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2012 IEEE Technology Time Machine Symposium (TTM 2012)

Dresden, Germany 23 – 25 May 2012

OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONY

OPENING PLENARY

SPEAKERS: Maurizio Dècina, General Chair, IEEE TTM 2012 and Hans Müller-Steinhagen, Rector, Technische Universität Dresden

SPEAKER: James Truchard, President, CEO and Co-Founder National Instruments, USA

TITLE: EVOLVING COMMERCIAL INSTRUMENTATION TO MEET NEEDS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

ABSTRACT: The scale and complexity of research is growing at enormous rates requiring the instrumentation capabilities and associated technologies to keep up with the evolving demands. Additionally, the current economic climate puts even more focus on keeping projects under budget and on time. This makes leveraging the latest commercially available technology even more crucial for researchers that require testing and prototyping systems. Leveraging commercially available technology with software that abstracts complexity enables domain experts to take advantage of the latest innovations and R&D investment in FPGAs as well as multicore processors without being an expert. Software development environments and tools providing a single development flow can expedite time to prototype and test facilitating heterogeneous multiprocessing through abstraction and enabling code reuse spanning design and test. Dr. Truchard will discuss new designs that have the capability to cope with the constraints of operability, scalability, flexibility and maintainability while minimizing cost, power consumption and space requirements.

WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012

TIME: 09:00 - 09:30 LOCATION: CONGRESS CENTRE

TIME: 09:30 - 10:30 LOCATION: CONGRESS CENTRE

TITLE: NETWORK OF THE FUTURE: SOME CHALLENGES AHEAD

SPEAKER: Siavash Alamouti, Director Vodafone R&D, UK

ABSTRACT: This presentation is a radio and access-centric view of the challenges for the future networks. The talk will cover the multi band radio and device RF performance dilemma. Later in the talk the research challenge is presented.

TITLE: CLOUDS WITHOUT DATA CENTRES

SPEAKER: Markus Hofmann, Head of Bell Labs Research Alcatel-Lucent, USA

ABSTRACT: Today, computing clouds are remarkably similar. Nearly all are built from a few centralized data Centres accessed by high-bandwidth network connections. Scalability is achieved by growing these few data Centres in size. The "Big Iron" approach. Tomorrow, computing clouds will be more diverse. They will be more distributed. They will be built from intelligently managed collections of heterogeneous resources, which will vary greatly in size and will be accessed through similarly varied network connections. Some initial steps towards this future have been taken. A few network service providers are using their central offices as distributed components for computing clouds. Some applications already make use of computing and storage resources on customer premises. As more demanding applications - such as media-rich applications or time-sensitive telco functions - move into clouds, this trend towards greater distribution will grow.


NETWORKS SUPPORTING FUTURE APPLICATIONSPANEL CHAIR/INTRODUCTION: Frank Fitzek, Professor Electronic Systems

Aalborg University, Denmark

This panel will address some fundamental questions about the future of networks and their ability to support future applications.

Communication networks have been tuned to deliver higher data rates, but the future is to deliver intelligent services. The monetisation will change from bit tubes to service providers. This idea together with mobile cloud ideas, where users are forming time limited network, will be presented and discussed.

TIME: 11:00 – 13:00 LOCATION: CONGRESS CENTRE

TITLE: FLEXIBLE NETWORKS FOR SUPERIOR EFFICIENCY AND USER EXPERIENCE

SPEAKER: Lauri Oksanen, Head of Research and Technology Nokia Siemens Networks, Finland

ABSTRACT: Key requirements for future networks will be discussed. Examples are traffic and user experience management capability and security. Then we will present basic architecture and technologies to fulfill the requirements. We will also touch on the relationship of cloud computing and connectivity.

CHALLENGER: Bill McHale, CEO Actix, UK

CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEMSPANEL CHAIR/INTRODUCTION: Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner

Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA

The design of distributed multi-scale complex systems is largely an unsolved problem. Complex systems can be characterized as composed of heterogeneous components and in particular electromechanical, thermal, computing, and communication elements. These subsystems are interconnected, often uncertain in specification, and encompassing environmental effects and the dynamics of all the elements that are critical to the performance of the overall system. Increasingly systems are software and network enabled, and there is significant cost and schedule pressure on developing such large systems. This new generation of systems in use in almost all industry segments such as automotive, avionics, and process control, and that are going to be the core of societal scale systems such as water treatment systems, smart grids, traffic control, environment control and health monitoring are called cyber-physical systems to underline the tight integration between the physical systems and the electronic control systems. This panel presents challenges in cyber-physical systems and approaches to cope with these challenges contemplated by industry in three areas: system engineering as seen by a large conglomerate such as UTC, the energy infrastructure for supporting the cloud as seen by Microsoft and IC manufacturing as seen by GlobalFoundries.


TIME: 11:00 – 13:00 LOCATION: SALON ST. PETERSBURG + ROTTERDAM

TITLE: TAMING DR. FRANKENSTEIN: A PRIMER ON THE CHALLENGES POSED BY CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

SPEAKER: Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA

ABSTRACT: The technology drivers causing the change in delivery of complex systems are the pervasive use of electronic control units, and consequently of communication networks, and the blurring of distinctions between software, firmware, hardware and multi-physics systems. These drivers are creating the possibility for placing vastly more functionality into products, but at the same time increase interconnectivity and the risk of unwanted system interactions found late in the development process.

To solve this problem we need a rigorous approach to systems engineering intended as a methodology for product system level design, optimization and verification that:

Provides guarantees of performance and reliability against customer requirements while achieving cost and time-to-market objectives;

Produces modular, extensible architectures for products incorporating mechanical components, embedded electronic systems and application software;

Exploits analytical tools and techniques to determine design choices and ensure robust system performance despite variations caused by product manufacturing, integration with other products and customer operation; and

Achieves these objectives through the coordinated execution of a prescriptive, repeatable and measurable process.

TITLE: SYSTEMS, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, MARKET DRIVERS AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGY ENABLERS

SPEAKER: Clas A. Jacobson, Director of Systems Department United Technologies Research Centre, USA

ABSTRACT: Systems engineering has changed. The demand for higher levels of performance, interconnectivity and differentiation by customers has increased dramatically compared with times past. Concurrently, recent advances in methods, tools and techniques for designing complex products are available that can empower engineering teams today with radically new approaches for ensuring performance, enhance reliability and reduce lifecycle cost. In this climate in increasing expectation, engineering processes that were successful in the past for simpler systems are inadequate – indeed, may even fail catastrophically – for the design of complex products. This is especially true for products that require the co-design of integrated hardware and software components, which is typical of system offerings in the market today. UTC invests in systems engineering. This talk will present a working definition of systems engineering that is useful across large “cyber-physical” systems that are found in aerospace and building sectors that are particularly needed to innovate effectively in developing products that address energy efficiency issues.



TITLE: ENERGY EFFICIENT INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE FUTURE CLOUD

SPEAKER: Jie Liu, Principal Researcher Microsoft Research, USA

ABSTRACT: Computing infrastructure is experiencing rapid changes due to the proliferation of mobile devices and expansion of cloud services. IT systems, such as data Centres, become the fastest growing industrial sector on energy consumption, doubling its energy footprint every 5 years. In this talk, we will discuss the modern data Centre infrastructure and explore the philosophy of energy reduction, reuse, and renewal in cloud computing. We examine the opportunities of reducing cloud computing energy consumption through fine-grained sensing and control of both cyber-activates and physical activities and motivate possibilities of alternative data Centre designs and operations.

TITLE: THE FUTURE IN MANUFACTURING

SPEAKER: Dirk Wristers, Vice President Process Technology R&D Globalfoundries, Germany

ABSTRACT: The Semiconductor Industry is marked with huge investments in manufacturing equipment and fastest innovation cycles. For capital and operational efficiency reasons, today, we are observing the trend to bigger entities. Gigafabs with output in excess of 1 Million Wafers per year are seen as an important factor of success for manufacturing excellence.

However, it is worth spending some time on possible alternative scenarios, too. What if we drove the automation approach to the maximum, such as “lights-out operation” and without breaking the vacuum for the wafers handled? Will manufacturing continue to be driven by volume standard manufacturing, or will there be enough room for diversification in the manufacturing domain? In this case, in-situ manufacturing methods would offer unprecedented opportunities for custom hardware, especially if combined with monitoring and (self-) repair methodologies.

We will discuss the potential fault tolerant cyber physical systems have to enable the new era of semiconductor manufacturing on its way to single digit nanometer technologies, and elaborate on a few scenarios for the future of semiconductor manufacturing.

CHALLENGER: Edward A. Lee, Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor University of California, Berkeley, USA


CLOUD COMPUTINGPANEL CHAIR: Joseph Weinman, Senior Vice President

Telx, USA

What are the typical business considerations in selecting the cloud? What is the typical cost/revenue analysis that might be to decide whether to invest in building an on-demand application? This might include the cost of hosting, people, and other drivers as well as potential revenue based on number of users. This model will lay out a baseline view; subsequent speakers will discuss how the economics of building such apps have changed and key trends in business and technology such as specialized computing, new protocols, and ecosystem evolution.

INTRODUCTION: Dean Jacobs, Chief Development Architect SAP AG, Germany

TITLE: INSIGHTS FROM THE CLOUD ABSTRACTIONS

SPEAKER: Joseph Weinman, Senior Vice President Telx, USA

ABSTRACT: Cloud computing can be examined as an abstract business model and architecture. Joe Weinman, the founder of Cloudonomics and author of Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing, will overview generic cloud strategies, insights and predictions base on examining cloud economics and architecture from the perspective of statistical demand aggregation effects, on-demand resourcing, pay-per-use pricing benefits, and network cost and performance tradeoffs. He will conclude with an introduction to a first attempt at Axiomatic Cloud Theory, which provides a mathematically rigorous foundation for describing cloud infrastructures.

TITLE: THE COMING AGE OF SPECIALIZED (CLOUD) COMPUTING SYSTEMS

SPEAKER: Eric Sedlar, Technical Director Oracle Labs, USA

ABSTRACT: Today we are generally running cloud systems on the Henry Ford model: you can have any sort of architecture for your cloud computing, as long as it is the same as everybody else's--based on X86 and



Ethernet interconnect. A uniform platform allows cloud resources to be fungible and promotes the elasticity of the cloud, improving hardware utilization. However in 2020, as power efficiency becomes more important than hardware costs, we expect that the cloud will be filled with equipment that is the data Centre equivalent of your mobile devices--based more on hardware & software infrastructure designed together, and specialized for specific application areas rather than the general purpose components we use today.

TITLE: KEY CONSEQUENCES OF THE CLOUD FOR BUSINESS

SPEAKER: Peter S. Magnusson, Engineering Director Google, USA

ABSTRACT: Thinking of "cloud computing" as equivalent to an electrical utility, focused on the cheap production of a standardized commodity, is akin to calling a car a "motorized horse". What's going on is much more fundamental. We don't use the phrase "personal computer" when we talk about our tablet, smartphone, or set-top box. Nor, beyond 2020, will we be talking about the "cloud". We will be talking about something else entirely, something that today we don't even know what it is. But we know what the contours will be, because we know the main agents will still be humans, and humans don't change much. We know it will be about making money, socializing, being entertained, and 10 billion people struggling for a role and a voice in the first truly planetary medium. It will change our society in a manner like no previous single revolution, instead bringing the incremental revolutions of printing press, telegraphy, photography, telephony, radio, video, computer, cell phone, and internet into a single digital realm. In this talk I'll briefly cover some of the driving forces behind the change, some of the key consequences for business over the next decade, and some thoughts on what lies beyond 2020.

TITLE: CUSTOM NETWORKS, NEW PROTOCOLS: BASIS FOR A NEW CLOUD?

SPEAKER: Joseph Bryan Lyles, Program Director National Science Foundation, USA

ABSTRACT: The National Science Foundation’s GENI and Future Internet Architecture (FIA) programs provide the basis for imagining incrementally deployable custom networks designed for specific applications and which incorporate new models of integrating computation and communication. In the GENI architecture, multiple service providers integrate into application specific networks via federation. In FIA new networking architectures show promise of improving the usability and security of next generation networks. This talk with describe how these programs are building the components of a new model for cloud computing.

CHALLENGER: Maurizio Dècina, Professor of Telecommunications Politecnico di Milano, Italy


COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCEPANEL CHAIR/INTRODUCTION: Hans Müller-Steinhagen, Rector

Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

The term “Collective Intelligence” emerges from collaboration and competition of multiple individuals in a system. It describes the intelligence of a group.

Focusing on the management of Planet Earth, this Panel will discuss and share its visionary views on the architecture of sustainable cities, on safety issues and early warning systems, and on the contribution of satellites for global resource monitoring. By obtaining data from this vast number of single nodes, e.g. traffic control systems, sensors in buildings and images from satellites, innovative concepts to simplify our daily life have to be developed.

Renowned experts from science and industry will outline the following issues:

Visionary view on smart cities, e.g. infrastructural design and power supply to cope with ever increasing urban population

Emerging safety issues with the supply of fundamental needs

Remote sensing for resource and disaster monitoring, traffic management and its applications.

TITLE: APPLICATION OF SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING DATA TO THE MONITORING OF GLOBAL RESOURCES

SPEAKER: Jakob van Zyl, Associate Director of Project Formulation and Strategy and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, USA

ABSTRACT: With their global access, remote sensing satellites provide a unique vantage point for global monitoring of Earth resources. Several nations are moving toward acquiring long-term data records for use in operational decision making. This talk will discuss how satellite remote sensing can contribute to the monitoring of global resources. Example of current and future applications will be shown.



TITLE: THE EARTH SEEN FROM SPACE BY RADAR REMOTE SENSING – A VISION FOR 2025

SPEAKER: Alberto Moreira, Director Microwaves and Radar Institute German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Germany

ABSTRACT: In a changing and dynamic world, high-resolution and timely geospatial information with global access and coverage becomes increasingly important. Constellations of radar satellites will play a major role in this task, since spaceborne radar is the only sensor that has all-weather, day-and-night, high-resolution imaging capability. Examples of applications for such a constellation are environmental remote sensing, road traffic, hazard and disaster monitoring, geoscience and climate research, as well as reconnaissance and security related tasks. Long-term vision is a space based sensor web that provides a view of our planet like we are used to see with Google Earth, but with high-resolution images and relevant geospatial information being updated every few minutes.

This talk will first provide an overview about the current satellite radar systems and technologies. A prominent example of the state-of-the-art is the German satellite mission TanDEM-X, the first radar interferometer in space that employs two satellites operating in a closely controlled formation flight. The primary objective of TanDEM-X is the generation of the Earth’s topography with unprecedented accuracy as the basis for a wide range of commercial applications as well as for scientific research.

The second part of this talk will present a vision for spaceborne radar remote sensing. New technologies like multi-channel radar and digital beamforming in combination with large reflector antennas will allow the implementation of a constellation of radar satellites for reliable and systematic monitoring of the Earth’s surface. It will unlock the door to a future global remote sensing system for the continuous observation of dynamic processes over the Earth, as it currently exists for weather prediction, where a network of geostationary satellites is used.

TITLE: CITY DESIGN FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

SPEAKER: Jürgen Häpp, Associate Partner Foster + Partners, UK

ABSTRACT: In the current discussion towards a sustainable future, cities have clearly emerged as an area to focus on. This is partly due to the fact that more than half of the world's population already live in urban areas, a figure that will rise in 2030 to about 70%, and secondly due to the fact that cities account for about 70% of global emissions.

Therefore it is the question of today, how cities and urban regions can be planned, built and maintained sustainably, while maintaining a high or even rising standard of living. A question that brings fundamentally new challenges for the planning process as well as the stakeholder involved in it.


The talk showcases examples of various projects by Foster + Partners and how such an integrated design and planning process can lead to more sustainable urban concepts, as well as how new planning tools, such as simulations of the micro climate or movement patterns of city residents, can support this process.

For over 40 years Foster + Partners has been working on a variety of groundbreaking and sustainable projects, including the rebuilding of the Reichstag building in Berlin and the Commerzbank headquarters in Frankfurt. One of the practice’s newest and most challenging projects is Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, a city that attempts to be one of the most sustainable cities in the world.

One of the main goals of the design for this environmentally-friendly city is to permit a high standard of living, whilst keeping the ecological footprint as low as possible. The design tries to learn vital lessons from century old, organically grown cities, such as high urban density or short walking distances within the social and cultural context as well as the local climate of the Arabian Peninsula. In that way the city tries to connect historic knowledge with the latest sustainable technologies to create a liveable city environment. An integrated design process in which all parameters can be tested in advance is fundamental in order to achieve this goal.

CHALLENGER: Kamal Sarabandi, Director Radiation Laboratory University of Michigan, USA

CLOSING PLENARYSPEAKER: Peter Bauer, CEO

Infineon Technologies AG, Germany

TITLE: ENERGY EFFICIENCY: THE 21ST CENTURY “ENERGY SOURCE”

ABSTRACT: Reducing the use of energy is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Semiconductors make a key contribution to the reduction of power losses in the generation, transmission and use of electricity. At the same time, increasing power density and growing efficiency open the doors to ever new applications – whether in automotive engineering, production machinery or all sorts of electric and electronic devices. Semiconductors are fueling a new technical, efficiency-driven revolution. We are witnessing the evolution of the Internet of Things, the smart networking and interaction of systems. It is a challenge but also a huge opportunity for the semiconductor industry to promote the advancement of the Internet of Things by adding expertise to the fields of energy efficiency and security.


THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2012

OPENING PLENARYSPEAKER: Alf Henryk Wulf, President

VDE, Germany

ABSTRACT: In his plenary speech, Alf Henryk Wulf will focus on the enormous importance of networks as the single most indispensible element for binding individual societies, industries, economies and humankind in general. Yet as these diverse networks – including communication, information, technical, financial, political, social and commercial – continue to expand their commanding roles in our lives, they will also bring major challenges that must be met and mastered. And among the biggest challenges will be the ability of individual nations as well as economic regions like the European Union to prevail in an ever fiercer competitive networked environment. In the future, it seems clear that those who can most innovatively develop and successfully implement and propagate networks of every kind will be the winners. And this demand, in turn, places a clear and urgent burden on education systems everywhere: Those who want to be among the winners will also have to produce the best and brightest in global competition. Even now, visions of a totally networked world are not all that far from today’s reality in many cases, as the Internet has long since proven. But the realization of other vital networks, such as the proposed electricity supergrids for networking Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East, is still a vision that faces many difficult obstacles down the road. Networks are the future without any doubt; one must question how they will evolve and who will most effectively use them.



ELECTRONICS BEYOND CMOSPANEL CHAIR: Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Professor, Vice Director of ISIR

University of Osaka, Japan

CMOS microelectronic circuits form the basis for Information and Communication Technology – the major driving force for innovation in almost all industrial sectors. It has significantly shaped the world we live in today. As we are approaching physical boundaries the CMOS technology roadmap will saturate. This panel targets breakthroughs in promising technologies to complement today’s predominant CMOS technology, possibly extending Moore’s Law way beyond pure CMOS. International specialists will discuss how new materials can address scalability, reliability, and power consumption in comparison to silicon based CMOS. As a consequence these investigations also create the challenge for finding novel integration concepts of homogeneous and heterogeneous chip architectures to improve system performance and efficiency while complementing CMOS.


INTRODUCTION: Gerhard P. Fettweis, Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications System Professor Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

TITLE: SINGLE CHARGE ELECTRONICS & STOCHASTIC RESONANCE

SPEAKER: Kazuhiko Matsumoto, Professor, Vice Director of ISIR University of Osaka, Japan

ABSTRACT: This talk shows the real merit of nano size of nanocarbon material by using the feature of electric field concentration effect which enable 10~100times low power consumption and single charge treatment becomes possible even at room temperature. These features overcome the limit of the present Flash memory.

The parallel mulch channel of nanocarbon with various threshold voltages enhances the “stochastic resonance effect” normally used in creature and improves the S/N ratio even in the noise circumstances. This may become another new “beyond CMOS” application.

TITLE: THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT SWITCH

SPEAKER: Paul Farrar, Vice President IBM, Canada

ABSTRACT: Can Moore’s law continue? The Economic and Technical Challenges to Cmos Scaling and the search for the next Switch. What are the Key issues on the Roadmap and what are some of the possible solutions over the next 10 to 15 years?

TITLE: MEMRISTOR BRAINS

SPEAKER: Leon Chua, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Affiliated Distinguished Professor Technische Universität München, Germany

ABSTRACT: This talk shows that the memristor is much more than a nano replacement for Flash memories and DRAMs, but even more so as an enabling technology for designing brainlike machines that could somedayoutperform the human brain on executing complex tasks requiring superior intelligence.

TITLE: BEYOND CMOS AND NEW FUNCTIONS

SPEAKER: Laurent Malier, CEO CEA Leti, France

ABSTRACT: CMOS limitations have been addressed with regular success over the last decades. Since last years, an important path for overcoming these limitations has been to introduce innovative materials, which literally opened the era of "Beyond CMOS.

New major innovations are under introduction for complementing traditional CMOS : 3D integration, integrated silicon photonics, ... ; these will be detailed. Beyond them, alternative materials are being explored for improving the characteristics of transistor channel. Another driver for new functions on CMOS will be biomedical applications; examples of such approaches will be illustrated.

CHALLENGER: James Prendergast Executive Director IEEE, USA

FUTURE APPLICATIONSPANEL CHAIR: Roberto Saracco, Director of the Italian Node

EIT ICT Labs, Italy

By 2020 will it be business as usual? Sure we will have faster connectivity, both wireless and wireline, we will be using cell phones and other devices, we will be living in a world with seamless ubiquitous access to information and services. 8 years is not a long time span, so that may be it. Or, conversely, we might pass through a thresholds that will force a major shift in the market and a major reshuffling of players. This panel is for exploring the range of possibility, and why not, the range of opportunities.

TITLE: TOWARDS 2020: SOME REVOLUTIONARY PATHS FOR TELCOS

SPEAKER: Roberto Minerva, Head of Innovative Architectures Future Centre Telecom Italia, Italy

ABSTRACT: Nowadays Telcos are facing a radical change in technologies, business models and ecosystems of the communications domain. These changes can be dealt with in a traditional manner, i.e., pursuing a smooth technical evolution (e.g., moving from 3G to 4G architectures) or in a radical manner by introducing disruption at the platform level and to propose new technical and business approaches. In this talk, a user Centred approach is advocated. User requirements, needs and rights could easily lead to novel technical solutions and platforms as well as to new business approaches. Examples of this new course are related to user owned identity, property of personal data, active user participation in the delivery of services and in the dynamic setting up of platforms and networks. Users and their resources and capabilities can become more and more an essential feature of any network that Telcos can leverage to create new platforms and new




opportunities. The talk will provide some hints and examples of some disruptive possibilities driven by a user Centered approach.

TITLE: DIGITAL FUTURES: THINKING 2050'S VISIONS TO INSPIRE 2020'S POLICIES

SPEAKER: Franco Accordino, Head of Task Force ‘Digital Futures’ European Commission, Belgium

ABSTRACT: In about two years EU Member States and Institutions will embark on a reflection for the preparation of the next policy framework beyond the Europe 2020. What kind of ICT application contexts could be envisaged that could inspire that reflection?

As more ambitious policy targets will be set, for instance to further improve quality of life or face new sustainability challenges, new demands for advanced ICTs will emerge downstream the enabling chain. Conversely, progress in ICT driven by the cross-fertilisation of ICT itself with bio-nano-quantum sciences and technologies will continue to drive major societal transformations and the emergence of new and more sustainable perspectives of growth.

This talk will introduce Digital Futures, an internal project of the European Commission aiming to inspire future European strategic choices related to ICT by thinking at 2050's visions and deriving from them the possible policies that are needed for Europe to lead the next socio-technological transformations.

TITLE: M2M CONTROL PLATFORM CONVERGENCE – A DÉJA VÙ OF NGN CONTROL PLATFORM CONVERGENCE?

SPEAKER: Thomas Magedanz, Director of Competence Centre Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany

ABSTRACT: In the last two decades the telecommunications and entertainment industries have undergone major changes due to the impacts of internet technologies and the resulting convergence can be witnessed by Next Generation Networks and corresponding triple and quadruple play service offers. But today Future Internet research, and in particular the Internet of Things, sparks a new inferno of changes in various still isolated application domains. With the rise of Smart Cities we will soon recognise, that real convergence is just about to start and will create lots of challenges and opportunities.

TITLE: FIRMWARE IS DEAD – THE EPHEMERAL SOUL OF ALL THINGS COMPUTING

SPEAKER: Pasi Hurri, CEO BaseN, Finland

ABSTRACT: Like energy and telecom capacity before, computing power has also become a commodity that can not only be bought, but sold and traded. This has opened a way to a completely new world, where nearly

everything can be virtual. This trend can be observed in the virtualization of computers, phones and cameras increasingly using software to perform tasks previously limited to the hardware domain, and will soon explode with the Internet of Things, all white label goods possessing communications and thus computing capability.

Combined with the commercialization of 3D printing, we will also see a countertrend - concretization of the virtual in as diverse domains as production of cars and buildings to the Smart Grid. In the virtualized world software and hardware, simulations, measurements and actuations converge. This is the Grand Unifying Theory of the Internet of Things.

CHALLENGER: Roberto Saracco, Director of the Italian Node EIT ICT Labs, Italy

SMART POWERPANEL CHAIR/INTRODUCTION: Steven Griffiths, Executive Director

Institute Initiatives at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, UAE

SMART POWER – AN ENERGY SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION FROM CHIP TO GRID

“Smart Power” is the convergence of device performance and energy efficiency at many scales. In the past 30 years we’ve been able to achieve dramatic performance improvements in a variety of sectors while simultaneously increasing the efficiency of energy consumption. As a specific example, the instructions a computer can execute per second per watt has increased approximately 3 million percent since the late 1970s and the need for such parallel advances in performance and efficiency continues to grow. Consumers are becoming increasingly connected to electronic devices for all forms of business and personal activities and electrical grids are incorporating increasing amounts of distributed and intermittent source of energy generation and consumption. These factors necessitate a smart energy system capable of handling a massive and integrated flow of information and electricity. This talk will provide an overview of the trends and technologies driving the future of “Smart Power”.

TITLE: SMART ELECTRICITY GRIDS: INNOVATING A HUNDRED-YEAR OLD GRID

SPEAKER: Livio Gallo, Networks & Infrastructures Director Enel Group, Italy

ABSTRACT: Aim of this presentation is to introduce, from a utility point of view, the set of technologies that are generally named as “Smart Grid Technologies” and the likely evolution of these technologies in the next




decade. Current electricity grid has been designed more than one century ago, when there was not Distributed Generation from renewable sources, electric mobility and tight energy efficiency requirements; consequently, smart equipments have to be introduced in the electricity grid in order to perform a fine-grained monitoring and control of the grid status as well as implementing state-of-the art functionalities; moreover, the cutting-edge communication technologies have to be exploited in order to connect all these devices. Enel began its smartening path early this century, being the first utility performing a full rollout of an Advanced Metering Infrastructure involving more 32 million customers in Italy; concurrently Enel deployed one of the most advanced grid control and automation system aimed at identifying and isolating faults on Medium Voltage lines. Furthermore, Enel designed a set of charging stations for electric vehicles, a set of solutions to increase consumer awareness as well as its own LED-based public lighting solution. Further Research, Development and Deployment (RD&D) activities have to be performed in the next decade in order to validate and deploy new technologies; particularly, technological solutions aiming at i) increasing hosting capacity of distributed generation from renewable sources ii) storing energy iii) implementing demand response and vehicle-to-grid applications, and iv) improving energy efficiency. Enel’s on-going projects will be introduced, related to the European Electricity Grid Initiative as well as the SET plan.

TITLE: POWER SEMICONDUCTORS, KEY ENABLERS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALONG THE WHOLE ENERGY SUPPLY CHAIN

SPEAKER: Martin Hierholzer, Division Vice President Industrial Power Control Infineon Technologies AG, Germany

ABSTRACT: More than 30 percent of worldwide energy consumption is for electricity and the need for energy to make electricity will remain the single biggest driver of energy demand. By 2040, electricity generation will account for more than 40 percent of global energy consumption and this offers a huge potential for energy savings by use of power electronics. This presentation will show how to save energy through smart use of power semiconductors along the whole electrical supply chain consisting of generation, distribution and consumption. Focus areas are renewable energies, like wind and solar, power transmission along highly efficient energy highways and the broad area of power consumption by electrical motors. The outlook provided will show how new power semiconductor technologies will stimulate widespread use of energy efficient systems by making them higher performing but with lower cost.

TITLE: ENERGY EFFICIENCY AS A BUSINESS MODEL? INTELLIGENT ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

SPEAKER: Michael Lowak, CEO Kofler Energies Power AG, Germany

ABSTRACT: Not least due to the dramatic recent events in Fukushima, the German government last year decided to phase out nuclear power and thereby heralded the dawn of a new energy policy in Germany.

Alongside renewable energies, local energy generation, energy storage and expansion of the grids, the new approach focuses heavily on the topic of energy efficiency. One key issue here is that the energy consumption of buildings represents around 40% of all energy consumed. Studies have shown that the economic savings which can potentially be achieved in buildings are at least 35%. Increasing the energy efficiency of buildings can therefore make a significant contribution both to the new energy supply strategy and to achieving the climate policy objectives associated with this. Intelligent energy management systems are needed to get a clearer picture of the energy influences within a building. After all, it is hard to consciously change things you cannot see - especially when people are unwilling to sacrifice comfort. The key here is to develop new business models which can then be rolled out on a large scale. Energy management and energy efficiency need to become sexy in order for the massive potential to be properly tapped. However, the process of increasing awareness for the topic of energy efficiency in buildings and further reducing energy consumption and costs in buildings requires the right legal and political framework conditions. This is precisely the area where I envisage the greatest challenge. I will therefore highlight the solutions that Kofler Energies has to offer in catering to these market trends and show what promising business models for energy management can look like.

TITLE: SEMICONDUCTORS AND THE DRIVE TOWARD ENERGY EFFICIENCY

SPEAKER: Thilo von Selchow, CEO & President ZMD AG, Germany

ABSTRACT: With capabilities of all applications increasing in complexity and features, the energy consumption rates seen are increasing at a staggering rate without parallel improvements in performance and energy efficiency. The continued need to improve energy efficiency of our systems can easily be seen in the power consumed in every day applications such as computers, automobiles, and smart phones. Data center energy consumption alone consumes approximately 1.3% of the world’s electricity. In this presentation, the trends and challenges for semiconductor companies are discussed with regard to meeting the need to improve energy efficiency. From the development of the first transistor, to the integrated circuit, to present and future systems, we need to view applications as whole systems and understand how complex interactions occur within them. Silicon densities continue to increase, while footprint sizes decrease. Solving power problems is no longer just a single silicon solution and improving power dissipation is no longer just about adding a heat-sink. New technologies from silicon processes, 3D packaging, to software provide new intellectual property that can be employed to create solutions that drive higher levels of performance and improved energy efficiency. Companies, such as ZMDI, have been a large part of driving improvements in energy efficiency for the past 50 years. ZMDI is now a recognized mixed signal system solutions provider in the Sensing and Power Management markets and has partnered with major customers who drive a large portion of the world’s energy demands. We explore an example of how power systems have improved and how the drive for ever increasing energy efficiency has driven the solutions from discrete analog applications to complete digital power systems integrated with software.

CHALLENGER: Albert Heuberger, Executive Director Fraunhofer IIS, Germany



FUTURE OF MEDIAPANEL CHAIR: Thomas Wiegand, Professor, Head of Image Processing Department

Fraunhofer HHI, Germany

How media shapes our lives today and how things may change in a decade’s time will be the focus of this Panel. Questions such as how modern technology will enable user interactions with media and what changes are ahead will be discussed. How will information be acquired, paid, and distributed in the future. What is the impact of ubiquitous connectivity and connected users on future developments. How do user interfaces and immersion change the way we use and experience media. The speakers in this panel will all concentrate on a particular aspect of media and its future and these will then be brought together in our discussion.

TITLE: IMMERSIVE MEDIA

SPEAKER: Thomas Wiegand, Professor, Head of Image Processing Department Fraunhofer HHI, Germany

ABSTRACT: A number of immersive media technologies that are currently being researched are presented. An immersive environment is described that currently consists of a high-resolution cinema screen. The video projection system is based on a 6Kx2K resolution system, which is projected onto a panoramic screen with a curvature of 180° and a radius of 4m which also equals the typical viewing distance. We report experiences with such a high degree of immersion. While the system started with 2D video, stereoscopic 3D has been added to the viewing experience with objects that can be seen as if they would hover at 2m distances in front of the screen. The immersive viewing system is combined with a spatial audio system allowing the positioning of a sound source anywhere in the room. This system represents a unique combination of immersive technologies. Future plans include the integration of a touchless user interface.

The above showcase exemplifies one future direction of media: immersion. Technology allows for high resolution and 3D displays as well as spatial audio. A new quality of experience will be enabled when we are immersed into the system without boundaries. Then, displays that cover entire walls will be like windows allowing for a new quality of interaction.

TITLE: THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON THE BUSINESS OF NEWS MEDIA

SPEAKER: Lorraine Cichowski, CIO Associated Press, USA

ABSTRACT: Particularly in the case of U.S. newspapers, mainstream media have suffered steep drops in audience and advertising revenue since the digital shift accelerated in 2005. Before digital options began to proliferate, readers and viewers typically turned to newspapers and television for their news, which was


gathered and presented at fixed times of the day by professional journalists. Today, an increasing number of people search for news online, on their schedules – through websites, mobile applications and tablets. Millions bypass search and news websites altogether and rely on social media – including Facebook and Twitter -- for their daily news information.

Newspapers and other mainstream media expected digital ad revenues to make up for declines in print revenues. But they haven’t kept pace. An increasing number of publishers now are erecting “pay walls” to charge for news content that has been free. Opinions are split on whether paid subscriptions to digital news make sense.

In this talk, we will discuss why newspapers and other mainstream media have struggled to create products and business models to take advantage of digital technologies, even though they have the brands, ability to create content, sales relationships and marketing muscle.

TITLE: CREATION, SHARING AND CONSUMPTION OF CONTENT ON MOBILE DEVICES

SPEAKER: Leo Kärkkäinen, Distinguished Scientist Media Technologies Laboratory Nokia Research Center, Finland

ABSTRACT: Unprecedentedly, the ubiquitous accessibility of mobiles has removed many of the barriers that existed in high quality content creation. With skill, one can produce good audio and video on mobiles.

The social consequences of easy recording and sharing are only emerging, the implications of easy recording in publishing, in media content control and in preserving individual privacy will be significant.

Also, the type of the content is changing. Cinemagraphs are redefining the line between a movie and still picture. Interactive light field images will react and sharpen at time of viewing rather than at the time of picture taking. 3D imaginary is taking its first steps, just to show that one needs more to produce the real immersive experience. It has become evident that future media content has interactive elements - like 3d-audio that takes into account the listener's head movement, and images that refocus by gaze control.

It is hard to realize interactivity in mass media, like a movie theater, but for individual, personal devices this can be achieved. A display that is small to carry, but large to look at is needed. There are multiple options for this, a foldable, a rollable device, a personal pico-projector, or near-eye display that is carried like eyeglasses could be used for interactive, maximally immersive experience.

In the talk I will address what could be the ways of recording and sharing future media content, and what kind of devices could be used to consume it.

TITLE: FUTURE OF MEDIA: A TWO-SIDED MARKET PERSPECTIVE

SPEAKER: Varadharajan Sridhar, Research Fellow Sasken Communication Technologies, India



ABSTRACT: Technology convergence has enabled provisioning of media in various forms (books, video, and audio) to wide range of devices such as Smartphones, Tablets, Laptops, Car infotainment systems, Computers and Televisions. There is also a paradigm shift in the delivery of media through a simple one-way broadcast network to networks of networks. There are strong complementarities and network effects between the media content, smart devices, and network access service especially as more and more wireless broadband networks and smart devices are getting deployed worldwide.

The talk will focus on the “Two Sided Market” structure of this phenomenon, examining the cross side network effects between content and media providers on one side and the consumers on the other side, bridged by a platform provider – proprietary or otherwise. There is often a money side and subsidy side to this two sided market. The talk will focus on pricing and bundling strategies of device vendors, platform providers, media owners and mobile operators. These also affect whether the media is targeted at niche marquee users or a larger audience this bridging the digital divide and providing social inclusion.

The talk will also explore the future of such two sided markets and provisioning of Quality of Experience and analytics as key feature for the electronic media for successful adoption. New technologies and business models that are likely to evolve to enable adoption will also be discussed.

CLOSING PLENARYSPEAKER: Karsten Ottenberg, CEO

Giesecke & Devrient, Germany

TITLE: IDENTITY, SECURITY & TRUST

ABSTRACT: Information and communication technology has become an indispensable mainstay of business, social, and personal processes. Growing requirements for more extensive networking and increased mobility raise key questions about identity, security, and trust. These go on to influence development at technical, component, and system level.

EXCLUSIVE BANQUET DINNERSPEAKER: Martin Roth, Director

Victoria and Albert Museum


TIME: 18:30 – 22:30 LOCATION: ALBERTINUM DRESDEN

VISIONARY KEYNOTES

TITLE: FLEXIBLE ORGANIC DEVICES: TOWARDS UBIQUITOUS ELECTRONICS

SPEAKER: Karl Leo, Professor for Optoelectronics, Institute of Applied Photo Physics, Technische Universität Dresden, and Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystem, Germany

ABSTRACT: Thin film devices deposited on plastic substrates allow a novel flexible, low-cost ubiquitous form of electronics. Organic semiconductors are ideally suited for such devices due to their suitability for large area, mechanical properties, and deposition at room temperature. So far, organic semiconductors have successfully entered the market for smartphone displays, and organic solar cells are close to a broader market introduction. In my talk, I will discuss the challenges and opportunities for this new technology.

TITLE: PATHWAYS TO SERVERS OF THE FUTURE

SPEAKER: Wolfgang Lehner, Professor, Institute for System Architecture Database Technology Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

ABSTRACT: The Visionary Keynote on “Pathways to Servers of the Future” outlines a new research program set up at Technische Universität Dresden addressing the increasing energy demand of global internet usage and the resulting ecological impact of it. The program pursues a novel holistic approach that considers hardware as well as software adaptivity to significantly increase energy efficiency, while suitably addressing application demands. This keynote presents the research challenges and industry perspective.

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ADVANCED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIESPANEL CHAIR: Hagen Malberg, Professor

Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Biomedical engineering is one of the innovation fields in the western world. Recently, several life threatening diseases have been overcome by biomedical technologies. In the next years new challenges will need to be met, such as demographic changes and the increase of medical costs. This Panel will investigate how the research of today will have an impact on tomorrow’s diagnostics and treatments by looking at innovative concepts and new developments.

INTRODUCTION: Thomas Schmitz-Rode, Chairman Applied Medical Engineering RWTH Aachen, Germany

TECHNOLOGIES FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICINE AND SMART HEALTH CARE NETWORKS

Personalized medicine constitutes an important paradigm shift for an improved health care system, requiring specific technologies for its implementation. Imaging modalities have to be further developed and adapted to enable combined diagnostics and targeted therapy (theranostics). Advanced sequencing technologies will be available to decipher the individual genetic profile faster, cheaper and more reliably. Microfluidics, (bio-)sensor research and lab-on-chip technologies will allow decentralized analytics of organ fluids and specimen samples (point-of-care diagnostics). Additionally, individualized sensitivity tests of drugs before administration can be conducted (e.g. anticancer drugs).

Due to microsystems and nanotechnology and highest integration of components, a new generation of theranostic implants will be created with improved interface to their biological environment and optimized interaction with the diseased organ system. These theranostic implants will be delivered by image-guided minimal invasive implantation techniques.

Based on advanced information and telecommunication technologies, smart health care networks will be established for an optimized and individualized treatment of acute and chronic diseases.

Smart hospital concepts include efficient hospital information systems, capable of managing all patient-specific data. Automated extraction of disease-specific information will assist physicians in decision-making within the therapeutic algorithms. Interoperability of devices and systems (e.g. for instrumentation, imaging, navigation and patient monitoring in the operating room) is another feature of the smart hospital. Both measures will contribute to an optimized management of workflow.

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Current projects in ambient assisted living aim at a number of features which will impact the smart home of the future. Interactive walls allow telecommunication with a physician, visible on a large screen. Interactive floors with carpet sensors detect falls. Home-based telemonitoring of critical parameters of chronic diseases, e.g. heart insufficiency or hypertension, will be controlled and communicated by tablet PC, similar to domestic lighting or alarm systems.

Smart homes and smart hospitals are part of the health care infrastructure of the smart city: the healthcare network is sector-spanning, connecting hospital clinics, private practices and home care. Current examples under development are networks for emergencies in myocardial infarction or stroke (cardio net, stroke net). Although most of the supporting technologies are readily available, the bottlenecks of implementation are the cooperation of multiple stakeholders, standardization and reimbursement issues.

TITLE: SMART MEDICAL DEVICES: THE CONNECTED HEARING IMPLANT

SPEAKER: Stefan Launer, Vice President Advanced Concepts and Technologies Phonak AG, Switzerland

ABSTRACT: Recent developments in micro- and nanotechnology are paving the way for completely new approaches to smart medical devices for health monitoring, sensors and actuators. Combined with the current progress in the field of ultra-low power wireless connectivity this will allow to develop new “smart medical devices” for a broad range of health care applications. The integration of diagnostic and monitoring functionality within a medical device, eg a neurostimulator, a drug delivery system or a pace maker, combined with a control function and remote accessibility provided by a mobile device, eg a smart phone or a tablet, will strongly change the current approach to health care provision in many respects. Based on examples from hearing health care provision I will discuss the potentials, hurdles and limitations of smart integrated medical devices and systems.

TITLE: ANESTHESIA AND CRITICAL CARE VENTILATION - THE TOOLS OF 2020

SPEAKER: Kai Kück, Head of Research Draeger Medical GmbH, Germany

ABSTRACT: Healthcare costs are rising and have reached levels that are impacting the global competitiveness of national economies - without delivering concomitantly rising levels of output, e.g., in terms of quality or outcome. We must find ways of using our increasingly limited healthcare resources much more efficiently. Technology is one of the key levers for achieving this and for transforming healthcare.

Healthcare technology's innovation cycles are far slower than those of, say, consumer and mass market technologies. These technologies are powerful drivers and enablers for medical product innovation. Looking at those fast-moving technologies we can glimpse the future of medical technologies. Anesthesia and critical care, at the core of the value delivery chain in hospitals, experience the same strong drivers that drive the transformation of healthcare. Cognizant of the fact that no future will ever happen as predicted, we nonetheless

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take the leap and attempt to highlight some possible futures of how technology will transform anesthesia and critical care.

We finally have the technology at performance, reliability, and cost levels that will enable us to implement all those visionary dreams and concepts for the acute point of care that were academically explored in the 1980s and 1990s, when computers and networks nascently became available for broad use. Perhaps the most transformative elements of future technologies will be the augmentation of the clinical care provider through natural device interaction and information delivery, ubiquitous and mobile access to information and expertise, and automation of automatable tasks. We are on the brink of bringing modern mass market mobile and information technologies to the acute point of care. Important challenges include reliability, usability, and addressing true user needs. It is a very exciting time to be working in this field today.

TITLE: INVENTING THE PERSONAL HEALTH TECHNOLOGY MARKETPLACE – IMPROVING CARE, LOWERING COSTS AND THE IMPACT OF AN AGING WORLD POPULATION

SPEAKER: Richard Sieben, Worldwide Channel Manager Intel-GE Care Innovations, USA

ABSTRACT: Intel-GE Care Innovations™ is a unique joint venture between Intel Corporation and GE which combined forces—GE’s expertise in healthcare and Intel’s expertise in technology— to change the way care and solutions are delivered.

For three larger categories Care Innovations™ creates technology-based solutions that give people confidence to live independently:

1. Senior Living (wireless monitoring technologies are used to improve the continuum of care)

2. Health care/disease management (remote patient monitoring and virtual care coordination is used to prevent crisis points and shift care away from hospitals and into homes and communities) and

3. Assistive technologies (true text-to-speech technology. addresses those with learning disabilities, vision impairment and those facing literacy challenges and gives them access to the printed word)

We are making incredible progress in helping people live more independently, but the potential of using technology to help identify, prevent, and quickly respond to major health and life events is growing every day, while development languishes. Opportunities that combine sensing technology with computing power may be able to help detect pending events such as stroke or heart attack. But how could capabilities in facial feature recognition, voice pattern analysis, coupled with motion, and audio analysis integrated into home healthcare monitoring devices assist remote clinicians detect pending events with patients that live alone? Can cognitive testing and agility testing administered remotely help to predict the likelihood of a fall? Can audio monitoring detect a fall requiring assistance?

This talk shares the views of Intel-GE Care Innovations™ on future health-care applications by showing in-house solutions which address the needs of an aging population and societal requirement to contain the accelerating costs while not limiting the care that can be provided.

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TITLE: GLOBAL HEALTHCARE TRENDS 2020 – ON THE PATHWAY TOWARDS DISTRIBUTED HEALTH

SPEAKER: Olaf Such, Global Head of Clinical Science Magnetic Resonance Imaging Systems, Philips Healthcare, Netherlands

ABSTRACT: Global Demographics show alarming indicators that will affect the capability to provide healthcare within the next generation. The current delivery model that has emerged in mature geographies will not be sustainable in this context. The economic feedback loops that are in place in the current system have lead to an optimization towards an inefficient and ineffective system. A paradigm that has the promise to break up this dilemma is “Distributed Healthcare”. By taking a patient centric view on personal care needs, and designing a care model around these needs and the associated data flow - that is derived from the medical decision making following this care cycle - the current centralized model of care delivery can be made more effective, efficient, and patient friendly. This innovation trajectory will be fueled by technology advancements from consumer electronics and IT, clinical evidence creation, and socioeconomic modeling. It is a complex system redesign and – as all innovations in Healthcare – will take 15 to 20 years to realize. The talk will reflect on underlying reasons, current developments that show promise, technology vectors that this paradigm change will build on, and make an attempt at predicting which directions can be expected in the ten to twenty year timeframe.

CHALLENGER: Richard Funk, Chair of Anatomy Medical Theoretical Centre, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

SMART TRANSPORTATIONPANEL CHAIR/INTRODUCTION: Maik Gude, Professor, Institute of Lightweight Engineering and

Polymer Technology Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Navigation, driver assistance systems, Car-2-Car-communication, internet connection, active and passive safety equipment and comfort on the one hand as well as energy efficient transportation based on advanced propulsion systems and lightweight vehicles on the other hand are main challenges in the development of future car generations. In order not to further increase the vehicles weight, innovative car concepts and lightweight approaches in combination with a higher degree of function integration are required. Potential approaches from the lightweight engineering point of view based on composite materials with integrated sensor and actuator systems for a better man-machine dialogue and machine-machine dialogue are


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presented. Examples are integrated keypads or smart steering wheels with haptic feedback functions based on piezoceramic materials or structural and interieur parts in lightweight design with integrated sensory functions.

TITLE: AUTOMOTIVE FUTURE - LOOKING BEYOND THE POWERTRAIN

SPEAKER: Thomas Form, Head of Electronics and Vehicle Research Volkswagen AG, Germany

ABSTRACT: Tackling the challenges of future, cars and enclosed technologies enhance continuously. Altering society, adapted mobility, increased demand for safety and last but not least tightened energy requirements are changing our individual mobility. Future cars will have to comprise advanced driver assistance systems supporting the driver, by communicating, seeing and even feeling. Versatile driver information systems and tailored human machine interfaces will enable to incorporate the occupants. From this, cars gradually will interact more and more with environment, enabling drivers and passengers to enjoy and capitalize their ride. The presentation will give an insight into Volkswagen’s vision about automotive future technologies, 2020 and beyond.

TITLE: WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS IN TRANSPORTATION

SPEAKER: Amine Haoui, CEO SenSys Networks, USA

ABSTRACT: A new generation of battery operated wireless sensor networks are transforming the transportation industry. With their ease of deployment, low maintenance cost, and accuracy these wireless sensing platforms are providing significant improvements in the quality and quantity of data and performance measures enabling a wide range of applications from traffic signal control, to freeway management, to traveler information systems, and parking management systems. The fast adoption rate of this disruptive technology in transportation is opening the door to exciting new research areas ranging from new sensing modalities, to improved RF range, to the challenging problem of managing the vast amounts of data generated and developing the analytical tools to turn the data into useful information. The talk will describe the current state-of-the-art for wireless sensor networking in transportation and discuss the new frontiers of research in that area.

TITLE: AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AND THE CHALLENGES IN HUMAN-MACHINE-COOPERATION

SPEAKER: Christian Müller, Senior Researcher German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Germany

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ABSTRACT: Beyond 2020, we expect vehicles to become more and more autonomous. However, we are not looking at a sudden change from driving as we know it to car completely driving by themselves. Rather there will be a long transition phase of partially automated driving where to “intelligent” systems (the vehicle and the human) are cooperating, sharing the responsibility for driving (primary task) and maintaining safety (secondary task). Already today, behavioral effects of advanced driver assistant systems (ADAS) are known such as risk adaptation and reduction/shift of attention. The transition to automated driving poses completely new challenges in human-machine-interaction or better: human-machine-collaboration. In this talk, I will outline those challenges and point out opportunities for ICT research and innovation.

TITLE: THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE IN ITS “SMART GRID” INFRASTRUCTURE – MOBILITY OF THE FUTURE?

SPEAKER: Gernot Spiegelberg, Head of Concept Development Electric Mobility Siemens AG, Germany

ABSTRACT: (not published)

CHALLENGER: Josef F. Krems, Professor of Cognitive and Industrial Psychology Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany

OFFICIAL CLOSING EVENTSPEAKERS: Gordon Day, IEEE President and

Sven Morlok, Saxon State Minister for Economic Affairs


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