Each session will last 75 minutes. Each keynote speaker (1 per session) will have 20 minutes for his/her talk, while the panelists (4 per session) will each have 10 minutes. A 10-minute discussion will follow and at the end the chairman of the session will draw the conclusions (5 minutes).

11.30 Registration of the participants

12:00 Welcome lunch buffet

13:00 - 14:00 Opening

Introduction:

• Prof. Corrado Priami, President and CEO, Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, Italy
  
• Prof. Davide Bassi, Rector, University of Trento, Italy
  
  
• Dr. Lorenzo Dellai, President, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Italy
  
  
• Ing. Ciro Esposito, Head of Department Reforms and Innovation in the Public Administration, Italy, on behalf of the Minister Prof. Luigi Nicolais
  The development of the actions on the scientific research fields
  

Prize-giving ceremony of the art competition Converging Sciences and Arts

14:30 Session 1 Building blocks and their connections for the sciences of the future

Chair:

• Luca De Biase, Director, Nova 24 Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy
  

Keynote:

•   Dr. Michael Foster, Division Director, Computing and Communication Foundations, National Science Foundation, USA
  Computational Discovery
  

Panel:

•   Prof. Claudio Bordignon, member of the ERC Scientific Council, Italy and Scientific Director, Istituto Scientifico H S. Raffaele, Italy
  The Role of the Scientific Research in the Progress of European Society: Challenges for the European Research Council
  
• 
  Prof. David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  Towards an Odor Communication and Synthesis System
  
•   Dr. Patrick van Hove, Head of Sector Proactive Initiatives, Future and Emerging Technologies, European Commission
  Reinventing ICT by bringing converging sciences into information technology
  
• Dr. Raffaele Menolascino, Managing Director, Motorola Software Group, Italy
  Advanced user interfaces and autonomics concepts applied to future wireless systems
  
  

15:45: Session 2 Creating a new community at large: industrial and academic research, policy makers, funding agencies

Chair:

•   Prof. Stephen Emmott, Director External Research Office, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

Keynote:

•   Mr. Heikki Salmi, Advisor to the Director-General Enterprise and Industry, European Commission
  EU strategies on industries
  

Panel:

•   Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia, Director, Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Trento
  Companies, Universities, users and funding agencies: How can we talk?
  
• 
  Dr. Andrew Herbert, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
  Converging Sciences and Microsoft
  
•   Dr. Carlo Mango, Senior programme officer, Fondazione Cariplo, Italy
  The support to the scientific research and the valorization of the research results: the experience of Cariplo Foundation
  
  
•   Dr. Manuel Peitsch, Global Head of Informatics and Knowledge Management, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Switzerland
  Systems Biology in Pharmaceutical Research: integrating Mathematical and Experimental Approaches to Study Cell Signalling
  
•   Dr. Giampietro Tecchiolli, Chief Technical Officer, Eurotech, Italy
  Pervasive Computing and Human factors
  

 

17:10 – 17:40 coffee break

17:40 Session 3 The -omics era and new computer science today and tomorrow

Chair:

• Dr. Kevin Davies, Editor-in-Chief, Bio-IT World, USA
  

Keynote:

•   Dr. Steven Wiley, Director Biomolecular Systems Initiative, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
  Handling Complex Datasets to Enable Systems Biology
  

Panel:

•   Dr. Luca Cardelli, Assistant Director, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
  Artificial Biochemistry
  
  
•   Prof. Daniel Figeys, University of Ottawa, Canada
  Proteomics and Systems Biology
  
  
•   Prof. Anthony Filkelstein, Professor, University College London, UK
  Model Management & Orchestration: software engineering challenges of systems biology
  

 

09:00 Session 4 New methods in health and drug discovery: the influence of computer science

Chair:

• Dr. Giorgio Rivieccio, Director, Newton, Italy
  

Keynote:

•  Dr. Colin Hill, President, Chairman, & Co-Founder, Gnsbiotech Gene Network Sciences, USA
  Addressing two mission-critical problems in drug development with data driven computation

Panel:

•   Prof. Jacques Demongeot, Director of the Laboratory Techniques of Imaging, Modelling & Cognition, TIMC-IMAG, France and Head of the Institute of Bio-engineering, University Joseph Fourier, France
  A complexity view on the RNA world
  
•   Dr. Darren Green, Director of Cheminformatics Sciences and Analysis, GSK, UK
  Maximising the utility of predictive science by embracing modern computer science
  
  
•   Dr. Luciano Milanesi, Coordinator of the National Research Council Bioinformatics project, Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Italy
  New challenges of using the high performance computing and GRID technology for Bioinformatics applications in life science
  
•   Dr. Eric Werner, Cellnomica and University of Oxford
  Net Based Pharmacodynamics May Change the Pharmaceutical Industry
  

10:15 – 10:45 coffee break

10:45 Session 5 Conclusions and suggestions for the next years: obstacles, challenges and potentials

Chair:

• Alison Abbott, Senior European Correspondent, Nature, Germany
  
  

Speakers:

•   rof. Innocenzo Cipolletta, President, University of Trento, Italy and President of Italian Railway System, Italy and President, Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy
  
  
•   Prof. Stephen Emmott, Director External Research Office, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
  
•   Ing. Umberto Paolucci, Senior Chairman Microsoft Europe Middle East Africa, Vice President Microsoft Corporation
  
  
•   Prof. Corrado Priami, President and CEO, Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, Italy
  
  
•   Dr. Gianluca Salvatori, Local authority for Planning, Research and Innovation, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Italy
  
  
•   Dr. Philippe Sanseau, Director Bioinformatics Discovery and Analysis, GlaxoSmithKline, UK
  

12:00 Press Conference

Accredited journalists:

• Alison Abbott, Alison Abbott, Senior European Correspondent, Nature, Germany
• Kevin Davies, Editor-in-Chief, Bio-IT World, USA
• Luca De Biase, Director, Nova 24 Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy
• Eliot Marshall, Science, UK
• Roberto Reale, TG3 Scenari, Italy
• Giorgio Rivieccio, Director, Newton, Italy

13:00 Lunch

18:00 Opening of the art exhibition Converging Sciences & Diverging Arts at the Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre in Povo (Trento)