Thursday Morning Plenary
- Location: INSPIRE Auditorium
- Date and Time: Thurs 18, 10:00 - 11:15
Morning INSPIRE Plenaries will gather all participants together for an hour before our 13 Topic Streams start their simultaneous sessions. This is an inspiring, reflective moment to get rejuvenated for the day by some of the featured speakers and also to get an (extremely) quick overview to the highlights of the day’s program.
During the Morning INSPIRE Plenaries, there are no other activities in the conference, so the INSPIRE auditorium may be quite crowded - be early, the program starts 10 AM sharp and the capacity for the INSPIRE Auditorium is 300. However, if you don’t make it in, the morning plenaries will also be streamed online and on TVs in the INSPIRE Foyer, so feel free to take the time to lounge and get a coffee while watching!
Agenda
- Moderator of Plenary: Jarmo Eskelinen (Forum Virium)
- Plenary Speakers: Anneli Jäätteenmäki (EU Parliament), James Cameron (Climate Change Capital) and Tiago Peixoto (World Bank).
- Topic Streams of the Day (10 minutes): Lightning Summaries
Video
>> VIDEO DOCUMENTATION (introduction 5:50)
Keynote Speaker Biographies
ANNELI JÄÄTTEENMÄKI
Anneli Jäätteenmäki is a Finnish member of the European Parliament and vice-chair of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). An MEP since 2004 with a diverse background in Finnish and European politics, she has actively worked to increase transparency in the European Union institutions, especially regarding decision-making, and to facilitate citizen access to documents and information. More info about Anneli’s work can be found here.
JAMES CAMERON
James Cameron is a founder and the non-executive Chairman of Climate Change Capital, representing the firm at the highest levels of business and government. In addition to his role at CCC, James serves as a member of GE’s ecomagination board, Pepsico UK’s advisory board, is Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Measuring Sustainability and is a trustee member of the UK Green Building Council and of the Carbon Disclosure Project. James is also a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group, an advisor to the Climate Bonds Initiative and was a member of the Green Investment Bank Commission. James believes that shared knowledge can provide reliable performance indicators for corporate responsibility. More info about James can be found here.
TIAGO PEIXOTO
Tiago Peixoto is currently an Open Government Specialist at the World Bank, working on the design and implementation of projects involving technology and citizen engagement. In this role, Tiago conducts work mainly in Africa and Latin America in the fields of institutional change and participatory innovation. With a focus on citizen-generated data and the co-design of public services, his activities build upon the development of alternative approaches to promoting participation and accountability. Prior to joining the Bank, Tiago worked as a consultant and policy advisor for various organizations in the field of ICT-mediated participation, such as the European Commission, the OECD, the United Nations, and the Brazilian and UK governments. Tiago is also a Research Coordinator at the Electronic Democracy Centre at the University of Zurich. As a researcher, his interests relate to identifying factors that contribute to the success of policies fostering citizen engagement, such as the role of institutions and technologies in participatory processes. More recently, he joined the steering group of the multidisciplinary Research Network on “Opening Government”, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Tiago is @participatory on Twitter.
Topic Streams of the Day
Topic streams of the day is a fast, entertaining and very informative 10 minute show that no one should miss. Organizers of each topic stream of the day have exactly 1 minute’s time to introduce the expected highlights of their program. This is the time to take the printed program leaflet out and mark the most interesting sessions to participate in during the day.
Day 3 of 5, includes Building EU Citizens’ Initiative programming
Open Knowledge & Sustainability
Day 3 of 4, second day of a two-day Green Hackathon series
Open Design, Hardware, Manufacturing and Making
Day 2 of 4
Day 3 of 4
Day 2 of 3, includes collaborative crowdsourcing session with Open Research & Education
Day 3 of 3, includes collaborative crowdsourcing session with Open Development
Gender & Diversity in Openness
Day 2 of 3, hacking and workshopping with Wikimedia Foundation
Transparency and Accountability
Day 3 of 3
Day 3 of 3
Day 3 of 3, includes the ‘Open Data in Business’ research programme
Day 1 of 2
Session Host
JARMO ESKELINEN
Jarmo Eskelinen leads Forum Virium Helsinki, an innovation company building digital bridges between people and services in collaboration with cities and companies. Originally trained as an architect, Jarmo is an expert in digital content, smart cities and user driven design, currently devoted to open data. Earlier, he has been the director of the Media Centre Lume of the Aalto University, the program director for the Helsinki 2000 European City of Culture, and the founder & CEO of a successful music, media and event production company PopZoo Promotions. Mr Eskelinen is also the President of the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL), promoting international cooperation in user-driven innovation.
During OKFestival, Jarmo will be moderating the morning INSPIRE plenaries. He will also be giving keynote speeches in the Open Cities session on Wednesday, and in the Nesta-curated session ‘Open Collaborative Networked Cities’ on Thursday, as well as hosting the Open Cities session of Commons4EU in the INSPIRE Atrium on Wednesday.