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Event Organisers

Forum Europe www.forum-europe.com

Forum Europe is the leading EU dedicated conference and event provider. Founded in 1989 and with offices at the heart of the European Union in Brussels, Forum Europe specialises in EU focussed political and economic conferences and debates. We work successfully with businesses, institutions, NGOs and governments alike while organising our own portfolio of sector leading events.

 

The Forum Europe team consists of multilingual EU policy and events specialists and our strategic services can maintain and develop your networks at EU level while delivering forums where key issues can be aired and debated.

 

You can find out more about us by going to www.forum-europe.com

Platinum sponsors

Bastille www.bastille.io

Launched in 2014, Bastille is the first security company to detect and mitigate threats affecting the Internet of Things.. Bastille secures the IoT on corporate campuses by identifying airborne threats and allowing for preemptive response. Through proprietary software and sensor technology, Bastille scans a corporation’s airspace, giving visibility into and location of every RF-emitting device.

HP www.hp.be

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments, and society. Being the world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems.

 

Please visit www.hp.be for more info.

Huawei www.huawei.com

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Through our dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, we have established end-to-end advantages in telecom networks, devices and cloud computing. We are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers by providing competitive solutions and services. Our products and solutions have been deployed in over 140 countries, serving more than one third of the world’s population. For more information, visit Huawei online: www.huawei.com

Intel www.intel.com

Intel Corporation is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. As a leader in corporate responsibility and sustainability, Intel also manufactures the world’s first commercially available ‘conflict-free’ microprocessors. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.eu and blogs.intel.com, and about Intel’s conflict-free efforts at conflictfree.intel.com. 

Microsoft www.microsoft.com

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Nokia www.nokia.com

Nokia: the re-invention of a leading European ICT company

Nokia today consists of Networks (formerly Nokia Siemens Networks), HERE (location intelligence), and Technologies (Innovation and patent/technology licensing). As Networks, Nokia continues to be an innovation powerhouse with a clear focus on the mobile broadband market, investing in the innovative products and services needed by telecoms operators to manage the increase in wireless data traffic, which is more than doubling every year. 

 

HERE, Nokia’s location intelligence business is the leading global provider of map content, powering four out of five in-car navigation systems in US/Europe. Its location platform is used by leading internet companies.

 

Nokia Technologies consists of hundreds of world-class scientists and engineers in areas that include low-power connected smart multi-sensor systems, distributed sensing, and intelligent interplay between various types of radio technologies. It will invest in further developing our industry-leading innovation portfolio and will 1) expand Nokia’s successful IP licensing program; 2) help other companies and organizations benefit from its breakthrough innovations through technology licensing; and 3) explore new technologies for use in potential future products and services, such as the recently launched Nokia N1 tablet and the Z launcher.

 

Nokia has in April 2015 announced its intention to acquire Alcatel-Lucent in order to create an innovation leader in next generation network technology and services for an IP connected world.

Qualcomm www.qualcomm.com

Qualcomm is the driving force behind the growth and progress of the global wireless industry. It is the world’s leader in patents and other intellectual property that provide the technological basis for the global wireless communications industry. That goes for existing 3G (third-generation) technology that makes wireless Internet data as well as voice transmissions practical around the world. It also applies to next-generation, 4G technology, which delivers an even more enhanced and seamless user experience.

 

In addition to licensing its intellectual property to more than 170 companies worldwide, Qualcomm also manufactures highly sophisticated chips that are the engines of some of the most advanced wireless handsets and devices on the market. The company is the driver behind the very latest next-generation devices, which combine mobile communications, computing, and consumer electronics, that are now coming to market.

Silver sponsors

BaseN www.basen.net

BaseN is a mature Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) provider. With 13 years in continuous development, BaseN provides an extremely scalable, fully distributed, resilient, secure, and combined real-time monitoring and control platform for ICT, M2M, and the Internet of Things (IoT). BaseN positions itself as the primary platform for Spimes in the IoT. The platform is designed for adaptability and integrates with numerous third-party systems. The global customer base includes energy, manufacturing and other heavy industries in addition to new players evolving from product into digital services companies.

The Providence Group

The Providence Group advises companies and organizations globally on how to manage enterprise-wide cybersecurity risks and we provide insight and counsel into the complex and changing cybersecurity regulatory, reputation and threat environment.

Refreshments sponsor

MasterCard www.MasterCard.com

MasterCard is a technology company and payments industry leader. For more than four decades, we have been a driving force at the heart of commerce, making the global economy safer, more efficient, more inclusive and more transparent for all. 

 

Consumers, merchants, business partners and governments in markets around the world have reaped the benefits of our innovative products and solutions which, simply put, are designed to make life easier.

Badge sponsor

Allied Spectrum Associates www.alliedspectrumassociates.com

Allied Spectrum Associates are a specialist in radio spectrum regulation with focus in particular on the shared use of spectrum. We have expertise in all facets of spectrum sharing regulation, whether it is Licensed Shared Access (LSA) or TVWS

Knowledge partners

Council www.theinternetofthings.eu

Council is a thinktank, consultancy, accelarator and forecasting group. Council hosts the full range of opinions on what will be a small avalanche of disruptive innovations. They go through the full range of emotions and conceptual breakdown that comes with grasping the territory, the full logistical, business, social and philosophical implications of the Internet of Things.  Council thinktank aims to grow into a positively critical counterpart to these negativities in focusing on the quality of interaction and potentialities of IOT for social, communicative and economic (personal fabrication, participatory finance, alternative currencies) connectivity between humans, humans and things and humans and their surroundings. Council highlights a personal history of locative media & hybrid spaces, by professionals of the i3 (Intelligent Information Interfaces) days, as well as the latest tools and applications, workshops on key issues, short keynotes and time for debate and discussion.

Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies www.c-pet.org

C-PET, the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, is a nonpartisan Washington, DC, think tank focused on innovation and the long-term policy implications of emerging technologies. As part of its program of events, C-PET has hosted conferences and roundtables addressing the future of the Internet – including the Internet of Things, cloud, privacy, and the Government 2.0 and Business 2.0 impacts of social media.

Supporting partners

futuretext www.futuretext.com

futuretext applies machine learning techniques to complex problems in IoT (Internet of Things) and Telecoms domains.

Industrial Internet Consortium www.iiconsortium.org

The Industrial Internet Consortium is an open membership organization with 146 members to date, formed to accelerate the development, adoption, and wide-spread use of interconnected machines and devices, intelligent analytics, and people at work. Founded by AT&T, Cisco, General Electric, IBM, and Intel in March 2014, the Industrial Internet Consortium catalyzes and coordinates the priorities and enabling technologies of the Industrial Internet.

 

Visit www.iiconsortium.org

Social media partner

HTxA www.twitter.com/HTxA

HTxA is a new communication concept that provides complementary value to physical events on a global level. Using the power of Social Media HTxA enables the flow of information and knowledge to expand in real-time across and beyond the venue boundaries. Selected information and knowledge is globally spread through various target channels using unique hashtags increasing the level of awareness about the event and its topics.