IRE workshop, 29-30/10/2007, Heraklion, Crete

Topic: Multilevel Governance

IMT-INDIA, 06-09/02/2008, Mumbai

All India Association of Industries and World Trade Centre, Mumbai are organizing the "Innovative Technologies for Manufacturing Expo" in the commercial capital of India from 7-10 February 2008 at the Expo Centre, WTC Mumbai.

The objective of ITM Expo is to assist technology upgradation and modernization. The ITM Expo endeavors to collaborate overseas innovative technologies with Indian manufacturing sector to enrich the Indian manufacturing companies and together explore the markets of the developing nations.

India today, along with China and Korea is geared up to take on the mantle of the new manufacturing hub of Asia and the global manufacturing market. Today there is a new breed of emerging giants waiting in the wings to create the second wave of outsourcing of manufacturing processes. A whole gamut of production processes and jobs are being transferred to the developing world through global manufacturing networks. Manufacturing itself is moving from mass production to mass customization. Everyone is relying on innovation to change the future of manufacturing and large-scale production.
ITM Expo assumes importance in view of the Government of India having announced various favorable policies and schemes for technology upgradation The Indian manufacturing sector today is at the threshold of adopting innovative technologies to enhance productivity, provide quality, conserve energy and be cost effective.
ITM Expo will be covering several arenas of technology with a focus on the following broad sectors:
1. Automation & Engineering
Precision Tools, tools, mould making, auto components, transport technologies, material handling technology, printing & processing technologies machinery manufacturers for constructions, building material and infrastructure technology.
2. Agro technology, food processing and packaging technology
3. Electrical and electrical engineering and related sectors
4. Environmental Technologies, measuring systems and quality management
systems.

Slow Food Exhibition , Bra, Torino, Italy, 19-22/09/2007

Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.Today, we have over 80,000 members all over the world. Find out more about us and what we do.

Visit to VIDEOFIED, Paris, 08/11/2007

Videofied is a simple security solution that delivers video with the alarm to the Central Station. Video verified alarms are no longer just a routine alarm but are treated as a crime-in-progress. Law Enforcement wants to catch criminals and Videofied is an important tool that helps them do their job efficiently. The only bad thing about security systems is false alarms. Now they're gone for good.
The revolutionary Videofied Security System features a tiny video camera that gives a true picture of exactly what is going on in any alert. If it's a false alarm, police aren't bothered with it. If it's a real emergency, police respond with all due speed.
Videofied was delivers improved security without compromising privacy. The monitoring station receives the alarm/video and can relay the actual video to Law Enforcement.

Virtuality, Torino, 06-09/11/2007

Virtuality is a premiere international event on Computer Graphics, Interactive Techniques, Digital Cinema, 3D Animation, Gaming, VFX and Real Time Applications. Every year, Virtuality proposes the most up-to-date discussion about cutting-edge applications of VR and Interactive Techniques in various fields, but paying particular attention to its industrial applications and to the multifaceted universe of cinema, including presentations by world-class experts of animation and visual effects. Virtuality 2007, CREATING A DIGITAL FUTURE, will continue to focus on exploring the increasingly fluid boundary between real and virtual worlds. Through lectures, meetings, tributes, exhibits, art installations, screenings and demo presentations Virtuality will reveal the new digital frontier sweeping from cinema to architecture, from automotive design to advertising, from medicine to videogames. On the 7th of November, from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm, as part of the conference, a Brokerage Event focused on Virtual design and Computer graphics will be organized through the Innovation Relay Centre Network by Torino Chamber of Commerce. The aim of the Brokerage Event is to foster direct one-to-one meetings among companies, universities or research centres interested in building technology partnerships in this field.