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The first edition of the Smart Mobility Conference will take place on September 17, 18, 19, 2008 at the Agora Einstein Conference Centre located on the Europe’s leading international science and technology park of Sophia-Antipolis nearby Cannes and Nice International airport.

Smart Mobility has been established to focus on the emergence of Trusted Mobile Applications.
By 2010 and beyond, mobile and wireless communications, services and appliances will play a major role in all aspect of citizens and consumers existence, for improving their personal and professional quality of life. This vision shall be achieved by delivering the relevant content and services anytime and anywhere in a trustworthy manner using the most convenient services and appliances in an always connected environment.   

In 2008 by launching Smart Mobility, Smart Event’08 application stream is being enlarged in such a way to embrace the changing landscape of the traditional “anytime, anything, anywhere” mobile services to cover all transactions made in a secure, mobile and convenient ecosystem. Smart Mobility platform will be dedicated to reflecting Markets and Industry trends at the cutting edge of this new application domain.
In particular this event is now open to, and collecting world-class trustworthy mobility and e-mobility applications R&D, business & marketing experts from the mobile telecommunication, finance, entertainment, health and transport industry leaders.

The Smart Mobility Program Committee is inviting proposals for presentations from those leaders but also from research laboratories and universities industry associations, international standardization organizations and governmental bodies, institutions, consultants, analysts and lawyers…  

Topics

Hardware & Software advanced ubiquitous cryptography
Secure Mobile Financial Services
M-payments
Transport transactions
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Mobile TV/Video/Music
Entertainment, games, adult, sports, gambling services
Unified Digital Right Management and on-line IPR licensing
Impact of fixed, mobile and multimedia convergence
Impact of regulations on content control
Internet, messaging services and e-mail
Education services
e-health services
Trusted services for disable people and people with special needs  
Identity management and authentication
Marketing data mining and CRM
Billing and customer care
Transparent and flexible Service Level Agreements
Peer-to-peer applications
Devices and network protection against major security threats and detection
Safe and secure content downloading, software upgrading, and devices re-configurability
Web services...
  
Instructions for authors

Prospective speakers must submit a short abstract, including a clear and precise title, the name, function, address, phone, e-mail, and affiliation of all the author(s) of the presentation together with a short description of the author(s)’ expertise. In case of multiple authors, only 1 person is allowed to present. The name of the speaking person should be mentioned. Short abstracts should be between 300-500 words and limited to one A4 page. Submissions must be in PDF format. Submissions not conforming to these formatting instructions risk rejection regardless of their technical merit.

All submissions must be original ones, not previously published elsewhere, publicly presented or submitted in parallel to any other event. They should be informative and impartial. The Program Committee will review all submissions and will reject any commercially-oriented ones.

Submission procedure

Authors are invited to submit their proposals electronically to Lénick Perron: lperron@strategiestm.com

If authors do not receive acknowledgment within 72 hours, they are kindly invited to contact directly:
Lénick Perron – Strategies Telecoms & Multimedia - Phone: + 33 1 48 59 99 32 - Fax: + 33 1 70 07 05 05

Extended Deadline for abstract submission is March 21st, 2008

Decisions and Presentation

Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to authors on April 28th, 2008.

Authors of accepted papers commit themselves to present at the conference. In case of personal impediment of the speaking person, they should appoint a substitute speaker.

The speaking person is asked a compulsory speaker registration fee of €375. Co-authors benefit from preferential attendance rates. Speakers’ travel and accommodation expenses are not covered by the organizers.

Conference Proceedings will be published on cd-rom, available at the conference. Clear instructions about the proceedings will be sent to the authors of accepted papers.

The organizers commit themselves not to disseminate the presentations before the conference.

Other important dates

- Official Program Appearance: May 19th, 2008
- Complete presentation for proceedings: August 1st, 2008


Smart Mobility” is part of the well established Smart Event that stands out as the foremost European Forum for Mobility and Trusted Technologies & Services.

“Smart Event” encompasses 2 other first class conferences:
e-Smart, The future of digital security technologies (Sept. 17-19, 2008) – 9th edition
World e-ID, The next e-ID management technologies and services (Sept. 17-19, 2008) – 5th edition
And one educational program on smart card, mobile telecoms, e-ID, designed by high level academics:
Smart University (Sept. 16-19, 2008) – 4th edition. 

As a whole, the Smart Event is endorsed by over 35 worldwide industry associations, research laboratories and universities:
Eurosmart, GlobalPlatform, Java Card Forum, eForum, ETSI, INRIA, Smart Card Forum of China, Asia IC Card Forum, ACT Canada, EHTEL, European Biometrics Forum, Silicon Trust, SCS, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies of Seville JRC-European Commission, CNAM, EEMA, Universities of Malaga, UCL Louvain la Neuve, Berlin (Technische Fachhochschule Berlin), Berne, KU Leuven, Lille 1, Lleida, Milan, Nice Sophia Antipolis, Sassari, Tel Aviv, Twente…, GoingToMeet.com, epractice.eu, …
Over 700 Innovation decision-markers are expected to attend the 2008 edition.


    
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