The NEM Initiative is very pleased to unveil today the addressed topics of the 2010 NEM Summit. In order to re-inforce its impact in the networked media and ICT community as a whole, the format of the 2010 NEM Summit has been re-shaped.

The conference will be build upon four key technology workshops:

• Green NEM
• Content Delivery
• User Centric Content
• New Content Services

Each workshop will be organized under the supervision of two leaders (one from the industry, one from the academia) and will issue a call for papers in the coming weeks.

On-going technological developments in media distribution are enabling an unprecedented number of innovative applications, empowering the role of the end-user and fostering the creation of new business initiatives. Electronic media technologies are enabling new generations of media devices and services, seamlessly conveyed over ever-increasingly intelligent media transportation networks. Thanks to the emergence of flexible content representation and rendering technologies, eApplications at large, supported by secure and trustworthy authentication and payment services, will be available everywhere, any time and on every device.

The retrieval of «My preferred Content» will be made easy by the rapid adoption of multimedia search utilities that will unleash the power of identifying objects by AV multimedia keys. The relevance of the results will be improved even more, thanks to the context-awareness capabilities of terminals. The same system will allow the user to easily share his experiences and creativity with a broad community. The multi-modality of rich and interactive media content will greatly improve user experience, including people with disabilities, through immersive and more natural use of all human senses: the user becomes an integral part of the multi-media experience, while the terminal device itself vanishes.