VPH Industry Day

The second VPH Industry Day will be held in Barcelona on 8th and 9th September 2010. The event is organised by the European Network of Excellence for the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) in collaboration with the Spanish Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology, the University of Sheffield, University of Pompeu Fabra and Instituto Ortopedico Rizzoli. It aims to increase the awareness amongst European Industry of the vision, the concepts, and the concrete technological achievements of VPH-related research. This year the event is organised around three themes: a) Research to Business (R2B): VPH research projects are presented to industry experts both in terms of vision and of exploitable results; b) Business to Business (B2B): Companies present to other companies concepts, products and services that can be used to develop VPH-related products; and c) Regulatory to Business (G2B): Regulators discuss standardisation and regulatory affairs in Europe and the USA relevant for VPH-based technology.