Pre-summit Workshop

The day before the actual Summit, November 07, a special workshop for Deans, Department Chairs and Research Directors will be held. The final program is now available!

 Workshop for Department Chairs, Deans, and Research Directors

Room "Castigliano" - Building 5

Workshop chair: Prof. Mehdi Jazayeri, Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano

In this rapidly changing face of technology and academy across Europe and the world, department chairs at informatics groups face ever-increasing challenges. The goal of the workshop is to provide a networking opportunity for department chairs, old and new, to share experiences, common challenges, and best practices. It provides a forum for strengthening your leadership and management competencies by exchanging best practices and by building relationships among department heads at European Informatics research institutions. The workshop will be a mixture of discussions/knowledge sharing in smaller groups and plenary sessions. Please bring the issues you are facing and approaches you have found to work.

The workshop focuses on the role of the department chair in setting goals and defining success criteria. Both new and experienced department heads are invited for an exchange of best practices, new ideas and common challenges.

Benefits for participants include:

• Learning best practices from heads of European Informatics departments and research labs
• Offering a networking platform for heads of European Informatics departments and research labs
• Inspiration for developing PhD programs

Schahram Dustdar - Technical University of Vienna

Anthony Finkelstein - University College London, UK

Paola Inverardi - Department of Computer Science, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Mehdi Jazayeri -  Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Switzerland 

Detailed Final Program

10:00-10:30   Registration an Workshop Opening
10:30-11:30   Keynote "Growing a department from scratch"                       

                        Mehdi Jazayeri, University of Lugano

11:30-12:30    Keynote "Academic Management as a Contact Sport"

                         Anthony Finkelstein, University College London
 
12:30-13:30    Lunch

13:30-14:30    Keynote "Managing a Mature Department"                        

                         Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila

14:30-15:30    Keynote "Guiding Entry Into the Academic World: PhD, Postdoc, and then?"

                                  Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna

15:30-16:00    Coffee Break

16:00-17:15    Roundtable Discussion

            17:15    Workshop Closing

Welcome Party from 17h30