Moulds Event 2008

The international events “Brokerage Event Joint Summit” and “RPD Conference”, scheduled for October 28, 29 and 30, respectively, will be integrated into Moulds Event 2008, whose week-long agenda includes other seminars, and conferences related to the mould making industry.

The Brokerage Events summit has a dual focus, which is reflected in the event’s title, “Moulds and Dies & Nano-Materials and µ-Technologies.” Keynote addresses on these two themes will be delivered in the afternoon to a plenary session of forum participants. The remainder of the afternoon will be devoted to focused sessions.

Preceding the afternoon presentations will be bilateral meetings in the morning at which attendees of the Brokerage Events meeting can gather information about other participants and set up meetings with potential partners for cooperative R&D and technology transfer.

The catalytic forum brings together industry stakeholders, companies, technology suppliers, technological centres, research institutes, and universities in an effort to foster European-scale partnerships for R&D, networking, technology transfer, and business development. It is intended mainly to support, within its official agenda, the realization of bilateral and multilateral meetings for the discussion of specific project proposals for R&D, for the development of innovative applications for emergent technologies, and for furthering innovation and opportunities for business collaboration.

Under the theme "Designing the Industry of the Future", this year's edition of RPD 2008 will bring to discussion and debate the state-of-the art and innovation in Product Development, Rapid Prototyping & Tooling, Rapid Manufacturing and related areas.

The event will focus on providing solutions for reducing time-to-market. This emphasis on Rapid Product Development and Rapid Manufacturing technologies makes the attendance to this conference an excellent opportunity to keep updated with the most important information about the latest developments in the broad areas of this event.

Based on real experiences and advanced know-how regarding the use of these technologies the event will provide information for companies to improve their competitiveness and create new investigation fields on this issue. More and more, Industry and Academia must work together and RPD 2008 is the conference to present perceptions and work done under these topics as well as to forge success partnerships regarding new Rapid Product Development processes.

Besides Cefamol and Centimfe, the “Moulds Event 2008” will have the support from CE-Micro network, which have received cooperation and assistance from the Portuguese Ministry for Science and Higher Education, the Innovation Agency of Portugal, the Institute for Portuguese Small and Medium Size Enterprises, the Eureka Initiative, the Innovation Relay Centres Network, and several industrial associations, research institutes, universities, and individual companies.