Seminar at the Finnish Embassy in Stockholm, Gärdesgatan 11, March 19th 2015 Assessing past achievements and future potential in ICT ‐ A joint future for Finland and Sweden? 09.00 Registration and coffee 09.30 Welcome, agenda and aims
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Learning from past developments
10.45 Moderator Christopher Palmberg: Chief Advisor Tekes The rise and future potential of Finnish and Swedish ICT in global competition  Petri Rouvinen: Research Institute of the Finnish Economy ETLA  Annika Rickne: Royal Institute of Technology Panel discussion – Finnish and Swedish strengths, weaknesses and complementarities?  Pontus Ekerljung: Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, Timo Ali‐Vehmas: Nokia, Anders Caspár: Ericsson, Lisa Renander: GoEnterprise,  Petri Rouvinen and Annika Rickne Refreshments The role of ICT programs and future collaboration opportunities 09.45 11.00 11.30 12.30 Jarmo Viinanen: Finnish ambassador to Sweden Charlotte Brogren: Director General VINNOVA Ilona Lundström: Director Tekes Moderator Göran Marklund: Deputy Director General VINNOVA Key findings from a joint evaluation of VINNOVA and Tekes ICT programs including Q&A  Ramböll Management Consultant Finland and Sweden Towards a joint vision for smarter traffic and seamless service solutions?  Raine Hermans: Tekes New Tekes and VINNOVA ICT programs, ongoing and new collaborations  Marko Heikkinen: Tekes  Cecilia Sjöberg: VINNOVA Panel discussion – relevance of Finnish/Tekes and Swedish/VINNOVA collaboration in ICT and the role of policy to facilitate this?  Charlotte Brogren: VINNOVA, Ilona Lundström: Tekes, industry representatives from Finland and Sweden Lunch and discussions