Informatics Europe logo Informatics Europe logo

Conference Schedule

Oct. 28           Oct. 29           Oct. 30 

The slides of talks given during the conference are available for download
on the program below 

  Monday, 28 October 2019

08:30-09:00 Registration

09:00-09:15 Conference Opening

09:15-11:00 Leaders Workshop - Session 1 'Leadership Models - On Being a Leader' [Slides]   ¦ in parallel ¦  WIRE Workshop - Session 1 'The Computer Science Career Journey'

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Leaders Workshop and WIRE Workshop - Joint Session 2 'Unconscious Bias - Promoting Diversity' [Slides] 

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:45 Leaders Workshop - Session 3 'Getting Practical - You as a Leader' [Slides]  ¦ in parallel ¦   WIRE Workshop - Session 3 'Best Practices, Industry, EU Policy'

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break 

16:15-17:15 Keynote Opening  Session on Social Responsibility of Informatics 
Session Chairs: Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano and Paola Mello, University of Bologna
  • 16:30-17:15 Virginia Dignum - Umeå University 
    •             "Responsible Artificial Intelligence"  [Slides]  

17:30-19:30 ECSS 2019 Welcome Reception at Hotel NH Collection Roma Centro Bar

   Tuesday, 29 October 2019

Room: Trinita' Dei Monti

08:30-09:00 Registration

09:00-11.45 Keynotes on Social Responsibility of Informatics

Session Chair: Markus Püschel, ETH Zurich

                       "Speaking Law to Computer Scientists and Other Folks"  [Slides]  

Session Chair: Hélène Kirchner, Inria

                      "Ethical/Social Responsibility Issues in Social Robots"  [Slides]  

10:30-11:00  Coffee Break

Session Chair: Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London
                      "Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT: Challenges and Opportunities" [Slides]  

11:45-12:45 Panel on Social Responsibility of Informatics

Panel Chair: Guglielmo Tamburrini - University of Naples
Panellists:    Philip Larrey - Pontifical Lateran University
                       Peggy Valcke - KU Leuven
                       Hannes Werthner - TU Vienna
                       with the participation of the other keynote speakers

12:45-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Informatics Europe - ERCIM Awards Ceremony (Public Session)
Session Chair: Enrico Nardelli, Informatics Europe

Best Practices in Education Award (sponsored by Microsoft)

Minerva Informatics Equality Award (sponsored by Google)
  • 13:50-14:10 Winner Announcement by Dana Petcu, West University of Timișoara (Award Panel Chair). Short talk by Winner   [Slides]

ERCIM Cor Baayen Award (sponsored by ERCIM)

Session Chair: Cristina Pereira, Informatics Europe
  • 14:30-14:40 Informatics Europe Higher Education Data Portal - Svetlana Tikhonenko [Slides]
  • 14:40-14:50 Informatics for All - Michael Caspersen  [Slides]  
  • 14:50-15:00 Report  Ethical/Social Impact of Informatics as a Study Subject - Paola Mello  [Slides]  
  • 15:00-15:10 Report The Wide Role of Informatics at Universities - Susan Eisenbach  [Slides]  
  • 15:10-15:20 Women in Informatics Research and Education - Erika Ábrahám  [Slides]  
  • 15:20-15:30 Q&A

15:30-16:00 Creative Coffee Break  [Slides]  

Session Chair: Gregor Engels, Informatics Europe
 
Session Chairs: Enrico Nardelli, Cristina Pereira, Informatics Europe

19:30-22:30 Conference Dinner at 'Les Étoiles' Restaurant (Via dei Bastioni, 1, 00193 Rome)
                    

   Wednesday, 30 October 2019

Workshop "Bridging the Digital Talent Gap - Towards Successful Industry-University Partnerships”

Plenary Sessions Room: Trinita' Dei Monti

Download the document with more details about the workshop content and the parallel sessions.


08:30-09:00 Registration and Coffee

09:00-09:15 Welcome and Opening

  • Enrico Nardelli, Informatics Europe
  • Fabrizia Benini, European Commission

09:15-10:10 Plenary Session "Setting the Scene"

  • 09:15-09:50 Discussion Panel "The Digital Talent Gap in Europe"

Moderator: Fabrizia Benini, European Commission

Panellists:

  • 09:50-10:10  Short Guidance for Breakout Sessions
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Cyber Security
    • Software Engineering

10:10-10:40 Networking Coffee

10:40-12:45 Parallel Breakout Sessions 

Introduction and situation analysis | Brainstorming and identification of solutions in subgroups

  • Artificial Intelligence (including Data Science) - Daniele Nardi, "Sapienza" University of Rome (Rapporteur)/Tanya Suarez, BluSpecs (Facilitator)
  • Cyber Security (including Cyber Physical Systems and Privacy) - Javier Lopez, University of Malaga (Rapporteur)/Alexander Riedl, European Commission (Facilitator)
  • Software Engineering (including Human Centred Engineering) - Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn (Rapporteur)/Alessandro Bogliolo, University of Urbino (Facilitator)

12:45-14:15  Networking Lunch

14:15-15:40 Parallel Breakout Sessions

Presentation of solutions from subgroups | Merging solutions from subgroups | Synthesis and identification of actions to be presented in the Plenary Session

  • Artificial Intelligence (including Data Science) - Daniele Nardi, "Sapienza" University of Rome (Rapporteur)/Tanya Suarez, BluSpecs (Facilitator)
  • Cyber Security (including Cyber Physical Systems and Privacy) - Javier Lopez, University of Malaga (Rapporteur)/Alexander Riedl, European Commission (Facilitator)
  • Software Engineering (including Human Centred Engineering) - Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn (Rapporteur)/Alessandro Bogliolo, University of Urbino (Facilitator)
15:50-16:20 Plenary Session "Keynote"

       "Ethics and Privacy in the Digital Societies: An Exoskeleton to Empower the User"

 16:20-16:55 Plenary Session "The Way Forward"

  • Presentation Key Actions from the Parallel Breakout Sessions - Rapporteurs and Facilitators
  • Closing remarks for Workshop and ECSS - Enrico Nardelli, Informatics Europe

16:55-17:30  Networking Drink