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Draft Programme for EDA R&T Conference

Critical Defence Technologies – Exploring Innovation Together

5-6 December 2013 – Hellenic Armed Forces Officers Club, Athens-Greece

5th December 2013

08h00-09h00 Welcome coffee- Registration

09h00 Opening Ch. Breant EDA R&T Director

09h10 Welcome address D. Avramopoulos EL Minister of National Defence

09h30 Opening speech C.-F. Arnould EDA Chief Executive

09h50 Key note speech Ph. Brunet - tbc Director – DG ENTR

10h15-10h40 Coffee break

PLENARY SESSION: CRITICAL DEFENCE TECHNOLOGIES

10h40-11h00 Key note speech J.-O. Lind, R&T Director-Sweden EDA R&T Steering Board Chairman

11h00-12h30 Panel Moderator D. Chinn, EDA R&T Assistant Director

MoD Ch. Pezron, Defence R&T Director, France tbc

DG ENTR M. Bosco, Deputy Head of Unit Challenge Secure Societies

ESA tbc

ENIAC Dr. A. Wild, Ex. Director ENIAC JU

ASD P. Collins, DRT Chairman, ASD

LUNCH 12h30-13h30

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PARALLEL SUB-SESSIONS ON DISSEMINATION 13h30 – 16h00

SUB-SESSION I – JOINT INVESTMENT PROGRAMME “FORCE PROTECTION (FP)”

Moderator: Jonas Eric per Nygards, EDA Technical Project Officer

Project presentations from Call 3 (Data Analysis, Data Fusion) and

Call 4 (Mission Planning, Mission Training)

SUB-SESSION II - JOINT INVESTMENT PROGRAMME ICET

Moderator: Jari Hartikainen, EDA Technology Manager

Project presentations from Call 2 (Data Capture and Exploitation)

POSTER SESSION ON DISSEMINATION 16h00 – 18h00

Posters on JIP FP, JIP ICET and selected EDA Category B projects Coordinator: Jean Marchal, EDA Technology Manager

SOCIAL EVENT - DINNER 20:00 - 22:00

Social event will take place at the conference venue

6th December 2013

08h30-09h00 Registration and Coffee

PLENARY SESSION: DUAL-USE TECHNOLOGIES, HORIZON 2020, STRUCTURAL FUNDS

09h00-10h30 Panel Moderator Ch. Breant, EDA R&T Director

MoD Cpt. A. Karaoulanis, Defence R&T Director, Greece

DG ENTR S. Tokarski, Head of Unit, European Commission, Unit Defence, Aeronautic and Maritime Industries

SME Dr. H. Becker, Microfluid ChipShop, Germany - tbc

MoD T. Guastamacchia, Defence R&T Director, Italy

ASD J.-B. Paul, DRT Deputy Chairman, ASD

10h30-11h00 Coffee break

PARALLEL SUB-SESSIONS “EURIDEA” 11h00 – 13h30

3 parallel sub-sessions will focus on selected Critical Defence Technologies and offer the Security & Defence research community a platform to present their ideas and connect with others in search of collaborative project opportunities. You are invited to propose ideas in critical areas that impact the following three technology areas: Materials and Nano technologies – Energy - Unmanned systems and technologies, including sensor networks

CLOSING SESSION

13h30-14h00 Conclusions-Closing remarks Christian Bréant, EDA R&T Director