Chairman:
Jean-Charles Hourcade, President of NEM

Opening and Welcome Address

• Henri-Jean Lebeau, Président de Saint-Malo Agglomération
• Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media, European Commission (through video)
• Jean-Yves Le Drian, Président de la Région Bretagne
• André Lespagnol, Vice-Président de la Région Bretagne chargé de l'enseignement supérieur, de la recherche et de l'innovation

Keynote Address

• Media and the Internet at the Croassroads
  Joao Da Silva, Director of Directorate D (Converged Networks & Services) of the EC's DG Information Society and Media

Session Chairman:
Gérard Madec, Telecom Bretagne

• The evolutions of the Digital Broadcast Landscape (invited paper)
  Gérard Faria, Executive Director, Teamcast
• Multicast distribution of Digital Cinema
  Giuseppe Baruffa, University of Perugia
• Personalised Media Streaming for Large Athletic Events
  Paul Moore, Atos Research & Innovation

Session Chairman:
Julian Sesena, Director, Rose Vision

• Network Domain Federation - Infrastructure for Federated Testbeds (invited paper)
  Sebastien Wahle, FOKUS, Fraunhofer
• Cost Effective Testing with Artificial Labour
  Harri Ketamo, Tampere University of Technology
• User media consumption measurement in new convergent platforms
  Federico Alvarez, Carlos Alberto Martin, Guillermo Cisneros, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
  Damien Alliez, NDS
  Natalia Fernandez, Mirada

Session Chairman:
Andrew Oliphant, BBC

• Evaluation of Diversity Gains for DVB-T Systems
  Raffaele Di Bari, John Cosmas, Brunel University
  Maurice Bard, Broadreach Systems
• Delivery of 3D Video over DVB-H: Building the Channel
  Mikko Oksanen, Antti Tikanmski, Atanas Gotchev, Tampere University of Technology
• Stereo Video Broadcasting Simulation for
  DVB-H
  Oguz Bici, Anil Aksay, Gozde Bozdagi Akar, Middle East Technical University
  Antti Tikanmski, Atanas Gotchev, Tampere University of Technology

Session Chairman:
Prof. Tolga Capin, Bilkent University

• HoloVizio True 3D Display System
  Tibor Balogh, Peter Tamas Kovacs, Zoltan Megyesi, Attila Barsi, Holografika
• HYPOLED: High-Performance OLED-Microdisplays for See-Through Mobile Multimedia Applications
  Uwe Vogel, Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems
  Ian Underwood, Microemissive Displays
  Gunter Notni, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Mechanics
  Christian Zilstorff, Mobile Internet Technology A/S
  Klaus Meerholz, Universitat zu Koeln
• Image Defect Correction based on self-updating defect map
  Arcangelo Bruna, Angelo Bosco, Filippo Naccari, Ivana Guarneri, STMicroelectronics

Chairman:
Luis Rodriguez-Rosello, Head of Unit Networked Audiovisual Systems of the EC's DG Information Society and Media

• Content Providers and the Networks
  Matteo Maggiore, Controller EU and International Policy, BBC

• Research Activities on Ultra-Realistic Communications in Japan
  Kazumasa Enami, NICT and Universal Media Research Center

Session Chairman:
David Kennedy, Director, Eurescom GmbH

• Multimedia transmission in a managed P2P network: making sense?
  Letian Xu, Kamal Singh, Gilles Straub, INRIA Rennes
  Adlen Ksentini, University of Rennes 1
• Hybrid Fixed-Mobile P2P Super-distribution
  Antoni Oller, Andre Rios, Jesus Alcober, Technical University of Catalonia
• A Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming Platform for High-Quality Media Services
  Alberto Jose Gonzalez, Francisco Jose Crespo, Andre Rios, Technical University of Catalonia
  Xavier Mila, Pompeu Fabra University
  Francesc Enrich, Ramon Llul University
• Hard limits in Peer-to-Peer streaming
  Njal Borch, Marte Skadsem, Norut

Session Chairman:
Malte Behrmann, European Game Developer Federation

• Talhonia: empowering collaborative storytelling
  Orlando Verde, Bert Bruynooghe, Hans Van Herreweghe, Alcatel-Lucent
  Amela Karahasanovic, Petter Bae Brandtzag, SINTEF
• A Service Oriented Approach to Online Digital Audiovisual Archives
  Matthew Addis, Richard Lowe, Charlotte Norlund, University of Southampton
• Distributed video acquisition and annotation for sport-event summarization
  C. De Vleeschouwer, Fan Chen, D. Delannay, UCL/TELE
  C. Parisot, C. Chaudy, ACIC sa
  E. Martrou, Mediapro / A. Cavallaro, QMUL
• PORTIVITY: Object Based Interactive Mobile TV System
  Gabriel Fernandez, Alejandro Lopez, Ramon Llull University
  Joerg Deigmoeler, IRT

Session Chairman:
Jean-Charles Point, CTO, JCP-Consult

• Research on Networks and Media in the framework programme: Results, Trends and Prospects (invited paper)
  Luis Rodriguez-Rosello, Head of Unit Networked Audiovisual Systems of the EC's DG Information Society and Media
• OMEGA ICT project: Home Network platform to support Gigabit applications
  Jean-Philippe Javaudin, Martial Belled, Arnaud Joly, Orange Labs
• QoE-driven Broadband Access
  Pieter Nooren, TNO
  Steven Latre, IBBT
  Barry Crabtree, BT
  Mario Kind, T-Systems
• High Speed WAN Data Transmission for Globalized Content Production Environments
  Eduard Siemens, Carsten Herpel, Ralf Koehler, Andreas Aust, Thomson Corporate Research

Session Chairman:
Guillermo Cisneros, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

• Amigo: Ambient Intelligence for the Networked Home Environment (invited paper)
  Maddy Janse, Principal Scientist, Philips Research
• Designing an IPTV service for academic and research communities
  Pantelis Balaouras, University of Athens
  Stellios Sartzetakis, Greek Research Network
• Communication Mashups: Using The Web Towards a New Communication Paradigm
  Philippe Larvet, Vincent Billault, Benoit Christophe, Paul Labrogere, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
• reTubing Video Content
  Paulo Reis, Hugo Dias, Fausto de Carvalho, Bernardo Cardoso, PT Inovacao

16:00 - 17:20

Session Chairman:
Federico Alvarez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

• End-to-end QoS signaling in the Next Generation Networks
  Ana Minaburo, Jean-Charles Point, JCP-Consult
• Hierarchical Management Concept for Efficient Wireless Media Transmissions
  Christian Schiling, Oliver Hundt, Ruediger Kays, Dortmund University of Technology
• Security, Privacy and Trust Challenges for Networked and Electronic Media
  James Clarke, William Donnelly, Keith Howker, Waterford Institute of Technology
  Paul Walland, Mile Surridge, University of Southampton
• Safim@ge
  Alain Maillet, Alcatel-Lucent
  Fred Rivard, Industrial Software Technology
  Florent Autrusseau, Remi Lehn, Marc Gelgon, Université de Nantes

Session Chairman:
Gianpaolo Balboni, Telecom Italia

• An Open Service Infrastructure for Enriching Networked Interactive Multimedia Experiences in a Converged World
  Cristian Hesselman, Telematica Instituut
• Interactive service enablers
  Anthony Laurent, Yvon Legallais, Thomson R&D
• NORDIC Norway's digital interoperability in cinemas
  Andrew Perkis, NTNU-Q2S
  Patrick Von Suchowski, COO Adlabs Digital Cinemas
  Dave Spilde, Unique Cinema Systems
• T-Learning Systems Applications, Interoperability and iTv portability
  Marco Recchioni, University of L'Aquila; Giuliano Benelli, University of Siena; Valentina Castello, Chiara Sancin, Vittorio Dell'Aiuto, DIDA, Rome

17:30 - 18:45

Session Chairman:
Maddy D. Janse - Philips: Future Media Internet Strategies

Discussion Paper

• Towards Future 3D Media Internet
  Theodore Zahariadis, Synelixis
  Petros Daras, CERTH/ITI
  Isidro Laso-Ballesteros, European Commission

• Panelists: Pervasive Media & 'In the moment' Interaction
  Phil Stenton - HP
  Douglas Williams - BT
  Eyjolfur Gudmundsson - CCP
  
  

Session Chairman:
Pierre-Yves Danet, Head of R&D for Home Services, Orange

• Collective cybernetic ecology: how Media and Networks Cluster sketches new trails for the future (invited paper)
  Jean-Noel Portugal, Associate Partner at Intuneo
• Distributed Call Admission Control in SIP Based Multimedia Communication
  Christophe Lohr, Annie Gravey, Sajjad Ali Mushtaq, Osman Salem, Telecom Bretagne Brest
• Prodim@ges - A new Video Production Environment based on IP wireless and optical links
  Francoise Le Bolzer, Samuel Guillouard, Charline Guguen, Patrick Fontaine, Raoul Monnier, Thomson R&D
• Bringing Thin Clients to the Mobile World
  Bart Dhoedt, Lien Deboosere, Pieter Simoens, Bert Vankeirsblick, IBBT

Session Chairman:
Jean-Dominique Meunier, General Secretary, Thomson R&D France

• INTERMEDIA: Interactive Media with Personalized Networked Devices (invited paper)
  Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Coordinator of the INTERMEDIA Project
• A Language Modeling Approach to Image Classification
  Pierre Tirily, Vincent Claveau, CNRS/IRISA
  Patrick Gros, INRIA/IRISA
• Visual tools for assisting child pornography investigators
  Pieter Eendebak, TNO Science and Industry
  Wessel Kraaij, Stephan Raaijmakers, Elena Ranguelova, TNO ICT
  Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam
• FAMC: The emerging MPEG-4 Specification for Dynamic 3D Mesh Coding
  Francoise Preteux, Titus Zaharia, Institut Telecom

Session Chairman:
Karine Valin, Managing Director, Sigma-Orionis
Julian Sesena, Director, Rose Vision

• Promoting and supporting the development of ICT research cooperation between Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Caribbean
  Roseline Favresse, EuroAfriCa-ICT Project
• S&T/ICT Strategic Cooperation with Southeast Asia
  Roger Torrenti, SEACOOP Project
• Opportunities of Cooperation with Russia
  Franck Le Gall, ISTOK Project
• Cooperation on ICT research between Europe, Japan & South Korea
  Tabea Lumpp, COJAK Project

Session Chairman:
Christoph Dosch, General Manager Collaborative Research, Institut fuer Rundfunktechnik GmbH

• An Admission Control Approach for 802.11e-based Wireless Networks
  Aleksej Spenst, Thorsten Herfet, Saarland University
• On the applicability of predictive multicast rate adaptation for audiovisual streaming in WLANs
  Jochen Miroll, Thorsten Herfet, Saarland University
• Mobile WiMAX 16E Field Trials
  Antonio Pereira, Nelson Cabral, Nuno Coelho, Antonio Navarro, Telecommunications Institute / Aveiro University

Session Chairman:
Atanas Gotchev, Tampere University of Technology

• Improved Algorithm for Fast Bit Rate Transcoding H.264/AVC
  Philippe Bordes, Anita Orhand, Thomson
• Digital Video Stabilisation in modern and next generation imaging systems
  Arcangelo Bruna, Alessandro Capra, STMicroelectronics
  Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Puglisi, University of Catania
• Beyond DCI: The integration of object oriented 3D sound into the Digital Cinema
  Gabriel Gatzsche, Fraunhofer IDMT
  Benoit Michel, UCL, Louvain
  Jerome Delvaux, XDC
  Lutz Altmann, IOSONO

Chairman:
Eric Schutz, Chairman of the Technical Programme Committee of the 2008 NEM Summit - Business Development Director, STMicroelectronics

Keynote Address

• Developing Sustainable Lifestyles with Ambient Media
  Boris de Ruyter, Principal Scientist, User Experience Department, Philips Research Europe

Best Paper Award

• Eric Schutz, Chairman of the Technical Programme Committee of the 2008 NEM Summit - Business Development Director, STMicroelectronics

Closing Session

• Upcoming FP7 Calls in the NEM area
  Luis Rodriguez-Rosello, Head of Unit Networked Audiovisual Systems of the EC's DG Information Society and Media