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Monday 21 January

08h30 - 09h00 REGISTRATION
09h00 - 09h15 Opening and Introduction   G. Alonso and K. Aberer
09h15 - 10h15 Sensors & Actuators in Business 2.0   Matthias Kaiserswerth Director and Vice President (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Switzerland)
10h15 - 10h45 Coffee Break
10h45 - 11h30 Wavescope: A Data Management System for Signals   Sam Madden (MIT, USA)
11h30 - 12h15 Theory for Sensor Networks, What is it Good For?   R. Wattenhofer (ETHZ, Switzerland)
12h15 - 13h30 LUNCH
13h30 - 15h00 Research on Sensor Networks PANEL (Chair: Martin Vetterli, EPFL)
15h00 - 15h30 Coffee Break
15h30 - 16h30 Sensors and networks in global seismology: challenges in earthquake surveillance and data assimilation   Giardini Domenico (ETHZ, Switzerland)
16h30 - 18h00 POSTER - DEMO SESSION
From 18h00 Social event and dinner (see useful information for details )

Tuesday 22 January

09h00 - 10h00 The BTnode Story: Reflections on Almost a Decade of Mote Class Devices   Jan Beutel (ETHZ, Switzerland)
10h00 - 10h30 Coffee Break
10h30 - 11h15 POSTER - DEMO SESSION
11h15 - 12h15 High mountains, high technology and high hopes   Stephan Gruber (UniZ)
12h15 - 13h30 LUNCH
13h30 - 14h00 MICS Status and 3rd Phase   Karl Aberer (EPFL, Switzerland)
14h00 - 15h00 Sensorscope : Sensing the Alps   Marc Parlange (EPFL, Switzerland)
15h00 - 15h30 Coffee Break
15h30 - 16h30 Dynamic Spectrum Access: Thoughts on creating Business with Cognitive Radio   Stefan Mangold (Swisscom, Switzerland)
16h30 - 17h30 Ultra-Wide Band Communication for the Internet of Things   Jean-Yves LeBoudec (EPFL)

Wednesday 23 January

09h00 - 10h00 Streaming Databases - The Commercial Phase   Michael Franklin, UC Berkeley and Truviso, Inc.
10h00 - 10h30 Coffee Break
10h30 - 11h15 SAP Research Switzerland and its Future Retail Center: Research to touch   Uli Eisert - Erica Dubach (SAP Research, Switzerland)
11h15 - 12h00 Urban communication infrastructure: where information meets with citizens and urban planning   Massimo Lucchina (CISCO)
12h00 - 13h30 LUNCH
13h30 - 14h15 A scientific workflow workbench for oceanography   Roger S. Barga (Technical Computing Group, Microsoft Research Trident)
14h15 - 15h00 Coffee Break & POSTER - DEMO SESSION