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International Speakers
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• Alfonso Díez Torres
Ambassador, Head of Delegation of the European Union in Argentina since 4 January, 2011. Degree in Law from the University of Murcia. Degree in Political Science and Sociology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Research Fellow in the Department of Political Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Murcia from the February 23, 1978 to March 1981. Research Associate at the Center for Latin-American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh during the academic year 1980-1981. Diplomatic School of Madrid, during 1985-1986.
Belongs to the Spanish diplomatic corps since 1986 and has had the following destinations:
- Technical General Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 26/04/1986 until 11/07/1986.
- Consul at General Consulate in Bogotá (Colombia) from 01/08/1986 to on 28/07/1989.
- Deputy Head of the Embassy of Spain in Harare (Zimbabwe) since 01/08/1989 until 31/07/1992.
- Counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union in Brussels from 05/08/1992 until 31/07/1996.
- Advisor in the General Coordination for Legal Affairs of the Union Europe since 02/08/1996 until 31/12/2000.
- General Deputy Director of Corporate Affairs of the European Union from 02/01/2001 until on 31/07/2002.
- Advisor in the Technical Cabinet of the General Secretariat for European Affairs from the 01/08/2002 to 28/12/2002.
- Ambassador of Spain in the Slovak Republic, Bratislava, from 29/12/2002 to
07/05/2005.
- Advisor in the Technical Cabinet of the Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation assigned to the Secretary of State for the EU from 08/05/2005 until 30/10/2006.
- General Director of Integration and Coordination of General and Economic Affairs of the European Union from 31/10/2006 to 07/26/2010 (co-chairman of the preparatory SOM of the EU-LAC summit in Madrid, May 2010.) |
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• Mauro Bianchi
Italian national, he lives in Brussels and he is an international business consultant. He holds a BSc from the “Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore”, Milan and a MSc from “Université Libre de Bruxelles”, Brussels and was former lecturer at the faculty of Law of the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) in international politics. He is fluent in French, English and Italian. He started his professional carrier at the European Parliament in 1988 and spent 3 years in Price Waterhouse Consultants in Brussels before setting up his first company in Belgium, TESEO Sprl. He is Senior Partner of MINERVA C&C (a Belgian Communication Agency fully dedicated to science communication), Partner of EU MENTIS Srl, a Training Consultancy in Torino (Italy) and co-founder of the EIRC Euro India Research Centre located in Bangalore (India) & Brussels. He has been member of the Board of Directors of several European Associations related to IT and R&D as well as consultant and direct representative of numerous industrial organizations and industrial groups related to European Affairs, communication and R&D activities in Brussels. He has directed/supervised the development of a large number of successful EU Framework Program proposals since the mid of the nineties and has a unique experience in the EU-India and EU-Latin America FP6 & FP7 funded project and policies thanks to the various projects TESEO has coordinated from 2005 to date: “INCITE”, “INDIA MENTOR” and “SYNCHRONISER” as well as in Latin America with the projects “EUROLATSEA” and “SOLAR-ICT”. In his capacity of international trainer he has been in charge of setting up training courses and training programs on EU affairs with major European Universities and Training Centers, in Europe, Asia and Latin America. |
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• Bernardo Wagner
Received a M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing. 1984) and a Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing. 1989) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. From 1985 to 1988 he was in charge of an engineering group of GPP mbH in Oberhaching/Munich. In 1991 he was appointed professor of computer science at the University of applied sciences in Ulm, Germany. Dr. Wagner has been full professor at the Leibniz University Hannover since 1997. He is a member of the faculty for electrical engineering and computer science and is in charge of the real-time systems group. Moreover, he is director of the centre for technical didactics (ZDT), a member of the centre for mechatronics (MZH), and an associated member of the research centre L3S. His main research interests are in autonomous service robots, in distributed automation systems, and in educational technologies. He gives lectures on industrial control, mobile robotics, and technical didactics. He served in several deanship positions and from 2009 to 2010 he was elected dean of his faculty.
Dr. Wagner is and was in charge of many applied research projects together with industry. He is member of diverse professional societies, advisory boards, program committees of international conferences, and two European networks of excellence. He also served as an expert reviewer for the European commission since years. |
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• Andrea Ricci
Vice President of ISIS, Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems, Rome. He received his engineering degree at Ecole Centrale (Paris) in 1977. His key qualifications are Sustainability Policy analysis and impact assessment, Energy studies and information systems, Transport studies and information systems. He co-ordinated many EU RTD projects, including: STADIUM (FP7 - ITS for large events); EFONET (FP7 - Energy Foresight Network); NEEDS (FP6 - Energy Externalities, energy policy and scenarios); ASSET (FP6 - transport sensitive areas). He served as evaluator of EU RTD proposals (FP4, FP5, FP6 and FP7), and co-authored the report Interim Evaluation of the International Cooperation Activities of FP7 (2010). He was the lead author of the EU (DG RTD) Report “Assessing the Social and Environmental Impacts of European Research”, and of the EU (DG RTD) Report “The overall socio-economic dimension of community research in the fifth European framework programme”. He contributed to and/or edited several books on Energy Efficiency, Transport Infrastructure Charging, and Global Quality, and is the author of more than 100 publications and presentations at international conferences. He is currently Rapporteur of the EC Working Group “Global Europe 2030 – 2050”. |
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• Giorgio Metta
Senior scientist at the IIT and assistant professor at the University of Genoa where he teaches courses on anthropomorphic robotics and intelligent systems for the bioengineering curricula. He holds a MS with honors (in 1994) and PhD (in 2000) in electronic engineering both from the University of Genoa. From 2001 to 2002 he was postdoctoral associate at the MIT AI-Lab where he worked on various humanoid robotic platforms. He is assistant professor at the University of Genoa since 2005 and with IIT since 2006.
Giorgio Metta research activities are in the fields of biologically motivated and humanoid robotics and in particular in developing life-long developing artificial systems that show some of the abilities of natural systems. His research developed in collaboration with leading European and international scientists from different disciplines like neuroscience, psychology, and robotics.
Giorgio Metta is author of approximately 100 publications. He has been working as principal investigator and research scientist in several international and national funded projects. He has been reviewer for international journals and the European Commission.. |
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• Leonardo Piccinetti
Leonardo Piccinetti is Senior Research and Innovation Advisor; he is Managing Director of Europe for Business. He consults several European research and business communities on issues relating to Lisbon Strategy, FP7, Financial Perspectives and the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP).
Leonardo Piccinetti has twelve years of international experience in the field of EU consulting and academic experience (lecturer in University of Milan, Trieste, Naples, Aquila, Exeter, Bologna, Brussels, Bruges) in regional studies with special interests in Lisbon Strategy, Innovation, and Governance with more twenty publications. Since 2001 he is PhD student in Regional Studies at Newcastle upon Tyne University, focusing in Innovation Policy in enlarged Europe. In 1999, he finished his Master in European Studies at Sussex European Institute in University of Sussex , where the for his thesis he did a research project of Structural Funds evaluation in Italian Objective 2 regions.
Fluent English, Italian, Spanish French. |
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National Speakers
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• Esteban di Tada
Civil Aeronautics Engineer, Ecole Nationale de l'Aeronautique, Paris, France. Master of Sciences in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, USA. Founder of several consulting companies in the field of systems, independently and in partnership with multinational companies. Among the academic positions he addresses and has addressed the following roles:
Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Palermo; Professor at the University of Palermo; Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA); Professor, Faculty of Natural Sciences, UBA; Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics UBA; Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Luis; Professor, Instituto Tecnológico Buenos Aires; Professor, Centre for Advanced Studies in Sciences (CAECE); Director of the PostGraduate School of Systems Engineering at the UBA. |
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• Mónica Silenzi
She holds a B.A. in Political Sciences with a Specialization in International Relations from the School of Law and Political Sciences of the UCA ( Catholic University of Argentina). She also holds a Master Degree in Science, Technology and Society from the National University of Quilmes. She serves in the National Directorate of International Relations, Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation as General Coordinator (Deputy Director), Technical Coordinator of Liaison Office Argentina-European Union (ABEST), INCO National Contact Point with the European Union, Alternate National Coordinator of the Iberoamerican Programme of Science and Technology for Development (CYTED) and Iberoeka and Manager of the Cooperation Project Ar-g EU in Nanotechnology. |
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• Uriel Cukierman
Uriel Rubén Cukierman received a professional degree in Electronic Engineer from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN), Argentina and a master degree in Enterprise Information Systems Management from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. He is presently working on his PhD thesis in the area of Learning Sciences at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
He is presently working at the UTN as Information & Communications Technologies Secretary (CIO) and he is also holding a position as Academic Projects Secretary at the Universidad de Palermo. His research interests in Learning Technologies are in the areas of mobile devices, learning management systems and digital divide.
Mr. Cukierman has contributed to the National Universities Network as a member of its Administrating Committee and has worked as consultant for the National Communication Secretary and National Education Ministry in projects for distance learning and reducing the digital divide. Mr. Cukierman has worked as a College Teacher and University Professor for over twenty five years in electronics, computing, multimedia and learning technologies. He has also served as lecturer in several seminars, courses and other specialization activities throughout Argentina and in other countries as well. Wrote and published several original technical documents in different newspapers, journals and magazines in Argentina and in other countries. He has produced two books about Learning Technologies, one of them published by Pearson. Mr. Cukierman has been an active member of organizing and scientific committees in several academic and scientific conferences in Argentina and worldwide. Former Chairman of the Microsoft Research Latin American Advisory Board. |
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• Santiago Spadafora
Santiago Spadafora (M), M.D.; Anesthesiologist and Intensivist (critical-care medicine), Magister in Health Management, Director of the Department of University Extension of ISALUD; Director and Professor in the Postgraduate Career of Hospital Management; Senior Consultant; Teaching and Training on Health Information Systems and Electronic Patient Records. Member of the Health Information System Working Group at ISALUD. Principal investigator at COMOESTAS project. Argentinean Representative in the health sector at the Third Ministerial Conference on the Information Society of Latin America and the Caribbean; Vice president of the multinational health group (Plan of Action for the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean -eLAC2015-). Santiago Spadafora has been coordinator / project manager of several research and development projects. |
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• Silvia Bidart
Silvia Bidart, consultant and founder of IT Strategy Network Consultants specialized in ICT Strategies such as: International Cooperation; Project Management, ICT Financing Mechanisms; Public Policies and Regulatory Framework, Information Society, and Regional Contact Point among Public and Private sector, Research Centers and Cilvil Society. She is the General Director of ALETI, the Federation of Latin America, The Caribbean & Spain ICT National Associations, that gathers 19 countries Industry associations. She is also Regional Coordinator of FP7 FIRST Project; Partner of FP7 FORESTA Project and former partner of FP7 SALA+. She is GAID Champions Network Member (UN); Regional Coordinator for Financing Task Force of eLAC 2015 (ECLAC-@lis 2); Member of Financing Task Force of the Federal Agency of Information Society of Argentina; Member of WITSA Public Policy Task Force; Regional Coordinator of ICT Technology Platforms. She is former: Delegate at 3rd Ministerial Lima Meeting eLAC (@lis 2 ) 2010; National Coordinator of the Argentine Software and Information Services Technology Platform for the Ministry of Economy and Production of Argentina; Consultant for GTZ; Hemispheric Advisory Board of the Americas Connectivity Institute – ICA Canada; Coordinator for Latin American Office of WITSA; and World Chairman of Emerging Countries Task Force of WITSA; Executive Director of CESSI; Coordinator of the Argentine Forum of Electronic Commerce; Advisor on technology and e-government; associate professor and author of different articles. She holds a Post-degree in International Economic Strategy, School of Economic Sciences, University of Buenos Aires and Postgraduate Degree in International Trade, Mercosur and Competitiveness, and others post-degrees skills. She was speaker at several events in Latin America, Europe, North America, as well as Asia, Arabian Emirates and Australia. |
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• Aníbal Gattone
Aníbal graduated as a physicist with a Ph.D in nuclear physics from the University of Buenos Aires. During the 80’s he worked in the USA and Germany and upon his return to Argentina in 1990 he was part of the team that created RETINA, the first academic network. He was Head of the Office of Evaluation of Science and Technology Projects at the Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica, Project Manager of RETINA 2 and in 2007 was appointed Executive Director of INNOVA-RED, the incumbent NREN (National Research and Education Network). Aníbal is also Chief of Staff at the Secretary of Institutional Co-ordination in the ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation while managing INNOVA-RED. |
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• Alejandro Prince
Mr. Prince is president of Prince & Cooke (www.princecooke.com), vice-president of Fundación Gestión y Desarrollo (www.fgd.org.ar) and director of PrincePolls (www.princepolls.com). He has a Ph. D. in Political Science and a Ph. D. in Economics. Mr Prince is main Professor at University of Buenos Aires (UBA), National Technology University (UTN), University of San Andres (UDESA) and other Universities. International lecturer, author of several books and papers about Knowledge Society, Digital Economy and E-government. Member of the Agenda Digital Group (National Undersecretary of Technology). Member of the National Council of Experts on Public Policies (Argentina). |
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• Daniela Lopez de Luise
Mr. Prince is president of Prince & Cooke (www.princecooke.com), vice-president of Fundación Gestión y Desarrollo (www.fgd.org.ar) and director of PrincePolls (www.princepolls.com). He has a Ph. D. in Political Science and a Ph. D. in Economics. Mr Prince is main Professor at University of Buenos Aires (UBA), National Technology University (UTN), University of San Andres (UDESA) and other Universities. International lecturer, author of several books and papers about Knowledge Society, Digital Economy and E-government. Member of the Agenda Digital Group (National Undersecretary of Technology). Member of the National Council of Experts on Public Policies (Argentina). |
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• Susana Finquelievich
Architect (National University of Rosario, 1973). Post Graduate Course on Urban and Regional Planning (Polytechnic University, Poland, 1976). Master of Urbanism (Université Paris VIII, France, 1977). Ph. D. in Social Sciences (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1980). Speaks, reads and writes Spanish, English, French, Italian and Portuguese.
Senior Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina (http://www.conicet.gov.ar); Coordinator of the Habitat Commission at CONICET; Director of the Research Program on Information Society, Institute Gino Germani, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires (http://www.fsoc.uba.ar/invest/iigg/index.htm). Professor at the Master of Telecommunications Management, Instituto de Tecnología de Buenos Aires (ITBA). Professor at the Master of Communication, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Ecuador. President of LINKS, Civil Association for the Development of Information Society (http://www.links.org.ar). |
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• Carmen La Gamba
International Senior Consultant specialized in ICT Projects and strategies for Public Policies, and tech-transfer for R&D&i activities among Governments, Private, and Academic Sector. Actually she is the Coordinator ICT Committee of R&D&i Tech-Transfer of ITS Argentina (Intelligent Transport Systems of Argentina), ONG that aims to develop university-industry-government ITS centres to research foreign cooperation, tech transfer and innovation of ICT in Transport and Transit to promote solutions for transport problems in terms of congestion, safety and environmental impact in order to create a networking for a sustainable road mobility and safety. She is also Advisor on ITS in the Bureau of Transport and Traffic of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and President of DigitalGov Consultant (data transmission projects and advisor of foreign research cooperation and FP Projects in Argentina, Chile and Peru).
She was one of the Advisors of the ICT Education for the development of the Technology District in the City of Buenos Aires; she also worked as Senior Manager in Data Transmission with international experience in sales, project management strategic planning and top direction that played key role in the definition, organization, implementation and management of business units in local and international IT markets.
She has studies in Electronic Engineering, and has graduated studies in Institutional Management in Higher Education – (IMHE); ISO Quality Management System (includes Quality in Education) and Specific Technical Education in Cisco, Microsoft and Business Education in Argentina, Brazil, and USA. She is studying the insertion of the women in the Hard Engineering, to development Policies to increment, recruitment and retention of women into the Engineering and Technology Industry. |
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• Gerardo Alfredo Renzetti
Mr. Renzetti is Chief of Advisory Group of Federal Information Society Agency – AFESIF, of the Ministry of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services of Argentina (Ministerio de Planificación Federal, Inversión Pública y Servicios de Argentina). He is also ESI Center South America Representative at the Directive Committee of Tecnalia Europa. Managing Director of Morfeo South America and Foundation Member. Coodirector of Dialogue Group for the National Datacenter Plan in Argentina. IT Governance Advisor of the Argentine Ministery of Justice. Member of the Steering Committee of FP7/EC FIRST Project Argentine Tecnology Platform (PLATA). Vice President of La Plata IT Cluster. Founder as Grupo Tekne CEO with University of La Plata, University of San Martin and the Buenos Aires Science Investigation Committee of the UE Center of Excellence and Transference for South America (Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay y Chile). Steering Committee of CESSI (ALETI Argentine Association. Computing and Information System Diploma, Oxford University (1998). Knowledge Management Postgraduate course, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. E-Government Regulation, OEA (2010). Cyted Evaluator for IT Project Investments. |
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• Armando E. De Giusti
Armando De Giusti has university degrees in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) in 1973. He is currently the head of the Instituto de Investigación en Informática LIDI (III-LIDI) of the Computer Science School in UNLP and CONICET Main Researcher. His research interests include concurrency, distributed and parallel processing, grid computing, real time systems, and computer technology applied to education.. |
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• Carlos Pallotti
Carlos Pallotti has a 25 year experience as an entrepreneur in the field of Information Technologies. He is currently President of Lupa Corporation SA and director of other companies. Additionally, he is CESSI’s Honorary President, the chamber that gathers the Argentinean IT companies, Clementina Foundation’s President and Director of Sadosky Foundation for Research and Development, among other charges. He has received awards including the 2007 Gold Sadosky, Personality Iberoamerican in Maintenance Engineering, Technology Entrepreneur in 2004 and Leader of Communications in 2007. He has authored three technology books and has lectured in over 80 events in more than 15 countries. |
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• Sandra Rouget
System analist graduated at CAECE University. Since 2008 she works as CIO at ANSES (Argentine Social Security Administration). Her experience in the public sector in Argentina includes positions such as Organization Manager of Correo Argentino ENCoTeSA, ANSES Reengineering Manager, CIO of Ministry of Justice, Security and Human Rights. Outside the country has served as permanent consultant of international organizations like IDB and UNDP on issues related to reform and strengthening programs and institutional planning, both in Argentina and abroad. She has also served in the Philippines for the World Bank and IMF excelling in areas of institution building for poverty reduction. She assisted as an independent consultant specialized in issues of citizens id using biometrics biometric solutions in countries such as Venezuela, Guatemala and Mexico. Regarding Argentine private sector, she has served as Deputy General Manager of Imaging Automation Argentina. Abroad, has been a consultant to IDP Americas in social security issues for the Dominican Republic and Chief Software Quality Control for Imaging Automation at USA. She also served as host and producer of “Mirada Digital" in Identidad FM radio station. She is a member of international organizations such as "The Latin American Public Policy Expert Guide" of the Hispanic American Center for Economic Research - USA, Gerson Lehrman Group Policy & Economics Council - USA, IDP Americas - USA, Fundación Iberoamericana de TI y comunicaciones (FITIC) - Argentina . In 2010, she received the 2nd place award “CIO of the Year” organized by the journal Information Technology and the international award for innovative projects in the category “Carved out Costs” by Red Hat. |
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