Big conferences with over 1,000 attendees can promise visionary speakers and high-level panel members from industry, business and public policy. As the ICT Event 2008 does and its exhibition with cutting-edge developments from European research labs and industry. Though my experience from previous years (I participated in Helsinki, Nice and Milan) says innovative SMEs could find the most useful the networking sessions helping researchers identify future themes and find partners.
This year there is many networking sessions planned, here is a few examples relevant to what we cover
- ICT-SMEs: Your Innovation Partners (I found Bernhard’s supporting comment here)
- The Great Beyond: Advancing Ongoing SME Collaboration in EU Research
- Future Internet Socio-Economics
- Art, Creativity and Content: new foundations for ICT innovation
You may remember Steven’s rules for getting the most out of any conference. Don’t forget the rule Nr. 1 as there is always a chance to plug in with your idea or experience. You never know who is standing next to you. And drop me a line if you go to Lyon and are interested in Centrope partners. We can have conference coffee together.
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Thank youn Vlasimil, you are areally a attentive reader of websites ;-).
I can really strongly recomment the ICT Event in Lyon. I participated last time in Helsinky two years ago and it was extremly helpful.