Supporting
the growth of
mobility &
digital security
 For its 9th edition the Smart Event will offer the mobility and digital security "Innovation-makers" a panoramic view of the most advanced technology researches, the latest innovations, the hottest issues, the next regulations and standards, the most successful strategies and business cases in this fast-moving domain characterized by an accelerated convergence.
The Smart Event will take place once more in the warm, friendly and enchanting environment of Sophia-Antipolis, French Riviera, the southern Europe first science park, just a few minutes’ drive from Cannes and Nice international airport.
In 2008, the Smart Event will be structured around the complementary themes of its 3 co-located conferences:
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The future of digital security technologies |
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The next e-ID management technologies and services |
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The emergence of trusted mobile applications |
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will complete the agenda. Designed and organized with the cooperation of over 20 of the best European universities, high schools and labs of the domain, Smart University has been extremely successful in the last three years. |
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Finally several major European players and Smart Event strategic partners will propose series of co-located events and workshops such as in the past years the Gemalto Innovation Forum, Onom@Topic/Medea, EuroTRUSTAmI , FIDIS, MINAmI, etc…
 Audience: more than 700 Innovation decision-makers
Following its continuous growth through the last 5 years, more than 700 decision-makers attendees are expected at Smart Event’08.
Whatever their position: R&D designers and architects, creation and launching of new mobility and security products, applications and services, large account operator CIOs, governmental and institutional officials, technology and systems experts and consultants…, all have an important or crucial influence on major decisions and choices in the mobility and security business.
Marketing impact:
full coverage of a 70 000 professionals target
For almost 10 years Strategies Telecoms & Multimedia, the Smart Event organizer, has developed a broad experience of the world-class Security and Mobility professionals. Our organization is heavily investing every year in terms of Marketing Communication campaigns towards these communities of 70 000 individual contacts. This will allow us to address and develop interactive relations with this target all year round in a frequent, precise and personalized manner, focusing on everyone particular interests, needs and demands.
These campaigns rely particularly upon the following means and media:
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Web portal receiving 60 000 visits / month, |
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Frequent e-mails for program updates, offerings and tariffs, registration and their management and follow up, |
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Direct mailings to inform and attract attendees theme by theme, type by type… |
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Press and media partnerships with campaigns in major media such as the Financial Times, La Tribune and many printed and online technical and trade magazines and publications, |
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Active cooperation with all strategic institutional partners such as Eurosmart, ETSI, e-Forum, Trusted Computing Group, Java Card Forum, GlobalPlatform, Mobey Forum, Porvoo Group…. |
Forum: total immersion in excellence, choice and interactivity
The 3 Smart Event conferences will offer in 2008 more than 120 individual presentations selected by each of its 3 Program Committees including the best experts of the domain. These programs will include some 10 keynote speakers invited among by outstanding characters in the Industry and the Academia.
All these presentations will be organized during the 3 days of the conferences into 6 parallel streams (2/ conference) offering at any time a wide variety and richness of topics and angles in order to meet multiple expectations and demands.
Four round-tables and panels will be dedicated to the hottest issues where opposite and contradictory ideas and views will give everyone in the audience the opportunity to cast new light on them, to get new benchmarks, and finally to make his own mind.
The morning and afternoon coffee breaks and the buffet-lunches in the main hall create the opportunity to visit the exhibition and look at the demos proposed by the market players and the labs, and are the right place and time for networking and exchanging with peers colleagues and new contacts. This Forum interactivity will start with the Welcome Reception Cocktail in the main hall on Sept. 17 evening and will be completed by a Gala Dinner proposed on Sept.18 night. During this last the Awards Ceremony will take place rewarding some of the most innovative presentations made on the conferences.
Partnership, sponsorship & exhibition opportunities
These past 3 years the Smart Event has welcome various major international sponsors and exhibitors such as: Atos Worldline, Gemalto, Infineon, MasterCard, Microsoft , Oberthur Card Systems, Orange, Philips, STMicroelectronics, Sun Microsystems…
Strong partnership programs and solid cooperation activities are steadily taking place with international institutional associations such as: e-Forum, ETSI, EUROSMART, GlobalPlatform, Java Card Forum, innovation clusters and labs such as SCS, INRIA and many other exhibitors and sponsors including media partners such as Financial Times, La Tribune, SmartCardsTrends, ….
Smart Event’08 will offer strategic partners, sponsors and exhibitors packages designed to meet their various objectives and needs with the best price/efficiency ratio.
It also offers them various individual opportunities to enforce their own visibility and marketing presence over the event and in media environment. These last include in particular: social event sponsorship, attendees bag insert and visibility, hospitality suite, proprietary workshops, proceedings sponsorship, press conferences, attendees list, conference room slides visibility….
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