Park Trieste, Chiara Viani
ETSI - European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Margot Dor, Director Partnerships & EU
Affairs
EVOLARIS NEXT LEVEL GMBH &, Christian Kittl, Austria
First Bank/TV3/Africa Leadership Congress/Life for Africa, Kingsley Fletcher, Traditional Ruler;
Business Leader; Chairman, Ghana
Frederico Mafferrini, Ernst&Young Financial Business Advisors S.p.A., Italy
Foundation for Multimedia Communications, Kenji Hiroshige, Director, Japan
Forum PA representatives
Genna Cabinet, Innocenzo Genna, Founder and Partner Director, Belgium
GPI representatives
Group of Decisions, Pras Anand, Founder, United-Kingdom
GSMA Association, association of mobile operators , John Giusti, Head of Spectrum, UK
Heenan Blaikie AARPI, Alice Pezard, Avocat Of Counsel, France
ICF-Intelligent Community Forum, John Jung, Chairman and Co-Founder, USA
INFOCERT representatives
Information Futures, L.L.C., Elwood Kerkeslager, CEO, USA
IBM Corporation, Steven Adler, Program Director of IBM Data Governance Solutions, USA
InfoCert
Inter-American Development Bank, Cristiana Falcone, Principal Partnerships Consultant; Member
INSIEL
IPv6 Forum Latif Ladid, Luxembourg
IS-Practice, Hugo Kerschot, CEO, Belgium
KPeople ltd, Fabio Perossini, Managing Director, Italy
KPMG Slovakia, s.r.o, Rudolf Sedmina, Partner, Slovakia
Latham & Watkins, Thomas Rosch, Counsel Antitrust & Competition Practice, USA
M-Cube S.p.A., Manlio Romanelli, President, Italy
Microsoft, USA (3 delegates)
Medic4All, Shai Misan, MD, Israël
Minerva, Adriano Ruchini, President and CEO, Italy
National Institute of Advances Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Yoshio Tanaka, Japan
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Navidis, Philippe Perennez, CEO and R&D, France
NTT Corporation, Eikazu Niwano, Producer, Japan
Palo Alto Research, Willie LU, Chairman and Co-founder , Chief Inventor and "Father", Mobile Cloud,
platform for Mobile Devices, USA
Patient Certificate Scheme, Ingrid Andersson, Senior Advisor, Sweden
PayPal representatives
PTI- Public Technology Institute, Alan Shark, CEO, USA
OGS- Istituto Naz.le di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Rita Blanos Project Manager of
Energycity, Alessandro Pavan and Michela Vellico
Qualcomm, Alberto Di Felice, Government Affairs Analyst, Belgium
SAP Slovenija, Nino Novinec, Public Administration Executive, SAP Coordinator Danube eRegion
SBL, Colin Williams, Director, UK
Sequent Learning Networks, Steven Haines Founder & CEO & Debra Albert, Chief Development
Officer, USA
Solinfo s.r.l, Alessandro Borgato, Sales Manager & Giorgio Calzetti, CEO, Italy
Swedish Data Inspection Board, Anna Hörnlund, Lawyer, Sweden
TBS Group representatives, Italy
Telecom Italia representatives
Telit representatives, Italy
Truyoins, Enrico Fiore, Chairman, Israel / Italy
The Udemba Group, Udo Udemba , Chairman/CEO TUG, Nigeria
Universcience, Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie & Palais de la découverte, Olivier Las Vergnas,
General Delegate for Inclusion, Training and Professional Activities and Director of the Paris La
Villette "Cité des Métiers"
Verizon, Jacquelynn Ruff, Vice President, International Public Policy & Regulatory Affairs, USA; Rob
Rosendaal, Director, Regulatory & Government Affairs Europe, The Netherlands
VINNOVA - Swedish Agency for Innovation, Madeleine Siösteen Thiel, Senior Programme ManagerServices & IT Implementation Department, Sweden
Walt Disney Company, Thomas Spiller, Vice President, Public Policy, Europe, Middle East & Africa
Wiley Rein LLP, Anna Gomez, Partner/Attorney At Law, USA
WIL Network Women in Leadership, session on women and IT (6 delegates), Europe and US
The WorldBank
Others companies and organizations to be confirmed
Universities & Scientific Centers
AREA representatives, Italy
ICTP Centro Internazionale di Fisica Teorica, Trieste, Italy
EESTEC - Electrical Engineering Students' European Association, Trieste, Italy
Rosa Bruno- Jofré, Dean Queen's University, Canada
Jean-Pierre Chamoux, Professor Université Paris Descartes, France
Jean-Christophe Clement Energy Expert Pole Développement Durable- Chambre de Commerce et
d'Industrie Nice Côte d'Azur,France
Frederick Douzet, Chairman Chair of CyberSrategy, IHEDN - Institut des Hautes Etudes de Défense
Nationale, France
Maurizio Fermeglia, Rector Università Degli Studi di Trieste, Italie
Jay Gillette, Ball State University, Center for Information & Communication Sciences, USA
Blaz Golub, Founding Director Centre for eGovernance Development for South East Europe (SEE) –
CeGD, Slovenija
Joze Gricar, Chair, Department of Informatics, Director, eCommerce Center, University of Maribor,
Slovenia
Franco Grossi, Professor State University of Kazan & University of Trieste, Italy
Stéphane Grumbach, Senior Researcher, INRIA, France
Nitya Karmakar, Macquarie University, Macquarie City Campus, Australia
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Christian Kittl, Managing Director, evolaris next level, Graz, Austria & Mobile Living Lab, & Steering
Committee, ALADIN – ALpe Adria Danube universities Initiative, Austria
András Nemeslaki, Professor eGovernment Center, National University of Public Service,
Computer Science State University of Library Studies and IT, Hungary
Roumen Nikolov, Professor & Head of Department of Computer Science, State University of Library
Studies and IT Sofia, Bulgaria
Nagaaki Ohyama, Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology - Imaging Science and Engineering
Laboratory, Japan
Sergio Paoletti, Professor & Past Rector, University of Trieste, Italy
Fabio Pasian, INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Italy
Jani Recer, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia
Alfredo Ronchi, Secretary General at EC MEDICI Framework of Cooperation, Politecnico di Milano,
Italy
Michael Stankosky, Research Professor, George Washington University, USA
Yoshio Tanaka, Professor, Tokyo University of Science Graduate School of Management of Innovation
studies; Emeritus Councilor, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Michela Vellico, Istituto Naz.le di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS, Italy
Miroslav Veskovic, Professor Faculty of Sciences & Rector, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Magnus Wakander, National Defence College, Sweden
To be confirmed among others
A delegation from China
A delegation from the GCC (Golf Countries)
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