Trade Shows 2006

• SpeechTEK WEST 2006, Hyatt Regency San Francisco
  5 Embarcadero Center - San Francisco, California
  January 30 - February 1, 2006
  
  
• 3 GSM World Congress 2006, Barcelona, Fira de Barcelona
  13 - 16 February 2006
  
  
• CeBIT 2006, Hannover, Germany, HALL 11 - STAND D37
  9 - 15 March 2006
  
  
• SECA 2006, Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles, Hall 4, STAND G27
  4, 5, 6 April 2006
  
  
• ACE 2006, Budapest, 4 - 7 April 2006
  Thursday, April 6, 2006
  Let's talk about speech - 11:15 - 12:45
  (Rosanna Duce)
  
  
• EXPOCONTACT 2006
  Madrid, 26 April 2006
  
  
• TCD 2006, Utrecht, Netherlands, STAND C 035,
  25, 26, 27 April 2006
  
  
• ACE 2006, San Francisco, 8 - 11 May 2006
  Wednesday, May 10, 2006
  Let's talk about speech - 11:00 - 12:30
  (Rosanna Duce)
  
  
• GenieSummit 2006, Montreal, Hyatt Regency Montreal, Canada,
  17 - 19 May, 2006
  
  
• VOCAL EXPO, Paris, Concorde Lafayette, 20 June 2006
  
  
• SpeechTEK 2006, New York, Marriott Marquis
  7 - 10 August, 2006
  Monday, August 7, 2006
  Advanced Speech Synthesis – Emotion and Affect
  Session: Speech Synthesis and Emotion
  10:30 - 12:00 AM (Monica Bisacca)
  
  Tuesday, August 8, 2006
  TTS in Car Navigation Applications
  Session: In-Car Computing
  2:00 - 3:30 PM (Luisa Cordano)
  
  Tuesday, August 8, 2006
  Panel Discussion
  Session: Going International with Speech (Panel)
  4:00 - 5:00 PM (Rosanna Duce)
  
  Wednesday, August 9, 2006
  VoiceXML Application Development Tools Training
  Session: Hands-on Voice Application Development Tools Training
  10:00 - 11:00 AM (Paolo Baggia & Walter Battistetti, SpeechVillage)
  
  Wednesday, August 9, 2006
  How IPA Is Used in the W3C SSML and PLS
  Session: Authoring Synthesized Speech (TTS)
  2:00 - 3:30 PM (Paolo Baggia)
  
  Wednesday, August 9, 2006
  Panel Discussion
  Session: Overcoming Barriers To Multimodal Application Deployment
  2:00 - 3:30 PM (Piergiorgio Vittori)
  
  

• Canalys Navigation Forum 2006, Geneva, Crowne Plaza, Switzerland, 11-13 September 2006
  Tuesday, September 12, 2006
  Breakout C: Technology and platform futures - 03:50 PM
  Portability, functionality or cost: which devices will dominate in 2007?
  (Panel member: Paolo Coppo)

• Voice Days 2006, Bonn, Alter Bundestag, Germany
  18-19 October 2006
  
  
• Expo Call Center Madrid 2006, Madrid, Feria de Madrid, Palacio Norte, 7-8 November 2006 - STAND B6
  
  
• TELEMOBILITY 2006 (Telematics and Infomobility Forum), Turin, Lingotto Conference Center, Italy - November 23, 2006
  
  
• Expo Call Center Estoril 2006, Estoril, Portugal, Estoril Congress Center, 28-29 November 2006
  

Conferences 2006

• SpeechTEK WEST 2006, Hyatt Regency San Francisco
  5 Embarcadero Center - San Francisco, California
  January 30 - February 1, 2006
  
  Monday, January 30, 2006
  Industry Focus Workshop, "Financial industry focus workshop": Banking Systems Automation Success Stories - 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm, (Rosanna Duce)

  In-Depth Workshop, Overcoming the Barriers to Multimodal Application Deployment - 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm, (Piergiorgio Vittori)

  Tuesday, January 31, 2006
  SpeechTEK University, "Development Tools and Delivery Platform Demonstration Workshop 1": ASR tools to Boost Recognition Performance - 10:00 am - 11:00 am, (Paolo Baggia)

  Convergence Track, Multimodal solutions: Mixing speech and other I/O options: Speech and Multimodality in Embedded Avionic Applications: Loquendo's Experience - 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, (Luisa Cordano)

  Wednesday, February 1, 2006
  AVIOS Technology Symposium, "Developments in Text-To-Speech: Naturalness, efficiency, and flexibility": Achieving Perfect TTS Intelligibility - 10:00 am - 11:00 am, (Paolo Baggia)

  TVUI Design & Delivery, "Network-based multimodality: Synergy on mobile devices": Multimodal Brokerage of BankInter in Spain, 2:20 pm - 3:15 pm, (Piergiorgio Vittori)

  SpeechTEK University, Text-to-speech synthesis: Here today, and more tomorrow: Advanced Features in TTS - 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm, (Monica Bisacca, Paolo Baggia)

• DESAYUNOS ALTITUDE
  21 February 2006 – Madrid, Augustin de Foxá, 25 – Pta. 12
  23 February 2006 – Barcelona, Hotel Jazz - Pelai, 3
  4 April 2006 – Bilbao, Hotel Hesperia, Spain
  
  
• TAL Conference 2006
  Rome, Aula Magna del Ministero delle Comunicazioni
  9 - 10 March 2006
  
  
• Human Language Technology Workshop, Povo - Trento, Italy, 6-8 September 2006
  
  
• ISS World 2006, Hilton Crystal City, Washington D.C. - USA
  December 4-6, 2006
  Tuesday, December 5, 2006
  Putting Relevant Interceptions first: how Voice-Print Comparison and Language Identification can Improve Timeliness in Intelligence
  8:30-9:00 a.m. (Luciano Piovano)