Dirk van Rooy - DG INFSO, European Commission

Dirk van Rooy has been working for the European Commission since 1993, in the Directorate-General Information Society and Media and its predecessors. Dirk van Rooy's current main area of responsibility is the management and coordination of activities in the ICT research program related to trust and security, focusing on technologies for applications, including privacy enhancing technologies, biometrics, identity management, trusted computing and encryption. Earlier areas of work have included software and services, including open source software and the application of information technology to transport and environmental control.

Prior to joining the Commission, Dirk van Rooy worked in the software industry in several international companies. Dirk van Rooy holds a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Denmark, where he worked on stochastic simulation and applied mathematical modeling techniques

Chuck Allen - HR-XML (USA)

Chuck Allen is the Director of the HR-XML Consortium, Inc. The HR-XML Consortium, Inc. (http://www.hr-xml.org/) is the recognized authority on, and leading source of, global interoperability standards for human resources management. Allen was an early champion of data exchange standards for human resources. He helped found the HR-XML Consortium in December 1999.

Prior to working for HR-XML, Allen founded Structured Methods, an XML standards consulting firm based in Raleigh, NC and worked in various new product development roles for BNA, Inc., the RIA Group, and other major publishers of HR information services. While at RIA Group, Allen oversaw the development of HR Advisor, one of HR Executive Magazine's Top Ten Products of the Year and Top Ten Products of the Decade. Allen has a B.A. from the University of Virginia.

Alex Charles - SkillsMarket (UK)

Alex is one of the founders of SkillsMarket, Europe’s most widely adopted Online CV data exchange (iProfile) with over 2 million members including 7% of the UK working population and many of the UK’s leading staffing providers. His background as an IT contractor, working in fields such as HR and Banking, have helped him to innovate new solutions that address issues facing the staffing sector. He is a founding director of the HR-XML consortium for Europe, which promotes the standard XML schema use throughout the HR community. Alex also chairs the ATSCo IT Directors forum (Association of Technology Staffing Companies) where common strategic IT, product and service issues are discussed.

Miroslav Hovorka - Milk&Zucker (Germany)

Oscar Scholten - WCC (NL)

In his role as Product Manager at WCC, Oscar Scholten is responsible for the positioning and development of WCC's flagship product ELISE matching technology.

Prior to his current role, Oscar Scholten held strategic positions at WCC ranging from development team lead to senior implementation consultant. Before working at WCC, Oscar Scholten was employed at Network Associates and also co-founded an (out)sourcing company.

Erwin Folmer - TNO (NL)

Erwin Folmer (Msc) is senior consultant and project leader at TNO Information and Communication Technology, an independent not for profit research organisation in the Netherlands. His core expertise is related to standardisation, interoperability and architecture. Since 2001 Erwin has contributed to many important standardisation projects, related to different aspects of standardization; stimulation of open standards (Dutch Government), development of standards (Temporary Staffing, Education, Disaster, etc) and maintenance of standards (SETU). Currently Erwin is member of the taskforce Interoperability and leads the TNO activities within the SETU (Electronic Transactions Temporary Staffing industry) organisation.

Luk Vervenne - Synergetics (BE)

Luk Vervenne has been active in knowledge transfer since 1995. He was the co-founder of NetVision, now www.ubizen.com and of Europe’s first Digital Certificate Authority (www.globalsign.com)

He currently is the CEO of Synergetics nv, a human capital technology company, based in Antwerp, Belgium, which is specialising in lifelong learning, competence development and employability enhancing technologies.

The company is co-founder of HR-XML Consortium Europe and is managing several larger EU research projects (CODRIVE, Prolix, TenCompetence, TAS³)

Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers - Starlab, (BE)

Jeroen specialises in language-related information science and systems architecture.

Sabine Delaitre - FING (FR)

Sabine Delaitre is a Computer Scientist with a Doctorate (since December 2000) in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management and Risk Management from the Ecole des Mines de Paris and in collaboration with INRIA.

During the period 2001-2004, she worked on a number of EU-funded projects in areas of computer network security, Knowledge Management for eGovernment, eBusiness and eLearning domains. Within the ICT unit, IPTS, European Commission's DG JRC (July 2004 - July 2007), she carried out different projects related to Cybersecurity activities (Future of Identity, Privacy, Security, Threat and Ambient Intelligence Space) and participated as partner in FIDIS: Network of Excellence for the Future of IDentity in the Information Society. In August 2007, she joined the FING and she is working on the new programme "Active Identities".

Andreas Schmidt, FZI (DE)

Andreas Schmidt is a senior researcher and department manager at FZI
Research Center for Information Technologies in Karlsruhe, Germany, a
research institute dedicated to technology transfer. He is responsible for
the competence area Knowledge & Learning and is an associate lecturer at the University of Karlsruhe.

With a background in computer science and vocational pedagogy, he has
especially been working on ontology-based competency-oriented and
context-aware approaches to workplace learning support, e.g., within the EU project Learning in Process and a research contract with SAP.

After contribution to and coordination of several national and European
research projects, he is now Scientific Coordinator of the upcoming FP7
Integrating Project MATURE in the field of Technology-Enhanced Learning, continuing his research on knowledge maturing processes.

Tobias Ley, Know-Center Graz (AT)

Clementina Marinoni

Responsible for the Human Resources Projects Area, Fondazione Politecnico di Milano Clementina Marinoni graduated in 1988 in Philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Milano and specialized in Logic and Epistemology with a thesis on the pragmatic and semantic features of natural language.

Since 1991 has worked within Politecnico di Milano as a consultant, researcher and project manager for human resources projects. By national and transnational projects within industrial and public sectors, she gained experience of competence-skills development, knowledge and change management, learning models and processes, e-learning.

Presently she works in Fondazione Politecnico di Milano and manages the Area for Studies and Human Resource Enhancement, has been participating in several activities within the European eSkills Forum initiatives, and in the CEN/ISSS eSkills Workshop she is working at the development of the European eCompetence Framework. She is also involved in other projects on competences detection and definition and on the development of a sectoral Qualification Framework in the ICT field.

She also worked for a period in the Artificial Intelligence Group of the Institute of Psychology of the Faculty of Medicine in Milan on dialogue and conversation themes. Before and during this period she also taught story and philosophy subjects in gymnasiums and in experimental technical institutes. She worked in a Service society, which supplied distance learning tools and CBT for big enterprises.

She is the author of some papers published in business and scientific journals.