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CT (Next Day)WEDST (Western European Daylight Savings Time – Aveiro, Portugal)IEEE WF-IoT 2023 Plenary Program: In Person in Aveiro and Virtual Live Online
Plenary Program Chairs
Rui Aguiar, Head of Networks and Services at Instituto de Telecomunicações, and Full
Professor University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Adam Drobot, Chairman, OpenTechWorks Inc, Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA

Session 0

Monday October 16th
09:00-10:30 WEDST“The Internet of Things and New Frontiers – The Blue
Planet: A Marriage of Sea and Space”

Big Auditorium (Hybrid,in person in Aveiro andvirtual live online)

Chairs andModerators

Rui Aguiar and Adam Drobot

Opening Remarks
Welcome Address: Paulo Jorge Ferreira, Rector of the Universityof Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.

Plenary Address by: Admiral Henrique Eduardo Passaláqua deGouveia e Melo, Chief of the Naval Staff of Portugal.
Plenary Address by: Mário Campolargo, Secretary of State forDigitalization and Administrative Modernization, Lisbon, Portugal
Discussion and open Q & A from the audience
Closing Remarks

Session 1

Monday October 16th
14:00-16:00 WEDST“Connecting the Planet: Maritime and SpaceInfrastructures”

Big Auditorium (Hybrid,in person in Aveiro andvirtual live online)
Chairs andModerators

Rui Aguiar and Adam Drobot

Opening Remarks
Plenary Keynote 1: “Autonomous Underwater Networks”,
Catherine Warner, Director, Centre for Maritime Research andExperimentation (CMRE), NATO Science and Technology
Organization, La Spezia, Italy
Plenary Keynote 2: “Space Infrastructure to Connect the Dots”,
Bruno Carvalho, Director, D-Orbit & Access.Space Alliance,Ambassador for Portugal and Advisor to Astralintu SpaceTechnologies in Ecuador, Lisbon, Portugal.
Discussion and open Q & A from the audience

Session 2Tuesday October 17th
14:00-16:00 WEDST“The Internet of Things at the Core – the World ofData, Computing, and Artificial Intelligence”

Big Auditorium (Hybrid,in person in Aveiro andvirtual live online)
Chairs andModerators

Rui Aguiar and Adam Drobot

Opening Remarks

Plenary Keynote 3: “The Blue Dataverse Supporting the Blue
Planet”, Tom de Block, Steering Board Vice-Chair of Alliance forInternet of Things Innovation (AIOTI), Brussels, Belgium.
Plenary Keynote 4: “A Vision on IoT in an AI-Native andCompute-Native Communications World”, Markus
Mueck, INTEL Deutschland GmbH, Vice-Chair of the Board ofETSI, and Board Member 5GAA, Munich, Germany.
Discussion and open Q & A from the audience

Session 3

Wednesday October 18th
14:00-16:00 WEDST“The Evolution of IoT – The Human Element and theFuture”

Big Auditorium (Hybrid,in person in Aveiro andvirtual live online)
Chairs andModerators

Rui Aguiar and Adam Drobot

Opening Remarks
Plenary Keynote 5: “TBD”, Isabel Almeida Rodrigues, Secretaryof State for Equality and Migration of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal.
Plenary Keynote 6: “The Internet of Things yet to Come”,
Professor Peter Cochrane, Universities of Suffolk andHertfordshire, UK.
Discussion and open Q & A from the audience

Session 4Thursday October 19th
14:00-16:00 WEDST“The Internet of Things – A Secure Infrastructure andApplications for Public Protection and Disaster Relief”

Big Auditorium (Hybrid,in person in Aveiro andvirtual live online)
Chairs andModerators

Rui Aguiar and Adam Drobot

Opening Remarks
Plenary Keynote 7: “5G for Connected and Automated Mobility(CAM)”, Jorge Pereira, Principal Scientist, European Commission,
DG Connect, Brussels, Belgium.

Plenary Keynote 8: “Toward Secure IOT Lifecycle Management”,
Professor Antonio Skarmeta, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia,
SPAIN.
Discussion and open Q & A from the audience

Session 5

Friday October 20th
14:00-16:00 WEDST“The Internet of Things – Serving Critical Missions
and the using Critical Tools”

Big Auditorium (Hybrid,in person in Aveiro andvirtual live online)
Chairs andModerators

Rui Aguiar and Adam Drobot

Opening Remarks
Plenary Keynote 9: “The Challenges of Public Protection andDisaster Relief (PPDR) Mission-Critical Communications Handling Major Events”, Brigadier-General Paulo Viegas
Nunes, President at SIRESP SA, Lisbon, Portugal.
Plenary Keynote 10: “The Emergence of the Intelligent DigitalTwin”, Daniel R. Isaacs, Manager, Digital Twin Consortium, andChief Strategy Officer, Object Management Group, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA.
Discussion, open Q & A from the audience, and wrap up.