Future Network and MobileSummit 2010 takes place in the Historical City of Florence, 16 - 18 June 2010. This is the nineteenth in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 600 delegates from industry and research to share experiences and research results, identify future trends, discuss business opportunities and identify opportunities for international research collaboration under the ICT Theme of Framework Programme 7 (FP7). It will thus contribute to showcasing European research in the field, and position it within the multiplicity of related initiatives supported in other regions of the world.

In the context of convergence, the 19th Future Network and MobileSummit will address the challenges of building the Future Internet, based on mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications infrastructures.

Supported by the European Commission and eMobility, the reputation of the Future Network and MobileSummit (previously known as ICT-MobileSummit) is based on high quality networking, plenary sessions that discuss strategic issues in core thematic areas and paper sessions that showcase original results in all areas of mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications systems and networks.

Online Registration is open - it is necessary for all participants to complete registration.

The Call for Exhibitors closed on 05 March and the list of participants is published.

The Scientific Programme for Future Network and MobileSummit 2010 is based on an open Call for Papers which closed in December 2009. The Final Programme consists of three plenary sessions and 39 parallel sessions featuring over 180 presenters featuring different aspects of Radio Access and Spectrum, Converged and Optical Networks, and Future Internet Technologies.

Plenary speakers confirmed to date include:

- Dr Zoran Stancic, Deputy Director General, DG Information Society & Media, European Commission

- Dr Roberto Saracco, Director, Telecom Italia, Italy

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

- Olaf Droegehorn, Research in Motion and the University of Kassel

- Michael Fitch, Chief Researcher for Wireless, BT

- Jean Charles Hourcade, Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France

- Alberto Lotti, Director, Alcatel-Lucent, Italy

- Filip Louagie, Director of the Wireless Department, IMEC

- Professor Martti Mäntylä, Aalto University, Finland

- Jacques Magen, CELTIC, Germany

- Christian Mouton, Program Manager for Communications Technologies, NEC

- Luis Neves, Vice President Corporate Responsibility, Deutsche Telekom AG

- Professor Martti Mäntylä, Aalto University, Finland

- Clara Pelaez, VP Marketing and Strategy of Market Unit South East Europe, Ericsson

- Juergen Quittek, NEC Europe Ltd; Chair of IEEE Green Communications workshop series

- Stuart Revell, Director of Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network

- Sam Samuel, Executive Director of Bell Labs Ireland and UK

- Joao da Silva, Former Director of DG-INFSO and Research Fellow with SNT, University of Luxembourg

- Ezio Zerbini, Head of Technology, Ericsson

Future Network and MobileSummit 2010 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Italy Section, IEEE Italy Communications Chapter and IEEE Italy Computer Chapter.

Two pre-conference tutorials (Short-Range Ranging and Localization: Theory and Experimental Results; Multiple Antenna Systems from Optimum Combining to MIMO Networks: a Random Matrix Theory Approach) and four pre-conference workshops (Context-awareness in Smart Environments, Fixed-mobile Convergence: A 2010 Update, eMobility/RAS Workshop & Cluster Meeting, Future Internet Workshop & Cluster Meeting) will take place on Tuesday 15 June at the Sheraton Firenze. Click here for more information.

NEWCOM++ has a specific track of tutorials and paper sessions incorporated within the overall Programme of Future Network and MobileSummit 2010 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 15 - 17 June.

On Friday 18 June, the NEWCOM++ Dissemination Day will be hosted in association with Future Network and MobileSummit 2010. Click here to download the Dissemination Day Programme.