Programme

Monday, 24 March

13.00 - 14.00, Registration and Welcome Coffee

13.00 - 16.00, Opening session

Chair: Robin Mansell (LSE, Chair Scientific Committee) 

14.00 - 14.10, Welcome by Robin Mansell (LSE) 

14.10 - 15.00, Key note 

Prof. Dr. Jean-Claude Burgelman (Head of Unit, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission) 

15.00 - 15.50, Key note 

Kostas Rossoglou (Senior Legal Officer, BEUC)

16.00 - 16.30, Coffee break

16.30 - 18.00, Session 1 – User Empowerment: Really?

Chair: Karim Antonio Lesina (AT&T)

Ilse Mariën and Jernej A. Prodnik (iMinds-SMIT-VUB & Faculty of Social Sciences - University of Ljubljana)

Structural causes of digital exclusion and user (dis)empowerment: A critical perspective.

Discussant: Martin Ulbricht (European Commission)

Esteve Sanz (Yale Law School)

The User-Center Discourse in the EU Information Society Policies

Discussant: Peggy Valcke (iMinds-ICRI, KU Leuven & EUI)

19.30 - 22.00, Conference dinner at Restaurant L’Ultime hallucination

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