This coming October Grenoble will be hosting two major embedded software events: ESWeek (Embedded Systems Week) will bring together, from 11 to 16 October, physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists to take stock of the latest R&D achievements in this field, both hard and soft. ELC-E (Embedded Linux Conference-Europe), on 15 and 16 October, is a top conference in the world of embedded Linux. It is held twice a year, in spring in California and in Europe, in the autumn. This is the first time that both events have been staged simultaneously in time and space. In 2008 ESWeek and Embedded Linux Conference Europe, held respectively in Atlanta (USA) and at Ede (Netherlands), attracted more than 900 participants.

Coinciding with this event, the nano- technology and embedded software competitive cluster Minalogic is organizing the first edition of its Embedded Systems Exhibition on 14 and 15 October. The show aims to highlight the region’s most innovative firms and show off the most exciting examples of embedded software. Some 600 to 1,000 visitors from industry and academe are expected to attend this series of events