Programme with presentations

OPENING: WELCOMING REMARKS AND INTRODUCTION

• Michael Binder, Assistant Deputy Minister, Spectrum, Information Technologies and Telecommunications, Industry Canada
• Susanne Huttner, Director, Science, Technology and Industry Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Facilitator: John Oxley, Vice President, Canada's Association of Information Technology Professionals

SESSION 1: THE FUTURE OF THE PARTICIPATIVE WEB: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERSITY?

Chair:  John Lettice, Co-founder and Editorial Director, The Register

• Jonathan Taplin, Professor, University of California
• Cyrus Beagley, Associate Principal, Media Practice, McKinsey
• Ginsu Yoon, Vice President, Business Affairs, SecondLife
• Michael Gill, Chief Executive Officer, Fairfax Business Media

SESSION 2:  CREATIVITY AND THE INTERNET ECONOMY: BUSINESS AND SCIENCE

STREAM A

Business 2.0 and innovation: Business use of the participative web

Chair: David Crane, Global Issues Columnist, Toronto Star

• Bob Young, Founder, Lulu.com 
• Anthony Williams, New Paradigm and Author of Wikinomics
• Paul Misener, Vice President for Global Public Policy, Amazon.com
• Daniel Bretonès, Professor, ESCEM School of Business and Management,France
• Shenja van der Graaf, Media@lse, London School of Economics  

STREAM B

Research 2.0: e-Science and new ways of interaction in the science community

Chair:  Walter Stewart, Walter Stewart & Associates Inc.

• Andrew Herbert,  Managing Director, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
• Bill St. Arnaud, Senior Director Advanced Networks, CANARIE Inc.
• Mario Campolargo, Head of the Unit "GEANT & eInfrastructures", Information Society and Media Directorate-General, European Commission
• Diana Rhoten, Program Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation

KEYNOTE: Robert Sutor, Vice President for Open Source and Standards, IBM

SESSION 3: CREATIVITY AND THE INTERNET ECONOMY: USERS, GOVERNMENTS AND CITIZENS

STREAM A

User-created content: What are the impacts?

Chair:  Michel Leblanc, Analyweb Inc./Blogger

• Jungwook Lim, Vice President for Service Innovation, Daum Communications, Korea
• Andres Monroy-Hernandez, MIT Media Lab, Lifelong Kindergarten Group
• Jennifer Corriero, Executive Director, Co-founder of TakingITGlobal
• Manon Ress, Director, Information Society Projects, Consumer Project on Technology  

STREAM B

Government 2.0: Engaging citizens to deliver better policy and improve democracy

Chair: Ellen Miller, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation

• Don Lenihan, President and Chief Executive Officer, Crossing Boundaries
• Alejandro Hernandez Pulido (unable to attend), Chief Operating Officer, e-Mexico National System
• Wolfgang Blau, Journalist, Political correspondent US Elections and Media Expert
• Quitterie Delmas, Editor AGORAVOX and political blogger, French presidential elections

SESSION 4: CONFIDENCE AND COMPETITION IN THE INTERNET ECONOMY: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES OF THE PARTICIPATIVE WEB

STREAM A

Creation, access and competition

Chair:  William New, Editor-in-Chief, Intellectual Property Watch

• Kiyoshi Mori, Vice Minister Policy Coordination, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan
• Urs Gasser, Director, Research Center for Information Law, University of St. Gallen and Fellow, Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
• Anne Bucher, Head of Unit, Information Society and Media Directorate-General, European Commission
• Martin Senftleben, Professor of Intellectual Property, Free University of Amsterdam  

STREAM B

Confidence, privacy, and security

Chair:  Hugh Stevenson, Deputy Director, Office of International Affairs, Federal Trade Commission, USA

• Gary Davis, Deputy Commissioner, Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, Ireland
• Chris Kelly, Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Global Public Policy, Facebook
• Jennifer Mardosz, Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs for Fox Interactive Media (parent company of MySpace)
• John Lawford, Counsel, Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Canada

SESSION 5: POLICY ROUNDTABLE: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR POLICY

Chair: Michael Geist, Canadian Research Chair of Internet and e-Commerce Law

• Sangwon Ko, Vice Chair of the OECD Working Party on the Information Economy, Executive Director, Division of Information Industry Research, Korea Information Society Development Institute
• Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center and Public Voice, civil society representative to the OECD
• Daniela Battisti, Vice Chair of the OECD Information, Computer and Communications Policy Committee and Director, Public Agency for Economic Development, Italy
• Joseph Alhadeff (Oracle Corporation), Chair ICCP Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD
• Keith Besgrove, Chair OECD Working Party on Information Security and Privacy and First Assistant Secretary, Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Australia
• Neil Anderson, Head of Telecom, Union Network International, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD 

CONCLUSIONS AND PRIORITY-SETTING FOR THE OECD

Richard Simpson, Chair of the OECD Information, Computer and Communications Policy Committee and Director General, Electronic Commerce, Industry Canada

Independent conference bloggers:

• Richard Akerman, Technology Architect at the National Research Council Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
• Kieren McCarthy, General manager of public participation for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)