August 30 – September 2, ‘Change and uncertainty – challenges for agriculture, food and natural resource’; Zurich.
In recent years, the world economy has been affected by crises in financial and commodity markets. These have affected the priorities of policy-makers in addressing the consequences of these recent events. This event will look at the current economic environment and the future challenges of dealing with climate change, food security, investment in agriculture and access to natural resources
http://www.eaae2011.ch/index.php
September 1, ‘Work-care tensions: The Impact of Labour Market Transitions Across Generations and Around Family Formation’; Brussels.
Sponsored by the EU-funded ‘Workcare synergies’ project, the event will summarise and disseminate research findings of 20 previous EU-funded research projects in the field of work-care. The event will also serve as a foresight exercise both to understand the impact of labour market transitions on different generations and family formation, as well as examine how policy can best promote any effects that are beneficial to Europe.
The ‘Workcare synergies’ project has looked into the relationships between structural changes in labour markets, demography, welfare and economic policies at the macro level and changes in individual orientations to work and care on the micro level in seven European countries. Registration is open.
http://workcaresynergies.eu/events/
September 5, International Workshop on Clouds for Enterprises (C4E) 2011, Luxembourg City.
This workshop will seek to discuss cloud computing, which is an increasingly popular computing paradigm that aims to streamline the on-demand provisioning of software (SaaS), platform (PaaS), infrastructure (IaaS), and data (DaaS) as services. Deploying applications on a cloud can help achieve scalability, improve flexibility of computing infrastructure, and reduce total cost of ownership. However, a variety of challenges arise when deploying and operating applications and services in complex and dynamic cloud-based environments, which are frequent in enterprises and governments.
The Clouds for Enterprises (C4E) 2011 workshop will be held within the 13th IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC 2011) in Luxembourg. The goal of the workshop is to bring together academic, industrial, and government researchers (from different disciplines), developers, and IT managers interested in cloud computing technologies and/or their consumer-side/provider-side use in enterprises and governments.
Through paper presentations and discussions, this workshop will contribute to the inter-disciplinary and multi-perspective exchange of knowledge and ideas, dissemination of results about completed and on-going research projects, as well as identification and analysis of open cloud research and adoption/exploitation issues.
Therefore, this workshop is open to all interested IT professionals interested in cloud computing technologies or consumer-side/ provider-side uses of clouds in enterprises and governments. However, each workshop participant must pay the registration to the whole IEEE CEC 2011 conference.
www.tudor.lu/cms/cec2011/content.nsf/id/Registration.
September 6-7, ‘European and National Strategies for Service Innovation — Service innovation as a Driver of Value Creation’; Hamburg.
The aim of the second EPISIS Conference is to contribute to a better understanding of service innovation policy and to provide European, national and regional policy makers and stakeholders with more knowledge on service innovation as a driver of value creation. The conference will build on the latest theory and policies on service innovation, company cases and best practice in policy making from all over Europe.
www.proinno-europe.eu/episisconference2011/content/home-0
September 6-8, ‘Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference – Transforming Experience – Tourism Marketing from both Sides of the Counter’; Maribor, Slovenia.
This conference wishes to provide a high quality forum in a specified area rather than a “catch all” potpourri conference. It seeks to advance tourism market research and tourism service production with reference to new and emerging approaches, namely the Service Dominant Logic and Consumer Culture Theory. The conference’s main goal will be to provide stimulating, targeted discussion fora that allow a large variety of researchers to convene under the umbrella of a forward-looking theme.
http://www.institute.si/atmc-2011/
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