Conference Design

IIMC has considerable experience designing and organising research and innovation workshops, conferences and policy and strategy meetings in Europe and Africa.

IIMC originates and organises international technology policy, research and innovation conferences attracting participation from the public, private, education and research and societal sectors across Europe and Africa, which are hosted by national and international governmental organisations across Europe and Africa.

IIMC has a proven track record of

  • Establishing world-class International Conference Communities repesenting the perspectives of public, private, education and research and societal stakeholders
  • Co-creating impactful conference programmes addressing strategic objectives by integrating policy, research and practitioner stakeholder perspectives 
  • Co-designing high level policy roundtables around topics of common concern 
  • Ensuring high quality conference proceedings by ensuring a rigorous double blind peer review processes focused on providing authors with constructive and actionable feedback from a mix of public, private and education and research sector subject matter experts
  • Qualifying suitable venues for complex, multi-track conferences

IIMC has proven proprietary technology solutions to manage the blind peer review and registration processes.

IIMC organises annual international Ministerial level technology research conferences, that are Supported by the European Commission, hosted by National Governments, Technical Co-Sponsored by IEEE and bring together senior representatives of leading public, private and education and research organsiations from around the world to share knowledge, experience, lessons learnt and good practices.

For further information, please click on eChallenges which rotates around Europe and IST-Africa which rotates around Africa.

Previous events organised by IIMC include: ICT-MobileSummit 2008 (Stockholm), ICT-MobileSummit 2009 (Santander), Future Network Summit 2010 (Florence), Future Network Summit 2011 (Warsaw), Future Network Summit 2012 (Berlin), Future Network Summit 2013 (Lisbon), eSkills Summit (26 – 28 July 2010, Cape Town) for Dept. of Communications, RSA