Presentations

Monday, 30 January 2006

Introductions: Daniela Battisti, Cabinet of the Italian Minister for Innovation and Technologies / Vice-Chair, OECD Working Party on the Information Economy

Chair Day 1: Welcome

The importance and role of digital content: Encouraging production and enhancing access

  • Lucio Stanca, Italian Minister for Innovation and Technologies
  • Donald J. Johnston, Secretary-General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Broadband and digital content: Creativity, growth and employment

  • Chin Dae-Je, Korean Minister of Information and Communication
  • Michael J. Copps, US Federal Communications Commissioner
  • Marco Tronchetti Provera, Vice President Confindustria / Chairman Telecom Italia
  • Rita Hayes, Deputy Director General, Copyright and related Rights and Industrial Relations, World Intellectual Property Organization
  • Phil Bowyer, Deputy General Secretary, Union Network International
  • ChairBruno Lamborghini, Vice-Chair, OECD Business and Industry Advisory Committee to OECD (BIAC)

Digital content opportunities and challenges: Changing value chains and business models

Overview:  Hiroaki Yoshihara, Vice-Chair and Global Managing Partner, Global Markets, KPMG International

Perspectives on opportunities and challenges:

  • Linda Jensen, CEO Home Box Office Central Europe
  • Jenny Toomey, Musician / Director, Future of Music Coalition
  • Alberto Tripi, President Federcomin, Italian ICT Federation
  • Mark Read, WPP Strategy Director
  • James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
  • Chair: Hal R. Varian, Professor, School of Information Management, University of California at Berkeley

New developments: Parallel panel sessions 

 A) New platforms and content delivery opportunities

B) New user habits and social attitudes

  • David Sifry, President, Technorati
  • David Day, Managing Director, EMEA Nielsen//NetRatings
  • Jens Uwe Intat, Vice President and General Manager Europe, Electronic Arts
  • John B. Horrigan, Associate Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project (presentationremarks)
  • Frieda Brioschi, President, Wikipedia and Wikimedia Italia
  • ChairUrs Gasser, Professor and Director, Research Center for Information Law, University St. Gallen

 A) Creation and access to content and the role of new commercial agreements

  • Andrew Burke, CEO British Telecom Entertainment
  • Chris Castle, Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel, SNOCAP
  • Stefano Parisse, Director, Fastweb
  • Alex Ogilvie, Vice President, Business Development Europe, Warner Bros. International TV
  • Justin Kniest, Managing Director Fabchannel
  • Chair: Jean-Jacques Sahel, UK Department of Trade and Industry / Chair OECD Working Party on the Information Economy

 B) Enhanced access to research and public sector information. A new growth driver?

  • Herbert Burkert, Professor, University of St. Gallen / Fraunhofer Institut for Media Communications (presentationremarks)
  • Luis Rodriguez Moreno, Executive Director, Cervantes Virtual Project
  • Sally Morris, Chief Executive, Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
  • Charles Oppenheim, Professor, Loughborough University
  • David C. Prosser, Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Europe
  • Chair: Juan Carlos De Martin, Professor, University Politecnico di Torino

 

In plenary

Jonathan Taplin, Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California

Wrap-up

Rapporteur afternoon stream A, Day 1: Eli M. Noam, Professor and Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Columbia University

Rapporteur afternoon stream B, Day 1Len Waverman, Professor, London Business School

Conference dinner offered by the Government of Italy

Welcome by Minister Lucio Stanca

Dinner speech:  Terry Fisher, Professor and Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University

Tuesday, 31 January 2006

Chair Day 2: Welcome by Nobuo Tanaka, Director for Science, Technology and Industry, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

New ways to access knowledge and content: Content digitisation by commercial players and public institutions

  • Paul Gerhardt, Project Director, Creative Archive, British Broadcasting Corporation
  • Jens Redmer, Director of Google Book Search, Europe
  • Eric Saltzman, film producer /Board of Directors, Creative Commons 
  • Bradley Horowitz, Director of Technology Development, Yahoo!
  • Mihály Jambrik, Hungarian State Secretary, Ministry of Informatics and Communications (presentationremarks)
  • Chair: Julie E. Cohen, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Rapporteur: Michael Geist, Professor, Canada Research Chair in Internet and Ecommerce Law, University of Ottawa

Are digital media and the Internet changing creative supply?

  • Kan’ichiro Aritomi, Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination, Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
  • Adam Klein, Executive Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, EMI Music
  • Max Pezzali, Musician
  • Rachel Clark, Director, Broadcasting and Content, UK Department of Trade and Industry
  • Philippe Kern, Secretary General, Independent Music Companies Association
  • ChairPaul Hoffert, Professor / composer,  musician / Chair Guild of Canadian Film Composers

Rapporteur: Gilles Le Blanc, Professor and Director, Centre for Industrial Economics, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris

Business and policy solutions: Emerging issues and implications

Parallel sessions

 A) Content creation

Building the right environment for innovation

  • Rachel Dixon, CEO Handshake Media / Australian Strategic Digital Content Industry Leaders Group
  • Mark Esseboom, Director, Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, DG for Energy and Telecom
  • Andrea Camanzi, Chairman, Business and Industry Advisory Committee to OECD (BIAC) ICCP Committee
  • Marianne Rønnebæk, Director and Deputy Permanent Secretary, Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
  • Yossi Vardi, Chairman International Technologies / Member World Economic Forum ICT & Media Industry Community
    (presentationremarks)
  • ChairRichard Simpson, Director General, Electronic Commerce, Industry Canada

B) Content diffusion

IPR, DRM, licensing, content security, standards

  • Barney Wragg, Senior Vice President eLabs, Universal Music Group International
  • Sarah Deutsch, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Verizon Communications
  • Giorgio Assumma, President, SIAE, Italian Collecting Society (EnglishItalian)
  • Stan Liebowitz, Proferssor, Center for Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation, University of Texas
  • Leonardo Chiariglione, CEO and Digital Media Strategist, CEDEO.net (presentationremarks)
  • Fred Von Lohmann, Senior Intellectual Property Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Chair: Marco Ricolfi, Professor,
    University of Turin, Law School
     

 

Policy Roundtable: Identifying priority issues, tools and policy challenges: Moving forward

  • Masakazu Toyoda, Director-General, Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
  • Pasquale Pistorio, Honorary President STMicroelectronics / Vice President Confindustria for Research & Innovation
  • Marybeth Peters, U.S. Register of Copyrights, United States Copyright Office
  • Andrea Pontremoli, CEO and Chairman, IBM Italy
  • Fabio Colasanti, Director-General, Information Society & Media, European Commission
  • Aurelio De Laurentiis, film producer, Filmauro
  • ChairHugo Parr, Chair OECD Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy

Conference conclusions: Rapporteurs

Day 1 Rapporteur: Terry Fisher, Professor and Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University

Day 2 Rapporteur: Luc Soete, Professor and Joint Director, Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology and United Nations University Institute for New Technologies

Closing remarks

  • Donald J. Johnston, Secretary-General, OECD
  • Lucio Stanca, Italian Minister for Innovation and Technologies

Thematic rapporteurs

Michael Bracy, Co-Founder Future of Music Coalition, Rapporteur Creative community / artist perspective

Mark Cooper, Director of Research, Consumer Federation of America, Rapporteur Consumer perspective

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