THE CONFERENCES' PROCEEDINGS ARE NOW AVAILABLE

You can download them at the conference/Agenda 3 May  by clicking on the title of each intervention.  

May 3rd, 2012 - Milan  

NH Hotel Fiera

Since 2002, the leading tradeshow dedicated to M2M world

Coming soon the 11th edition of M2M Forum, the European event dedicated to the world of machine to machine communication. Energy is 2012 topic.

Since 2002, M2M Forum is the leading Italian tradeshow dedicated to the world of communication between machines that accelerates the development dynamics of the machine-to-machine world and brings together high profile Italian and foreign professionals, in order to analyse the drastic changes in technology and business.

The synergy between Telecommunication and Energy finds new strenght in M2M world. The increase of wireless technologies’ use and the evolution of the machine to machine’s modules reinforce and favour the meeting between the industrial automation world and the mobile economy’s one.

The M2M Forum as always includes C-level partecipants and is quickly becoming the main showcase of machine to machine solutions for the economic recovery and sustainable development of Italy. This is an event highly focused on M2M solutions for vertical sectors such as: energy management, remote control and remote management of plants, automotive, safety and smart city.

With the most comprehensive Conference Program, the event features important international case histories and prestigious institutional speeches. A selected audience of managers from user companies, Public Utilities , Public Administration  and  carriers is always present.

The participation to M2M Forum 2011 is free after registration and reserved to industry's professionals.

FOCUS 2012

M2M 2012 agenda is structured in order to be an International plenary session of wide cultural breath characterized trough technical and marketing oriented workshop and the contribution of the principal market leaders, experts and analyst beside primary national and international institutions.

Core topic of 2012 edition is:

M2M for Smart Grid: Smart Metering will be the topic discussed in the dedicated parallel session. Italy is the leader in the future application of Smart Grids for the introduction and use of an Electronic Meter for electricity and gas in Europe. Particular attention will be turned on  remote distance control systems and tele management of green plants for energetic and distributive micro/cogeneration (included electric car recharging). The purpose of this event is to provide an overview of all the available M2M solution to those who are called to manage production and distribution of energy from alternative sources and more generally reduce energy costs.

This topic will be discussed by Alberto Biancardi, Commissioner of Authority for the Electric Energy and Gas and other authorities in the world of telecommunication and energy.   

Among the sessions on the agenda can be reported:

- Manage security and reliability of the Smart Grid: Opportunities and Challenges for the M2M world (Thursday, 3rd May 2012  h 14:30-15:30)

- AMR & Smart Metering in the light of the resolution AEEG ARG/Gas 155/08 (Thursday, 3rd May h 15:30-16:30)

- Roundtable: Smart Grid and M2M, the first two blocks to build the near future sustainable smart city (Thursday, 3rd May h 16:30-17:30)

THE ETSI M2M STANDARD AD ITS GLOBALIZATION IN ONEM2M
Amsterdam room h 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Enrico Scarrone, Chairman ETSI TC M2M

ETSI has released a multiservice layer enabling an easier and efficient access to the telecommunication network functionalities, designed to support a wide range of services over different underlying networks. The presentation provides an overview of the architectural principles and the most relevant functionalities, moving to its globalization in the telecommunication community, by means of a global Partnership Project (oneM2M) leveraging on the successful experience of 3GPP, that has so strongly supported the developments of the third and fourth generation of the cellular networks.

Speakers:

Martin Adolph, Programme Officer, Policy & Technology Watch Division, ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
Marco Allois, Investment advisor, Intesa Sanpaolo
Enrico Altran, Director of Water and Gas Department, AcegasAps
Paolo Anselmo, President, IBAN Italian Business Angels
Nikola Balj, Regional Sales Director Italy & SE Europe, Telit Wireless Solutions
Alberto Biancardi, Commissioner, Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas
Marco Canesi, Sales & Marketing Manager M2M – Italy, Vodafone Global Enterprise
Gianpiero Carocci  Silvagni, Machine To Machine Product Manager, Vodafone Global Enterprise
Furio Cascetta, Full Professor of Measurement Systems at the Faculty of Engineering, Second University of Naples
Fabio Cassin, Channel Sales Manager, Psion Italia
Fabien Castanier,  Promoter Member, IPSO Alliance
Francesco Castorina, Secretary General,  CIG - Italian Gas Committee
Pietro Cerami, Marketing Manager, Pietro Fiorentini
Carlo Cernuto, Business Development Manager, Nazca Ricerca
Mario Citelli , CEO, NEON Club
Edoardo Colombo, Councillor,  Government Agency for Technology and Innovation
Antonio De Bellis, Vice-President,  Chairman of the Group Remote Control, Monitoring and Automation Networks ,  AssoAutomazione/ANIE and Member of the Group “Knowledge Network on Energy & Mobility”, WEC- World Energy Council
Maurizio Dècina, Full Professor of  Telecommunications, Polythecnic Institute of Milan
Michele de Nigris, President ISGAN - International Smart Grid Action Network
Fabrizio Dominici, Head, Microsoft Innovation Center Torino
Robin Duke-Woolley, Founder and CEO, Beecham Research
Ezio Drappo,CEO, Etneo Italy
Nicola Fabiano, Lawyer at Studio Legale Fabiano, Privacy & ICT law Expert, Member of the Council of The Internet of Things
Gianluigi Ferri, Founder & CEO, Innovability
Massimo Fucci, Editor-in-Chief, NewsImpresa
Diego Gavagnin, AIEE - Associazione Italiana degli Economisti dell'Energia
Cristiano Ghersi, Product Manager, Abo Data
Giovanni Guerri, President  and CEO,  Guglielmo
Simon Hughes, Chief Commercial Officer, Green Energy Options
Alessandro Longo, Journalist
Susy Longoni, International Project Manager, Innovhub Stazioni Sperimentali per l’Industria
Anvay Lonkar, Marketing Manager, M2M Solutions and Services, Cinterion-Gemalto
Carlo Marchisio, President, ANIPLA-Milan
Carlo Maria Medaglia, Scientific Coordinator of CATTID Labs, CATTID, “Sapienza” University of Rome
Magnus Melander, CEO, B3 Connect Compute
Tiziano Modotti, Corporate Product Manager, Eurotech
Alessio Murroni, Regional Sales Director Western Europe, Cambium Networks
Olivier Pauzet,  Director, Marketing and Market Strategy, Sierra Wireless
Gianmarco Piola ,Head of the ICT Innovation Pole, Torino Wireless Foundation
Mario Pitassi, CEO and Chairman, Technology Estate
Roberto Quadrini, Senior Manager, Concept Reply
Walter Roffinoli, Managing Director, BSS Extend
Fulvio Sarzana di Sant'Ippolito, Lawyer, Sarzana e Associati Law Firm
Enrico Scarrone, Chairman ETSI TC M2M
Antonio Solinas, Head of R&D Group, Akhela
Georg Steimel, Head of M2M Solutions, Huawei
Antonino Vicari, Sales Manager north of Italy B!
Cyril Zeller, Global Telematics Segment Senior Sales Director, Telit Wireless Solutions