The upcoming European summit 'Modelling eGovernment Entities - Methodologies and Experiences under Review' has received great interest in the world of eGovernment and interoperability.

About 60 participants from 19 different countries will attend the event to get first-hand information from national IT experts and to learn from best practice cases. This enormous response exceeded all previous expectations.

The speakers of the summit include:

Adam Arndt, National IT and Telecom Agency, Denmark

Andreas Billig, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany

Yannis Charalabidis, Fenerati Lampathaki, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Sylvie Colas, Directorate General pour la Modernistation de l'Etat, France

Aldo Laudi, IDABC Project Officer

Mona Naomi Lintvedt , Agency for Public Management and eGovernment, Norway

Yorck Rabenstein, SEMIC.EU Expert, Germany

Silvana Raffa, Michaela Elisa Jackson, CSI Piemonte, Italy

Klaus Reichling, SEMIC.EU Project Manager

Alexander Salomon, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Germany

Holger Wache, FHNW Switzerland

Other experts from the SEMIC.EU Advisory Group will join the summit for a panel discussion.

The full agenda and additional information on the summit is available on the SEMIC.EU community section. The summit will be held in Brussels, 2nd February 2009.