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CONTENTS acknowledgements ................................................................................................................ 3 programme ............................................................................................................................ 5 about the global forum ..........................................................................................................19 think tank synthesis report ....................................................................................................21 contact ............................................................................................................................... 198 acronyms & abbreviations .................................................................................................. 199 Conference Proceedings - Global Forum 2015 p 2 28 & 29 September 2015 in Oulu, Finland – © ITEMS International 2015 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This year the Global Forum went Arctic. The 24th edition of the Global Forum took place on Monday, 28th and Tuesday 29th, September 2015, in Oulu, Finland. The conference was a combination of inspiring keynotes, icebreaking sessions and networking, and we would like to take this time to thank all the persons and organisations who helped us making the Global Forum 2015 another success. We would like to express our sincerest thanks to the City of Oulu for hosting the Global Forum and providing the excellent meeting facilities. Thank you so much for the wonderful welcome cocktail at the City Hall. We sincerely thank the Mayor of Oulu, Mr Matti Pennanen, for the great hospitality and gave a special thanks to Mrs Outi Rouru for her commitment and dedication. It has been a great honour to welcome Prime Minister Juha Sipilä at this twenty-fourth edition of the Global Forum. We send our warmest regards and a heartfelt thank you to all our distinguished experts, moderators, chairpersons and speakers, who have generously given us their time and expertise. Their knowledge, passion and commitment were inspiring and informative for us all. We were fortunate to have the support of a great cadre of sponsors and, we would like to extend a special thanks to the main sponsors of the Global Forum 2015 for their spirit of sharing, support and generosity: Qualcomm, elisa, Sitra, The GSM Association GSMA, GPI Group, AT&T, Airbus Group, Nokia, Engie, Fennovoima, InfoCert, Finpro, Synopsys, Regus Kora, Afilias, SmartDok, Atomproekt, Rosatom, France Génétique Elevage, SecureNinja, ETSI, ebay and DPI Digital Policy Institute. As well as the supporting sponsors, which are: Tekes, Fondation Sophia Antipolis, University of Oulu, Education New Society Association ENSA, Ulss 12 Veneziana, Morgan Lewis, Millennia2025 Foundation, ActiveMedia, Public Technology Institute PTI, MEDICI, Extreme networks, FilmMe.tv, Oulu University of Applied Sciences and Worldcrunch. The Global Forum 2015 has been a great event for us and we hope that it has been so for you too. We would like to thank you all for accompanying us on this adventure since so many years now and we look forward to having you in the coming years too. Sébastien Lévy Sylviane Toporkoff Vice-President of the Global Forum President of the Global Forum Conference Proceedings - Global Forum 2015 p 3 28 & 29 September 2015 in Oulu, Finland – © ITEMS International 2015 The Global Forum 2015 was realized with the active and efficient support of its sponsors and support partners Conference Proceedings - Global Forum 2015 p 4 28 & 29 September 2015 in Oulu, Finland – © ITEMS International 2015 PROGRAMME 28 September 2015 Welcome Addresses p 22 ……….. …………………………………………………………………………………... 1 st Day Sébastien Lévy, Vice President Global Forum/Shaping the Future & Partner Items International; Administrator NUMA, France Sylviane Toporkoff, President, Global Forum/Shaping the Future; Founder & Partner Items International; Professor at the Institute of European Studies, University of Paris, France Opening Remarks Markku Markkula, President, Committee of the Regions, European Union Welcome Addresses Juha Sipilä, Prime Minister of Finland Matti Pennanen, Mayor of Oulu, Finland Conference Proceedings - Global Forum 2015 p 5 28 & 29 September 2015 in Oulu, Finland – © ITEMS International 2015 28 September 2015 Opening Session p 28 Digital Strategy Visions ……….. …………………………………………………………………………………... 1 st Day Chair & Moderator: Anna Gomez, Partner & Attorney At Law, Wiley Rein LLP, USA Keynote Speakers: Mikko Kosonen, President, SITRA – Finnish Innovation Fund, Finland Digitalization as an Enabler for Sustainable Growth Anja Wyden Guelpa, State Chancellor, State of Geneva, Switzerland Secrecy, Transparency, Openness, Closedness, Security…: the Tower of Babel of Our Digital Age Jørgen Abild Andersen, Director General Telecom (rtd.), Chairman of OECD’s Committee on Digital Economy, Denmark Adriane LaPointe, Senior Policy Advisor in the State Department Office of Communications and Information Policy, US Department of State, USA Connecting the Next 1.5 Billion People: The Global Connect Initiative Audrey Scozzaro Ferrazzini, Senior Manager, Government Affairs Europe, Qualcomm Europe, Belgium Luis Jorge Romero, Director General ETSI – European Telecommunications Standards Institute Yoshio Tanaka, Professor, Tokyo University of Science (TUS), Graduate School of Innovation Studies, Japan Toward Outcome Economy Conference Proceedings - Global Forum 2015 p 6 28 & 29 September 2015 in Oulu, Finland – © ITEMS International 2015 28 September 2015 Session 1 p 45 The Digital Transformation: IoT & Data ……….. …………………………………………………………………………………... 1 st Day Chair: Kari Terho, Vice President, Internet of Things, Corporate Customers, Elisa Corporation, Finland Moderator: Jean-Pierre Chamoux, Professor Emeritus, University Paris Descartes, France Speakers: Harri Kopola, Vice-President Research, Knowledge Intensive Products and Services, VTT, Finland Towards Digital Paradise Gerald Santucci, Head of Unit Knowledge Sharing, European Commission Samuel Laurinkari, Senior Manager, EU Government Relations, eBay Inc. Public Policy Lab EMEA, Belgium Keiichiro Seki, Head of Research, Center for Strategic Management & Innovation, Nomura Research Institute, Japan Basic Understanding on Industrie 4.0/ I o T Denis Gardin, Senior Vice-President, Head of New Technology Ventures, Airbus Group Corporate, France Antti Aumo, Executive Vice President, Finpro; Head, Invest In Finland, Finland IoT in Action: Smart Traffic Opportunities in Finland Shoumen Datta, Research Affiliate MIT; SVP IIC – Industrial Internet Consortium, USA Large Scale Test Beds Alberto Di Felice, Government Affairs Senior Analyst, Qualcomm Europe, Belgium Mariane Cimino, Consultant, France Génétique Elevage, France Expectations and Connectivity Needs of Dairy Cattle Breeding Conference Proceedings - Global Forum 2015 p 7 28 & 29 September 2015 in Oulu, Finland – © ITEMS International 2015 28 September 2015 Afternoon Keynote Session p 61 ……….. …………………………………………………………………………………... 1 st Day Chair & Moderator: Jay E. Gillette, Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies, University of Oulu, Finland; Senior Research Fellow and Institute Secretary, Digital Policy Institute, USA Information Renaissance Leadership for the Knowledge-Value Era Keynote Speakers: Paavo Lipponen, Former Prime Minister of Finland International logistics networks, markets, population Donald R. Davidson, Jr. Chief, Cybersecurity Lifecycle Risk Management and CS/Acquisition Integration Division, Office of the Deputy DoD Chief Information Officer for Cybersecurity, USA Globalization is Good, but… Your technology solution might be my security challenge. Markku Markkula, President, Committee of the Regions, European Union Setting the Scene: The Regional Innovation Ecosystem Conference Proceedings - Global Forum 2015 p 8 28 & 29 September 2015 in Oulu, Finland – © ITEMS International 2015 28 September 2015 Session 2 p 70 Cyber & Security, New Challenges in a Global Context ……….. …………………………………………………………………………………... 1 st Day Chair/ Moderator: Bénédicte Suzan, Senior Prospective Analyst, Airbus Group Corporate, France Speakers: Sakeel Tufail, CEO, SecureNinja, USA Colin Williams, Director, SBL; Honorary Fellow University of Warwick; Visiting Professor De Montfort University, United-Kingdom Juha Röning, Professor Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland Digile Cybertrust Mike Ahmadi, Global Director of Business Development, Synopsys, Inc, USA A Call For A Cybersecurity Social Contract Lasantha De Alwis, Director/Head of Operations Department & Corporate Secretary, CTO – Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation Emancipating, Enriching, Equalising, Empowering through the use of ICTs Louis Granboulan, CTO Senior Expert, Airbus Group Innovation, France Data Privacy: a new approach may be needed Petri Vilander, Cyber Security Manager, Corporate Customers, Elisa Corporation, Finland Cyber vs. Information Security Philippe Wolf, Cybersecurity Project Manager, IRT SystemX – Institut de Recherche Technologique, France Some Considerations about Privacy Conference Proceedings - Global Forum 2015 p 9 28 & 29 September 2015 in Oulu, Finland – © ITEMS International 2015 28 September 2015 Session 3 p 84 New Innovation Strategies in a Challenging Global Environment ……….. …………………………………………………………………………………... 1 st Day Chair: Bror Salmelin, Adviser for Innovation Systems, European Commission Challenges for Innovation; How to Respond in Systemic Way? 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