2nd CISTER Industrial workshop: CiWork 2014

CISTER has organized and hosted the 2nd Industrial workshop on Real-time and Embedded Systems CiWork 2014, on September 26th.

CiWork 2014 gathered together around 40 industry representatives and researchers to discuss the most recent advances and innovations in the area of RTES. Being an industrial workshop the focus was on the presentations by companies which presented their views and needs and case studies.
This year’s edition had two keynotes, one on European Opportunities in RTES (by FCT/GPPQ), and another on Regional Opportunities for industry-academia partnerships and the main regional strategic drivers by CCDR-N. Besides the two keynotes, there was a special focus on smart Cities with a round table lead by Câmara Municipal do Porto (department of Innovation) with the participation of Freedom Grow, Inova+, Associação Porto Digital and CISTER.

During the day several companies presented their case studies, methodologies, tools and industrial challenges in the domain of aerospace (GMV), power lines automation (EFACEC) factory automation (Critical Manufacturing), smart cities (ISA) and inovation management (Inova+).
The forum also served to create and foster synergies between industry and academia.

More information at: http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/ciwork2014/