Innovation Workshop on "Exploitation of Neuromorphic Computing Technologies", 3 February, Brussels

This Innovation workshop / concertation meeting on "Exploitation of Neuromorphic Computing Technologies" organised by the European Commission DG CONNECT on 3 February, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium.

Few teams in the world have developed neuromorphic computing (NMC) systems yet. In Europe several efforts have been made at national level or European level, notably through the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme. Currently the Human Brain Project (HBP) FET Flagship is building a very large NMC Platform to allow neuroscientists and engineers to perform experiments under different configurations.

This workshop will bring the main NMC experts in Europe together with representatives of relevant industrial and academic partners from projects funded by the European Commission in potential application domains, in the context of the European R&I Framework Programmes (currently H2020): Robotics & AI, HPC, Big Data, IoT, Security, etc.

As such you have been identified as very valuable potential contributor while discussing with our various colleagues in the Commission services or with our projects.

The objectives of the workshop are:

(i) To expose  the state of the art of neuromorphic technologies solutions developed in HBP to potential users as a powerful solution for future advanced computing systems, in particular in the context of applied research in various domains that could be directly benefiting from these unique characteristics.

(ii) To open new collaborations by identifying the most important aspects that need to rapidly mature to allow for an effective take-up of the NMC technology offer (performance characteristics, developments environments, interfaces, etc.) by users from various application domains.

(iii) To provide some information on the innovation support at European level for this kind of technology development.