Visionary Seminar: The next mobile experience - 27/03/2012

On Tuesday March 27th, Leuven.Inc organizes in cooperation with Imec the Visionary Seminar: The next mobile experience.

Smart Phones are common place today and tablets are quickly becoming equally abundant. What made these devices so successful in such a short time period? Was it the hardware, with the introduction of the touch screen, GPS, gyroscope and accelerometers? Or was the breakthrough caused by changes in user interface, like multi-touch support or speech recognition and even understanding? Or was the fast adoption triggered by the introduction of content and application stores, making your device a virtually unlimited music, photo, video, books, periodicals and applications library?

More importantly, which breakthroughs can be expected regarding hardware (e.g. holographic displays, 3D video capturing, electronic nose), user interfacing (e.g. gesture recognition, situation awareness), and service and content delivery (e.g. mobile payment)? How are these evolutions impacting business models and changing the value chain?

This seminar will address all these questions and many more. It will provide you with a clear understanding on why and how smart phones and tablets impacted economy as well as our lifes and will present a glimpse towards the next mobile experience.

Programme

• 16h30: Welcome coffee
• 17h00: Welcome by Leuven.Inc
• 17h10: Introduction by Rudy Lauwereins, Vice President imec and professor K.U.Leuven
• 17h20: The next mobile hardware platforms by Rudy Lauwereins, Vice President imec and professor K.U.Leuven
• 17h40: The impact of the user interface (UI) on the mobile user experience by David Geerts, Research Manager Centre for User Experience Research
• 18h10: Coffee break
• 18h40: App or web in SoLoMo by Patrick Bosteels, CEO / Co-founder tcs digital world
• 19h10: Case: Quantified self by Erik Duval, Professor K.U.Leuven Department of Computer Sciences
• 19h30: Panel discussion and Q&A
• 19h50: Drinks and snacks

The interventions will be held in English.

Location  : Imec, Auditorium, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Leuven (Heverlee)

Participation fee :  135 euro (excl. VAT): members of Leuven.Inc/ 175 euro (excl. VAT): all others

Special fee available for Master and PhD students affiliated and billable to academic institutes.  Please mailto:admin@leuveninc.com

More info: www.kmo-portefeuille.be.

Registrations : Registrations before Tuesday March 20th, 2012, preferably via the online registration form or by email to admin@leuveninc.com (including all contact and invoice details).

After registration you will receive a confirmation and route description. The registration fee is payable after receipt of invoice. Cancellation after subscription is not possible.