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  • Wednesday, December 1, 2004 (8.00 - 9.15) 
    Private Salon, Members Restaurant, European Parliament, Brussels

    Breakfast Meeting: Challenges for the Information Society Beyond 2005
    Chair: Erika Mann, MEP, Chair, European Internet Foundation

    Keynotes:
    Fabio Colasanti, Director General, DG Information Society, European Commission
    Erik Eijkelberg, Deputy Director, Directorate Strategy and International Affairs, Directorate-General for Telecommunications and Post, the Netherlands


  •  Wednesday, November 24 (8.15-9.30)  
    Breakfast metting of the Board of Management


  •  Wednesday, 10 November (12.30-14.30)  
    Renaissance Hotel, 19 rue du Parnasse, Brussels

    Lunch with Scott Marcus, Senior Advisor for Internet Technology for the FCC. Previously Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Genuity, Inc.(GTE Internetworking).He will be speaking in a personal capacity.

The papers and slide presented by Scott can be downloaded below.

  Scott Marcus Paper Mobile Termination.doc.doc (251 KB)
Scott Marcus Paper NRF in Action.doc (172 KB)
Scott Marcus Slides.ppt (379 KB)
Soupizet Speech.doc (85 KB)


  • Wednesday, 10 November, (19.45-22.30)  
    Hotel Renaissance, 19 rue du Parnasse, Brussels
    Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions 

    17.00 - 19.30: Panel Discussion
    Chair: Erika Mann, MEP, Chair, EIF

    Participants include:
    Gustav Brismark, Vice President, LM Ericsson
    Erik Nooteboom, Director, Industrial Property, DG Internal Market
    Vincent Ryckaert, European Patent Attorney, IMEC
    Henne Schuwer, Deputy Permanent Representative, Dutch Permanent Representation to the EU
    Yannis Skulikaris, Director (examining directorate D1243), European Patents Office


  •  Thursday, October 7 (8.15-9.30)
    Breakfast meeting of the Board of Management


  • Thursday, September 16, (12.00-19.00)
    Hilton Hotel Brussels, blvd de Waterloo 38
    5th Annual Digital Economy Workshop
    An EABC - TPN - EIF Collaboration
      
    12.30: Lunch
    Chair: H E Rockwell Schnabel, US Ambassador to the EU
    Guest Speaker: Ambassador David Gross, Head of US Delegation, US Coordinator for International Communications & Information Policy

    14.00: Trans-Atlantic Digital Competitiveness Presentation
    Speakers:
    Monique Meche, Director of Government Affairs, Cisco
    Larry Stone, Company Secretary, BT

    14.45: Panel 1: Deployment of Boradband Infrastructure & Take-Up of Services
    Moderator: John Wyles, Senior Policy Adviser, TPN
    Panellists:
    Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy, FCC
    Anne Bucher, Hea d of Unit, European Commission
    Jo Cornu, Executive Assistant to the Chairman and CEO, Member of the Board, Alcatel
    Assistant Secretary Michael Gallagher, NTIA, US Department of Commerce
    Peter Rodford, Head of Unit, European Commission

    14.00: Panel 2: Advanced Wireless Communications
    Moderator: Staffan Jerneck, Deputy Director, CEPS
    Panellists:
    Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy
    Augusto de Albuquerque, Head of Unit - e-Communications and Network Technologies
    Assistant Secretary Michael Gallagher
    Andreas Geiss, Radio Spectrum Policy Unit, European Commission
    Wolfgang Kopf, Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs, T-Mobile Intl.
    Peter Pitsch, Director of Communications Policy, Intel

    17.15: Closing Address:
    Fabio Colasanti, Director General for the Information Society, European Commission

    18.00-19.00: Cocktail reception


  • Wednesday, September 8 (8.00-9.30) 
    Private Salon, Members Restaurant, European Parliament
    EIF Board Meeting


  •  Tuesday, September 7 (18.00-22.30) 
    Hotel Renaissance, 19 rue du Parnasse, Brussels
    Finalising Reflection Papers
    Informal workshop and dinner
    All EIF members 


  • Thursday, June 24 (15.30-17.30)  
    Archimedes Room, Diamant Building, 80 Bd. Reyers, Brussels
    4th Meeting of the EIF Task Force
    All members welcome


  •  Wednesday, 26 May (15.30-17.30)  
    Newton Room, Diamant Building, 80 Bd. Reyers, Brussels
    3rd Meeting of the EIF Task Force
    All members welcome


  •  Tuesday, 20 April (15.00-17.00)  
    Archimedes Room, Diamant Building, 80 Bd Reyers, Brussels
    2nd meeting of the EIF Task Force
    All members welcome


  •  8 March (15.00 - 17.00) 
    ECTA Office, Diamant Building, 80 Bd. Reyers, Brussels
    First EIF Task Force Meeting
    All members welcome


  • Wednesday, 28 April (8.00-9.30) 
    Private salon, Members Restaurant, European Parliament, Brussels
    General Assembly and Advisory Committee Meeting


  •  Tuesday, 16 March (19.45 - 22.15)  
    European Parliament, Brussels

    Consumer Confidence

    Chair: Erika Mann, MEP, Chair, European Internet Foundation

    Speakers:
    Jacques Bathiat, Director, International Affairs, 3 Suisses Group
    Robert Madelin, Director General, DG Health and Consumer Protection, European Commission
    Jim Murray, Director General, BEUC
    Astrid Thors, MEP, Member, EIF Board of Management
    Pietro Varaldo, Director General, Federcomin

Bathiat Presentation.ppt (276 KB)
Federcomin self regulation paper.doc (87 KB)


  • Monday, 8 March (15.00-17.00)  
     
    EICTA Offices, Diamant Building, 80 bd Reyers, Brussels
    1st Task Force Meeting

  • Tuesday, 24 February (19.45 - 22.15)
     
    Renaissance Hotel, Rue du Parnasse 19, Brussels
    Mobile Internet
    Speakers include:
    Fabio Colasanti, Director General, Information Society, European Commission
    Annika Nyberg Frankenhaeuser, President, World DAB
    Luis Jorge Romero, Deputy General Manager for Marketing and Services Development, Telefónica Móviles España 


  •  Tuesday, 17 February (13.00 - 17.00) 
       
    Stanhope Hotel, Rue du Commerce 9, Brussels
    Visit of the US Congressional Internet Caucus
      
    Lunch (13.00 - 14.45)
    Legislators Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights (14.45 - 16.00)
    Legislators Workshop on Privacy and Security (16.00 - 17.00)

    US Participants include:
    Nathan Deal
    Bob Goodlatte
    Wally Herger
    Steve King

    EU Participants include:
    Susan Binns, European Commission DG Internal Market
    Lone Dybkjaer, MEP
    James Elles, MEP
    Erika Mann, MEP
    Elly Plooij van Gorsel, MEP
    Peter Skinner, MEP
    The Earl of Stockton, MEP
    Wim van Velzen, MEP


  • Wednesday, 4 February 2004 (8.00 - 9.30) 
     
    Private Salon, Members Restaurant, European Parliament
    Breakfast meeting of the Advisory Committee
    All members welcome


  • Thursday, 29 January (8.00-9.30) 
      
    Private Salon, Members Restaurant, European Parliament
    Recap of the WSIS
    Speakers:
    Marco Cappato, MEP
    Malcolm Harbour, MEP, Member, EIF Board of Governors

Soupizet notes.doc (59 KB)


  • Wednesday, 28 January (19.30 - 22.15) 
     
    Stanhope Hotel, 9 rue du Commerce, 1000 Brussels
    Road Map for an Enlarged eEurope
    In cooperation with EICTA
    Chair: Erika Mann, MEP

    Speakers:
    Mart Laar, Former Prime Minister of Estonia
    Erkki Liikanen, European Commissioner for the Information Society
    Mark MacGann, Secretary General, EICTA
    Reino Paasilinna, MEP


  • Wednesday, 21 January (8.15-9.15) 
       
    Private Salon, Members Restaurant, European Parliament
    Breakfast meeting of the Board of Management 
     
     
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