Agenda for Monday 13th June

All times are EEST (+1 hr CEST)

8:00-10:00 possibility for bilateral meetings in Katinkulta meeting facilities, Vuokatti

Pre-inauguration seminar: HPC as a key technology for green and digital transformation

Venue: Katinkulta auditorium

10:00 Opening words

• Mr. Kimmo Koski, Managing Director of CSC - IT Center for Science
• Mr. Roberto Viola, Director-General of European Commission’s DG for Communications Networks, Content and Technology

10:10 Keynote addresses

• Mr. Petri Honkonen, Finland's Minister for Science and Culture 
• Ms. Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission 

10:50 Taking research, innovation and industry to the next level – introduction to the panel discussions

• Mr. Mika Lintilä, Finland's Minister for Economic Affairs

11:05 Panel discussion on cross-border and cross-sector cooperation for developing digital infrastructure ecosystems for building competence and sustainability

• Ms. Anita Lehikoinen, Permanent Secretary of Finland's Ministry for Education and Culture
• Ms. Ilona Lundström, Director-General for Innovations and Enterprise Financing of Finland's Ministry for Economic Affairs and Employment
• Mr. Roberto Viola, Director General of European Commission’s DG for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
• Mr. Timo Pesonen, Director-General of the European Commission’s DG for Defence Industry and Space

11:35 Coffee break and possibility for further bilateral meetings

12:00 Panel discussion on the role of HPC in solving grand societal challenges

• Ms. Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Member of the European Parliament
• Mr. Herbert Zeisel, Deputy Director-General at Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Chair of the Governing Board of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
• Mr. Jan Hrušák, Special Envoi for Research Infrastructures of Czechia’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and former chairperson of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) 

12:45 Comment: Future insights for boosting the dual transition and data economy with LUMI

• Mr. Timo Harakka, Finland’s Minister of Transport and Communications

13:00 Closing words

• Mr. Kimmo Koski, Managing Director of CSC - IT Center for Science
• Mr. Roberto Viola, Director-General of European Commission’s DG for Communications Networks, Content and Technology

13:05 Lunch and possibility for further bilateral meetings 

14:00 Transfer from Vuokatti to the LUMI data centre (30min.)

Inauguration (LUMI data centre)

15:00 Inauguration ceremony and data centre tour 

• Ms. Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission
• Mr. Petri Honkonen, Finland's Minister for Science and Culture
• Mr. Mika Lintilä, Finland's Minister for Economic Affairs
• Mr. Roberto Viola, Director General of European Commission’s DG for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
• Ms. Anita Lehikoinen, Permanent Secretary of Finland's Ministry for Education and Culture
• Mr. Samuel Engblom, State Secretary of Sweden's Ministry of Education and Research (video greeting)
• Mr. Kimmo Koski, Managing Director of CSC - IT Center for Science
• Mr. Anders Dam Jensen, Executive Director of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
• Mr. Jari Tolonen, the Mayor of the City of Kajaani
• Mr. Gilles Thiebaut, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Northern Western Europe, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

17:00 Transfer to the airports (Kajaani & Oulu airports) or Dinner at the LUMI data centre.

Transfer to hotels.