CMP Puts Three in Boston
Staff -- Tradeshow Week, 8/13/2007
CMP Technology will collocate three events to allow attendees to learn new technologies in one location.
TechMash is the new name of the combined Embedded Systems Conference, RFID World and Software Development Best Practices, scheduled Sept. 18–21 at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston. The event is expected to draw more than 200 exhibitors and 5,000 attendees.
"By collocating the events into TechMash 2007, we are offering attendees more variety in content, access to multiple keynotes, a larger expo floor and more special events, like our Prius Conversion and product tear-downs," said David Blaza, publisher of Embedded Systems and RFID for CMP Technology.
Blaza added that all three shows have crossover attendance, which will be minimized by the collocation.
The event has a full slate of keynote speakers:
- Joe Jensen, general manager of Intel's embedded markets division
- Robert C. Cresanti with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's coalition against counterfeiting and piracy
- Jim Harper, director of information policy at The Cato Institute
- Ben Aderson, manager of technology policy and state government affairs at the American Electronics Assn.
- Jim McCarthy, president of McCarthy Technologies
- Ivar Jacobson, chairman of Ivar Jacobson Intl.
Several special events also will take place:
- a public conversion of a hybrid car to increase miles per gallon to more than 100
- a giveaway of a custom-built embedded technology-based motorcycle
- a tear-down of the world's first high-powered electric two-wheel vehicle
