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NFC World Congress in Nice
Announcing NFC World Congress 2011:
The new place to make NFC a commercial reality
Beyond technology hype, time has come to build successful business models and ecosystem for near field communication product and services.
Combining a 1000 sqm exhibition and 2.5 day high level conference, NFC World Congress will gather key players of mobile services and their customers in Nice – Sophia Antipolis, French Riviera. 2500 international visitors and delegates are expected from September 19 to 21, 2011.
Paris, January 17th, 2011 – A revolution is at hand. Tens of millions of full NFC phones are announced around the globe in 2011. Driven by transit and m-payment services, near field communication devices define a new way to interact with the environment. NFC World Congress 2011 will mark this transition from technology development to market emergence and ecosystem building around m-payment, ticketing, ID, loyalty, retail, travel… and many more NFC applications.
Strongly business oriented, NFC World Congress 2011 is one of the very first truly international exhibition and conference dedicated to NFC. It will take place on September 19- 21, in the French Riviera, nearby Nice – one of the most advanced NFC cities – in the largest Science Park of Europe: Sophia Antipolis.
The Congress will allow key players of mobile markets to present latest NFC products and services. At the conference, held in parallel, 40 experts and market leaders from across the globe will share their experiences with NFC and strategic business insights for successful deployments. All in all, about 2500 visitors, exhibitors and delegates are expected.
Some quick facts about the Congress:
- Exhibition: 1000 sqm, 30 exhibitors, 2500 visitors from 45+ countries
- Conference: 200 delegates, 40 speakers, 4 half-days
- co-located with Smart Event, The Innovation Forum for Mobility and Trusted
Technologies & Services – www.smart-event.eu
The conference will be built around three main themes by a high level Program Committee composed of experts and leading players in the NFC ecosystem:
- Market Trends & Business Strategies with NFC – Strategies for commercialization of NFC
- Innovative Applications
Conference Program Committee members include senior executives from Contactless Mobile Services Forum, Eurosmart, Gemalto, GlobalPlatform, GSMA, IBM Global Business
Services, Mobey Forum, Samsung, Smart Card Alliance, Smart Card Federation of China, Telecom Italia, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
Contact: Lenick Perron – lperron@strategiestm.com – +33 (0) 6 79 70 17 98
WIMA 2011 -WIMA 5th Global NFC Applications Products & Services Congress
11 months ago
WIMA 5th Global NFC Applications Products & Services Congress will take place from 19 to 21 April 2011 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
19-21 APRIL 2011 – Grimaldi Forum – Monaco
WIMA is the largest international Conference & Exhibition exclusively dedicated to NFC technology, bringing together industry leaders, start-up companies, application developers, service providers, standards organisations, government bodies and research & educational institutions to its annual event in Monaco.
Featuring an exhibition and demonstration floor packed with the largest, most innovative NFC applications, products and services, parallel Business & Technical conference tracks and hands on workshops where excellent networking is guaranteed.
Why Attend?
WIMA is the largest international Conference & Exhibition exclusively dedicated to NFC technology, bringing together industry leaders, start-up companies, application developers, service providers, standards organisations, government bodies and research & educational institutions to its annual event in Monaco.
Featuring an exhibition and demonstration floor packed with the latest, most innovative NFC applications, products and services, parallel Business & Technical conference tracks, and hands on workshops where excellent networking is guaranteed.
Northern Europe: Danemark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Eastern Europe: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Western Europe: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Southern Europe: Italy, Greece, Portugual, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Rest of the World: Iran, Israel, Marocco, Russia, South Africa, Turkey
WIMA delegates are represented by a 50 / 50 NFC Forum, non NFC Forum attendance guaranteeing optimal networking for both members and non-members incorporating both established players and newcomers interested in discovering the business opportunities for a bouquet of services using NFC.
Who will attend?
- Large Enterprises
- SME’s
- Start-Up’s
- Industry Associations / Standards Organisations
- Government Bodies
- Research & Educational Institutions
- Analysts
- Media
Industry Sectors
- Solution Developers: Payment –Ticketing – Loyalty – Access Control – Healthcare – Multimedia – Internet – Multiple Applications
- Product Manufacturers: Mobile Handsets – Consumer Electronics – Smart Card / RFID manufacturer -Terminals and other devices
- Component Manufacturers: Semiconductors- Protocol Stacks / Middleware – Operating Systems
- Service Providers: Mobile Operator – Transport Operator – Banking/Financial Services – Retailer – TSM –Tourism – Security
- Test / Measurement / Qualification: Test Equipment Vendor – Test Lab
- System Integrators
- R&D
- Automotive
- Consultant
WIMA 2010 : Distribution / General Activity Sectors
Key Figures of WIMA 2010:
- more than 500 registered participants (from 37 countries)
- 50 sponsors and exhibitors
- 70 international industry speakers
- over 50 journalists covering the event
Why Monaco?
NFC technology was first introduced to the Principality of Monaco during WIMA 2007. Since then, several NFC projects have been carried out by WIMA with the collaboration of our partners.
The ‘NFC Parcours Princesse Grace Monaco’ an NFC application for tourism was launched during WIMA 2008, in the presence of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco. A second application featuring audio, video and textual information using NFC was presented during the NFC Forum members meeting in December 2008 at the “Nouveau Musée National de Monaco”.
During WIMA 2009 a third project allowed a vehicle user to access and exit the Grimaldi Forum car park by holding a Nokia 6212 NFC device close to a Thales parking terminal to open the barrier of the parking.
With the continued support of our partners, WIMA confirms its position and commitment to furthering the outreach of NFC technology within the Principality of Monaco.
Monaco offers international visibility in an attractive and prestigious environment with a state of the art conference centre (the Grimaldi Forum), excellent international airport access (Nice Cote d’Azur), negotiated hotel rates (ranging from approx. 60 euros to 185 euros per room per night) and is easily accessible by road and rail
More details at www.wima-nfc.com
Cloud Mobility Conference and Exhibition in Amsterdam, September 14 and 15, 2010
Informa Telecoms and Media is proud to announce a brand new, industry changing event for September 2010, and the firstconference of its kind dedicated purely to the Mobile Cloud
Use of the mobile cloud is set to increase from 42.8 million consumers in 2008 to almost a billion by 2014, jumping from 1.1%to 19% of all mobile phone subscribers*. The emergence of the mobile cloud has huge ramifications for the entire mobile ecosystem, changing the way that developers build apps and how OEMs, ISPs and Operators define app selection and distribution.
The scale of growth of the mobile cloud will force competitors to not only open dialogue but also work together, once again changing the nature of the fluid communications industry.
Our brand new launch event, Cloud Mobility will provide you with the forum in which to learn from and meet with the early pioneers of this new era. Through a series of interactive discussions, break-out, in-depth workshops, best practice tutorials and fantastic networking opportunities, Cloud Mobility will help you determine how to effectively monetise new revenue streams and best educate your consumer with respect to these enormous changes.
- How can you best get your business ready for a move into the Mobile Cloud?
- How is the Mobile Cloud set to change the industry?
- What are the costs of moving into the Mobile Cloud and what sort of revenue can you expect?
- How can you best educate your customers about the Mobile Cloud?
- What devices will be the most suitable for the Mobile Cloud?
- In what why must developers change to create for the Mobile Cloud?
- Will the Mobile Cloud help solve interoperability?
- What must you do from a legal perspective before moving to the Mobile Cloud?
- What should you take into the Mobile Cloud and what should be left behind?
