Profily řečníků
Jaroslav DOLEŽAL
National Executive of Honeywell
Vice-Chair of the Council of Czech government for Research and Development
Graduated Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague and continued doctoral (CSc.) study with Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He held several research positions with this Institute and in cooperation with Faculty of Electrical Engineering he initiated formation of the joint research laboratory with corporation Honeywell in 1993. This was the first R&D outlet of Honeywell outside USA. Later he supported the launch of Honeywell Global Design Center in Brno.
Appointed as company National Executive for Czech Republic in 2004 and in this function he fulfills also several statutory roles for locally operating Honeywell legal entities. Contribution to the development of company activities in Czech Republic was recognized by recent Investor of the Year and Manager of the Year awards. Currently he serves in Scientific Board of Brno University of Technology and Board of Trustees of the Czech Technical University in Prague. In 2004 appointed a member of Research and Development Council of Czech Government, where currently holds a Vice-Chair position. He also serves in Board of Directors of American Chamber of Commerce in Czech Republic.
Jane GILSON
General Manager of Microsoft Czech Republic
Jane Gilson was appointed the General Manager of Microsoft Czech Republic on October 11, 2007. She has been with the company's Czech branch since March 2007, originally serving as its Business and Marketing director. She has managed the branch as its Executive General Manager since July 2007. Before joining the Czech Microsoft, Jane Gilson managed the Windows Embedded division in the company's headquarters in Redmon, WA, where she was responsible for product management marketing, alliances with business partners and users' awareness of Windows advantages for single-purpose solutions. During her time in the division, she launched various products including, Windows Embedded Point of Service, Windows XP Embedded and Windows Embedded CE. She grew the Windows Embedded revenue double digits year over year while managing it from 2003-2005. Before her career in Microsoft, Jane worked on marketing management positions in Active Voice, Acadio Corporation, Talisma Corporation, iCat Corporation and KPMG Peat Marwick.
Jane Gilson graduated from University of Wisconsin with a bachelor's degree and continued her education at the Northwestern University where she received her Master of Science. Jane also graduated from the Microsoft Corporate Bench Program, an executive training program in 2006. In her free time, Jane Gilson is an athlete with passion for snowboarding and jogging. Her hobbies also include cooking and the historic architecture of old Czech towns.
Michal HAŠEK
Governor of the South Moravian Region and
Chair of Association of Regions of the Czech Republic
Michal Hašek was born in 1976. He graduated in law from Masaryk University in Brno; in 1998, whilst still a student, he was elected Deputy Mayor of Drásov, his home town in the Tišnov district. During that time he also worked as assistant to the ČSSD (Czech Social Democratic Party) Member of Parliament, Zdeněk Koudelka, and in 2001 he was elected Mayor of Drásov. One year later he was successful in the municipal elections and became Deputy Mayor of the Municipality, on whose council he sits to the present day.
For the 2000 - 2004 electoral period, Michal Hašek was a South Moravian Regional Councillor, and in 2002 he became a Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic and Chairperson of the ČSSD Parliamentary Group. In Parliament he was also Deputy Chairperson of the Agricultural Committee and Deputy Chairperson of the Permanent Committee for the Media, in addition to other posts. He resigned from his mandate as Member of the Chamber of Deputies in February 2009.
Michal Hašek has been elected President of the South Moravian Region at the constitutive meeting of the Regional Assembly held on 21 November 2008. On 4 December 2008, he has been elected Chairperson of the Association of Regions of the Czech Republic, and since 19 December 2008 he has been Chairperson of the Regional Council of the Cohesion Region South-East.
He has been a member of the ČSSD since 1998. Currently he is a member of the ČSSD Electoral College and statutory Deputy Chairperson of the ČSSD Regional Executive Committee.
In 2005 Michal Hašek was elected to the board of the Všeobecná zdravotní pojišťovna (General Health Insurance Company), on which he currently holds the position of Deputy Chairperson.
Jiří KARPETA
Development Division Manager
Microsoft Czech Republic
Jiří Karpeta was appointed the Develepment Division Manager on 12th March, 2008. He is responsible for communication with Czech developers in driving of Microsoft development tools and support of Widnows platform original software. He has been with the company since beginning of 2006. Before joining Microsoft he worked in LCS International company where he managed development of corporate information systems. He was born in 1969, graduated from Česke vysoké učení technické - electro technical faculty. He is married and has two children. He separates his leisure time between family, flying and garden.
Miroslava KOPICOVÁ
1. Vice-chair of the Council of Czech Government for Research and Development
During all of her professional life, she was dealing with the qualification of work force, employment and education, R&D and innovation. In last ten years, she was responsible for important programmes supporting the transformation of the Czech economy and the process of integration into the European Union, first as a director of the Agency for Labour Market and Social Policy later, from 1994 till now, as a Director of the National Training Fund.
She was the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic in 2006. She worked as a Secretary General responsible for European Social Fund negotiation on behalf of the Czech Republic in 2007.
Now she works as an Advisor to the Czech Prime Minister for education, research and innovation areas and she is acting as a First Vice-chair of the Council for Research and Development, responsible for the R&D and Innovation Reform in the Czech Republic. At the same time, she is also a Member of the Council for Sustainable Development. Other appointments and duties of Ms. Kopicová are mainly connected with the membership in Boards of several Universities (e.g. University of Economics in Prague, College of Finance and Administration). She is representing the Czech Republic in the Advisory Forum of the European Training Foundation (ETF) in Turin; she is chairing the Working Group for HRD within the Central European Initiative (CEI); she is collaborating as National Liaison Officer with CEDEFOP etc. Ms. Kopicová is representing the Czech Republic in SFIC, ERA and OECD - IMHE high level forums and working groups.
Günter KRUMPAK
CEconsult GmbH
Vienna, Austria
Born in Vienna in 1957, studied English and French linguistics and literature but worked mostly in private business. Milestones: editor in chief for management and ICT magazines with German WEKA publishing group, consultant to CompuServe and Salzburg Research, business relations manager with the Austrian Computer Society, founder of ITBeurope, General Secretary with Austria's Software Industry Association, board member of Content Industries, shareholder of CEconsult GmbH, Vienna, Austria. Frequently speaking and publishing on ICT business in Central Europe.
Antonín KUČERA
Vice-dean for Research and Development of Faculty of Informatics
Head of Institute for Theoretical Computer Science
Masaryk University
Antonín Kučera is Professor of computer science, Vice-dean for research and development, and Head of Institute for Theoretical Computer Science of Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University. His main research topics cover formal modelling and verification of software systems, concurrency theory, modal and temporal logics, stochastic systems, game theory and its applications in computer science. His scientific publication activity includes about 70 papers in journals and conference proceedings (incl. FOCS, LICS, ICALP, STACS, CONCUR, etc.), and up to now, he has been member of programme committee of about 30 conferences. Prof. Kučera took part in a number of academic stays, among others at TU Munich, Germany (Alexander von Humboldt Fellow) in 1998-1999; at Uppsala University, Sweden, as visiting professor in 2002; at ENS de Cachan, France, as visiting professor in 2003. To mention his notable academic activities, Prof. Kučera is member of the Scientific board at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague (since 2005), and of Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University (since 2004). At Czech Science Foundation his membership of the subcommittee 201 "mathematics and computer science" (till 2009) continues currently with his membership of the panel 202 "computer science" (since 2009). He is member of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)WG 2.2 "Formal Description of Programming Concepts".
Morten O. MØLLER
Acting Director
Directorate C - Lisbon Strategy and Policies for the Information Society
DG INFSO, European Commission
Morten O. Møller is an Acting Director of the Lisbon Strategy and Policies for the Information Society Directorate and the Head of Unit of the ICT Operations Unit in the Directorate General for the Information Society and Media in the European Commission.His main responsibility as the Head of Unit of the ICT Operations Unit is the information and organisation of the calls, evaluations of proposals, procedures for negotiation and implementation of projects. It also includes the organisation of the work with the Member States representatives in the Management Committee and the co-operation with the National Contact Points on the information on the IST research in the EU RTD Framework Programmes. He is also involved in the Commission's taskforces and working groups on the organisation of the research Framework programmes.
He has a long experience in management of research activities in the Commission's programmes, IST and Telematics in the field of learning technologies. Before he joined the Commission he was the director of a Danish Open University, and a university researcher and lecturer.
Zlatuše NOVOTNÁ
Project Manager at Masaryk University
EU Project Coordinator at South Moravian Innovation Centre
Zlatuše works with the Project Support Office team at Masaryk University and specializes in projects of the European Communities and in synergies between FP7 and Structural Funds. She is involved in preparation of CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, which is being prepared for submission to Structural Funds. Zlatuše joined Masaryk University in 2007 as EU Project Advisor within the EU team of Technology Transfer Office, where she became involved in Regional Innovation Strategy of the South Moravian Region (RIS JMK 3) and was charged with coordination of ICT Brokerage 2009. Zlatuše cooperates closely with the South Moravian Innovation Centre not only on RIS JMK 3, but she also prepared and currently coordinates a new FP7 Regions of Knowledge project SynBIOsis - Maximizing Synergies for Central European Biotech Research Infrastructures. Before entering academic environment, she gained most of her professional experience in ICT commercial sector both in international and Czech companies as business consultant, exploitation director, EU project manager and EU competence team leader. During her professional career she prepared several successful FP6 and FP7 proposals and successfully completed several projects in FP5, FP6 and eTEN programmes. Zlatuše received her doctoral degree at University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Science in Brno and diploma in marketing and strategic business planning at the Czech Institute of Marketing in Prague.
Stephan PASCALL
Adviser International Cooperation
Integration of New Member States and Regional Aspects for RTD
Directorate C - Lisbon Strategy and Policies for the Information Society
DG INFSO, European Commission
Stephan Pascall is a manager with extensive engineering and policy background and long experience with the telecommunications and space industry and the European Commission in a number of fields including telecommunications and its applications in space communications, Advanced mobile services, Trust and confidence services, Learning and culture, Regional development, environment and transport. He has specific experience in telecommunications and space in policy, regulation and technology aspects. Further experience in the development and management of all aspects of Community technology and implementation programmes. He played a leading role in the regulatory framework of mobile communication in the EU, particularly the Directive on frequencies and the Recommendation on the coverage of the GSM.Stephan Pascall has an extensive understanding of political and technological developments and status of the Central and Eastern European Countries. He plays an active role in sensitive high level international negotiations both with the EU member states and with the various public and industrial organisations. Extensive financial and management experience in leading skilled professional teams in achieving complex and challenging objectives with concrete results.Stephan Pascall is an author of a number of books and publications in on telecommunication topics including mobile and space communication.
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Jorge M. PEREIRA
Scientific Officer
Unit H4 - ICT for Sustainable Growth
DG INFSO, European Commission
Dr. Jorge M. Pereira obtained the Engineering and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal in 1983 and 1987, respectively; he received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering-Systems from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1993.
Between 1983 and 1988, he taught in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of IST as Full Lecturer in the areas of Eletrotechnics and Electrical Measurements, Applied Electronics and Telecommunication Systems, and in 1994 became Assistant Professor. He is on leave of absence from IST. From 1988 to 1990, he worked at LinCom Corp., Los Angeles, in a NASA project on space-to-space communications, and on synchronization issues. From 1991 to 1993, he worked for Caltrans and PATH on Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS). From 1993 to 1996, at GTE Laboratories Inc., Waltham, MA, he was responsible for Communication Analysis and Simulation in the National IVHS Architecture FHWA contract, and represented GTE at the TIA IVHS Section, and in the High Speed Data Systems workgroup of the CDMA Development Group. At the same time, he was involved in the first CDPD trials in the San Francisco Bay Area, involving location-based applications.
Since September 1996, he has been with the European Commission, DG XIII, now DG Information Society and Media, as Scientific Officer in the areas of Mobile and Personal Communications and Broadband for All. He became Principal Scientific Officer in 2005, moving to the area of ICT for Sustainable Growth, with a focus on Energy Efficiency and Emergency and Disaster Management, and is currently working in the area of Embedded Systems and Control, where he is responsible for the area of Wireless Sensor Networks and Cooperating Objects. He is very much involved in International Cooperation actions. He received the SDR Forum 2003 Industry Achievement Award in recognition of his “outstanding contributions, research and development in the field of SDR”.
He is a member of the Advisory Board of John Wiley's Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, and of the Editorial Board of Kluwer Academic Publishers' Wireless Personal Communications Journal. He is a Member of the IEEE and of the ACM. He has recently taken up the position of Associate Editor for Mobile Radio, including Vehicular Communications, for the IEEE VTS Magazine.
Karel RAIS
Rector of Brno University of Technology
Karel Rais belongs to the most influential group of the Czech university leadership. His fundamental field of study was information theory. Later he specialized in the field of operational and system analysis, issues of knowledge systems, enterprise decision making processes and risk management.
His present activities have counted various areas ranging from consulting and project activities in entrepreneurial area to pedagogical, scientific and research activities at various Czech and foreign universities. Staffordshire University and University of M. Kopernik in Torun (Poland) or the leadership of the MBA programme at Brno University of technology run together with the Nottingham Trent University could be listed as examples of his pedagogic activities.
Henri RAJBENBACH
Scientific Officer
Unit G2 - Micro- and Nanosystems
DG INFSO, European Commission
Henri Rajbenbach joined the European Commission (EC) in 1997 as a Scientific Officer in the areas of microelectronic integration, sensors and displays. In 1999, he launched the initiative "Photonic Components" and coordinated this area in the IST (Information Society Technologies) programme. The application domains expanded from Telecommunication to include bio and health, environment, security and lighting. For these actions, he received the first SPIE Europe 2008 recognition award.
More recently, Henri took over a project portfolio in the area of Microsystems, supporting multidisciplinary research for the integration of core technologies and associated materials. Applications address biochips and biosensors, microdisplays, large-area organic devices and miniaturised smart system sensors and actuators.
Prior to joining the EC, Henri conducted research in image processing and lasers for biometrics, security and defence applications at Thomson-CSF (now Thales), France (1987-1997) and in optical signal processing and computing at the University of California, San Diego, USA (1984-1987). He was also teaching an Optoelectronics course at the University of Paris XII (1990-1997).
Henri has published some 50 conference and journal publications, 2 text book chapters and few patents in the areas of information processing, biometrics, photorefractive materials, semiconductor lasers, real-time holography, optical storage, image processing and target recognition. Henri graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles, ESPCI (1983) and received his PhD from the Université de Paris VI (1984).
Neil SANDFORD
Putting People Before Computers
United Kingdom
Neil began his career in speech recognition research in 1970, working in the same division of the National Physical Laboratory as Dr Chris Evans (best known as author of the book The Mighty Micro in the mid 1970s) under Donald Davies who designed the first store-and-forward packet-swtiching network in 1965. This diversity of interests served him well when Neil went on to set up his own company, The Soft Option, in 1982. This allowed him to pursue his interest in the way non-experts communicated with computers - both as creators of applications (through the use of authoring systems) and as end users. The company designed and supplied interactive video systems, primarily for use in education and training, especially in the financial and telecoms sectors, and on the basis of this experience Neil was invited to co-author a set of recommended practices for portability of interactive courseware for the US defence department. Neil began his long-standing involvement in collaborative research in Europe in 1988 and became co-ordinator of the UK Multimedia Special Interest Group(UK MM-SIG) in 1994. This co-incided with the identification of multimedia as a key theme within the FP4 ESPRIT Programme and the SIG concept was replicated across Europe. Neil also worked as a project officer for the UK Information Society Initiative until 2002. Over the last 15 years, he has worked as an external expert for the EC and the UK IST/ICT National Contact Point. Neil has also helped European consortia develop sound project ideas into strong proposals in a range of fields including 3D displays, digital libraries, research infrastructures and, most recently, energy efficiency and emissions reduction. http://www.neilsandford.co.uk
Milan VENCLÍK
Chair of Steering Committee of the South Moravian Innovation Strategy and member of Council of the South Moravian Region
Milan Venclík lives in Brno, where he was born in 1975. He graduated from the Brno University of Technology. Afterwards he worked as a technician and later as a director and chairman of managing board of the company PRAKOM Brno. In the late nineties, his priorities were private enterprise and he began to study economic issues. He is married and has one child.
Milan Venclík entered into politics in 1992 as a member of the Civic Forum. After its disintegration, he acted as an independent politician and in 1996 joined the Civic Democratic Party (ODS). Initially he worked as a councillor of Brno-Sever municipality, where he later on became a Deputy Mayor. During the 2000 - 2004 electoral period, Milan Venclík was member of the Regional Council of the South Moravian Region and from 2004 acted as a First Deputy of the Governor of the South Moravian Region.
In 2008 Milan Venclík was elected member of the Regional Council of the South Moravian Region with the scope of regional development programme strategies, entrepreneurship support and spa resort. He is currently chairman of the Regional Civic Democratic Party for South Moravian Region.
Radimír VRBA
Dean of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication
Brno University of Technology
Radimír Vrba is a professor at the Department of Microelectronics at the Brno University of Technology and the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication. He is oriented to electronic systems, especially to processing of sensor signals, smart measurement systems, integrated ADCs and DACs. He achieved significant results in development of new algorithms for network of intelligent sensors in embedded applications. He has long and deep professional activities with industry in direct cooperation and common research projects. He has been investigator and co-investigator of many national research projects funded mainly by Czech Science Foundation, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth, which have been oriented to ADCs, research and development of new circuits for analog and digital signal processing, smart sensors and circuits for processing of sensor signals, wireless sensor networks and internet networks. He is a main researcher of Long-term Research Project Research of Microelectronic Systems and Technologies. He is author or co-author of more than 250 scientific publications. He lectures courses of Digital Circuits and Microprocessors, Microelectronic Sensors and Conversion of Analogue and Digital Signals in postgraduate studies.
Jaroslav ZENDULKA
Dean of Faculty of Information Technology
Brno University of Technology
Jaroslav Zendulka is an associate professor at the Department of Information Systems of the Faculty of Information Technology at the Brno University of Technology and the Dean of the faculty. His professional orientation includes software engineering, database systems and knowledge discovery in databases with main focus on models and modeling techniques. He has participated in many research and educational projects funded by Czech Science Foundation and Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth.
He is a team leader of the Data mining research team of the Long-Term Research Project Security-Oriented Research in Information Technology, which is solved at the Faculty of Information Technology. He was or is a Steering or Program Committee member of several International conferences and workshops. He lectures courses of Database Systems, Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Analysis and Design of Information Systems.
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Thomas BAK
Professor, Intelligent Autonomous Systems
Section head, Automation & Control
Co‐director, CISS, centre for embedded software systems
Aalborg University
Denmark
Thomas Bak received a PhD degree in control systems from the Aalborg University, Denmark. He has research into theory and applications in the area of control engineering and systems theory as general area. Specific theoretic interests comprise hybrid systems and sensor information vision. He gained application experience in the areas of motion control systems and wind farm control in 2002‐2003 at University of California, Berkeley as a Visiting Research Fellow and previously at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California in 1997‐1998.
He has 5 years experience as research group leader, and is currently head of the section on Automation & Control ‐ a research group consisting of 15 faculty staff and 28 PhD students. He is co‐director of the CISS ‐ centre for embedded systems, and head of the research school on electrical and electronics engineering at Aalborg University. He is chair of the IEEE Joint Chapter on Control System Society and Robotics and Automation Society and on the management board of The European Union Control Association. He is currently coordinator for the FP7 ICT project, Aeolus (www.ict‐aeolus.eu) - on distributed control for off‐shore wind farms, and received other two big external grants as main applicant NORCOWE and IT‐korridoren: Agrobots. He is author of 6 publications in Journals (WOS) with peer review and of a total number of 70 other scientific publications.
Bianca FALCIDIENO
Director of the National Research Council (CNR)
Italy
Bianca Falcidieno is a Research Director of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy, the Responsible of the Genova Branch of the Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche (CNR IMATI), and the President of the Area della Ricerca of the CNR in Genova.She has been leading and coordinating research at international level in advanced and interdisciplinary fields (such as computational mathematics, computer graphics, multidimensional media and knowledge technologies), strongly interacting with outstanding industrial and social application fields: from industrial design to geographic information systems, from manufacturing to semantic web.She was Partner or Coordinator of many national and international projects, in particular, she coordinated the FP6 IST Network of Excellence AIM@SHAPE and she is currently coordinating the FP7 Coordination Action FOCUS K3D, whose main aim is to promote the adoption of best practices for the 3D content knowledge modelling and processing.She is the author of more than 200 scientific refereed papers and books. She was in charge of several international commitments, including editorial tasks, organization of conferences and workshops as the Chair or Co-chair, and participation in international conference Programme Committees. Currently, she is a chair of the SMI 2009 Conference, to be held in June 2009 in Beijing, China and editor in chief of the International Journal of Shape Modelling (World Scientific magazine). For the 80th CNR anniversary, Bianca Falcidieno was included in the 12 top-level researcher women in the CNR history.
Hrjehor MARK
Senior research manager
GWT-TUD GmbH
Germany
Hrjehor MARK was born in Budyšin (Bautzen), Germany. He completed his studies of electrical engineering at Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) in 1994, and then worked as an EU research co-ordinator for information technologies at the Saxon State Ministry of Science and Arts. Having close contact with scientists and researchers at universities and different institutes his duties comprised preparation, negotiation, and management support of European projects. In 1997 he was seconded for 6 months as a trainee to the European Commission, DG III - Industry. Afterwards, he went back to TUD and joined the Communications Laboratory where he was involved in several challenging projects, among which TEN45616-IBUT (TEN-Telecom) and AC006-MEDIAN (ACTS) were the most representative. In 2004 he joined GWT, where he became Senior Project Manager. Hrjehor has co-ordinated the European research project UCAN (FP5; 01/2002-05/2005; 10 partners) and the Integrated Project PULSERS Phase II (FP6; 01/2006-06/2008; 40 partners) within the ICT-program. Furthermore, he was involved in managing the PULSERS project (FP6; 01/2004-12/2005; 31 partners). Currently, he is supporting the Integrated Project EUWB (FP7; 04/2008-03/2011; 23 partners) on the administrative level.
Vincent C. MÜLLER
Associate Professor of Philosophy
ACT/Anatolia College
Vincent C. Müller is Associate Professor of Philosophy at ACT/Anatolia College, where he has been teaching since 1998. He studied Philosophy with General Linguistics and History at the universities of Marburg, Hamburg, KingŐs College London and Oxford. He received his PhD from the Centre for Cognitive Science of the University of Hamburg.
Müller's publications focus on the problems of categorization, vagueness, symbol-grounding, theory of computing, computational intelligence and computer ethics. He is working on a book project about basic problems of artificial intelligence. Müller was head of his department at ACT/Anatolia for 4 years, is currently Chair of the Faculty Senate, and has extensive project-management and -writing experience. Müller is the coordinator of the project EUCogII, a network of researchers on artificial cognitive systems, focusing on the interdisciplinary cooperation and challenges for the discipline. Now 6 weeks into its 36 month duration, EUCogII has over 200 members. http://www.eucognition.org
Erwin SCHOITSCH
Senior Scientist
Austrian Research Centers - ARC
Austria
Dipl.-Ing. Erwin Schoitsch, born 1944 (Vienna), received his Master Degree in Technical Physics and a Bachelor degree in Computer Science (1962-1969) at the University of Technology in Vienna.
He works at Austrian Research Centres - ARC for more than 35 years, focusing on software process improvement and on development and validation of safety-related real-time systems with high dependability requirements. He was or is involved in or project manager of many industrial and research projects. Industrial projects included e.g. ELEKTRA, the electronic railway interlocking system of Alcatel Austria (now part of Thales Railway Signalling Systems), industrial process control systems development (VÖEST), projects with Austrian governmental organisations, the scaleable security control system of Philips (now PKE/KSG). The list of European projects includes ESPITI, OLOS, SPIRE, ENCRESS, ACRuDA, ECUA, ISA-EuNet, AMSD, COOPERS, DECOS, Watch-Over, ADOSE, MOGENTES and ProSE. Most of these projects are about safety related or safety critical systems development, evaluation and standardization. Additionally, he organizes workshops, conferences or is speaker in conferences, tutorials or seminars on these topics since many years, gives a lecture on "Critical Systems" at a University of Applied Science in Austria, and is member of international program committees. He has a record of more than 100 publications and is editor or contributed to books on safety critical systems or software engineering.
He is responsible quality manager for software development in ARC, internal auditor for quality management systems according to ISO 9001 and ISO 17025, and head of a V&V lab for software accredited according to ISO 17025.
He is active in international working groups (EWICS TC7, ERCIM) and in standardization of functional safety (IEC 61508 and related standards, ISO WD 26262). His main interest is the holistic approach to system dependability.
Jan H. van SCHUPPEN
Senior Researcher
Leader of Research Group Control and System Theory
Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)
Netherlands
Jan H. van Schuppen is affiliated as senior researcher with the research institute Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI, centre for mathematics and computer science) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and as Full Professor with the Department of Mathematics of the VU University Amsterdam.His research interests are in control and system theory which is part of mathematics and of theoretical engineering. He is the coordinator of the FP7.ICT Project Control for Coordination of Distributed Systems which is financially supported by the European Commission. The project focuses research on the control of several engineering systems which are tightly connected in a network. There are five case studies of industrial type and four theoretical workpackages.
Jan H. van Schuppen is currently involved in two other EU sponsored projects and was active in seven other such projects. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems.
Petr STLUKA
Lead Research Engineer
Honeywell Prague Laboratory
Czech Republic
Petr Stluka is a Lead Research Engineer in Honeywell Prague Laboratory, part of global Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions (ACS). Since joining Honeywell in 1999, he has been involved in various research and development projects in fields of industrial automation, building intelligence and security. Starting from 2004 he has taken leadership and responsibility for strategic research roadmap of the Data-Centric Technology group, driving research efforts of the group in areas of statistical modeling, data mining, decision support, and video analytics in relation to various application areas, but primarily to energy efficiency for homes, buildings, and industrial process plants. In his role, he is closely working with Honeywell Chief Technology Officers, marketing and technical directors, contributing actively to strategic technology roadmaps. He received MSc in 1995 and PhD in 1998 from Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, both in the field of technical cybernetics. Petr Stluka has two U.S. patents and has authored more than five other patent applications pending at European and U.S. Patent Offices. He is consistently involved in preparation of European research projects in areas of FP7 ICT, security and ARTEMIS JU.
Markus TAUMBERGER
Research Team Leader
VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland
Finland
Markus Taumberger received his MSc degree in 2003 in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. After that he has been working three years for SWECO PIC as senior software designer of embedded systems where his latest assignment was Test Lab Manager in a customer project. Since 2007 he is with VTT, now working as Research Team Leader of the Performance Architectures team. Besides personnel responsibilities he is in charge of project management and consulting in customer projects. He has led the strategic Novel project inside VTT where several teams were involved in creating a portfolio of services in the field of performance engineering for embedded systems including a demonstrator for customer presentations. Currently he is leading the EU-funded FP-7 project POBICOS (www.ict-pobicos.eu) which addresses the design, implementation and demonstration of a distributed computing platform for wireless sensor and actuator networks.
