The SmartBay Ireland Facility is currently being established as a National Research, Test and Demonstration Facility for Marine & ICT. The facility includes a range of deployment platforms, instrumentation, marine data repositories and operational expertise that can be leveraged for industrial research, test and development purposes. The workshop is aimed at industries in relevant sectors include aquaculture, renewable energy, marine leisure and tourism, shipping, environmental monitoring and ICT companies with an interest in the translation of new technology solutions (sensors, communications, data management and control software etc) into the marine sector.
The SmartBay operations and management team is organising a dedicated industry information session entitled 'SmartBay: Opportunities for SME Engagement' which will be hosted in Athlone on Monday 16th January 2012 from 10am - 2pm.
The session will include an overview of current and planned activities, opportunities to engage and provide an overview of relevant resourcing mechanisms.
Agenda
- SmartBay Ireland - Current Status and Development Plans.
- Available Infrastructure - deployed and non deployed.
- How to engage - process, planning and costs
- Case studies
- Mechanisms to resource activity
- Discussion
- Lunch and networking opportunity
For more information and registration details please contact Joan.kelly@dcu.ie