Program
Message of ITS2011 Budapest:
Business success with a wide range of synergic ICT applications
The International Telecommunications Society (ITS) organized its 22nd European regional annual conference (ITS2011), between 19 and 22 of September in Budapest, at the Danube riverside, in the Rozmaring Event House. The ITS2011 Conference is co-hosted by the Hungarian Scientific Association for Infocommunications (HTE), with a scientific support of the Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics of Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME-TMIT). The motto of ITS 2011 was “Innovative ICT Applications - Emerging Regulatory, Economic and Policy Issues”. From 35 countries 200 participants attended the conference, a quarter of them arrived from out of Europe.
The Conference was opened by the president of the ITS, Erik Bohlin, professor of Chalmers University of Technology, and the local host Gyula Sallai, professor of the BME, both of them emphasised the business significance of the integration of the area embraced by the ITS and the wide range of the synergic networked applications. On the plenary sessions 4 keynote presentations was delivered. Gábor Mátrai, Vice-President of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH) presented the European tendencies on the ICT market and the recent regulatory tasks. Christopher Mattheisen, Magyar Telekom’s Chairman and CEO highlighted that the applications running in different-sized screens and the cloud based services behind them are now decisive in shaping customer experience. Mark Jamison, professor the University of Florida compared telecommunications regulation in US and EU. Joao Schwarz da Silva, a former director of the European Commission, the initiator of the EU programs on Future Internet talked on the future opportunities of mobile Internet.
The scientific program of the Conference contained 125 papers arranged in 32 sessions in 9 turns, and 2 panel sessions on Green ICT and broadband policy. Sessions were organized on interdependence of the regulation, competition and investment, actual broadband issues, spectrum policy, customer behaviour, the technological choices and convergence, fixed-mobile substitutions, cloud computing, Internet issues, net neutrality, corporate strategies, country case studies, etc. The papers were provided to the attendants on a pen-drive in a pen. The annual ITS board meeting, the 2nd ITS PhD Seminar including the discussion of 12 PhD works, and the final workshop of the COST IS605 Econ@Tel project on the telecommunications economics, as well as two social events, the welcome reception in the conference venue and the gala dinner on the board of the Danube boat “Europa” are connected to the ITS 2011 Conference.
On the behalf of the local hosts, the HTE and BME-TMIT, I would like to express our grateful thanks to all persons having actively participated in the organization, in particularly the ITS Executive Committee members, the ITS2011 Program Committee members and the Local Organizing Committee members. We are grateful to the Magyar Telekom, the platinum patron of the ITS2011, the NMHH, the National Civil Fund, the Communications Conciliation Council and the University of Strathclyde for their effective support in the organization. We are equally grateful to all keynote speakers, session chairs, panellists and the authors and presenters of the scientific papers for their relevant contribution to the success of the conference.
Dear Colleagues, thanks for your participation, we hope you enjoyed the ITS2011 and your stay in Budapest, and collected friends, knowledge and experiences! See you soon in Budapest again!
Budapest, 30 September 2011
Gyula Sallai DSc, Local Chair ITS2011
Professor BME-TMIT and Honorary President HTE
Pictures taken during ITS2011
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(updated 30. Sept)
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Sunday, 18 September, 2011
18.30 - 21.00 Welcome Reception, Rozmaring Event House
Monday, 19 September, 2011
| 9.00 - 9.30 |
Opening Session (Room: Kultúrház) |
| 9:30-10:30 |
Plenary Session I / Session Chair: Gyula Sallai |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 |
Plenary Session II / Session Chair: Brigitte Preissl |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch |
14.00 - 15.30 Parallel Sessions I
|
Room: Borozò |
Room: Csónakhàz |
Room: Kultúrház |
Room: Emeleti Különterem |
15.50 - 17.20 Parallel Sessions II
|
Room: Emeleti Különterem |
Room: Borozò |
Room: Csónakhàz |
Room: Kultúrház |
17.40 - 18.40 Parallel Sessions III
|
Room: Emeleti Különterem |
Room: Borozò |
Room: Csónakhàz |
Tuesday, 20 September, 2011
9.00 - 10.30 Parallel Sessions IV
|
Room: Borozò |
Room: Csónakhàz |
Room: Kultúrház |
Room: Emeleti Különterem |
11.00 - 12.30 Parallel Sessions V
|
Room: Emeleti Különterem |
Room: Borozò |
Room: Csónakhàz |
Room: Kultúrház |
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Parallel Sessions VI
|
Room: Emeleti Különterem |
Room: Kultúrház |
Room: Borozò |
Room: Csónakhàz |
16.00 - 17.30 Parallel Sessions VII
|
Room: Borozò |
Room: Emeleti Különterem |
Room: Kultúrház |
Room: Csónakhàz |
19.30 - 22.00 Gala dinner
The dinner will be held on the Europa Conference Boat.
Meeting point: dock of Szilágyi Dezső square (in Budapest near Batthyány square) at 7.00 p.m. Boarding at 7.15 p.m. The boat will leave at 7.30 p.m and will return to the dock about at 10.00 p.m.
Please note that the student fee does not include the gala dinner.
Wednesday, 21 September, 2011
9.00 - 10.30 Parallel Sessions VIII
|
Room: Kultúrház |
Room: Csónakhàz |
Room: Borozò |
Room: Emeleti Különterem |
11.00 - 12.30 Parallel Sessions IX
|
Room: Emeleti Különterem |
Room: Borozò |
Room: Csónakhàz |
| 12.30 - 13.00 |
Closing Session (Room: Kultúrház) |
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
Room "Kultúrház"
14.00 - 18.00 COST MCM meeting
Room "Emeleti Különterem"
14.00 - 18.30 ITS PhD workshop
Thursday, 22 September, 2011
Room "Kultúrház"
9.00 - 13.00 COST WS Econ@Tel
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 18.00 COST WS Econ@Tel
Room "Emeleti Különterem"
9.00 - 12.30 ITS PhD workshop
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
14.00 - 17.00 ITS PhD workshop
