WIPO/SMEs/GE/05/1 Prov.
May 17, 2005

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, May 25, 2005
DAY 1

8.30 – 9.00 

Registration

9.00  – 9.30 

Opening Ceremony: Address on behalf of the Director General by:

Guriqbal Singh Jaiya, Director, SMEs Division, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

9.30 – 10.00

Keynote address: WIPO and its SME-Related Activities

Speaker:

Guriqbal Singh Jaiya, Director, SMEs Division, WIPO

10.00 – 10.15

Coffee Break

10.15 – 12.45

 

Theme 1

Outreach and Support Plans, Projects, Products and Services for Schools, Colleges, Universities, Research Institutes, Science/Research Parks, Technology Parks and Innovation Centers

Speakers:

Theodore Schultz, Director West Regional Office, Mexican IP Office, Mexico 

Miles Rees, Business Development Manager, Awareness, Information & Media, UK Patent Office, London

Simona Marzetti (Mrs.), Secretary General, International Network for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (INSME), Rome
Pascal Duyck, Training Design Manager, National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), Paris
Gilles Capart, Chairman of the Board, Proton Europe, Belgium, Brussels

12.45 – 14.00

Lunch

14.00 – 16.00 Theme 2
Outreach and Support/Training Plans, Projects, Products and Services for Entrepreneurs, SMEs and SME Support and SME Finance Institutions, including Venture Capitalists
Speakers:
Mika Waris, Director, Marketing and Business Services, National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland, Helsinki
Richard Leclerc, Manager, Outreach and Dissemination Special Projects, Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), Ottawa-Hull
Pascal Duyck, Training Design Manager, National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), Paris
Sophie Reboud (Ms.), Head of Management Department, Group ESC, Dijon

16.00 – 16.15

Coffee Break

16.15 – 17.45

Theme 3

Improvements in IP Information and Search Services
Speakers:
Serge Quazzotti, Director of Technology Watch Centre, Technoport Schlassgoart, Luxembourg
Roland Tschudin, Head of Training Center for Patents, Trademarks, Designs and Authors Rights, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Bern
Mariano Nieto, Technical Advisor Patent Department, Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, Madrid
Thursday, May 26, 2005
DAY 2

9.00 – 11.00

Theme 4

Marketing the Services of IP Offices to Business and Industry; Plans, Projects, Products and Services

Speakers:

Giuseppe Perale, Manager, Politecnico of Milan, Milan

Heike Scheuerpflug (Mrs.), Office, IPR-Helpdesk Officer, European Research and Project Office GmbH, Saarbrόcken 
Roland Tschudin, Head of Training Center for Patents, Trademarks, Designs and Authors Rights, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Bern
Serge Quazzotti, Director of Technology Watch Centre, Technoport Schlassgoart, Luxembourg

11.00 – 11.30

Coffee break

11.30 – 12.00

Theme 5

On-line Newsletters, E-filing and E-support Services for Users of IP Office Services 

Speaker: 

Christel Heremans (Ms.), Head of Service & Information, Benelux Trademark Office

12.00 – 12.30

Theme 6

E-learning Programs on IP for Entrepreneurs, Engineers, Managers/Staff and Owners of SMEs

Speaker:

Francesca Toso (Mrs.), Head, Distance Learning Section, WIPO

12.30 – 14.00

Lunch Break

14.00 – 15.00

Theme 7

Support for Dealing with Counterfeiting and Piracy

Speakers:

Miles Rees, Business Development Manager, Awareness, Information & Media, UK Patent Office, London

Silvia Navares Gonzales (Ms.), Head, International Cooperation and Courts Relations, Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, Madrid

15.00 – 15.30

Theme 8

IP Accounting, Evaluation, Valuation and Audit

Speakers:

Tatiana Krylova (Mrs.), Head, Investment and Enterprise Competitiveness Branch, UNCTAD
Guido Von Scheffer, Director Sales and Organization, IP Bewertungs AG (IPB), Hamburg 
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break

16.00 – 16.30

Theme 9

Research and Studies on Use of IP by SMEs

Speaker:

Andrew Beale, Director, IP Wales, Swansea

16.30 – 17.15

Round-table