How will we live, work and travel in the future and how will information- and communication technologies assist us in doing so? What kind of innovations and trends are coming towards us? With these kinds of questions Scientific Director Christian Kittl and Managing Director Udo Kögl opened the first evolaris future dialogue 2020: “Innovations for a connected life”, which took place on September 19, 2013.  

In the course of the event partners from science and industry were invited to discuss future developments, research programmes and trends concerning communication technologies.

During an introductory presentation Christian Kittl pointed out cornerstones of the COMET funding programme and discussed the subject area “Connected Life” as core research topic of the upcoming COMET funding period 2015-2019 and beyond.

Nils Müller, founder and CEO of TrendONE GmbH, took participants on a multi-media time journey into the world of media and technologies 2020 and showcased global trends which might have a significant impact on our future everyday lives.

Within the scope of four issue-specific working sessions participants had the opportunity to contribute their ideas and to discuss them with evolaris team members and other science and industry partners hence to define possible cooperative research- and development projects. evolaris will utilize these inputs for further specifications regarding the thematic focal points set for the upcoming research periods.

Further information about the event programme and working sessions can be downloaded here: Programm evolaris Partnermeeting und Zukunftsdialog 2020