Technologies for Information Management

Technologies for Information Management

ICT 2008 logo top

ICT 2008 Conference - Innovation and Creativity 1
The Expanding Information Universe: New Trends, New Forms, New Usages
Parallel session 7c: 26 November 2008, 11:00-12:30 - Salon Pasteur

Overall objective

Digital content is developing at a massive rate – not only the volume but also how it is produced and the different forms it takes. Conditions for production and consumption are rapidly changing as more and more online content is produced by users. The growing diversity of sources and formats is deeply transforming enterprises and creative industries alike. Richer, more informative and participative forms of content give rise to new commercial and community services, and stimulate innovation.

Significant interest is being paid to the development of technology designed to enhance our ability to create, manage and exploit different forms of content, to deliver timely and pertinent information, and to augment related processes such as problem solving, collaboration and learning.

Topics to be addressed

This session explored the intersection between digital content and technology, innovation and business. How do leaders intend to cope with the rapidly changing landscape, what are the new usages, how are they going to affect our society and economy?

  1. From technology through innovation to business – innovating to maximise business growth
     As a global information provider Thomson Reuters uses innovative methods and techniques to bring to its customers the news and business data they need in a way that best meets their demands. How does technology innovation translate into new markets and opportunities, what are the main drivers in the years to come?
  2. Online games and virtual worlds – a new paradigm
    Today’s teenage gamers are tomorrow’s executives and entrepreneurs of the digital world. Games are widely regarded as a metaphor for how human-content interaction and exploration will reflect on the 'real' world of business and education. A look at how lessons learned in games help understand tomorrow’s online world and ongoing changes in user behaviour and expectations, also in relation to changes in demography, education and computer literacy.
  3. Filling the pipes – the brave new visual world
     Sophisticated techniques stemming from the film industry, such as 3D imaging and computer animation, are progressively finding their way into everyday interactions with digital content. How can technology best support digital creativity, what are the main barriers and research challenges in the coming years?

  Speaker lineup

Márta Nagy-Rothengass PhotoMs Márta Nagy-Rothengass, Head of Unit, INFSO.E2: Technologies for Information Management, opened and chaired the session.

 

Photo Amanda WestMs Amanda West, Chief Innovation Officer, Thomson Reuters, UK Thomson Reuters Logo
Amanda is responsible for spearheading innovation across Thomson Reuters, working with each of the businesses to create the tools and environment required to foster innovation and identify new growth opportunities. Amanda leads a small core innovation team charged with developing the Thomson Reuters innovation portfolio. The company is building on its proven track record of delivering strong organic growth by driving business practices into the organisation which put the customer on centre stage. The ‘Front End Customer Strategy’ business practice and its associated processes and toolkit are the bedrock of innovation as a signature process at Thomson Reuters and focus on developing a global internal and external network of experts and champions to drive innovation and growth across the company. Amanda and the innovation team work with the heads of strategy at Thomson Reuters to identify a cross-business and market-changing projects which are then considered for funding by the Thomson Reuters Growth Fund. The fund enables individual businesses to take greater risks in the development of new ideas with a longer-term investment profile, or to progress new ideas that sit across the current organisational structure. The Growth Fund manages these investments with clearly identified milestones at each stagegate and reports to the Executive Committee chaired by company CEO Tom Glocer. Regular Innovation Summits are held to both inform and challenge the current Thomson Reuters businesses to look externally to adjacent and emerging businesses for inspiration and the identification of new opportunities. Prior to her current role, Amanda held a number of different marketing roles at Reuters Group, now part of Thomson Reuters. Most recently Amanda was Director, Marketing Communications and has worked in various Product Management roles. Amanda holds a degree in Geography from Leeds and is married with two children.

Photo Frank van Hamerlen Mr Frank van Harmelen, Prof., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prof. Frank van Harmelen is a full professor in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. His current main research area is the Semantic Web. He was scientific director of the first EU sponsored Semantic Web project (OntoKnowledge, way back in 1999), and was one of the designers of OWL, the W3C standard Web Ontology Language, and is scientific director of LarKC, the Large Knowledge Collider, an effort to build an infrastructure for infinitely scaleable reasoning with web-scale datasets. He has published over 100 papers, many of them in leading journals and conferences. One of his five books is the first text book on Semantic Web technology, now deployed in university courses across the world, with translations in Japanese, Chinese and Korean. His interests focus on the development of methods that combine the formal strength of logic while still being able to cope with approximation, incompleteness and good-enough computation. Besides his scientific interest, he is scientific advisor of Aduna, one of the earliest companies in the Semantic Web arena, and developers of the Sesame RDF storage and retrieval engine.

Photo Wilfried Runde Mr Wilfried Runde, Manager Innovation Projects, Deutsche Welle, Germany
Wilfried Runde worked as an Information specialist, researcher, freelance TV-Journalist and Online-Editor for German broadcaster WDR and ARD studios in Brussels, New York and Washington. After joining Deutsche Welle in 2001 he led a number of R&D and media projects as project manager and editor including the development of a 3D virtual community and one of Germany’s first Mobile Video trials. As off January 2006 he co-ordinates the 'Innovation Projects' team within the re-shaped Directorate 'Strategy, Marketing & Distribution'.






This page is maintained by: INFSO.E2 Webmaster