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100 Years of Wireless Technology
10:30–11:30 a.m., Room 16B
Learn about communications through the first 100 years of wireless technology and hear a forecast on future capabilities.

Hands-On: What's New with the RIO Deployment Curve
1:00–2:00 p.m., Room 18C
Explore new embedded options and learn how you can program reconfigurable I/O (RIO) devices with LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA to accelerate system prototyping and development.

LabVIEW FPGA under the Hood
3:30–4:30 p.m., Room 19A
Get under the hood with LabVIEW FPGA and see the LabVIEW diagram synthesized down to the basic building blocks of FPGA digital logic design.

Challenge the Champions Trivia Game
5:00–6:00 p.m., Technology Theater, Exhibition Hall
Sign up before 2:00 p.m. in the LabVIEW Zone to compete.
Cheer on your fellow LabVIEW fans or test your programming knowledge against famed LabVIEW Champions to win a LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT.

NI Community Block Diagram Party
5:00–7:30 p.m., LabVIEW Zone, Exhibition Hall
Enjoy food and drinks as you mingle with fellow developers from a wide range of industries and companies.

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LabVIEW 8.6 Debuts at NIWeek

Go parallel with the newest version of LabVIEW, which delivers increased performance to help expand your applications with the latest multicore, FPGA, and wireless technologies. Take advantage of the more than 1,200 functions in the math and signal processing library optimized for multicore systems, develop FPGA algorithms using the fixed-point data type, and easily integrate wireless devices for remote monitoring.

LabVIEW 8.6 also introduces new productivity-enhancing features to speed setup and development. Watch the latest version of LabVIEW in action at the LabVIEW Zone in the exhibition hall or learn more about the new version on ni.com.

Test-drive LabVIEW 8.6.

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Blog at NIWeek and Win a Flip Video Camera

Be a part of the conference action by sharing your NIWeek experiences with the rest of the LabVIEW nation. Stop by the LabVIEW Zone in the exhibition hall to check out a Flip portable video camera and start shooting video of your favorite sessions and demonstrations, sharing thoughts about the conference, or interviewing other attendees. Then stop by the Video Blog Station to download the footage to your own blog or the ni.com online user community. The person with the best “word on the street” video wins a Flip video camera. Can’t attend a session or just want to relive the action? Visit the ni.com user community to see the customer-created videos and blogs.

View video blogs.

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Demonstration Highlight – Navigate Mars with LabVIEW

Navigate a replica of the Mars rover over simulated terrain of the "Red Planet." This exhibit, created by Purdue University students as part of the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) program, was created for a local children’s museum as an interactive way to learn about the NASA mission to Mars. The exhibit uses LabVIEW 8.5 software to create a graphical user interface that you can use to control the rover as well as select your mission, landforms, and scientific tools. Stop by the booth (#225) to see if you have what it takes to successfully complete a mission.

Watch a video on this student-created project.

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Network with Your Peers during Lunch

Take the opportunity to network with your fellow NIWeek attendees and NI engineers at the NIWeek Peer2Peer Roundtable, set up in the exhibition hall café daily at noon. Each table is designated with a discussion topic, so grab your lunch, choose the topic that most interests you, and join in on the discussion. Topics vary daily and range from industry trends to best practices and common interests.

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Medical Device Workshop: From Clinic to Market

For the first time, NI is hosting a Medical Device Workshop at NIWeek. This interactive, two-day seminar is designed to create an open forum for physicians, scientists, and engineers to network and learn how to take their medical device ideas into the marketplace.

The workshop opens with a keynote presentation by Dr. G. Terry Sharrer, executive director of Inova Health System Medical Innovation and Transformation Institute, titled “Patient Discovery – Implications for Medicine.” Other workshop topics include the following:

• The Opportunity in Pediatric Medical Devices
• The Medical Device Development Process
• How to Acquire Venture Capital Funding

The Medical Device Workshop begins today at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel located at the intersection of Fourth Street and San Jacinto Boulevard near the Austin Convention Center.

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