DATE09 Exhibition Main Page

• Location & Venue
• Speaking Opportunities
• Exhibition Theatre
• Vendor Opportunities
• Promotions & Branding
• DATE 08 Attendee Statistics
• DATE 07 (Nice) Attendee Statistics
• Contacts

You can find all information below in the DATE09 prospectus as well: DATE09 Prospectus (pdf)

The Location & Venue

The DATE 09 exhibition will take place in the Acropolis in Nice.

The 12th DATE conference and exhibition is the main European event bringing together designers and design automation users, researchers and vendors, as well as specialists in the hardware and software design, test and manufacturing of electronic circuits and systems. It puts strong emphasis on ICs/SoCs, reconfi gurable hardware and embedded systems, including embedded software.

Nice: A marvel in the Mediterranean

Nice is the fifth largest city in France - its beautiful location on the Côte D’Azur, plus its glamorous reputation, attracts visitors from all over the world.
The local area boasts one of the highest concentrations of semiconductor and system design houses in Europe, plus it is easily accessible from the industrial regions of Grenoble, Aix/Marseilles and Northern Italy.

Nice Acropolis

The Nice Acropolis is a renowned high-tech congress/exhibition centre, and a fitting venue for an international business event like DATE. It is located in the city centre and is easily accesible - only 7km from Nice Cote D’Azur International Airport.

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Speaking Opportunities

DATE is the consummate opportunity to communicate your company’s technological and business capabilities to scientifi c, industrial and commercial audiences in a single European event.

Technical Conference

The DATE conference addresses all aspects of research into technologies for electronic and (embedded) systems engineering. It covers the design process, test, and tools for design automation of electronic products ranging from integrated circuits to distributed large-scale systems. This includes both hardware and embedded software design issues. The conference scope also includes the elaboration of design requirements and new architectures for challenging application fi elds such as telecom, wireless communications, multimedia and automotive systems. Persons involved in innovative industrial designs are particularly encouraged to submit papers to foster the feedback from design to research. Panels, hot-topic sessions and embedded tutorials highlight and inform about emerging topics.

Topics are arranged according to four groupings:

Companies involved in innovative industrial designs are particularly encouraged to submit papers to foster the feedback from real-world design to research. DATE also hosts a number of special sessions, events within the main technical programme such as panels, hot-topic sessions and embedded tutorials to highlight and inform about special-interest and emerging topics.

Special Topics for 2009

In the programme will focus on two areas bringing new challenges to the system design community:

• Multicore Applications
• SoC Development Strategies

Submission Deadline: Sunday, 7th September, 2008
For detailed information see Call for Papers (pdf)

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Exhibition Theatre

An open discussion forum in the midst of Europe’s largest electronic system design exhibition: The programme combines expert panel sessions and customers’ testimonials. The aim is to offer exhibition visitors a fresh view on the key industrial and business issues in the electronic systems design market. Submissions are invited from industry consortia, technology groups, standards bodies, research projects, or any person with opinions on future industry trends.

Final deadline for Exhibition Theatre Submissions: 8th October, 2008
Contact: Juergen Haase, edacentrum Email: haase@edacentrum.de

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Vendor Opportunities

The Exhibition

The DATE exhibition will take place all on one level in the Nice Acropolis, in the Rhodes and Agora II areas.

DATE also arranges a number of special events and features on the show floor. This allows busy conference delegates more time and incentive to visit the show floor. An opening night drinks reception, extended delegate coffee breaks, spacious show-floor catering areas and an exhibition theatre of industry themed presentations. All these activities are intended to make DATE a more attractive place for industry professionals to do business.

Exhibition Space

In addition to "space only", we are offering a variety of ready-made stand packages to save exhibitors’ time and money. Please see the options to the right. There is flexibility on stand sizes should you require something different to what is shown.

The organisers’ will be happy to discuss any stand requirements you may have and will make every effort to meet your needs to ensure DATE 09 is successful for you and your company.

You can find the stand reservation form here: Stand Reservation Form (pdf)

Please contact Emma Norton, Exhibition Manager, to discuss your options:
Tel: +44 20 7947 3327 or
emma.norton@ec.u-net.com

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Promotions & Branding

DATE offers a wide range of additional activities to help an exhibiting company enhance their presence at the show. Exhibitors are encouraged to use additional media where possible to ensure maximum visibility and to attract more visitors to their stands. Listed below are just some of the promotional and branding opportunities used in previous years.
If you have specific ideas of how you would like to achieve extra prominence we are always open to discuss new possibilities.

• Conference bags
• Exhibition visitor bags
• Hanging banners
• Event signage
• Catering areas
• VIP area at party
• Collateral bag inserts
• Badge lanyards
• Registration pens
• Delegate USB sticks
• Wireless LAN
• Press suite

Exhibition Prices

Exhibition space only price = EUR495/sqm + French VAT* (*companies with a French VAT number are exempt)
EDA Consortium members will receive a discount of 6% on exhibition space costs for reservations made before October 31st, 2008.

For more detailed information about Prices and Stand package options please see DATE09 Prospectures (pdf)

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DATE 08 Attendee Statistics

Exhibiting companies at DATE 08 included

To view all companies including company profile please click here: Exhibiting companies at DATE08

DATE 08 Attendee Statistics

Geographical Breakdown

DATE is sponsored by the European Design and Automation Association, the EDA Consortium, the IEEE Computer Society: (TTTC), (CEDA), ECSI, RAS and ACM SIGDA.

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DATE 07 (Nice) Attendee Statistics

Geographical Breakdown

Job Function

Technical Concerns

Information based on data from CTS (DATE registration company)

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Contacts

DATE Conference Secretariat
European Conferences
3 Coates Place
Edinburgh EH3 7AA
United Kingdom

Sue Menzies Event/Conference Manager
Tel: +44 131 225 2892
Fax: +44-131 225 2925
sue.menzies@ec.u-net.com

DATE Exhibition Secretariat
European Conferences
26 Farringdon Street
London EC4A 4AB
United Kingdom

Emma Norton Exhibition Manager
Tel: +44 20 7947 3327
emma.norton@ec.u-net.com

Claire Cartwright Operations Manager
Tel: +44 20 7947 3328
claire.cartwright@ec.u-net.com

You can find all information above in the DATE09 prospectus as well: DATE09 Prospectus (pdf)

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