Announcement

SPICE supports the "First international workshop on user centric service creation and execution" organised by the FP6 IST OPUCE project, together with the support of the TSOA (Telecom Service Oriented Architectures) ad-hoc cluster of European research projects (including MAGNET Beyond, LOMS and SMS). The main goal of this 2-day workshop is to create a forum where the most innovative research in the field of user centric service creation and execution could disseminate and demonstrate their advances.The event will be held at UPM premises in Madrid, Spain * next 25 and 26th June* 2008. The first day will feature invited talks by executive EC and projects representatives and key players involved in the creation of mashup platforms reporting their ongoing activities in the field and providing Telco and Internet visions on their current user-centric approaches to services. Two OPEN round tables are scheduled also for this first day (one of them focused on service creation and the other one on service execution topics), being an opportunity for projects and externals to exchange opinions on their visions. The second day will offer an open testfest for end-users and service developers to validate the projects' solutions and tools. The hands-on session will include training and demonstration activities, being an opportunity for both the audience, who will learn more about the existing research work, and projects, which will be able to get feedback for future advances. The activities will happen in parallel in order to organise the tester according to their profile. The workshop is supported by EC, top representatives of Telefónica I+D, Ericsson and ETSI Human Factors STF. The final agenda and flyer of the event will be available on OPUCE (www.opuce.eu), SPICE and TSOA projects websites from end of April 2008. Registration is mandatory and the opening will be announced jointly with the final version of the agenda on the OPUCE website.