SPEAKERS
Managing complex international projects – Lessons
from EU project NM2
Seminar –
Heidelberg, 25 January 2006
Kai Tullius, European Commission
Kai Tullius works as a Project Officer for the European Commission,
Information Society and Media Directorate-General, Knowledge and Content
Technologies Unit, which is based in Luxembourg. Before he joined the
Commission in 2004, Mr Tullius worked for a software company in Berlin,
Germany, where he coordinated European research projects. He received his
Master’s degree in national economics in 1996 from the University of
Hamburg.
Anastasius Gavras has been working for six years as project manager at
Eurescom in the area of security, middleware, and management of networks &
systems. After his studies at the Technical University Berlin he was
working for five years at the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum and GMD-FOKUS in Berlin
in the area of broadband networks and ATM. In 1994 he joined Deutsche
Telekom AG as an engineer and project leader in research and development
with a special focus on middleware issues. Before joining Eurescom Mr
Gavras worked at Sprint Technology and Integration group.
Douglas Williams, BT, Technical Project Manager of NM2
Doug Williams works in the Broadband Applications Research centre
of BT's Research and Venturing team. He is the project director for
NM2 (New Media for a New Millennium), a European Collaborative
project developing new forms of TV-like media that can be delivered
over broadband and shaped by the viewer to suit their preferences.
Doug has been involved in research into the changing nature of the
media resulting from the Internet, and more recently broadband, for
about 10 years, but originally joined BT, in 1987, to develop novel
optical fibres, a topic in which he holds a PhD.
Peter Stollenmayer, Eurescom, Co-ordinator of NM2
Peter Stollenmayer has worked in telecommunications for more than 25
years. After working for Deutsche Telekom and Shape Technical Centre, in
1997 he changed to Eurescom, where he has led many projects in the area of
telecommunication users and markets. Currently he is coordinator of the
FP6 Integrated Project NM2 (New Media for a New Millennium), and involved
in the FP6 project SOCQUIT, which is focusing on quality of life, social
capital and ICTs.
Klaas-Pieter Vlieg has been working as Manager IT Services at Eurescom in
Heidelberg since 1994. He is managing a wide range of support services for
collaborative projects, including the web-based reporting tool Eurescom
Project Reporter, communication services like mailing-lists and
audio-conferencing as well as secure web servers. Before joining Eurescom,
he was a security expert and researcher at Dutch telecoms network operator
KPN for six years.
Thomas Koch is working as a managing director at OrbiTeam Software GmbH
since 2002 and is responsible for the management of customer driven and
research related projects. He was born in 1970 and has graduated with a
Master of Computer Science degree at the University of Bonn in 1997.
Before joining OrbiTeam he has worked as a research scientist at GMD
Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH in the area of Computer
Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).
Uwe Herzog is programme manager at Eurescom responsible for projects in
the areas of service platforms, next-generation networks and mobile
communications. He has organised several workshops on the above topics,
bringing together experts from research, network operation and marketing.
Mr Herzog holds a M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the
University of Chemnitz, Germany. Before he joined Eurescom in 2000, he
worked for Deutsche Telekom Research Centre in Darmstadt (1993-1998),
where he was mainly involved in Intelligent Networks and TINA. Since 1999
he was with T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft mbH, where he
worked in the research and development department.
Marian F. Ursu, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Marian Ursu completed his undergraduate studies in Computer Science in
Romania. After graduation (1990), he worked as a Lecturer for 5 years at
the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania). During this time, he
was a member of the core team that set up and managed a large joint
international EU Tempus project. In 1995 he came to the UK to do a PhD in
Artificial Intelligence at Brunel University, Department of Computing and
Information Systems. Since 1998 he is a Lecturer in the Department of
Computing, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and since 2002 he is
the department's Director of Studies. Marian's research is in Symbolic AI
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Currently, he leads the
Goldsmiths' participation in NM2 and co-runs a research project with the
Tate.
Anja Walter has worked as a project manager since 1991. She is
now working for LearnAct! GmbH as a coach and consultant. In 2002,
she established initii, an international consultancy based in the
Frankfurt area. Ms. Walter has over ten years of experience as
consultant, manager and coach in international projects, including
international software projects and roll-outs, international process
redesign and strategic planning.
Folkert Teernstra is a lawyer by education. In 1993 he joined the legal
and IPR staff of KPN Telecom, the Dutch incumbant telecom operator, where
his tasks included IPR-exploitation and legal and IPR support of
collaborative R&D projects. He also represented KPN in the TNOCG, one of
the four special interest groups that were responsible for the most widely
used model Consortium Agreement in the telecom business. In 2003 he joined
the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research - TNO, where
he is in charge of legal and IPR matters of TNO ICT, one of the five
divisions of TNO.
Milon Gupta, Eurescom (Moderator)
Milon Gupta works as public relations officer at the European project
management company Eurescom GmbH in Heidelberg, Germany. In this function
he is the editor-in-chief of the R&D magazine Eurescom mess@ge and
responsible for dissemination activities in several EU projects, including
NM2, DAIDALOS, and ALIPRO. He has more than twelve years of consulting and
management experience in corporate communications and holds a master's
degree in history, political science, and communication science from
Bochum University, Germany.