Schedule

14 th Dec 2010 Pre-conference (Ghent)
15 th Dec 2010 Conference day 1 (Brussels)
16 th Dec 2010 Conference day 2 (Brussels)

14 th Dec 2010 Pre-conference

09:00 Welcome / Flemish e-Government

Geert Mareels, Flemish e-Government Manager

09:10 Citadel Statement: European policy to support local e-Government

Dr.Julia Glidden, managing director, 21c Consultancy Ltd.

10:10 Modernising government to shape a better future

Prof. Carlota Perez

11.10 Coffee Break

11:40 Reflections on the Citadel Statement

Daniël Termont, Mayor Ghent

12:10 I-scan tool. E-government: a new chance or a new problem?

Sabine Rotthier, University College Ghent

12:40 Lunch

14:00 Innovations in Mobile Communication for Emergency services

John Baekelmans, Customer Solutions Director Cisco

14:30 Opening up public data to improve transparancy and efficiency

Paul Davidson, Chief Information Office of Sedgemoor District Council. Director of the Local e-Government Standards Body.

15:15 Tomorrows public services today

Jos Creese, Head of IT, Hampshire County Council and President, Society of IT Management, UK

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30 Information doesn't want to be free, people do

Cory Doctorow

17:30 Open source Cloud computing platform

Dries Buytaert, Drupal

18:00 Closure

Geert Bourgeois, Vice-Minister-President of the Flemish Government and Flemish Minister for Administrative Affairs, Local and Provincial Government.

18:20 End of conference day

19:00 Social event: Museum for Modern Arts (James Ensor exhibition)

15 th Dec 2010 Conference day 1

9am Plenary Session 1: Welcome and Formal Opening

Opening Ceremony

Herman Van Rompuy ( Europe 2020)

EU President

Neelie Kroes (Digital Agenda Europe + eGovernment Action Plan 2015)

Vice -President & Commissionar

Vincent Van Quickenborne (presentation of link with BE digital plan)

BE Minister

10:30am Coffee Break

11am Plenary Session 2: the European ICT Agenda of yesterday - today - tomorrow

What is "Open Government"? - a look forward...

Visionary speaker: Peter Hinssen

Across Technology

11:30am Plenary Session 3: the future of public service: a search for a new balance

Feedback from a country that did it...

USA perspective for a future public service: Vivek Kundra

U.S. CIO

11:50am Plenary Session 4: From eGovernment Policy to Implementation

What's the plan for the coming years?

Robert Madelin

DG INFSO

Francisco Garcia Moran

DG DIGIT

12:30am Lunch

2pm Special session : cyber-threats for successful eGovernment

Luc Beirens

FCCU - BE

Lauri Almann

lawyer

Marc Henauer

MELANI - CH

Annemarie Zielstra

NICC - ICTU.nl

Lionel Ferret

Cert.be

2pm Plenary Session 5: Open Government: (administrative effectiveness & efficiency)

How efficient and effective is my Government?

Introductions by Mr Alain Gerlache

Mechthild Rohen

DG INFSO

Frank De Saer - the KBO effect

CIO FPS Economy

Maarten Hillenaar

CIO of NL

Randeep Sudan

World Bank

3:30pm Coffee break

4pm Break-Out Session 1: Citizen & Business Centricity

Is my government thinking about me first?

Nick Batey

Gonçalo Caseiro

Portugal

Ales Dobnikar

Slovenia

Peter Strickx

Belgium

David Osimo

Open declaration

4pm Break-Out Session 2: national eLaws versus one European eLaw

Is my eLaw "Open Government ready" ?

Introduction of the session and speakers by professor Jos Dumortier

Time.Lex

European work group on telematic procedures - A study of a potential EU directive (tbc)

Prof. Giovanni Duni

Joanna Beczala - identity theft

DG JLS

Willem De Beuckelaere

BE Privacy Commission

Benoit Van Asbroeck

Bird & Bird

Debate moderated by professor Jos Dumortier

Time.Lex

4pm Break-Out Session 3: Attaining social value through eGovernment: Measurement tools

"How can I measure the real (added) value of my Government?"

Introduction of the session and speakers by Hugo Kerschot

IS-Practice

OECD: suggestions for possible take-up for usage of eGov services

Barbara Ubaldi

the 2010 Benchmark measurement for eGovernment Services

Graham Colclough

Governance Solutions International

Guido Bertucci

Danish Technology Institute

Jeremy Millard

view from the Commission: (DG INFSO)

Lucilla Sioli

5pm Plenary Session 6: Putting the internal market in practice

How can I "TRUST" the rest of Europe?

Introduction by Frank Robben

KSZ-BCSS

STORK

R.Posch

PEPPOL

Klaus Vilstrup Pedersen, Deputy Project Director

SPOCS

D.Tinholt

eHealth - epSOS

F.Robben

6pm End of conference day 15/12

Social Event

16 th Dec 2010 Conference day 2

9am Plenary Session 7: Report back of pre-conferences

Bits & Bytes from the World

eGovernment conference of local authorities

Geert Mareels

Cybercrime

Luc Beirens

10am Coffee break

10:30am Break-Out Session 4: Green IT

How green is my (IT in) Government?

Moderation of the debate by Bill Mc Luggage

German research Center for Environmental Health

Dr Wolfgang zu Castell

"internet must become greener" by the CTO Office SSET Unit (Smart Systems & Energy Technology)(IMEC)

Prof. Rudy Lauwereins

ICT for a greener administration - ICT agenda for the environment 2010-2015 (Sweden)

Sofia Holmgren

View from the Commission

Colette Maloney

10:30am Break-Out Session 5: eParticipation - eDemocracy

Where and How can I influence my politicians?

MySociety.org

Tom Steinberg

Africa4All

Mr.Vasilis Koulolias - Gov2u

Vickie Cammack - TYZE Personal Networks

PLAN Institute

Diogo Vasconselos

APDC (Portugal)

Moderation of the debate by Béatrice Van Bastelaer

10:30am Break-Out Session 6: Open Government by way of Cloud computing

Let's talk about clouds...

Daniele Catteddu

ENISA

Stuart McRae

IBM

Jean-François Junger

Commission

Hans Graux

legal/study group

Moderator: Peter Strickx

Fedict

12am Lunch

1:30pm Plenary Session 8: BATTLE OF THE CEO's

The Law of the Jungle?

Peter Korsten : Introduction next speaker

CEO from software sector

CEO from telecom sector

CEO from IT sector

CEO from Internet sector

3:30pm Plenary Session 9 : CONCLUSIONS AND CLOSING

Rapporteur David Broster

IPTS

Commissionar Mr Maros Sefcovic

DG DIGIT

Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne

BE Minister

4:30pm End of conference 16/12