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10.00 - Opening
Welcome by Rick van der Ploeg
State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science of The Netherlands
General Introduction to the Conference:
Geert Lovink
Eric Kluitenberg
10.30 - Plenary Debate I
The New Economy — Premises and Pitfalls
Moderator:
David Hudson
Key-note Speakers:
Doug Henwood (Financial Journalist, Left Business Observer, New York)
Robin Cowan (Economist, MERIT, Maastricht University)
Pascal Jollivet (Economist, Multitudes, Paris)
12.30 — 13.30 — Lunch Break
13.30 - Afternoon Session I
Debate:
Silicon Valley as a Global Busines
Model
Moderator:
Ted Byfield
Speakers:
Steve Cisler (Writer / Analist, San Jose)
Corinna Snyder (Razorfish, New York)
Nils de Witte (NEBIB)
Reinhold Grether (Constance University / Toywar)
Andrew Ross (New York University)
15.30 — 16.00 — Coffee Break
16.00 — Afternoon Session II
Debate:
Alternative Strategies
Moderator:
Felix Stalder
Speakers:
Jesse Hirsh (TAO Communications, Toronto)
Nina Ascoly (Clean Clothes Campaign)
Greenpeace Representative - tbc
Erik Wesselius (Corporate Europe Observatory)
Hans van Heijningen (ATTAC NL)
Gerd Junne (University of Amsterdam)
18.00 - Dinner
20.00 — Plenary Session
Open Public Debate: Inclusion and Exclusion in the New Economy
Moderators:
Geert Lovink & Eric Kluitenberg
Speakers:
Alicia Dogliotti (IteM, Uruguay)
Andrew Leyshon (University of Nottingham)
Simon Lelieveldt (De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), Amsterdam)
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11.00 — Conference resumes — Morning Session
Debate:
Consumer Rights
Moderator:
Eric Kluitenberg (De Balie, Amsterdam)
Speakers:
James Love (Consumer Project on Technology, Washington)
Wibo Koole (Netherlands National Consumer Organisation)
David Mandl (Autonomedia, New York)
Maurice Wessling (Bits of Freedom, Amsterdam)
12.30 — 13.00 — Coffee Break
13.00 — Afternoon Session I
Debate:
Nettocracy: A Class Analysis of the Information Society
Moderator:
Geert Lovink
Speakers:
Michael Gurstein (Technical University of British Columbia)
Alexander Bard, (Business Analyst, Stockholm)
Richard Barbrook (University of Westminster, London)
14.30 — 15.00 — Lunch Break
15.00 — Afternoon Session II
Debate:
Convergence, Mergers and Monopolies
Moderator:
Guikje Roethof (Prezz.com, Paris)
Speakers:
Richard Kramer (Arete Research, London)
Korinna Patelis (Goldsmiths College, London
Kenneth Neil Cukier (Redherring.com, London)
Michael Latzer (ICE, Vienna)
17.00 — 17.15 — Coffee Break
17.15 — 19.00 — Closing Plenary Session
Strategies for a Sovereign Media Culture
- Regulation of the New Economy: Prospects and Possibilities
- How to Support and Develop the Open Source Movement?
- In Defence of Internet Culture
19.00 — Close of the Conference
22.00 — Cinema De Balie goes Wall Street:
The Bonfire of the Vanities - (Brian de Palma,
USA 1990, 35 mm, 125 min)
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The program will include a series of workshops and impromptu smaller scale meetings
on the following topics:
1 — Development Finance and the Global
Market Network
2 — Financial Cryptography
3 — International Venture Capital
4 — ATTAC
Further details will be announced at the conference |