Panelists

Panel 1: Changing Industry Needs, new Technology Suppliers

• Andrew Bredenkamp, Acrolinx, Germany

  Presentation: Beyond the Technology

• Berhard Steimel, Mind Business Consultants, Germany

  Presentation: Voice Applications put to the Test

• Nick Wright, LINK, United-Kingdom

  Presentation: The Edinburgh-Stanford Link, Translating Language Technology into Business Benefit

Panel 2: Speech and Language Technology Market: is the Future getting clearer?

• Peter Ryan, Datamonitor, United-Kingdom

  Presentation: Voice Applications Opportunities in the EMEA 

• Rose Lockwood, Bowne Global Solutions, United-Kingdom

  Presentation: Market Opportunities for LangTech: unscrambling KM

Panel 3: Support of Language Technologies through national and European Programmes 

• Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI, Germany 

  Panel Moderator - Introduction 

• Joseph Mariani, Ministry of Research and New Technologies, France 

  Presentation: Language Technologies & the ERA: let's join Forces!

• Giovani Varile, European Commission, Luxemburg 

  Presentation: Information Society Technologies and Language Technology

• Bernd Reuse, Federal Ministry of Enducation and Research, Germany   

  Presentation: Breakthroughs in Human Technology Interaction

Panel 4: Future Directiions 

• Roger Moore, 20/20 Speech Ltd, United-Kingdom 

  Presentation: Predicting the Future of Speech Technology - Speculation & Trends