The eChallenges e-2010 Conference takes place in the beautiful city of Warsaw, coinciding with Chopin's 200th Anniversary. This is the twentieth in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 650 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt and good practice in the areas of eInfrastructures, ICT for Networked Enterprise & RFID, eGovernment & eDemocracy, eHealth, Collaborative Working Environments, Living Labs, Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage, Technology Enhanced Learning, Intelligent Content & Semantics, High Performance Computing Applications, Security and Identity Management and Mobility.

The goal of e-2010 is to stimulate rapid take-up of Research and Technology Development (RTD) results by industry and in particular SMEs, and help open up the European Research Area (ERA) to the rest of the world.

All participants should complete registration online prior to the event.

Presenter registration should be completed by 30 June. If you wish to change the presenter in the Programme, please contact the Conference Secretariat requesting that the paper details are moved to the new presenter prior to completing registration.

Early bird delegates can receive discounted fees up to 31 July.

The Scientific Programme for eChallenges e-2010 is based on an open Call for Papers which closed on 08 March. The Advance Programme is published. Authors should complete conference registration by 30 June and submit final papers online by 11 July.

Plenary speakers confirmed to date include:

- Mrs Katarzyna Sobierajska, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Sport and Tourism of the Republic of Poland

- Mrs Magdalena Gaj, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Infrastructure, Poland

- Representative, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland

- Representative, Department of Information Society, Ministry of Interior and Administration, Poland

- Mario Campolargo, Director, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission

- David Broster, Head of Information Technology & Services Unit, Joint Research Centre IPTS, Spain

eChallenges e-2010 is Supported by the European Commission, Hosted by Ministry of Sport and Tourism, Supported by Warsaw Convention Bureau and the Convention Bureau of Poland, and Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE.

eChallenges provides a prestigious, international forum to share success stories and lessons learnt from applied Information and Communications Technology (ICT) related research at European level (FP6 & FP7) as well as Regional, National and Commercial initiatives. International cooperation and discussion of commercialisation, exploitation & interoperability issues are key aspects of the programme.

The programme will combine strategic keynote presentations, technical, legal and policy papers, business and government case studies, workshops and tutorials. e-2010 will also feature an Exhibition and an attractive Social Programme for partners, presenters, delegates and exhibitors, to enhance networking opportunities both during and after the Conference.