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RFID Europe - Special Offer for members of AIDC sub-group - The Electronics Knowledge Transfer Network is pleased to announce two very exciting offers for members interested in attending the RFID Europe Conference - the premier UK based RFID conference. By Nigel Rix (03/09/10) ... more

GE's Ecomagination challenge: over $200M in cash prizes and venture capital funding - With $200M available in venture capital funding and over $500k in cash prizes for the best ideas GE has challenged industry, academics and individuals to propose ides to meet the challenges of power generation, distribution and use. The competition ends on 30th September so review the details and enter. The ESP KTN, EGS KTN and UKTI are working together to highlight this opportunity for UK industry, academics and individuals. We are also planning to organise a meeting in London on the 13th September to allow interested people to meet Tore Land, GE Director responsible for Ecomagination challenge - if you would like to attend (it will be free of charge) please email nigel.rix@espktn.org to register you interest in the meeting. GE’s Ecomagination Challenge is a $200 million innovation experiment where businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators and students share their best ideas on how to build the next-generation power grid – and just might get funded. This is By Nigel Rix (03/09/10) ... more

_connect with the Global Supply Chain - A Guide to Off-shoring – Make or Buy for High Value Manufacturing? What is the true “Landed Cost”? By Ashley Evans (19/08/10) ... more

Technology World - 7th & 8th December 2010, London's ExCel Centre - UK Trade & Investments (UKTI) flagship conference attracting over 1700 delegates from 38 . This conference is an absolute "must" UK companies who wish to develop overseas and global markets. As well as the conference features relating to energy, the environment, this year the conference and exhibition is being run in conjunction with the UK Nanoforum. By Ashley Evans (11/08/10) ... more

Square Kilometre Array Conference - An Industry perspective - 16th September - The Square Kilometre Array is an international project to design and build the next generation of radio telescope. With unmatched improvements in speed and sensitivity it will enable new discoveries and test some of the fundamental theories of cosmology. As complex as the LHC, over 3,000 Kms across and producing as much data as the whole of the internet of 2020 it represents a major challenge for scientists, engineers and manufacturers. With clear advantages for academics and scientists - What will industry gain from this project? This conference will bring together the designers, academics and users of the SKA with the companies that hope to benefit from the investment of 1.5 Billion Euros - benefits coming from either direct contracts or from the spin-out technologies that will developed. By Nigel Rix (30/07/10) ... more

_connect with the Square Kilometre Array project. - The Square Kilometre Array is an international programme to build the next generation of radio telescopes. This project will drive advances in data communication and data analysis systems that are equally applicable to tomorrow's communications and data processing solutions. As complex as the LHC, over 3,000kms in physical size and with huge data processing capability - it is the "Man on the Moon" project for the electronics industry. The SKA SIG now has its own sub-group on the _connect website - go to https://ktn.innovateuk.org/web/ska . The _connect is now the main information platform for the Knowledge Transfer Networks and so the SKA information has been transferred to the new site and content has been extended - see the document library. By Nigel Rix (30/07/10) ... more

_connect - with the Electronics Knowledge Centre - _connect with the Electronics Knowledge Centre and the ESP KTN - the Technology Strategy Board's portal for connecting the Knowledge Transfer Networks By Ashley Evans (21/07/10) ... more

Rapid Prototyping with 32-bit Microcontrollers - the easy way! - Are you an inventor, innovator, designer or product developer? Have you ever wanted to prototype a new idea for a product or solution but been put off by your lack of electronics expertise or resources for developing such a prototype? Would you be interested if we told you that there was a way you could rapidly develop prototypes using sophisticated, flexible and powerful 32-bit microcontroller technology? And that you could do this without having to spend loads of time and money on buying and learning how to use expensive development tools? If the answer is yes, then read on.... By Daniel Dearing (07/07/10) ... more

Collaborate with the Knowledge Transfer Networks - _Connect is a place where open innovation happens, where you can work together securely, share information and knowledge. Utilise the online tools to work collaboratively or discuss your ideas and find events to meet with others from your communit By Ashley Evans (21/06/10) ... more

Financing and Managing Your Innovation Projects - An Exclusive Workshop designed especially for Technology Companies. Led by internationally renowned Open Innovation expert Professor Wim Vanhaverbeke & Jonathon Gold and focusing on how to get your innovation projects funded. By Ashley Evans (11/06/10) ... more

The Best of British Consumer Electronics

by Daniel Dearing (08 February 2010)

UK Technology – The Vital Component
A showcase of world leading technologies from UK companies in the Consumer Electronics industry
Date: 9th March 2010
Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Way, London EC1Y 8TZ

UK Technology – The Vital Component

The “Best of British” in Consumer Electronics

A showcase of world leading technologies from UK companies in the Consumer Electronics industry

Companies already confirmed to present include: UKTI, ARM, Cambridge Silicon Radio, Wolfson Microelectronics, Frontier Silicon, Picochip, PassivSystems, Tenbu Technology, Orbitsound, Ocean Blue Software, Truecall, Interead, Mediche. More to follow.

Date: 9^th March 2010

Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Way, London EC1Y 8TZ

www.regonline.co.uk/consumer_electronics_2010

£75 for EKTN Members and £150 for non-members

Exhibition tables £125

See some of the UK’s leading electronics companies involved in the consumer electronics market
Learn about how UK companies are leading the world in capturing significant parts of the global value chain in consumer electronics markets
Network with other companies
Discover what support UK Trade and Investment can provide to UK companies doing business internationally
Table-top exhibition for you to demonstrate your own technology/products

Background

More than 30% of Europe's fabless semiconductor companies and independent design houses are located in the UK, so it's no surprise that some are world leaders. It’s also no surprise to find that many of these companies were founded in the UK and have chosen to remain headquartered here because their value and strength is in the expertise of their staff and UK engineers have skills which are not easy to find in other places.

We are a nation of innovators, we have great expertise in analogue design, wireless and digital signal processing. We build chips on leading edge processes (like TSMC’s 40nm process). We have been pioneers of mixed signal on cmos technology and now we’re amongst the world leaders in the field of innovative display technology and plastic electronics.

Many of the technologies being developed by these UK companies are behind some of the “killer products” on the market today. Iconic products like the Apple iPad and iPhone, TomTom satnavs, Palm Pre, Samsung Omnia HD smartphone, and many others, have used technologies from UK companies like ARM, Imagination Technologies, CSR, Wolfson Microelectronics, Icera as their vital components

We need the world to recognise that we’re building globally competitive businesses and that these UK companies are working on a global basis to capture significant parts of the value chain in the global Consumer Electronics market.

UK Technology at CES 2010

The Electronics KTN recently supported a UKTI mission to the USA to showcase UK Technology at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Focusing on the mantra of “UK Technology – the Vital Component”, our aim was to demonstrate the wealth of technology from the UK that is behind many of today’s “killer” products.

The UK Technology stand at CES featured a selection of thought leadership presentations, demos and information about the UK technology sector. This “Best of British” event brings many of those companies that were involved in CES 2010 to a UK audience.

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