"CONNECT Advisory Forum for ICT Research and Innovation" (CAF)

Directorate General for Communications, Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) has decided to establish a group of experts to get advice about the orientations to be adopted in the design of research and innovation activities and initiatives dealing with Research and Innovation in ICT (communication networks, computing systems, digital content and related technologies).

To view the full announcement, see http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/docs/caf-mandate-rm.pdf

List of members of the CAF for 2013-2014 (2 year mandate)

  • Mr. Giorgio Anania (IT) Chairman of the Board at Cubo Optics
  • Mr. Jose Luis Angoso-Gonzalez (ES) Director for Innovation at INDRA
  • Mr. Klaus Beetz (DE) Vice-President for Innovation and Cooperation from Siemens AG
  • Mr. Jean Luc Beylat (FR) Chief Executive Officer of Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs
  • Ms. Stefana Broadbent (UK) Dept. of Anthropology at University College London
  • Mr. Martin Curley (IE) Vice President of Intel Labs
  • Mr. Nicolas Demassieux (FR) Vice President of France Telecom – Orange Labs
  • Mr. Wim de Waele (BE) Chief Executive Officer at iMinds (formerly Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology)
  • Mr. Matthew Finnie (UK) Chief Technology Officer of Interoute Communications
  • Mr. Erik Fledderus (NL) Managing Director of TNO Information Systems
  • Mr. Jozsef Gyorkos (SI) Professor at University of Maribor
  • Mr. Chris Hankin (UK) Director of the Institute for Security Science and Technology at the Imperial College London
  • Mr. Rob Hartman (NL) Research Director at ASML
  • Ms. Natali Helberger (DE/NL) Professor at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam
  • Ms. Sabine Herlitschka (AT/DE) Chief Technology Officer of Infineon Technologies Austria
  • Mr. Sverker Holmgren (SE) Professor at the Uppsala University and Director of the Nordic e-Science Globalisation Initiative
  • Mr. Matthias Jarke (DE) Chairman of Fraunhofer ICT Group and Executive Director of - Fraunhofer FIT Institute for Applied Information Technology
  • Mr. Tatu Koljonen (FI) Vice President of VTT Research Centre
  • Ms. Maarja Kruusmaa (EE) Head of Research at the Center of Biorobotics of the Tallinn University
  • Mr. Harald Lemke (DE) Senior Vice-President Deutsche Post DHL
  • Ms. Lidia Lukasiak (PL) Professor at Warsaw University of Technology
  • Mr. Ole Lehrmann (DK) Director of the Alexandra Institute at the Aahrus University
  • Ms. Diana Mangalagiu (RO/FR) Associate Professor at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at the University of Oxford and Professor at Sciences-Po
  • Mr. Geoff Pegman (UK) Managing Director of RURobots Ltd
  • Ms. Tanja Storsul (NO) Head of the Media Innovations group at the University of Oslo
  • Mr. Eors Szathmary (HU) Director at the Biological Institute of the Eotvos University
  • Mr. Jiri Zlatuska (CZ) Head of the Center for Education, Research, and Innovations at the Masaryk University