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Way towards Friendlier Society, Bridged by Robots: International Exhibition December, 18-21, 2019, Tokyo Big Sight

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The Japan Robot Association and THE NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN will hold the International Robot Exhibition 2019 at Tokyo Big Sight from December 18 (Wednesday) to 21 (Saturday) with the theme “The way towards a friendlier society, bridged by robots.” This year’s exhibition will mark the 23rd time the biennial event, the world’s largest robot trade fair, has been held.

The exhibition will be held in the Aomi, West, and South Halls of Tokyo Big Sight. Over four days, the event will offer a chance to experience cutting-edge robots from Japan and abroad, with extensive displays from industrial robot manufacturers alongside related products and technologies such as IoT and AI, all under one roof. The organizers would greatly appreciate media assistance in publicizing the International Robot Exhibition 2019.

Exhibition outline

Name: INTERNATIONAL ROBOT EXHIBITION 2019 (iREX2019)
Purpose: The purpose of the exhibition is to gather and exhibit industrial and service robots and related equipment from around the globe under one roof, help improve the technology to use robots and market development, and contribute to the creation of new markets and promotion of industrial technology of robots.
Theme: The way towards a friendlier society, bridged by robots
Organized by: Japan Robot Association (JARA), THE NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN, LTD.
Date: Dec.18 (Wed.)-21 (Sat.), 2019
Venue: Aomi Hall, West Hall & South Hall, Tokyo Big Sight
Opening hours: 10:00 to 17:00
Admission: JPY 1,000
(free admission to people who have preregistered or who hold invitations, or are under 16 years of age)
Event details (as of Nov.19)
Total of 637 exhibitors, 3,060 booths (2017: 612 exhibitors, 2,775 booths)
*Increases of 25 exhibitors and 285 booths from the previous exhibition, making this the largest ever

Number of booths by zone
-Industrial Robot Zone: 2,379 booths (2017: 2,012 booths)
*increase of 367 booths

-Service Robot Zone: 551 booths (2017: 533 booths)
*increase of 18 booths

-Special Exhibition Zone: 130 booths (2017: 230 booths)
(Robot Award, etc.)

Overseas exhibitors
95 exhibitors, 389 booths (2017: 88 exhibitors, 252 booths)
*increases of 7 exhibitors, 137 booths

Exhibiting countries: 16 countries and regions
USA, Italy, Austria, Canada, South Korea, Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden,
Thailand, China, Taiwan, Denmark, Germany, France, Monaco, Romania

Highlights

1. Largest-ever Industrial Robot Zone

The use of industrial robots has expanded beyond the conventional automotive and electronic parts industries to areas such as food and medicine, recently gaining attention in a wide range of fields from logistics to construction. At this year’s exhibition, a new Robot SIer Zone in the Aomi Hall will showcase robotic system integrators (SIer), which offer automation systems based on actual work environments. Extending across all three venues, this zone will be the event’s largest.

2. Service Robot Zone covering a broad range of fields, from disaster response to nursing care/welfare, agriculture and education

In addition to demonstrations of the latest robots centered around the NEDO booth, the Service Robot Zone will also feature joint exhibits of agricultural robotics by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Trial competitions (product assembly challenge, future convenience store challenge) will also be held ahead of the World Robot Summit 2020, to be organized by NEDO and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Other exhibits will include robots that assist with daily life, including nursing care, welfare and education.

3. Daily symposiums and forums with international character

Beginning with the iREX Robot Forum 2019 in the International Conference Room on the opening day, the exhibition will host forums with distinguished industrial robot developers and technical experts from Japan and abroad. Various forums will also focus on service robots (infrastructure, agriculture and nursing care), with the West Hall 4F main stage hosting “AI/Robot Use in Construction Production & Management Systems” and “The Future of Smart Agriculture with Robots & ICT” on the second day.

Press registration

Please complete “Press Registration” via the official International Robot Exhibition website.
Link: https://nikkansc.co.jp/secure/irex2019/press/en/prg/form.cgi

SOURCE Japan Robot Association (JARA), THE NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN, LTD.

The 2020 Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition (DVCon) U.S., March 2-5, 2020 DoubleTree Hotel, San Jose, CA

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The 2020 Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition (DVCon) U.S. advance program is now available online and registration is open. DVCon U.S will be held March 2-5 at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, California. Sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative, DVCon U.S. is expected to attract over a thousand participants eager to learn about the latest in design and verification standards and solutions.

“Now in its 32nd year, DVCon U.S. has established itself as the must-attend industry and user-focused conference for practicing design and verification engineers, EDA developers and design managers, focusing on design and verification of electronic systems and integrated circuits,” stated Aparna Dey, DVCon U.S. 2020 General Chair. “We received over 160 outstanding submissions for papers, panels, tutorials, and short workshops from the best technical minds and organizations in the industry. Our focus on the users of Accellera standard EDA languages, tools, and methodologies continues to be a hallmark of DVCon. Attendees can expect to learn about both practical solutions to their pressing problems and preview the technologies that will affect them in the near future.”

The conference begins on Monday, March 2 with Accellera Day featuring a full morning tutorial focused on Portable Stimulus. There will be two Accellera-sponsored short workshops in the afternoon, one focused on SystemC case studies and the other on IP Security Assurance. Four additional vendor-sponsored short workshops will be conducted Monday afternoon. The Accellera sponsored luncheon on Monday will include the presentation of Accellera’s annual Technical Excellence Award. The DVCon Expo and reception will follow the afternoon short workshops and will begin at 5:00pm.

This year’s keynote, “Artificial Intelligence for Design Automation,” will be given by Dr. Anirudh Devgan, president of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Dr. Devgan’s talk will review the latest trends in artificial intelligence and machine learning and their impact on the EDA industry. He will examine how deep learning will chart a path beyond current practices, moving toward intelligent system design for an AI-enabled future.

There will be two panel sessions on Wednesday, March 4. The first panel, “New Chip Designs Create Tidal Wave of Change,” will address the need for a more thorough verification methodology as complexity converges with open source initiatives such as RISC-V. The second panel, “Predicting the Verification Flow of the Future,” will focus on what’s straining today’s verification environment and what might be needed to support future applications. Both panels will provide thought-provoking perspectives for attendees to consider and offer attendees an opportunity to ask their own insightful questions.

Attendees can choose from a broad selection of 42 papers, four tutorials, approximately 23 posters and 10 short workshops over the course of the four-day technical conference and exhibition.

The Expo, held Monday from 5:00pm to 7:00pm and Tuesday and Wednesday from 2:30pm to 6:00pm, will give attendees plenty of opportunities to meet with peers and experts in the design and verification community.

For the complete DVCon U.S. 2020 schedule, including a list of tutorials, short workshops, panels, sponsored luncheons and events, visit the program agenda. To view the videos from the DVCon U.S. 2019 Accellera Day tutorials, visit http://www.accellera.org/resources/videos/.

Advance registration rates are available through January 27, 2020. For more information and to register, visit the registration page.

DVCon is the premier conference for discussion of the functional design and verification of electronic systems. DVCon is sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative, an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating design and verification standards required by systems, semiconductor, intellectual property (IP) and electronic design automation (EDA) companies. In response to global interest, in addition to DVCon U.S., Accellera also sponsors events in China, Europe and India. For more information about Accellera, please visit www.accellera.org. For more information about DVCon U.S., please visit www.dvcon.org.

Source: DVCon U.S.

International exhibition & conference on Hydrogen Mobility: The H2 Mobility+ Energy Show 2020, March 18-20, 2020, KINTEX, Goyang City, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

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The H2 Mobility+ Energy Show Organizing Committee, under the leadership of Mr. Marn-ki Jeong, the chairman of the Organizing Committee and president of KAMA (Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association), will host the H2 Mobility + Energy Show 2020 at KINTEX, in Goyang City, Gyeonggi Province from Wednesday, March 18, 2020 until Friday, March 20, 2020. The H2 Mobility+ Energy Show 2020 is the largest exhibition and conference for the hydrogen industry in Korea that will be jointly hosted by KAMA (which also hosts the biannual Seoul Motor Show), H2KOREA (who manages and promotes the hydrogen industry in Korea), and the Hydrogen Energy Network (HyNet, which is a special-purpose corporation (SPC) organized for the construction of hydrogen charging stations).

This event will be sponsored by the Ministry of Trade; Ministry of Industry and Energy; Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport; Ministry of Environment; Ministry of Science and ICT; Ministry of SMEs and Startups; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and the National Assembly Hydrogen Economy Forum.

The goal of this event is to prepare a foundation for the hydrogen industry as a potential growth engine in Korea, and in turn, enable the country to contribute globally to the field. With active support from KOTRA (Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency), many overseas buyers will be invited and a B2B counseling session will be prepared.

The Hyundai Motor Group, which is the largest finished car corporation in Korea, will participate in this event and, reportedly, they have been preparing to introduce new and diverse technologies. Included are their hydrogen passenger car(NEXO), a new bus line, and new trucks. Hyundai is also scheduled to introduce fuel battery technology of Hyundai Mobis and a hydrogen tram that is produced by Hyundai Rotem.

In addition, energy corporations including the KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Corporation) and KOGAS (Korea Gas Corporation), as well as the administrations of Gyeonggi Province, Ansan City, Pyeongtaek City, and Hwaseong City, to name a few, will participate. These local governments are preparing to become hydrogen-friendly cities and will introduce policies designed to promote their efforts including the expansion of hydrogen buses, the establishment of the hydrogen charging stations, the construction of the hydrogen fuel cell power plants, and so on. Also scheduled is participation by overseas corporations in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and China.

Organizing Committee Chairman Marn-ki Jeong said, “As the largest hydrogen industry exhibition in Korea, information on cutting edge, new products and new technologies of the hydrogen industry will be provided. We will strive to offer marketing opportunities in which the latest products and technologies can be highlighted, and corporations can gather to promote themselves and potential business among counterparts around the world.”

For further information, please visit: http://www.h2mobility.kr/html/en/main.php

SOURCE: The H2 Mobility+ Energy Show Organizing Committee

New Developments for MWC Barcelona 2020, 24-27 February 2020, with events across Fira Gran Via, Fira Montjuïc and La Farga L’Hospitalet, Barcelona, Spain

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“Our vision at the GSMA is to unlock the full power of connectivity so that people, industry and society thrive. The MWC20 theme of ‘Limitless Intelligent Connectivity’ features how 5G, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Big Data are doing just that,” said John Hoffman, CEO, GSMA Ltd. “MWC Barcelona continues to lead as the world’s ‘must-attend’ industry event where over 100,000 participants will explore and experience how the mobile industry will continue to transform our everyday lives.”

Additional Keynote Speakers Confirmed

The GSMA announced several new keynote speakers for the four-day conference programme, representing companies across the mobile ecosystem and adjacent industry sectors. Newly confirmed speakers include:

Tony Fernandes, Group CEO, Air Asia Group
Poppy Gustafsson OBE, Co-CEO, Darktrace
Maria Teixidor i Jufresa, Director, FC Barcelona Femení
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO, Kaspersky
Rosa Whitaker, President, Mercy Ships
Katica Roy, CEO & Founder, Pipeline
Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat
Kurt Azarbarzin, President and CEO, Verb Surgical Inc.
Pat Gelsinger, CEO, VMware
For more information on the conference, visit www.mwcbarcelona.com/conference-programmes/.

Women4Tech Summit Speakers

Back for its fourth year with a renewed and expanded focus, Women4Tech Summit will showcase the trailblazing individuals and organisations who are advocating for making diversity and inclusion a business imperative. The Women4Tech Summit will provide hope for under-represented individuals equality and a series of inspiring case studies in workplace equality diversity and authentic leadership. We are excited to announce some of the first confirmed Women4Tech speakers including:

Dana Eaton, Senior Managing Director for Communications, Media and Technology Europe, Accenture
Isabel Ferrer de Casacuberta, EMEA Marketing Director, Dolls Portfolio and Barbie Franchise, Mattel
Kirti Lad, Executive Director, Meraki Executive Search and Consulting Limited
Peko Wan, Chief Ecosystem Officer, Pundi X
Vicki Mealer-Burke, Chief Diversity Officer, Qualcomm
Mary Clark, CMO, Synchronoss
Aparna Khurjekar, SVP Customer Experience and Transformation, Verizon Wireless
Discover the Power of Diverse Thought

We are proud to premiere a brand new set of topics on the Summit agenda this year where a set of exciting additions of inclusion topics are added:

Calling out Unconscious Bias in Business;
Understanding the Business Imperative for LGBTQ Equality in the Workplace;
Realising the Benefits of Incorporating Neurodiversity and Disability Into The Talent Pool;
Authentic Leadership Lessons to Inspire and Empower Underrepresented Groups;
Addressing the AI Diversity Crisis; and
Fairer Funding for Female-Led Start-Ups and The Rise of Femtech In the Fight for Equality.
Joining Official Summit Sponsor Accenture and Supporting Summit Sponsor Synchronoss, is Roundtable Sponsor Red Hat and partner CBS Interactive Tech. For more information, visit www.mwcbarcelona.com/experiences/gsma-women4tech/.

GSMA Leading the Way

In addition to the 2019 edition of MWC being officially certified as carbon neutral by AENOR International, which secured MWC Barcelona’s position as the world’s largest carbon-neutral tradeshow, the event has now been recognised, for a fourth time, as the Guinness World Record holder for the Largest Carbon Neutral Trade Show. For MWC Barcelona 2020, the GSMA is focused on further reducing the environmental impact and carbon footprint of the event, offsetting any outstanding emissions as necessary. For more information, visit www.mwcbarcelona.com/about/about-the-gsma/environmental-programme/.

The GSMA’s successful BREEZ (Biometric Recognition Easy Entry Zone) contactless entry solution returns for a second year. The opt-in enrolment service provides attendees with frictionless access to the event through any BREEZ perimeter access lanes and eliminates the need to show identification or have badges scanned in order to enter the event. In its first year, more than 40 per cent of attendees used the service to enter MWC19.

4YFN20

4YFN has launched a series of vertical hubs that each include a start-up showcase, targeted networking and a one-day summit to help investors, corporations and entrepreneurs to navigate and benefit from 4YFN. The hubs include the Fintech Hub sponsored by Mastercard, the Health and Wellness Hub with partner ECHAlliance and the Intelligent Connectivity Hub, sponsored by Telefonica.

The first speakers at 4YFN are announced as:

David Siegel, CEO, Meetup
Valentin Stalf, Co-founder and CEO, N26
Anne Boden, CEO, Starling Bank
xside Presents Internationally Acclaimed Musicians

The new xside experience, a collaboration between 4YFN, Sónar and MWC to explore the role that technology, design and innovation play in the future of creativity, cultures, and business – presents artists as both speakers and performers for its first event. Internationally acclaimed DJ, producer and technologist, Richie Hawtin, will deliver a keynote exploring the boundaries of creativity and technology, while acclaimed house music artist and fashion designer, Honey Dijon will be among the DJs performing at xside Night from 18:00 at Fira Montjuic each evening. Other recently confirmed artists include French house sensation Folamour and the UK’s urban music trendsetter Jamz Supernova, among many other names.

New Partners and Sponsors Announced

For over a decade, companies from across the mobile ecosystem have delivered partner programmes at MWC Barcelona. Offering attendees, the opportunity to engage with, and gain insights from, some of the top thought-leaders in the industry as they share their vision on a variety of complex ecosystem challenges. For the first time, Tech Mahindra will join MWC and in collaboration with the GSMA present a manufacturing summit entitled ‘5G the NxT of Manufacturing’ additionally they will also be hosting the first Manufacturing Pavilion in Hall 8.0, where they shall be demonstrating the mini-factory and networks of the future.

New partners include Accenture, AWS, Geekpark, Google Assistant, GTI, Latvijas Mobilais Telefons, mSchools, Quiet Media, realme, SAP, and Afilias. Elastic Path, fonYou, Royole and Telecommunications Industry Association will hold Power Hours. For more information on how to host a partner event, please visit https://www.mwcbarcelona.com/become-a-partner/.

The GSMA announced several new exhibitors for MWC Barcelona, including Amazon, China Information and Communication Technologies Group, Flex, Hyundai, ServiceNow and Vivo. Several new industry and regional pavilions were also announced: Telecom Infra Project Pavilion; Russian and Italian Pavilions and additionally, new sponsors were revealed: Garden Sponsors LINK Mobility and Tappy Technologies and Official Digital Planet Sponsor is the Government of Catalonia.

MWC Tours

For the 5th year, MWC Barcelona will again offer attendees six focused Topic Tours, led by industry experts. Each tour will take attendees through the show floor to visit unique exhibitor stops and learn about the topic from thought leaders. Topics are 5G, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Marketing Technology, Retail & Digital Commerce, and What’s Hot at MWC.

Newly announced Topic Tour Partners include:

Chris Reece and Mark Harms from Award Solutions, Inc. leading the 5G and IoT Tours
Maggie Tinsley and Doug Chavez from Geometry Global leading the Marketing Technology and Retail and Digital Commerce Tours
Ben Gauthier and Manolo Almagro from Stratacache, Inc. leading the Transformative AI and What’s Hot at MWC Tours
More information, including how to participate in a tour, is available at www.mwcbarcelona.com/experiences/topic-tours/.

The fifth annual In-Memory Computing Summit® North America, November 13-14, 2019, Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport

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In-Memory Computing Summit North America 2019 Has Been A Success

“This year’s In-Memory Computing Summit reflected the continued rapid transition from vision and possibilities to successful implementations of in-memory computing technology. Companies and vendors described how users have achieved their digital transformation, Big Data, and Fast Data goals using in-memory computing to implement advanced architectures such as digital integration hubs and HTAP,” said Terry Erisman, EVP of Marketing and Alliances, GridGain Systems. “Attendees responded enthusiastically to the experiences and practical advice offered by the in-memory computing experts and practitioners and the impressive list of sponsors demonstrated the state of maturity of the industry.”

Speakers from 24 Hour Fitness, IBM, Oracle, Intel, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), GridGain Systems and more discussed how digital transformation, Big Data and Fast Data are driving the adoption of mature and new in-memory computing technologies and strategies. Use cases and technologies spanned digital integration hubs, hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP), compute grids, non-volatile memory (NVDIMMs), in-memory data grids, in-memory databases, and more. Recordings and slides from the keynotes and breakout sessions are now available on the In-Memory Computing Summit North America 2019 website.

More than 30 industry leaders delivered six keynote addresses and 25 breakout sessions. The In-Memory Computing Summit North America 2019 keynotes included:

“The Future of In-Memory Computing in a Rapidly Changing World” by Nikita Ivanov, Co-founder and CTO, GridGain Systems, who reviewed the rapidly evolving in-memory computing technology landscape, including the rise of non-volatile RAM, and discussed emerging technologies and use cases, including HTAP, HOAP or Translytical – which supports real-time transactions and analytics on the same dataset.

“Leveraging In-Memory Compute Grids with Core Systems of Record” by Mythili Venkatakrishnan, Distinguished Engineer, IBM, who discussed integrating in-memory compute grids with core systems of record to significantly accelerate a company’s digital transformation journey through a modular approach.

“Autonomous Data Management: The Next Generation Data Platform” by Tirthankar Lahiri, Vice President, Data and In-Memory Technologies, Oracle, who reviewed the pros and cons of using multiple single-purpose data management solutions for different use cases or a single monolithic data management solution for all use cases, showing how Oracle’s machine learning-enhanced Autonomous Database enables a converged data management solution with in-memory computing.

“How Persistent Memory Can Benefit Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications” by Arthur Sainio, Co-Chair, SNIA Persistent Memory and NVDIMM Special Interest Group and Director, Product Marketing, SMART Modular Technologies, who discussed how persistent memory based on NVDIMMs is being used to increase the performance of write-latency-sensitive applications, effectively providing a persistent storage model with DRAM performance.

“Fitness + In-Memory Computing = Getting Ahead of the Game” by Craig Gresbrink, Solutions Architect, 24 Hour Fitness, who revealed how 24 Hour Fitness replaced its legacy systems with best-in-class cloud-based systems, utilizing in-memory solutions to provide value to the business and ultimately to customers.

“Low-Latency Machine Learning at Scale with An In-Memory Platform – 3 Top Architecture Approaches and When To Use Them” by John DesJardins, VP Solutions Architecture and CTO for North America, Hazelcast, who discussed an architecture for taking a machine learning model from training into deployment for inference within an open source platform for real-time stream processing.

GridGain Systems, provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions based on Apache® Ignite™, today discussed the success of the fifth annual In-Memory Computing Summit® North America, which took place November 13-14, 2019 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport. The In-Memory Computing Summits (IMCSs), held annually in Europe and North America, are the only industry-wide events focusing on the full range of in-memory computing technologies and solutions. More than 540 people – a 22 percent increase over last year – from 13 countries on 4 continents attended the event. They represented 321 organizations from across a wide range of industries including software, banking, investment management, other financial services, telecommunications, retail, healthcare, computers and related electronics, and media.

Source: GridGain Systems