Mr. Reinhard Scholl, Deputy to the Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (ITU-TSB) [ BIOGRAPHY | OPENING REMARKS ]
Keynote Speaker:
Mr. John You, University of Sydney – “Using Submarine Communications Networks to Monitor the Climate – an Overview” [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
15:30 – 17:30
Session 1: The Science - Tools to Monitor Oceans and Climate Variables
Submarine cables can be used as a real-time global network to monitor climate change and to provide tsunami warnings.
Future generations of cables and associated components could have the capacity to directly measure climate variables, such as water temperature, salinity and pressure on the ocean floor. All this could be achieved over long periods of time at low cost.
Despite a wide range of tools to monitor oceans, oceanographers cannot measure water variables at the sea floor. The workshop highlights how new and old submarine telecommunication cables could fill this gap.
Moderator:
Mr. David Meldrum, Consultant, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
Speakers:
Mr. Wenjian Zhang, Director, Observing
and Information Systems (OBS)
Department, World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) [ PRESENTATION ]
Mr. Jean-François Rolin, European Sea Observatory Network of Excellence (ESONET) [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
Mr. Paolo Favali, Research Director,
Head of the Marine Unit “RIDGE”,
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e
Vulcanologia (INGV), Italy [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
17:30 - 17:45
Preparation for the World Café
Ms. Saba Imru, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau [
PRESENTATION ]
Friday, 9 September 2011
09:30 - 11:00
Session 2: The Technology - the State of the Art of Submarine Cables and Repeaters Technologies
The purpose of this session is to stimulate telecommunication companies to redesign new generation of multipurpose cables and repeaters and develop new technologies and standards for layered system to meet the demand in monitoring climate change.
Moderator:
Mr. Paul Holthus, Executive Director,
World Ocean Council (WOC) [ BIOGRAPHY ]
Speakers:
Mr. Michael Costin, Director of
International Cable Protection Committee
(ICPC) [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
Mr. Maurice Kordahi, TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Company [ PRESENTATION ]
Session 3: The Business - Economic Models, Cost Effectiveness and Trade-off Analysis
This session aims at comparing costs and benefits of different warning systems. Submarine cables can be a cost-effective opportunity for telecommunication companies’ business.
Moderator:
Mr. Reinhard Scholl, Deputy to the Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (ITU-TSB) [ BIOGRAPHY ]
Speakers:
Mr. Geoffroy De Dinechin, Vice President Operations, FT Marine, France Telecom [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
Mr. Andres Figoli, Telefónica International Wholesale Services
[ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:15
Session 4: The Law - Legal Implications
This session aims at resolving various legal and standardizing issues in order to encourage and support telecommunications companies to play an active role in building the real-time global climate change monitoring network.
Moderator:
Dr. Reto Dürler, Head of Swiss Maritime Navigation Office (SMNO), Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDA) [ BIOGRAPHY ]
Speakers:
Dr. Anastasia Strati, Expert for the Law of the Sea, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greece [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
Mr. Vladimír Jareš, Senior Legal Officer, UN Office of Law and Sea (DOALOS) [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
Mr. Douglas R. Burnett, Lawyer, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (US) LLP and Legal Advisor of ICPC [ BIOGRAPHY | PRESENTATION ]
15:15 - 17:30
Session 5: World Café
This last session of the workshop
invites the active involvement of each
and every participant in a collaborative
conversation around the key questions
and issues emerging from the previous
sessions.
Given the pioneering topic of the
workshop, this shared dialogue
facilitates intensive peer exchanges and
is an excellent means to consolidate an
open network of world-class experts in
the field.
Open to all ITU Green Standards Week
participants.
