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BUILDING EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIP NETWORKS

Baltic IT&T 2008 Forum: eBaltics

The 12th International Conference "Information Technologies and Telecommunications in the Baltic Sea and CEE Region":

Innovative e-services for SMEs:
Innovations in e-business, European Aspects and Policy, Best Practise and Experience

Qualitative Education for All in the 21st Century

CIO/ICT Industry Session

Workshop on Security:
Internet and Information Systems

Seminar:
E-health Ready Hospital

Telecentre Leaders Forum - Europe

InnoSME Workshop

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About Forum:
The International Forum "Baltic IT&T" has long traditions. It is one of the largest and most significant IT&T events in the Baltic Sea Region, bringing together senior government representatives, experts from European Commission and international organisations, as well as top level executives from the world’s leading IT&T companies and other business sectors.
The motto of the forum is “Building Effective Partnership Networks”. The major objective is to establish and promote effective partnerships among the public and the private sectors, associations and other IT&T industry related organisations in the Baltic Sea region.
Among speakers at Baltic IT&T forum have participated many political and industry leaders, for example, H. E. Dr. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, the President of Latvia, Mr. Aigars Kalvītis, Prime Minister of Latvia, Mr. Frans de Bruïne, Director, Information Society Directorate-General, European Commission, Mr. Pekka Lindroos, the Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy of OECD, Mr. Bror Salmelin, Head of Unit New Working Environments, Information Society Directorate-General, European Commission, Mr. Erik Hallberg, Senior Vice President, Head of Market Area Baltic Countries, TeliaSonera, Mr. Luis Rodriguez-Roselló, Director, Information Society Technologies Programme of European Commission, Mr. Andrew Lockhart, Vice President Northern Europe, Cisco Systems, Mr. Vicente Parajon Collada, Deputy Director General, Directorate for Information Society of European Commission, Mr. Glenn Edens, Vice President and Chief of Strategic Technology, Hewlett-Packard, Mr. Steven Frantzen, Managing Director/Group Vice President, IDC CEMA, Mr. Paul Timmers, Head of eInclusion Unit, Directorate-General for Information Society and Media, European Commission, Mr.Ronald De Bruin, Head of the Cooperation and Support Department, European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), Catherine Espaignet, Head of the economic sector "service for the development of e-government", Directorate general for the modernization of the state, Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry of French Republic, Neil Holloway, President of Microsoft EMEA, Dr. Jason Weisser, Vice President, CTO SOA Advanced technology of IBM Corporation and other senior ICT officials from the Baltic Sea Region and European countries. In the previous forum − Baltic IT&T 2007 − 645 delegates from 28 countries participated.

 
Forum events:

The 12th International Conference "Baltic IT&T 2008"
Annual conference "Information Technologies and Telecommunications in the Baltic Sea and CEE Region" is one of the most important ICT forums in the Baltic States. Major topics of the conference this year will be qualitative education for all in the 21st century, innovative e-services for SMEs and CIO / ICT industry.

Qualitative Education for All in the 21st Century: Fostering Competitiveness, Growth and Jobs
There is an important need to address ICT-related skills (E-skills) issues in order to respond to the growing demand for highly-skilled ICT practitioners and users, meet the fast-changing requirements of industry, and ensure that every citizen is digitally literate in a lifelong learning context requiring the mobilization of all stakeholders. Education is crucial to the social and economic wellbeing of people and the shifting demands of the global economy require that students everywhere be well-educated, creative, and flexible enough to take advantage of its countless opportunities. Responding to the need for changing knowledge and providing the widest access to educational opportunities have become priorities for governments with the commitment to provide quality education for all their citizens.
Session will explore the challenges and opportunities of delivering that quality of education and the role of ICT therein. The opening session will focus on long-term strategies and policy for E-skills in Europe and Baltic Sea Region countries. General and higher education as well as life long learning and employability issues will be covered during the further sessions. Target audience of the session is entire education ecosystem - education leaders, decision makers, strategy and policy makers; education institutions' directors, rectors and deans, teaching staff, administration; NGOs, IT industry representatives and others representing information society. Session is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Latvia, session partner is Microsoft Latvia.

Innovative E-services for SMEs
Session on April 10th will provide best practice of innovative E-services in public sector and acquired benefit from such solutions as well as there will be discussed dissemination of E-services, different access and reuse policies. Session on April 11th aims at presenting the state of the art in the field of E-business, the exploration of perspectives and challenges, as well as practical aspects such as security of different payment systems, legislation and standards. Session is supported by the Ministry of Economics of Latvia.

CIO / ICT Industry Session
Organised for the first time on the Baltic IT&T Forum it aims at presenting the growing ICT and CIO’s role in organisation, technology and market trends as well as innovative approaches and services in industry. The main target audience of this session are CIOs and IT managers who are decision makers for ICT technology and service implementation in public and private organisations, ICT experts, service users and evaluators of the ICT technology, service quality and development, ICT industry players.

Workshop on Security: Internet and Information Systems
Workshop will feature a professional discussion of information security, covering such issues as awareness raising, management of information security, legal aspects of this process, as well as specific information security incidents and how they have been resolved. Target audience of the workshop are IT and information security managers and practitioners, security specialists and auditors, as well as state administration representatives and SME executives. Workshop is supported by the Ministry of Transport of Latvia and European Network Information Security Agency (ENISA), co-organised by ISACA Latvia chapter.

Seminar: E-health ready hospital
Health service provider managers will find what are the preconditions of a successful preparation and realisation of E-health plans. Hospitals, government agencies, technology vendors and software developers will share their experience and show practical demos - solutions like Patient management systems (PMS, EPR), Enterprise resource management systems (ERP), Radiology and Visual diagnostics archiving (RIS, PACS). Solutions also will be practically demonstrated for individual participants in a separate demo hall. Seminar is organised by Microsoft Latvia.

Telecentre Leaders Forum - Europe
The Telecentre Leaders Forum - Europe (TLF-E) will bring together 50 telecentre practitioners, program leaders and development partners from NGOs across Europe. Through an interactive and participatory-driven programme, practitioners will take an active role in shaping the dialogue and sharing skills, comparing experiences and learning best practices. More specifically, participants will contribute to development of the Telecentre.Europe network, exchange ideas and insights on shared challenges faced by telecentre practitioners across Europe. Telecentre Leaders Forum - Europe is organised by telecentre.org.

InnoSME Workshop
The challenges of InnoSME project is to identify potentially innovative SMEs from the different ICT subsectors located in the New Member States, access their capabilities and improve their conditions in order to facilitate their participation in RTD projects of the FP7. The main aim of the workshop is to disseminate the InnoSME project services and potential impact. Workshop is organised by InnoSME project.

Countries represented at past conferences:
Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mali, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States.

Benefits of the Forum:
• Exchange of good practice and cooperation between stakeholders of E-services, security of Internet and information systems, E-skills, E-commerce, E-inclusion, E-health and other fields;
• Information on ICT market and future development trends;
• Co-operation in cross-border projects in the Baltic Sea Region and Central and Eastern European Countries;
• Development of expert and organisational networks for E-inclusion, E-commerce and information security promotion;
• Discussions, exchange of experience and an opportunity to develop new contacts;
• The right place for government and international organisations officials and policy makers, industry leaders, executives and ICT experts to meet;
• Ability to find new ideas, new clients and new co-operation partners.

Who should attend:
• Government officials and decision makers;
• Business executives and directors;
• ICT managers and specialists, CIOs;
• NRA's, network operators and service providers;
• ICT auditors and consultants;
• Marketing and new service managers;
• ICT companies, international trade organisations and associations;
• Small and medium enterprises (SMEs);
• Municipalities and regional development agencies;
• Hospital leaders and E-health specialists;
• Internet and information security experts, ICT lawyers;
• Information society leaders, telecentres management;
• Teaching staff and management of training institutions,
• Decision makers for education strategy and policy makers.

Forum main language:
English

Further information:
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