BIT’s 1st World Congress of
U-Homes-2011
Theme: Smart Living with Automation
Time: November 27-29, 2011
Venue: Hefei International Conference & Exhibition Center, Anhui, China
Keynote Forum
09:40-11:40, Nov. 27th, 2011 (Sunday) |
Moderator |
TBD |
09:40-10:10
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Title: Gridonomics: A Future History of the Grid
Dr. Rolf Adam, Director Business Development EMEA Utilities & Smart Grid, Cisco Systems GmbH, Germany |
10:10-10:40
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Title: Meeting Utilities’ Smart Grid Challenges
Dr. Bradley R. Williams, Vice President, Industry Strategy Oracle Utilities Global Business Unit, USA |
10:40-11:10 |
Dr. Matthieu van Bilsen, Electronics Industry Leader, Industrial Sector, IBM, The Netherlands |
11:10-11:40
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Title: City Management Solutions
Mr. Norbert H. Karl, Global Sales Manager, Siemens AG, Germany |
11:40-12:10 |
Reserved for Domestic Speaker |
Tentative Program
Track 1: Smart Home Technology
13:30-17:10, Nov. 27th, 2011 (Sunday) |
Chair: Call for host |
Dr. Bob Heile, Chairman, ZigBee Alliance, Chair of the IEEE 802.15 Working Group on WPANs, USA |
Title: Named Data Networking for the Internet of Things
Dr. Jeff Burke, Director, University of California, USA |
Title: New Age of Building Automation - You Can Afford It
Dr. Priit Vimberg, CEO, Yoga LLC, Estonia |
Title: Smart Home Infrastructure: Simplifying Technology for New or Existing Homes
Dr. Joe Dada, CEO, SmartLabs Inc., USA |
| Dr. Cees Links, CEO, GreenPeak Technologies, the Netherland |
Dr. Ken Rim, Project Manager, IMPS,SRDC, IBM Systems and Technology Group, USA |
Title:Control and Society
Dr. Pedro Albertos, Department of Systems Engineering and Control, Technical University of Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, Valencia 46071, Spain |
2-3 speech opportunities available at the session. |
Track 2: Smart Home Network, Communication and Multimedia Entertainment
13:30-17:10, Nov. 27th, 2011 (Sunday) |
Chair: Call for host |
Dr. Reda Reda, CEO, Innovation Communication Technologies, Managing Director, ESTEAliiance, Australia |
Dr. Arthur W. Astrin, CEO, Astrin Radio, EEE 802.15 TG6 Chair, USA |
Dr. Frederic Bonnard, VP Marketing, SoftAtHome, USA |
Title: Cordless Technology – The Smart Way to Connect the Home
Dr. Daniel Hartnett, Senior Manager Product Marketing CAT-iq and VoIP Products, Lantiq Deutschland, USA |
Dr. Hui Li, Strategic Program Manager, Lenovo Account Team, Intel Rotation Engineer Program, USA |
Title: Semantic Connections for Smart Objects in the Home Environment
Dr. Loe Feijs, Professor, Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands |
Title: Smart Architecture in Indigovision IP CCTV Surveillance Solution
Mr. Ray Lam, Country Manager, China, IndigoVision, Hong Kong, China |
Title: Traffic Engineering and QoS Control for Multimedia Applications in Emerging Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Dr. Mohsin Iftikhar, Department of Computer Science, College of Computer & Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA |
2-3 speech opportunities available at the session. |
Track 2: Smart Home Network, Communication and Multimedia Entertainment
08:30-12:10, Nov. 28th, 2011 (Monday) |
Chair: Call for host |
Title:Home Automation - The Platform for the Digital Lifestyle
Dr. Will West, CEO, Control4, USA |
Title: Anticipated Adoption of Ambient Intelligent Appliances in Domestic Settings
Dr. Oscar Peters, Managing Director at the IBR Research Institute for Social Sciences and Technology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands |
Dr. Arthur W. Astrin, CEO, Astrin Radio, EEE 802.15 TG6 Chair, USA |
Dr. Frederic Bonnard, VP Marketing, SoftAtHome, USA |
Title: Face verification in home (uncontrolled) environments
Dr. Enrique Cabello, Professor, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain |
Topic: DLNA Standardization in IEC/TC 100 as well as Home Apparatus Control for Energy Consumption Control
Dr. Shuji Hirakawa, Head, Toshiba Corporation, Japan |
Title: Increased Situation Awareness in Major Incidents – Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology: a Promising Tool
Dr. Jorma Jokela, Development Manager, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Finland
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Title: Resource Managements for Cognitive Radio Cellular Networks
Dr. Qin Xin, Senior Research Fellow, Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL, Belgium |
2-3 speech opportunities available at the session. |
Track 3: Smart Electronic Appliance, Utilities and Furniture
08:30-:12:05, Nov. 28th, 2011 (Monday) |
Chair: Call for host |
Title: Centralized Lighting Control Systems for Present & Future
Dr. Doug Ford, CEO, Touch-Plate Lighting Controls, USA |
Title: Making the “Smart Home” Seamless: Communicating with the Grid
Dr. Kishore Manghnani, Vice President & General Manager, Green Technology Products,Marvell Semiconductor,USA |
Title: Home-Care-Robotic System and more specifically
Dr. Philippe BIDAUD, Professor, ISIR UPMC Paris 6, France |
Title: The Application of Gait Dynamics as Biomarkers for Evaluation of Subjects with Functional Impairments
Dr. T. Sarkodie-Gyan, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA |
Dr. Albert W LaPera, Associate/Sr. Project Manager, TLC Engineering for Architecture, USA |
2-3 speech opportunities available at the session. |
Track 4: Smart Home Security Systems
13:30-17:10, Nov. 28th, 2011 (Monday) |
Chair: Call for host |
Title: Green Technology Driven Home Fingerprint Identification System
Dr. Ezendu Ariwa, Senior Lecturer, London Metropolitan University, UK |
Title: Designing Secure Domestic Networks for Smart Living
Dr. Konstantinos Patsakis, Lecturer, University of Piraeus, Greece |
Dr. Clive Gringras, Head, Olswang LLP, Germany |
2-3 speech opportunities available at the session. |
Track 5: Smart Life Style and Health Telematics
13:30-17:10, Nov. 28th, 2011 (Monday) |
Chair: Call for host |
Title: Cloud Based TeleHealth as a Service (TaaS) Solution for Post Acute Transitional Care
Dr. Pramod K. Gaur, Vice President TeleHealth, UnitedHealth Group, USA |
| Dr. Steinar Pedersen, CEO, Tromsø Telemedicine Consult, Norway |
Title:Technology Supported Lifestyle Management; A Question of Control
Dr. Victor Callaghan, Professor of Computer Science, Head of Intelligent Environments
Director of Digital Lifestyles Centre, Essex University, UK |
Title:The European Smart Homes for All Project
Dr. Marco Aiello, Professor, Priv.-Doz. -Lisa Meinter Fellow, Johann Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherland |
Title: Challenge of Healthcare Professionals in the Use of Telecare or the Users' Perspective
Dr. Jeffrey Soar, Professor, Chair in Intelligent Domestic Healthcare Infrastructure, a Joint Initiative of the University of Southern Queensland and The University of Queensland, Australia |
Title:Smart Home Telecare, Secure and Accessible for All
Dr. Miguel A. Valero, Associate Professor, Telematic Engineering, Univ. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain |
Title:Transformation of Health Delivery trough U-healthcare: Governance and Change Management
Dr. Joan Cornet, CEO TicSalut Foundation; Associate professor University of Barcelona / IL3, Spain |
Title: mHealth: Centerpiece of Cloud Computing
Dr. Sasan Adibi, Senior IEEE Member, Canada |
Title: ASIC Design for U-healthcare Monitoring
Dr. Lei Wang, Professor, Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology; Key Laboratory for Heath Informatics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
Title: Patient centered services – strategies and experiences from Norway
Dr. Undine Knarvik, Norwegian Center for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, Norway |
2-3 speech opportunities available at the session. |
Track 6: Smart Property Management and Mobile Home Office
08:30-12:10, Nov. 29th, 2011 (Tuesday) |
Chair: Call for host |
Dr. Dan D. S. Hermansen, Sales Manager, RTX Telecom A/S, Denmark |
Title: Advanced Sensor Network Architecture for Energy management and Building Control Systems
Dr. Hadi Larijani, Senior Lecturer, Div. of CNEE, School of Engineering & Computing, George Moore Building (M620B), Glasgow Caledonian Univ., UK |
4-6 speech opportunities available at the session. |
Track 7: Smart Environment Control and Home Energy Efficiency
08:30-12:10, Nov. 29th, 2011 (Tuesday) |
Chair: Call for host
Co-Chair: Call for host |
| Dr. Alan Knight-Scott, Industry Central Programme Manager - Smart Metering, Transformation, Energy Sourcing and Customer Supply (ESCS), EDF Energy, France |
Title: Linking Smart Meter Data to Social Media: Maximizing Conservation and Demand Response
Dr. Philip Playfair, Co-Founder, Lowfoot inc., Canada |
Dr. Patrick A. Hayes, Vice President, SolarBee Inc., USA |
Title: ROI Thresholds for Home Owners-driving Success Through Innovation
Dr. Peter Belisle, President of Energy and Sustainability Services in the Americas region, Jones Lang LaSalle, USA |
Title: Putting the Brain in a Smart Grid: Active and Optimal Real-Time Demand Side Management Using Machine Learning
Dr. Amit Narayan, Director, Stanford University, USA |
Title: Are They Smart Metering Systems Smart Grid Ready - Lessons from Our Smart Pilot Projects
Dr. Frantisek Müller, Coordinator, CEZ Mereni, Czech Republic
Co-speaker: Dr. Jirí Stich |
2-3 speech opportunities available at the session. |
Track 8: Smart Home Standard, Marketing, and Business Development
08:30-12:10, Nov. 29th, 2011 (Tuesday) |
Chair: Call for host |
Title: Economic Approaches to Digital Service Markets
Dr. Max Muehlhaeuser, Professor, Telecooperation Group, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany |
Dr. Ing. Susan Draeger, Director, Buro Happold, USA |
Title：Building Information Modeling for Smart Homes
Dr. Miroslaw Skibniewski, Professor, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi |
4-6 speech opportunities available at the session. |
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