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Monday, June 11th

 

8:30 – 13:30 External workshops; registration open for conference participants

 

13:30 – 16:30 Prologue: Setting the scene

Video presentation by EU commissioner Neelie Kroes, commissioner for the Digital agenda for Europe

·         Dr. Carl-Christian Buhr, cabinet member and advisor to Ms. Kroes

"The Digital Agenda for Europe and Horizon 2020"

·         Prof. dr. Tony Hey, corporate vice president Microsoft Research Connections 

"Open Access, Open Data and Open Science : Fourth Paradigm of Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery"

·         Dr. Jill Cousins, CEO Europeana

"Europeana : Achieving Interoperability"

 

Evening: Canal tour, boats leave from the docks of the Black Diamond itself

 

Tuesday, June 12th

 

9:30 – 10:30 Segment 1: Infrastructure and research input & output

·         Prof. dr. Søren Brunak, Denmark's Technical University, Dept. of Systems Biology

"Infrastructure for bioinformatics, systems biology and medical informatics in the post-genome era"

·         Prof. dr. Martin Mueller, Northwestern University, Chicago IL

"Towards a cultural genome: curation and exploration of large-scale historical text corpora" [No presentation]

·         Coffee break

 

11:00 – 12:30 Workshop : Realising interoperability

Suggested themes: Building on success stories. What is possible already? What improvements can be made internally and which intersects with institutions and policy? Low-hanging fruit and primary tasks ahead.

·         Track 1: Technical issues (from Big Iron to metadata)

·         Track 2: Semantic issues (discovery incl. trans-disciplinarity)

 

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

 

13:30 – 14:30 Segment 2: Organisations and collaboration

·         Dr. Stefan Winkler-Nees, programme officer Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

"Knowledge Exchange : Approaching the challenges of the Digital Agenda"

·         Dr. Andrew Treloar, director of technology Australian National Data Service

"Collaboration, Competition, and Consumption : the Changing Ecology of Research Data Publishing"

·         Coffee break

 

15:00 – 16:30 5-minute madness session with organisations in two tracks

Representatives are asked to bring their piece of the puzzle, present themselves, describe their most important project right now and to reach out for collaborators on tasks and subjects.

·         5-minute madness track A & B (see list)

 

Evening: Conference dinner at the island fort Flakfortet. Shuttle service from the Black Diamond to the conference hotels and from the hotels to the harbour where the boat leaves for Flakfortet. 

  

Wednesday, June 13th

 

9:30 – 10:30 Segment 3: Strategy, policy and funding 

Video presentation by EU commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, commissioner for Research, Innovation & Science

·         Director Octavio Quintana Trias, European Research Area, European Commission 

"Horizon 2020 and the European Research Area"

·         Prof. dr. Sverker Holmgren, eScience programme director for NordForsk

"eScience with a Nordic perspective"

·         Coffee break

 

11:00 – 12:30 Workshop : the policy-strategy-funding connection

Suggested themes: Translating reports and recommendations into action. From European programmes to institutional policies. Of metrics and incentives. Bringing about the wanted results. From FP7 to FP8.

·         Track 1: National and institutional measures

·         Track 2: European and global measures

 

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

 

13:30 – 15:30 Epilogue: a letter to the Commission 

·         Summing up the workshops & madness sessions 

·         (Panel) Writing a letter to the Commission with kind regards from the conference 

·         Goodbyes