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The internet of Things a phenomenon strictly coupled with RFID technologies (but not only). A real life in a virtual reality, virtual situations in the real life. What are the implications? Regarding the Internet of Things it has been founded a Council that is a thinkthank on the Internet of Things. The Council will launches in Brussels on 4/12/2009.

Privacy issues, security and safety issues, responsibility: these are some topics from a legal point of view that will be discussed during the meeting “Are you ready for the Internet of Things?”

A LIFT @ Home event, venue: IMAL.org

Any information here.

Program

0930 : Opening by Rob van Kranenburg and Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

0945 : Lift @ Home by Nicolas Nova: existing networked objects and what they tell us about potential users and how designers/engineers thought about them

1000 – 1100 : Inspiration

• RFID Guardian with Melanie Rieback
• Pachube and Connected Environments, with Usman Haque
• Nearness, with Timo Arnall
• Mime, with Lorna Goulden
• Privacy Coach with Jaap Henk Hoepman
• Legal Issues in the Internet of Things, with Nicola Fabiano
• What I learned from the Violet experience with Rafi Haladjian: The problem with the Internet of Things, are the Things. “Or, how do you get to have open and intelligent artifacts and devices all around the place, without having to manufacture them, transporting them, distributing them (hardly very innovative). How do you creat proliferation, the Internet way, with atoms.”

1100 – 1230 Workshops (with input, questions and views by Gérald Santucci (Head of Unit, Networked Enterprise and Radio Frequency Identification, INFSO D4)

• IOT and the Home: business cases
• Interactive Role Playing workshop
• IOT as an accelarator of changes in organisations
• IOT in education: creating an MBA
• HC Systems and Self-care
• Tinker.it Homesense

More information on the workshops will be available soon.

1230 – 1400 Lunch

1400 – 1430 Inspiration

• Gaming, with Karim Amrani
• Urban Eyes, with Marcus Kirsch
• Awareness Technology, with Alan Munro
• TownToolKit, with Christian Nold
• A distributed physical network of humans through the city unveilling invisible and always mobile connections, with Natacha Roussel
• Social Implications of IoT, with Jim Kosem

1430 – 1630 Workshops continuation

1630 – 1730 Workshop leaders present the results. Short Q & A.

1730 – 1930 Dinner

2000-2200 Public evening program. Opening by Yves Bernard. With lectures, keynotes, interviews, short presentations of workshop results by workshopleaders. Speakers include Liam Bannon, Karim Amrani, Karmen Franinovic, Slava Kozlov on “New mindsets and personal/psychological skills we need to develop for the IoT”, Jo Caudron…

contact: info@theinternetofthings.eu

Registration is open.