SATURDAY 6^TH MAY

Arrival:

Regular shuttle buses will be provided from Budapest Ferihegy International Airport to the conference venue Marina Hotel, Lake Balaton

14.30-18.30  Registration commences

20.00  Dinner
 

 9.00-11.00  Registration and coffee

11.00-11.40  Opening keynote address, David R. Worlock, Chairman of EPS Ltd

11.40-11.50  OSI welcome, Michael Kay, Director, Electronic Publishing Development Program

11.50-12.20  Awareness session on Work Programme 2000 by the Information Society Directorate General, Pascal Jacques, DG INFSO/D1 Interactive Electronic Publishing

12:20-12:35  European Promoting Excellence in Content Creation: The EuroPrix as Producers' Platform for Improving Market Access, Peter Bruck, Head of EuroPrix

12.35-14.00  Lunch

14.00-18.30  Business Forum Sessions and Clinics

Three parallel streams.

• Education, libraries and culture. Chair - Michael Kay
• Business to business: content orientated including personalisation. Chair - Graham Howard
• Business to business: software / technology orientated including GIS. Chair - Berthold Stukenbroeker

All participating organisations are invited to make a 15 minute presentation describing:

• their organisation's principal products and key skills
• their pan-European partnership potential
• the projects on which they are working, and areas of interest for the future

 14.00 - 15.00 and repeated at 16.00 - 17.00  Information Society Directorate General workshop
 Key staff from the Directorate will present an overview of the IST programs and practical advice on writing proposals

CLINICS

Five clinics will run concurrently with the above streams:

• Strategy and marketing - David R Worlock
• Business planning and proposal writing - David J Powell, Director, EPS Ltd
• Legal matters - Laurie Kaye, Partner, Paisner & Co
• Proposal preparation - European Commission staff
• Human Languages Technology - Andrew Joscelyne, Director, Bootstrap

 20.00  Dinner and evening entertainment

MONDAY 8^TH MAY

 9.30-12.30 Business Forum Sessions continued

• Applications based on public sector data: Chair - Graham Howard, Director, Art of Memory
• Information services: Chair - Stephanie Hankey, Consultant, Electronic Publishing Development Program
• Technology applications including mobile systems and services: Chair - Drazen Pantic, Director of MTD project, New York University
• Speech and language technologies: Chair - Bente Maegaard, Director, Center for Sprogteknologi

9.30-12.30 Clinics continued

12.30-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30 Business Forum Sessions and clinics continued

15.30 - 16.00 Coffee

16.00 - 16.45 Speech and Language Technologies - Bridging the Gap across Languages and Cultures:

The Human Languages Technology (HLT) agenda in the 5th Framework Programme of the European Commission, Bente Maegaard

Language technology opportunities in the interactive digital content cycle, Andrew Joscelyne

16.45 - 17.00 Summary and closing remarks - David R Worlock

19.30 Special conference event: wine tasting and traditional Hungarian dinner at the Baricska Csárda
 

9.30-12.30  Clinics continued

Departures:

Shuttle buses will be provided from the venue to the airport throughout the day.