16.4.2008
Matchmaking event with Belgian companies
10:30 – 12:00
Cluster / network presentations
Welcome Susanne Strohm, Vienna Business Agency, Brussels Office
VITE Vienna IT Enterprises, Bernhard Schmid, VBA, http://www.vite.at/
VITE Project CITT, Zuzana Lettner, VBA
European Multimedia Forum, Margaretha Mazura, www.e-multimedia.org
INFOPOLE Cluster TIC, Michel Black, Infopôle, http://www.infopole.be/
PIN-SME Pan-European ICT& eBusiness Network, Sebastiano Toffaletti, http://www.pin-sme.eu/
Questions & Answers
12:00 – 13:30
Buffet lunch
13:30 – 17:00
Presentation of the participating companies and matchmaking sessions
19:30
Evening reception,
Wien-Haus, Avenue de Tervuren 58, 1040 Brussels
Welcome, Susanne Strohm, Vienna Business Agency, Brussels Office
Key note speeches:
Paul Rübig, MEP
Günther Krumpak, ITB Europe „From Quantum Computing to Digital Image Processing: ICT Research and Technology Transfer in Austria”
Günter Schneider, Microsoft Corporation – EMEA Timezone, EUGA Program Manager, "EU Grants Advisor - How to Leverage Public Fundings for your ICT Projects"
Cocktail / networking
17.4. 2008
10:00 – 13:30
Visit IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
IMEC (Interuniversity Micro Electronics Centre) - Europe’s largest independent research centre in the field of microelectronics, nanotechnology, enabling design methods and technologies for ICT systems) www.imec.be/ovinter/static_general/start_en_flash.shtml
IMEC corporate overview, Imke Debecker, IMEC Marketing Communication - Business Development
Leuvense Security Excellence Consortium L-SEC http://www.lsec.be/, Ulrich Seldeslachts, CEO
DSP Valley (Digital Signal Processing & embedded technologies), http://www.dspvalley.com/,
Filiep Vincent, DSP Valley
Leuven Innovation Networking Circle Leuven Inc., www.leuveninc.com, Nicole De Smyter, CEO
Guided tour of the 300mm cleanroom
14:00
Lunch
15:30 – 18:00
Practical hands-on information on European funding project application
Eureka Sekretariat, Rue Neerveld 107, 1200 Brussels
Welcome and opening address (L.Borg, EUREKA Secretariat)
EUREKA and EUROSTARS: the solutions for your market-oriented international R&D co-operation (P. Loward + R. Verbruggen)
My experience with EUREKA Belgium and Austria (E.Mellery, NXP Belgium - requested)
EU funding opportunities for ICT: a practical overview"; (M.Mazura, European Multimedia Forum)
Discussion
18.4. 2008
9:30 – 11:30
Visit European Commission, DG Information Society and Media
ICT strategy i2010, Maresa Meissl, DG INFSO, C.1, Lisbon strategy and i2010
ICT research (FP7), Peter Fatelnig, DG INFSO, D.5, Administration & Finance
ICT funding in the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP), Peter Diry, DG INFSO, C.5, IST operations
12:00
Lunch at the European Parliament
13:30
Visit European Parliament, guided tour