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"Connect with UPnP Technology" - The UPnP Implementers Corporation Collaborates with the Intel Developers Forum and LonWorld Expo (26/8/2004)

The UPnP(TM) Implementers Corporation (UIC) today announced collaboration with two leading industry events for location of its annual informational "Connect with UPnP Technology" summit series. The Intel Developers Forum (IDF) in Taiwan and the LonWorld(R) Expo in China will be the co-location sites in Asia for the series of events.

"The UIC couldn't be more thrilled to be collaborating with these two popular events and prestigious organizations," said Karen Stash, UIC President, "These alliances are enormously representative of the common threads and development programs becoming more prevalent throughout the home networking community. We look forward to providing a program of valuable information to the expanded audience that will be in attendance at both the IDF and LonWorld events."

The summits will feature presentations by leading experts on how UPnP technology allows devices on a network to be discovered and easily used. Additionally, the sessions will include overviews of the UPnP architecture and standards, informational demonstrations, and overviews of the latest applications using UPnP technology. Attendees will also learn how their products will benefit from obtaining UPnP certification and gain better understanding of why UPnP technology is key to the connected home and making home networking simpler.

The first of three total events in the summit series will be a two day October 13-14 event and will take place at the Microsoft campus located in Mountain View, California USA.

The first-ever UPnP Technology Summit to be held in Asia will be co-located with the LonWorld Exposition and Conference -- the world's leading annual forum of the LonWorks(R) industry. The conference allows a diverse audience to see and learn firsthand about new products, applications, and technological advances in networking everyday devices using the LonWorks platform. The LonWorld 2004 event is being co-organized by UIC member company Echelon and LonMark(R) International. "It's very exciting to be featuring content from theUIC at the LonWorld event in China. The synergies between UPnP technology and LonWorks based home automation applications are tremendous. Hosting the UPnP Summit makes the LonWorld event especially appealing as an educational and business opportunity to both of our respective developer and user communities," said Vijay Dhingra, Echelon's director of product management and UPnP Forum Steering Committee member.

The series will culminate in collaboration with the IDF, a premier technology conference series produced by Intel that will hold an event in Taipei, Taiwan October 25-26, 2004 with the UIC Summit being held at the same venue for one day on October 27. The conference features informational sessions and networking functions designed to provide region-specific technical content to engineers, architects and researchers. "Intel is a founding member of the UPnP forum and long-time driver of the UPnP architecture, software tools and many working committees. Intel is also a member of the board of directors for the UIC. The IDF audience of application developers, hardware designers, and device manufacturers that are focused on the growing connected home arena will certainly benefit from the co-location of UPnP summit with IDF to learn more about the technology, tools and future direction for UPnP," said Stephen Whalley, Technology Enabling Manager, Desktop Platforms Group, Intel Corporation.

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