Exhibition and panel discussion on security for our digital society

Sehen und Verstehen 2016

Exhibition and panel discussion

25.02.2016

Today, digitization encompasses all areas of our lives, which, due to its extensive and complex networking, has become an essential basis for our economy, working environment, quality of life and, ultimately, our society. The availability and reliability of our information and communication technology platforms are therefore becoming more important than ever: Industry 4.0, Smart Grid, telemedicine, Smart City, traffic management and environmental management are well-known examples in this innovation context. ICT systems have become THE critical infrastructure par excellence, with dramatic effects on the business location and society if they are not available. At the same time, the resulting global communication networks hold enormous potential for new IT innovations, which bring us a decisive step closer to solving many of society's major challenges, for example in crisis and disaster management.

Das Teaserbild für das "Sehen und Verstehen 2016" Event zeigt den Arestower und das Techgate Wien.

In Austria, an internationally leading R&D competence has been established in this field at the Vienna location: on 25 February 2016, the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and the VRVis Centre for Reality and Visualisation hosted an exhibition of state-of-the-art security technologies: from the latest strategies for detecting even unknown cyber attacks, to state-of-the-art encryption methods for secure data exchange, to innovative communication systems for efficient crisis and disaster management in the future, as well as security technologies for the protection of critical infrastructures. The crowning finale of the exhibition was a panel discussion with top-class participants. Under the title "IT solutions made in Austria - can we be successful in global competition?", the participants discussed, among other things, the question of what innovation-promoting framework conditions must exist at national level so that Austrian business and industry can position itself in global competition? What role do research and development play in this context? And which innovations developed in Austria have made the leap to global markets?

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Sehen und Verstehen 2016