IRT Nanoelec will host the 3rd
National IRT (Technology Research Institute) Forum on the MINATEC innovation
campus in Grenoble on October 13, 2015. This year’s theme will be “Technology
Research Institutes: Responding to Tomorrow’s Challenges” and will include
talks on four strategic issues: digital transition, healthcare, transportation,
and materials and processes. Louis Schweitzer, France’s Commissioner General
for Investment, will speak at the event, which will be attended by industrial
and academic partners of France’s IRTs.
Program:
9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.:
“IRT Village” exhibit
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m.:
Lunch
2 p.m.–4:30 p.m.:
Plenary talk (with a few words from Louis Schweitzer, followed by a panel
discussion on the IRTs’ international development strategies, a talk by
international smart city expert Carlos Moreno, and examples of the research
coming out of the IRTs)
4:30 p.m.–7 p.m.:
Cocktail reception
IRT Nanoelec will host a dinner on the
eve of the event (Monday, October 12 at 7 :30 p.m. at the Stade des Alpes
sports complex in Grenoble).
Register here.