Collaborative ICT Research & Innovation

eINDIA 2010 » Workshops » Collaborative ICT Research & Innovation between India and the European Union (EU) - Opportunities, Challenges and Success Stories

Session description:

A panel of renowned European and Indian ICT experts will highlight the joint research prospects and potential benefits to India and Europe in domains that hold the key to societal development, technology leadership and marketplace success:

ICT addressing Societal Challenges
AudioVisual Media & Internet
Emerging Technologies & Infrastructures

The audience will get a unique opportunity to hear from some of the most renowned European and Indian ICT actors drawn from industry, research and academia, through concrete examples and cases, the strategic importance of conducting multilateral collaborative research and fostering joint innovations. This session will offer the participants the opportunity to highlight and share their views on EU-India collaborative research and innovation and also to get their own ideas and suggestions for effective joint research programmes and projects canalised to the bilateral dialogue process between the Indian and EU authorities.

Euro-India SPIRIT Project : An Introduction

Euro-India SPIRIT (www.euroindia-ict.org) is an initiative funded by the European Union that aims to engage the EU and Indian ICT stakeholders and make them frontline actors in setting a joint research agenda through the alignment of research and innovation objectives and priorities in India and in the European Union. This initiative will canalize the stakeholder views with respect to effective research cooperation and bolster the efforts of the policymakers from both sides to identify shared goals and formulate policies to promote and sustain joint research actions, programmes and projects.

Euro-India SPIRIT is a partnership effort between six leading European and Indian entities – the European Research European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), the Centre for Science, Development & Media Studies (CSDMS), Trust IT Services and Infra Technologies.

Euro-India SPIRIT seeks to:

Analyse the research dimension of Indian ICT policy, encompassing ICT technologies and applications and domain implications
Organise and probe stakeholders to identify medium to long term vision and perspectives and reveal complementarities with EU priorities, notably the i2010 strategy and objectives and updates
Update, Assist and Enrich the Policy Dialogue process and meetings between the EU and India with periodic reports, surveys and position papers encompassing findings from policy research and stakeholder views dealing with common R&D perspectives, priorities, opportunities and challenges
Organise synchronized stakeholder events and domain experts deliberations to enhance the profile and communicate the utility of the policy dialogue process
Recommend future co-operation initiatives and identify matching counterpart funding to leverage Indian research capability and capacity and to engage in projects in common priority areas
Develop synergies with other Europe-driven ICT activities underway in India covering capacities and people dimensions

Key Speakers

Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT - Madras and Chairman, FICCI, Science & Technology Committee	Fabrizio Gagliardi Director (Europe, Middle East, Africa) External Research, Microsoft Research	Hiranmay Ghosh Principal Scientist, TCS Innovation Labs
Jim Clarke Project Manager, INCO-TRUST	Prof. Krithi Ramamritham Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT - Bombay, India	Neeraj Suri Professor, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Pierre-Yves Danet France Telecom Delegate, Networked and Electronic Media Initiative	Soumitra Dutta Founder and Academic Director, elab@INSEAD	Prof. Thorsten Herfet Director, Research and Operations, Intel Visual Computing Institute, Saarland University, Germany
Prof. TV Prabhakar Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India

Euro-India SPIRIT Workshop at eINDIA 2010, Hyderabad

Collaborative ICT Research & Innovation between

India and the European Union (EU)

Opportunities, Challenges and Success Stories

Wednesday 4 August, 2010

4 pm – 6 pm

Time	Session Name		Speakers
4 pm – 5 pm	*Euro-India SPIRIT – Recommendation of Thematic Expert Working Groups (WG) to enhance collaborative Research & Innovation* *between the European Union and India*
	4 pm – 4:10 pm	Euro-India SPIRIT Project and the role of Working Groups	Ashok Kar/Florence Pesce
4:10 pm – 4:40 pm	*Conclusions & Recommendations from EU-India WG deliberations*
	4:10 pm – 4:20 pm	ICT Addressing Societal Challenges	P N Vasanthi (Centre for Media Studies) tbc Mounib Mekhilef (Ability Europe)
	4:20 pm – 4:30 pm	AudioVisual Media & Internet	Pierre-Yves Danet (Orange Lab – France Telecom) T. V. Prabhakar (IIT-Kanpur)
	4:30 pm – 4:40 pm	Emerging Technologies & eInfrastructures	Fabrizio Gagliardi (Microsoft Research Europe) Vinay Deshpande (Encore Software) tbc
4:45 pm – 6:00 pm	*EU-India Collaborative Research - Success Stories & Opportunities* Presentations and Panel Discussion with EU and Indian experts engaged in Research & Innovation and Policy issues
	4:45 pm – 5:40 pm	· Introduction by Panel Chair - Ashok Kar, Infra Technologies · EU-IndiaGrid2 – Sustaining & Enabling Interoperability between Europe and India - Subrata Chattopadhyay, C-DAC · eWork, Opportunities for EU-India Co-operation – Nicole Turbe-Suetens, Distance Expert · INCO-Trust – International Co-operation in Trustworthy, Secure and Dependable ICT Infrastructures - Jim Clarke, Waterford Institute of Technology
5:40 pm – 6:00 pm	*Q&A and Wrap up*

Experts present for Panel discussions

ICT Addressing Societal Challenges:

· Anita Gurumurthy (IT for Change)

· P.N. Vasanthi (Centre for Media Studies)

· Nicole Turbe-Suetens (Distance Expert)

· Mounib Mekhilef (Ability Europe)

Audiovisual Media & Internet:

· Pierre-Yves Danet (Orange Lab - France Telecom)

· Jim Clarke (Waterford Institute of Technology)

· Thorsten Herfet (University of Saarland)

· Hiranmay Ghosh (TCS Innovation Lab)

· T.V. Prabhakar (IIT Kanpur)

· Subu Goparaju (Infosys Technologies – SET Lab)

Emerging Technologies & Infrastructures:

· Vinay Deshpande (Encore Software)

· Neeraj Suri (TU Darmstadt)

· Fabrizio Gagliardi (Microsoft Research Europe)

Some of the experts listed above will present the conclusions of the Working Group deliberations to provide a policy roadmap in order to synchronise collaborative ICT research between India and the European Union. The others will intervene during the panel discussion and Q&A.