Tuesday 24 February 2015

08:45 Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:15 Welcome & Introduction Objectives of the conference
09:25 Keynote 1 A vision for Conversational Interaction Technologies
09:45 Session 1. Adaptable interfaces for all Driven by demographic trends, interfaces designed for elderly people and for people with disabilities have the potential to be an increasingly important application area for conversational interactive techonologies.
KICKOFF PRESENTER: Hervé Bourlard (IDIAP)
11:15 Coffee Break
11:45 Session 2. Smart personal assistants Typically embedded in mobile devices, these agents will substantially enrich the interaction by taking account of the local and global context.
KICKOFF PRESENTER: Philippe Wacker (LT-Innovate)
13:15 Networking Lunch
14:15 Keynote 2 Breaking the barriers between research and innovation
14:35 Session 3. Active access to complex unstructured information Linking knowledge to rich interaction will enable the development of agents which can search proactively and can make inferences from their knowledge to enable people to be notified of relevant things faster and to reach understanding of complex situation
KICKOFF PRESENTER: Dietrich Klakow (Saarland University)
16:05 Coffee Break
16:30 Launch of CITIA Objectives - Roles - First actions
17:15 Drinks & Reception
19:00 End of Day 1

Wednesday 25 February 2015

08:30 Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:00 Keynote 3 Building a market and fostering a culture for Conversational Interaction Technologies
09:20 Session 4. Communicative robots As robot technologies develop, it will become more necessary for robots to be able to communicate naturally and socially.
KICKOFF PRESENTER: Andrew Joscelyne(LT-Innovate)
10:50 Coffee Break
11:15 Session 5. Shared collaboration and creativity This session will feature the drivers for enriched shared collaboration, including translating and augmented videoconferencing, design and creative collaborations, and multiplayer games.
KICKOFF PRESENTER:Jean Carletta (University of Edinburgh - Centre for Speech Technology Research)
12:45 Closing Remarks
13:00 Networking Lunch
14:00 End of Conference