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Do you want to be involved with shaping the business models for the future? If so, EPSRC and the Technology Strategy Board invite you to engage with the recently launched Research Council Digital Economy Programme in a one day workshop.

This is an excellent chance to shape the technology of the future and set the agenda for Government spending in this area, including the transport, healthcare, creative industries and finance sectors. It offers excellent networking opportunities, meeting like minded business people and key academics in the area. It will give your company a fresh insight, new ideas, and help maintain your competitive advantage.

The workshop will be in central London on 24 September 2008 (10.00-16.30), and will examine business-focused issues in the programme and define the strategic direction for investment. We hope that the majority of attendees will be from the business community.

The outputs of the event will be used to provide possible topics for a Digital Economy ‘sandpit’ to be held in December 2008. More details about the December sandpit will be available at the event.

Increasingly, the novel, innovative and in some cases subversive design and use of new technologies can affect an individual’s life choices, change the way society interacts, offer new modes of interaction for government, revolutionise existing business processes or create new business paradigms.

The early involvement of the user community is vital if new technologies are to be integrated successfully into technical solutions, products and processes. The Digital Economy Programme will bring together the underpinning technologies with all the elements required to deliver transformation.

If you are from business, please contact Sue Carter [sue.carter@epsrc.ac.uk] (01793 444025) by 10 September 2008 to register your interest in the workshop. She will send you a short form to fill in.

If you are an academic researcher, please fill in the form to be found on http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/CallsForProposals/DEB.htm and email it to Sue Carter (sue.carter@epsrc.ac.uk) by 10 September 2008.

Successful applications will be notified by 17 September 2008.

·            Digital economy programme
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ResearchFunding/Programmes/DE/default.htm

·            What is a sandpit?
http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/ResearchFunding/Opportunities/Networking/IDEASFactory/WhatIsASandpit.htm

For more details of the workshop focus, please contact Richard Bailey [Richard.Bailey@epsrc.ac.uk] (01793 4444423).