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Stereopsia
2024-12-09 00:00 - 2024-12-11 23:59 (Europe/Helsinki)
Stereopsia is more than an event; it’s a catalyst for redefining human experiences through eXtended Reality (XR). As Europe’s foremost XR event, Stereopsia ignites creativity and innovation in an energetic, collaborative setting. With its roots in the 3D revolution of yesteryears (the event started in 2009!), Stereopsia remains at the forefront of technological evolution, steadfast in its commitment to pioneering research and innovation. At its core, Stereopsia fosters collaboration and cross-pollination among diverse audiences, driving XR adoption across Europe and beyond. Located strategically in Brussels, at the heart of European innovation, Stereopsia offers a panoramic view of the XR landscape, shaping the future of immersive technologies continent-wide.

Immersive Tech Week 2024
2024-12-04 - 2024-12-06
Immersive Tech Week is a distinguished festival where creativity, innovation, business, research, and art converge to explore the potential of immersive technologies and their influence on global culture and society.

This three-day event offers a comprehensive program of experiences, keynote speeches, panel discussions, workshops, and more. It serves as a convergence point for industry leaders, XR professionals, academics, startups, scale-ups, and policymakers from around the world to exchange knowledge, identify new opportunities, and establish connections.

Immersive Tech Week aims to unite professionals, entrepreneurs, artists, researchers, students, and technology specialists from diverse fields to facilitate networking, foster collaboration, and drive innovation. The event also seeks to enhance public awareness and promote ethical discourse on the advancement of XR technologies. Through initiatives such as the Church of VR, Impulse, and the Creators Lab project, ITW provides a platform for the creation, exposure, investment, and dissemination of new works, applications, and projects in immersive technology.

SPIRIT - Open Call 2 - Information Workshop
2024-11-04 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
SPIRIT’s 2nd wave of Open Call (SPIRIT-OC2) provides up to 100K € to financially support the involvement of third parties to develop and test a wide variety of collaborative telepresence applications on the SPIRIT platform.

On 04 November 2024, we will be hosting a workshop presenting OC2 to provide technical and administrative information on the application process and requirements. This will also be your time to ask any questions you have!

EUCNC Summit
2024-06-03 00:00 - 2024-06-06 23:59 UTC
The 2024 EuCNC & 6G Summit builds on putting together two successful conferences in the area of telecommunications: EuCNC (European Conference on Networks and Communications), supported by the European Commission, and the 6G Summit, originated from the 6G Flagship programme in Finland, one of the very first in its area. The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) and the European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP), and focuses on all aspects of telecommunications ranging from 5G deployment and mobile IoT to 6G exploration and future communications systems and networks, including experimentation and testbeds, and applications and services. It brings together cutting-edge research and world-renown industries and businesses, globally attracting in the last years more than 900 delegates from more than 40 countries all over the world, to present and discuss the latest results, and an exhibition with more than 50 exhibitors, for demonstrating the technology developed in the area, namely within research projects from EU R&I programmes.

ACM MMSys 2024
2024-04-15 00:00 - 2024-04-18 23:59 UTC | Bari, Italy
The 15th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference will be held from 15-18 April, 2024 in Bari, Italy. MMSys 2024 provides a forum to leading researchers from academia and industry to present and share their latest findings in multimedia systems.

While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems are regularly published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking, operating systems, real-time systems, databases, mobile computing, distributed systems, computer vision, and middleware communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in the context of multimedia data types. This provides a unique opportunity to investigate the intersections and the interplay of the various approaches and solutions developed across these domains to deal with multimedia data types.

MWC Barcelona
2024-02-26 00:00 - 2024-02-29 23:59 UTC
MWC Barcelona is the largest and most influential event for the connectivity ecosystem. Whether you’re a global mobile operator, device manufacturer, technology provider, vendor, content owner, or are simply interested in the future of tech, you need to be here. Why? Because it’s the one time of year where everyone who’s anyone comes together under one roof. Tens of thousands of senior executives from the top global companies, international governments and trailblazing tech businesses converge at MWC Barcelona to make decisions.

Read the agenda

International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2024)
2024-02-19 00:00 - 2024-02-22 23:59 UTC
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communication (ICNC), is a premier conference in the computer and communications fields. ICNC 2024 is to be held in Big Island, Hawaii, USA, during February 19-22, 2024

ICNC 2024 covers the following technical areas:

Cloud Computing and Big Data

Communications and Information Security

Communication QoS and System Modeling

Internet Services and Applications

Green Computing, Communications and Networking

Machine Learning for Networking

Mobile Computing and Vehicle Communications

Multimedia Computing and Communications

Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluation

Optical and Grid Networking

Signal Processing for Communications

Social Computing and Semantic Data Mining

Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Wireless Communications

Wireless Networks

ICNC 2024 features the following technical programs:

Distinguished Lecturers

Workshop Program

Technical Symposia

Invited Position Talks

Industrial Forums

Keynote and Plenary Talks

ETSI Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference
2024-02-05 08:00 - 2024-02-07 17:00 UTC
Way Forward of AI Standardization, taking place face to face on 5-7 February 2024 at the ETSI headquarter in Sophia Antipolis, France.

About the Event

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) technology has made major advancements in recent years and is becoming a key enabler for new disruptive features and applications in any digital product.

The ETSI Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conference will focus on AI/ML from the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) perspective. The conference programme will cover topics such as new technological trends in the field of AI/ML, related standardization activities in ETSI and other Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), AI/ML regulation in Europe (European AI Act) and world-wide, implementation of AI/ML regulation with the help of standards, and related impact on product design and conformity assessment for market access.

More information is available on the event web site.

Immersive Tech Week 2023
2023-11-28 00:00 - 2023-12-01 23:59 UTC
Immersive Tech Week is a unique festival where creativity, innovation, business, research and art meet to explore the impact of immersive technologies on our planet, culture, and society.

A four day adventure filled with experiences, talks, round tables, workshops and more. Where industry leaders, XR enthusiasts, academics, start-ups, scale-ups and policy makers from all over the world unite to get inspired, share knowledge, find new opportunities and make connections.

Digital with Purpose Global Summit 2023
2023-09-27 00:00 - 2023-09-29 23:59 UTC
The DWP Global Summit represents a unique opportunity for private and public sector companies, vertical industries, and cities to showcase the benefits of Digital and Sustainable solutions. This year’s Summit will have a strong focus on Biodiversity as well as on Smart and Sustainable Cities and Education. The Summit will seek to find answers to how can digital technologies preserve and protect all life forms and help to manage resources in a more efficient way. How can we digitally transform cities? And how can we use technology to provide universal access to education and learning, disrupt an obsolete education system,  and elevate the potential of our future generations?

The DWP Global Summit is organised by the Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI)

IBC 2023
2023-09-15 00:00 - 2023-09-18 23:59 UTC | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
IBC is where the content, entertainment and technology industry meet. Held since 1967, IBC attracts over 50,000 senior media and entertainment professionals from across the broadcasting and content creation world with representatives from over 150 countries. The event showcases the very latest innovations with hundreds of free insightful show floor sessions and countless networking opportunities.

SPIRIT partner imec will attend the event. stay tuned for more updates!

For more information on the event in general: https://show.ibc.org/welcome

QoMEX 2023
2023-06-20 00:00 - 2023-06-22 23:59 UTC
The 15th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience

Towards sustainable and inclusive multimedia experiences

The 15th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2023) will be held from June 20 to 22, 2023 in Ghent, Belgium. It will bring together leading experts from academia and industry to present and discuss current and future research on multimedia quality, quality of experience (QoE) and user experience (UX). This way, it will contribute to excellence in developing multimedia technology, towards user well-being, and it will foster the exchange between multidisciplinary communities.

SPIRIT Participation in QoMEX 2023

SPIRIT’s partners from imec/ UGent and the University of Klagenfurt will present three scientific publications showcasing the advancements carried out within the SPIRIT framework on Tuesday 20th of June in the “Poster & Demos 1” from 16:30 to 17:30 CET and on Wednesday 21 the of June in the “Oral Session 4” from 09:00 to 10:30 CET.

Lecture @SII40
2023-06-09 00:00 - 23:59 UTC
SPIRIT’s partner Filip De Turck, Professor at the Department of Information Technology (Intec) of the Ghent University (Belgium) will give a lecture at Services and Innovation for Industry 4.0 (SII40), a higher education initiative in the Emilia-Romagna region, that involves the universities of Bologna, Ferrara, Modena-Reggio Emilia, and Parma.

Prof. De Turck’s lecture will focus on immersive holographic-type communications and their applications in Industry 4.0.

About SII40

The SII40 course aims to encourage the development of advanced digital skills, both theoretical and practical, and the training of specialized personnel suitable for operating in the field of Industry 4.0. The initiative is aimed at two types of learners: recent master’s students and workers already employed and interested in operating in the new field of the digital industry and will provide seminars, workshops, and professional courses.

2023 EuCNC & 6G Summit
2023-06-06 00:00 - 2023-06-09 23:59 UTC | Hybrid
Gotherburg, Sweden

EuCNC & 6G Summit 2023: 6G for a green and digital transition

The 2023 EuCNC & 6G Summit builds on putting together two successful conferences in the area of telecommunications: EuCNC (European Conference on Networks and Communications), supported by the European Commission, and the 6G Summit, originated from the 6G Flagship programme in Finland, one of the very first in its area. The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and by the European Association for Signal Processing, and focuses on all aspects of telecommunications ranging from 5G deployment and mobile IoT to 6G exploration and future communications systems and networks, including experimentation and testbeds, and applications and services.

The conference has a not-for-profit organisation, hence, registration fees are as low as possible and all surplus will be made available in grants. Best Papers and Booth Awards will be granted. Accepted and presented papers for regular sessions will be published in the Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore and other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5apblyRn1U

IEEE INFOCOM 2023
2023-05-17 00:00 - 2023-05-20 23:59 UTC | Hybrid
Hybrid: online & New York area

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications

EEE INFOCOM is a top-ranked conference on networking in the research community. It is a major conference venue for researchers to present and exchange significant and innovative contributions and ideas in the field of networking and closely related areas. IEEE INFOCOM covers both theoretical and systems research. For INFOCOM 2023, the conference includes a main technical program, a number of workshops, a keynote speech, panels, a student poster session, and demo/poster sessions.

IEEE NOMS 2023
2023-05-08 00:00 - 2023-05-12 23:59 UTC
SPIRIT’s partner Filip De Turck, Professor at the Department of Information Technology (Intec) of the Ghent University (Belgium) will be a panelist at the 36th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium which will take place on May 8-12, 2023 in Miami, Florida – USA.

The panel, scheduled for May 11, 2023, will gather Roch H. Glitho from Concordia University, Canada, Raouf Boutaba from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Alberto Leon-Garcia from the University of Toronto, Canada, to discuss Artificial Intelligence for network operation and management.

About IEEE NOMS

Held in every even-numbered year since 1988 with its sister conference IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), the 2023 edition is the 36th NOMS edition and the first ever taking place on an odd-numbered year bringing together the best of both outstanding conferences, a great achievement for the network management community.

In addition to being a historical event for the scientific community, NOMS 2023 will host an exciting program including keynotes, panels, technical sessions, demo sessions, dissertation sessions, mini-conference sessions, poster sessions, tutorials, and workshops. These events provide rich opportunities for participants to learn, share, exchange, and set the current and future directions and developments of network operations and management.

EU-IoT Final Event
2023-03-30 10:00 - 12:30 UTC
Online event

EU-IoT Final Event: From IoT to Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum – Takeaways and Transition to the New Paradigm

The EU-IoT consortium would like to extend an invitation to the wider community to attend the upcoming Showcase Event, which will mark the end of the 2-year project. Since kicking off in November 2020, the project has aimed to transform the current IoT community of researchers and innovators in Europe into an increasingly cohesive, dynamic, participatory and sustainable ecosystem, as an essential part of a Next Generation Internet.

EU-IoT has been a vital accelerator for the European IoT ecosystem, supporting the development of synergies, fostering strategic coordination among Next Generation Internet of Things (NGIoT) projects and related initiatives, and promoting the adoption of IoT solutions. As the project comes to a close in March 2023, this event provides an opportunity to reflect on the achievements and lessons learned and explore the future of IoT in Europe.

The event will feature presentations from key stakeholders who will be showcasing some of the most important outcomes of the project, engaging with other relevant projects that will follow from the work done on the EU-IoT such as the EUCloudEdgeIoT initiative.

Join us for this exciting and informative event and be part of the next chapter of IoT in Europe.

MWC Barcelona 2023
2023-02-27 00:00 - 2023-03-02 23:59 UTC | Hybrid
Fira Gran Via, Barcelona

In a fast-changing innovation landscape, there’s only one place to keep pace and turn radical disruption into radical growth. MWC Barcelona is where the three vital forces in our industry converge: technology, community and commerce.

It’s where 5G connects with global affairs. Industry connects with immersive technology. And small businesses connect with the giants of the tech.  It’s also where you’ll hear the most important debates of the year, generate 12 months of leads in just four days, and help shape a better tomorrow.

Velocity will focus on accelerating growth, relationships and positive change.

High-level expert webinar: Internet Commons and Digital Sovereignty
2023-01-31 14:30 - 16:30 UTC | Online
Digital Commons are among the core assets to pursue Europe’s Digital Sovereignty. Several initiatives and calls for action are gaining traction, striving to bring real benefits to individuals and organisations by ensuring open, inclusive and decentralised access to digital resources in line with the core principles and action of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) Initiative. However, in order to ensure that such approaches can grow and become viable alternatives over the current concentration of Internet resources, it is crucial to pull resources. Therefore, policymakers, regulators, public authorities and all other relevant players in the internet arena must converge to define collaboration policies and targeted institutional and financial plans to guarantee interoperability and community governance.

The main objectives of the webinar:

Discuss priorities for Europe to support an open, free, global, interoperable, reliable, and secure Internet.Explore the latest evolution of Digital Commons initiatives and relevant European policy-driven efforts.Discuss the role of the Next Generation Internet initiative as a way to foster Digital Commons and European Digital Sovereignty.Increase collaboration among all European players at work on Internet Commons.

The webinar will be moderated by Dr Monique Calisti, NGI Outreach Office Director.We will keep you updated with the planned agenda and speakers.

Agenda (To be confirmed by 2nd week of January)

14h:30 – 14h:35Welcome and introduction – Dr Monique Calisti, Director NGI Outreach Office14h:35 – 14h:50The European Digital Priorities Next Generation Internet (NGI) contribution to internet commons – Gemma Carolillo, Deputy Head of Next Generation Internet Unit14h:50 – 15h:10Key note – Nele Leosk, Ambassador-at-Large for Digital Affairs of Estonia

15h:10 – 16h:10Expert panel discussion

Paul Keller, Director of Open FutureKasia Odrozek, Director of Mozilla FoundationMelanie Dulong de Rosnay, Director of CNRSLaureen Van Breen, Director of WikiRate

16h:10 – 16h:25NGI Funding Opportunities – Open Calls and Horizon Europe Opportunities – (Speaker to be confirmed)

16h:25 – 16h30Wrap-up and next appointments – Dr Monique Calisti, Director NGI Outreach Office

Registration is free but mandatory.

Horizon Europe Info Day
2023-01-30 14:00 - 17:00 UTC
The European Commission invites stakeholders from industry, academia and innovators to participate in the Horizon Europe Info Day on 30 January 2023. This event is an Information Session on the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-2024 on “World leading data and computing technologies” and offers participants a unique opportunity to pitch concrete ideas in front of leading research organisations and cutting-edge innovators from across industry.

The open and FREE half-day virtual event will introduce three calls under Destination 3:

HORIZON-CL4-2023-DATA-01-07: Collaboration with NSF on fundamental research on new concepts for distributed computing and swarm intelligence (CSA) HORIZON -CL4-2023-DATA-01-04: Cognitive Computing Continuum: Intelligence and automation for more efficient data processing (RIA)HORIZON -CL4-2023-DATA-01-06: Coordination and Support of Cognitive Computing Continuum research and policy (CSA)

The event provides participants a unique opportunity to pitch concrete ideas and advertise one’s expertise in front of leading research organisations and cutting-edge innovators. The Info Day will allow participants to be inspired by new ideas, to extend their scientific and cooperative network and/or establish new partnerships.

Find out how to register for a flash presentation session

https://www.ngiot.eu/event/horizon-europe-info-day/

IEEE GLOBECOM 2022
2022-12-04 00:00 - 2022-12-08 23:59 UTC | Hybrid
The 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) will be held in the warm and wonderful city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 4 to 8 December 2022. Themed “Accelerating the Digital Transformation through Smart Communications,” this flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society will feature a comprehensive high-quality technical program including 13 symposia and a variety of tutorials and workshops. IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 will also include an attractive Industry program, with keynotes and panels from prominent research, industry and government leaders, business and industry panels, and vendor exhibits.

The IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 will be held as a hybrid event.
