8:00     Registration & Coffee


8:30       Welcome
              Pierre Dumouchel, Scientific VP CRIM & Professor ETS


8:45       FP7 and ERA-Can (European Research Area - Canada) Overview
              Janet Panford, Director, ERA-Can
 
 
9:15       Canada – EU ICT National Contact Point
              Debbie Kemp, Business Development Manger, CRC


9:30       ICT and its 7 Challenges
              Corinna Flöck, Ecole Centrale Paris    


9:55       IST-EC2 Project Overview
              Mounib Mekhlief, IST-EC2 Project Coordinator


10:15     Health Break


10:35      Ideal-ist, The Worldwide ICT Support Network
               Concettina Larosa, Italian Ideal-ist Representative and Technical Officer


11:00      CANARIE and how it’s Infrastructure Works in Europe
               Susan Baldwin, Sr. Director, Operations, CANARIE    


11:20      EU’s COST (Cooperation in Science & Technology) Program
               Dr. Afonso Ferreira, COST ICT Scientific Officer


11:50      Q&A’s


12:15      Lunch


13:15     Canadian Funding Organizations

• NSERC, Jean-Pierre Rodrigue, International Relations Analyst
• NRC/IRAP, Richard O’Shaughnessey, Industry Technology Advisor
• Ministère du Développement économique, de l’Innovation et de l”exportation (MDEIE), Richard Dupont, Coordonnateur-Europe
• DFAIT- Going Global, Jim Burt, Trade Commissioner

14:30    Questions and Wrap-Up



Location:

Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal (CRIM)
550 Sherbrooke Street, West
Room 100