Introduction by Heinz Fischer, President of the Austrian Parliament, and
Barbara Prammer, Minister for Consumer Protection and Women's Affairs |
Opening address by Martin Bangemann, member of the European Commission
responsible for industrial affairs and information and communications technologies |
Address by Umberto Scapagnini,
Chair, Committee on Research, Technological Development & Energy, European Parliament |
| 10.30 |
Formal Opening of Exhibition |
| parallel sessions |
Empowerment |
Living |
Working |
The Pleasure Business |
Investment Conference |
| 11.00-12.30 |
CyberLabs,
Future Tech
&
Revolutionary Scenarios |
Sporting Life |
Work Nouveau |
Capturing Imagination |
from 10.30
OPENING |
| 14.00-15.30 |
—The Employment Debate—
New Jobs for Old? |
Myth & Reality
How Entrepreneurs & Investors Meet |
| 16.30-18.00 |
from 15.00
Untethered Citizens |
Making the Internet
Pay its Way |
Toys & Games |
Can Europe match Silicon Valley? |
| 20.00 |
Reception in Vienna City Hall hosted by Mayor Häupl |
Tuesday 1/12
TV schedule |
The Attention Economy |
Living |
Working |
The Pleasure Business |
INVESTMENT
FORUM<��E>
(by invitation) |
| 09.00-10.30 |
Wireless Planet |
Well-Being |
—Freedom & Control—
Privacy, security & universal access
Organised by the IIC |
| 10.45-12.15 |
Information Ecology |
—NETD@YS EUROPE—
A Celebration |
The Extended Living-Room |
| 12.30-13.00 |
Networking Public Administrations: Stefano Micossi, Director-General, DG III |
| 14.30-15.30 |
—— 1998 European IT Prize Awards ——
Presented by Viktor Klima, Chancellor of Austria |
| 16.00-17.30 |
THE NETWORKED SOCIETY
Panel discussion chaired by Ilya Prigogine |
INVESTMENT
FORUM
(by invitation) |
| 17.30-18.30 |
Global Opportunities |
CEEC Connections |
| 19.00-21.00 |
Electronic Commerce Soirée: the EU and Central & Eastern Europe |
| Weds. 2/12 |
—Helping to Build the Information Society— |
| 09.00-09.30 |
Address by Caspar Einem, Austrian Minister for Science and Transport
and President of the European Union's Research Council |
| 09.30-10.30 |
Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme
Introduced by Robert Verrue, Director-General, DG XIII |
INVESTMENT
FORUM
(by invitation) |
11.00-18.00
——
Workshops focused on a selection of the topics covered by the IST Programme |
New Industrial Paradigms
Electronic Commerce: Technology & Architectures
Language of Business—Business of Language
New Technologies—New Learning
Accessing Culture: the New Digital Ecology
Internet in the Sky
Exploiting the Opportunities of Space
It's a Wired World
Environment Management in European Cities & Regions
Standardisation Maze
Gender & the Information Society: Shaping Cyberspace
Land of Middleware: Agents & Interfaces to Information Services
Networking Technologies: New World Order?
Designing Consumer Products in the Information Society
Socio-Economic Research in Information Science Technologies |
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Visit the Exhibition—open all three days! |
