META-FORUM 2011, Solutions for Multilingual Europe, 27-28June 2011, Budapest

META-FORUM 2011 will feature both interactive and informative sessions focusing on multilingualism, the challenges and opportunities presented by the multilingual information society and how innovative Language Technologies are key in developing solutions to these challenges. The event is an activity organized by the META project and the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

META - Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance, brings together researchers, commercial technology providers, private and corporate language technology users, language professionals and other information society stakeholders. META will prepare an ambitious, joint international effort towards furthering Language Technology as a means towards realising the vision of a Europe united as one single digital market and information space.

Due to the limited number of admissible participants (up to a maximum of 300) online registration is required.

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Internet of Things high level conference,16 May 2011, Budapest

On May 16, 2011 the European Commission and the Hungarian Innovation Office are jointly organizing a high level Internet of Things conference in Budapest, as part of the program of the Hungarian EU Presidency. The conference is joining a series of other events of the Future Internet Week between 16-20 May, 2011.

The conference will cover topics which presently are high on the agenda of policy makers, technology providers and potential users. The will include presentations about the aims and objectives of the EU in respect of the technology, the new research roadmap, privacy and data protection issues, as well as panel discussions about the societal challenges of IoT, major application areas, and governance aspects.

Representatives of the Commission and the Hungarian government, as well as renown speakers of industry and academia from around the World will introduce the newest results and challenges of the new technology.

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