Agenda
Please see below an outline conference agenda. This will be updated shortly so please do check back. For any queries in the meantime, please contact Samira Nik on SNik@cencenelec.eu / +32 2 550 08 48.
Wednesday 13 November, 2019
Morning
08:30 – 09:15
Registration
Welcome coffee
09:15 – 09:25
Welcome and set the scene
Exhibition area
Elena Santiago Cid,
CEN and CENELEC Director General
09:25 – 09:50
Pechakucha
Hear from the innovators
09:50 – 10:00
Take a seat please!
Moving to the Copper Hall
10:00 – 10:10
Standards + Innovation
What is this event about?
Vincent Laflèche,
President,
CEN
10:10 – 10:30
Driving Innovation
Keynote Speech
Kirsten Dunlop,
Chief Executive Officer,
EIT Climate-KIC
10:30 – 11:10
Standards + Myths & Facts
Boosting innovation through standards - The reality!
Christoph Winterhalter,
Vice-President Policy,
CEN
Olivier Peyrat,
Director General,
AFNOR
Rik van Terwisga,
CEO ,
NEN, the Royal Dutch Standardization Institute
Scott Steedman,
Director of Standards and Executive Director,
BSI Group
11:10 – 11:40
Boost Break
Enjoy a cup of coffee and visit the exhibition area
11:40 – 12:10
Standards + Policy
How standardization supports European Market growth
Carmen Ianosi,
Innovation and Policy Officer DG Connect - Communications Networks, Content & Technology,
European Commission
Peter Dröll,
Director for Prosperity, Directorate-General Research and Innovation,
European Commission
12:10 – 12:40
Standards + Success
How standards helped me!
Andrea Rusconi Clerici,
Co-Founder & CTO,
USound
Tom Oostrom,
Managing Director,
Dutch Kidney Foundation
Dave Lewis,
Director of the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group,,
Trinity college Dublin
12:40 – 13:00
CEN-CENELEC Innovation Awards 2019
Launch of the CEN-CENELEC Innovation Awards
Vincent Laflèche,
President,
CEN
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
Enjoy your lunch and share your thoughts with the other participants
Afternoon
14:00 – 14:50
Breakout Sessions 1-3
Delegates will have the option of attending one of the three following parallel breakout sessions:
Session I: Standards + Basics
Session II: Standards + Patents
Session III: Standards + Co-creation
14:00 – 14:50
Session I: Standards + Basics
Everything you ever wanted to know about standardization.... but were afraid to ask.
Dan Palmer,
Associate Director of Committees,
BSI
Elena Mocchio,
Head of Innovation,
UNI
Johan Claire,
Founder and CEO,
Innovation Way
Magnus Karlsson,
Chairman and national expert, TK 532 Innovation management,
SIS Swedish Institute for Standards Project manager, Innovation management system, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
14:00 – 14:50
Session II: Standards + Patents
How Patents and Standards support innovation from research to market
Ged Owens,
European Patent Office, Munich - Coordinator in International Cooperation, including ICT and “Patents and Standards”
Knut Blind,
Professor for Innovation Economics
Michel Neu,
International Expert CEA Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Connect
Spiro Dhapi,
Legal Adviser,
CEN-CENELEC
14:00 – 14:50
Session III: Standards + Co-creation
Co-creating standardization interfaces and mechanisms
Karl Grün,
Director Standards Development,
Austrian Standards International
Pascal Poupet,
Head of Department of International Affairs,
Afnor Group
Arantxa Rentería,
Project Manager,
TECNALIA
14:50 – 15:00
Teleportation!
Get ready for the next breakout sessions
15:00 – 15:50
Breakout Sessions 4-6
Delegates will have the option of attending one of the three following parallel breakout sessions:
Session IV: Standards + Research
Session V: Standards + Market
Session VI: Standards + Multipliers
15:00 – 15:50
Session IV: Standards + Research
How to integrate standardization in your research
Fabio Taucer,
Deputy Head of Unit at the JRC Unit for Scientific Development,
European Commission
Fernando Utrilla Ortega,
Head of R&I department,
UNE
Hermann Behrens,
Head of Innovation Department,
DIN
Thomas Bock,
Professor,
Technical University of Munich
Duncan Jarvis,
General Secretary,
EURAMET
15:00 – 15:50
Session V: Standards + Market
How to deploy standardization to reach the market
Christian Mayeur,
Director,
AFNOR Innovation and Development
Eduardo Beltrán de Nanclares,
Innovation and Technology Director,
MONDRAGON Corporation
Magnus Hakvåg,
CEO,
House of Knowledge AS, Norway
Niall Dunne,
CEO,
Polymateria
Ruggero Lensi,
Vice-President Technical,
CEN
15:00 – 15:50
Session VI: Standards + Multipliers
Key messages for research and innovation enablers: NCPs, European Federations, ETPs and other multipliers
Andrea Höglinger,
Head of Division European and International Programmes,
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Alfred Radauer,
Principal Consultant, Lead in Intellectual Property & Standards (IPS),
Technopolis Group Austria
René Lindner,
Senior Project Manager,
DIN
Martin McGurk,
Senior Innovation Lead-Business Growth and Innovation Management,
UKRI-Innovate UK
Tobias Leiting,
Research assistant and Project Manager, FIR,
RWTH Aachen
Pierluigi Potenza,
Senior Assistant, European Projects Officer,,
Risorse per Roma S.p.A.
15:50 – 16:20
Boost Break
Enjoy a cup of coffee and visit the exhibition area
16:20 – 17:00
Partners + Future
Where do we go from here?
Andrea Höglinger,
Head of Division European and International Programmes,
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
Christoph Winterhalter,
Vice-President Policy,
CEN
Eduardo Beltrán de Nanclares,
Innovation and Technology Director,
MONDRAGON Corporation
Magnus Karlsson,
Chairman and national expert, TK 532 Innovation management,
SIS Swedish Institute for Standards Project manager, Innovation management system, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Niall Dunne,
CEO,
Polymateria
Ruggero Lensi,
Vice-President Technical,
CEN
Evening
17:00 – 17:15
Together + Today
Wrap up of the event
Elena Santiago Cid,
CEN and CENELEC Director General

Logistics
When
Wednesday 13 November, 2019
08.30 to 17.00
CET
Where
SQUARE Brussels Meeting Centre
Mont des Arts
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Tel: +32 2 515 13 22