Call for working sessions
The Future Internet Assembly (FIA) Steering Committee launches an open call for the 12 FIA working sessions around the ‘technology makers’, ‘innovation leaders’ and ‘entrepreneurship pathways’ strands, seeking proposals that will promote topics with high relevance to supporting EU’s industrial competitiveness and enabling a new wave of technologies. In particular, the FIA Steering Committee is keen to receive proposals from industry experts, academia and research institutes that:
– Contain new and forward-looking
– Feature a diverse array of presenters and
– Deliver best practices & creative approaches towards research and
technological
– Stimulate and provoke discussion
The deadline for submission of working session proposals is Friday, 20th January 2013. The successful proposers will be notified by 1st February 2013. The advanced conference programme will be published by end of February.
Please submit your proposal via https://osqa.eurescom.eu
Working session proposal guidance
A working session is a facilitated meeting offering interactive exchanges with the audience. A working session could lend itself to an interactive workshop, a debate, an expert panel discussion etc. Ideally it is supported by materials and interactive tools which participants can access as and when needed. It is not an opportunity for only a PowerPoint presentation, nor for delivering a sale pitch or for any commercial gain.
The working session proposal will be submitted online via a dedicated tool, allowing for interactive features such as comments and voting. You have to login to https://osqa.eurescom.eu system and use the “ask a question” feature to insert your proposal in the free text field.
The structure of the proposal will be in line with the form that can be downloaded from
here.
The Steering Committee reserves itself the right to reject selected proposals in case of doubts about the quality of the session at the final agenda stage. Pre-conference information and regular updates are available at www.fi-dublin.eu and http://www.future-internet.eu
Kind regards,
Anastasius Gavras,
Eurescom GmbH
on behalft of the FIA Steering Committee
The original source for this post was an E-mail sent by Anastasius Gavras on 17.12.2012
