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

Breakfast metting of the Board of Management

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
Alain Gallochat, Advisor to the Ministry of Research, Paris
Erik Nooteboom, Director, Industrial Property, DG Internal Market
Roderick Ross, Acting CEO, ParOS Ltd.
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

Slide presentations from the meeting can be found below

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 spoke in a personal capacity.

Below are copies of the two papers his talk was based on, as well as his slides.

Breakfast meeting of the Board of Management

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

Private Salon, Members Restaurant, European Parliament
EIF Board Meeting

Hotel Renaissance, 19 rue du Parnasse, Brussels
Finalising Reflection Papers
Informal workshop and dinner
All EIF members

Archimedes Room, Diamant Building, 80 Bd. Reyers, Brussels
4th Meeting of the EIF Task Force
All members welcom

Newton Room, Diamant Building, 80 Bd. Reyers, Brussels
3rd Meeting of the EIF Task Force
All members welcome

Archimedes Room, Diamant Building, 80 Bd Reyers, Brussels
2nd meeting of the EIF Task Force
All members welcome

ECTA Office, Diamant Building, 80 Bd. Reyers, Brussels
First EIF Task Force Meeting
All members welcome

Private salon, Members Restaurant, European Parliament, Brussels
General Assembly and Advisory Committee Meeting

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

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

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

Private Salon, Members Restaurant, European Parliament
Breakfast meeting of the Advisory Committee
All members welcome

Private Salon, Members Restaurant, European Parliament
Recap of the WSIS
Speakers:
Marco Cappato, MEP
Malcolm Harbour, MEP, Member, EIF Board of Governors
Jean-François Soupizet, DG Information Society, EuropeanCommission

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

Private Salon, Members Restaurant, European Parliament
Breakfast meeting of the Board of Management