SITC - Security Innovation & Technology Consortium

Venue: BIS Conference Centre, 1 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0ET

Background

This Information day will address the Cognitive Systems and Robotics research challenge described in the FP7 ICT Work programme, Objective 2.1, which is scheduled to open with an 80M€ budget in ICT Call 9 on 18 January 2012.

Agenda

The principal speaker will be Libor Kral, Head of Unit "E5" of the European Commission's DG INFSO based in Luxembourg which is responsible for the Cognitive Systems and Robotics research challenge in the current ICT Work programme.

The agenda for the day will address the three sub objectives featured in this call:

• Cognition and control in complex systems;
• Gearing up and accelerating cross-fertilisation between academic and industrial robotics research;
• Speeding up progress towards smarter robots through targeted competitions.

Delegates will obtain a good briefing on these research opportunities, guidance on finding partners and support in proposal creation.  Speakers from Commission funded projects in this domain will share their experiences and future aims.  In addition early views of future Commission plans will be voiced.

Delegates from the UK, all Member States and beyond are welcome.  There will be ample opportunity for networking, information gathering and one to one dialogues.

Booking

This event is free and you may register online at: www.surveymonkey.com/s/CLP6LM5

For further information, please contact Pete Walters