The 2016 edition will focus on the Internet of Things and its impact on industry, with a special appearance by Adriaan Rijllart to reveal the secrets of CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
NI announces its new edition of NIDays, the annual meeting place for engineers, scientists and teachers. The event will take place on March 10, 2016 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. Over 1,200 visitors will be expected to browse the exhibition and attend the plenary conferences, technical presentations and hands-on sessions offered in parallel throughout the day.
Adriaan Rijllart, guest of honor at the event
Adrian Rijllart, Head of Measurement, Test and Analysis at Cern, will be the guest of honor at the afternoon plenary session. He will talk about Cern's Large Hadron Collider project, one of the largest devices ever built to validate physical theories and the constituents of the Universe. Adrian Rijllart will explain how his team overcame the technical challenges of the world's largest particle gas pedal.
Eric Starkloff, Executive Vice President of NI, will also be a special guest speaker at NIDays 2016. He will lead the morning plenary session, during which he will explain how to shape the Internet of Things with a platform-based approach.
42 technical conferences will be held throughout the day, covering automatic test and instrumentation, embedded systems, data acquisition, measurement, radio frequency and semiconductor test. There will also be conferences dedicated to the defense, aerospace, automotive, rail, energy and education sectors. These conferences will feature top-level speakers from PSA Peugeot Citroën, Areva, Arcale, Daher and many others.
The Internet of Things, the cornerstone of this 19e edition of NIDays
The idea of a smarter world in which systems are interconnected around the globe to share information is gradually taking hold in all sectors of industry. This Internet of Things applies to connected homes, connected healthcare and leisure, but also to agriculture, energy, cities, factories and smart grids.
The two plenary lectures will focus on this theme, whether to understand how a platform-based approach can overcome the growing complexity of systems and extend the Internet of Things network, or to explain how NI is helping to create a climate conducive to innovation in which future engineers will take advantage of the real potential of the IoT.
Also on NIDays:
- An exhibition of 70 stands, divided by business sector (sensors, vision and robotics, education and RF), showcasing complementary products and solutions from NI's partners.
- 14 hands-on sessions devoted to LabVIEW graphical programming, data acquisition, real-time test and validation, embedded control system design, software-defined radio, teaching solutions, and automatic test with PXI instrumentation.
- Two Robotics Cups, featuring 20 teams. The NXT Cup (based on the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kit) will bring together teams from high schools, BTS/IUT and CPGE. The RIO Cup (based on the Robotics Starter Kit from National Instruments) is for teams from universities and engineering schools.
- LabVIEW CLAD certification preparation sessions (Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer) in the presence of a NI engineer.
Learn more: www.nidays.fr