October 09 Friday Business models 09:00 – 10:30 Session BUS.6 Room B Future innovation: scientific & technological foundations Innovation delivers future developments and business models for interactive telecommunications. Infrastructures, devices, standardization and regulation are necessary to establish a modern ICT ecosystem and information economy, but they are insufficient to design and develop the new services, new contents and new uses to create business and development opportunities. With the deployment of NGN and new protocols, this Session explores and designs possible future innovations that can help improve health care, transport, education, working or entertainment. KEY QUESTIONS: – How can smart environments (intelligent object, remote monitoring, wearable devices, robotics, virtual reality or augmented reality) contribute to new innovations, sustainable development and well-being? What are the radical new innovations to watch out for? Moderator Dr Didier Fass, Associate Professor, ICN Business School and LORIA INRIA (France) Panellists Mr Laurent Haug, Founder & Director, Lift lab SARL (Switzerland) Dr Yoshihiro Fujita, Executive Research Engineer, Science and Technology Research Labs, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp) (Japan) Dr Mark I. Krivocheev, Professor, Chief Scientist, Radio Research Institute (NIIR) (Russian Federation) A Representative of WiMAX Forum (United States) 65