AGENDA

Monday, June 8, 1998

8:00AM Continental Breakfast

8:30AM Welcome

--Kenneth Shine, President, Institute of Medicine

8:35AM Opening Remarks

-- Stuart Eizenstat, Under Secretary, Department of State

-- John Cadogan, Director General, Research Councils of the United Kingdom, for the UK Presidency of the European Union

--Hugo Paemen, Ambassador, European Commission

9:10AM Plenary Session: Trends in Science and Technology Policy

9:10am The US Perspective

- Joseph Bordogna, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation

9:25am The EU Perspective

- Jorma Routti, Director General DGXII, European Commission

Discussion

10:00AM Plenary Session: International R&D Cooperation

10:00-10:40am The EC and US Approach and the Agreement on Science and Technology Cooperation

- Melinda Kimble, Assistant Secretary, Department of State

- Rainer Gerold, Director, European Commission

Discussion

11:00-11:20am Complementarity of Bilateral and EC Cooperation with the United States

- Paolo Fasella, Director General for Research, Italy

Discussion

11:45AM Guide to the Breakout Sessions

--Charles W. Wessner, National Research Council

12:00PM Lunch in the Refectory and in the Breakout Session Meeting Rooms

1:00PM Breakout Sessions

Group A: Information Technologies

Chairman: Ray Kammer, Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Department of Commerce

EU Representative: Thierry van der Pyl, ESPRIT, DGIII

US Representative: Tom Kalil, National Economic Council, White House

Parallel sub-Sessions: After a “breakout plenary,” these topics will be addressed in separate sessions, then report back to the complete breakout session.

a) Next Generation Internet

Jean-Pierre Euzen, European Commission, DGXIII

Juris Hartmanis, National Science Foundation

George Strawn, National Science Foundation

b) Electronic Commerce

Fabian Pease, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Erik Habers, DGIII, European Commission

Stefan Noll, Fraunhofer-Institut fur Graphische, Germany

c) Translingual Information Management

Roberto Cencioni, DG XIII, European Commission

Gary Strong, National Science Foundation

- Tactical Translingual Triage

Ron Larsen, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

- Spoken Translingual Communication

Alan Sears, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Christian Fluhr, Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Nucleaires France

- International Digital Libraries Michael Lesk, National Science Foundation

Costantino Thanos, CNR, Italy

Group B: Transportation Challenges for the 21st Century

Chairman: Mortimer Downey, Department of Transportation

EU Representative: Wilhelmus Blonk, DG VII, European Commission

US Representative: Fenton Carey, US Department of Transportation

Parallel sub-Sessions: After a “breakout plenary,” these topics will be addressed in separate sessions, then report back to the complete breakout session.

a) Intermodal Transportation

- Intermodal Transport Networks

John Horsley, US Department of Transportation

Horst Soboll, Daimler-Benz Technology, Germany

- Global Navigation and Applications

Joseph Canny, US Department of Transportation

b) Intelligent Transportation Systems - Surface Applications

Jean-Pierre Euzen, European Commission, DGXIII

Kenneth Wykle, US Federal Highway Administration

John Miles, Ankerbold International Ltd., United Kingdom

F. J. Radermacher, FAW Ulm, Germany

c) Intelligent Transportation Systems - Maritime Safety

Robert North, US Coast Guard

Anders Backlund, Kvaerner Masa-Marine, Finland

d) Strategic Enabling Research

Kelley Coyner, US Department of Transportation

Jean-Pierre Medevielle, INRETS, France

Peter Jones, Transport Studies Group, United Kingdom

Group C: Climate Prediction, Forecasting Applications and Impacts

Chairman: John Krebs, Natural Environment Research Council

US Representative: Robert Corell, National Science Foundation

EU Representative: Anver Ghazi, DGXII, European Commission

- Climate Prediction Research - El Niño

Nicholas Graham, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Prof. Hasselman, Max-Plank-Institut, Germany

- Short-term Climate Forecast Applications

J.C. Duplessy, Centre des Faibles Radioactivites, France

Maxx Dilley, US Agency for International Development

- Atlantic Basin Climate Variability

- CO2 Terrestrial Sinks

Riccardo Valentini, Universita della Tusscia, Italy

Dennis Baldocchi, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Oakridge, Tennessee

- Impacts on Water, Agriculture and Land Resources

Risto Lemmelä, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Group D: Human Environmental Health Sciences: Endocrine Disruptors

Chairman: Paul Foster, Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology

EU Representatives: Erminio Marafante, JRC (Ispra), European Commission

Manuel Hallen, DGXII, European Commission

US Representatives: Chris Schonwalder, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Mike Waters, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, EPA

3:30PM Tea and Networking

***Presentations of Recommendations from Breakout Sessions***

4:00PM Group A: Information Technologies

Ray Kammer, NIST, Department of Commerce

4:15PM Group B: Transportation Challenges for the 21st Century

Mortimer Downey, Deputy Secretary, Department of Transportation

4:30PM Group C: Climate Prediction, Forecasting Applications and Impacts

John Krebs, Natural Environment Research Council

4:45PM Group D: Human Environmental Health Sciences: Endocrine Disruptors

Paul Foster, Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology

5:00PM Discussion

5:30PM Reception

6:30PM Dinner

7:20PM Opening Remarks

-- John Cadogan, Director General, Research Councils of the United Kingdom, for the UK Presidency of the European Union

7:30PM Keynote Speaker

-- Gordon Moore, Chairman Emeritus, Intel

Tuesday, June 9, 1998

8:00AM Continental Breakfast

8:30AM Welcome

Bill Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering

8:45AM Best practices in Small Business Technology Development Programs

Moderator: Helmut List, Chairman, Industrial Research and Development Advisory Council, Austria

- Industry-Laboratory Cooperation: The Amtex Experiment

Jerry Cogan, Milliken Research

Dan Hartley, Sandia National Laboratories

- The US Experience with the SBIR Program

Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School

- The EU Experience with Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise Development

Patrice Laget, European Commission

Discussants: Jon Baron, Department of Defense, SBIR Program

Attilio Stajano, DGIII, European Commission

10:15AM Coffee Break

10:30AM R & D in the Framework of the New Transatlantic Agenda

Moderator: Kenneth Flamm, Brookings Institution

The 300mm International Initiative

William Spencer, SEMATECH

Discussants: John Shamaly, Silicon Valley Group

Robert Hance, Motorola

Mike Borrus, University of California at Berkeley

11:30AM Internationalization of the Technical Workforce and Transatlantic Cooperation in R&D

Moderator: Bill Wulf, President, National Academy of Engineering

E. Praestgaard, European Science and Technology Assembly, Denmark

H. Glatz, Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue, Daimler Benz, Germany

Henri Conze, Ministry of Defense, France, Under Secretary for Acquisition 1993 to 1996

Dieter Seitzer, Director, Fraunhofer Institute, Erlangen-Nurnberg

Gary Poehlein, National Science Foundation

12:15PM Concluding Observations

Jorma Routti, Director General DGXII, European Commission

12:30PM Lunch in the Refectory of the Academy

2:00 PM Close of Meeting

N.B. Rooms are reserved in the afternoon for follow-up sessions on individual topics.