Newsletter June 2010

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Get involved in the debate on ICT innovation!

After five years, we were ready for an extreme make-over. The result? A new corporate identity tailored to the refreshed logo, a brand new website and an event platform that aggregates all our activities for you. But above all, these platforms will allow us to offer you all relevant information on ICT research in Flanders and Europe in an orderly and efficient way and to involve you actively in the debate on ICT innovation. So let your voice be heard!

Customer survey

We value your opinion on how we’ve been functioning over the last couple of years. How is your appreciation of our services? Did we realize an added value to your organization?  What improvements could be made?
In collaboration with IDEA Consult we will be conducting a customer satisfaction study to capture your feedback. In early June you might receive an e-mail invitation to chare your experiences and impressions. Your opinion counts so we hope we can count on your contribution. The results of this investigation will help us to optimize our operations.

Upcoming events

7-9 June 2010 - CTTE 2010

The Conference of Telecommunication, Media and Internet Techno-Economic is dedicated to the economics of new telecommunication services and technologies. It’s a major event for the presentation of original and fundamental concepts and studies in the field of techno-economics and serves as a meeting forum for researchers and practitioners in the field. This edition is held in Ghent and was organized by IBBT-IBCN-UGent.
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9 June 2010 – EuroITV: 8th Conference on Interactive TV and Video

EuroITV is the leading international conference for media related to video and television. EuroITV is attended by academia and professionals from all over the world to discuss latest advances and research of media technology, HCI, media studies and the content creation community.
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15 June 2010 - CUPID salon

Content needs to be put into context to stay relevant for an audience that becomes harder to please over time. Thereis a need for refined information services that frame the available leisure activities into personal preferences. But what do we need to obtain all that?
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20 June 2010 – Engineering Patterns for Multi-Touch Interfaces 2010

Multi-touch gained a lot of interest in the last couple of years and the increased availability of multi-touch enabled hardware boosted its development. But that means that there is only little reusable material and no generally accepted body of knowledge when it comes to the development of multi-touch interfaces. This workshop seeks a consensus for methods, approaches, toolkits and tools that aid in the engineering of multi-touch interfaces for large interactive surfaces and transcend the differences in available platforms.
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21 June 2010 - Business Model Innovation Workshop (Alex Osterwalder)

For years companies had a working business model but now - due to a rapid changing environment like the financial crisis - customer behavior changed the role of the internet and access to knowledge and information, Traditional business models are losing ground and a new way of thinking is required. What are the business models of the future?
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25 June 2010 – Archipel: Memories of the Future

Memories of the Future is an international conference on the meaning of memory, in the present as well as the future. The rapid rise of digital network culture has a fundamental influence on the construction of our personal and social memory
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15 September 2010 – Conference on Fun ‘n Games

Fun and Games 2010 is a single-track, 3-day event where academics and practitioners can interact together in a playful event that marries the best of academic writing with the most innovative user experiences. The conference invites original contributions from designers, developers and researchers in computer games, experience design and ‘fun’.
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