Technology Conferences

“>SMi’s 3rd annual Telecoms for Smart Grids conference will provide insight into emerging communications technology, requirements for metering, methods of coping with increasing demand, data communications and monitoring and control initiatives.

The conference will be held from September 23 to September 24, 2013, in London.

Driving operational efficiency for ageing infrastructures, carbon reduction, and lower energy consumption are top priorities for today’s Utilities. The communications network will need to not only facilitate advanced control and monitoring, but also support additional generation, transmission, marketing and service provisions. In addition to ensuring a flexible and secure network, M2M communication will be a key component of the Smart Grid, as a means to deploy wide-scale monitoring and control.

SMi’s inaugural M2M for the Oil and Gas Industry (8th – 9th July, 2013, Marriott Hotel Regents Park, London, UK) will address the role of Wireless Networks and Machine to Machine technologies, their current utilization, the future of devices and machine to machine connectivity and automation, and the role technical strategies play as operational business drivers for Oil and Gas applications.

Many factors are driving the M2M market in the oil and gas industry, including new regulations, rising operating costs due to increasingly inaccessible reserves, and accelerating competition between international oil companies (IOCs) and national oil companies (NOCs). Don’t miss this opportunity to hear first hand case studies delivered by senior industry decision makers from: Shell, Saudi Aramco, Vodafone, Imperial College London, Wyless, Skywave, Zedi, and many more.

Contact: Aaron Jackson +44 (0) 20 7827 6064 / ajackson@smi-online.co.uk

The 3rd annual Distribution Automation Europe conference will be held October 14-15, 2013 at Marriott Hotel Regents Park, London. SMI’s annual event is increasingly improving reliability to increase efficiency and capacity to help reduce energy wastage. The smart grid distribution network is a critical goal for utilities to help manage our electricity needs, in working together making the grids more efficient more reliable more secure and greener. The next generation hardware and software for DA gives utilities many more options in meeting that goal.

Distribution Automation will showcase the key distribution issues taking place right now from day to day challenges to the most forward thinking utilities and the most up-to-date technology and communication. This event will give you a clear understanding how to maximize your distribution automation investments, further develop efficiency and increase reliability.

Contact: Darryl Moxon
Phone: +44 20 7827 6066
Email: dmoxon@smi-online.co.uk
URL: http://www.smi-online.co.uk/2013distribution-automation31.asp

The third annual Open Networking Summit will be held April 15-17, 2013 at the Santa Clara Convention Center and Hyatt Regency Santa Clara. This year’s Open Networking Summit 2013 will provide:

• Users and network operators the opportunity to meet with their peers to exchange ideas and knowledge, discuss real problems they are looking to solve, and meet early adopters that will showcase their SDN deployments and their business benefits.
• Business and technology executives the chance to gather to discuss how SDN can solve business problems where the network is limiting their ability to grow; how SDN can create new sources of revenue; or how SDN can meet a desired cost structure and create competitive differentiation.
• Network and enterprise architects the ability to learn about SDN from peers, understand where it may apply in their networks, and key resources to make them successful with potential SDN use cases.
• Vendors building SDN solutions an occasion to join the conversation to share their point of view, and showcase their technologies and solutions to prospective customers.
• Researchers an outlet to expose their cutting-edge research to the broader community for direct, commercial feedback.
  Investors an event to learn about the latest advances in SDN and to discover new funding opportunities.
• Open-source developers the chance plug-in and test interoperability of their SDN technologies and demonstrate possible solutions to the ecosystem.

FPGA 2013, the 21st ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, opens on February 11 in Monterey, California. The ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays is the premier event for presentation of advances in all areas related to FPGA technology. This year’s conference will feature a full day of (dual-track) tutorials on high-level synthesis and higher level design flows for FPGAs on Monday, Feb. 11. The technical presentations of new research papers will follow on Feb. 12 and 13. On the evening of Feb. 12, a panel discussion on “Are FPGAs Suffering from the Innovator’s Dilemma?” will be held.

A new market research report Data Warehouse Acceleration Market Forecast 2015-2020 has placed FPGA technology as the critical enabler for database warehouse acceleration.

CleanTech 2013 opens today at the Israel Trade Fairs and Conventions Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel. CleanTech 2013 is the 17th annual international event for Clean Technologies: environmental quality, infrastructures and green building, renewable energy and water technologies.

Among renewable energy technologies presented at the event are biogas, solar and microalgae biofuel solutions.

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The Vienna Conference on Instrumentation (VCI) will be held from February 11 to February 15, 2013. The conference will present the newest developments of detectors for particle, astro-particle and nuclear physics and its applications in biology, medicine, neutron scattering and synchrotron radiation. The conference will take place at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Vienna University of Technology.

On 20th and 21st February 2013, SMi will be hosting their inaugural M2M Telematics: Fleet Management and User Based Insurance conference in London.

This two day interactive event will bring together Automotive Fleet Managers, Insurance Providers, Operators and Technology Leaders as well as key players from within the industry. This M@M Telematics event is the ideal platform to share and discuss future strategies, partnerships and extensive opportunities the M2M market has to offer.

For more information please visit: www.smi-online.co.uk/m2m16.asp

Advanced Biofuels Markets brings together professionals from the advanced biofuels and bioproducts industry.

The event, a ‘must do’ conference for advanced biofuels industry leaders including CEOs, Presidents, Vice Presidents and Managing Directors, will tale place from October 29 to October 31, 2012 in San Francisco.

The global biofuel production is estimated to reach 1,900 Million barrel in 2020, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10% over the forecast period 2015 – 2020, says a recent market study Global Biofuel Production Forecast 2015-2020.

SMi’s 6th annual Mobile Deployable Communications conference will take place in Amsterdam on the 7-8 February 2013.

The domination of current events across the defence sector has reignited the need for multinational cooperation through interoperability. This Mobile Deployable Communications 2013 will address the communication equipment used by our armed forces when deployed illustrating that the practical elements are just as significant as the technology which supports deployed soldiers.

This must-attend event will feature an array of key military speakers from across the communications field including: DGA France, Austrian Ministry of Defence, EU Military Staff, Polish Armed Forces, Multinational Corps North East and European Defence Agency.

Register online at: http://www.smi-online.co.uk/mobiledeployable-comms11.asp