Staffan Ingvarsson at the podium.

Staffan Ingvarsson, Vice-CEO, City of Stockholm, Sweden.

Charlotte Brogren, Director General, VINNOVA – Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation System up on the podium at the welcoming addresses.

Jan speaking at the keynote opening session.

Jan Gulliksen, Chairman of the Swedish Digital Commission and Digital Champion of Sweden; Professor in Human Computer Interaction, Royal Institute of Technology – KTH, Sweden.

Ann-Mari Fineman addressing the conference in the keynote opening session.

Ann-Mari Fineman, Head of Department, IT Applications & Services, Vinnova – Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, Sweden

J. Thomas Rosch in the keynote opening session – Smart and innovative visions for the future

Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch, Federal Trade Commission – FTC, USA

Elisa Liberatori Prati, Chief Archivist Manager, World Bank Group

Elisa Liberatori Prati, Chief Archivist Manager, World Bank Group: “We need to invest in INFO management”. Mrs. Prati made reference to an disastrous scenario in case of not allocating such investments. “We need meta-data, available to provide public services. Otherwise collected paper data, just in state of Pennsylvania, might be seven times higher than mount Everest.”

Karl de Vriendt Advisor to the Director-General, DG INFORMATICS, European Commission

At the cloud computing in public services and the vision for the coming year in EU session Tuesday morning, Karl De Vriendt of DG Informatics, opined on the future of cloud computing.  “We are looking for possibilities having clouds for institutions and administrations for the moment”, said Mr. de Vriendt. He also pointed on the huge markets possibilities for cloud computing in EU, but fewer standards on data privacy.

Jackie Morin the Head of Unit in charge of Coordination of Social Security Schemes and Free Movement of Workers,DG EMPLOYMENT, SOCIAL AFFAIRS & INCLUSION, EUROPEAN COMMISSION explained about Electronic Exchange of Social Security Information (EESSI) connecting national electronic environments of the Member States.