Newsletter May 2009

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iMinds 2009: last call

Almost 800 participants have registered for IBBTŽs first iMinds conference already, but we still have a few seats left. Join us and discover how Europe will take up the challenges it faces in terms of closing the innovation gap and what measures can be taken to increase EuropeŽs ICT readiness.  Bruno Lanvin (Executive Director of INSEAD eLab) and Samuel Widmann (Google) will offer the keynote speeches.

They will join forces with other inspirational speeches such as Amy Shuen (author of "Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide"), Ben Cerveny (Stamen Design), Roland Harwood (NESTA), Klaus Haasis (MFG), Ken Ducatel (European Commission) and many others, offering you a comprehensive view on the issues at hand from either a  research, business or policy perspective.

No less than 35 brand new ICT applications resulted from our first INCA competition. The winners will be announced at the conference, but donŽt hesitate to have a look already!
HavenŽt registered yet? Register here! iMinds is a free event.

IBBT-MIT workshop on Cognitive Radio Standards changes venue!

We would like to remind you of the first IBBT-MIT Joint Workshop on Cognitive Radio Standards and Markets, which takes place on Monday 11 May in the Crowne Plaza Brussels, Belgium (ATTENTION: this location differs from the one originally communicated).

The workshop confronts the latest research and regulatory insights in Europe and North America regarding standardization and market issues for Cognitive Radio. The workshop is organized in conjunction with the IBBT iMinds 2009 event and in collaboration with the European End-to-End Efficiency (E3) project.

For more information and registration: http://events.ibbt.be/crsm/

Upcoming events

Atomium Sessions - Navigating the Complex Nature of Energy Efficiency - May 15th 2009

Very symbolically, the location for the 4th workshop from the Energy Efficiency Project is the Atomium. The goal of the workshop is to investigate and discuss the  interrelations and to assess the possibilities as regards policy and corporate world, together with Wolfgang Eichhammer (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation), Alain Vermeiren (Cisco Systems & CUD - Connected Urban Development) and Clive van Heerden (Philips Design). After lunch Hans Nillson (Institute of Space Physics, Zweden), Alok Nandi (Architempo, België) and Michel Desvigne (Landscape architect, Frankrijk)  will dicuss some inspirational examples and methods.

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EuroITV2009 - June 3-4-5 2009

EuroITV2009 is a forum for professionals not only from Europe, but from all over the world who are interested in, work with and do research on all aspects of interactive television. The conference will be held in the lively university town of Leuven, Belgium on 3, 4 and 5 June 2009.

The conference program offers keynote speakers (from Alcatel-Lucent, Yahoo!Connected TV and Folkwang University) and a number of tutorials, workshops and paper presentations. The theme of the 7th European Interactive TV Conference is 'Networked TelevisionŽ and the future heading towards device divergence. The conference will go deeper into how we should shift our focus from looking at iTV as a system that functions on itself, to iTV as part of a bigger set of networked devices and explore how this impacts users as well as technologies.

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Workshop on Media Pluralism - June 8th 2009

IBBT-ICRI-KU Leuven together with a number of partners from various Member States, has been completing a study for the European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, on "Indicators for Media Pluralism - Towards a Risk-Based Approach". We would like to invite you to the stakeholder workshop where the study team will present the findings and conclusions of the study, as contained in the Preliminary Final Report, the prototype of the Media Pluralism Monitor and its User Guide, for discussion by stakeholders, including Member State officials, regulators, industry representatives and non-governmental organizations.

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Exploring GUI design for embedded systems - June 9th 2009

On June 9th, 2009 DSP Valley and IBBT will organize a seminar about Graphical User Interface (GUI) design for embedded systems. During this seminar the experts from industry and the academic area will share with you their experiences and best practices. The seminar is meant for embedded software engineers, system engineers and project managers who are interested in developing rich and appealing GUIs.

In parallel to the presentations a mini-exhibition will show products and demos. We will provide time and opportunity to network with the different participants and presenters to allow discussions on details.

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Links

• Future of Internet Conference - Prague, 11-13 May 2009
• Workshop Attracting Investors: DoŽs and DonŽts - Ghent, May 13th 2009
• Twiist.be - Leuven, May 15th 2009
• Multi-Mania 2009 - Kortrijk, May 19th 2009
• ASTP Conference: Best Practices in Transfer of Science and Technology - Gent, May 28-29 2009
• IMEC Technology Forum 2009 - Brussels, June 2-4 2009
• Eurodigimeet 2009: The Marketplace for Digital Europe - Paris, June 5th 2009
• Data Salon Gent - Ghent, June 5th 2009
• Week van het digibord.be - Lede, June 10-13 2009
• International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Pasadena, US, June 11-13 2009
• Workshop on RFID Security 2009 - Leuven, July 1st 2009
• Workshop on Cross-Media Information Access and Mining - Pasadena, US, July 13th 2009