Are you a hardware or software developer involved in the mobile Internet category? If so, this is a must-attend track. Come learn about developing for low power, small form factor Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and interact with Intel architects, engineers as part of this track.

Laptops serve the needs of home users, gamers, and businesses. This track presents Intel's vision for each of these markets, technical advancements, and future platform roadmaps. The track includes both labs and sessions. Topics include netbooks, extended battery life, extreme gaming.

This track presents innovative technical advancements along with industry-standard collaborative efforts to enhance usages on Intel® Desktop Platforms.

This track offers attendees insights into Intel's new microarchitecture and how the latest server technology innovations deliver breakthrough levels of performance and efficiency for enterprise data centers, blade and home entertainment storage servers.

The world is increasingly more connected, and embedded applications are helping to drive this trend. This track discusses how Intel's new embedded product lineup, including the Intel® Atom™ processors and system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors, bring the advantages of Intel® architecture to low power, small form factor embedded applications in market segments such as digital signage, retail, and in-vehicle infotainment.

Intel is continuing its unwavering commitment to advancing processor capability, instruction sets, and technologies in order to continue delivering on the promise of Moore's Law. Innovative enhancements to the industry-leading next generation Intel® microarchitecture (Nehalem) and upcoming Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX) enable the delivery of greater performance and capabilities while also increasing energy efficiency. In this track, attendees learn about the features and capabilities in Nehalem and the advancements in instruction set extensions.

This track covers NAND solid-state drive (SSD) technology and main system memory. The NAND SSD technical sessions provide insight into new usage models and applications. The main system memory session covers the Intel main memory roadmap and the benefits of using DDR3 for client and enterprise platforms.

This track, including a hands-on lab and sessions, provides an in-depth look into next generation Intel® Virtualization Technologies that are defining the future of the virtual data center and outlines the industry-leading virtualization innovations for processor, chipset, I/O technologies, and software.

This track focuses on how Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) and Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) address the service concerns and issues facing businesses, including malicious viruses and spyware. Intel® AMT and Intel® TXT significantly advance desktop and mobile business client capabilities and, quite simply, offer security and manageability like never before. Attendees will also have the chance to meet the Intel® AMT expert face-to-face to review your code development.

This track, including a hands on labs and sessions, provides direction on how to use Intel's power-aware products and energy-intelligent technologies to deliver energy efficient performance and enable business growth in energy limited environments.

This track offers technical details on future PCI Express* (PCIe*) and USB technology usages, requirements, and proposed features, beyond the current specifications. Get the latest updates on Intel's contributions to the next generation of the PCI Express* architecture and USB technology to meet the emerging I/O applications.

This track includes sessions from the Gold Sponsors at IDF.

Laptops serve the needs of home users, gamers, and businesses. This track presents Intel's vision for each of these markets, technical advancements, and future platform roadmaps.

This track offers attendees insights into Intel's new microarchitecture and how the latest server technology innovations deliver breakthrough levels of performance and efficiency for enterprise data centers, blade and home entertainment storage servers.

Visual Computing is defined as a real-time, life-like, immersive computing experience. It not only focuses on the visual, photorealistic aspect of the experience, but also the holistic experience, including improved modeling (physics and intelligence), multimedia (video and audio), and interactivity (user experience), to deliver complex workloads and data models such as the 3D visual models seen in financial services, medical imaging, and immersive gaming. This track includes sessions on workload optimization tools, enhanced media applications, and display technologies as well as an interactive Chalk Talk.

This track presents the latest wireless technologies to knock down barriers of preventing one type of wireless device from communicating with another in our daily experiences.

This track, including a hands-on lab and sessions, provides an in-depth look into next generation Intel® Virtualization Technologies that are defining the future of the virtual data center and outlines the industry-leading virtualization innovations for processor, chipset, I/O technologies, and software.

This track would focus on how Intel® Active Management Technology (Intel® AMT) and Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) addresses the service concern and security issues facing businesses, including malicious viruses and spyware, with breakthrough technologies. Intel® AMT and Intel® TXT significantly advances desktop and mobile business client capabilities and, quite simply, offers security and manageability like never before. Attendee will also have the chance to meet Intel® AMT expert face-to-face to deep dive your code development.

This track, including a hands on labs and sessions, provides direction on how to use Intel's power-aware products and energy-intelligent technologies to deliver energy efficient performance and enable business growth in energy limited environments.

The mobile technology landscape is evolving rapidly. With ever-increasing platform capabilities and new web-based services, how we will use mobile technology in the future is beginning to look less like science fiction and more like reality. In this track, Intel researchers discuss what Intel is doing to help us live large mobile experiences. The sessions provide insight on how the platforms of tomorrow can deliver these new mobile experiences.

Open innovation is all about collaboration, both inside and outside the company, in order to deliver the right thing at the right time, and to fuel the future. Join us for the technical sessions in this track to learn about the innovation management, people-centered technology innovation, robotics and the future IT.

Intel® software unlocks the full range of capabilities of multi-core processing that can drive your business forward and the open source brings value to many areas of software development helping bring out the best from hardware platforms. This track provides attendees with an understanding of current and future multi-core programming, the coolest open source technologies and ecosystem partner solutions.

Technical Sessions:

This track, including a hands on labs and sessions, provides insight into Intel® I/O virtualization technologies and Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV).

To enable the software industry to innovate in the next big growth of Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, nettops, in-car infotainment devices, and other embedded devices, Intel initiated Moblin.org, an open source community for sharing technologies, ideas, and code. At the heart of moblin.org projects is the Moblin Linux* software platform; an optimized, feature-rich integrated software stack comprising an operating system plus plug-ins that enables a full Internet and rich media experience. This track includes a hands-on lab and sessions to help you align your software development with Moblin technologies.

This track includes sessions from the Gold and Silver Sponsors at IDF.