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e-skills Week 2012 Final Conference & Women, digital skills and building the workforce of tomorrow breakout session

Join the final celebrations of e-skills Week 2012!

Address: Tuborg Boulevard 12, Copenhagen, Denmark
Organiser: DIGITALEUROPE, EUN, Microsoft
Start: 30/03/12 09:00 AM End: 30/03/12 06:00 PM

The European Commission's DG Enterprise and Industry supports also in 2012 the organization of the European e-Skills Week between 26 and 30 March 2012 under the leadership of DIGITALEUROPE and European Schoolnet. e-Skills week 2012 is a grass roots campaign focused on showing people how to get jobs and e-skills for life in the Digital Age.

Industry partners - including leading ICT companies such as Nokia, Microsoft, Cisco, Intel and numerous SMEs across Europe - in partnership with education bodies, public authorities and NGOs will deliver a large and diverse programme of events and activities in more than 30 European countries.

Activities under e-skills Week 2012 are being organized between 1 December 2011 and 30 April 2012.

The final conference will be organized the 30 March 2012 in Copenhagen at Experimentum.

Programme

Moderator: Morten Løkkegaard

8.30 Press Conference: e-Skills Week Industry Declaration

9.00 Registration

9.30 e-Skills in a Digital Age - HRH Crown Princess Mary

9.40 Welcome
Director General and CEO Karsten Dybvad, Confederation of Danish Industry

9.50 Future Jobs and Skills in Europe
Minister Morten Østergaard, Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education, Denmark

10.00 e-Skills for growth, competitiveness and jobs

Antti Peltomäki, Deputy Director-General
European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry
Mareks Gruskevics,State Secretary, Ministry of Education and Science, Republic of Latvia
Christian Rupp, Federal Executive Secretary, e-Government Austria
Nils Fonstad, Associate Director INSEAD eLab

11.10 Coffee Break

11.15 Press Conference - e-Skills Week Industry Declaration

11.45 Breakout Sessions*

1. e-Skills: Building the workforce of tomorrow – also women

Moderator: Eva Fabry, Director, The European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT)

·e-Skills and job opportunities
André Richier, Principal Administrator, European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry

·How to get girls excited about technology
Linda Liukas, Founder, Rails & Girls

·Investing in the female talent – European Strategic long term thinking
Kirsti Kierulf, Nordic Director Innovation, Learning and Technology, Accenture A/S

·A Woman in a Man’s World
Malou Aamund, Director, Enterprise and Partner Group Microsoft Corporation, Denmark

·TechWomen concept inpires young women to make it all the way to the top!
Päivi Saminen Kultanen, Business Director T-Media, Finland

·Katarzyna Balucka, Policy Project Officer, European Commission, DG INFSO

·Gwendolyn Carpenter, Chief European Policy Analyst, the Danish Technology Institute

2.Digital Education of the Future

3.Succeeding in today’s digital world- A discussion and portrayal of the skills according to the youth

4.Why e-Skills enhances your Career Opportunities

5.Robots in Education

13.15 Lunch

·VIP Policy lunch with industry keynote address

·Lunch Buffet

·Treasure Hunt in the Experimentarium

·Robot Exhibitions

14.45 Prize Giving Ceremony - e-Skills Awards

15.30 Turning e-Skills into value
Roundtable of senior industry representatives and role models

How young people can succeed beyond the formal school system through industry recognised training and accreditation along with work experience.

·Vice-President Kim Østrup, IBM Denmark

·President Klaus Holse, Microsoft Western Europe

·Dr.Erkki Ormala, Vice-President, Business Environment, Corporate Relations & Responsibility at Nokia Corporation and President of DIGITALEUROPE

16.30 The Digital Future

·Director-General John Higgins, CBE, DIGITALEUROPE

·Executive Director Marc Durando, European Schoolnet

17.00 Light refreshments and networking

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The European Centre for Women and Technology and its Italian National Point of Contact functions as subcontractor to EUN as the co-ordinator of the e-skills Week 2012 activities in Italy and coordinator of the Cluster Region 4 - France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. ECWT N-PoCs join e-skills activities in several other EU Member States.

We hope to see you at the Final event of e-skills Week 2012!