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	Converging technologies

17 October 2005, Flemish Parliament, Brussels

Can Policy Keep Pace with Progress? The Case of Converging Technologies

Program

13:00-14:00	Arrival of the participants

14:00-14:30	Welcome
Welcome speech by NORBERT DE BATSELIER, Speaker of the Flemish Parliament. Opening speech by ROBERT VOORHAMME, Member of Parliament and President of the Board of viWTA.
14:30-15:00	Keynote speech
Introduction to Converging Technologies by ALFRED NORDMANN (Technische Universität Darmstadt, High Level Expertise Group "Foresighting the New Technology Wave" of the European Commission).

15:00-15:15	Coffee Break

15:15-16:45	Technology Assessment in Europe on Converging Technologies
The Intelligent Environment: Convergent Technologies and a New Business Model by MARC VAN ROSSUM (IMEC and Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) Implications of Converging Technologies for Military Applications by JÜRGEN ALTMANN (Universität Dortmund and Ruhr-Universität, Germany) Convergent Technologies for Active Ageing by JEAN-CLAUDE BURGELMAN (IPTS-EU, Europe) The Debate on Nanotechnologies in the Netherlands by RINIE VAN EST (Rathenau instituut, The Netherlands) Converging Technologies: Promises and Pitfalls (A German Perspective) by CHRISTOPHER COENEN (TAB, Germany)
16:45-17:00	Coffee Break

17:00-17:30	Intermezzo
Fragments from Project Humankind, science theatre by PANDEMONIA (The Netherlands)

17:30-18:15	Debate chaired by JAN LEYERS
Debate on Human Values and the Next Technology Wave with
JEAN-JACQUES CASSIMAN (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium), FRANÇOISE FRANÇOISE ROURE (Conseil Général des Technologies de l'Information, France) JOACHIM SCHUMMER (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
18:15-18:30	Closing Statement
By ROBBY BERLOZNIK (viWTA, Belgium)

SUBSCRIPTION FOR THIS CONFERENCE IS FREE.

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