10: Converging technologies
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Alpbacher Hauptschule
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in englischer Sprache ICT (information and communications technology) is responsible for half of the productivity growth in modern economics, Vivian Reding, EU Commissioner for the Information Society. Is Austria taking advantage of the chances of this growth as an ICT business location or is Austria being overrun by this development?
The information society was envisaged a decade ago but it has not actually appeared. If one looks at technological development today, the use of new technologies and the development of convergence in industries, a fundamental development is suddenly taking place, whose impact on society, industries and location development cannot yet be fully recognized. What is certain is that in our direct environment nothing will remain as it is now or as it was five years ago.
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PhD Richard HARPER
Senior Scientist, Interactive Systems Group, Microsoft Research Lab, Cambridge
| Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. He has spent twenty years developing tools and techniques for understanding user behaviour in workplaces, mobile settings and the home. | |
| Prior to joining MSR Richard was director of various technology innovation companies, including The Appliance Studio and Social Shaping Research. In 2000 he was appointed the UK s first Professor or Socio-Digital Systems, at the University of Surrey, England. He completed his Phd at Manchester in 1989, prior to joining Xerox EuroPARC in 1992. | |
| Amongst his professional activities, Richard is Editor-in-Chief of the Springer-Kluwer series on CSCW, member of the Colleges of Reviewers for the EPSRC and the ESRC, as well as on the editorial board of numerous journals, including Personal Technologies and the Journal of CSCW. |
Dr. Hannes LEO
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, cbased, Vienna
| 1992 | Ph.D., Business Economics and Economics of Trade, WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Vienna |
| 1990-2007 | Researcher, Deputy Director, Austrian Institute of Economic Research, WIFO, Vienna |
| 2008 | Director, IZA - Institute for the Study of Labour, Bonn |
| 2008-2012 | Director, leoon Consulting, Vienna / Brussels |
| since 2010 | Chief Executive Officer, cbased GmbH, Vienna |
M.Sc. Marion MESNAGE
Researcher, Accenture Technology Labs, Sophia Antipolis
| Has been a researcher at Accenture Technology Labs (The technological R&D organization of Accenture) for 5 years. She is graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in France. Marion conducts applied research projects exploring applications of emerging ICT and their implications on Accenture s Clients. These projects include the development of IT prototypes illustrating concretely these applications. | |
| Relevant projects: | |
| Intelligent Home Services: | |
| Research Initiative aiming at understanding how Information Technologies can help elderly stay at home | |
| Study on the general context: problematic and existing products and technology services | |
| Development of a Intelligent Home Services vision, including 8 prototypes under 3 main applications areas: sensing, connecting, supporting. | |
| Activity Monitoring: | |
| With cheap sensors such as cameras distributed around the house, and relatively basic intelligence, it is possible to continuously trace the occupants, to understand their actions and derive important information about their health and well-being. This project explores the potential of using camera-based tracking technologies with an older person at home to improve their quality of life and help their family and caregivers provide better care and services. | |
| Connective Tables: | |
| Because the elderly gradually lose their ability to visit remote places and people, aging populations in western countries will certainly create a strong demand for technologies allowing them to stay in touch with society from their homes in a natural and immersive way. The Connective Tables project is one example of such technologies. It consists of a table augmented with sensory and display capabilities that allows the elderly to participate in social activities as if their remote interlocutors were sitting around the table next to them. |
Mag. Hans METZGER
Leiter Asset Management, Prokurist Styria Medien AG, Graz
| 1976-1981 | Studium der Betriebswirtschaft, Graz |
| 1981 | Vertriebsleiter, Anzeigenleiter, Marketingleiter, Verlagsleiter bei der Tageszeitung "Kleine Zeitung" |
| 1995 | Geschäftsführer der Styria-Druckereien |
| 1998 | Geschäftsführer der Styria-Buchhandlungen, Fusion mit Morawa |
| 2001 | Beteiligungsmanagement Styria |
| 2004 | Geschäftsführer der Tageszeitung "Die Presse", Wien |
| seit 2005 | Asset Management Styria, Prokura, verschiedene Geschäftsführungen und Aufsichtsratspositionen in Konzern- |
| und verbundenen Betrieben |
MMag. Manfred ZENTNER
Fachbereichsleiter "Forschung und Wissenstransfer" sowie "internationale Kooperationen", Institut für Jugendkulturforschung und Kulturvermittlung, Wien
| 1984-1989 | Studium der Mathematik an der naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien, Österreich |
| Lehramtsstudium in PPP und Mathematik an der philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Wien, Österreich | |
| 1996-1997 | Unterrichtspraktikant für Mathematik und Psychologie, Allgemeinbildende Höhere Schule Wien XV |
| 1997-2000 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Österreichisches Institut für Jugendforschung |
| 2000 | Koordination wissenschaftlicher Forschungsprojekte im Österreichischen Institut für Jugendforschung |
| freier wissenschaftlicher Projekt-Mitarbeiter, Österreichische Jugend-Wertestudie | |
| seit 1999 | Leiter qualitative Marktforschung, tfactory Trendagentur GesmbH, Markt- und Meinungsforschung |
| seit 2001 | Leitung Seminare / Forschungskooperationen, Jugendkultur.at Institut für Jugendkulturforschung und |
| Kulturvermittlung | |
| seit 2004 | "National Correspondent" und damit offizieller Vertreter Österreichs beim "European Youth Research Network" |
Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Helmut LEOPOLD
Head of Center for Digital Safety & Security, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna
| 1989 | Abschluss des Studiums der Informatik als Dipl.-Ing. an der Technischen Universität Wien |
| 1989-1994 | Alcatel Austria ELIN Forschungszentrum; Forschungsingenieur auf dem Gebiet der Breitband- und Multimediakommunikation |
| 1994-1998 | Alcatel Austria AG; Leiter der Gruppe Breitbandtechnologie und Strategie |
| 1999-2008 | In verschiedenen Managementpositionen bei Telekom Austria; In dieser Zeit verantwortete er die Realisierung eines umfassenden Product Life Cycle Prozesses, in dem heute das Gesamtportfolio der Festnetzprodukte der Telekom Austria gesteuert wird. |
| seit 2009 | Head of Safety & Security Department, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Wien |
