The artists whose artwork will have been selected will be informed on September 17, 2010.

Send your contribution now to NEMart@nem-summit.eu to take advantage of this opportunity to maybe win the « 2010 NEMart award » (together with a 5,000 Euro price – please note that the price may be split).
For any further information, please contact info@nem-summit.eu

NEM Art contest (PDF)

The workshop will take place on October 15, 2010 afternoon from 2:00pm in the ‘Atria 3′ room.

The overall mission of the Generalitat de Catalunya is to make Catalonia a leading economy in the global market by providing its businesses with a competitive edge. It is composed of more than 200 professionals offering advisory services  to companies, and it has 5 delegations in Catalonia and 35 Business Promotion Centres worldwide. The Generalitat de Catalunya (ACC10) is the Catalan agency for competitiveness that specializes in innovation, internationalization and attracting inward investment.
ACC10 is part of the Catalan Ministry of Innovation, Universities and Enterprise, whose aim is to attract foreign investment for production in Catalonia and to provide advisory services, practical support and business opportunities to companies interested in expanding their business globally. ACC10 also targets the increase of business productivity by improving three main factors: innovation, technology and talent.

La Salle is a leading international institution in the fields of science, culture and education, whose works have spread throughout the world as a pioneering body providing solutions for the training needs of each individual country. The Barcelona Campus aims at providing quality education, focussed on the person, that provides answers to the needs of the society.
The Barcelona Campus makes  substantial contributions to the fields of thought,  culture, science and technological development, the  fruit of high-level research and co-operation with leading  institutions and companies. It encompasses a series of federated  higher education centres with a long history in Catalonia . These institutions, along with the Fundació  del Cercle d’Economia and personalities of catalan civil  society, under the chairmanship of Cardinal Narcís  Jubany, created the University on the 10th of October  1989.
In the years since it first opened its doors, the Ramon  Llull University has extended its activities and, at  present, comprise the following federated institutions:  the Chemical Institute, the Blanquerna Foundation, La  Salle Engineering and Architecture, the Faculty of Philosophy,  the Ebro Observatory, ESADE (Higher School of Business  Management and Administration), the Pere Tarrés  Faculty School of Social Education and Social Work,  the Vidal i Barraquer Mental Health Institute, the Borja  Bioethics Institute and  the ESDi Higher School  of Design (as an affiliated centre).

The NEM Initiative is pleased to announce that the the “Future Media & Imaging” (FMI) Department of the IBBT (a Flemish research institute) will be exhibiting at the 2010 NEM Summit.

The overall mission of the IBBT is the creation of highly competent human capital in different aspects of ICT through multi-disciplinary demand-driven research. IBBT carries out multi-disciplinary research for the Flemish business community and the Flemish government. This includes all technological, legal and social dimensions of the development and exploitation of broadband services.

The “Future Media & Imaging” (FMI) Department contributes to the realization of the overall IBBT mission as a Centre of Excellence for media research and applications. The targeted research challenges and application domains include: TV and multimedia entertainment; global content management; multimedia communication; media production; public safety, surveillance, and smart environments; biomedical imaging; and non-destructive testing.

The research activities of the IBBT FMI Department are devised in four research themes/unit:

• Multimedia Representation, Transmission, Visualization and Forensics;
• Image and Video Quality Improvement and Analysis;
• Metadata-based Content Adaptation & Senses for Likeable Systems;
• Multimodal (Pre)Clinical Imaging: Biomedical Image & Signal Processing and Analysis.

The FMI Department unites 150 researchers from five different research groups linked to three Flemish universities. The research activities are coordinated by four Principal Investigators who report to the Technical Board. The FMI Department also has a Steering Committee and a Director (Prof. Rik Van de Walle).

The NEM Initiative is pleased to announce that the deadline to register at early bird fees (340 euros excl. VAT instead of 500 euros excl. VAT) has been extended to August 31, 2010.

Register online now to take advantage of this opportunity.

The NEM Initiative is very proud to unveil today the list of 25 projects selected to exhibit following the Call for Exhibition conducted until July 15.

With 25 selected exhibiting projects, the NEM Summit 2010 reaches an unprecedented success ensuring a quality exhibition to attendees. The last exhibition opportunities will be closing by the end of the week: interested organizations shall contact us urgently!

The list of projects includes:

• P2P-Next
• PROTAGE – FP7 STREP PROJECT ON DIGITAL PRESERVATION WITH INTELLIGENT AGENTS
• PetaMedia Network of Excellence
• BEACON
• NET-EUCEN
• FascinatE – The future of interactive TV
• GENESISX project
• SkyMedia – Immersive media experiences from the sky
• NoTube
• VirtualLife
• NadiaSpeaks
• Games@Large
• 3D4YOU
• BEAMING: Being in Augmented Multi-Modal Naturally-Networked Gatherings
• 3DPHONE
• Ideal-ist: Your worldwide ICT Support Network
• C-CAST – Context-Aware Content Delivery
• ANSWER
• WeKnowIt – Emerging, Collective Intelligence for personal, organisational and social use
• Future Media Networks Cluster
• NatureGate
• 2020 3D Media
• HYPER MEDIA NEWS
• CELTIC MediaMap
• SALA3D

The NEM Initiative is proud to announce that Turk Telekom will be supporting the 2010 NEM Summit as a Gold Sponsor for the 1st year.

Türk Telekom (TT) is the Europe’s 5th and the world’s 13th largest telco operator. Türk Telekom, the leading communication and convergence technology company in Turkey, provides integrated telecommunication services from PSTN and GSM to broadband internet. As of June 30, 2010; Türk Telekom group companies have 16.3 mn Fixed Access Lines, 6.5 mn ADSL Connections and 11.5 mn Mobile Subscribers.

TT has the full shares of;

• TTNet, broadband service provider with 5,5 million subscriber in Turkey,
• Sebit, content provider of broadband companies,
• Argela, IPTV and new media provider,
• Innova, leading software developer and systems integrator,
• Sobee, game development company, and also,
• Avea, the mobile operator with 14 million subscribers in Turkey (81 % of the shares),
• AlbTelecom, Albania telecom operator (small share owner).

TT Group have several FP6, FP7 and EUREKA projects. TT is a member of EURESCOM, ETNO, ETSI, ITU, CEPS, WiMAX Forum. TT has close relationships with the universities, research centers and SMEs.

Because of the large interest shown by the wide community to submit papers for NEM Summit 2010, the NEM Summit Technical Programme Committee has decided to extend the paper submission deadline until 8 August 2010.

All details about the Call for Papers can be found in the corresponding section of this website.

The Chairs of the User Centric Content Technologies track – Nozha Boujemaa (Inria), Alex Jaimes (Yahoo! Research), Jovanka Adzic (Telecom Italia) – are pleased to unveil today the Program Committee members of the track:

• Arjen de Vries, CWI – Netherlands
• Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL – Switzerland
• Volker Hahn, Fraunhofer IGD – Germany
• Alexis Joly, INRIA – France
• Ahmet Kondoz, University of Surrey – Uk
• Henning Muller, HUG – Switzerland
• Ralf Neudel, IRT – Germany
• Jean-Charles Point, JCP Consult – France
• Francoise Prêteux, MINES ParisTech – France
• Raquel Navarro Prieto, Fundacion Barelona Media – Spain
• Nicu Sebe, Univ. Trento – Italy
• Nadia Thalman, University of Geneva – Switzerland
• Amedeo Zuccaro, STMicroelectronics – Italy

Distributed Multimedia Content will be plentiful all over the Future Internet. This NEM track will address innovative User-Centric Content technologies and services. The community is facing several challenges to enhance multimedia content generation, mining and presentation technologies toward intuitive user content consumption in real time. Resource heterogeneity related to diversity of connected devices, information sources, infrastructures, users’ communities, context and mobility are bottlenecks that need to be addressed since they impact the way content is coded, delivered, and shared in the Future Media Internet.

The quality of experience and usability of services are crucial issues that strongly impact the success of new services and new content. Immersive and smart user interfaces together with the ability to offer content to users taking their context into account will be critical factors for the success of Future Media Internet Services. In this NEM track, enabling factors for the deployment of such technologies and innovative services will be addressed.

In particular, this workshop will target advanced implementations and experiences toward applying research results to real-life situations, in any of the following example areas or in other application domains where content management and mining are important: Government, Health, Smart and Assisted Living, …
Topics covered with this workshop will include (but are not limited to):

• Content search, discovery and mining
• Socio-cultural factors in the creation, consumption, and sharing of content
• User behaviour, engagement, and audience measurements
• Interaction, Immersion, 3D, Augmented Reality, …
• Creative Content Generation,
• Innovative Gaming applications and services: content rendering and interaction
• Connected Media Devices
• Social Networks: collaborative tagging, user-generated content mining and exploitation
• Quality of Experience and Usability
• Personalizing, Profiling & Recommendation mechanisms
• Context Aware Content
• Content Analysis and Enrichment, meta-data Extraction & Management,…
• Applications & Services: eCitizen, eHealth, Smart Living, eElderly, …

The NEM Initiative is proud to announce that the Cap Digital will be supporting the 2010 NEM Summit as a Gold Sponsor for the 3rd year in a row.

Cap Digital is the French business cluster for digital content and services in Paris and the Ile de France region. We are a non-profit organization. Our 600 members are primarily innovative SMEs but also count major universities, higher education establishments, research labs, and corporations.

Our members represent the digital industry’s most active players in digital content. Nine vibrant member communities make a vital contribution to the strategy and direction of the cluster: Image, Sound and Interactivity, Video Games, Knowledge Engineering, Culture, Press, and Media, e-Learning and e-Training, Collaborative Technology & Intelligence, Mobile Lifestyle & Services, Robotics and Communicating Objects, and Digital Design.

Cap Digital provides members with essential information, networks, and resources. These include ongoing competitive intelligence, training, partnerships, funding solutions, and project reviews. Partnerships with other leading European clusters, at a structural and project level, are an essential element of Cap Digital’s strategic activities.