The eris@ Annual Conference 2008 "Opportunities and Rewards for Regional Development through ICT: New Paradigms – New Challenges” offers delegates a very interesting and fully packed programme.
The Conference will open on Wednesday 11th of June, at 20h00. Participants will be welcomed with an opening “Cocktail & Barbecue” evening, taking place on the Celtic Manor's rooftop garden and barbeque terrace with views over the Severn Estuary.
There will also be the opportunity for delegates to visit Cardiff, the capital of Wales. A trip will be organised on the afternoon of the 11th of June at 17h00, arriving back in time for the welcome barbeque.This will be a great opportunity to see some of the sights of Cardiff such as Cardiff Castle, Cardiff Bay, The Millennium Stadium, Welsh Millennium Arts Centre and the Welsh Assembly Governments debating chamber, Y Senedd.
On the morning of Thursday 12th of June, eris@ has invited high profile speakers who will set the scene on “Opportunities and Rewards for Regional Development through ICT: New Paradigms – New Challenges”. The main topics tackled diring the day will be: e-Crime, e-Inclusion and Bradband. To be noted that the afternoon will host the speech of Welsh Prime Minister and of a high representative of the European Commission.
For the evening, all delegates will be invited to participate to a "Gala Dinner", taking place at the Celtic Manor Resort.
Friday 13th of June will open with two parallel sessions dedicated to the results of two interesting European projects: peardrop and TRANSFORM, focussing, respectively in "Digital Ecosystems" and "Transformative uses of ICT". Feedback from the two parallel sessions and a roundtable on “Priorities and Paradigms for regional Development” will open the afternoon plenary session. The remainder of the day will be dedicated to a number of interesting keynote speakers.
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To download the programme in pdf, click here.