VMW Live! - Sponsoring Schedule 2008

We currently reach over 60.000 people each month, mostly through the Web site, while some four hundred fifty subscribers receive the e-mail version. VMW offers a monthly telemedicine digest for high performance computing and health care, whereas EntertheGrid/Primeur, its sister magazine, focuses on the European HPCN and Grid community. We are convinced both news sites constitute an excellent platform for advertising and their live issues for reaching an even more targeted readership. This provides a unique and targeted advertising opportunity. Your advertisement/sponsorship is related to the interest area of the readers.

You can prefer to be the sole sponsor of a VMW Live! issue for a specific event. Then your advertisement does not have to compete with that of other advertisers. You will also be mentioned as sponsor when we announce the special issues. In general, exclusive sponsorship is 15,000 euro for a European event which is covered by 2 issues. Non-exclusive sponsorship amounts to 1250 euro. However, note that exclusive sponsorship prevails. The banner advertisements stay on the Web site for at least a year.

There are several advertising possibilities to choose from: banners, active links covering company topics, or other forms we can discuss. The EntertheGrid/Primeur coverage in the Primeur Live! section at http://www.hoise.com/primeur of the International Supercomputer Conference 2007 in Dresden is a typical example of what we can accomplish with a live issue. We produced three Primeur specials during this conference. An example of a full in-depth coverage is offered by the VMW ITIS-ITAB'99 Web site at http://www.hoise.com/vmw/conference/ITIS99. We even included extensive reports of the three forum discussions.

The major events for VMW Live! sponsorship are:

• Sixth MedTech Investing Europe Conference, February, Lausanne, Switzerland
  This two-day conference attracts over 240 peopleÊfrom around Europe. Key benefits of attending as an investorÊinclude:
  • Secure first rate investment opportunitiesÊwith direct access to cutting edge medical technology innovation.
  • Make informed investment decisions with the latest market intelligence from leading industry figures.
  • Meet potential innovators face-to-face through scheduled private one-to-one meetings.
  • Interact with other like-minded investors in an ideal networking environment.
• Fourth International Euro-Mediterranean Medical Informatics and Telemedicine Conference - EMMIT 2008, March, Tripoli, Lybia
  Topics for this conference include:
  • Medical record, electronic patient record and health cards
  • Clinical and epidemiological data bases
  • Digital signature in health documents
  • Security, privacy of medical data
  • Regional and national information Systems
  • Grid technology in health care
  • Multimedia database, images and signals processing
  • Hospital Information Systems and health care networks
  • Teleconsulting/telediagnosis
  • Telemonitoring and telehome care
  • Teleradiology, telecardiology, telepathology, teleophtalmology, telediabetology, etc.
  • Internet in health care and medical web portals
  • Distance learning in health care
  • Decision support system in medicine
  • Statistical software and neural networks in biomedicine
  • Bioinformatics and genoma data bank
  • Neuroinformatics, A.I. and brain cognitive processes
  • Digital Divide and Telemedicine in Africa
• Fourth International Conference on Telemedicine - Experience@Prospects, March, Donetsk, Ukraine
  This conference is supported by the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth. Topics include:
  • clinical telemedicine
  • eHealth
  • regional and national telemedicine networks
  • home and mobile telemedicine
  • decision making, efficiency of telemedicine and eHealth
  • successes and failures of telemedicine projects
  • hospital information systems
  • Internet in Health Care System
  • eLearning
  • health care informatisation
  • biological, medical and clinical informatics
  • technical decisions and software for telemedicine and eHealth
  • ethics, laws and standards for telemedicine and eHealth
  • processing of medical data and images
• Fourth Edition of the e-Health Expo and Forum - Medmatic@ 2008, March, Rome, Italy
  Medmatic@ is the only event in Italy capable of creating a system of co-operation for all health care agents for promting, developing and spreading e-Health nationwide, putting forward application models and experiments which have already been carried out and act as a driving force for different regional areas.
• Med-e-Tel 2008 - The International Trade Event and Conference for eHealth, Telemedicine and Health ICT, April, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
  The Med-e-Tel exhibition and its educational and information programme of interactive seminars on eHealth, telemedicine and all possible ICT applications in medicine, will cover the results of recent or ongoing projects and research, real life experiences and existing programmes, product presentations, and exhibitor training sessions. Organized by Luxexpo and supported by a wide range of national and international associations and institutions, this three day meeting and networking event brings together leading specialists to present recent achievements and developments in the field.
• Healthcare Computing 2008, April, Harrogate, United Kingdom
  In July 2008, the British National Health Servic will be marking its 60th anniversary. 2008 is also the 25th year of Europe's most comprehensive annual meeting on health care information management and communications. As always, the forthcoming HC conference and exhibition will be the place to confer, learn, network and ensure you're up to date. There will be much to see from the wide range of ICT-driven tools and techniques being shown by its many exhibitors, and much to learn about and confer on in the conference's 12 all-day focus sessions.
• pHealth 2008 - International Workshop on Wearable Mycro and Nanosystems for Personalised Health, May, Valencia, Spain
  The pHealth Workshop is a forum of discussion, networking and experiences exchange about the state of the art and future challenges in nano and micro technologies, wearable and implantable sensors and ICT into personal health management systems. The 2008 Workshop will bring together thought leaders from all aspects of health care and technology to inform, discuss, debate and learn as the personalised health paradigm becomes a reality from laboratory to practice to help reshape and transform the care process.
• HealthGrid 2008, June, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  HealthGrid 2008 is the sixth annual conference dedicated to Grids for life science and health care. The goal of the conference is to give an opportunity to all stakeholders to review the status of the Grid technology and to evaluate the progress made in the development and deployment of Grid applications for life sciences, medical research and health care.
• Annual Conference of the International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - Empowering the Patient - The Power of Information - ICMCC 2008, June, London, United Kingdom
  The ICMCC Event is the only international event dealing with patient-related ICT, focusing in 2008 on information related aspects, patient record access, electronic health records and behavioural compunetics. A high quality paper presentation programme representing some of the leading researchers in the field will be offered as well as an outstanding forum of key-note speakers.
• 22nd International Congress and Exhibition for Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery - CARS 2008, June, Berlin, Germany
  This conference is co-hosted with the following events:
  • 12th Annual Conference of the International Society for Computer Aided Surgery - ISCAS 2008
  • 10th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Diagnosis - CAD 2008
  • 14th Computed Maxillofacial Imaging Congress - CMI 2008
  • 26th International EuroPACS Meeting - EuroPACS 2008
• Eleventh International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs - ICCHP'08, July, Linz, Austria
  ICCHP'08 wants to give a special focus on problems of people with disabilities in countries in difficult economic and political situations. We must not neglect that people with disabilities often face the most difficult situations out of economic, political and social reasons. They do not have access to ICT, AT and the according eInclusion and emancipation.
• Eleventh European Health Forum Gastein, October, Bad Hofgastein, Austria
  The main objective of the European Health Forum Gastein is to facilitate the establishment of a framework for advising and developing European health policy while recognising the importance of national and regional authorities and decision-making bodies.
• World of Health IT 2008 Conference and Exhibition, November, Copenhagen, Denmark
  This unique event is designed to connect leading health information and communication technology experts from Europe and beyond in educational sessions, vendor exhibitions, interoperability demonstrations, exchange of experiences and networking sessions, and other professional development opportunities.
• Fourth European Congress of International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering, November, Antwerp, Belgium
  Theme of the MBEC Congress 2008 is "Engineering for Health". The MBEC Congress 2008, endorsed by EAMBES and VDE, also incorporates the ESEM 2008 Congress and the Congress of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering 2008.

More details on the events can be found in the Calendar section of VMW at http://www.hoise.com/vmw.

Please, do not hesitate to contact us for more information and a detailed offer as soon as possible, since there is only limited advertising space available. You can also decide to be the single advertiser for one complete issue.

Reserve your advertising space now with:
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