CAT-iq Student Design Competition
DECT Forum Requires Exciting Ideas for Home Communication Products
and Services
BERNE, Switzerland (Business Wire EON) July 2, 2008 --
The DECT Forum invites design students from all over the world to
participate in the first international CAT-iq Design Competition and
investigate in the future of broadband home communication.
This is an opportunity for design students from various disciplines to
showcase their creativity and exciting ideas to an international jury of
industry leading companies: The following experts will judge the
submissions:
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Vincent Buet (Director Consumer Marketing, Philips)
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Pieter Hermans (Chairman of the Jury, CEO Jakajima)
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Erich Kamperschroer (Chairman and President DECT Forum)
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Nicholas Rhodes (Director of St. Martins College London)
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Lesley Taylor (Head of Design, SGW Europe)
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C.H. Tong (President, VTech)
More information about the jury at: www.catiqdesigncompetition.org/jury.html
The DECT Forum would like to encourage students’
creative thinking to conceive the future of home communication. There is
almost no limit on the creative and innovative opportunities of the
CAT-iq technology. The home communication industry is challenging
participants in the competition in two basic areas:
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Products – stylish non-computing hardware
devices
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Innovative and new services that can be offered by telecom network
operators
“DECT Forum grants that inventors will stay
owner of their own ideas. We will promote and market the best entries
but will not claim intellectual property rights. This means that design
students can not only win excellent cash prizes but additionally, the
companies, who are sponsoring the competition will be interested to
identify talented students for opportunities in their own organizations,
says Erich Kamperschroer, Chairman of the DECT Forum.
For the winners of the CAT-iq Design Competition these prizes are
available:
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First prize: 10,000 €
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Second prize: 5,000 €
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Third runner-up prize: 1,000 €
The registration closes on September 19, 2008. The deadline for
the submission of entries is October 10, 2008. Winners will be
announced on November 14, 2008. Interested design students find
all details and contacts at www.catiqdesigncompetition.org
and www.cat-iq.org.
About DECT Forum and Jakajima:
The DECT Forum and Jakajima arrange the Design Competition. The DECT
Forum, located in Berne, Switzerland, is the international industry
association representing the worldwide home communication industry. Full
members of the DECT Forum are: American Telecom, Ascom, Avaya, AVM,
Binatone, CCT, DSP Group, GN Netcom, Infineon, Kirk, Panasonic, Philips,
Plantronics, RTX, Sagem, Siemens, SiTel, SGW Electronics Limited,
Swissvoice, Telematrix, Thomson, Topcom, Unical, Uniden, Vtech. For more
information please visit: www.cat-iq.org
and www.dect.org. Jakajima is
an independent market intelligence and innovation company for the
telecom, ICT, and consumer-electronics trade chain. Jakajima is based in
Nuenen, Netherlands. Please read more at www.jakajima.eu.
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