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13-15 November 2000

KEY-NOTE SPEAKER

 

Lord Sainsbury of Turville,         Parliamentary Secretary for Science and Technology, Department of Trade & Industry

 

 

PROGRAMME OUTLINE

 

Monday 13 November 2000

Morning: VISIT WITHIN SEOUL

Visit to LG-Elite - LG's Corporate R&D Centre in Seoul

 

Afternoon: CONFERENCE BEGINS

 

Conference Chairmen        Dr Robert Hawley, Chairman, Partnership Korea

Dr Rim, Kwan,  Chairman, Corporate R&D, Samsung

 

 

14.00 - 14.30  Opening Addresses          14.00 Mr Charles Humfrey, Brirish Ambassador

14.05 Mr Shin, Kook-hwan , Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy

14.15 Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Parliamentary Secretary for Science and Technology

14.30 Mr Kim, Jong-Kap, Director-General, Industrial Technology Policy, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy                  "Korean Industrial Technology Policy"

 

 

14.45 Mr Allan Mayo, Director - International Technology Services, Department of Trade and Industry                 "British Industrial Technology Policy"

 

 

15.00 Coffee

 

 

 

15.10 - 18.30  Plenary Session 1

"Communications Convergence"

Partners: British Telecommunications, Korea Telecom Freetel

 

Chairmen        Dr Robert Hawley, Chairman, Partnership Korea

Dr Lee, Young-Kyoung, President of Korea Telecom Freetel

 

 

Speakers        

15.10 Chairmen's remarks

 

15.20 Dr Lee Sang-Hun, Executive Vice President, Korea Telecom

 

15.40 Professor Graham Davies, General Manager, International Development and Exploitation, BT Laboratories

 

16.00 Dr Lee Myung-Sung, President, SK Telecom Technology Institute

 

16.20 Panel discussion

 

16.40 Coffee

 

17.15 Greg Bensberg, Head of Engineering Policy, ITC                 British Digital Broadcasting experience

 

 

 

17.40 Dr Kim Jae-Myung, Head of Digital Broadcasting R&D Centre, ETRI

 

18.10 Panel discussion

 

 

 

14.30 - 18.00 Invest UK Seminar 

Accessing tomorrow's semicon design capabilities          This is a separate seminar built round an incoming British mission pf semiconductor  design specialists

 

 

 

18.30 - 20.30 Dinner hosted by Korea

 

Tuesday 14 November 2000

9.00 - 12.30 Specialist sessions  

 

Parallel Session A

Advanced Manufacturing for Tomorrow's Products

 

Chairmen        Professor Mike Gregory, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge 

Dr Lee Dae-Woon, EVP of Hyundai Motors

 

 

Speakers        09.00 Chairmen's introductions

09.10 Mr Shin Hyun-Oh, President of Manufacturing Technology Research Centre, Hyundai Motors

09.35 Phil Burnell, Programme Manager, Engineering, EPSRC

10.00 Dr Kang Duk-Hyun, Director, Factory Automation Research Institute, Samsung Electronics

10.25 Coffee Break

10.40 Professor Mike Gregory, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge 

11.05 Dr Oh Jhong-Sik, Senior Consultant. LG Production Research Centre

11.30 Dr Graham Wylde,  Business Director, TWI

11.55 Panel Discussion

12.30 Chairmen's Summary

 

 

 

 

Parallel Session B

Biotechnology and IT

Partners: MRC & LG Chemical

 

Chairmen         Dr Douglas Yarrow, Director, Business,Innovation & Intntl Group, BBSRC

Dr Y.K. Yeo, President, LG Chemical

 

 

Speakers         

09.00 Chairmen’s Introductions

"Bio-informatics and genome technology"

 

09.10 Dr Yoo Hyang-Sook, Director – Korean Human Genome Frontier 21 Project, KRIBB

 

09.30 Dr Michael Ashburner, Head, European Bioinformatics Institute

 

10.00 Dr Kim Sang-Soo, Director – Bioinfomatics Research Team, KRIBB

 

10.20 Dr Andrew Miller, Director Genetics Therapies Centre, Imperial College

 

10.50 Panel Discussion

 

11.00 Coffee

 

"Biochip Technology Developments

 

11.15 Prof Lee Sang-Yup, KAIST

 

11.35 Dr Tom Freeman, Project Director - Biochips, Medical Research Council's Human Genome Mapping Resource Centre

 

12.00 Dr Eugene Park, Director, Bio-chip Laboratory, SAIT

 

12.20 Panel Discussion

 

 

Parallel Session 3

Getting the university-industry relations right

Partners: British Council & KAIST

 

Chairmen        Mark Baumfield, Director, British Council, Korea

Dr D.I. Choi, President, KAIST

 

 

Speakers        Janet Brown, Director, Competitive Enterprise, Scottish Enterprise

Professor Steeds, Emersons Innovations (Bristol/Bath University)

Derek Waddell, Deputy Director, Edinburgh Research and Innovation, University of Edinburgh

Professor Park Sang-chui, Dean, Research Affairs, SNU

Two other Korean speakers to be confirmed

 

 

Parallel Session 4

Global sourcing of R & D

Partner Samsung

 

Chairmen        

Professor Terry Knibb, Chief Scientist, BAe SYSTEMS

Mr Song Ji-Oh, Vice President of SAIT

 

 

Speakers        09.00 Chairmen's introductions

09.10 David Pearson, Chief Executive, NXT

09.40 Mr Park Seung-Ryong Director Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology

10.10 Coffee

10.25 Dr Ian Groves, UK Mobile Virtual Centre of

Excellence in Mobile and Personal Communications

10.55 Dr Lim Mahn-Jick, President & CEO, MJL Technology Ltd.

11.25 Panel discussion                 also to involve Professor Graham Davies, BT?

 

 

12.00 Final Comments

 

 

 

12.30 -13.30 Buffet lunch 

 

 

 

13.30 - 18.00 Plenary Session 2

Building International Technology Relationships

Partners BAe Systems & SAIT

 

Chairmen         Dr Robert Hawley, Chairman, Partnership Korea

Dr Rim, Kwan,  Chairman, Corporate R&D, Samsung

 

 

Speakers         13.30 Opening remarks from the Chairmen

13.45 Professor Terry Knibb, Chief Scientist, BAe SYSTEMS

14.15 Dr Kim Chang-Soo, President, LG-Elite

14.45 Coffee

15.15 Sam Kim, ARM Holdings     

15.45 Dr Lee Hyun-Soon, Hyundai Motor Research Institute

16.15 Richard C Hagger, Director, Spent Fuel Services - Asia, BNFL

16.45 Panel

17.15 Korea-UK Forum: Where next?

18.15 Closing remarks from the co-chairs

 

 

18.30 - 20.30 Reception at the British Embassy

 

Wednesday 15 November

 

Company visits in Taejon area

 

AM:

 

PM:

Seoul National University (two labs: semicon and biotech)