DISCOVERY will attend the 9th Annual NORDP Research Development Conference to discuss possible transatlantic ICT cooperation in the field of eHealth. Our partner UPM will be present at the event. About the conference: The 9th Annual NORDP Research Development Conference will be held May 8-10, 2017 at the Omni Interlocken Hotel in Broomfield, Colorado. To take…
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DISCOVERY partner SAVI attended and presented in the panel session of Looking Ahead: Future Research and US and International Interoperability Needs at the 25th GENI Engineering Conference host in Miami, March 14, 2017. Hadi Bannazadeh from University of Toronto presented about the SAVI testbed vision and highlighted the Discovery Project. Hadi highlighed in the session that DISCOVERY…
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NearUS (Network for European Research and Innovation Acceleration in the US) aims to establish a Network of Centres of European Research & Innovation (R&I), with nodes in the EU and US – a “Butterfly” model, offering support in several locations across the US to unlock growth potential stateside for the EU’s R&I community, and providing demand…
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Putting the citizen at the centre of health and care re-design.The European Commission has set up a task force bringing together technology and health policy makers. Authors: Roberto Viola (Director General DG Connect) / Xavier Prats Monné (Director General DG Sante) Europe faces a major challenge with the sustainability and quality of health and care…
DetailsThe symposium will comprise a combination of plenary sessions and parallel tracks and sessions. The target audience will include leaders in industry, academia, and government agencies. REGISTER HERE! Goals of the Symposium New developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) are global game-changers. At the vanguard of the revolution are innovations such as 5G networks,…
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The Digital Assembly 2017 will take place on 15 and 16 June in Valletta, Malta. It is an event co-organised by the European Commission and the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Register here! The 2017 edition of the Digital Assembly, hosted by DG Connect and the Maltese Presidency of the Council…
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Nick Jones, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, said, “The IoT demands an extensive range of new technologies and skills that many organizations have yet to master. A recurring theme in the IoT space is the immaturity of technologies and services and of the vendors providing them. Architecting for this immaturity and managing the…
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The DISCOVERY workshop was held as a side event of the International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics – BHI 2017. The goal of the workshop was to unveil transatlantic issues existing among European countries and North American countries, and to brainstorm potential opportunities and solutions for collaboration in research and innovation. The workshop provided…
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Center for Data Innovation (CDI) is the leading think tank studying the intersection of data, technology, and public policy. It recently published some comments to the Commission on its reflection and orientation paper on smart wearables, First of all, CDI welcomes and recognises most of the conclusions drew by the Commission, including agreeing the opportunities…
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Blockchain is a distributed ledger which maintains all transactions and assets and is updated by a number of counterparties. Financial institutions are investing in the technology – in what is hoped – to automate processes and remove “human” errors. This may help towards lowering transactional and operational costs by releasing the finance sector from its…
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