Panlab workshop in Rovaniemi, Finland, on 21-22 March 2007

On 21-22 March 2007, Panlab held a workshop on "Creating the Pan-European Laboratory - Opportunities and Requirements" in Rovaniemi, Finland.

The purpose of the workshop is to present the Panlab approach and implementation directions to selected stakeholders and to discuss the requirements of customers and lab providers for the emerging Pan-European Laboratory. In addition, preliminary results of the Expert Group on the Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) initiative were presented.

Venue:

Arktikum
Pohjoisranta 4
96200 Rovaniemi, Finland
(Wednesday, 21 March)

Hotel Rantasipi Pohjanhovi
Pohjanpuistikko 2
96200 Rovaniemi, Finland
(Thursday, 22 March)

Agenda

 Wednesday, 21 March

09:00 – 09:10
Opening and welcome
Juha Seppälä, Rovaniemi Regional Development Agency Ltd.

09:10 – 09:30
Overview on the workshop objectives and introduction to Panlab
Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom – Panlab coordinator

09:30 – 09:50
Testing at the Elisa research labs
Asko Nuutinen, Elisa 

09:50 – 10:20
Keynote: EC activities in the area of experimental facilities
Max Lemke, European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, Unit F4

10:30 – 10:50
eMobility – Get set for innovation
Juha Saarnio, Nokia

10:50 – 11:10
Testbed activities of the European Technology Platform ISI
Harri Saarnisaari, Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland 

11.10 – 11:30
Introduction to the national testbeds in Finland
Kimmo Ojuva, DIMES

11:30 – 12:00
OCTOPUS network
Eero Laine, director of OCTOPUS

12:00 – 12:15
North RuLL
Timo Pärkkä, Oulu University

12.15 – 12:30
Living Labs
Veli-Pekka Niitamo, CKIR 

14:00 – 16:30
Research café session – interactive discussion on ways towards the
realisation of the Pan-European Laboratory
Introduction
Notes by Anastasius Gavras   Notes by Halid Hrasnica
Notes by Juha Saarnio   Notes by Susanna Avéssta
Notes by Yuri Gittik

16:30 – 17:00
Summary of discussion results

17:15 – 19:15
Excursion to the Cold Test Chamber with snow mobiles

Thursday, 22 March

09:00 – 09:30
Keynote: The OneLab project
Serge Fdida, OneLab

09:30 – 09:50
The Vodafone Test & Innovation Center
Frank Peter, Vodafone

09:50 – 10:10
Testing at the Orange’s Media and Network cluster
Dominique Guillois, CTO Orange Media and Network cluster

10:10 – 10:30
Testing at Polish Telecom’s IT Research Division
Marcin Pilarski, Polish Telecom

10: 40 – 11:00
SINTESIO test lab – Slovenia
Roman Kuznar, Director SINTESIO

11:00 – 12:00
Plenary discussion on the way ahead towards the Pan-European laboratory

12:00 – 12:15
Conclusions and next steps