9:30 a.m.

Welcome

•  Carol Martino, President, Amici dell'Istituto Bruno Leoni

•  James V. DeLong, Senior Fellow & Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property, The Progress & Freedom Foundation

9:45 a.m.

Interoperability & Standards: Defining the Issues

•  Raymond Gifford, President, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (lecturer)

10:30 a.m.

Creating and Limiting Property Rights By Contract: Spontaneous Order on the Electronic Frontier

•  Thomas Lenard, Senior Fellow and Vice President for Research, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)

•  James V. DeLong, Senior Fellow & Director of the Center for the Study of Digital Property, The Progress & Freedom Foundation

•  Antonio Pilati, Commissioner, Italian Antitrust Authority

11:30 a.m.

Riffs on the Meaning of Openness: Open Standards and Open Source

•  Alberto Mingardi, Director, Dipartimento Globalizzazione e concorrenza, Istituto Bruno Leoni (moderator)

•  Jonathan Zuck, President, Association for Competitive Technology

•  Pascal Salin, Professor of Economics, Université Paris Dauphine

12:30 p.m.

Lunch - The View from the Europe and United States

•  Brian Carney, Reporter, Wall Street Journal Europe (moderator)

•  Timothy C. Finton, Senior Counselor for International Communications and Information Policy , U.S. Department of State

•  Simon Bensasson, Head, International Cooperation Unit, Commission of the European Union

2:00 p.m.

Software & Business Methods Patents, Licensing and the EU Directive

•  Thomas Lenard, Senior Fellow and Vice President for Research, The Progress & Freedom Foundation (moderator)

•  Cesare Galli, Professor, University of Parma

•  Solveig Singleton , Senior Adjunct Fellow, The Progress & Freedom Foundation

3:00 p.m.

Wrap-Up: Keeping the Process Free & Flexible

•  Alberto Mingardi, Director, Dipartimento Globalizzazione e concorrenza, Istituto Bruno Leoni (moderator)

•  Robert Kramer, Vice President of Public Policy, CompTia

•  Umberto Paolucci, Vice President, Microsoft

•  Pierfilippo Roggero, CEO, Fujitsu Siemens

4:20 p.m.

Audience Discussion

5:00 p.m.

Closing Reception