WELCOME

• Montserrat Torné  Director General for International Cooperation and Institutional Relations
• Robert-Jan Smits Director of Directorate B - European Research Area: research programmes and capacity

OPENING SESSION PARTICIPANTS

CHAIRS

• Catherine Cesarsky High commissioner for atomic energy
• Federico Mayor President of Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE)
• Georg Schütte State Secretary of BMBF
• John Wood Chair of ERAB
• Montserrat Torné Director General for International Cooperation and Institutional Relations
• Peter Tindemans
• Rowena Sirey Head of International Relations of ESO

KEYNOTES

• Carlo Rizzuto ESFRI Chair
• Francesc Subirada Associate Director Barcelona Supercomputing Center
• Gonzalo León ERA expert group
• Michel van der Rest Chair of ERF and Director General of the SOLEIL Synchrotron
• Peter Strohschneider Chairman of the German Council of Science and Humanities
• Raymond L. Orbach Former Under Secretary for Science of US

ROUNDTABLES PARTICIPANTS

• Adrian Curaj President of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research
• Albrecht Wagner former Director DESY
• Alejandro Ceccatto ViceMinister of Science , Technology and Productive Innovation, Argentina
• Anne Marie Lansdown Head of the Science and Infrastructure Division, Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research - Australia
• Anneli Pauli Deputy Director General
• Anneliese Stoklaska Director for International Research Co-operations, Ministry of Science and Research, Austria
• Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph Vice-chair of ESFRI
• Carlo Rizzuto ESFRI Chair
• Carlos Alejaldre Deputy Director-General Safety & Security Department, ITER
• Carlos Losada Director General ESADE
• Catherine Rivière CEO GENCI
• Enric Banda President Euroscience
• Gabriele Fioni Deputy Director General for Research and Innovation, , France
• Helga Nowotny President ERC
• Iain Mattaj Chair of EIROforum and Director of EMBL
• Janet Thornton EBI Director
• John Wood Chair of ERAB
• José Manuel Silva Rodríguez Director General for Research
• Leszek Borysiewicz CEO Medical Research Council
• Malcolm Skingle Malcolm Skingle, GlaxoSmithKline R&D Ltd
• Marc D'Hooge Deputy Head of the RDI Division
• Mário Campolargo Director of the 'Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures' Directorate at the European Commission
• Marius Enachescu Deputy Secretary of State
• Naďa Witzanyová Senior Official in the Department of International Cooperation in Research and Development within the Czech Republic Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
• Neil Geddes Director of the e-Science Centre at STFC
• Peter Wittenburg Technical Director Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
• Raffaele Liberali Director for Energy, DG Research, EC
• Robert-Jan Smits Director of Directorate B - European Research Area: research programmes and capacity
• Rolf Heuer Director of CERN
• Teresa Riera Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, European Parliament
• Tivadar Lippényi Vice President, National Office for Research and Technology, Hungary
• Zoran Stančič Deputy Director General in the European Commission, DG Information Society and Media Directorate