I was pleased to see the announcement of TechInsight’s commitment to ESS, which will now be known as ESC UK, the Embedded Systems Show. I was a little surprised, however, when I received an email on 27th October switching the venue. Only 11 days after announcing that the show would return to the NEC in Birmingham, UK, the organisers change their minds and now the show will be held on 7th – 8th October 2009 at the Farnborough International Show Centre!

The move to Farnborough is interesting. Although the NEC hasn’t proved to be an ideal home for the event, Farnborough – whilst geographically closer to the majority of the UK’s design engineers – will be a new venue to most of the attendees. Hopefully the location, will help draw in more attendees, whilst also offering a very cost-effective space for exhibitors.

Tags: Shows and Events, TechInsights

Richard Wallace, Vice President/Editor-in-Chief of TechInsights has been given the role of leading the combined global content teams at EE Times and TechOnline, providing a focus that I believe will continue to drive TechInsights forward in the electronics market.

TechInsights has also made Colin Holland a staff editor and given him two titles (isn’t one enough Colin?). He is Editor-in-Chief – Embedded as well as holding the role of Senior Editor on EE Times Europe. Congratulations to both Colin and Richard.

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Tech Insight’s Green Supply Line has been relaunched. When launched in 2005, the aim was to provide news and information about RoHS and WEEE, but with the transition to the new legal regime now history, the site has refocussed to concentrate on the high growth “cleantech” and green engineering markets, particularly the renewable energy industry. This is an obvious move to give a site that had completed its mission a new lease of life, and we’d expect the new editoral focus to drive content for much longer than RoHS and WEEE.

Tags: CMP, Online, TechInsights

United Business Media’s TechInsights division has acquired the assets of EDA Ltd, including the Embedded Systems Show and Embedded System Engineering (ESE) for £125,000. We’ll be interested to see how things move forward, and particularly keen to see ESE survive as an independant publication, although its future must be uncertain because of the overlap with TechInsights’ Embedded Systems Europe. Keep checking Napier News for more information!

Tags: ESE, Shows and Events, TechInsights