Warning: the workshop has been moved to the 4th December 2009.

9.00 Registration and welcome coffee

9.30  Welcome and opening speech by Consip

Danilo Broggi - CEO

9.50 eProcurement in Europe: state of the art  

Niall Bohan  - Head of Unit C4, European Commission DG Internal Market and Services

10.20 Institutional speech from the Ministry of Economic Development

Giuseppe Tripoli - Head of Department for Enterprise and Internationalization, Ministry for Economic Development

from 10.40 to 15.00  

Sharing of international best practices on removing barriers and supporting SMEs access to public eprocurement

- Aitor Orobengoa Ortubai - eProcurement Technical Secretariat (The Basque Government)

  "Basque Government's eProcurement System (Spain, 2005-2009)"

- Luca Mastrogregori - Head of eprocurement strategies - Consip (Italy)

   "The electronic marketplace and eprocurement training desks for SMEs"

- Antonino Tropea  - CCIA of  Reggio Calabria (Chamber of Commerce Italy)

" The support provided from a training  desk"

-  Maria CarolinaEsposito -  EFAL (Italy)

"The successful experience of an Italian SME"

- Jens Jakob Andersen - National IT and Telecom Agency (Denmark)

"NemHandel: a National Web Service Based infrastructure" 

- Kang-il Seo, International Cooperation Division, Public Procurement Service (South Korea)

 "PPS's e-Procurement in Support of SMEs"

13.00 - 14.00  (Lunch break)

15.00 European SMEs Perspective

- Andrea Benassi, Director EUAPME

"title"

- Ben Butters, EU Affairs Director Eurochambre

"Title"

- Carmen Ciciriello, CEO SEPA International Limited

"The European e-Invoicing Guide for SMEs"

16.00

Eva Coscia - TXT

"The eProcurement forum in support of SMEs"

16.15 Q&A and Conclusions (launch of topics for potential community discussion)

17.00 End of the Meeting