Technologies for Information Management

Technologies for Information Management

ICT 2008 Event - "I" to the future: Invention – Innovation – Impact
25-27 November 2008, Lyon, France

Main topics:

ICT 2008 set the agenda for ICT research and innovation in Europe for the next decade, and the 2009-2010 Work Programme for ICT research in the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) was presented in detail.

On this INFSO.E2 dedicated ICT 2008 section you will find details relevant to the area of Technologies for Information Management. The unit and projects from the FP6 and FP7 project portfolios participated actively in the event, and the presentations from our conference, Work Programme, and Networking sessions are available through the hyperlinks on this page. 

ICT 2008 Conference

Day 1

The first day opened, with speeches and the plenary session: Setting the ICT agenda for the next decade, chaired by Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media. The afternoon continued with a number of parallel sessions on the topic 'Inventing the future', as well as a keynote session: ICT Excellence Matters, which was followed by a high level panel discussion. Albert Fert, Nobel-Prize Winner for Physics, 2007 was one of the keynote speakers.

Day 2

The second day was devoted to the Seventh Framework Programme 2009-2010, together with a number of parallel sessions on 'Innovation and Creativity'. The day finished with the keynote session: "I" made it happen, which was a story of a researcher turned successful entrepreneur.

Innovation and Creativity 1:
The Expanding Information Universe: New Trends, New Forms, New Usages

Parallel session 7c: 26 November, 11.00-12:30- Salon Pasteur

This session explored the intersection between digital content and technology, innovation and business. How do leaders intend to cope with the rapid changing landscape, what are the new usages, how are they going to affect our society and economy?

The invited keynote speakers came from Thomson Reuters, Deutsche Welle and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The session was organised by INFSO.E2 - Technologies for Information Management, and was chaired by Márta Nagy-Rothengass, Head of Unit.

Speaker lineup: 

 Amanda West   Frank van Hamerlen   Wilfried Runde 

Day 3

The third day continued focusing on the ICT Workprogramme 2009-2010, followed by keynote session: I's to the sustainable future. This final day of the event finished with the closing plenary session: Impact through policies.

ICT FP7 Work Programme

The Seventh Framework Programme (2007-2013) was launched at the IST Event 2006. The workprogramme is divided into seven 'Challenges', and the Work Programme 2007-2008 marked the start of FP7. The final version of the Work Programme for ICT research in FP7 for 2009 and 2010 is now available for downloading: 

• ICT Work Programme 2009-2010. 

ICT Work Programme 2009-2010 session:
Work Programme objective 4.3 Intelligent Information Management

WP session 12c: 27 November, 11:00-12:30- Grand Salon Prestige

This session presented the objective ICT-2009.4.3: Intelligent Information Management in detail. It gave information on the strategic background, the target outcomes and expected impact. The session included Questions and Answers.

The invited keynote speakers came from OVUM, UK and the Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana. The session was organised by INFSO.E2 - Technologies for Information Management, and was chaired by Márta Nagy-Rothengass, Head of Unit. 

Speaker lineup:

 Mike Davis   Dunja Mladenic

ICT 2008 Networking – build future partnerships

Networking sessions are defined by ICT stakeholders themselves. Networking is designed to facilitate contacts between researchers, innovators and engineers in all ICT fields. The 117 networking sessions selected by the networking committee, following the call for proposals that closed in June, took into account the comments and ratings placed in the website.

Networking sessions:    

Semantic Technologies for the Enterprise: Adding Value to RTD 

25 November, 14:00-15:30, room: Passage Foyer Lumiere

Semantics in digital conent: from multimedia to emerging 3D media

26 November, 09:00-10:30, room: Salle Rhône 1

Collective Intelligence and Social Content Semantic Analysis

26 November, 14:00-15:30, room: St Clair 3A 

• Visit the page: Collective Intelligence and Social Content Semantic Analysis for the detailed session description, speaker lineup, and the presentations.

  

ICT 2008 Exhibition

ICT 2008 host an Exhibition with nearly 200 ICT-related stands showing cutting-edge developments from European research labs, and inventive market solutions from French and international industry. The Exhibition also included an 'innovator village' focusing on successful small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as participation of European venture capitalists.    

Exhibits:

ICT for enjoyment - Zone F, Booth F.03 

Creating prototype professional multimedia search engines
VITALAS is working on developing a prototype search engine for un-indexed professional multimedia archives. VITALAS will provide advanced solutions for cross-media indexing, searching and accessing content that was not, or was only partly, annotated. The system can form the core of public multimedia content search engines, such as those of major news agencies. The EU-funded project is working on intelligent visualisation techniques for smart content navigation and consumption. VITALAS has already succeeded in creating its first complete application for the French and Belgian news agencies AFP and Belga.

• Visit VITALAS in the Exhibition: Video and image Indexing and reTrievAl in the LArge Scale
• See also the technical description and the VITALAS website.

ICT gets smart - Zone G, Booth G.02 

 Web-searching tools to help product designers keep up with the very latest trends
TRENDS – which brings together industrial and academic partners from four countries – is developing interactive software for product designers in a range of markets, from automobiles to equipment. This three-year EU-funded project will demonstrate its third prototype which weaves together all the components developed so far. The TRENDS content-based information retrieval system improves designers’ access to web-based information by helping them to find appropriate materials, such as images, and identify design trends in different areas. The software partly digitises a hitherto manual process. Three innovative technologies were integrated: ‘meta’ searching, semantic multimedia searching and automatic image analysis.

• Visit TRENDS in the Exhibition: Trends Research ENabler for Design Specifications
• See also the technical description and the TRENDS website.

 

Practical information

Where?

The Lyon Convention Centre, in the heart of the Cité internationale, is the venue for ICT 2008. All you need to know regarding the facility, location, hotels and tourist guidance is available on the website:

• Centre de Congrès de Lyon

How to register?

An Information Society portal events profile was needed to register as a delegate for ICT 2008. 

• Go interactive and Create your event profile.
  

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Please note that INFSO.E2 'Technologies for Information Management' maintains this page as a working tool and an information channel. While our goal is to keep this information timely and accurate, we cannot guarantee either. Visit further the main event website: ICT 2008 Event.