World Standards Cooperation (WSC) ACADEMIC DAY 2013
Theme: Education in standardization for future managers - Needs and prospects
Date: 14 June 2013
Location:
Sophia Antipolis, premises of the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI)
Objectives:
Promoting cooperation between standards bodies, universities and standards experts
(representing companies from different sectors)
Format:
Short presentations to highlight issues and kick-start discussions. Most of the work to be
conducted in the form of roundtable discussions.
Expected outcome:
Participants learn from each other: improved understanding of education needs, of existing
programmes and approaches. The conference triggers the launch of new initiatives, such as:
exchange of materials, new courses on standardization, extended contribution of industry
experts to university courses, new or strengthened partnerships between standards bodies and
universities
Draft Programme - WSC Academic Day, 14 June 2013, Sophia Antipolis (France) Time
Programme
Chair: Prof. Masami Tanaka (President, JSA)
Session 1: What company managers and professionals exposed to or
involved in standardization need to know
9:00 - 9:20
9:20 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
Keynote speech
The view of a standards leader at the forefront of a number of initiatives that
have helped shape media technology and business as we know them today
Speaker: Leonardo Chiariglione
CEO of CEDEO.net and Chair of MPEG (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 –
Coding of moving pictures and audio)
Roundtable discussions mixing experts from industry, university professors
and representatives of standards institutes
Coffee Break
Last update: 2013‐05‐26 Draft Programme - WSC Academic Day, 14 June 2013, Sophia Antipolis (France) 11:00 - 11:45
Session 2: ISO, IEC, ITU and UN/ECE contributions to university
programmes covering standardization
Update on initiatives of ISO, IEC, ITU and UN/ECE aiming at supporting and
promoting education about standardization in universities and involvement of
academia in standardization
11:45 – 12:45
12:45 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:20
Speakers: Daniele Gerundino (ISO), Jack Sheldon (IEC), Alessia
Magliarditi (ITU), Serguei Kouzmine (UN/ECE)
Roundtable discussions mixing experts from industry, university professors
and representatives of standards institutes
Lunch Break
Session 3: How universities can provide education about
standardization
Reflections about the role and function of universities in teaching
standardization
Speaker: Olga Correa Pinillos
University of Geneva, PhD candidate and Coordinator of the Master’s
Programme “Standardization, Social Regulation, and Sustainable
Development”
Introduction to the standards education programme related to Social ICT at
Tokyo University
14:20 - 16:00
Speaker: Prof. Masami Tanaka (President, JSA)
Roundtable discussions mixing experts from industry, university professors
and representatives of standards institutes
16:00 - 16:15
16:15 - 16:45
Closure of the workshop
Coffee
Last update: 2013‐05‐26