This year's annual DIMES seminar in Brussels on 28 April 2010 is organised jointly with Méditerranée Technologies (MT) and the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN). The seminar addresses the topic of Smart Innovation and aims to bring together key players in the field of ICT in France and Finland to identify cooperative research and business development opportunities.

It is through cooperation that significant inputs are achieved. Franco-Finnish cooperation is a good start as both countries present many commonalities in terms of innovation policy, advanced technologies, methodologies to boost research and develop businesses. And now is the right time for “smart” cooperation, as European innovation needs a kick-start in order to boost the economy into a new rise.

The event will bring together high-level representatives from the European Commission, from industry (Nokia, Technicolor) and a wide range of stakeholders from SMEs to associations and will aim to:

• Highlight major frameworks for cooperation: Future Internet Public Private Partnership from an institutional and industrial perspective, Enterprise Europe Network;
• Present some cooperation success stories between France and Finland;
• Facilitate business development through bilateral company meetings and exhibition space: for this purpose please fill in the attached form and return to: judson@mediterranee-technologies.com;
• Collect forerunners and interesting cases of new media: content, services, creative industries and application developers from both countries;
• Provide a forum for discussion on European innovation policy as a whole: “How to ensure research outcome turning into flourishing business?” “What are the challenges, what could be the remedies?” “What can be done jointly to raise the game?”

Feel free to circulate this invitation. The seminar is free of charge and English will be the spoken language. Please register to Mr Anssi Kujala by 20 April 2010. More information on the event: Susanna Avéssta, Anssi Kujala or Jean-Paul Judson

More information on Future Internet –initiative and on Web 3.0

Date: 28 April 2010

Place: 62, rue du Trône, 1050 Brussels, Belgium

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9.00 - 12.00    B2B meetings

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12.00 - 13.00    Welcome lunch (sandwich), coffee and registration

13.00 - 13.10    Introduction to the event: Susanna Avéssta, DIMES and Jean-Paul Judson, Méditerranée Technologies

13.10 - 13.30    OPENING

Luis Rodriguez-Rosello Director DG INFSO

13.30 - 15.00    FRAMEWORKS

Future Internet, Bernard Barani, Assistant to the Director D and Peter Fatelnig, Deputy Head of Unit D5, “Converged Networks and Services” DG INFSO

Future Internet a public private partnership with a vision, Jean-Dominique Meunier, Director, Technicolor & James Waterworth, Director, Nokia

Business Support in Europe, Jean-François Aguinaga, Head of Unit Business Support, DG Enterprise

European Enterprise Network

15.00 - 15.40    EXAMPLES of COOPERATION IN ACTION

Innovation in Finland: Jari Pasanen Direcor, SITRA
European cooperation on Future Internet: Serge Fdida Professor, Université Pierre & Marie Curie

15.40 - 16.00    Coffee break

16.00 - 17.30 ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION on How to fix the innovation mill in Europe? 5 min introduction from each panelist followed by the discussion with audience
Luis Rodriquez-Rosello, Director DG INFSO, Alain Liberos, HoU DG Enterprise, Khalil Rouhana, HoU DG INFSO, Per Blixt, HoU DG INFSO, Timo Haapalehto, National Adviser DG Enterprise,  Sampo Hamalainen, Futurice, Olivier Lavoisy, Umanlab
•    How to ensure research outcome turning into flourishing business? Challenges, remedies
•    What can be done jointly to raise the game?

17.30 -    Exhibition of clusters and companies in France and Finland followed by cocktail reception and networking

• Enterprise Europe Network
• Méditerranée Techologies
• DIMES
• Pôle Solutions Communicantes Sécurisées
• Cap Digital
• Pôle Images et Réseaux
• Umanlab
• Tieto
• Solutions Space
• Axel Technologies
• Futurice
• NEWNET 3D