SWITCH organised the CLASS 2016 event together with the Chamber of Commerce of Slovenia. The conference was held on 9 November in Ljubljana, Slovenia and brought together experts from industry and academia with users and providers who presented their results and elaborate their needs and their offerings.

Topics addressed by CLASS 2016:

1. Smart Cities, Communities, Urban Life and Mobility

Find a solution for enabling a sustainable mobility, improving urban information management, preserving privacy and addressing trust issues; these are the main challenges we face nowadays.

2. Smart Agriculture & Smart Wood

Address the topic on how to combine modern materials with increasing performance requirements which result in a major overhaul of the delivery of biobased building solutions, such that there is an increasing focus on incorporating ICT into product design and use. This can involve a greater role of logistics within the value chain, resulting in more efficient production methods as well as novel products.

3. Smart Factories & Industry 4.0

Approach way of advancing Industry 4.0 is a collective term for technologies and concepts of value chain organization. Based on the technological concepts of cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things and the Internet of Services, it facilitates the vision of the Smart Factory.