Day 1 - 29^th May

09:00 – 10:00

Registration

10:00 – 10:20

Welcome

10:20 – 10:40

New perspectives on eProcurement in Europe

Alain Deckers

Head of Unit for Economic analysis and eProcurement at the European Commission - DG Internal Market

10:40 – 11:00

The role of eProcurement and PEPPOL in Italy

Francesco Paolo Schiavo

Head of Central Directorate for 

Information Systems and Innovation  at Ministry of Economy and Finance (Italy)

11:00 – 11:20

The evolution of eProcurement in France with PEPPOL

Christophe Alviset

Deputy Director at the Secretary General of the Ministry of Economics, Finance and Foreign Trade - Leader of the public eProcurement French observatory (France)

11:20 – 11:50

 Break and visits to the exhibition

11:50 - 12:10

Building the foundation for European wide eProcurement

Main achievements and future of PEPPOL

André Hoddevik

Project Director of PEPPOL - Difi (Norway)

12:10 – 12:30

PEPPOL - Public Procurement Reform

Alastair Merrill

Director of Procurement in the Scottish Government  (United Kingdom)

12:30 – 13:30

The future of electronic public procurement in Europe

Panel discussion on questions like

·      What needs to be done in order to boost the take-up of electronic public procurement in Europe?

·      What role should EC and the Member States  play?

Moderator:  A. Merrill, ScotGov (UK)

Panel:

·   Dag Strømsnes – Chair of PEPPOL eGoverning Board - Difi (Norway)

·   Johannes Wimmer – BBG (Austria)

·   Gianluigi Albano – Head of R&D Unit, Consip (Italy)

·   Alain Deckers, DG MARKT (EC)

·   Christophe Alviset, MEF (France)

·   Anna Fiorenza – Director of Intercenter (Italy)

·   Andrea Camanzi – Board member of AVCP (Italy)

13:30 – 14:45

Break and visits to the exhibition

14:45 – 17:00

Day 1  - 29th May

PEPPOL at work: Parallel session 1 “PRE-AWARD” -
Slides of session with all cases

Introduction to first part of the session - VCD solution and case demonstration

(Try out the demo of the VCD solution  - you need to create an account; demo available in German and in English, partially in Italian)

·      Maria Wimmer and Ansgar Mondorf - University of Koblenz (Germany)

Case 1: Snap-shot on Pilots with the Austrian National VCD System (NVS) and the European VCD Systems (EVS) (full slideshow)

·      Gerda Bayer - BRZ (Austria)

Case 2: The Chambers of Commerce support to  EO and CA in the European scenario of e-procurement (full slideshow)

·      Paola Fumiani - Infocamere (Italy)

Case 3: How VCD  helps e-Attestations to better leverage  the concept  of compliance for economic operators in public & private tenders (full slideshow)

·      Thierry Amadieu - Amadieu Conseil  (France)

Case 4: Using the VCD for healthcare call for tenders and post award procurement (full slideshow)

·      Andriana Prentza - University of Piraeus  (Greece)

Q&A Session

15.30-15.50                    Break and visit to the exhibition

Introduction to second part of the session

·      Giancarlo De Stefano - Consip (Italy)

The outcomes of the cMAP project and its role for eCatalogues

·         Aurélie Virgili - Agathis Consulting (Belgium)

Case 5: PEPPOL Product Property Server for eCatalogues - Austria

·      Johannes Wimmer - BBG (Austria)

Case 6: Negotiated Procedure with a PEPPOL eCatalogue - Italy

·      Tonino Castrichino - Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy)

Case 7: Network of eSignature Validation Services - France

·       Thierry Amadieu - FRS - Foundation for  Strategic Research, (France)

Case 8:  Nordic/Baltic eCatalogue and eSignature case

·      Thomas Beergrehn - EU Supply (Sweden)

Q&A Session

17:00 – 18:00

Open discussion:

PEPPOL and the evolution of Italian participation

(ONLY IN ITALIAN)

Moderator: Giovanni Calabria, Politecnico di Milano

·        Giancarlo De Stefano - R&D Unit, Consip (Italia)

·        Anna Fiorenza - Director of Intercenter

·        Nushin Farhang - CIO at AVCP

·        Salvatore Stanziale – Head of the Directorate of  the Information  System of Taxation - Finance Department, MEF

14:45 – 17:00

Day 1  - 29^th May

PEPPOL at work: Parallel session 2: POST-AWARD

Introduction to first half of the session

·      Tim Mc Grath - PEPPOL (Australia)

Case 1: Supplying to the European Commission: ePrior - EU

·      Didier Thunus - DG DIGIT (EC)

Case 2:  European Healthcare procurement - J&J and Helse Vest – Scandinavia & Finland

·      Lars-Johan Frøyland - Helse Vest (Norway)

Case 3: The benefits of exchanging PEPPOL eOrders - Italy

·      Leonardo Bertini -  Consip (Italy)

·      Massimiliano Materazzi - Telecom  Italia (Italy)

Q&A Session

15.30-15.50                   Break and visit to the exhibition

Intro to second half of the session

·      Tim Mc Grath, PEPPOL (Australia)

Case 4: Extending national eInvoicing into PEPPOL -Denmark

·        Sven Rasmussen - DIGST (Denmark)

·        Mikkel Hippe Brun - Tradeshift (Denmark)

Case 5: Integrating PEPPOL eInvoicing with national solutions - Norway

·        Olav Astad Kristiansen - Difi (Norway)

Case 6: Integrating PEPPOL eInvoicing with national solutions - Greece

·        Andriana Prentza - University of Piraeus – Member of the Greek eInvoice Committee  (Greece)

Case 7: Setting up an Access Point Case - Austria

·        Lars Krüger - DIG AG (Austria)

Case 8: Integrating PEPPOL with existing global eInvoicing community: what it means to customers and PEPPOL- Finland

·        Olli-Pekka Rissanen - Ministry of Finance (Finland)

·        Pekka Rehn - Basware (Finland)

PEPPOL Transport Infrastructure Agreements

·        Jostein Frømyr - Difi (Norway)

Q&A Session

 18:00 – 19:30

Networking Session (Including refreshments)

              END OF DAY 1

Day 2 - 30^th May

09:00 –09:30

Policy perspective: Understanding the broader strategy for Digital Europe

Jean-François Junger - Head of Sector,  DG Information Society and Media, European Commission

09:30 – 09:40

LSP building blocks: SPOCS

Project outcome and reusability

David Mitzman - Infocamere (Italy)

09:40 – 09.50

LSP building blocks: eCODEX

Project outcome and reusability

Carsten Schmidt - Ministry of Justice North Rhine-Westphalia, (Germany)

09.50 – 10:00

LSP building blocks: STORK and STORK 2.0

Project outcome and reusability

Antonio Lioy - Politecnico di Torino  (Italy)

10:00 – 10:10

LSP building blocks: epSOS

Project outcome and reusability

Marcello Melgara - Lombardia Informatica (Italy)

10:10 – 10:20

LSP building blocks: PEPPOL

Project outcome and reusability

Klaus Vilstrup Pedersen

Deputy Project Director of PEPPOL (Norway)

10:20 – 10:35

The role of CEN/BII in the post-award procurement scenario

Jostein Frømyr - BII Vice Chair (Norway)

10:35 – 10:50

The role of CEN/BII in the pre-award procurement scenario

Kornelis Drijfhout - TenderNed (Netherlands)

10:50 – 11.20

Break and visit to the exhibition

11.20– 11.40

Building the OpenPEPPOL community

·      Presentation of the OpenPEPPOL Association

André Hoddevik

Project Director of PEPPOL - Difi (Norway)

11.40 – 12.00

Connecting the PEPPOL community

·  Why ICT industry and service providers should join OpenPEPPOL

Anna-Lis Berg - Consultant and Program Manager, public clients and EC - IBM (Denmark)

12:00 – 13:10

Growing the PEPPOL community

·      Panel discussion

Moderator: Tim McGrath - PEPPOL

·   Sören Pedersen - ESV (Svezia)

·   Alain Ducass - Adetef (France)

·   Jean-François Junger- EC DG INFSO

·   Christian Rupp - Federal Chancellery (Austria)

·   Niels Pagh-Rasmussen - IBM (Denmark)

·   John Lark - Ariba (USA)

·   Oliver Bareiss - SAP AG (Germany)

13:10 – 13:30

Closing of the Conference

·      “Thank you PEPPOL, good luck OpenPEPPOL”

Francisco García Morán

General Director at European Commission, DG Informatics

13:30 – 14:30

Break and visits to the exhibition

END OF DAY 2 - END OF THE CONFERENCE