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Josef AffenzellerProkurist, Coordinator for international and national ResearchAVL List GmbH

Effects of E-Mobility on Urban Transport in Europe: a view from industryDay 1, 4:30 pmJosef Affenzeller is Director of Research Coordination at AVL List GmbH. in Graz, Austria. Hestudied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Graz, receiving his doctorate in1973. He began working at AVL in 1967 and has held numerous positions. From 1999-2008 hewas also Managing Director of the Acoustic Competence Centre, a public-private researchcentre for vehicle acoustics, in Graz. Since 1994, he has been involved in the coordination ofinternational RTD projects, acted as expert evaluator for FP4 and 5, and participated in severalEC working group committees. From 1998 to 2008, he was coordinator of the Europeannetworks FURORE (Future Road Vehicle Research) and CALM (Transport Noise Mitigation),and is also the coordinator of an ERTRAC (European Road Transport Research AdvisoryCouncil) working group. He has been an active member of EARPA (European AutomotiveResearch Partners Association) since its foundation in 2002 and is currently serving as EARPAChairman. He is a member of the Ad-hoc advisory group of the European Green Car Initiative.He is General Secretary of ERTRAC SIG (Supporting Institutions Group) in Brussels and is amember of several research funding organisations in Austria, e.g. ACR, Christian DopplerGesellschaft.

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Markus BuehlerAssociate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Director, MIT-Germany Program (MISTI)MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Turning Weakness to StrengthDay 2, 11:15 amDr. Buehler's lab applies an atomistic multi-scale simulation approach that explicitly considersthe architecture of proteins from the atomistic level up to the overall structure, supporting thestructure-process-property paradigm of materials science. The long-term goal of our research isto develop a new engineering paradigm that encompasses the design of structures and materialsstarting from the molecular level, to creating new materials that mimic and exceed the propertiesof biological analogs. We envision that my work can lead to the development of a new set oftools that can be applied, together with synthetic biological techniques, to select, design, andmanufacture a new class of materials, similar to what is done today in computer aided design ofengineering buildings, cars and machines.

Civil engineering is a broad subfield of engineering that focuses on strategies to develop andmaintain the infrastructures to enable and evolve modern civilization. Environmental engineeringis concerned with the complex interaction of synthetic structures with natural environments, andwith development of environmentally friendly engineering concepts. In both fields, materials andtheir properties play an essential role for many applications. Its fundamental, theoretical andscientific understanding is the primary goal of the research carried out in the Buehler Lab. Forexample, a better understanding of the failure mechanisms of materials has high impact inpreventing failure of existing structures. Development of new materials may lead to betterdesigns and could replace classical designs, as for example by using enviromentally friendlycoatings.

The research program will extend the ability to carry out structural engineering, as used forbuildings or bridges today, to the ultimate scale, the nanoscale. Methods developed and utilizedin nanoscience and nanotechnology will enable to make structures at such small scales.

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Federico CasalegnoAssociate Director, Design LaboratoryDirector, Mobile Experience LabMIT School of Architecture and Planning

Designing Connections: People, Places, and InformationDay 1, 12:15 pmFederico Casalegno, Ph.D., is the Director of the MIT Mobile Experience Lab and AssociateDirector of the MIT Design Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 2006,he is the director of the Green Home Alliance between the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyand the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy.

A social scientist with an interest in the impact of networked digital technologies in humanbehavior and society, Dr. Casalegno both teaches and leads advanced research at MIT, anddesign interactive media to foster connections between people, information and physical placesusing cutting-edge information technology.

Since 2004, he has also held a position as Lecturer at the MIT Media Lab Smart Cities group.

From 2004 to 2007, he worked at Motorola, Inc., as Technology and Product Innovation Analyst,designing pioneering products, experiences and services for mobile devices. Previously, from1994 to 2000, he worked at Philips Design on connected communities and new mediaenvironments to inform design and product experience planning.

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Damon CentolaAssistant Professor of System DynamicsMIT Sloan School of Management

Better Health Through Social Networking

Day 2, 12:00 pm

2011 MIT Europe ConferenceInnovation in a Networked World: Technology, People, and PlacesVienna, Austria

March 23-24, 2011

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Day 2, 12:00 pmDamon Centola received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Cornell University. He is currently a facultymember in Economic Sociology and System Dynamics at MIT. Damon's research focuses on thediffusion of collective behavior, including (1) social movements, (2) cultural differentiation, and(3) social epidemiology. His research won the 2006 American Sociological Association's Awardfor Outstanding Article in Mathematical Sociology, and has been published in the AmericanJournal of Sociology, Physica A, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Centola was a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy at Harvard University, and hasbeen a visiting scholar at the BrookingsInstitution, the Santa Fe Institute, and the Mediterranean Institute for Complex Systems.

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Ryan ChinResearch SpecialistProgram in Media Arts and Sciences

Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st CenturyDay 1, 5:15 pmRyan Chin is a doctoral student at the MIT Media laboratory in the Smart Cities research group.His research focuses on the development of personal urban mobility systems that tackle theproblems of energy efficiency, congestion, and pollution in today’s crowded cities. He has ledand managed the design development of lightweight electric vehicles (LEVs) including theCityCar, RoboScooter, and GreenWheel electric bicycle. He has also led in the development of“Mobility-on-Demand” Systems – a network of one-way shared-use LEVs enabled by electriccharging infrastructure and smart fleet management systems. In 2007 Chin co-founded the MITSmart Customization group with Professors William J. Mitchell, Marvin Minsky, and Frank T.Piller with the task of improving the ability of companies to efficiently customize products andservices across a diverse set of industries and customer groups. Chin at MIT earned a Master ofScience in Media Arts and Sciences (2004) and a Master of Architecture (2000); and Bachelor’sdegrees in Civil Engineering and Architecture from the Catholic University of America (1997).

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Beatrix KarlFederal Minister for Science & Research

Welcome and IntroductionDay 1, 9:00 amBeatrix Karl is Federal Minister for Science and Research of Austria since January 2010. Shewas born in Graz (Styria) in 1967 and studied law at the University of Graz. In December 1991,she was appointed university assistant at the Institute of Labour and Social Security Law there,in November 1995 she graduated with a PhD in law with distinction. From September 1999 toAugust 2002, Beatrix Karl was awarded an APART (Austrian Programme for AdvancedResearch and Technology) scholarship by the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the Max PlanckInstitute for Foreign and International Social Law in Munich. Since January 2003 she holds theTeaching qualification (venia docendi) in the subjects of Labour Law, Social Security Law andEuropean Law by the Faculty of Law at the University of Graz (Title of habilitation dissertation:"The effects of European competition law and of the freedom of the exchange of goods andservices on the system of benefits in kind, taking medical treatment under social security law inAustria as an example"). In March 2003, she started teaching as an Associate professor ofLabour Law, Social Security Law and European Law. From January 2005 to January 2007,Beatrix Karl was a Member of the European Committee of Social Rights of the Council ofEurope, in April 2006, she became a Member of the University Council of Colleges of Educationin Styria. While being a Member of the General Assembly from November 2006 until January2010 she became spokesperson on Science and Research of the Austrian People's Party. FromJuly 2009 to January 2010, Beatrix Karl served as Secretary General of the Austrian Workers´and Employees´ Association (ÖAAB) until she was appointed Federal Minister for Science andResearch.

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Sheila KennedyProfessor of the Practice of Architecture MIT Department of Architecture

Going SOFT: Design for Ecological Infrastructure, Mobility and the Emergent Public RealmDay 1, 3:15 pmSheila Kennedy, a Principal of Kennedy & Violich Architecture Ltd. (KVA), was appointedProfessor of the Practice in MIT's Department of Architecture in Fall 2008.

In spring 2008, Kennedy's work was featured in Design and the Elastic Mind, MOMA's exhibitionon breakthrough designs for new technologies. And last year, along with her partner FranoViolich, she was designated one of Fast Company's Masters of Design - insightful and originalthinkers 'who are designing new ways of working, competing, learning, leading and innovating --the high-impact innovators and creators who...define what design means today'.

According to department head Yung Ho Chang, 'Sheila is one of the most innovative architectstoday actively pursuing how to integrate new technology into design. Her work is also very muchconcerned with the connections between technology, the environment and social issues, goingfar beyond the scale of building to infrastructure, urbanism and product design.'

Kennedy was inspired to join MIT, she says, by President Susan Hockfield's plan to make MITthe 'energy university' and by MIT's support of Institute-wide research collaborations. Kennedy'sresearch is focused on design for emergent distributed energy paradigms in buildings, cities anddeveloping global regions; the visualization of active material networks; and the creation ofdesign applications, integration pathways and manufacturing processes for flexible, mobile andembedded technologies in materials, objects and architecture.

In 2000, Kennedy established MATx, a pioneering materials research unit at KVA to engageapplied creative production across the fields of electronics, architecture, design and materialscience. MATx explores how design can leverage the formal, aesthetic and technical propertiesof nano-materials to accelerate their entry into the building industry and meet the needs ofdifferent cultures around the world. MATx has created new designs and technology applicationsfor Dupont, Siemens, Osram, Herman Miller, Saint-Gobain, The North Face and the USDepartment of Energy.

For Herman Miller Inc., MATx designed the Convia Smart Building Infrastructure - incollaboration with engineers Applied Minds - which features a networked delivery system fordata and electricity that allows users to re-configure building services for different needs withoutwaste from demolition and re-wiring. Convia is the recipient of the prestigious 2008 Good DesignAward from the Chicago Athenaeum as well as the 2007 Buildings Innovation Award Grand

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Monika Kircher-KohlCEO Infineon Technologies Austria AG

Recent Innovations: Semiconductors and System SolutionsDay 1, 10:15 amMrs. Monika Kircher-Kohl is CEO of Infineon Technologies Austria AG. Infineon TechnologiesAustria AG with its headquarters in Villach, its Research and Development Centers in Villach,Graz, and Linz as well as its IT Services GmbH in Klagenfurt, and a Sales Office in Vienna, witha total staff of 2,550 employees throughout Austria (960 of these in research and development),generated total sales of about 903 million Euros (including DICE) in the fiscal year 2009 (to endof September). Infineon Technologies Austria AG is a member of the Infineon Technologies AGgroup of companies. Mrs. Kircher-Kohl was born in 1957 and studied Economics with finaldiploma as M.A., at the University of Economics Vienna and Mexico City. From 1981 she wasManaging Director of the regional department of the OIE (Austrian Information Service for GrowthPolicy) in Carinthia. After being a freelance consultant and lecturer at the University of Klagenfurtfrom 1988 to 1991 she became Vice Mayor of the city of Villach, responsible for Finance andEconomics, Human Resources, Culture, Education, Youth and Women. In the year 2001 shestarted her career at Infineon Technologies as Member of the Board of Executives of InfineonTechnologies Austria AG, responsible for Finance, Research & Development and HumanResources, and since 2007 as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Infineon Technologies AustriaAG responsible for Finance, Production, Human Resources and IT.

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Karl KosterExecutive DirectorMIT Office of Corporate Relations/Industrial Liaison Program

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Opening RemarksDay 2, 9:00 amKarl F. Koster is the Executive Director of the MIT Office of Corporate Relations. The Office ofCorporate Relations at MIT includes the Industrial Liaison Program, which celebrated 60 years ofservice to the Institute and its corporate partners in 2008.

In that capacity, he and his staff work with the senior administrative and faculty leadership of MITin developing and implementing strategies for enhancing corporate involvement with theInstitute. Mr. Koster has been involved with faculty leaders in identifying and designing a numberof major international programs for MIT. Many of these programs focus on institutionaldevelopment and are characterized by the establishment of strong, international, programmaticlinkages between universities, industry, and governments.

Mr. Koster graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in geology and economics in 1974, andreceived a M.S. from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1980. At the Sloan School heconcentrated in international business management and the management of technologicalinnovation. Prior to returning to MIT, Mr. Koster worked as a management consultant for sevenyears in Europe, Latin America, and the United States on projects for private and public sectororganizations.

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Joseph ParadisoAssociate Professor of Media Arts and SciencesHead, Responsive Environments GroupCo-Director, Things That Think (TTT) Consortium MIT Media Laboratory

Living with Ubiquitous Sensing and Dynamic Responsive MediaDay 2, 10:00 amJoseph Paradiso is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT MediaLaboratory, where he directs the Responsive Environments group, which explores how sensornetworks augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception. In addition, heco-directs the Things That Think Consortium, a group of industry sponsors and Media Labresearchers who explore the extreme fringe of embedded computation, communication, andsensing.

After two years developing precision drift chambers at the Lab for High Energy Physics at ETH inZurich, he joined the Draper Laboratory, where his research encompassed spacecraft controlsystems, image processing algorithms, underwater sonar, and precision alignment sensors forlarge high-energy physics detectors. He joined the Media Lab in 1994, where his currentresearch interests include embedded sensing systems and sensor networks, wearable and bodysensor networks, energy harvesting and power management for embedded sensors, ubiquitousand pervasive computing, localization systems, passive and RFID sensor architectures, human-computer interfaces, and interactive media. He has authored 200 articles and technical reportson topics ranging from computer music to power scavenging.

After receiving a BS in electrical engineering and physics summa cum laude from TuftsUniversity, Paradiso became a K.T. Compton fellow at the Lab for Nuclear Science at MIT,receiving his PhD in physics there for research conducted at CERN in Geneva.

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Carlo RattiAssociate Professor of the PracticeDirector, SENSEable City LaboratoryDirector, MIT-Italy Program (MISTI) MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

SENSEable CitiesDay 1, 11:30 amCarlo Ratti teaches at MIT, where he directs the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new researchinitiative at the Departments of Urban Studies and Planning. He has also been a Lecturer at theHarvard Design School and a Visiting Lecturer at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chauss? inParis. A civil engineer by education, Carlo graduated from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and theEcole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees in Paris, France. He holds an MPhil and Ph.D. degreein architecture from the University of Cambridge, U.K. He is founding partner and director ofCarlo Ratti Associati, an award-winning design practice based in Turin, Italy, and involved in anumber of national and international schemes. A junior fellow of the Aspen Institute, he has co-authored over fourty scientific publications and several patents. He is a regular contributor ofarticles on architecture to Domus, Casabella and the leading Italian newspapers La Stampa andIl Sole 24 Ore (Domenica).

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Roberto RigobonSloan Fellows Professor of EconomicsMIT Sloan School of Management

Real Time Inflation and the Billion Prices ProjectDay 2, 9:15 amRoberto Rigobon's areas of research are international economics, monetary economics, anddevelopment economics. In international economics, Roberto focuses on the causes of balance-of-payments crises, financial crises, and the propagation of them across countries - thephenomenon that has been identified in the literature as contagion. He has developedeconometric techniques to determine the existence of contagion and the extent of it. Currently heis working with Anna Pavlova to develop theoretical models of multiple assets in generalequilibrium to study the interaction between terms of trade, stock markets, exchange rates, andfinancial constraints. He is also working with Gita Gopinath in a series of papers understandingfirm’s international pricing practices.

In monetary economics, he studies the behavior of financial markets and their interaction withmonetary policy. In particular, his two most recent papers in the area study: (i) how the FederalReserve in the US determines its interest rate policy when there is an increase in the stockmarket index, and (ii) what is the impact of monetary policy shocks in asset prices. Currently heis studying the impact of war related events on asset prices as well as the impact ofmacroeconomic announcements on the stock market and the yield curve. Most of this research isjoint work with Brian Sack. They have developed the empirical methodologies to attend theproblems of simultaneous equations and errors-in-variables that afflict the data and madeimpossible the estimation of these questions with standard econometric techniques.

In development economics, he has studied the behavior of the exchange rate when countriesimplement fiscal reforms, when central banks intervene in the foreign exchange rate market, aswell as when there are financial imperfections and capital controls. Currently he us studying theimpact of institutions on the income disparities across countries, and also measuring howincome levels determine the quality of institutions.

Roberto is currently a professor at the Sloan School of Management, MIT, a faculty research

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Richard SchenzVice PresidentAustrian Federal Economic Chamber

Welcome and IntroductionDay 1, 9:00 amDr. Richard Schenz studied technical physics in Vienna and finished with a Ph.D. In 1969 hestarted his career with the Austrian oil & gas company OMV, and was its CEO from 1992 to 2001.In 2001, Dr. Schenz was appointed representative for the Austrian Capital Market by the Austriangovernment. Additionally, Dr. Schenz holds the positions of vice President of the AustrianFederal Economic Chamber and President of the International Chamber of Commerce in Austria(ICC-Austria). In 2002, he was appointed Chairman of the Austrian commission for corporategovernance.Read More

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Michael SchrageResearch AffiliateMIT Sloan School of Management

Value Creation, Experimentation, and Why IT Does MatterDay 1, 9:30 amMichael Schrage is a research fellow at the MIT Sloan School's Center for Digital Business andvisiting scholar at London's Imperial College. He researches, writes and advises on thebehavioral economics of innovation. His work focuses on the role of models, prototypes andexperiments as collaborative media for managing innovation risk. He's contributed on thesethemes for the Harvard Business Review, the Sloan Management Review, strategy+business,the Financial Times, Technology Review, IEEE Software, CIO magazine and other publications.

He has run workshops and taught executive education classes on 'innovation risk management'and '5X5 Xperimentation' worldwide. He's worked with organizations including IBM, Microsoft,Bankinter, Google, SAS, Mars, Siemens, NASDAQ, iRise, Objet, BT and Wells Fargo on both ITimplementation and innovation issues. He also helps oversee a joint Accenture/Yale MillsteinCenter research initiative on technology's role in improving corporate governance. He serves onMIT's Lincoln Labs technical advisory committee and has performed non-classified work ontechnology management themes for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, theOffice of Net Assessment and the State Department. He helped launch the Center for Strategicand International Studies' workshop series and publication on 'complex systems' procurements.A senior advisor to MIT's Security Studies Program and formerly co-director of the MIT MediaLab's eMarkets Initiative, his book 'Serious Play' [2000] has been a best-seller for the HarvardBusiness School Press, and adopted as a text by several MBA and undergraduate programs."Shared Minds: The New Technologies of Collaboration" [Random House 1990] was the firstbook published exploring technology's central role as "shared space" for creative collaborationin business, science and the arts.

He has been a reporter for the Washington Post and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times andFortune magazine. As a Merrill, Lynch Forum Fellow, he designed and served as executivedirector of its global Innovation Grants Competition which invited PhD candidates fromdisciplines and universities around the world to answer questions about the potential commercialapplications of their thesis research. The IGC evaluated over 500 entrants and disbursed over$250,000 in grants over its three years.

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Alex SlocumNeil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical EngineeringDirector, Experimental Study Group (ESG)Margaret MacVicar Faculty FellowDirector, Precision Engineering Research Group (PERG) MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

Innovation in Medical Device Development: Solving Medical Challenges while Designing andManufacturing Engineers for Continuous ImprovementDay 1, 2:30 pmAlexander Slocum is the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, a MacVicarFaculty Teaching Fellow, and a Fellow of the ASME. He has six dozen+ US patentsissued/pending, and has helped develop 12 products that have been awarded R&D 100 awards.Alex was the Massachusetts Professor of the Year in 2000, and is the recipient of the Society ofManufacturing Engineer’s Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal, and the ASME LeonardodaVinci and Machine Design Award. His current interests focus on the development of precisionmachines from medical devices and instruments to renewable energy harvesting and storagemachines. Recently he served on the DoE Science Team working on the Gulf Oil Spill. Sincehigh school days, Alex has had a passion for furniture making and carpentry. Alex also lovessports from SCUBA to snowboarding to iron-distance triathlons and marathons.

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