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CReATE International Conference: Speakers
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ANDREA BAIRATI
Regional Minister for University, Research, Innovation, Internationalisation, Industry and Energy. Born in Turin in 1961, he is married, with two children. He has a classical high school diploma, a degree in Biotechnology, and has studied the analysis and assessment of complex systems. He has managed projects in the field of training systems engineering, monitoring skill requirements and innovation in the economic-industrial system.
He has administered service and consultancy companies, working for local authorities, ministries, business associations, trades unions and the European Union. He has contributed to the economic daily paper Il Sole 24 ORE, and has represented the City of Turin on the Board of Directors of CSEA; he has also been responsible for assessing EU projects. He coordinated activities for the preparation of the mandate report of the Turin Provincial Council for the years 1995-2004. He collaborated on the Torino-Milano 2010 project promoted by the Chambers of Commerce of Turin and Milan; and was scientific manager of the 2005 Crafts Fair.
Wednesday 4th November 14.00 - 14.15 - Welcome Speech
LORENZO BENUSSI
Lorenzo Benussi is researcher and business developer at TOP-IX, a no- profit consortium that counts 80+ members including TELCOs, ISPs, Content and Application Providers, public institutions and local universities. He is working on new business models for the Internet sector, promoting open innovation and user driven innovation. Lorenzo holds a Ph.D. in Economics of Innovation, he is research fellow of the NEXA Centre for Internet and Society, Turin Polytechnic and member of Creative Commons Italy
Thursday 5th November 11.00 -11.30 - Chair of the Session "The gamification of media"
JASPER BOUWSMA
JASPER BOUWSMA is committed to supporting entrepreneurs, start-ups and established companies in bringing their innovation to market successfully.
With Vujàdé Ltd., of which he is Founder and CEO, he incubates ideas, supports entrepreneurs and start-ups from an early stage, and consults established organizations in developing forward strategies and providing tools and methods to get there. Through this combination of start-up and corporate activities, Jasper has a unique insight in innovation, the success factors and typical reasons for failure. Jasper was born and raised in The Netherlands, studied International Business at the University of Maastricht (NL) and Fribourg (CH) and took courses at MIT Sloan (Boston, USA) and Stanford Research Institute (Menlo Park, USA). Until early 2008 he worked for a Swisscom, where he initiated and led its incubation activities.
Wednesday 4th November 14.30 - 16.30 - The ICT and Creative Industry Scenario
MARIO CALDERINI
Mario Calderini was born in Milano, on May 23rd 1966, and lives in Torino. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Manchester and a MSc in Engineering from Politecnico di Torino. He is Full Professor of Strategy and Innovation Management at Politecnico di Torino. Mario Calderini’s main research interest is in the Economics and Management of Innovation. His numerous publications in highly ranked international journals cover several topics: technology and innovation policies, empirical studies on the determinants of innovative activity, technology and knowledge transfer, the strategic management of intellectual property rights and finance for innovation. During is years as a Research Fellow, Mario Calderini was a permanent visiting student at the Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition (CRIC, University of Manchester), where he was nominated honorary research fellow and associate member. Besides his academic activities, he holds top positions in several important national and international organizations in charge of research and innovation public policies.
Thursday 5th November 11.30 - 13.00 - Policy for ICT and Creative Industries around Europe
ANDY CAMERON
Andy Cameron is the Head of the Interactive Department at Fabrica, the Benetton research centre on communication located near Treviso. Each year Fabrica invites young artists, photographers, designers, musicians, writers, interaction designers from all over the world to closely collaborate to "uncover the future." He is also a founding member of the Hypermedia Research Centre at the University of Westminster in London. In 1994, he co-founded Antirom, a studio that investigated the nature of interactivity - how it operates as a language, what forms and figurations of rhetoric it makes available, and what novel structures of spectatorship it offers.
Wednesday 4th November 14.30 - 16.30 - The inspiring perspective
GUNTER CLAR
Günter Clar has a 30 year professional record in the fields Research and Innovation (RTDI), RTDI Policy and Regional Development, and Technology Assessment / Foresight and Evaluation - the underpinning objective in each case to increase the competitiveness of companies, organisations and whole regions or countries.
After academic assignments and industry cooperation in Europe, America and Asia, he worked in Baden-Wuerttemberg (BW), as well as in various bi-national and multi-national settings, i.a. the European Commission's Directorate General (DG) Research in Brussels. He also collaborated with services of the European Council and the Parliament and other DGs, providing strategic inputs to policies and programmes regarding the overall EU focus on RTDI activities and investments. Since 2004, he is seconded from his Ministry (of Science and the Arts in BW) to Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum (SEZ), a specialised organisation in the 700+ centres network of BW’s Steinbeis Foundation for Economic Development (StW).
Thursday 5th November 9.00 -10.30 - Introduction to the CReATE Research Priorities
ALBERTO COTTICA
“As an economist, I set myself the goal of contributing to building an economy propelled chiefly by human intelligence – creativity, innovation, culture – rather than physical resources or the exploitation of man over man and nature. I am convinced that this model can emerge from the “perfect storm” under way in the digital economy, and that the creative industries are a good place to watch it from and, just maybe, to help it unfold. I have chosen to represent the general interest rather than a single company’s: I am interested in public policy as intelligent participation in collective choice. At the moment I am project manager for the Development Policy Unit of the Italian government’s Ministry for Economic Development on the issue of art and creativity as economic development tools. I head Kublai, the first 2.0 project of the Italian central government.”
Thursday 5th November 11.30 - 13.00 - Policy for ICT and Creative Industries around Europe
THOMAS COTTINET
Thomas COTTINET is actually the Head of research, cluster and industry policy at Région Rhône Alpes. In the past he was Cluster manager and territorial manager at Région Rhône Alpes and Head of Town Development at the city of Boissy Saint Leger.
Thursday 5th November 11.30 - 13.00 - Policy for ICT and Creative Industries around Europe
GLENN ENTIS
Computer graphics pioneer Glenn Entis is currently Founding General Partner of Vanedge Capital, a Vancouver based venture fund focusing on digital and interactive media. Prior to that, Glenn was Senior Vice-President, Chief Visual and Technical Officer of Electronic Arts, with the responsibility of leading EA’s worldwide community of over 3000 talented artists and engineers. Before EA, Glenn was CEO of DreamWorks Interactive, where he oversaw the development of the first titles in the Medal of Honor series. He joined EA when EA acquired DreamWorks Interactive in 2000.And prior to joining DreamWorks in 1995, Glenn co-founded the pioneering animation studio Pacific Data Images (now part of DreamWorks Animation). During his twelve years at PDI, Glenn wrote software, animated, produced, and held key management positions as the company grew. In 1998 he received Scientific and Technical Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for his work at PDI.
Thursday 5th November 11.00 -11.30 - The gamification of media
ERICA GAY
ERICA GAY is the Director of the Directorate Research, Innovation and University within Regione Piemonte (Italy) since October 2007. She is responsible for the CReATE project for Regione Piemonte. Her professional career within Regione Piemonte started in 1978, and her activities as Expert of professional training and education have been mainly linked to the promotion of culture, the valorisation of the cultural system of Piedmont as well as the conservation and promotion of the regional cultural and architectural heritage.
From 1991 to 1997 Erica Gay covered the position of Head of the Division Information and documentation within the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences, in 1997 she became a Member of the National Book Commission set up by the National Ministry for the cultural and environmental heritage, in 1998 Head of the Regional Directorate Libraries, Archives and cultural bodies, since 2001 she is a Member of the National Committee for the coordination of the National Librarian Service as well Member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Digital Library set up by the Italian Ministry for cultural activities, from 2006 to 2007 Member of the Executive and Cultural Committees for the initiatives of Turin World Capital of Book together with the city of Rome. Furthermore, Dr Gay has also promoted several initiatives while supporting the application of innovative technologies to culture including the project/international fair ‘Lingua Madre’ with the participation of several writers from all over the world.
Thanks to her professional career in a leading position within Regione Piemonte, Dr Gay has been able to successfully knowledge and deal with the regional system of actors at the different levels and sectors (public and private) in order to support the regional cultural system, and more recently the innovation and research system in line with the regional Government’s policies and initiatives.
Thursday 5th November 13:00 - Conclusions
KLAUS HAASIS
Klaus Haasis has been CEO of MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg since its establishment in 1995. Today, MFG enjoys a reputation as one of Europe’s leading innovation agencies. Mr. Haasis can look back on more than 30 years experience in the creative industries and the ICT sector. Amongst other things, he introduced computer animations to German industrial films in the early eighties, realised numerous software aided applications shortly after the invention of interactive videotex and set up the first regional television broadcasting station in Baden-Württemberg at the beginning of the nineties.
Klaus Haasis was quick to recognise the importance of clusters for a region’s competitiveness and first began building networks and cluster initiatives back in the midnineties, for example for visual computing and open source. In 2008, the Baden-Württemberg: Connected IT and technology network, which he co-founded, won the top prize in the German Competence Network competition organised by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.After training as a reproduction photographer and advertising manager, Mr. Haasis graduated from Stuttgart Media University with a degree in Media Technology as well as from the University of Hohenheim with a second degree in Journalism. Following reunification, he engaged in research into journalism in the former East Germany, was a pioneer of the Baden-Württemberg Pop Akademie, and prepared and supported the merger of the Technical Colleges for Printing & Media and Librarianship as Stuttgart Media University. He is in demand as a speaker, lecturer, author and consultant on economics, sociology, politics and science.
Wednesday 4th November 14.00 - 14.30 - CReATE: Promoting ICT Innovations in European Creative Industries
Thursday 5th November 11.30 - 13.00 - Policy for ICT and Creative Industries around Europe
JASON HALL
As Head of Innovation, Jason Hall is primarily responsible for managing Screen WM’s £5m Digital Media Fund for the West Midlands, working alongside Channel 4’s 4iP Digital Commissioning Manager for the region to identify suitable projects for co-investment with a combined budget of £10m. This follows more than fifteen years experience working across digital projects, from developing B2B online booking systems across leased lines in pre-internet days to commissioning mobile content and producing and developing cross-platform projects and documentaries for clients including Channel 4, BBC, NSPCC, Scottish Screen, Scottish Enterprise and NESTA.
Thursday 5th November 9.00 -10.30 - Workshop 2 - Multichannel distribution of digital (creative) content
DAN LICARI
Dan Licari is a Digital Media Consultant working for Advantage West Midlands, the Regional Development Agency. At the Heart of England, the region is home to a vibrant creative industries sector, boasting globally recognised talent in animation, digital imaging, social media and computer games. Within the region Dan has managed a number of projects including; Interactive Digital Media, the International Serious Games Event, Stratford Unplugged, Technology for the Growing Business and the Regional E-business Development Initiative.
Dan has over 15 years international experience, predominately in the B2B space, having worked for a public affairs agency, the largest bank in the world, four universities, a credit card company, and three regional economic development organisations in the UK and US.
Thursday 5th November 9.00 -10.30 - Workshop 2 - Multichannel distribution of digital (creative) content
VINCENZO LOMBARDO
He is co-founder of CIRMA (Centre for Research on Multimedia and Audiovisuals of the University of Torino) and of the School of Multimedia and Arts, where he teaches.
At the Virtual Reality & Multi Media Park, he leads the Art-Science Allied Laboratory (ASA Lab), for applied research projects in interactive multimedia, and the School, with training programmes for professionals in the audiovisual industry.
His research concerns methodologies, models and applications of informatics to the production and recovery of multimedia artefacts, the formalization of representations, languages and tools for multimedia production, natural language processing and the simulation of cognitive processes. His papers are published in international journals, books, conference proceedings. He carries on a production activity in multimedia communication, hosted by events at the international level.
Wednesday 4th November 16.30 - 17.30 - CHAIR of the session "The CReATE Project Research Priorities through case studies: from Visual Interactive Experience to Multichannel distribution of Digital Content"
OLIVIER MAFFRAND
Olivier Maffrand is Ceo of Immersive Solutions. Immersive Solutions is focusing on design and development of business and entertainment solutions that integrate real time 3D simulation contents for sport club sand stadium operators. The Immersive Stadium suite includes virtual tour of the venue, applicative modules such as 3D e-ticketing or 3D advertising management.
Thursday 5th November 9.00 -10.30 - Workshop 1 - The Future of visual interactive experience
LARA MARCELLIN
Lara Marcellin received a Master Degree in Communication Sciences (Communication in the Information Society) at the University of Torino, Italy.She took part as project manager and web analyst in several projects involving the development of innovative services based on the exploitation of new technological and communication tools within public administrations and cultural bodies.In CSP her research is focused on digital contents management, web 2.0 models, user and system requirements analysis, content delivery in a local based perspective and on the development of multichannel applications dedicated to Public Administration bodies as well as on the design and test of new service supply models.
Thursday 5th November 9.00 -10.30 - Workshop 1 - The Future of visual interactive experience
MICHELA MICHILLI
Michela Michilli is head of "EU Programmes & International Initiatives" Unit in Filas, the Financial Development Agency for the economic development and technological innovation of Lazio Region.
Expert in economics, finance and international markets, she is in charge of for international strategies and activities in Europe and in South East countries of the regional clusters of creative industries, aerospace and bioscience. Mrs. Michilli is the project coordinator of ImMediaTe (Improving the value of Digital Media and Creative Industries through Innovative Business Models and Services), a EU CIP co-funded project in support of the creative industry in Italy, Spain, France, The Netherlands and Malta.
Thursday 5th November 9.00 -10.30 - Workshop 2 - Multichannel distribution of digital (creative) content
SILVANA MOLINO
Member and founder of Microcinema SpA, she developed the actual strategic plan and business model. Experienced in funded projects management she is in charge of business development and research of new business streams.
Consultant for innovative project development for different national companies and project manager for several European projects in the field of technology and cultural contamination. Member of the board of directors of CAM, the Italian consortium gathering small and medium audiovisual and multimedia companies. Periodically teaches economic and juridical matters in the secondary public school.
Graduated in Economics at Torino University, Master in Audiovisual and Multimedia Business Management.
Thursday 5th November 9.00 -10.30 - Workshop 2 - Multichannel distribution of digital (creative) content
MIHÁLY NAGY
Member of the Team managing the European Year of Creativity and Innovation at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Education and Culture. As a policy officer, his main responsibilities include policy analysis and development concerning the promotion of creativity and innovation in educational activities.
In 1998 he was invited to the Ministry of Cultural Heritage to set up the Department of Monuments and Sites, of which he was the head until 2004. His activities and responsibilities included policy making, legislation, administration and coordination of immovable cultural heritage (archaeology, historic monuments & landscapes), strategic planning, designing, implementing and supervising grant programmes, awareness-raising and dissemination of knowledge.
In 2004 he was commissioned with the setting up and direction of the newly created Strategic Planning and EU-Coordination Department in the ministry. From 2006 he was senior adviser to the Secretary of State for Culture until September 2008, when as a national expert, he joined the European Commission.
Thursday 5th November 11.30 - 13.00 - Policy for ICT and Creative Industries around Europe
LUDOVIC NOEL
Ludovic Noel is Managing Director of Imaginove. His expertise focuses particularly on coaching and consulting innovative start-ups (finance, business plan development, training, human resources) and linking SMEs with research institutions, technology transfer.
Before joining Imaginove Ludovic has gained 11 years of working experience as a business consultant, particularly for innovative start-ups. He has also worked for the Rhône-Alpes region’s spin-off and start-off support scheme and been consulting SMEs with regards to setting up international innovation projects. Also, he has worked as a research coordinator in Economics for the United Nations.
Thursday 5th November 9.00 -10.30 - Workshop 1 - The Future of visual interactive experience
GIORGIO OLIVERO
GIORGIO OLIVERO in one of the cofounder of ToDo (www.todo.to.it), a next-gen design studio based in Italy and founded in 2007. While designing near-future projects today, we focus on dialogue, exchange and community through the integration of ideas, interactivity and technology. The outcome is a steady stream of new experiences that question and redefine the relationship between technology, products, services and smart environments for the twenty-first century.
Giorgio Olivero is an interaction designer and one of the studio co-founders. At ToDo he takes care of creative direction and design management. In 2004, he graduated from the Masters programme in Interaction Design from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Italy).
Wednesday 4th November 16.30 - 17.30 - The CReATE Project Research Priorities through case studies: from Visual Interactive Experience to Multichannel distribution of Digital Content
DAVID OSIMO
David Osimo is partner and director of Tech4i2 ltd. He has 15 years experience working on ICT innovation policies and projects and is one of the leading European experts on web2.0 in government. From 2005 to 2008 he worked in the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (Institute for Prospective Technological Studies), where he was coordinating research activities on eGovernment. Previously, he worked as advisor and project manager on innovation and information society in local and regional government in Milan (I), Brussels (B) and Bologna (I). His current interests cover the development of new policy frameworks for open and user-driven innovation, the role of design and creativity in innovation policy, and in particular the impact of web 2.0 on public services.
Thursday 5th November 11.30 - 13.00 - Policy for ICT and Creative Industries around Europe
GUY PARMENTIER
Editor of TheInnovation.eu, he works on user communities and companies facing virtual world (serious games). He works for the High Business School of Chambéry is a business and management school located at the Technopole of Savoie Technolac. Created in 1992 thanks to the Chambéry Chamber of Commerce, it delivers high degree diplomas and works in partnership with more than 40 European universities. The school has also a research laboratory which is focused on new tools of management and inparticular the use of serious games to teaching and training.
Thursday 5th November 9.00 -10.30 - Workshop 1 - The Future of visual interactive experience
METTE QUINN
METTE QUINN is working in the Support for Innovation Unit of the Innovation Policy Directorate of the Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry of the European Commission where she has a number of years experience as policy officer. She is currently responsible for innovation in services including in particular strategic policy development. She is the coordinator of the European Knowledge Intensive Service Innovation Platform under the Europe INNOVA initiative and for transnational policy development activities in the field of service innovation under the PRO INNO Europe initiative. She has also worked on broader innovation policy development and with innovation policy benchmarking as project officer for the INNO-Policy TrendChart and the INNO-Views expert workshop series. She developed the first phase of the PRO INNO Europe initiative, which is the implementation of the Open Method of Coordination in the field of innovation as well as coordinated the FP6 Research and Innovation work programme.
Previously, Mette worked for the Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and spent also some years at the Danish Permanent Representation to NATO.
Wednesday 4th November 14.30 - 16.30 - The ICT and Creative Industry Scenario
HARALD REITERER
Harald Reiterer from the University of Konstanz. He is full Professor for “Human-Computer Interaction” at the Department of Computer & Information Science. His main research topics are Visual Information Retrieval Systems (e.g. Visual User Interfaces for Digital Libraries);Post-Desktop User Interfaces; multimodal User Interfaces and new Input Devices and Displays and new Usability Engineering methods and tools.
Thursday 5th November 9.00 -10.30 - Workshop 1 - The Future of visual interactive experience
JAN RUNGE
Based in Brussels, Jan is Manager of International Projects at KEA European Affairs and acts as a European Affairs Advisor to MFG Baden-Württemberg. He previously worked as a project development manager with MFG in Stuttgart and as a researcher for the film industry consultancy Olsberg|SPI (London). He has analysed and created support strategies for the creative industries for clients at regional and national levels across the EU and overseas and advises the EC on several creative industry related policy developments. Jan holds a MSc from the London School of Economics and a BA from the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
Thursday 5th November 11.30 - 13.00 - Policy for ICT and Creative Industries around Europe
PAOLA SAVINI
Paola Savini (Milan, 1979) works as researcher for the Institute of Media Economics of the Rosselli Foundation in Rome, where her research interests focus on Media policy, management and economics. Previously, she was working in the media sector (Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso, thanks to a grant she received from the “Mario Formenton” Foundation in 2006). She is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Marketing and Corporate communication at the IULM University of Milan, and her thesis deals with the impact of policy driven innovation on independent television production.
She holds a degree in Communication sciences (Marketing) from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" (2003), an International Master in European Studies and Global Affairs from the School of Economics and International Relations of the “Catholic University” of Milan and the “Pázmány Péter Catholic University” of Budapest (2005), as well as a Master in Antitrust and Market regulation (TLC and audiovisual) from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (2009). She is board member and co-founder of the “Youth Press Italia” association and Italian representative for the Young Scholars Network of the European Communication Research and Education Association (YECREA).
Wednesday 4th November 14.30 - 16.30 - The Economic prospectives on ICT and Creative Industries
STEFFEN P.WALZ
Steffen P. Walz is a cultural anthropologist-turned-game and interaction designer and producer who earned his Ph.D. in Computer Aided Architectural Design from the ETH Zurich in Switzerland, specializing on pervasive game design. Academically, and with his start-up company Walz & Seibert (in future sreee AG), Steffen scrutinizes and creates next generation mobile and cross-media games, also taking advantage of Web 2.0 services such as Twitter. He has been consulting to and producing for companies, brands and institutions world wide, concerning the question of how to use video and mobile games for purposes such as business intelligence, city marketing, change management as well as for learning, health purposes and for training.
Wednesday 4th November 16.30 - 17.30 - The CReATE Project Research Priorities through case studies: from Visual Interactive Experience to Multichannel distribution of Digital Content
NICO VERPLANCKE
Nico Verplancke obtained a Masters in Apllied Economics in 1997, but a passion for technology quickly lead to a carreer in ICT consultancy. In 2004, several companies (Guidance, Real Software) and job descriptions later, he joined newly founded IBBT as program manager for media and e-government. Besides business development in these domains, he follows up a number of research projects and champions creativity in research as often as possible. He also created the Art&D program and was involved in setting up the first INCA award.
Thursday 5th November 11.30 - 13.00 - Policy for ICT and Creative Industries around Europe