Biographies
BT Centre Auditorium, 81 Newgate Street, London, EC1A 7AJ
Organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Supported and hosted by BT plc
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0930 - 1030 |
Opening ceremony |
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Welcome: Sir Michael RAKE, Chairman, BT Group |
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Keynote speech: Mr Malcolm JOHNSON, Director, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau |
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Keynote speech: Mr Matt BROSS, Chief Technology Officer, BT Group |
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Opening remarks by Symposium Chair: Mr Tom WALKER, Director, Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), UK |
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Presentation
Presentation of a special award for Sustainability to BT by the Lord Mayor of the city of London on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen |
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1030 - 1050 |
Coffee break |
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1050 - 1230 |
Session 1: Climate change: ICTs to
the rescue? |
Dr. Tim KELLY, Head,
Standardization Policy Division, ITU-T
Dr. Tim Kelly is Head of the Standardization Policy Division of the
International Telecommunication Union
(ITU), where he has worked since 1993.
Before joining ITU he spent five years
as a Communications Policy Analyst with
the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) and
three years with Logica Consultancy Ltd.
He has an MA (Hons) degree in Geography
and a Ph.D in industrial economics from
Cambridge University. Over the last
twenty years, Dr Kelly has specialised
in the economics of the
telecommunications industry. He has
written or co-authored more than 30
books on the subject including the ITU's
“Internet Reports” and “World
Information Society Reports”. He was in
charge of the “content team” for the
World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS), which concluded in November
2005. He is a visiting scholar at the
business school of Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology. |
Mr Masahiko FUJIMOTO, Director, Information Applications Promotion Office, Information and Communications Policy Bureau, MIC, Japan
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1988 |
enter Ministry of Posts and
Telecommunications (MPT)
after entering MPT, engaged in
the work, such as, frequency
policy, telecommunication
numbering, telecom technology
R&D and standardization. |
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2003 |
Director, New-Generation Mobile
Communications Office, Ministry
of Internal Affairs and
Communications (MIC) |
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2005 |
Director, Internet Policy
Office, MIC |
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2006 |
Director, Public Safety Radio
Communications Office, MIC |
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2006 |
1st Aug. Present Position
as the Director of Information
Applications Promotion Office,
Information and Communications
Policy Bureau, MIC |
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Miss Donna YOUNG, Head of Environment and Climate Change, BT Group |
Mr. Nigel HICKSON, Deputy-Director, EU ICT Policy, Dept for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (UK)
Nigel Hickson was educated in
Hertfordshire in England before going to
the City University to study Electronic
and Electrical Engineering. He joined
the Department of Trade and Industry in
1982 and has worked in a number of
sections including export controls,
financial services regulation and
information security policy. He was
seconded to the Confederation of British
Business (CBI) in June 2000 to head up
their newly formed E-business Group. In
July 2001 he joined the Government of
Bermuda as the E Business Adviser to the
Minister of Telecommunications and E
Commerce. After three years in Bermuda
he has retuned to the DTI (now the
Department for Business, Enterprise and
Regulatory Reform - BERR) as Deputy
Director in the Europe and International
Team. Here he is working primarily on EU
ICT policy issues such as the Review on
the Telecommunications Framework and on
Spectrum policy. Nigel is a keen walker,
cyclist and scouter. |
Dr. Luis NEVES,
GeSI chairperson and Head of Sustainable Development and Environment, Deutsche Telekom (Germany)
Mr. Luis Neves, Senior Manager, Deutsche
Telekom, was born in Portugal in 1953.
He finished his University degree in
History at Lisbon University. Later on
he studied law for 2 years at
”Universidade Moderna“. Luis worked for
more than 25 years for Marconi as Head
of Department and lately at the
Corporate Office. He started an
international career at European and
International levels which lasted 14
years. In 2004 he joined Deutsche
Telekom and he is Head of Sustainable
Development and Environment at DT
Corporate Responsibility Department.
Since March 2006 he is the President of
GeSI (Global E-Sustainable Initiative). |
Mr. Art LEVIN,
Head, Corporate Governance and
Membership Division (ITU)
Session 1 Chair:
Mr. Arthur Levin was the lead ITU staff
member in the organization of the two
phases of the World Summit on the
Information Society and has served as a
senior policy adviser and legal
counselor with the Union. He organized
and was Executive Secretary of the ITU
Plenipotentiary Conferences in 2002 and
2006.
He also holds an appointment as an
adjunct professor of law at the Franklin
Pierce Law Center in the United States,
where he teaches a course on
International Telecommunications Law and
the Internet.
He previously served as Legal Adviser of
the OECD in Paris and as a senior
attorney with regulatory agencies in the
United States and with private law firms
in Washington, D.C. He has published
numerous articles and books on
regulatory topics.
He has a J.D. with honors from George
Washington Law Center and a B.S. with
honors from Cornell University. |
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1230 - 1400 |
Lunch |
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1400 - 1540 |
Session 2: Corporate responsibility: Towards a climate-neutral ICT Sector |
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Ms Sheridan NYE, Senior Consultant, ICT and Climate Change (UK) |
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Dr Chris TUPPEN, Director, Sustainable Development, BT Group |
Dr Jack ROWLEY, Director, Research and sustainability, GSM Association
Jack Rowley is responsible for activities related to the
safety of mobile communications, responsible environmental
practices and some social aspects of mobile phone usage.
He also manages relationships with major stakeholders,
develops technical advice for members and coordinates
GSMA communications activities related to health and environment.
Jack has more than 18 years experience in the telecommunications
industry and more than seventy publications and presentations on
mobile communications safety and environmental issues.
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Mr Paolo GEMMA, ETSI Environmental Engineering Secretary, Senior Manager, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
Mr. Paolo Gemma senior manager of Mechanical, Power, Environmental, EU-Marketing in Huawei Technologies received a Master's Degree on electronic engineer at the Genoa University in 1987.
He Joint Huawei from Nokia Siemens Networks were was Manager of EMC/Safety laboratory of Nokia Siemens Networks S.p.A (Italy) and before for 18 years he was in Siemens Communication sector with similar responsibility.
He is active in International standardization activity since 1993 in European Telecommunication Standard Institute (ETSI) participating at the development of Telecommunication EMC standards.
He joint ITU-T Study Group 5 as Rapporteur on 1997. Actually he is Rapporteur of a questions related to Telecommunication equipment EMC requirement.
He followed the works of ETSI Technical Body EE (Environmental Engineering) since 1998. EE is the group in ETSI involved in standardization about Powering, grounding and environmental condition. This group from 2004 is active on ecological item especially on the energy reduction and thermal management publishing some deliverable on this subject. I was nominated in 2002 as Secretary of ETSI TC EE committee.
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Mr Paolo BERTOLDI, European Commission
Paolo Bertoldi has a Doctor Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1985 at the University
of Padova (Italy). He has been working with the European Commission since 1986. From 1986
to 1993 he was working in the EU nuclear fusion project, Joint Undertaking Torus (JET) in
the UK. For 1993 until April 2001, he was Administrator with the European Commission, DG
Energy and Transport (DG TREN, Brussels Belgium), in charge of EU regulatory and voluntary
programmes for the rational use of energy in end-use equipment, buildings and industry. He
was also in charge of negotiated and long term agreements with industry and tertiary sectors
and the GreenLight programme. Since May 2001, he is Principal Administrator at the European
Commission Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy), in charge of research activities for energy
efficiency policy, the efficient use of electricity and innovative policy instruments
(e.g. white certificates, financing mechanisms, emission trading). He continues to manage
the GreenLight, Motor Challenge and Standby Initiative programmes on behalf of DG TREN.
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Mr Douglas JOHNSON, Senior Director, Technology Policy and International Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)
Doug Johnson is senior director of technology policy and international affairs for the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). He is responsible for public policy issues that affect product development, operations, sales and marketing in the $161 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry. Mr. Johnson directs CEA’s activities and initiatives related to energy efficiency at the local, national and international levels.
During his tenure at CEA, Mr. Johnson has testified on behalf of the consumer electronics industry before the U.S. Congress, state legislatures and regulatory agencies on issues impacting technology innovation, product distribution and consumer choice. He has worked with companies to develop and implement industry strategies on public policy matters important to the consumer electronics sector, including energy efficiency, international trade and logistics, and the use of electronic products at home, in vehicles and on board aircraft.
In addition to his work in government relations, Mr. Johnson develops programs that support the growth of the International CES, the world’s largest consumer technology trade show, which is sponsored and managed by CEA.
Mr. Johnson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master of Arts degree from The George Washington University.
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Mr Martin EUGSTER, EMPA (Switzerland)
Martin Eugster works as a project manager at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for
Materials Testing and Research (Empa). He holds a master’s degree in environmental
engineering and a master’s degree in management, technology and economics from the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. At Empa he started in 2001 in
the group Sustainable Technology Cooperation with Transition and Emerging
Countries (Sustec) and worked in different projects in the field of eco-efficiency
and waste management, mainly in China and Colombia. Since 2006, Martin Eugster is
leading the technical control body for the Swiss e-waste management system on behalf
of the Swiss Association for Information, Communications and Organization
Technology (Swico).
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1540 – 1600 |
Coffee break |
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1600 - 1730 |
Session 3: ICTs for monitoring
climate change |
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Mr Bill THOMPSON, Technology Writer, BBC and others (UK) |
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Dr Michel SCHOUPPE, Research Programme officer in the field of ICT and the environment, DG Information Society, European Commission |
Mr John HOWIE, Director, International Affairs, Trustworthy Computing Initiative, Microsoft
John Howie is a Director in Microsoft’s Office of International Affairs, a part of the
Trustworthy Computing Group, with responsibility for EMEA. John works on initiatives and
business practices, including Accessibility, Critical Infrastructure Protection,
Environmental Sustainability, Online Safety and Privacy. Prior to joining the Office of
International Affairs John was a Director in Microsoft Services, where he managed the
world-wide Security Community.
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Mr Nangapuram VENKATESH, Study Group Counsellor, ITU-R
Nangapuram VENKATESH is presently the Counsellor for the Broadcasting Service
in the Study Group department (SGD) of the Radiocommunication Bureau (BR) and
the Secretary to the Radio Regulations Board. Prior to this, he was the Counsellor
for the Fixed Service in the SGD. He has been with the ITU for more than 25 years
and was the Head of the Space Administrative Software Division in the BR before
moving to SGD. He has participated in many World and Regional Radiocommunication
Conferences and has represented the ITU at various meetings of Regional Groups.
He has organized and actively participated in many ITU seminars and workshops on
spectrum management and radiocommunication issues.
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Mr Dave BERRY, National e-science centre (UK)
Dave Berry is Deputy Director for Research & e-Infrastructure Development at the UK's National e-Science Centre (NeSC).
He is the technology lead of the UK’s "Grid Computing Now!" Knowledge Transfer Network, which is funded by the Technology
Strategy Board to encourage the adoption of advanced ICT infrastructure technologies by UK industry. Dave gained a
Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Edinburgh, after which he worked in software houses for 10 years in
Cambridge and Edinburgh. He joined NeSC in 2002.
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Mr Pankaj BHATIA, GHG Protocol Initiative |
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1815 |
RECEPTION: Hosted by BERR at the
Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall |
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0900 - 1030 |
Session 4: ICTs as a green technology |
Mr Richard LABELLE, Aylmer Group (Canada)
Richard Labelle is an independent
consultant based in Gatineau, Quebec,
Canada and is President of The Aylmer
Group which is based in Ottawa. Mr.
Labelle has 27 years experience on
issues related to the use of appropriate
information and communication
technologies (ICTs) and related
management practices is support of
human, economic, social and sustainable
development in developing countries.
Since 1992, he has undertaken missions
to over 57 developing countries for this
purpose.
Richard has undertaken evaluations of
Internet connectivity and ICT capacity
in general in these countries. He has
participated in the development of ICT
strategies and action plans in several
countries including most recently in
Trinidad and Tobago, Gabon, Rwanda,
Botswana, Djibouti, Mauritania,
Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia. He
recently completed a scoping study
entitled “ICTs for e-Environment” for
the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU). He is working with the UN
United Nations Asian and Pacific
Training Centre for Information and
Communication Technology for Development
(APCICT) in Korea on the preparation of
a training program on alternative
vehicles for funding ICT for
development. In partnership with
Neotelis of Montreal, he offers training
on ICT for development (http://www.neotelis.com/2008_ICT4D_training_program_schedule.php).
In the 1980s, he developed a world-class
computerized information and
documentation centre on agroforestry (IDRC
& ICRAF Nairobi, Kenya) where he worked
as the de facto knowledge manager.
Richard Labelle has been a self-employed
and full time independent international
consultant since 1992 and has over 9
years of full time employment in Africa
(1981- 1990: IDRC, ICRAF – now the World
Agroforestry Centre). |
Mr Sean KIDNEY, Director of Science and Systems, Climate Risk Pty Ltd (Australia)
Europe Manager, Climate Risk Ltd Climate Risk's mission is to provide a practical bridge between climate change science and real-world decision making, to allow clients to better manage the emerging risks, and to capture opportunities presented by climate change.
Sean has 25 years experience working as a strategist with government, business and civil society on societal change. He founded and managed for 20 years consulting companies in the communications and marketing field, working with hundreds of clients ranging from national governments and non-government organisations to major investment funds. Sean has experience working on issues ranging from internet technology and financial education to climate change policy. He is a director of a major environmental organisation and an online business services company
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Ms Katalin SZOMOLÁNYI, European Telecom Network Operators’ Association (ETNO) and Magyar Telecom (Hungary)
Katalin Szomolányi is the head of Magyar Telekom’s Corporate Sustainability Department. She is responsible for the company group’s sustainability strategy. She started her career at the company in 1997 with environmental development responsibility. With Magyar Telekom joining the ETNO Environmental Charter in 1998, she became the delegate Environmental Working Group. In 2002 she launched a project in ETNO about ICT’s effect on climate change.
In 2004, Magyar Telekom hosted the First European Conference on Telecommunications and Environment, in Budapest, where she presented the first results of the project, and started to harmonise the follow-up steps with WWF. Finally, the joint initiative together with WWF has been launched in 2005, which Katalin was leading on ETNO side. She was the co-author of the roadmap for reduced CO2 emission in the EU and beyond, called “Saving the climate @ the speed of light”, published in 2006.
She has a background in environmental sciences - geography, nature conservation, and international business.
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Mr Christian OLLIVRY, FTTH Europe |
José Alberto Varela Sanz, Telefonica, Large Companies and Public Administration (Spain)
Senior Consultant in the Business Intelligence Unit in Telefonica Spain for Large Companies and Public Administration.
My activity in Telefonica is focused on the design, business definition and commercial deployment of new services for large companies and public administration under the model of Software as a Service bringing together communications and IT technologies. The service of Energy Efficiency is a result of this effort.
I am Telecommunication Engineer and MBA at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain).
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Sukhdev Dlay, Telco and Media Convergence, SAS Institute (Belgium)
Since 2003, Sukhdev has served as Principal Statistician for SAS (UK), which is the leading provider of next generation business analytics software and services leading to enterprise intelligence.
He has been key in advising on many successful analytical projects in the Communications, Energy, Pharmaceutical and Retail industries. More recently, he has taken over as the UK lead consultant for SAS Sustainability Management, which enables an organisation to measure, manage and report on the Triple Bottom Line: environmental, social and economic indicators and determine business strategies that reduce risk and increase shareholder value.
Sukhdev has broad industry experience and has previously worked as a statistician for organisations that include the Financial Times, Credit Suisse First Boston and Office of National Statistics. He holds an MSc in Applied Stochastic Systems from University College London.
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Dr Fabrice SAFFRE, Principal Researcher, BT Group
Dr. Fabrice Saffre is a Principal Researcher within BT Group CTO, a Member of the
Institute of Physics and a Member of the British Computer Society. His primary areas
of expertise are the study of emergent collective phenomena and the modelling and
analysis of complex systems, especially using numerical techniques. He started
applying his knowledge of distributed systems to energy management during a
collaboration with Dr. Jessika Trancik at the Santa Fe Institute in 2006. He is
currently involved in the “Green ICT Task Force”, a group of BT experts dedicated
to developing innovative and commercially viable ways of leveraging the company’s
research output in the fight against climate change.
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1030 - 1050 |
Coffee break |
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1050 - 1220 |
Session 5: Towards a high-bandwidth,
low carbon future |
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Mr James MACFIE, Nortel (Canada) |
Mr Peter INGRAM, Chief Technology Officer, OFCOM (UK)
Peter Ingram is Chief Technology Officer at Ofcom, which is the regulator and competition authority for the UK’s converged communications industry, with responsibilities covering television, radio, telecommunications, and the management of the radio spectrum.
Peter’s responsibility as CTO is to ensure that Ofcom remains at the forefront of understanding the impact of technology on the communications industry that Ofcom regulates. He has played a leading role in a number of Ofcom’s strategic reviews of telecommunications, broadcasting and the radio spectrum.
Peter is a member of Ofcom’s Executive Committee and Policy Executive. He has also Chaired Ofcom’s Operations Board, and been responsible for Ofcom’s Information Systems (IS) and Operations (which includes Licensing the use of the radio spectrum, a Field Operations team whose aim is to keep the radio spectrum free from interference across the UK, and the Ofcom Contact Centre which handles complaints and enquiries about broadcasting, telecommunications and the radio spectrum from the public).
In his previous role, Peter was Chief Technology Officer at BT Retail, part of British Telecommunications plc. Peter had a long and varied career at BT. In his last two years at BT, he played a decisive role in the early-stage development of new revenue-generating services enabled by new technology (including BT Openzone – a public Wireless LAN ‘hot spot’ service), and played a leading role in the development of BT’s strategy for fixed/mobile convergence (including BT Fusion then BT Bluephone).
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Mr Bernard DUGERDIL, Freescale Semiconductor and ETSI Board Member
Bernard Dugerdil is working in the Telecommunication Industry for more than 30 years and is currently responsible to Coordinate Standards within Freescale Semiconductor (Freescale became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more than 50 years as part of Motorola, Inc). Bernard has been involved in Standards for more than 15 years. He is part of DSL Forum Technical committee leadership team (and one of the founders of DSL Forum), first contact for Freescale and active participant to ITU-T, member of ETSI Board of Director and member of HGI Board of Director.
Bernard was the initiator 15 months ago with two other colleagues of the FTTH Council Europe Sustainable group (SUDEFIB), part of ITU-T SG15 power saving initiative and part of HGI power saving group. Bernard will present ETSI Green Agenda as ETSI Board member and on behalf of ETSI.
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 Mr. Yoichi MAEDA,
Chair, ITU-T Study Group 15 (Optical and
other transport network infrastructure)
Yoichi Maeda received B.E. and M.E.
degrees in electronic engineering from
Shizuoka University, Japan, in 1976 and
1978, respectively. Since joining NTT in
1980, he has been engaged in research
and development on access network
transport systems for broadband
communications including SDH, ATM, and
IP for 26 years. From 1988 to 1989 he
worked for British Telecom Research
Laboratories, United Kingdom, as an
exchange research engineer. He currently
leads the international standards and
business promotion in NTT Advanced
Technology Corporation and is NTT’s
Senior Adviser on Standardization. Since
1989 he has been an active participant
in ITU-T SGs 13 and 15. He has been
serving as vice-chair of ITU-T SG13 and
chair of OAN (Optical Access Network)-WG
of FSAN (Full Service Access Network)
from 2001 to 2004. He has had an
appointment of chair of ITU-T SG15 for
the 2005-2008 study period in October
2004 at WTSA-04. He is a fellow of the
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Dr. Yuji INOUE,
President and CEO, Telecommunication
Technology Committee of Japan
Since Dr. Inoue joined NTT Laboratories
in 1973, he has played key roles in R&D
and standardization in the area of
telecommunications and the Internet for
more than three decades. Dr. Inoue's
continuous contribution has helped
advance today's multi-technologies
network infrastructures.
Dr. Inoue engaged in the development of
digital network equipment and
transmission systems in his early days
at NTT Laboratories. For over a decade
from the early 1980s to the early 1990s,
he was significantly involved in
standardization activities at ITU-T
(formerly CCITT). Dr. Inoue first
focused on the standardization of
narrowband integrated services digital
network (ISDN). Dr. Inoue then extended
his standardization activities to
broadband ISDN, synchronous digital
hierarchy (SDH) and Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM) transport network
architecture. Dr. Inoue has also
fostered a great number of researchers
and engineers, from Japan and abroad,
including a few who have later become
ITU-T Study Group Chairpersons.
In response to changing market
environment and technological trends,
Dr. Inoue actively participated not only
in ITU-T but also in private entities
where a number of key standards were
developed. In TINA-C (Telecommunication
Information Networking Architecture
Consortium), he served as the Technical
Committee Chair for the standardization
of the open software environment
embedded in novel network architectures.
Dr. Inoue's achievements in terms of
standardization together with his
academic contributions brought about
innovations in the field of
telecommunications and the Internet. In
recognition of his achievements, Dr.
Inoue was conferred Fellow by both the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) and the Institute of
Electronics, Information and
Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan
in 2002. Dr. Inoue is honorary professor
and visiting professor at several
universities in Japan and abroad.
With highly successful career in
standardization, Dr. Inoue concentrated
on the management and strategic planning
of standardization at NTT. Since 2002,
he has been supervising NTT Laboratories
with more than 2,500 research engineers
and staff, where he oversees R&D
strategy, standardization, and
intellectual property rights policy. Dr.
Inoue's successful R&D promotion had
resulted in Japan's highest penetration
of broadband access using optical fibers
in the world as well as a number of key
technologies, such as SDH, commonly used
in today's network infrastructures of
the Internet.
Dr. Inoue has been involved in several
activities toward the development of
Japan's national ICT policy. Currently,
Dr. Inoue participates in a project team
under the Council for Science and
Technology Policy, advisory council of
Prime Minister of Japan, and is also a
member of Information and Communications
Council of the Ministry of Internal
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Mr James MACFIE, Nortel
Since joining Nortel in 1996, Jim has been engaged in the management of Nortel’s global standards program. In managing this program, Jim is responsible for developing strategy for accredited standards bodies at the national, regional and global levels, as well as non-accredited industry forums and consortia. Jim has budget responsibility for Nortel’s SDO corporate memberships and hosting.
Jim holds the following standards positions:
Chairman of the ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada and Intellectual Property Rapporteur
Head of Delegation for Canada at the Global Standards Collaboration forum and Chairman of the Admin Working Group
Member of the Standards Council of Canada’s Advisory Committee on Standards
Chair of the Advisory Board for the Advanced Software Engineering Research and Training Laboratories at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University
Member of the Canadian JTC 1 delegation
Currently Jim is a Nortel representative on Industry Canada’s ITU-T Steering Committee.
Education:
- Oxford University, England, 1973 (M.Sc. Electrical Engineering)
- University of Alberta, 1972 (B.Sc., with distinction, Electrical Engineering)
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Mr Dominique ROCHE, France Telecom Group, Infrastructure and Transmission Standardization Manager
Dominique Roche, graduated from National Institute of Telecommunications, was born in Annecy, France.
After several years in building accommodations he has been in charge of Automatic Handling Equipments Centre first in French Postal Operator and after in SOFREPOST Company for Saudi postal complex centres. One year in Riyadh and he came back to Bordeaux in France to manage Project and Management Departments of an outside plant centre.
One year later he left France again to go to Jordan where he has been in charge of building and environment works of Jordanian Telecom Operator as senior consultant of SOFRECOM Company.
Then he has been manager of regional network department and data processing department in Bordeaux.
He has made numerous punctual missions abroad during this France Télécom Group period: Indonesia, South America and Africa. Since 2000 till now he manages network standardisation in France Télécom.
Father of the first French Guide on Communication Network Installation he chairs some Standardisation groups inside European Standardisation Organisations: ETSI/ATTM (Access, Terminals & Transmission and Multiplexing), CENELEC TC 215 (Installation of Communication Equipments & Networks).
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Mr Flavio CUCHIETTI, Telecom Italia
Flavio Cucchietti, within Telecom Italia R&D Center in Turin (Italy,) is managing the innovation projects on infrastructural and powering solutions for the NEXT Generation Network
He is member of the council the Italian Electrotechnical Committee (CEI). From 1988 is active in standardization activities on access network technologies and conformance testing.
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1220 - 1330 |
Lunch |
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1330 - 1500 |
Session 6: Adapting to climate change |
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Mr Bruce STANFORD, Managing Director, Major Programmes, BT Wholesale |
Mr Don MACLEAN, Associate, International Institute for Sustainable Development (Canada)
Don MacLean is an independent consultant on ICT policy, strategy and governance issues and an Associate of the International Institute for Sustainable Development.
At the national level his work has included projects on access to broadband networks and services, online delivery of government services, measures to counter spam, innovation strategies for the e-economy, and reform of Canadian telecommunications policy and regulation.
At the international level, he has worked on projects to support the Global Knowledge Partnership, the G8 Digital Opportunity Task Force, the World Summit on the Information Society, and the 2008 OECD Ministerial Conference on the future of the Internet economy. He is currently assisting IISD with an initiative to strengthen the linkages between global Internet governance and sustainable development.
In addition to his consulting assignments, Don has contributed numerous articles to academic and professional publications, edited Internet Governance: a Grand Collaboration for the UN ICT Task Force, was a member of the WSIS Working Group on Internet Governance.
From 1992-99, Don served as Chief of Strategic Planning and External Affairs at the International Telecommunication Union. Prior to joining the ITU, he worked in the Canadian Department of Communications from 1977 to 1989, before leaving government to establish his consulting practice.
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Prof Toshio OBI, Director, ITU-Waseda ICT Centre (Japan) |
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Dr Neena SINHA, University School of Management Studies |
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Prof. Craig Warren SMITH, Senior Advisor, Human Interaction Computer Laboratory, University of Washington (USA) |
Dr Thomas DOWNING, Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute, Oxford office
Dr Thomas E. Downing (PhD, Geography, Clark University) is the Executive Director of the Oxford centre of the Stockholm Environment Institute and Director of the UNEP-SEI Collaborating Programme on Climate Adaptation. He was formerly Reader in Climate Policy in the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford, and has been the science adviser to the UK Climate Impacts Programme, and research fellow in the University of Birmingham and National Center for Atmospheric Research. Currently he is visiting professor in Oxford University in the School of Geography and Environment and Queen Elisabeth House, as well as senior research fellow in the SEI centre at York University and chair in social vulnerability with the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security. He has been involved in all four assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (sharing in the Nobel Prize in 2007). He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (RSA) in 2007.
His major interests are vulnerability and adaptation to climate change and climatic hazards, with an emphasis on developing participatory, actor-oriented methods (such as agent-based social simulation). The SEI is leading development of a platform for supporting climate change adaptation decisions. He has published over 100 papers, books, reports and book reviews, including the Atlas of Climate Change (with Kirstin Dow). Recent projects include the UK national assessment of climate change and demand for water (CCDEW), agent-based simulation modelling in support of integrated water management in Europe (FIRMA), seasonal climate forecasting in southern African and potential implications for sustainable livelihoods (CLOUD), frameworks and methods for vulnerability and adaptation to climatic hazards and climate change (ADAM, CLEAR and NAPA), development of a collaborating centre on climate adaptation with the United Nations Environment Programme and assisting the Food and Agriculture Organisation to develop their climate adaptation strategy.
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Ms Kerstin LUDWIG, Project Officer, ICT Applications and Cybersecurity Division, ITU-D
Ms. Kerstin Ludwig joined ITU in 2004, and is concerned with its development assistance work on information and communication technology (ICT) strategies and applications in areas such as environment & sustainable development, health, government, agriculture and others.
She holds a Master’s degree in Project Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration & International Management, both from the University of Quebec, Canada, as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen, Germany.
Ms. Ludwig has developed a range of expertise in both the private and the public sectors. Prior to joining ITU, she worked at the World Health Organization in areas relating to eHealth, country cooperation strategies and Human Resources. She was also involved at the Canadian Central Bank in organizing key communications as part of the successful implementation of a major change initiative. In Germany, Ms Ludwig worked earlier in the banking sector, the aviation industry and logistics services. She speaks English, French and German.
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Prof Shoichiro ASANO, National Institute of Informatics
Professor Asano received Doctor Engineering. Degree from Graduate School of Electronic Engineering, of University of Tokyo in 1975. Currently, he holds a teaching position at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology of University of Tokyo and the Information Systems Architecture research division leadership at National Institute of Informatics. He received several awards including Award from Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Award from Minister of International Trade and Industry, and Award from Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Now, he is the fellow of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan.
Recently, his activities focused on the management of research activities conducting in the design of next generation photonic network. Through developing not only technological solution but also economical solution, new network architecture will be widely deployed in national and international infrastructure for broadband networks. Many challenging activities, including field trial of new photonic network control technologies and 40Gbit/sec high-quality transport system, were conducting with collaboration of Softbank Telecom Corp., manufacturers and National Institute of Informatics under his leadership.
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Dr Susumu YONEDA, Softbank Telecom Corp. Lab (Japan)
Susumu Yoneda received Ph.D degree in system engineering/environmental engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 1984. He joined Bell Communications Research as a Member of Technical Staff in 1984, and worked on various data communication network including ATM. In 1993, he moved to the development department of Japan Telecom in Japan. He established the ATM network and services of Japan Telecom. He became the manager of Information and Communication Laboratory of Japan Telecom in 1997, and became the vice head of the laboratory in 2002. He also held the visiting professor position in National Institute of Informatics from 2002. Japan Telecom was taken over by Softbank in 2004. Now he is the vice head of Softbank Telecom Laboratory. Recently, he was involved in Network ID (NID) activities in ITU-T, and submitted several contributions co-authored by Professor Asano.
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1500 - 1520 |
Coffee break |
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1520 - 1630 |
Session 7: Review and Wrap-up |
Dr. Tim KELLY, Head,
Standardization Policy Division, ITU-T
Dr. Tim Kelly is Head of the Standardization Policy Division of the
International Telecommunication Union
(ITU), where he has worked since 1993.
Before joining ITU he spent five years
as a Communications Policy Analyst with
the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) and
three years with Logica Consultancy Ltd.
He has an MA (Hons) degree in Geography
and a Ph.D in industrial economics from
Cambridge University. Over the last
twenty years, Dr Kelly has specialised
in the economics of the
telecommunications industry. He has
written or co-authored more than 30
books on the subject including the ITU's
“Internet Reports” and “World
Information Society Reports”. He was in
charge of the “content team” for the
World Summit on the Information Society
(WSIS), which concluded in November
2005. He is a visiting scholar at the
business school of Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology. |
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Ms Sheridan NYE, Senior
Consultant, ICT and Climate Change
(UK) |
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Mr Bill THOMPSON,
Technology Writer, BBC Online (UK) |
Mr Richard LABELLE, Aylmer Group (Canada)
Richard Labelle is an independent
consultant based in Gatineau, Quebec,
Canada and is President of The Aylmer
Group which is based in Ottawa. Mr.
Labelle has 27 years experience on
issues related to the use of appropriate
information and communication
technologies (ICTs) and related
management practices is support of
human, economic, social and sustainable
development in developing countries.
Since 1992, he has undertaken missions
to over 57 developing countries for this
purpose.
Richard has undertaken evaluations of
Internet connectivity and ICT capacity
in general in these countries. He has
participated in the development of ICT
strategies and action plans in several
countries including most recently in
Trinidad and Tobago, Gabon, Rwanda,
Botswana, Djibouti, Mauritania,
Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia. He
recently completed a scoping study
entitled “ICTs for e-Environment” for
the International Telecommunication
Union (ITU). He is working with the UN
United Nations Asian and Pacific
Training Centre for Information and
Communication Technology for Development
(APCICT) in Korea on the preparation of
a training program on alternative
vehicles for funding ICT for
development. In partnership with
Neotelis of Montreal, he offers training
on ICT for development (http://www.neotelis.com/2008_ICT4D_training_program_schedule.php).
In the 1980s, he developed a world-class
computerized information and
documentation centre on agroforestry (IDRC
& ICRAF Nairobi, Kenya) where he worked
as the de facto knowledge manager.
Richard Labelle has been a self-employed
and full time independent international
consultant since 1992 and has over 9
years of full time employment in Africa
(1981- 1990: IDRC, ICRAF – now the World
Agroforestry Centre). |
Mr James MACFIE, Nortel
Since joining Nortel in 1996, Jim has been engaged in the management of Nortel’s global standards program. In managing this program, Jim is responsible for developing strategy for accredited standards bodies at the national, regional and global levels, as well as non-accredited industry forums and consortia. Jim has budget responsibility for Nortel’s SDO corporate memberships and hosting.
Jim holds the following standards positions:
Chairman of the ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada and Intellectual Property Rapporteur
Head of Delegation for Canada at the Global Standards Collaboration forum and Chairman of the Admin Working Group
Member of the Standards Council of Canada’s Advisory Committee on Standards
Chair of the Advisory Board for the Advanced Software Engineering Research and Training Laboratories at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University
Member of the Canadian JTC 1 delegation
Currently Jim is a Nortel representative on Industry Canada’s ITU-T Steering Committee.
Education:
- Oxford University, England, 1973 (M.Sc. Electrical Engineering)
- University of Alberta, 1972 (B.Sc., with distinction, Electrical Engineering)
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Mr Bruce STANFORD, Managing Director, Major Programmes, BT Wholesale |
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1630 - 1645 |
Close of meeting |
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Mr Malcolm JOHNSON,
Director, ITU-T |
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Mr Bruce
STANFORD, Managing Director, Major
Programmes, BT Wholesale |
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