The General Assembly was the opportunity to present the progress on Working Groups as well as NESSI's contribution to the 7th Framework Programme. During the General Assembly, NESSI welcomed its new partners and new members.

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Announcement of New Partners and Members
Mr. Jean-Paul Lepeytre, Thales, Senior Vice President
NESSI Chairman

Presentation of the new Partners
Alcatel
Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing
Lero
LogicaCMG
MoMa
Rodan Systems
Sun Microsystems
TIE
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid

NESSI and the challenge in software and services
Mr. Joao Da Silva, European Commission, Director (represented by Mr. Jesus Villasante, European Commission, Head of Unit Software Technologies)
Mr. Ulf Dahlsten, European Commission, Director
NESSI Grand Challenge (see doc)
Mr. Bernard Meric - HP - NESSI Board Member
Dr. Peter Kuerpick - Software AG - NESSI Board Member

Strategic Research Agenda presentation and progress (see doc)
Nessi contribution to Framework Programme 7
Mr. Stefano De Panfilis- Engineering
Coordinator of the NESSI SRA Committee

Creation of Working Groups
Frederic Gittler - HP Labs
Vice Chairman of the NESSI Steering Committee
e-Health WG
Services Sciences and Systems Engineering WG
Security WG

ONESSI, the open source channel (see doc)
Julie Marguerite – ObjectWeb
 

Expanding NESSI across Europe
Mr. Jose M. Cavanillas

Director Atos Research - Atos Origin
Vice Chairman of the NESSI Steering Committee
NESSI, Q&A
Mr. Dario Avallone
R&D Director - Engineering
Chairman of the NESSI Steering Committee

The Assembly

Mr Lepeytre and 5 new partners

Mr. Dahlsten European Commission Director for Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures