Digital technology

The theme of IASP Nantes will be "The 4th Industrial Revolution: areas of innovation and science parks as key boosters for a successful transition". The conference will bring together experts from science and technology parks and other areas of innovation, technology-based incubators, academia, the public sector and business to discuss and debate in depth the latest trends in our industry’s increasingly complex structures for professional innovation support.

EU is developing 8 supercomputers to be operational at mid-2020. They will be hosted at eight centres across the EU. Three of them, precursor to exascale machines (capable of executing more than 150 million billion calculations per second) will be in the top 5 supercomputers of the world.