PICMET '05, "Technology Management: A Unifying Discipline for Melting the Boundaries," will be held July 31-August 4, 2005, at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon, USA.


Technology continues to be the central force affecting all aspects of life. It dominates the way we design strategies, develop tactics and implement operational decisions in every subsystem of society, including industrial, economic, educational, financial, medical, political, and other sectors. As this dominance continues, we are observing the growth of technology's impact in more and more areas that are not intuitively obvious. These impacts are resulting in complex relationships and interactions among a multitude of disciplines, specialties and subspecialties. Discontinuous innovations and disruptive technologies are changing the world and opening doors for exciting new opportunities. The potential of stem cell research to find cures for "non-curable" diseases, the promise of fuel cells to provide nearly unlimited energy, and the vision of a world with nano-level bio-mechanical devices collecting and disseminating information for continuous improements in people's health are no longer science fiction. They are within reach. [More]
 

International Workshop on Accelerated Radical Innovation
Information Enhanced Technology Cluster Development Challenges
IWARI2005

March 10-12, 2005, Toledo, Ohio, USA

The Council on Competitiveness, the National Academy of Engineering, and several other organizations recently published assessment reports alerting business, academia, and government that a dramatically accelerated radical innovation process has become critically important for 21st Century competitiveness. [More]
 

Gartner Business Intelligence Summit
January 31-February 1, 2005
London, England
More information at http://www3.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/bie6i.jsp

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Converging Technologies - A Vision for Europe
January 20, 2005 [More]