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Registration is open for the European Computer Science Summit, 25-26 October, in Budapest, and the Pre-Summit Workshop for Deans and Department Heads on 24 October.  

ECSS2016

The program of the ECSS 2016, dedicated to the central theme "Informatics Driving the Digital World", is online and registration is open. The Early Bird registration deadline ends 15 September. With several distinguished academics, industry leaders and policy makers on stage, this year's Summit promises once more to be an inspiring and stimulating event with in-depth discussions about the role of our discipline.

Worldwide, efforts are multiplying towards digitising all aspects of life and work in modern society. The world simply becomes digital. People communicate and connect over social digital media, economic and political decisions are based on analysing digital data, mobility is supported by digital devices, manufacturing is based on cyber-physical systems, health systems are using globally interconnected knowledge bases, etc. Informatics and Information Technology are at the core of all these endeavours. New insights in theory and practice of Informatics are fueling the innovative progress in each of these application areas. With progress also come heightened expectations. Stakeholders expect systems to become safer, more complex, more performing, more affordable, and more easily accessible. This opens a rare and remarkable opportunity for Informatics, as a basic science and as an application field, to leverage its in-depth knowledge to advance theory and practice, and policy. Although existing information technologies have tremendous potential to drive the digital world, significant challenges will need to be overcome for them to fully realize this potential.

ECSS 2016 will focus on the challenges for the Informatics discipline in driving the digital world. Prominent academics, industry leaders and decision makers will address the topic, offering food for thought in state of the art lectures and engaging panel discussions:

  • Erika Ábrahám, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  • Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • Manfred Broy, TU Munich, Germany
  • Anthony Finkelstein, The Alan Turing Institute, UK
  • Roland Jakab, Ericsson, Hungary
  • Willem Jonker, EIT Digital, Belgium
  • Laura Kovács, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  • Domenico Laforenza, ERCIM, Italy
  • Patricia Lago, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • László Palkovics, Ministry of Higher Education, Hungary
  • Alexander Wolf,  University of California Santa Cruz, USA

Visit the ECSS website to learn more about the ECSS 2016 program and the speakers.

The traditional program of the ECSS 2016 will take place Monday, 24 October, 2016, dedicated to the topic "Working in a multidisciplinary environment: opportunities and pitfalls". Click program of the ECSS 2016 for details on the workshop progam.

Visit ECSS 2016 registration to learn about the different events, fees, and to register. Benefit from an early-bird discounted registration fee by 15 September 2016. 

Organised annually by Informatics Europe and one of its member institutes, ECSS is the meeting place for anyone interested in strategic issues and future trends related to research, education, management, career development and policy in Informatics. This year's ECSS will be held in Budapest, Hungary, October 25-26, hosted by the Faculty of Informatics, Eotvos Lorand University.