Technology Conference

Military Engineering Conference “Combat, Sustainment & Reconstruction” will be held 18-19 October 2010 at the Hilton Kensington Hotel, London.

This event will examine the changing role of the military engineer as recent disasters have highlighted the need for a broader range of engineering skills. Speakers will also discuss the growing involvement of the private sector and its role in sustainment and reconstruction.

Attend this internationally-focused event and network with distinguished representatives from across the NATO alliance. You will have the opportunity to hear from key speakers, take part in interactive forums and engage & discuss integrated engineering solutions and future developments across the military engineering sector. This is an event you do not want to miss!

Hear Keynote addresses from: Lieutenant General David Leakey (Ret’d), EU Military Staff; Major General Michael Eyre, USACE; Major General Daniel Benjamin, Canadian Armed Forces

Our expert speaker line-up includes:

• Colonel Otto Radlmeier, Director, NATO Military Engineering Centre of Excellence
• Colonel Goetynck Frédéric, Commanding Officer, Engineering Battalion 4, Belgian Armed Forces
• Major Simon Le Fevre, Network Manager Civil Infrastructure, CIMIC, Royal Dutch Army
• Major Xavier Thiebaut, School of Engineering, French Armed Forces
• Rod Matthews, Function Manager, Infrastructure and Economic Recovery, Stabilisation Unit, DFID, UK
• Stuart Olden, Senior Systems Engineer, BMT Defence Services

How to Book:
Book online by visiting www.smi-online.co.uk/military-eng6.asp
Alternatively contact Teri Arri on +44 (0) 20 7827 6162 or email: tarri@smi-online.co.uk

The World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing is the world’s largest industrial biotechnology event for business leaders, investors and policy makers in biofuels, biobased products, and renewable chemicals. Entering its seventh year, the event is expected to bring together more than 1,400 high-profile scientists, executives, government officials and investors for an exchange of ideas in Washington, D.C.

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium will be held July 25-30, 2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The Organizing Committee of the 2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) is sponsoring a novel project exploring the emerging field of community remote sensing and invites your participation – “Remote Sensing: Global Vision for Local Action”. The Earth information needs of our society are vast. Until now, we have relied on government-sponsored satellites and observing systems as the foundation for this information. The rapid emergence of citizen science and social networks introduces an exciting new means for augmenting this knowledge.

What is Community Remote Sensing?
Remote sensing is the sensing or collection of information ‘from a distance’. Community remote sensing is a new field that combines remote sensing with citizen science, social networks, and crowd-sourcing to enhance the data obtained from traditional sources. It includes the collection, calibration, analysis, communication, or application of remotely sensed information by these community means.

IGARSS 2010 will spotlight this emerging field with a plenary session entirely dedicated to the topic, supporting the conference theme “Remote Sensing: Global Vision for Local Action”. During the year leading up to the plenary, the Organizing Committee is identifying and highlighting existing projects that embody the plenary theme. Plenary speakers will be selected from major organizations that reflect public sector, private sector, academia, and NGO perspectives on community remote sensing.

The q-bio Conference will be held August 11-14, 2010 at the St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. The q-bio conference is intended to advance predictive modeling of cellular regulation. The emphasis is on modeling and quantitative experimentation for understanding and predicting the behaviors of particular regulatory systems, phenomena that manifest themselves in many biological systems, and/or general principles of cellular information processing.

The single-track program will include invited talks from leading experimental and theoretical researchers (confirmed speakers are listed at left), as well as contributed talks, poster presentations, and tutorials selected from abstract submissions. The program includes two banquets, multiple sessions covering a range of topics, and two evening poster sessions.

The q-bio Summer School will precede the conference. It will take place in Los Alamos from July 26 to August 10 – students will then attend the q-bio Conference. The school is intended for researchers new to modeling cellular regulatory systems.

Design Automation Conference will be held June 13-18, 2010, Anaheim, CA. Anaheim Convention Center DAC is the world’s leading technical conference and tradeshow, covering the latest trends in electronic design and design automation. DAC is where the IC Design and EDA ecosystem learns, networks, and does business — where critical industry issues are faced and solutions presented.

The NVIDIA’S GPU Technology Conference (GTC) will take place from Monday, Sept. 20 to Thursday, Sept. 23, at the San Jose Convention Center. The event will highlight advances enabled by GPUs across high performance computing (HPC), professional visualization and consumer applications. GTC 2010 will encompass three concurrent GPU-focused summits in one location – the Emerging Companies Summit, GPU Developers Summit, and the NVIDIA(R) Research Summit. Topics for GTC 2010 will cover both computation and graphics across a broad range of industries and interests, in both research and commercial applications:

• High Performance Computing / Supercomputing
• Cloud Computing
• Computer Vision
• Flash, HTML 5, WebGL
• Stereoscopic 3D
• Life Sciences
• Medical Imaging
• Raytracing and Hybrid Rendering
• Visual Effects in Film and Broadcast

Algae World Summit 2010: Building Bridges in the Algae Value Chain will be held May 17-19, 2010, Hilton Del Mar, San Diego, California. This event will bring together a variety of algae industry representatives, financiers, and researchers, who will share the latest information on their activities and key technical, financial, and economic issues they are addressing.

As the emerging algae industry continues its march toward commercialization, it faces a number of vital decisions about the right path forward: what markets to serve, what commercialization strategies to follow, what business models to adopt, what scale up approaches to implement, what infrastructure to put in place and what collaborative relationships to establish. The Algae World Summit 2010 will address these and other issues currently dominating the industry’s discussions revolving around commercialization and industry building.

The growing worldwide demand for bio-based chemical products offers algae developers an attractive market-entry point. Economic and scale barriers for chemical feedstock are not as daunting as biofuels and the “high value, low volume” value proposition is more attractive. The summit will discuss what types of opportunities exist for algae in the bio-based chemicals market, what paths are available for entry, what challenges need to be overcome to be successful, and what sorts of relationships chemical companies are looking to forge within the algae community.

Sweden and the city of Jönköping will be the international bioenergy focal point hosting the 4th edition of World Bioenergy 25-27 May 2010. This major global bioenergy get-together is based on the unique “Taking you from Know-How to Show-How” concept, combining conference sessions, field excursions and tradeshow into one comprehensive event. Demand for solid biomass is exploding and market information flows are continuously becoming more available. Together, these two factors are the driving forces behind the development of an integrated global bioenergy market with reduced price differences between countries and continents. In the EUBIONET III workshop on 25 May, issues crucial for this process – such as logistics, market transparency and sustainability – will be highlighted and discussed.

The Fuel Cell Seminar & Exposition (FCS&E) provides an exciting opportunity to learn about and experience the latest advances in fuel cell research, development and demonstration/application. This year’s conference, Fuel Cells: Delivering the Power of a Greener Future, expands on the conference’s mission to advance the global energy, environmental, and economic benefits offered by fuel cell technology. The Fuel Cell Seminar & Exposition 2010 will be held October 18-22, 2010 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center San Antonio, TX, USA.

The FCS&E showcases the importance of fuel cells in the development of energy strategies that reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas and criteria pollutant emissions. The 2010 technical program will feature four parallel tracks that cover all aspects of fuel cell R&D, applications, and commercialization. The high temperature fuel cell track will include sessions on solid oxide fuel cells, molten carbonate and direct carbon fuel cells, and fuel processing. The low temperature fuel cell track offers topics on global perspectives, fuel cell testing and modeling, and hydrogen research and development. The third track will focus on the broad range of fuel cell applications including transportation, stationary, and portable power systems. The final track will cover emerging markets, economic considerations, government incentive programs, as well as manufacturing advancements.

The European FUEL CELL FORUM 2010 will be held from June 29 to July 2 at the Kultur und Kongresszentrum Luzern (KKL), Lucerne, Switzerland. This time solid oxide and molten carbonate fuel cells (SOFC and MCFC) will be featured at the 9th European SOFC Forum. The European FUEL CELL FORUM 2010 is a highlight of the European fuel cell year.