Delivering the connected - smart - electronically enabled future

Called Future World Symposium, the event examines the trends and opportunity as seen through the eyes of the industry’s thought leaders, researchers and industrialists.



The symposium’s inaugural event, FWS-2010, will be held at London’s historic Lord’s Cricket Ground, UK on the 15th and 16th September.



The symposium will focus on four themes, key to tomorrow’s world:

• Mobile, Wireless and Communications

• Personal Computing

• Digital Media and the Home

• Transport

Organised by the UK’s electronics trade association, NMI, the conference and exhibition has been developed to give insight to CxOs, technologists, engineering managers, researchers and designers.

The NMI has also announced the symposium’s first keynote speakers, who will present on the future of mobility and connected devices:

• The Road to 2020: More connected systems

Telefonica 02 - Dr. Mike Short, VP R&D



• The LTE Revolution

ST Ericsson – Bjorn Ekerlund, Head of Ecosystems and Research



• Location aware: beyond navigation

CSR – Kanwar Chadha, CMO/Member of Board of Directors



Further speakers and panel sessions will be announced throughout the run up to the event.

“Digital technologies are at the very heart of social, economic and political change,” said John Moor, VP, Design Innovation at NMI.



“The world we live in has significantly changed in just twenty years and developments such as connectivity and the cloud unleash unprecedented opportunity for innovation to reshape almost every part of our lives and the developing world.



“But what will the next ten years look like? Who will be shaping the future? What will we be truly capable of? How must we, as an industry, work together to deliver the potential? And, What are the barriers, both technical and non-technical, that lie in our way?”



“FWS aims to answer these questions,” summarised Moor.



Tickets and further Future World Symposium information is available on the FWS-2010 website.