CLINES innovation workshop on Embedded Systems for Smart Cities

Location: Business Faculty Brussels, Sint-Lendriksborre 6, 1120 Brussels
Friday June 13, 2014, 9:00 – 16:00

The first innovation workshop of the European CLINES Project on Embedded Systems for Smart Cities will take place in Brussels on Friday 13rd June 2014.

The workshop will feature (inter)national speakers from industry, academia and government, highlighting concrete realizations and opportunities (business, funding) in the Smart Cities domain.

We will also offer the participants an exclusive guided tour of the Living Tomorrow showroom in Brussels, which gives a concrete idea of important aspects of a Smart City of today and tomorrow.

This is the agenda (detailed program will follow soon) for the event:

- 8:30 –  9:00 Welcome & registration

- 9:00 –  9:30 CLINES intermediate results presentation

- 9:30 – 10:00 Smart Cities and Horizon2020 (Dimitrios Sofianopoulos, Policy Officer, C2, DG Energy)

- 10:00 – 10:45 Innovation Challenges for Smart Cities, a Belgian Perspective (Freddy Vandaele, Senior Business Development Manager Agoria, Building Technology & Smart Cities)

- 10:45 – 11:15  Coffee break

- 11:15 – 12:45 International testimonials on Smart City Innovation, related to Embedded Systems Technologies (including demo material)

* 11:15 - 11:45 Fernando Presa, CEO Nexmachina (Spain) on iQMenic, an IoT & M2M Devices Management Platform for Smart Cities

* 11:45 - 12:15 Volker Hessel, Siemens Infrastructure & Cities (Germany), on the perspective of a large player in the Smart Cities field

* 12:15 - 12:45 Daniel Lux, CEO Seluxit (Denmark) on the Seluxit IoT Platform for Smart Cities

- 12:45 – 13:45  Lunch

- 13:45 – 14:00 Walk (15')/drive (5') to the “Living Tomorrow” complex nearby

- 14:00 – 15:00  Guided tour at Living Tomorrow

- 15:00 – 15:15 Walk (15')/drive (5') back to the Business Faculty

- 15:15 – 16:15 Open session (one-on-one meetings and/or subgroup discussions on innovation and international collaboration for Smart Cities) & cocktail 

To register, please use this online form http://www.dspvalley.com/upload/event/clines/Registrationform.html