EUROPEONE - e-Government Conference

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Monday 3/12/2012
09:00 - 09:30	Welcome & Opening Ceremony Costas Agrotis, Director, Department Information Technology Services, Cyprus Andreas D. Mavroyiannis, Deputy Minister for EU Affairs, Cyprus
09:30 - 10:30	Plenary 1	Europeone: Get Served Anywhere Chaired by: Costas Agrotis, Director, Department Information Technology Services, Cyprus Towards a Transformed Government: e-Commission 2012-2015 – Christos Ellinides, Director, Corporate IT Solutions & Services, DG Informatics (DIGIT A), European Commission The era of transition - How Technology redefines our world - Maria-Jose Sobrini, Director IBSG Mediterranean, Cisco
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00	Plenary 2	Economic Crisis/Digital Way Out Chaired by: Christos Ellinides, Director, Corporate IT Solutions & Services, DG Informatics (DIGIT A), European Commission IT in the Cyprus Public Sector – Costas Agrotis, Director, Department of Information Technology Services Cyprus Cloud Computing in Europe (Towards a European Cloud Computing Strategy) - Agnieszka Wodecka, Legal Officer, Software and Services, Cloud Unit, DG CONNECT (Directorate E Net Futures/Unit E.2), European Commission Doing more with Less/Take Advantage of the New Technologies - Kyriakos Kokkinos, Country General Manager, IBM Italia S.p.A. Cyprus Branch
12:00 - 13:00	Plenary 3	Cross Border eServices Chaired by: Tinhold Dinand, Vice President Capgemini, Programme Director SPOCS Connecting Europe Facility: Investment for the Infrastructure of the Future – Mechthild Rohen, Head of Unit for Public Services, DG CONNECT (Directorate H/Unit H.3), European Commission "DANS: Cross-border and transnational e-Government co-operation in the North Sea Region" - Filip Meuris, Head of e-Government Intercommunale Leiedal/Project Director Smart Cities, Belgium/ DANS cluster European Single Digital Market: Strategies and Contribution of LSPs - Vasilis Koulolias, Director of eGovlab / Chairman of the Board Gov2u, Stockholm University/eGovlab & Gov2u, Sweden/Belgium
13:00 - 14:15	Lunch

14:15 - 15:30

Session 1
Key Enablers to Success

Chaired by: George Zavitsanakis, Logicom Solutions

STORK 2.0 project: extending eID across Europe – Frank Leyman, Manager International Relations FEDIC
Austria’s approach and actions for eSignature - Peter Kustor, Head of the Department for eGovernment - legal, organisational and international issues, Austria
The Cyprus Government Gateway - Marios Vassiliou, Senior IT Officer, Department of Information Technology Services, Ministry of Finance

Session 2
Building up Trust & Privacy

Chaired by: Costas Chalatsis, DITS Consultant

Security challenges for eGovernment. Risks, threats and policies we need – Ilias Chantzos, Senior Director, Symantec Government Affairs EMEA and APJ
European's Commission proposal for a Regulation on e-identification and trust services for e-transactions in the Internal Market - Gérard Galler, Policy Officer, DG CONNECT, European Commission
Ten years of trusted Estonia, - Uuno Vallner, Director of eGovernment Division & Margus Püüa, Head of Department of State Information Systems, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Estonia

Session 3
Local & Regional eGovernment

Chaired by: Massimo Pellegrino, Associate Partner at PwC Consulting

Local eGovernment: Celebrating the Link! - Costis Toregas, Associate Director, Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute, The George Washington University
eLocal Government – Strategy and Best Practices (Strovolos Municipality) - Dr. Lazaros Savvides, Mayor, Strovolos Municipality
Municipality Collaboration for Smarter eGovernment Deployment - Claes - Olof Olsson, Head of Operators, The Swedish Association of Municipalities for Joint Development of eServices (Sambruk)

15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30	Plenary 4	Parallel Sessions Reporting Back Chaired by: Demetris Milis, Services Executive at Microsoft Cyprus Reporting Back: Session 1 Sesson 2 Session 3
16:30 - 17:30	Plenary 5	Moving towards a collaborative eGovernment Chaired by: George Flouros, Vice President, NCR Middle East/Africa Area Empowering Citizen Activism in eGovernment through Social Media – Pisani Derrick, Department Manager, eGovernment Direction, Execution and Operations, Malta Information Technology Agency Collaborative Government: Greater citizens and businesses inclusion and participation - Dejan Cvetkovic , Regional Technology Officer of Microsoft, Central and Eastern Europe (Microsoft) Social Media and the next generation of e-services: 7 social media use cases for public agencies – Massimo Pellegrino, Associate Partner at PwC Consulting
20:00 - 23:00	Evening Social Event

Tuesday 4/12/2012
09:00 - 10:15	Session 4 European e-Procurement Chaired by: Stelios Kountouris, Senior Accountant, Treasury of the Republic of Cyprus eProcurement – New Regulation – Alain Deckers, Head of Unit for Economic Analysis and e-Procurement, DGMARKT (Directorate C4), European Commission From PEPPOL to OpenPEPPOL: The way forward in European e-Procurement , - Lefteris Leontaridis, Managing Director, NetSmart S.A. Greece Cyprus eProcurement Platform & eCatalogues Module and Electronic Marketplace – Philippos Katranis, Accountant, Treasury of the Republic of Cyprus	Session 5 Business Mobility Chaired by: Maria-Jose Sobrini, Director IBSG Mediterranean, Cisco Points of Single Contact – state of play and way ahead – Nikita Stampa, Deputy Head of Unit Business-to-consumer Services, DG MARKT (Directorate E Services/Unit E1), European Commission Services Directive (SPOCs) – Tinhold Dinand, Vice President Capgemini, Programme Director SPOCS and Wendy Carrara, Senior EU Policy Advisor, Deputy Programme Director SPOCS Public Service for Business - Pilot - Jose M. Cavanillas, Research & Innovation Director, Atos Spain	Session 6 eGovernment: What’s in it for the Citizen? Chaired by: Pisani Derrick, Department Manager, eGovernment Direction, Execution and Operations, Malta Information Technology Agency eCodex (eJustice), Large Scale Project - Carsten Schmidt, Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia - Division I5 (Information Technology and e-Justice), Germany epSOS: Now accessible to patients (eHealth), Large Scale Project – Fredrik Lindén, Project Coordinator of epSOS, Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR) Puzzled by Policy? – Suzie Ruston, Citizen Centric eGovernment Expert, 21c Consultancy Ltd

10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:15	Plenary 6	Parallel Sessions Reporting Back Chaired by: Demetris Milis, Services Executive at Microsoft Cyprus
11:15 - 12:15	Plenary 7	Smart Government: Looking Ahead Chaired by: Frank Leyman, Manager International Relations FEDIC Smart Government means being Interoperable - Margarida Abecasis, Head of Unit, Information Systems and Interoperability Solutions, DG Informatics (DIGIT B2), European Commission The virtuous circle of Public Sector Innovation - Paul Timmers, Director, Sustainable & Secure Society Directorate, DG CONNECT (Directorate H), European Commission Innovative, Integrated and Intelligent Government aiming to Citizen Empowerment - Antonis Skoullos, Managing Director, Oracle Cyprus
12:15 - 12:45	Keynote Address	Public Private Partnership Public Private Partnerships as a Bridge to Economic Activity and Security - Costis Toregas, Associate Director, Cyber Security Policy and Research Institute, The George Washington University
12:45 - 13:00	Closing Ceremony
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch