Exhibition

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Track 1
Key Enablers for Next Generation Smart Systems
New discoveries & inventions of functional principles for Smart
Systems and artificial intelligence at the edge & in the cloud:
▪ Novel concepts for smart sensing, actuation, energy supply,
data processing, storage, AI and communication
▪ Design & design verification methods for Smart Systems
▪ Material innovations, new fabrication tools & processes
▪ Advanced micro / nano and smart power technologies
▪ Heterogeneous integration for Smart Systems with AI
▪ Methodologies and concepts for reliability, safety, and
security to be inherently built into components and systems

Track 2
Key Technologies for Smart Systems
Hardware and software building blocks of Smart Systems,
their design, fabrication, and test methods at device, wafer,
component, module, and system levels:
▪ System Integration: 2.5/3D integration, interconnect
technologies & packaging for the electronics and all associated
sensors/actuators etc.
▪ Embedded intelligence and cognition at the device level
▪ Fabrication of micro/nano systems & smart power systems
▪ Smart low-cost approaches including roll-to-roll technologies
and printed functionalities
▪ High volume components at Euro cents for billions of infection
or immunity tests

Track 3
Application Domains: Mobility, Energy, Industry
AI based smart sensor systems and networks, control units
and drives incl. aspects such as power electronics, packaging and
further system integration as well as communication systems
for the fields of (auto)mobility, energy, and automation like:
▪ E-mobility (land, air and sea) and its infrastructure
▪ Highly automated and connected vehicles
▪ Secure, reliable, decentralized, multi-modal energy
systems with a high level of renewable sources
▪ Highly automated distribution grids coupling the energy
sector with mobility, industry & domestic use
▪ Ultra-flexible, high-performing, energy and resource
efficient, and collaborative production facilities
▪ Digital twins supporting from design to customer
service

Track 4
Application Domains: Food, Biomedical, Healthy Living
Disruptive innovation of Smart Systems in terms of
accuracy, autonomy, automation, cost, size, etc. for
applications like
▪ Digitising agriculture for sustainable production
▪ Food safety, security, and monitoring from field to fork
▪ Inexpensive real-time disease detection, e.g. COVID-19
▪ Connected life – Enabling the work-life balance
▪ Combined wearable / implants systems
▪ Enabling healthy lifestyles to prevent disease and to
promote autonomous living

Track 5
Strategy and Business Creation
Instruments of support addressing aspects of strategy
and business creation:
▪ Global market dynamics and the stability of value chains
▪ The competitive advantages of European ecosystems
▪ Political framework and support programmes
▪ From research to business: start-up and SME support
▪ Global co-operation and Joint venture strategies
▪ Opportunities and challenges of networking at
European and regional level
▪ Standardisation
▪ Highlights from digital innovation hubs in action

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