Talk&match.IT

[i]IT Information Transfer and Matchmaking Event "Digital Cities"[/i] Monday, 26 March 2007 09.00 h till 17.30 h Rathaus Schwechat (Schwechat City Hall) Gemeinderatssitzungssaal (Hall of Municipal Council) 2nd Floor Rathausplatz 9 A 2320 Schwechat Just a few years ago, the term "digital" was connected to "cities" by the PCs on the desks of the cities´ administration officers. Today, Digital Cities is a race for investors, a battle for top rankings, a pillar of Information Society concepts. Learning has turned digital, like reading the gas meters or blood pressure, traffic surveillance, tax paying, control of parking tickets, access control, urban planning, shopping and so on. Today progressive cities are showing off an "e" in front of their names – eTampere, ePrague, eGyör, eSchwechat, eDunnowhat. Tomorrow there´ll be no need, as "e" will be normal. Still, the "e" is not yet everybody’s darling. But we should monitor the race for it, as speed kills – or rather the lack of it. talk&match.IT "Digital Cities" is a top event on the digitalisation of urban life, be it in business, administration or an individual´s life. Join the conference to learn what happens tomorrow. Or even today. [b]IT Information Transfer and Matchmaking[/b] Within talk&match.IT – the IT information transfer and matchmaking event series of Schwechat’s Information Society Initiative eSchwechat.at – IT businesses and public administration bodies from the Centrope Region (Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia) as well as other parts of the EU and neighbour countries meet in Schwechat to share knowledge, transfer information and get to know their future partners for project development, distribution or export. talk&match.IT!, organized by Innovation Consultancy within eSchwechat.at, thus offers new opportunities for your company or institution. Target group of talk&match.IT! are entrepreneurs, managing directors, middle managers and founders of companies within the IT branche as well as chief officers of local and regional authorities and other public administration bodies. talk&match.IT events are designed for a maximum of 100 guests, mainly to offer and guarantee ideal matchmaking results. [b]Event Flow[/b] The start of talk&match.IT is all about information transfer: Focus-talks (a 30 min) on the subject set will give insight into the theme and experiences by nationally and internationally known experts from economy, science, education and politics. Within the following panel discussion the different views on the event topic will be debated, giving the audience the possibility to enter and shape the discussion, too. Parallel, in the second part of the event, pre-scheduled 20 min one-to-one matchmaking meetings will see new contacts forged, existing contacts intensified, cooperation planned and both ideas and expertise brought together – all in a pleasant atmosphere. For more information: http://www.eschwechat.at/179.html