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JÉRÉMIE
ALBERT
LaBRI, University of Bordeaux, France
Jérémie Albert has obtained a Research
Master in Networks and Systems, and is now an
engineer in the team of Professor Chaumette. He
is working on context and interaction primitives
for middlewares dedicated to mobile networks.
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JAVIER BAJO
Departamento Informatica y Automatica - University
of Salamanca, Spain
At present he is Assistant Professor at the Pontifical
University of Salamanca (Spain) and member of
the BISITE research group at the University of
Salamanca. He obtained an Information Technology
degree at the University of Valladolid (Spain)
in 2001 and an Engineering in Computer Sciences
degree at the Pontifical University of Salamanca
in 2003. He has been member of the organising
and scientific committee of several international
symposiums such as CAEPIA, IDEAL, IWPAAMS, INADIS,
HAIS, etc. and co-author of papers published in
recognized journal, workshops and symposiums.
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ROBBERT-JAN BEUN
Researcher, Information Science group - Utrecht
University
Robbert-Jan Beun studied Electrical Engineering
at Eindhoven and worked for many years at the
Institute for Perception Research and Tilburg
University, where he combined teaching and research
in the field of AI and pragmatics.
Since 2000 he has been a researcher in the Information
Science group of Utrecht University. He is mainly
interested in dialogue modelling, dialogue systems,
speech act theory and non-verbal communicative
behaviour.
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FRANCOIS BREMOND
INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Francois Bremond is a researcher in the ORION
team at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. He obtained
his Master degree in 1992 at ENS Lyon. He has
conducted research works in video understanding
since 1993 both at Sophia-Antipolis and at USC
(University of Southern California), LA. In
1997 he obtained his PhD degree at INRIA in
video understanding and pursued his research
work as a post doctorate at USC on the interpretation
of videos taken from UAV (Unmanned Airborne
Vehicle) in DARPA project VSAM (Visual Surveillance
and Activity Monitoring). He also has participated
to three European projects (PASSWORD, ADVISOR,
AVITRACK), one DARPA project, five industrial
research contracts and several international
cooperations (USA, Taiwan, UK, Belgium) in video
understanding.
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CHARLES BROOKSON
Assistant Director, Dept Trade and Industry
- CEng FIEE FRSA
Charles Brookson works in the Department of
Trade and Industry and is a Professional Electronic
Engineer. He previously was Head of Security
for one2one (now T-Mobile UK), and worked within
British Telecom for twenty years before. He
has worked in many security areas over the last
30 years.
He has been Chairman on the GSM Association
Security Group. He has been working the GSM
and 3GPP security standards, first chairing
the Algorithm Expert Group way back in 1986.
He is Chairman of the NISSG, a group that was
set up to co-ordinate security standards amongst
the three European Security Standards Organisations
and other bodies outside Europe. He is also
Chairman of ETSI OCG Security, which is responsible
for security within ETSI He is also on the Permanent
Stakeholders group of ENISA, The European Network
and Information Security Agency.
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JACQUES BUS
Head of Unit, D4 - ICT for Trust and Security
DG Information Society - European Commission
Jacques Bus, born in the Netherlands in 1947,
studied Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam
and obtained his PhD with a thesis in Numerical
Mathematics. He worked as a researcher at CWI
(Amsterdam) for 15 years. In 1988 he joined the
European Commission services in the Unit for Computer
Integrated Manufacturing in the Esprit programme.
Since then he has been responsible for programme
wide operational and organisational affairs in
the Esprit and IST programme and for Informatics
support in DG Information Society. From June 2000
till March 2004 he was Head of the Unit Software
Technologies and Distributed Systems in the IST
programme, which included the coordination of
activities on Open Source Software within the
IST programme. Since early 2003 he has been active
in the preparation of a European Security Research
Programme addressing development of multidisciplinary,
integrated solutions for the security of citizens.
From March 2004 he has taken responsibilities
for the unit ICT for Trust and Security in the
IST Programme, which includes Research and technology
Development for Network and Information System
Security, Trustworthy Computing and DRM, Biometrics,
Identity management and Critical Information Infrastructure
Protection.
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Pr.
SERGE CHAUMETTE
Professor - University Bordeaux 1
Leader of the Distributed Systems and Objects
team - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
(LaBRI)
Serge Chaumette is a professor at LaBRI, Laboratoire
Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, UMR CNRS
5800. University Bordeaux 1, France. He is the
leader of the Distributed Objects and Systems
team. The goal of his team is to provide models,
tools, frameworks and middleware that make it
easy to use and develop applications for the equipments
that are connected to the network in a wired or
wireless manner. He began his research activities
in the domain of tools for parallel and distributed
applications. Within this framework he has been
using the Java technology since its early beginning.
He then applied this knowledge to design tools
to help in the process of evaluating Java Cards
and Java Card applications within government funded
industrial projects. Java Cards are now one of
the key components of the distributed software
platforms developed in his research team. He is
also working on sensor and sensor networks within
the framework of a project funded by an ANR (National
Research Agency) project called Asynchronous Services
for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. This work is also
supported by a grant from the DGA, a branch of
the French Army. He is a member of the IEEE, of
the IEEE group on Portable Information Devices
(PID) and the IFIP WG 8.8 Smart Cards. He is a
registered UE expert for FP7 and non FP programs
and an ANR expert (see : http://www.labri.fr/~chaumett/).
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JUAN M. CORCHADO
Departamento Informatica y Automatica - University
of Salamanca, Spain
Received a PhD. in Computer Science from the
University of Salamanca in 1998 and a PhD. in
Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the University
of Paisley, Glasgow (UK) in 2000. At present
he is Associate Professor, Director of the Intelligent
Information System Group (http://bisite.usal.es)
and Director of the MSc programs in Computer
Science at the University of Salamanca (Spain),
previously he was sub-director of the Computer
Science School at the University of Vigo (Spain,
1999-00) and Researcher at the University of
Paisley (UK, 1995-98). He has been a research
collaborator with the Plymouth Marine Laboratory
(UK) since 1993. He has leaded several Artificial
Intelligence research projects sponsored by
Spanish and European public and private institutions
and has supervised seven PhD. students. He is
the co-author of over 130 books, book chapters,
journal papers, technical reports, etc. published
by organisations such as Elsevier, IEEE, IEE,
ACM, AAAI, Springer Verlag, Morgan Kaufmann,
etc., most of these present practical and theoretical
achievements of hybrid AI and distributed systems.
He has been President of the organising and
scientific committee of several international
symposiums.
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ETIENNE CORVEE
INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Etienne Corvee is an engineer in the ORION team
at INRIA Sophia Antipolis. He obtained his Master
degree in 2000 at King's College London. He
has explored the field of Imaging and Computer
Vision and has worked in digital images of the
retina in collaboration with St Thomas Hospital
in London. In 2005, he obtained his PhD degree
at Kingston University of London. His works
were focused in pixel and object-based motion
analysis of digital image sequences with a particular
focus in visual surveillance applications. He
was then employed as full-time research assistant
in 2002 for the european project PRISMATICA
which aimed at designing a multi sensor surveillance
system for public transport networks. He now
works at INRIA since 2006 as an engineer for
a similar european project called CARETAKER
with an accentued aim to build high semantic
video content knowledge.
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PAUL EL KHOURY
Research Associate SAP Lab France, Security &
Trust Research Program
Paul El Khoury is enrolled in a PhD fellowship
with SAP jointly with the University Claude Bernard
of Lyon on the Integration of security mechanisms
in heterogeneous environments. He holds a research
Master degree from the University of Claude Bernard
Lyon 1 in knowledge and reasoning (2005-2006).
During his master degree he contributed to the
ServiceMosaic project where he mainly focused
on verification of access control policies.
Since November 2006, he is a Research Associate
at SAP Labs France Security and Trust Research
Program. Paul recently joined the SERENITY EU
project.
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JOHAN FABRY
INRIA Futurs -LIFL, ADAM Team France
Johan Fabry is a postdoctoral researcher in the
INRIA Futurs research center at the Université
des Sciences et Technologies de Lille and will
begin working as assistant professor at the University
of Chile in October 2007. He holds a PhD in Computer
Science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His
main research interest is the use of Aspect- oriented
Software Development in building distributed systems,
and how different aspects applicable in these
systems can be combined within one application.
Secondly, he investigates alternative approaches
to modularisation, specifically in the Ambient
Intelligence domain, using code transformation
and generation techniques.
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WILLEM JONKER
Vice President - Philips Research
Willem Jonker (1962) studied mathematics and computer
science at Groningen University. He then joined
Delft University of Technology for his PhD research
on knowledge-based systems. After receiving his
PhD from the university of Utrecht he joined KPN
Research to work on knowledge based systems, database
systems, and distributed systems. In 1992 he joined
the European Computer industry Research Center
in Munich (ECRC, a joint research laboratory of
Bull, ICL and Siemens) to work on intelligent
and federated database systems. Late 1994 he returned
to KPN Research to become the head of the database
group and to work on applications of database
technology in telecommunication systems and services.
In 1999 he founded the new research department
of KPN Research at the campus of Twente University.
Till September 2001, he headed the department,
focusing on IT infrastructures supporting multi-media
content management services. In September 2001
he joined Philips Research. He started in the
PACMan (Processing and Architectures for Content
Management) group at Philips Research to work
on secure content management in networked environments
and to coordinate the cluster activities in this
field. In April 2004 he became the department
head of the Information & System Security
group. In October 2005 he became the sector head
of the Digital Lifestyle Technology sector. Finally,
he is a part-time full professor of computer science
at Twente University. Among his research interest
are database systems, multi-media databases, distributed
applications, content management, DRM, and security.
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KARIM KHALIL
Dept. of Computer Sciences INSA of Lyon France
Karim Khalil, born in Bamako the 1st April of
1984, received Diploma of “Baccalaureat
S” at Bamako, Mali in 2002. After integrating
INSA Lyon, a French engineering school, did
2 years in a international section. From 2004
integrated the department of Computer Science.
Would get engineering diploma on September 2007.
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WAEL LABIDI
Ph.D. Candidate - EDITE Paris
Embedded Mobile Systems Research Engineer - Cyberfab
After studying computer science, at the Faculty
of Science of Sfax, Wael LABIDI got a master's
degree in the field of Embedded and Mobile Systems
from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
(CNAM) of Paris in 2006. Since 2007 he is a PhD
candidate and a CEDRIC Research Lab member. His
research interests are situated in the field of
ambient systems, wireless networking and ubiquitous
computing. He currently works on proposing a middleware
for integrated ambient systems in collaboration
with Cyberfab a systems integration company focusing
on mobile applications for industry and healthcare.
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PIERRE MARET
Associate Professor, LIRIS - INSA Lyon, France
Pierre Maret received his PhD degree in Computer
Science in 1995. Now he is a teacher and researcher
at INSA Lyon. He supervises research project in
the field of ambient intelligence, virtual communities,
knowledge sharing, multi-agent approach. He works
on international joint collaborations with the
Universität Karlsruhe and University of Tokyo.
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HIROSHI MIZUNO
Dept. of Human and Engineered Environmental
Studies - University of Tokyo
Hiroshi Mizuno, born in Nagoya (Japan) on April
1983. Received a Bachelor of Engineering in
the Systems Innovation field, from the School
of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Japan
on March 2006.
Integrated on April 2006 the Graduate School
of Frontier Science, the University of Tokyo,
Japan for a Master Course. Would get the Master
Degree on March 2008.
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JAVIER MUÑOZ
Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Javier Muñoz is a PhD student in the
Department of Information Systems and Computation
at the Technical University of Valencia, Spain.
His research involves, model driven development,
software factories, OSGi, Ambient Intelligence
and automatic code generation. He is a member
of the OO-Method Research group, and he has
published several contributions to well-known
international conferences and well-known scientific
journals (MOMPES, CAiSE, ICWE, IDEAS, JISBD,
ERCIM, etc.).
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CARLOS NOGUERA
INRIA Futurs -LIFL, ADAM Team France
Carlos Noguera is a PhD student at the ADAM
Team of INRIA-Futurs research center at the
Université des Sciences et Technologies
de Lille, France. His research interest is Program
Analysis and Generation in Java applied to Ambient
Intelligence. He is also active in in Aspect-Oriented
Programming, Attribute-Oriented Programming
and Program Validation. He is an active developer
of the Spoon open-source project.
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JOSE LUIS PATINO
INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Jose Luis Patino obtained a PhD on Signal and
Image processing in 2000 from the University
of Strasbourg (France) where he developed a
knowledge-based system for SPECT image interpretation.
He worked three years at the East Anglia University
in Great Britain to develop image segmentation
algorithms with unsupervised clustering techniques.
He then moved to Freiburg University (Germany)
where he worked in 1D signal interpretation.
From 2006 he works in the ORION team at INRIA
Sophia Antipolis research institute (France)
on video interpretation and knowledge discovery.
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Pierre PARADINAS
Director of Technological Development Department
- INRIA
Pierre Paradinas has been appointed Director
of INRIA Technological Development Department.
After graduating from the Université
des sciences et Technologie de Lille where he
obtained a post-masters qualification and a
PhD in computer science, he went on to acquire
vast experience in the field of embedded systems,
chiefly through his research and his activities
at Gemplus where he was Director of Partnerships
(2001-2003) and Director of Research Laboratory
(1996-2003). Since September 2003, he is professor
at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métier,
holder of the Chair of Embedded Systems and
member of the RNTL steering committee.
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VICENTE PELECHANO
Associate Professor, Department of Information
Systems and Computation - Technical University
of Valencia, Spain
Vicente Pelechano is associate Professor in
the Department of Information Systems and Computation
at the Technical University of Valencia, Spain.
He received his Ph.D. degree
from the Valencia University of Technology in
2001. His research interests are web engineering,
conceptual modelling, requirements engineering,
software patterns, web services, pervasive systems
and model driven development. He is currently
teaching software engineering, design and implementation
of web services, component-based software development
and design patterns in the Valencia University
of Technology. He is a member of the OO-Method
Research Group at the DISC. He has published
in several well-known scientific journals (Information
Systems, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Information
and Software Technology, etc.), and international
conferences (ER, CAiSE, WWW, ICWE, DEXA, etc.).
He is member of Scientific Committees of well-known
International Conferences and Workshops as CAiSE,
ICWE, ICEIS, ACM MT and IADIS.
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ANDY PURDY
Former Acting Director, Department of Homeland
Security - National Cyber-Security Division
Earlier this year Andy Purdy formed DRA Enterprises,
Inc., specializing in information assurance, cyber
security, software assurance, business ,development,
and government relations. Andy conducts independent
consulting work focusing on business strategy,
business development, and technology
ventures. In addition, Andy currently serves as
a Special Government Employee on the Defense Science
Board Task Force on Software Assurance. Andy is
a member of the Executive Advisory Board of BigFix,
Inc.
Andy served as the nation's "cyber security
czar" for the two years in his role as Acting
Director of the National Cyber Security Division/US-CERT
of the Department of Homeland Security. Andy served
for three and a half years at DHS beginning with
his role in the set up and launch of the NCSD
beginning
in April 2003 after he moved to DHS from the White
House staff. After leaving DHS is October of 2006,
Andy served as a Visiting Scientist at the Software
Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon, working
on the Resiliency Engineering Framework with the
Financial Services Technology Consortium.
Prior to beginning his work in support of DHS,
Andy served as a member of the White House staff
as Deputy to Howard Schmidt, the Vice Chair of
the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection
Board (PCIPB), where he helped to draft the National
Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. Previously, at
the
United States Sentencing Commission Andy served
as Acting General Counsel from November 1999 to
January 2001 and was Chief Deputy General Counsel
from 1989 until that time.
Andy served as a Federal prosecutor in Philadelphia,
Special Counsel to the House Ethics Committee,
Counsel to the Senate Impeachment Trial Committee,
and Assistant Attorney General in Missouri. He
also worked as Senior Staff Counsel to the House
Select Committee on Assassinations' investigation
of the assassination of President Kennedy. Andy
served for five years in network news in Washington
at NBC and CBS News.
Andy is a graduate of the College of William and
Mary and the University of Virginia Law School,
and is a member of the bar in the District of
Columbia, Maryland, Missouri, and Pennsylvania.
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MICHEL RIGUIDEL
Director, Department of Computer Science and
Networks - ENST
Michel Riguidel is the Head of the
Department of Computer Science and Networks,
at ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications) in Paris,
where he lectures in security and advanced networks.
In the IST Integrated Project of FP6, he is
Key Researcher of the Secoqc Integrated Project
( Development of a Global Network for Secure
Communication based on Quantum Cryptography)
. He also contributes to Deserec, Challengers,
he is in the Advisory Board of the Coordinated
Action SecurIST.
In the FET of the FP6, he was the Security &
Dependability Task Group Leader of the Beyond
the Horizon Project.
In Italy, he is scientific member of the international
Think tank on telecommunications ThinkTel.
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KEN SASAKI
Dept. of Human and Engineered Environmental
Studies - University of Tokyo
Ken Sasaki received B.S. degree, M.S. degree,
and PhD in precision engineering from University
of Tokyo, Japan in 1980, 1982, and 1987 respectively.
He worked for NEC Corporation from 1982 to 1985.
He became a research associate at University
of Tokyo in 1985. He was a visiting researcher
at Stanford University in 1996. He is currently
a professor at Graduate School of Frontier Sciences,
University of Tokyo. His major field of study
is mechatronics and signal processing.
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ESTEFANÍA SERRAL
Department of Information Systems and Computation
- Technical University of Valencia
Estefanía Serral is a PhD student in
the Department of Information Systems and Computation
at the Technical University of Valencia, Spain.
Her research involves conceptual modelling,
model driven development, software factories,
OSGi, Ambient Intelligence and automatic code
generation. She is a member of the OO-Method
Research group, and he has published several
contributions to well-known international conferences
and well-known scientific journals (MOMPES,
CICU, IDEAS, JISBD, ERCIM, etc.).
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MICHAEL SETTON
Director - Cyberfab
Michael Setton graduated from INSA Lyon and
obtained a PhD in Electrical Engineering and
Materials Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
He has 10 years of experience within the semiconductor
industry. Prior to starting Cyberfab in October
2000, he worked for 8 years at Lam Research,
a semiconductor manufacturing equipment vendor,
where he was technology manager for their largest
European account. He has managed a team of 10
engineers from 1995 to 1997 and also set-up
and started operations of Charles Evans analytical
services for southern Europe.
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DR. NORBERT STREITZ
Research manager, "AMBIENTE - Smart Environments
of the Future"- Fraunhofer IPSI
Norbert Streitz (Ph. D. in physics and Ph.D.
in psychology) is a Senior Scientist and Strategic
Advisor with more than 20 years of experience
in information and communication technology.
In 1997, he initiated and then managed the research
division "AMBIENTE - Smart Environments
of the Future" at Fraunhofer IPSI in Darmstadt,
Germany, where he also teaches at the Department
of Computer Science of the Technical University.
Before joining IPSI in 1987, he was an assistant
professor at the Technical University (RWTH)
Aachen. He was a post-doc fellow at the University
of California, Berkeley, a visiting scholar
at Xerox PARC and at the Intelligent Systems
Lab of ETL-MITI, Tsukuba Science City, Japan.
He was the Chair of the Steering Group of the
EU-funded initiative "The Disappearing
Computer" and is now the co-chair of the
ERCIM Working Group "Smart Environments
and Systems for Ambient Intelligence (SESAMI)"
as well as the Leader of the Working Group "Ambient
Computing and Communication Environments"
of the EU-funded Coordinated Action InterLink
exploring future trends in ICT. His research
interests include Ambient/Pervasive/Ubiquitous
Computing, Interaction and Experience Design,
Human-Computer Interaction, Hypertext/Hypermedia,
CSCW, and Cognitive Science. He has published/edited
17 books and (co)authored more than 110 technical
papers. His co-edited book on "The Disappearing
Computer" was published in May this year
as a "state-of-the-art survey" by
Springer. He serves regularly on the relevant
program committees and on editorial boards (e.g.,
currently Associate Editor of ACM TOCHI). He
is often invited to present keynote speeches
and tutorials to scientific as well as commercial
events in Europe, USA, South America, Malaysia,
Singapore, and Japan.
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JEAN-FERDINAND SUSINI
Associate Professor - Conservatoire National
des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) of Paris
After studying physics, at the University of
Nice Sophia Antipolis where he obtained a master's
degree in solid state physics, J.-F. Susini
started studies in the field of networks and
distributed systems and got a PhD in computer
science from the École des Mines de Paris
in 2001 developing the synchronous/reactive
programming approach. He worked then as Research
Engineer for about 3 years before beginning
an academic career. Since 2004 he is Associate
Professor at the CNAM in 2004 in the Chair of
Embedded Systems directed by Pierre Paradinas.
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DANTE
TAPIA
Departamento Informatica y Automatica - University
of Salamanca, Spain
At present he is a PhD. student at the University
of Salamanca (Spain) under the supervision of
Dr. Juan M. Corchado. He obtained an Engineering
in Computer Sciences degree in 2001 and a MSc
in Telematics at the University of Colima (Mexico)
in 2004. He has been involved in the development
of automated systems in the Faculty of Telematics
at the University of Colima and deeply collaborating
with the Government of the State, where obtained
a scholarship to complete his academic formation.
He has also been co-author of papers published
in recognized workshops and symposiums.
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MONIQUE
THONNAT
INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Monique Thonnat is a senior research scientist
at INRIA (Director of Research 1rst class). She
is the head of Orion a research group on cognitive
vision at INRIA in Sophia Antipolis, France. She
received in 1982 a PhD degree in Optics and Signal
Processing from University of Marseille. In 1983
she joined INRIA in Sophia Antipolis. In 1991
she became Director of Research and in 1995 she
created Orion, a multi-disciplinary research team
at the frontier of computer vision, knowledge-based
systems, and software engineering. Monique Thonnat
is author or co-author of more than 100 scientific
papers published in international journals or
conferences; she has supervised 17 PhD theses.
Her more recent research activities involve the
conception of new techniques for the reuse of
programs and on image understanding techniques
for the interpretation of video sequences.
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PEDRO
VALDERAS
Assistant Professor, Department of Information
Systems and Computation - Technical University
of Valencia
Pedro Valderas is an assistant Professor in the
Department of Information Systems and Computation
at the Technical University of Valencia, Spain.
He is currently teaching software engineering
and architectures of data base systems. His research
involves web engineering, requirements engineering,
conceptual modelling, model driven development
and automatic code generation. He is a member
of the OO-Method Research group, and he has published
several contributions to well-known international
conferences (ER, WWW, ICWE, EC-Web, CAiSE etc.)
and scientific journals (International Journal
on Web Engineering and Technology). His Ph.D.
introduces both a method to capture Web application
requirements and a MDA-based strategy to automatically
obtain Web application conceptual models from
the requirements specification.
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JURRIAAN VAN DIGGELEN
Researcher, Security & Safety - Utrecht
University and TNO Defence
Jurriaan van Diggelen studied Cognitive Artificial
Intelligence. He received his PhD degree on
research on semantic interoperability in multi-agent
systems at the Intelligence Systems group at
Utrecht University. Since 2007 he works as a
Postdoc at Utrecht University and TNO Defence,
Security & Safety. His current research
concerns Ubiquitous computing, Context awareness
and Crisis management. His main interests are
agent communication, ontologies, ambient intelligence
and the semantic web.
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ROGIER
VAN EIJK
Researcher, Information Science group - Utrecht
University
Rogier van Eijk studied computer science. In 2000
he received his PhD on a dissertation on programming
languages for multi-agent systems. Since then
he has been a teacher and researcher in the Information
Science group of Utrecht University, where he
started combining research on multi-agent systems
and human-computer communication. His main interests
are in formal and computational models of communication,
dialogue systems, agent communication and embodied
conversational agents.
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PETER
WERKHOVEN
Research director, Security & Safety - TNO
Defence
Peter Werkhoven received his PhD degree in Physics
from Utrecht University in 1990 on research in
image processing and human perception. He held
various positions as a research Scientist, amongst
others at the Psychology Department of New York
University. Today he is the Research Director
of TNO Defence, Security & Safety and professor
at the Department of Information and Computing
Sciences at Utrecht University. His research fields
are simulation and multimodal interaction in virtual
environment. Peter is the cofounder of the Center
for Advanced Gaming and Simulation (AGS) in Utrecht,
The Netherlands.
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DAVID
WRIGHT
Consultant - Trilateral Research - Consulting
LLP
David Wright is Managing Partner of Trilateral
Research & Consulting LLP, based in London,
which specialises in ambient intelligence, risk
communication and security policy issues. He initiated
the consortia and wrote much of the proposals
for two successful projects under the EC's Sixth
Framework Programme, namely SWAMI (Safeguards
in a World of Ambient Intelligence) and STARC
(Stakeholders and Risk Communication). Prior to
those projects, he researched and wrote reports
on organisational scenarios and the civil protection
sector under the EC's GMES programme and on public-private
partnerships and dual-use technologies under the
Galileo satnav programme.
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