Proposed Program and Structure

Thursday, November 22th.

09:30 REGISTER AND ACCREDITATION.

10:00 OPENING REMARKS PRESIDED BY THE AUTHORITIES. Presentation of workshops and speakers and brief explanation on the seminar’s structure. Mr. Carles Ruiz, Mayor of Viladecans and Representative of the Societat del Coneixement (Knowledge Society); Mr. Pere Navarro. President of Localret and Mayor of Terrassa; Mr. Jordi Bosch. Secretary for Telecommunications and Information Society (STIS).

10:40 COFFEE BREAK – COMMERCIAL SESSIONS. Commercial presentations by sponsoring companies. Press conference of the Authorities.

11:00 IPCITIES EUROPEAN CONFERENCE. Part 1. Presentations of 3 European cities and one city of another region of the world. President of the session: Jean Michel Billaut, Advisor of Pau Broadband Country – Pau (France).

11.10 Manche Numérique – France. Philippe Le Grand, Directeur du Syndicat Mixte Manche Numérique.

11.30 Valokaista Network – Ylistaro (Finlàndia). Alpo Kitinoja, Valokaista Network Project Manager, Enery and Environmental Technology.

11:50 OnsNet – Nuenen (Països Baixos). Kees Rovers, Close The Gap Founder and Henri Smits, OnsNet Director.

12:10 UTOPIA – Utah (Estats Units d’Amèrica): Paul Larsen, UTOPIA Vice-Chair and Executive Board Member and Economic Development Director for the City of Brigham City, Utah; and a PacketFront Representative, UTOPIA’s partner and operator of the network.

12:30 CONCLUSIONS. The moderator will summarize the main ideas raised by each speaker (4 cities) and try to pose a key question that stimulates the work of the different workgroups afterwards. The discussion will be opened to comments and questions from the audience.

Questions

12:40 WORKGROUPS. Each speaker of an European city will spend 15’ per group stimulating the discussion based on a key question related to the deployment of the FTTH networks (a different question for each workgroup). Advisors: Jean Michel Billaut, Advisor of Pau Broadband Country; Guillermo Canal, Telecommunications Engineer; Salvador Ramón, Telecommunications Engineer. COETTC Manager; Mauro Soto Garcia, Chief of the Infrastructures Area of Localret.

13:40 Presentation of final conclusions.

14:00 LUNCH – COMMERCIAL SESSIONS. Lunch break and networking at the EXPO room.

15:00 IPCITIES EUROPEAN CONFERENCE. Part II. Presentations of 4 cities: 3 European and one city of another region of the world. President of the session: Artur Serra. Deputy Director of I2Cat.

15.10 Mining valleys of Asturias – Spain. Juan Manuel Rodríguez Bañuelos, Managing-Director of the Public Company “Gestión de Infraestructuras Públicas de Telecomunicaciones del Principado de Asturias S.A” (GIT).

15.30 Großschönau – Austria. Martin Bruckner, Marktgemeinde Großschönau.

15:50 Labs² – Stockholm (Suècia). Jonas Birgersson, Labs² Group.

16:10 du (Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, PJSC, Dubai, EAU). Tariq Albahri, Director, Network Planning and Development – Fixed Network – Technology and Mustafa Kaddoura, Executive Director – Fixed Network.

16.30 CONCLUSIONS. The moderator will summarize the main ideas raised by each speaker (3 cities) and try to pose a key question that stimulates the work of the different workgroups afterwards. The discussion will be opened to comments and questions from the audience.

Questions

16:40 COFFEE BREAK – COMMERCIAL SESSIONS. Commercial presentations by sponsoring companies.

17:00 WORKGROUPS. Each speaker of an European city will spend 15’ per group stimulating the discussion based on a key question related to deployment of the FTTH networks (a different question for each workgroup). Advisors: Artur Serra (I2Cat); Marc Aznar, Technical Engineer in Telecommunications; Carles Sabater Miñarro, Chief of the Projects Area of Localret; Alberto Murillo, Chief of the Projects Area of NAE.

18:00 Presentation of final conclusions. Closing..

18:20 NETWORKING at the EXPO ROOM Networking and demos at the EXPO room until 6 p.m., closing time of the first day. COMMERCIAL SESSIONS.

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Friday, November 23th.

09:00 REGISTER AND ACCREDITATION.

09:30 ROUND TABLE: Local Administration debate. Round table with the participation of Catalan institutions. INCLUDES: 5-10 min. presentations by each speaker.

Moderator: Josep Ramón Ferre. Infrastructures General Director of Xarxes de Telecommunications;

Participants: Sergi Figuerola. Coordinator of the network cluster of i2cCat ; Estanis Vayreda i Puigvert, Chief of the Information Society Area of Localret; Ramon Font, President of Fundació Aplicació, Callús; Joan Pidelaserra Monmany. Deputy Mayor. Viladecans’ City Council representative; Alex Pla Solé, Technical Engineer in Telecommunications. Member of the board of COETTC.

11:00 CONCLUSIONS of THE ROUND TABLE by the moderator

11:15 COFFEE BREAK – COMMERCIAL SESSIONS.

11:45 ROUND TABLE: Local Administration and operators debate. Round table with the participation of Public Administration and operators. INCLUDES: 5-10 min. presentations by each speaker

Moderator: CTTI – Albert Sitjà. Director of technology transfer of the Telecommunications and Information Technologies Centre (CTTI).

Participants: Mr. Gerardo Silván. Ministry of Industry, Tourism, & Commerce; Mr. Antoni Soler. Telecommunications and Information Society Secretariat of the Generalitat de Catalunya; Juan Luís Ros. General Director of ONO Catalunya-Aragon; Mónica Sala. Technical Executive Director of AL-PI (Orange); Miquel Ramírez Martín, Engineer in Telecommunications & Dean of the Association of Technical Engineers in Telecommunications of Catalunya.

13:15 CONCLUSIONS. The moderator of the round table presents the main conclusions, evaluates the event and closes the seminar. Participants are encouraged to continue their discussions at the Expo room.

13:30 IPCITIES CLOSING CEREMONY. Presentation of the conclusions, open questions and challenges by Jean Michel Billaut.

14:00 SIGNATURE OF THE VILADECANS MANIFESTO IN FAVOR OF FTTH NETWORKS.

14:30 NETWORKING EXPO ROOM Networking and demos at the EXPO room until 3 p.m., closing time of the second day. COMMERCIAL SESSIONS. CLOSING DINNER (organization and speakers)