Event Digest December 2017

Event Digest, December 2017 LATEST Photo Gallery Chinese Millennials to Become the Dominant Force in Luxury According to Opinion.org Chinese millennials and Generation Z are set to become the dominant driver of luxury consumption over the next decade. 1h Photo Gallery “Spy Games” is the 1,000,000th poster sold by Posters.org Tha landmark 1,000,000th image sold by Posters.org is a spy-themed poster. 1h Opinion Chinese Millennials and Generation Z Set to Become the Dominant Force in Luxury by 2025  Chinese millennials and Generation Z are set to become the dominant driver of luxury consumption over the next decade. The country’s millennials (born 1985 to 1995) and Generation Z (born after 1995) accounted for 34% of discretionary disposable income in 2015 but this is forecast to rise to 50% by 2025, according to the 2017 Chinese Luxury E-Commerce Whitebook report from Secoo, Asia’s largest h 2h Exclusive SpaceCom 2017, an annual international space commerce conference, Dec 5-7, 2017, Houston SpaceCom 2017 , an annual international space commerce conference, has been held on Dec 5-7, 2017 in Houston. As every day goes by this new era of space commerce continues to unfold and it is affecting many industry groups, NASA and other international space agencies and their partners, many branches of government both domestic and international and of course individual people across the world. S 2h Technology Conferences Edgecon Conference, January 24-26, 2018, Aspen, Colorado Edgecon Aspen , a three day event focused on edge computing, iis an intimate gathering of edge computing’s most visionary builders. Sessions include high-impact keynotes, roundtable discussions and lighting talks. Participants range from telco executives and data center experts to IoT practitioners and major cloud providers. Together, attendees will shape the future of edge computing, discuss req 3h Exclusive Poster of the Day: Say No to Harassment Behold the poster of the day in the spirit of #MeToo revolution: Say No to Harassment. The poster is available for sale at Posters.org: click the image to buy the poster. 14h Exclusive Posters.org celebrates 1,000,000th poster sold to Japanese market Posters.org celebrates 1,000,000th poster sold to the Japanese market. Posters.org is not an ordinary poster or stock imagery portal, most of its images, taken by both professional and amateur photographers, have not been shot in prearranged setup but rather reflect on daily life happening around us. That’s what makes the user-generated editorial photography platform special. Posters based on ima 17h Technologies.org The Linius Video Virtualization Engine™ (VVE) is now available on Amazon, IBM and Microsoft Azure Chris Richardson, CEO of Linius , commented, “The integration with Microsoft is key to our mission to scale rapidly, and our vision of making the world’s video available as data. Our major cloud providers are very focused on virtualizing the video management tools in the cloud, but only Linius can virtualize the actual video file. We feel strongly that we are the missing link in these providers’ 18h Event Calendar Connecting The Arctic, 21-26 January 2018, Tromsø, Norway  Don’t miss out on the early bird registration prices for Arctic Frontiers 2018 – Connecting the Arctic . Where science, policy and business meet for at sustainable growth in the Arctic. Early bird registration ends midnight CET Monday 11 December 2017. You can still register with normal price up until the conference. Arctic Frontiers is an international arena on sustainable development in the Arc 18h Event Calendar Salon SNBA 2017, December 7-10 2017, Caroussel du Louvre, Paris At the Caroussel du Louvre, Paris, the art exhibition for the selected artists of the Salon SNBA 2017 is going on from December 7 to December 10. The Salon SNBA is one of the representing event of SNBA (Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts), funded by the French government and held in every December. SNBA was founded in 1861 by the prominent French poet and writer, Théophile Gautier (1811-1 18h Exclusive Secrets of Couture, January 26 – April 2, 2018 Sven-Harrys art museum opens the winter-spring 2018 season with the exhibition Secrets of Couture.This exhibition highlights the mythical haute couture fashion and its role in today’s fashion climate, and also looks at the possible future orientation of couture. Showing international fashion designers such as Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen/Givenchy, Balmain, Castillo, Louis Vuitton and Stéphane Ro 20h Technologies.org CEVT joins the startup accelerator MobilityXlab MobilityXlab was launched third of October this fall, with the intent of becoming an innovation lab for the member companies. Ericsson, Volvo Cars, Volvo AB, Zenuity and Autoliv were the first companies to join the lab, and now CEVT is partnering with MobilityXlab as a part of Geely’s strategic focus on CEVT and Lindholmen as an innovation centre for the Geely Group. ”We are off to a flying start 21h Event Calendar Oceanology International 2018 exhibition and conference, 13th to 15th March 2018, ExCel, London The Oceanology International 2018 exhibition and conference , which runs from 13th to 15th March at ExCel, London, promises to be a crucially significant occasion as organiser Reed Exhibitions looks to expand the event’s remit. The 24th edition of this biennial global forum will spotlight technological developments including robotics, advanced sensor technology and autonomous systems. The confere 21h Opinion Barbados Joins List of Endangered Tax Havens During a recent press conference, Donville Inniss, Barbados’ Minister of Industry, International Business, Commerce and Small Business Development, responded to Barbados’ inclusion within an EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions in taxation. Minister Inniss outlined Barbados’ cooperative engagement with the EU throughout the evaluation process and provided a detailed chronology of the interact 23h  Exclusive GES (Global Education Summit) 2017, Future Education Conference, November 28-29, 2017, Beijing GES (Global Education Summit) 2017 Future Education Conference was held in Beijing on November 28-29, 2017. The participants of the conference included leading characters of Chinese education industry, officers and business elites of the educational technology fields within China and overseas. Former U.S. President Barack Obama was invited to the conference to give a keynote speech. President Oba 23h Photo Gallery Jerusalem Stock Photo Featured in Opinion.org Our Jerusalem photo has been selected by Opinion.org, a leading portal for polls and surveys , to illustrate the article Two things Trump got right: recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and tax reform . Click the image to buy the Jerusalem stock photo. More from Opinion.org: Two things Trump got right: recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and tax reform Survey Highlights Importanc 1d Photo Gallery Vineyard Stock Photo Featured in Travel Magazine Our vineyard photo has been selected by TravelMagazine.org to illustrate the article Napa Valley: Wine Path . Click the image to buy the vineyard stock photo. More from Travel Magazine: Napa Valley: Wine Paths EasyJet launches service to Berlin from Stockholm Arlanda Gran Caffe Diemme, Padua, Italy Art, Culture and Culinary Events from Our Media Partners Exceptional: We Crociferi Hotel, Venice, I 1d Cybersecurity Market 69 Percent of Financial Services Organizations Do Not Rotate SSH Keys After Employees Leave According to Venafi’s research, even though SSH keys provide the highest levels of administrative access, they are routinely untracked, unmanaged and poorly secured. For example, sixty-nine percent of respondents from the financial services industry admit they do not actively rotate keys, even when an administrator leaves their organization. This allows the former employee to have ongoing privile 1d Cybersecurity Market One-Third of U.S. Businesses Had a Data Breach Almost one-third of U.S. businesses (29 percent) experienced a data breach in the previous year, a survey for The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB), part of Munich Re, reported today, and eight in ten spent at least $5,000 to respond. The HSB survey conducted by Zogby Analytics also found that almost half of the breaches (47 percent) were caused by a vendor or contracto 1d Exclusive The 2nd International Furniture Innovation Fair (Chengdu) (IFIF) came to a successful conclusion on November 29, 2017 The 2nd IFIF (www.cdifif.com) was a huge success, with 321,000 professional and general visitors attending as well as more than 72,000 instances of a motor vehicle entering the parking facilities or dropping off visitors during the five days.  Contracts with an aggregate value exceeding 5.19 billion yuan (approx. $US 785 million) were signed. Both the number of visitors and amount of turnover far 1d Event Calendar East West Blockchain Conference, Dec 10, 2017, San Francisco The East-West Blockchain Conference takes place on Sunday (December 10, 2017) in San Francisco, it a great opportunity to learn the latest insights on mining, exchanges, decentralized applications, regulatory environment, crypto investing, ICOs, policy, restrictions and more. Companies will discuss their latest advances and progress, and we’ll be able to hear the latest challenges and achievement 1d Event Calendar High-Tech Retailing Conference and Marketplace at CES 2018, January 9-12 2018 The High-Tech Retailing Conference and Marketplace explore the new world of retail with an eye towards helping both exhibitors at CES and the retailers who work with them to be more efficient, customer-centric and experiential. On the show floor (located in South Hall of the LVCC) you’ll experience some of the most cutting-edge retail tools including VR shopping, motion and traffic sensors, digit 1d Exclusive NRF 2018: Retail’s Big Show, January 14-16 2018, JACOB K. JAVITS CONVENTION CENTER, New York The three-day conference and expo NRF 2018 opens on January 14, 2018, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. Senior executives from two of the internet’s largest social media platforms, the founder of one of the nation’s best-known online political publications and the head of a global food brand will be among the keynote speakers as more than 35,000 retail industry leaders fr 1d Technologies.org Credible Raises $50 Million in Australian IPO Credible, the consumer finance marketplace that empowers millennials to make smarter financial decisions, has raised $50 million (A$67 million) in an initial public offering on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The offering — the largest tech IPO on the ASX this year — will allow Credible to accelerate development of the company’s technology platform, deepen its partnerships with financia 1d Technologies.org GE Power to Cut 12,000 Jobs Globally GE Power (NYSE: GE) today announced that it plans to cut its global workforce by about 12,000 positions, affecting both professional and production employees. The workforce cuts, combined with actions taken previously in 2017, will position GE Power to reach its announced target of $1 billion in structural cost reductions in 2018. This announcement aligns with GE’s effort to reduce overall struct 1d Technology Conferences CEBIT 2018, 11–15 June 2018, Hannover, Germany  More courage to try new things, more provocative topics, and an inspiring atmosphere: From 2018, you will experience a brand-new CEBIT . The trade fair is becoming an B2B event platform – and a digital innovation festival with an open-air character. It even has a new date: Discover what you can look forward to from 11–15 June 2018. Starting in 2018, Europe’s biggest business festival for informat 1d Opinion Two things Trump got right: recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and tax reform For all his contradictions two things Trump got right: recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and tax reform. Just two these things count more than eight years of Obama in the White House. Both these decisions are highly unpopular and hotly contested. Almost all media channels predicted that Apocalypses will get down on the Middle East in the aftermath of Trump’s decision to move US embassy 2d Technologies.org Industrial Augmented Reality Platform Startup Apprentice.io Raises $2.5M New Jersey startup, Apprentice.io, has recently received $2.5 million from leading VC firms Silverton Partners and Hemi Ventures, for its industrial augmented reality platform that transports R&D and manufacturing operators, scientists and engineers to an enhanced reality in which they become masterful controllers of their work environments. By using augmented reality to place critical data in on 2d Technologies.org WorldRemit Raises $40m Leading digital money transfer service WorldRemit has raised $40 million to drive its next phase of growth, supporting its plan to serve 10 million customers connected to emerging markets by 2020. The Series C funding round brings the total amount raised to $220m. WorldRemit’s mobile-first, digital model allows migrants to send money in a few taps directly from their phones or online instead of g 2d Technologies.org Finalists Announced for Accounting Technology Startup Accelerator Four entrepreneurial companies have been chosen as the initial class of a startup accelerator sponsored by the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (the Association) and CPA.com. The startup accelerator was launched this past June to help jumpstart innovation in the accounting profession and provide insight into disruptive technologies and automation trends for CPAs and 2d Defense Conferences NATO’s Federated Mission Networking Initiative: standardising C2 systems for effective interoperability SMi Group has recently announced that Colonel Joachim Neumueller, Head of Federated Mission Networking, J6, at NATO SHAPE, will be speaking at the Network Centric Warfare 2018 conference in Rome next February. With the rise of a multipolar world, balancing near-peer adversaries and asymmetrical combat threats, the need to build joint operational capability is now essential. NATO’s Federated Missi 2d  Exclusive HFMA Annual Conference, December 6-8 2017, London The HFMA Annual Conference takes place at the Hilton Metropole in London. This year’s annual conference – the most important event in NHS Finance – takes its title from the president’s theme, ‘Everyone Counts’. During the three days you will have the opportunity to hear from some of the prominent figures in the NHS along with key policy makers, politicians, clinician’s and professional and techni 2d Exclusive Norway-Asia Business Summit 2018, 16-18 April 2018, Singapore We are pleased to announce that the seventh edition of the Norway-Asia Business Summit is taking place in Singapore 16-18 April 2018 at the iconic landmark hotel The Fullerton. The Norway-Asia Business Summit has, since its start in 1998, evolved into a meeting place for Norwegian industry in the region, with strong support by the Norwegian government and the diplomatic missions across Asia. The 2d Cybersecurity Market RSA Conference 2018, April 16-20, San Francisco, CA At RSA Conference 2018 , you will learn about new approaches to info security, discover the latest technology and interact with top security leaders and pioneers. Hands-on sessions, keynotes and informal gatherings allow you to tap into a smart, forward-thinking global community that will inspire and empower you. 3d Defense Conferences CohuHD Costar Awarded US$2.4 Million Surveillance Video Camera Contract for Major Critical Infrastructure Project in Saudi Arabia CohuHD Costar, a Costar Technologies, Inc. company (OTC Markets Group: CSTI) announced today that it has been awarded a $2.4 million video surveillance camera contract for a major critical infrastructure project in Saudi Arabia. With the recent introduction of the RISE 4290HD series, CohuHD Costar expands the reach of its RISE series platform into long-range, day/night, thermal video surveillance 3d Technologies.org Fetch Robotics raised $25 million in Series B funding Fetch Robotics , provider of the leading platform for collaborative robotic solutions, today announced that it has raised $25 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Sway Ventures with participation from existing investors O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Shasta Ventures and SB Group US (“Softbank”). The Series B round brings Fetch Robotics’ total funding to date to $48 million. The new cap 3d Technologies.org Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance Capabilities are Growing at a Shocking Speed Today’s mass surveillance technology is capable to capture indiscriminately faces from crowd and transfer images to C5I (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Collaboration, and Intelligence) center, allocate images into database  with metadata included (time, location, gender, age, visual characteristics tagging), analyze them against target database and identify person of interest (POI) w 3d Technologies.org Binary Pixel Technology from Rambus enables low-light photography and videography, scientific and medical imaging, automotive sensing, AR/VR and 3D Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) today announced Dartmouth College-based startup Gigajot Technology has licensed Rambus Binary Pixel technology and patents for use in Gigajot’s next-generation image capture solutions. Gigajot’s Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) is a major paradigm shift in solid-state imaging which enables high-speed counting of single photons of light at gigapixel resolution. The new features 3d Technology Conferences MicroStrategy World™ 2018, January 15 – 17, 2018, The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of enterprise analytics and mobility software, today announced that more than 50 customer speakers, representing leading global organizations, will present at MicroStrategy’s 21st annual user conference, MicroStrategy World 2018 , being held from January 15 to January 17, 2018 at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. “We’re thrille 3d Event Calendar 15th FORTUNE Global Forum (December 6-8) and the inaugural FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech International (December 5-6) in Guangzhou, China The three-day forum at the Shangri-La Hotel in Guangzhou, China, themed “Openness and Innovation: Shaping the Global Economy,” will bring together CEOs from the world’s biggest companies—the FORTUNE Global 500—with leaders from China in both business and government. This year’s event will be the 15th FORTUNE Global Forum and the fifth one held in China. Chinese Vice Premier of The State Council W 3d Event Calendar Taiwan IT Month Expo 2017, December 6-11, 2017, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei Taiwan is big on tech and all things digital, and best demonstrates this during its annual Information Technology Month Expo. The event will kick off on December 6 and run until December 11 in Taipei. The National Development Council expects through the exhibition to showcase five different areas in which the government has made good progress. In collaboration with partners in the industry, the S 3d Event Calendar The China CNC Machine Tool Fair 2018 (CCMT2018), April 9-13, 2018, Shanghai New International Expo Center in Pudong, Shanghai The China CNC Machine Tool Fair 2018 (CCMT2018) will be held on April 9-13, 2018 in Shanghai New International Expo Center in Pudong, Shanghai. CCMT2018 will use 10 indoor exhibition halls, Hall N1-N5 and W1-W5, of the Shanghai New International Expo Center. The exhibition area reaches 120 thousand square meters; it is expected to attract about 1200 exhibitors from 23 countries and regions. The t 3d  Event Calendar Today is World Soil Day, December 5 Today is World Soil Day. Dirt may not be something you think about every day. Or ever. But healthy soil is important for everyone who eats. “Soil is the cornerstone of life,” said Larry Clemens, North America agriculture program director for The Nature Conservancy. “It’s estimated that 95 percent of food comes from soil. Healthy soil practices not only help farmers, but they improve drinking wate 3d Exclusive #SocialMedia #Photo of the day: How many followers do you have? The most important social media question: How many followers do you have? 3d Technologies.org Lumen Raises $13M for New Biotech Production Platform Lumen Bioscience , a synthetic biotechnology company developing a novel bio-based product development platform, announced today it has raised $13 million of new capital, including a Series A investment round totaling $11.2M and a $1.8M grant from the US Department of Energy. The financing was led by Avista Development, BioEconomy Capital, company founders and other Seattle-area biotech investors. 3d Event Calendar The second China-wide 123 Knowledge Festival achieved a record turnover of 196 million yuan On December 3, the second 123 Knowledge Festival, an event orchestrated by leading Chinese mobile audio sharing platform ximalaya FM, came to a successful conclusion. According to the final data, this year’s Knowledge Festival achieved a record turnover of 196 million yuan, up nearly 284 percent compared to the previous edition. Paying for instructive online content, referred to in China as “know 3d Event Calendar 2018 Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancers Symposium, Thursday, February 15 through Saturday, February 17, 2018, Westin Kierland, Scottsdale, Arizona The 2018 Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancers Symposium is co-sponsored by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the American Head & Neck Society (AHNS). Researchers will present peer-reviewed abstracts on new combination therapies, targeted therapies, immunotherapy, advanced radiation and surgical techniques, new staging syst 3d Event Calendar Largest Mammoth Skeleton on Auction, 16th December 2017, Lyon, France This will be the world’s largest privately-owned woolly mammoth skeleton on sale and the public can have the privilege of getting a good look at this 15,000-year-old skeleton extinct giant from the Ice Age before the auction on December 16 at 14:30 by Aguttes inside Gare de Lyon-Brotteaux. Aguttes has auctioned such fine masterpieces previously, as seen by the sale of an exceptional dinosaur skel