We are pleased to inform you that CREST will be organizing our inaugural Industry-Academia Forum which is scheduled to be held on 25th March 2015 (Wednesday). Industry-Academia Forum is a platform for CREST industry partners to share with academia on the current technology trends and needs, interest research and technology domain area, research expertise needed and identify potential researchers from universities whom are interested to collaborate in the particular area.
We appreciated your partnership, support and collaboration with CREST and its industry partners through the initiated programs in Phase 1 (2012-2014) of our journey. In our effort to have more concerted effort in establishing and developing a vibrant world class E&E ecosystem, we would like to invite you to be one of the participants for the inaugural Industry-Academia Forum 2015, where we unveil the Phase 2 (2015-2017) of our next phase research focus and roadmap.
The objectives of the forum are as follows:
1. To share the key clusters and domain areas for research collaboration that are important for the E&E industry.
2. To identify university researchers who would be interested to collaborate in relevant clusters and technology domain areas.
3. To develop high level technology and research roadmap for the key clusters.
4. To propose a framework to ascertain continuity in collaboration in research and technology development between industry partners and university (local & international) in relevant cluster and domain areas.
The targeted audiences for the forum are the industry partners and academia such as the:
Industry:
Management and technology leaders from industry to share the opportunities in key cluster and technology domain areas.
University:
1. Head of Research Management Centre
2. Head of Department (related to Electrical & Electronics sector – i.e. Electrical and Electronics, Computer Engineering & Science, Sciences – Physics & Chemistry, Materials/Polymer/Chemical Engineering, Mechanical/Mechatronic/Manufacturing Engineering but not limited to these disciplines)
3. Industry Centre of Excellence (iCoE) & Centre of Excellence lead
4. Researchers in relevant technology domain areas
Prior to the event, we would greatly appreciate if you could fill in the following forms (item #1 and #2 below). This will help us to identify who you are, your expertise and in which group we could assign you during the forum. Kindly revert to us the completed document latest by 4th March 2015 (Wednesday).
1) Researcher Profile Template – kindly fill in HERE
2) Attachment #1: Research Interests Template
3) Attachment #2 is the descriptions of all domain areas for your point of reference and guideline to fill in attachment #1
Program details will be sent to you soon. For further information or clarification, please do not hesitate to contact me at below number/email.
**Please note that due to capacity limitation, we can only allocate 6 seats per university. Additional registration requests will be kept on awaiting list. If you are on our waiting list, we will inform you as soon as we are able to allocate a seat to you. Kindly RSVP your attendance to naja@crest.my or tazura@crest.my by 18th March 2015 (Wednesday). Thank you.
Best regards,
Naja Binti Mohammad
R&D Talent Development
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