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

8:45        FP7 Overview, Janet Panford, Director, ERA-Can

9:00        ICT and its 7 Challenges
               Corinna Flöck, Ecole Centrale Paris

9:15        Canada-EU Information & Communications Technologies (ICT) National Contact Point (NCP)
                Debbie Kemp, Business Development Manager,
                Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC)

9:30        Directorate General Information Society & Media—Q & A’s
                Tom Mckinlay, Planning & Programming Officer, ICT Operations Unit
                Eric Badiqué, Research Programme Officer, Strategy for ICT Research & Development     

10:30       Ideal-ist, The Worldwide ICT Support Network
                Concettina Larosa, Italian Ideal-ist Representative and Technical Officer

10:50       IST-EC 2 (Information Societies Technologies – Europe-Canada) Overview
                Mounib Mekhilef, IST-EC 2 Project Coordinator

11:10       CANARIE and how it’s Infrastructure Works in Europe
                René Hatem, Sr. Director, Network Engineering & Operations, CANARIE    

11:30       EU’s COST (Cooperation in Science & Technology) Program
                Dr. Afonso Ferreira, COST ICT Scientific Officer

12:00       Q&A’s

13:15      ERA-Can (European Research Area-Canada) Overview
               Janet Panford, Director, ERA-Can

13:30      Canadian Funding Organizations

                -    NSERC, Jean-Pierre Rodrigue, International Relations Analyst

                -    NRC/IRAP, Richard O’Shaughnessey, Industry Technology Advisor
   
                -    PROMPT- Québec, Francois Borrelli, Vice-President, Partnerships development

                -    Ministère du Développement économique, de l’Innovation et de l”exportation (MDEIE), Richard Dupont,
                     Coordonnateur-Europe

                -    DFAIT- Going Global, Jim Burt, Trade Commissioner

14:15        Questions and Wrap-Up