IPTV World Forum – Budapest – Hungary, 20-21 October 2008

IPTV World Forum - Budapest is a leading conference & exhibition for Telecom sector in Hungary. IPTV will consider the current Pay TV markets in the region and the strategies of major players in terms of digital migration, the introduction of two-way interactive services and triple-play or quad-play offers. It will investigate the benchmark services required for IPTV market entry including broadcast TV, VOD and PVR functionality. The conference will feature over 20 speakers from Eastern European Telcos & ISPs discussing IPTV service deployment issues.

Towards Future Media Internet – France, 13-15 October 2008

This event aims to be a major conference and exhibition devoted to the field of Networked and Electronic Media (NEM) and ICT at large. It will provide an opportunity to network and share information and viewpoints on R&D status and perspectives in this area. It is organised by the NEM platform, one of the European Industrial Initiatives, also known as Technology Platforms. The NEM Platform is established by key European stakeholders, addressing the convergence of media, communications, consumer electronics, and IT as a wide opportunity for future growth, by taking advantage of generalised broadband access, increased mobility, availability of rich media formats and contents, as well as new home networks and communications platforms.

Technology for independent living: an OASIS beyond 50 – Belgium, 8-10 October 2008

For the growing older population in our society, it has become increasingly important to maintain their autonomy and mobility as this is associated to a better quality of life. The OASIS Consortium is organising this first User Forum and International Workshop. OASIS aims to develop an open and innovative reference architecture that will allow "plug and play" and cost effective interconnection of existing and newly developed services in all domains required for the independent and autonomous living of older people.

International Information Day on the Future Internet – Enabling Smarter Organizations – Switzerland, 10 October 2008

Get informed about the most recent developments in European research projects in the“Future Internet” and “Collaborative Networked Organizations”. The "Future Internet" emerges as a federating research theme globally. New cooperation between different IT, telecom, software and media researchers are needed to ensure an end-to end interoperability for the future sophisticated networked services. In one of the most beautiful sceneries of Switzerland, this summit -

• will showcase the most recent developments in European research projects in the “Future Internet” and “Collaborative Networked Organizations”
• will enable you to get in contact with international experts in the relevant fields (R&D networking)
• will give you excellent opportunities to present project ideas (R&D project initiation)
• and your R&D project on a poster.

Deadline for submitting your project idea (R&D project initiation): 24 September 2008! Information, registration, contact: www.ictsummit.eu, ictsummit@euresearch.ch.

Internet of Things - Internet of the Future –France, 6-7 October 2008

This conference -organised as part of the French Presidency of the European Union- will consist of keynote speeches, expert presentations and panel discussions on topics related to the development of the Internet of Things in the wider context of the international debate on the Internet of the Future and the trends and developments regarding the mobile Internet. It will also offer interactive parallel sessions. This conference will build on and follow up the two EU Presidency conferences on "RFID and the Internet of Things", which took place last year in Berlin (June 2007) and in Lisbon (November 2007). In particular, it will offer an opportunity to discuss the analyses and policy recommendations of the European Commission regarding the Internet of Things.

International Information Day on the Future Internet – Enabling Smarter Organizations - Switzerland, 10th October 2008

Deadline for submitting your project idea (R&D project initiation): 24 September 2008!
Information, registration, contact: www.ictsummit.eu, ictsummit@euresearch.ch.

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The Helsinki site is promoting independent mobility for people with functional limitations by providing improved accessibility to existing Tourism and public transport services in the tourism and public transport sectors, using context-related and real-time information. For example, a blind person will be helped to use public transport, while someone in a wheelchair will be able to choose a hotel suited to their needs. Stakeholders include STAKES (the Technical Research Centre of Finland), Helsinki City Transport and transport technical research centre VTT. The local event will take place on 24 September (tbc) in Helsinki. The working language will be Finish.

This event is devoted to analyze the role that eHealth will play in the delivery of healthcare records across the globe. It is organized as a meeting point for tele care product vendors, policy makers, government ministers, academics, clinicians and all those involved in electronic & mobile health, to examine and to share ideas contributing to the advancement of tele care into the 21st century. It is important because of remote diagnostics and patient management technologies in telemedicine have been highlighted as being one of the key components of healthcare for the 21st century. This event will bring together the clinicians, healthcare industries, policy makers, ministers and academics under one roof to discuss the issues surrounding the interoperability standards, policies and products in tele care solutions. It will provide an opportunity to hear from key people in the world of eHealth and also see in action some of the tele care solutions at the exhibitions, which will be running in conjunction with the conference.

The Seventeenth International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2008) will be hosted by the University of Cyprus. The venue will be the Annabelle hotel, in Paphos. The theme of the conference is "Towards a Service-Provision Society". The conference features a number of tracks covering a wide spectrum of topics in the area of Information Systems Development.

This workshop is oriented towards practical ways of designing, using and monitoring future IP networks for multi-services in multi-stakeholder environments. This workshop brings together Internet experts from academia and industry as well as practitioners, standards developers and policy makers. Presentations reporting on cutting-edge research results are supplemented by practical examples of deployments. The workshop will be dedicated to the key issues involved in future Internet design: monitoring and measurement, QoS, security, mobility, security and privacy techniques in improving the evolution towards the future Internet. Standardization and regulation will also be discussed.

Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg – Austria, 1-4 July 2008

This interdisciplinary forum focuses on an international Geographic Information (GI) Science audience sharing an interest in translating new methods and techniques into a broad range of application domains in geoinformatics. Full papers and extended abstracts for publication are accepted until February 1, 2008. The Salzburg University Centre for Geoinformatics is offering an annual forum to the worldwide geoinformatics community, bringing together English-speaking researchers and practitioners across disciplines and industries. Simultaneously, the GI_Forum connects participants into a well established co-located regional symposium - Applied Geoinformatics (AGIT) - sharing the state-of-the art AGIT-EXPO exhibit.

2nd International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security –Germany, 1-3 July 2008

The AIMS conference is a single-track event integrating normal conference paper sessions, tutorials, keynotes, and a PhD workshop into a highly interactive event. One of the goals of AIMS is to look beyond borders and to stimulate the exchange of ideas across different communities and among PhD students. AIMS 2008 focuses on resilient networks and services and in particular on novel technologies that can provide resilience in a scalable, economic, secure, and autonomic way. To achieve resilience, new techniques such as autonomic and fully distributed algorithms, virtualization techniques, or self-organizing overlays must be explored. Modelling, analysis, and visualization is essential in order to understand the emerging overall system behaviour.