Venue: Diamant Business and Meeting Centre, Bd Auguste Reyerslaan 80, B-1030 Brussels (http://www.diamant.be/
)
Day 1 – Tuesday, 3 June 2008
09.30 Registration and coffee
Session One: Context of Work
Chair: Gill Whitney, DATSCG
10.30 Welcome Address by Belinda Pyke, Director, European Commission, DG Employment Social Affairs and equal opportunities - Directorate Equality between Men and Women, Action against Discrimination, Civil Society
10.50 Position Statements
– Rodolfo Cattani, EDF
– Tony Graziano, EICTA
11.20 The International Perspective
– David Capozzi, USA Access Board ![]()
– Judy Brewer, W3C ( html slides
or zip-file ![]()
12.00 The Commission’s policies in the area of disability, e-accessibility and expectations from the mandate (phase 1 and 2) – speakers from the European Commission
– Martina Sindelar, DG Enterprise
– Ima Placencia, DG Employment
– Miguel Gonzalez, DG Information Society
12.20 Introduction to the Conference and Process for Participating - Gill Whitney
12.30 Lunch
Session Two: European Accessibility Requirements for ICT Public Procurement
Chair: Stephen Furner, ETSI/TC HF
Rapporteur: Luc Van den Berghe, CEN
14.00 Presentation by the ETSI/TC HF/STF333 experts of their draft report ![]()
15.30 Tea
16.00 Position statements from Stakeholders and Questions from the Audience
17.15 Rapporteur: Summarizing results ![]()
17.30 End of Day One
18.00 Drinks, Reception
sponsored by Adobe
, HP
, Microsoft
, Nokia
, Oracle
, SAP ![]()
Day 2 – Wednesday, 4 June 2008
09.15 Review of Day One – Gill Whitney
09.30 The Role of Standardization in Public Policy,
Key-note address by Malcolm Harbour – MEP
Session Three: Conformity assessment systems and schemes for accessibility requirements
Co-Chairs: Cristina Rodríguez-Porrero CEN/BT WG 185ETSI_STF_333_Open_Conference_Pres.pdf
and Oscar Querol CENELEC/BT WG 101-5
09.45 Presentations by the CEN/CENELEC Project Team experts of their draft report ![]()
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Position statements from Stakeholders and Questions from the Audience
12.45 Rapporteur: Summarizing results
13.00 Lunch
Session Four: What happens next? – Summary of initial results and way forward
Chair - Gill Whitney, DATSCG
14.30 Presentation by ETSI/TC HF and CEN/CENELEC experts on Actions Required to Progress the Work
15.15 Panel Discussion by representatives of the stakeholder groups on their requirements
16.15 Time table for starting up phase 2 and closure of the conference
16.30 End of Day Two