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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
Power Management Technologies conference, 27th May 2010 - By Daniel Dearing (27/04/10) ... more
The Collaboration Nation - Inspiring Innovations for a Digital Britain event - 31st March - The Collaboration Nation Event Programme The Collaboration Nation - Inspiring Innovations for a Digital Britain event is focused on the winners from the Technology Strategy Board's fasibility studies competition launched in autumn 2009. It is relevant to everyone who is interested in innovation and technology collaboration in the digital field. The event programme has been designed with plenty of opportunity to make new connections and to discuss future collaborations. Collaboration Nation - Inspiring Innovations for a Digital Britain opens at 0830 and closes at approximately 1630 on Once you are registered to attend the event you will be able to manage your own diary of the day. Use the 'register' button to select the one-to-one meetings. The event is to be held at Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell Street,London WC1B 3LS By Nigel Rix (15/03/10) ... more
SKA 2010 - Unique opportunity to meet the SKA developers from round the world - register by 5th March - The SKA is an iconic project for the electronics sector as it brings together the skills of both academics and industry to meet one of the most challenging developments of our time. To design and build the world's largest radio telescope is a project that requires global collaborations - and 1.5 Billion Euros! However the advances required to achieve the project's goals are also those advances required by industry for tomorrow data communication and data processing solutions. High speed communications, low noise & low power electronics, data processing based on multicore DSP and supercomputing technologies. SKA 2010 is being held in Manchester between 22nd and 25th March. This year's event may well mark the tipping point from academic research into engineering - and so is an ideal time for companies to participate in a unique conference bringing together the world's leading developers to discuss current progess and the next steps. See the attached files for the full pro By Nigel Rix (02/03/10) ... more
ARTEMIS networking event - 22nd Feb - Last Chance to register! - Companies already registered include: Altreonic, Sirris, Imagination Technologies, EADS Astrium, BAE Systems, Selex Galileo (UK) and Selex Galileo (Italy), DSP Valley (Leuven), Esterline Racal Acoustics, NXP, the Advanced Digital Institute and universities of Kent, Bristol, Aston, De Montford. By Daniel Dearing (15/02/10) ... more
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The Grand Challenges Special Interest Group is provided for companies and academics interested in following the activities of the Electronics KTN Grand Challenges programme. You will find details of the Grand Challenges event programme, supporting documentation, discussion groups and links to other pages and websites that may be of interest. You will aslo be able to participate in discussions, contribute your own ideas and offer material and news that may be of interest to other members.
Check the Grand Challenges Event Programme page for details of the Grand Challenges event programme and how you can participate. You will find also find links to the event materials on this page.

On our Discussion Forum you will be able to interact with other people with an interest in the Grand Challenges and meet people who might be interested in forming collaborative teams.

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Autonomous Systems Conference - 26th and 27th Nov
by Daniel Dearing (02 November 2009)
Autonomous Systems - Challenges, Developments and Opportunities
A major 2 day event at Hilton London Euston Hotel
26th & 27th November 2009
The capabilities of Autonomous Systems are growing: they can detonate unexploded bombs; provide care for the elderly and infirm; collect soil samples from hostile environments; and carry out significant surgical operations. The market for Autonomous Systems sector is poised for considerable growth; fuelled by the challenges of caring for a growing elderly population, increasing security threats to society, and coping with skills and resource shortages. The electronics community plays a very significant role in this sector.

This extensive 2 day event in Central London, structured around speaker presentations and discussions, is designed to bring together members of the electronics community - manufacturers, developers and researchers in the field of autonomous systems to discuss market requirements, new products and electronic technology developments.

Why attend?

The event will be attended by senior commercial and technical people from the electronics community, including representatives from the aerospace, automotive, healthcare, defence and environmental sectors, to create a stimulating environment for new market opportunities and collaborations.
Speakers from a range of organisations, such as BAE Systems, Roke Manor and a selection of University departments, will describe the requirements of growing markets, latest products and the latest technical developments and there will be a real opportunity to discuss specific challenges and solutions.

Day 1: Thursday 26th November
Sensor exploitation, motion and position guidance and control, with an emphasis on lifestyle, assisted living and medical applications.
Day 2: Friday 27th November
On-board information collection & analysis, and decision making with an emphasis on aerospace, automotive and defence applications.
These 2 days will be bridged by an evening networking dinner hosted by the Electronics KTN with a guest speaker.

Agenda presentations include:-
Defence requirements and capabilities
Towards verifiable autonomy
Open platform robotics
Locating and communicating with UAV’s
Human interfaces for hands free control
Autonomous indoor navigation
Rehabilitation robotics
Remote monitoring
Developments in robotic surgery
Sensor fusion

In addition Libor Kral of the EU Commission will talk about priorities for the forthcoming FP7 call on robotics and cognition and there will be an early evening workshop on day 1 for delegates interested in finding out more about this.

Flexible options to book are available for Day 1 and 2 plus evening dinner and preferential hotel rates have also been arranged
To register please go to :
www.regonline.co.uk/autonomous_systems_2009
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