Supporting innovation in digital technologies

View the list of media partners and digitally driven companies who have chosen to sponsor ICT 2010.

Media partners

 

 

In today's turbulent economic climate, the Financial Times is the first place to look for breaking business news, wherever it happens. With over 500 journalists reporting from 50 countries around the world, it provides unparalleled global business coverage and insight to help you stay one step ahead.

To subscribe today to the Financial Times visit:
www.ft.com/subscription
or call:
United Kingdom Tel: 0800 028 3838
Rest of Europe, Middle East & Africa Tel: +44 (0)207 873 4688
Asia Pacific & Indian subcontinent Tel: +852 2905 5555

 

 

 

Les Echos, France’s leading business and financial daily newspaper

Founded in 1908, the Les Echos newspaper is the leading French national business and financial daily.It covers and analyses all the national, regional and international stories affecting business life.

Les Echos’ total circulation stood at 127.361 copies in 2009 (source : DSH 2009). It is the leading national daily read by business leaders and executives and by influential decision makers. All in all, over 705.000 people read the newspaper each day (Source Epiq 2008-2009).

Les Echos’ news team currently comprises close to 200 journalists, plus a network of fifty or so regional correspondents and twelve correspondents based permanently abroad.

LesEchos.fr, the leading business and financial news website in France

Launched in 1996, LesEchos.fr is the leading business and financial news website in France

This website provides live business and financial news and stock market information, as well as databases of companies, digitally stored editions of the newspaper Les Echos, and many other services such as forums, blogs or chats.

LesEchos.fr website registered an average of 2.4 million unique visitors (source Nielsen). and 33.319 million viewed pages (source Xiti) in 2009.

 

 

The Parliament magazine is a direct portal to MEPs and other key EU decision makers. We are on their desks every two weeks and we know they read our magazine because they write for it too.
The Parliament Magazine's Research Review is a sister publication. It is published every quarter and acts as a forum for communicating success stories coming out of the EU's research framework programmes, while keeping researchers and the EU institutions up to date with what's happening politically on research.

Sponsors - Category A

 

 

Dane-Elec Memory is a French worldwide leading company in the memory field and storage products.
For 3 years, Dane-Elec has chosen to increase its R&D strategy developing innovative products.
The last born, myDitto, lets everyone enjoy instantly and without constraint its digital content. myDitto got an innovation award during the CES 2010 in Las Vegas. Our technology is a bridge between almost all kind of devices without configuration or geographical barrier.
Dane-Elec plans to develop this ecosystem in order to multiply the interaction between daily life and our digital universe. Smart energy, home healthcare, social and cultural open sharing technologies are our vision of the basics of tomorrow’s digital era.
 

 

HP is a technology company that operates in more than 170 countries around the world. We explore how technology and services can help people and companies address their problems and challenges.

At HP we believe technology can create new possibilities for people around the world—from high school students and soccer moms to budding entrepreneurs, government officials, and business executives. Our healthcare solutions are helping hospitals reduce errors and insurers bring down costs. Our TouchSmart products are helping individuals with autism communicate for the very first time. And our digital printing solutions are revolutionizing the publishing industry by allowing publishers to print individual books on demand. And that’s just the beginning. Where others see challenges, we see opportunities. So we never stop exploring. We never stop at impossible. And we can’t wait to show you what we think of next.

Sponsors - Category B

 

Intel, the Intel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other Countries.

 

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com.

Intel Labs Europe (ILE) is a network of Research & Development, Product, and Innovation Labs spanning the European region as well as variety of Intel business units. ILE was formally established in early 2009 as a central means of coordinating activities across Intel’s diverse network of labs and to further strengthen Intel’s commitment to and alignment with European R&D. In addition to driving key technology innovations for Intel, ILE works closely with academic, industry, and government institutions to advance innovations and strengthen Europe’s technology leadership in the global community.

 

 

BELNET is the federal governmental organisation that has been responsible, since 1993, for the Belgian national research network (NREN) that provides Internet access to very high bandwidth and Internet services to Belgian universities, schools and colleges, research centres and governmental departments. BELNET has over 50 employees and is part of the Federal Science Policy. It provides its services to almost 200 institutions representing around 650,000 end users. Thanks to its acquired expertise, its unique market position and scale advantages, BELNET wishes to help accelerate the growth of knowledge and information society in Belgium. BELNET is also responsible for CERT.be, the Belgian National Computer Emergency Response Team (www.cert.be) and for and for BNIX, the Belgian National Internet eXchange (www.bnix.be), where Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet content providers and large private companies exchange IP traffic in Belgium.

 

 

The GÉANT network is the fast and reliable pan-European communications infrastructure serving Europe's research and education community. The network also provides this community with worldwide connectivity through links with other regional networks. The GÉANT network and project (also known as GN3) is in its third generation, along with associated development and research activities. Designed and built on behalf of a consortium of National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), with funding support from the European Commission as part of its 7th Framework Programme, the GÉANT network provides a vital research infrastructure as well as the necessary resources for information technology and telecommunications development. Without high-speed research networks like GÉANT, many research projects and innovative scientific studies at the forefront of their fields would simply not be possible. Users from a wide variety of disciplines are able to collaborate using GÉANT to facilitate groundbreaking research that can bring real benefit to society. From Big Science users seeking answers about our universe, to medical research seeking cures for diseases across the world; and from research into understanding and predicting climate change, to communication providing support for natural disasters.

 

Irisnet powered by Quantum ICT

 

Quantum ICT member of Telkea Group analyses business requirements and designs, deploys and maintains total IP-communication infrastructures accordingly, wired and wireless campus networks (Dect/Wifi), firewalls, VPNs, etc.

Furthermore Quantum ICT is specialized in anti-virus/spam/spyware solutions, load balancing, topology optimization and network management.
Quantum ICT installs and deploys telephony and enterprise voice applications, such as call centers, unified communication solutions, computer telephony integration (CTI), video conferencing, trading room services and voice over IP (VoIP) solutions.

Quantum ICT
Interleuvenlaan 15F
3001 HEVERLEE
T: 016/38 08 40
Fax: 016/38 08 48
Email : info@quant.be
Website : http://www.quant.be/

Sponsors - Category C

 

 

The BRIC (Brussels Region Informatics Center) is a highly professional multi-technological e-Government oriented public authority. It provides, develops and integrates IT solutions for regional institutions, local authorities, schools and welfare centres alike. It also coordinates the IRISnet broadband network connecting a vast majority of Brussels Region public bodies. It is financed by regional funding and works under the supervision of the Brussels Minister in charge of Transport, Public Works and Informatics.

http://www.cirb.irisnet.be/

 

 

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell is a leading global systems and services company and No. 33 on the Fortune 500. Dell Services develops and delivers a comprehensive suite of services and solutions in applications, business process, consulting, infrastructure and support to help customers succeed.
For more information, visit www.dell.com, or to communicate directly with Dell via a variety of online channels, go to www.dell.com/conversations. To get Dell news direct, visit www.dell.com/RSS.