Partnering with Microsoft, the Digital Health Summit called attention to consumer innovations such as robotic limbs and smart pills as some of the "game-changing" innovations in health care. – At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas, a Digital Health Summit event highlighted some
innovative quot;game changers quot; poised to change elder care, implants and
medication management.
Organizing the Jan. 7 Digital
Health Summit were Jill Gilbert, a product strategist and co…
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari may meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this weekend on the sidelines of a summit in Turkmenistan, which both leaders will be attending on December 11. According to sources, Zardari will attend the summit in which the heads of the governments of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and India will also participate to [...]
Serbian President Boris Tadić is today attending a summit of the OSCE member states in Kazakhstan’s capital of Astana. Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev this morning opened the summit.
There were smiles and handshakes in Lisbon, but the road ahead is bumpy
BARACK OBAMA’S satisfaction on leaving NATO’s two-day summit in Lisbon on November 20th was palpable. After his “shellacking” at the hands of the voters and a tour of Asia that yielded little in the way of positive results, the embattled president found Europe’s leaders going out of their way to show solidarity. Even Russia presented a smiling face at the summit. But for all the pleasing mood music, more jarring notes are in prospect for the alliance.
Take the “reset” of NATO’s relations with its traditional foe, Russia. Much was made of the decision by the Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev, to come to Lisbon. Mr Medvedev was happy to agree that terrorism, piracy, illegal drugs and nuclear proliferation were all threats that NATO and Russia should confront together. He also offered some practical, non-military help in Afghanistan and tentatively accepted the offer to co-operate on the territorial ballistic-missile defence system that NATO members have decided will now go ahead. The alliance’s general-secretary, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, summed it up: “We have agreed together on which security challenges NATO nations and Russia actually face today. What’s most significant is what’s not on the list: each other.” …
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is expected to meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh next month on the sidelines of a summit in Turkmenistan, which both leaders will be attending on December 11. According to sources, Zardari will attend the summit in which the heads of the governments of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and India will also [...]
SAN FRANCISCO& The Web 2.0 Summit 2010 boasted no shortage of star power for its keynote conversations hosted by show creators Tim O’Reilly and John Battelle. Google CEO Eric Schmidt kicked things off Nov. 15 by waving around a phone that appeared to be the Nexus S, an Android 2.3 handset allegedly from Samsung. Schmidt discussed a lot more topics and was careful to note that Google is being super careful about privacy. He noted that people have to explain when they’re joking, a reference to some flip comments he’s made that were taken literally. Tuesday, Nov. 16 was the master list of keynotes, including Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe; HP Palm’s Jon Rubinstein, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, and of course, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose company is arguably the hottest in the world in terms of pre-IPO buzz. Interspersed with this were several other events, including a semantic joust between venture capital whizzes John Doerr from Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byars and Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson, who argued over whether ideas or execution matter. But the keynote conversations were also quite spicy, as detailed below in this eWEEK slide show. – …
U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit Sunday.
The two presidents discussed the nuclear arms reduction treaty, the upcoming NATO summit and other topics.
Russia believes the Russia-NATO summit in Lisbon will completely put an end to the post-Cold War period, RIA Novosti reports. The summit will set guidelines toward a strategic partnership, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met South Korean President Lee Myung-bak ahead of the eighth India-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Summit, and the fifth East Asia Summit in Hanoi here on Friday. The meeting lasted for about 30 minutes and took place at the Daewoo Hotel here. The issue related to the 12-billion-dollar POSCO steel [...]
At a summit in Brussels, European Union leaders have adopted a plan to tighten budgetary discipline across the bloc, RFE/RL reports. European Union leaders early on October 29 cleared the way for changes to the bloc’s treaty just 11 months after it brought the current rules into force, diplomats said at a summit in Brussels.
European and Asian leaders are set to hold talks in Brussels focused on climate change and the aftermath of the global financial crisis. The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) groups the 27-member European Union and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
European leaders gathering for a Brussels summit on the financial crisis may find the agenda hijacked by France’s deportation of Roma migrants. The EU Justice Commissioner this week condemned the expulsions, equating French actions with the Nazis. Viviane Reding has since apologized for that, and France insists it has done nothing wrong.
Russia is hosting the presidents of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan in a summit, VOA reported. The meeting is aimed at coordinating efforts to battle terrorism and counter regional drug trafficking.
Israel is setting out its strategy for a White House summit on Tuesday, VOA reports. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his upcoming White House meeting will focus on advancing peace talks with the Palestinians.
The regional summit held near Prizren, at which the presidents of Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro were in attendance, focused mainly on free travel. Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu said that there is an initiative for forming a mini-Schengen zone for free movement throughout the Balkans.
A regional summit between leaders of Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, and Montenegro is being held in a hotel near Prizren. The host of the summit is Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu.
Serbian President Boris Tadić said in Istanbul, Turkey, on Wednesday that the EU “has to be honest and say if it wants to accept all countries of the regionâ€. The union should also reveal “if is prepared to work with them in a very practical way to ensure the existing criteria is fulfilledâ€, Tadić said.
World leaders gather for G8 and G20 summit meetings
• LEADERS of the G8 group of rich countries gather in Muskoka, a Canadian holiday resort, for a two-day summit starting on Friday June 25th. The meeting overlaps with the two-day G20 summit that begins the next day in Toronto. Both get-togethers will give the opportunity to world leaders to discuss global financial regulation, reforming international financial institutions and responses to the crisis in the euro zone. The Canadian hosts have been criticised at home for the vast cost of the summit, in particular on the creation of a huge artificial lake for the media centre in a country with more real lakes than anywhere else in the world.
• ANXIETY in Britain is likely to be high as George Osborne, the country’s new chancellor (finance minister), unveils details of a tough emergency budget on Tuesday June 22nd. The new budget will set out the overall trajectory of spending, which is likely to be sharply downward. Mr Osborne’s colleagues have been making scary speeches about the parlous state of public finances. And gloomy independent forecasts for growth and the public finances from the new Office for Budgetary Responsibility suggest that hefty spending cuts and tax rises are inevitable. …
Leaders of the 27 EU countries are tucking into a one-day summit centered on tackling public debt and getting back to economic growth. Europe’s finances remain in a fragile state, but after three summits dominated by the Greek debt crisis, there was a lighter mood around the table early on. A point not lost on the Council president. Herman Van Rompuy said:
