CORDIS Archive : IST 98 Vienna, 30 November-2 December 1998: preliminary information

IST98 Vienna
Information Society Technologies Conference & Exhibition
Living & Working in the Information Society

IST 98 takes place from 30 November to 2 December in the Austria Center Vienna. Jointly organised by the ACTS, Esprit and Telematics Applications programmes, IST 98 is supported by the Austrian Ministry of Science & Transport and backed by the Vienna Tourist Board.

The outline programme includes an Investment Forum and features the 1998 European IT Prize Awards ceremony, a range of Austrian-themed events, a celebration of NetD@ys Europe, and the launch of the European Commission's Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme. The Mayor of Vienna will host a reception in the City Hall on 30 November, and a reception for the press will be held in a Heuriger on 1 December.

The Exhibition, open throughout IST 98, will include:

presentations of leading-edge technologies and products stemming from work undertaken in the ACTS, Esprit and Telematics Applications programmes, plus demonstrations of the outcome and potential of take-up, demonstration and technology transfer actions;
a cluster of info2000/MLIS projects;
the European IT Prize and EuroPrix MultiMedia Art Prize finalists;
a cybercafé in the style of a Viennese coffee-house;
a "Meeting Austria" zone;
a series of Central and Eastern European showpoints.

IST 98 will be preceded on 29 November in Vienna's Technical Museum by the EuroPrix MultiMediaArt 98 Gala and the first part of an info2000/MLIS conference. The info2000/MLIS conference will continue on 30 November in the Austria Center.

Special accommodation rates will be offered to IST 98 delegates, who will have a choice of a wide range of hotels in different categories. The hotel list will be available at the beginning of September.

[IST 98 at a glance] - [press enquries] - [conference manager] - [exhibition manager] - [programme manager]

IST 98 supersedes the annual European IT Conference & Exhibition (EITC), and is the first of a series of annual, comprehensive events covering the IST Programme. IST 99 will take place from 22-24 November 1999 in the Helsinki Fair Centre with the support of Tekes and the Finnish Ministry of Trade & Industry.

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It was last updated on 27 April 1998, and is maintained by the IST 98 Secretariat