Technologies for Information Management

Technologies for Information Management

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ICT 2008 Conference – ICT Work Programme 2009-2010
Intelligent Information Management
Workprogramme session 12c: 27 November 2008, 11:00-12:30 – Grand Salon Prestige

Overall objective

The Seventh Framework Programme (2007-2013) was launched at the IST Event 2006. The workprogramme is divided into seven 'Challenges', and the Work Programme 2007-2008 marked the start of FP7. The final version of the Work Programme for ICT research in FP7 for 2009 and 2010 is now available for downloading:

A public consultation on future research directions and priorities beyond 2008 was launched in the beginning of 2008. Submissions contributed to shaping the new Work Programme, which will drive ICT calls and operations in 2009-2010, with a total budget in excess of 2 billion euro.

The purpose of this session was to present the research lines envisaged within the Intelligent Information Management objective of the ICT Workprogramme in detail. The session provided the delegates with a better understanding of both rationale and aims of the objective.


Topics to be addressed


The session gave information on the strategic background, the target outcomes and expected impact. It included a part with Question and Answers. The invited speakers gave their view on the challenges in:

  1. Intelligent management of large data sets
  2. Intelligent real time data management

Speaker lineup


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

Stefano Bertolo photoMr Stefano Bertolo, Scientific Project Officer, INFSO.E2: Technologies for Information Management.  

Photo Mike DavisMr Mike Davis, Senior Analyst, OVUM, UK
Mike is a Senior Analyst with Ovum covering the breadth of Information Management technologies. As a consultant, researcher and accomplished speaker, Mike's analysis and strategic advice is highly respected in both blue chip businesses and large public sector organisations across Europe. Before Ovum, Mike worked at Butler Group for five years leading the Knowledge Management and Public Sector practices, developing particular expertise in the areas of Enterprise Portals, Business Intelligence, Compliance, and Records Management.

Mike's career prior to becoming an analyst was principally in the NHS, but he also spent periods as an IT consultant and as the IT Manager for an International Chartered Institute. During his seventeen years in the NHS, Mike was both an operational manager for community health care services, and latterly an Information Services Director, acting as a key advisor on regional and national initiatives.

Mike a is frequent speaker at conferences and Master Classes across Europe and in Asia Pacific, and provides comments for both mainstream media such as the Financial Times and CNBC, and the specialist computing press. Mike gained an MBA in 1998; he describes himself as a strategist with a passion for management, and flair for information.

Photo Dunja MladenicMs Dunja Mladenic, Researcher, Jozef Stefan Institute Ljubljana, Slovénie

Dunja Mladenic is an expert on study and development of Machine Learning, Data Mining and Text Mining techniques and their application on real-world problems from different areas such as, publishing, medicine, pharmacology, manufacturing, economy. She works as a researcher at the Department of Knowledge Technologies of the J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia since 1992. She graduate in Computer Science at University of Ljubljana, got her MSc and PhD in Computer Science at University of Ljubljana in 1995 and 1998 respectively. She was visiting School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, as a visiting researcher in 1996-1997 and in 2000-2001.

Dunja Mladenic was coordinating EU FP5 RTD project Sol-Eu-Net and contributing to several EU FP5 projects including KDNet, KMForum. She is on the Management Board of several European FP6 projects including SEKT, NeOn, PASCAL, IMAGINATION, SMART, SWING, TAO, KD-ubiq, CEC-WYS. She is the Slovenian representative in EC Enwise STRATA ETAN Expert Group. She serves as project evaluator for EC IST programme. In 2001, she was evaluator for National Science Foundation (NSF) initiative on Information Technology Research (ITR), NSF 00-126, USA.

She has published several papers in refereed conferences and journals, served in the program committee of international conferences and organized several international events. She is co-editor of the book “Data Mining and Decision Support: Integration and Collaboration” Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003 and the book “Web Mining: from Web to Semantic Web”, Lecture notes in AI, Berlin; Heidelberg; New York:Springer, 2004.






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