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World Standards Cooperation (WSC) Academic Day 2013

Education in standardization for future managers - Needs and prospects

Theme: Education in standardization for future managers - Needs and prospects

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.

Time Programme
Chair: Prof. Masami Tanaka (President, JSA)
9:00 - 9:20

Session 1: What company managers and professionals exposed to or involved in standardization need to know

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)

9:20 – 10:30 Roundtable discussions mixing experts from industry, university professors and representatives of standards institutes
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
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

Speakers: Daniele Gerundino (ISO), Jack Sheldon (IEC), Alessia Magliarditi (ITU), Serguei Kouzmine (UN/ECE)

11:45 – 12:45 Roundtable discussions mixing experts from industry, university professors and representatives of standards institutes
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Session 3: How universities can provide education about standardization

Reflections about the role and function of universities in teaching standardization

Speaker: Michel Jaccard Senior Scientific Advisor to the Presidency and Director of International Affairs and Accreditation, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Introduction to the standards education programme related to Social ICT at Tokyo University Speaker: Prof. Masami Tanaka (President, JSA)

14:20 - 16:00 Roundtable discussions mixing experts from industry, university professors and representatives of standards institutes
16:00 - 16:15 Closure of the workshop

 

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