Dear NESSI Members,

With this e-mail I want to provide you more details about NESSI Strategic Summit event, as one of the different events of the “FP7: EUROPEAN INNOVATION AND RTD TRANSFORMING SECTORS’ WEEK”, whose venue will be the city of Valencia from 12th to 16th April 2010.

The core event during that week will be the conference “The European RTD Framework Programmes: From Recovery to Sustainability (R2S)” which will be the key public event in launching a series of new Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) as cornerstone of the smart investments of the European Economic Recovery Plan:

-          Factories of the Future (FoF) => 13th April

-          Energy Efficient Buildings (EeB) => 13th April

-          Green Cars (GCI) => 14th April

-          Future Internet (FI) => 14th April

Details of the different events taking place that week can be found at http://www.r2sconference.eu:

-          NESSI Strategic Projects Summit => 12th & 13th April

-          Future Internet Assembly (FIA) => 15th & 16th April

-          Future Internet Forum

-          es.Internet meeting

-          CELTIC Summit

-          ICT Directors meeting

-          Energy Efficient Building Association (E2BA) meeting

-          European Factories of the Future Association (EFFRA) General Assembly

-          FP Management Committees

-          ISTAG

-          ECTRI

-          ....

NESSI Strategic Summit is the first event focused on results of the NESSI Strategic and Compliant projects. It is a unique opportunity to showcase these projects, most of them at the end of their second year and therefore with many results already available.

NESSI Strategic Summit will be a two days event (preliminary agenda attached):

-          First day (12th April 2010) allowing to have an overview of all NESSI Projects and the positiong of NESSI in the context of the PPPs

-          Second day (13th April 2010) with 90 minutes projects workshops allowing to have a detailed knowledge of these projects.

NESSI Strategic Summit will also have 14 stands providing high visibility during the FULL WEEK:

-          1 for NESSI and NEXOF

-          1 for INES (NESSI Spain) and the NESSI National Initiatives

-          5 for NSPs (EzWEB, MASTER, RESERVOIR, SLA@SOI, SOA4All)

-          5 for Sponsors

-          2 for NCPs (COMPAS, Primelife, Tas3, FAST, MyMobileWeb). Since there are more projects than stands available, we will organize how they share stands depending on their interest and availability. It is also depending in a formal confirmation by all NSP and Sponsors that they will use their stand.

I will contact in paralel all NESSI Strategic and Compliant projects to define the final agenda and confirm their availability for the stands.

The registration to the event will be part of a single registration process (to open in January) for all events during the full week. All events will be without any fee and although CE and Spanish Government cover most of the costs we still have some costs to be covered by NESSI. We expect to cover these costs with money saved in ServiceWave and 5 sponsors. I encourage all of you to sponsor NESSI Strategic Summit (find attached Sponsorship Package).

Best regards,

The NESSI Office for the NESSI Community