TUESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2005 (Updated Announcement 5 Sept 2005)
APTN/IIC/Olswang BREAKFAST MEETING
Hosted by Olswang
Location: 90 High Holborn, London WC1V 6XX (nearest tube stations Holborn or Chancery Lane)
Time: 8.15 - 10 am.
To Register: Please click here
Chair: David Melville head of legal and regulatory policy, Wanadoo (France Telecom)
Speakers Dr Gary Clemo, Research Manager for the Software and Protocols Group, Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Toshiba Research Europe ""Toshiba and Wireless Communications: A European Perspective"?
Paul Bonnett, Principal Researcher, Sharp Laboratories of Europe Limited "Sharp and developments in Display Technologies"
INITIAL DETAILS
APTN is delighted to be working with the International Institute of Communications and Olswang on the first of a series of three seminars on the impact of Asian competitors on the evolution of the digital sector. We are particularly delighted that Olswang are willing to host this as a breakfast meeting.
The thinking behind these seminars is that it is impossible to analyze digital developments without taking the contributions of Japanese (and other Asian) electronics companies into account.
The first of these seminars will focus on the role that Japanese electronics companies are playing in Europe. When firms like Sharp or Toshiba invest in Europe are they strengthening European digital capabilities or should they be seen solely as competitors? To what extent has Japan moved ahead of Europe within key digital sectors, or do Japan and Europe have complementary strengths?
During this breakfast meeting, we are putting up two speakers from Japanese companies with strong links with Europe. We will ask these companies to give a picture of their European operations, and then to reflect on how Europe and Japan interact in key sectors such as mobile communications and screen display technology, and on how their European operations fit into the evolution of these sectors.
Gary Clemo & Toshiba Research Europe Ltd
Gary Clemo received his first degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Cardiff University in 1995. Thereafter he joined the Networks and Protocols group of the Centre for Communications Research at the University of Bristol. His work as a Research Assistant spanned many areas, including the use of Intelligent Networks to deploy services over 3G networks and the application of distributed transactional processing in ATM network management. In 1999 he joined the Telecommunications Research Laboratory (TRL) of Toshiba Research Europe Ltd as a Research Engineer, where he worked on adapting service discovery protocols and middleware to the wireless telecommunications domain. He was involved in the Bluetooth specification process and worked on the Service Discovery Application Profile. In 2001 he became Research Manager of the Laboratory’s Protocols Group, where he is currently responsible for directing the activities in Layer 2 and 3 protocol research for future wireless local area network and cellular systems. He is a member of both the IEE and IEEE, is a chartered engineer and holds a PhD from the University of Bristol on the use of service discovery protocols as an approach for network detection in reconfigurable terminals.
Toshiba Research Europe Ltd (TREL) is one of 4 globalised corporate-level R&D organisations founded by Toshiba Corporation. TREL's forerunner was Toshiba Cambridge Research Centre Limited (TCRC), established in 1991 as Toshiba's first overseas corporate-level R&D activity. TREL has its headquarters in Cambridge and incorporates two divisions, the Cambridge Research Laboratory (CRL) and Telecommunications Research Laboratory (TRL) which was founded in Bristol in 1998.
TRL conducts advanced research into mobile and wireless systems on behalf of Toshiba Corporation. Activities include pioneering investigations into the use of multiple antenna systems for wireless local area networks, frameworks for protocol flexibility and advanced techniques for reducing the algorithmic complexity of future terminals. TRL has been involved in numerous collaborative projects on a national and international scale and has directly contributed to standards bodies.
Toshiba Corporation, a world leader in high technology, is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and materials, power systems, industrial and social infrastructure systems, and household appliances. The company has a proud tradition of achievement. In 130 years of operation, Toshiba has recorded numerous firsts and made many valuable contributions to technology and society. The company is today the world's 9th largest integrated manufacturer of electric and electronic equipment, has some 165,000 employees worldwide, and enjoys consolidated annual sales of over US$53 billion.
Paul Bonnet & Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd
Paul Bonnett has been working in the liquid crystal field since 1984. Following a Physics degree he started working at the then RSRE (now Qinetiq) in Malvern on cholesteric liquid crystals. He was employed by Liquid Crystal Devices Ltd, a small London based company, as a placement at Malvern, and during that time completed a D.Phil at Oxford on the use of liquid crystals in aerodynamic testing. He then joined the GEC Hirst Research Lab to work on data storage in liquid crystal polymers. He has been at Sharp Labs of Europe in Oxford since 1992, where his work has covered bistable, low power and fast switching liquid crystals modes, with an emphasis on addressing. He has been an author on over 35 patents and 25 papers in the field.
Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd was the first overseas research facility of Sharp Corporation. It employs currently approximately 110 staff, the majority of whom are scientists. The purpose of SLE is to add value to Sharp Corporation by developing technology and technology platforms for products. SLE also identifies technology driven market opportunities in Europe. The laboratory has worked closely with Sharp Corporation to develop products including the HR-TFT liquid crystal display, smart microwave ovens, intelligent e-dictionaries, electronically switchable 2D-3D displays and mobile phone displays with monolithic digital drivers. This list is growing constantly, with the recent addition of dual-view displays and switchable viewing angle displays. The laboratory has also recently announced CW operation of the world's first blue laser diode grown by MBE.
See http://sharp-world.com/index.html and http://www.sle.sharp.co.uk/
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