Interoperability: Key to International Business

CEN, CENELEC, ETSI and ANSI, the European and American Standardization Bodies, are pleased to announce their Conference on Interoperability: Key to International Business, to be held in Warsaw (Poland) from 6 to 7 February 2008.

Interoperability is the ability of two or more networks, systems, devices, applications or components to exchange information between them and use the information so exchanged. In our globalised society and given the increasing diversity of systems and applications, interoperability makes possible the development of a mass market and avoids the undesirable effects of fragmentation. In this context, standards are a key tool to reach a satisfactory level of interoperability amongst the global market. This is why interoperability is the key to international business!

The CEN-CENELEC-ETSI-ANSI conference on interoperability will provide a lively and outstanding forum where all stakeholders can discuss and exchange views on this key element in standardization, and can review the state-of-the-art on standardised solutions to interoperability problems, tackling issues such as home and building electronic systems (HBES), eBusiness interoperability, radio frequency identification devices (RFID), entertainment (multimedia, digital TV), eHealth, eLearning, eSkills and eGovernment, technical interoperability demonstration and testing, and quality of standards.