Organization

General organization
Practical information

GENERAL ORGANIZATION

Novatech is:

Near 700 participants expected: 1/3 scientists, 1/3 local authorities and 1/3 private firms;

Specialized workshops on Sunday, June 28th, organised by international working groups;

A prestigious plenary opening conference;

A 3-day conference, with 3 parallel break-out sessions;

236 communications, distributed between oral and posters presentations, results of research and experience feedbacks, representative of the state of the art in the world (30 countries represented)

1 display forum for innovative products and services presentations;

2 technical tours on Thursday, July 1st and 2 visits of some of the OTHU field observatory displays;

Simultaneous translation French / English during all the sessions and the technical tours.

NOVATECH is both a major technical meeting and a high-level scientific world class symposium dedicated to urban wet weather flows management.

Sites

	Conference : Palais des congrès de Lyon (Convention Centre) Cité internationale - 50 quai charles de Gaulle - Lyon
	Sunday evening welcome and Ice Breaker: The Radisson BLU Hotel, 129, rue Servient, Lyon 3e (near Part-Dieu commercial centre)
	Specialized workshops on Sunday, June 27th: INSA of Lyon, Domaine scientifique de la Doua, Avenue Albert Einstein, in Villeurbanne
	Technical tours, on Thursday, July 1st Departure in front of the Palais des congrès de lyon (Convention Centre)

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Welcome and registration

3 times and places for registration:
- Sunday, June 27th from 8:30 am for the specialized workshops, at INSA of Lyon
- Sunday, June 27th from 6:00 pm at the Radisson BLU Hotel.
- Monday, June 28th, from 8:30, and the two following days, from 8:00 am, on the conference site.
Please note that your passport or identity card will be required every day in exchange of your translation headphone.

Official languages
English and French are the two official languages. Simultaneous translation will be provided for all sessions, and during the Technical Tours, excepted during the specialized workshops on Sunday, June 27th (English only).

Ice Breaker
A Welcome cocktail will be served on Sunday, June 27th from 6:30 pm at the Radisson Hotel; a privileged friendliness moment to meet again your colleagues from all over the world, in the highest tower of Lyon, which offers a panoramic view on the Gauls city.

Gala dinner

A Gala dinner will be organised on Tuesday evening, at the conference place in the ditches of the Convention centre. Just after the conferences, we propose you a relaxation early evening, with some acrobats and the visit of the famous Tête d'Or Park and its rose garden, commented by experienced botanists. At the end of the Gala dinner, GAÏMALIS will invite you to a musical trip through dances and songs from Occidental and Oriental Europe from Yesterday and Today: Sweden, Ireland, Medieval Sephardic Spain, Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey... GAÏMALIS is a 7 musician-band from different backgrounds, classic folk, jazz, world music. You can find more information about this band on www.gaïmalis.net or http://www.myspace.com/gayemalis (sorry only a few pages in English for the time being) GAÏMALIS loves melodies and ancient and traditional instruments (from almost) all the continents (Europe, Asia, Africa, South America) After their concert they will invite you to dance and even for those of you who practice an instrument, to play with them. Here is a list of tunes they propose with partitions and for some mp3 and even a short piece to sing ... in French! (The translation is given to you in pdf) It is essential that Novatech participants interested in participating in this little musical adventure register very quickly at the Novatech secretariat (Lucie DUPOUY - asso@graie.org), indicating which song they would like to play and with which instrument (for organizational issues). We hope that you will respond to this invitation to share dance and music together!

Novatech proceedings
For this 7th edition of Novatech, the proceedings will be published with three formats:
1 - The setting on line of the proceedings of Novatech, on the Web site of INIST - The French Institute for Scientific and Technical Information - on its numerical platform of edition of scientific reviews. Each communication will have an individual referencing (DOI - DIGITAL Object Identifier).
2 - A complete publication of the proceedings in electronic version, on a USB key, will be given to the attendees.
3 - A printing of the French/English summaries - that is to say one page per communication - will be given to the attendees during the Novatech 2010 conference.
The registration fees for the Novatech conference include a free access to the on-line proceedings as soon as available.
The Novatech proceedings include all the presented papers (oral presentations and posters) during the conference. Each paper is developed on 8 to 10 pages, in French or English, and preceded by a summary in the two languages.
You can also order the USB-key with the Novatech 2010’ proceedings or previous Novatech conference proceedings (papers or CDRom). .

Two times are open for the organization of working groups free meetings: on Monday, June 28th, from 4:45 pm to 8:00 pm (during the “Water, nature and the city” film screening) and on Tuesday early evening, from 6:00 to 7:45 pm. Please contact the secretariat to book a room.

Forum for presentation of innovative products & services

You are working with products or services with an innovative specificity in terms of knowledge, management, control or treatment of urban wet weather flows.

This year, we put forward a new Forum for the presentation of innovative products and services.

Our Forum offer consists in the booking of a meeting room within the Convention Center on Tuesday June 29th (and, if needed, on June 28th PM or June 30th AM).
This meeting room, fitted with a video projector, has a capacity of 60 people.

Thanks to this forum you will have the opportunity to welcome an international public of experts, present your innovative products or services in a convivial and efficient framework, and finally establish a real exchange with your interlocutors.

Forum offer presentation

Pre-registration form (to be sent on March 20th, at the latest)

Accompanying persons
The programme proposed to the accompagnying persons is quite simple, so that they will have plenty of time and will be free to visit the city and the region on their own. A touristic kit and transport tickets will be provided to enable them to make the most of their stay in Lyon.
- A meeting point is proposed on Sunday, June 27th, at 7:00 pm, for the Ice Breaker at the Radisson Hotel.
- A guided tour of Lyon is organized on Monday morning, followed by a friendly lunch in a "bouchon lyonnais" (traditional restaurant).
- On Tuesday evening, accompanying persons will share the Gala Dinner with all the conference participants at the conference place.
- They can join congressists for lunches on Tuesday and Wednesday.
- They also can register for the technical and touristical programme of Thursday.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Travel discounts

Following your request, we will send you a discount to use on the French railways. Upon presentation of the discount ticket, you will benefit from a reduction rate of 20 % on the full price of your train ticket when booking
- in a SNCF railway station
- in a travel agency registered by SNCF

Please consult the list of SNCF travel agencies in the world on the SNCF Internet Website: http://www.voyages-sncf.com/guide/voyageurs/indexGuide.html.
Please note that the reduction is not applicable for online bookings on the SNCF Internet Website.

Air France, is official partner of Novatech'2010 conference, should grant attendees substancial airfare discounts in order to attend the conference. Discounts are applied to:
- a wide range of airfares, in all classes of travel (Espace Première, Espace Affaires and Tempo),
- on all flight worldwide of the Air France network
Make use of the 10% rebate on published public fare where there are no travel restrictions and which offer total flexibility.
For those restricted public fares - which are already discounted, you will benefit from a further reduction of 5% .
To get directly the special offers for Novatech attendees on airfrance-globalmeetings.com
To print and bring the discount ticket to your Air France sales outlet.

To reach Lyon - France

BY PLANE
Lyon Saint Exupéry Airport located 25km away from Lyon centre, provides connection with more than hundred cities, half of which are international. To reach Lyon city centre:
- the Satobus shuttle connects the Lyon Saint Exupéry Airport to Lyon Part-Dieu railway station in 30 mn and Lyon Perrache railway station in 50 mn; departures every 20 minutes (one-way ticket: 8,60€; round-trip ticket: 15,20€).
- taxi, fare is around 50€.

BY TRAIN
Pay attention, there are three SNCF railway stations:
- Part-Dieu Station and Perrache Station in the city centre
- TGV-railway station at the airport Lyon Saint Exupéry.

BY CAR
The Convention Center of Lyon is right at the city centre’s north-east entrance, next to the motorway network and northern orbital road, Porte de Saint Clair exit.
Parkings are not free.

To move in Lyon

EASY - LYON LOCAL TRANSPORT
The city centre is very well served by public transport (tram, subway and bus) until midnight. We will provide you a plan.
The tramway T3-Léa connects the Part-Dieu railway station (Gate Villette) to the stop "Vaulx en Velin - La Soie" in 15 minutes, every 8 minutes. A shuttle bus will then connect the stop "Vaulx en Velin La Soie" of the tramway T3-Léa and the Convention & Exhibition Center of Eurexpo during the whole conference. This shuttle bus runs from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm. Precisions about access and transport will be communicated to the conference participants.

VELO'V: BICYCLES RENT SERVICE
You can rent bikes "VéloV" (www.velov.grandlyon.com)
In Lyon city center, you can find VéloV' s stations. You can buy an access card valid for one week [short time] for €1. First half an hour is free.
You can easily use these bikes in the Lyon city center, also around the Part-Dieu area, or to join INSA or the Convention centre of Lyon.

CLIMATE
End of June is summer and it can be very hot in Lyon! Average minimal and maximum temperatures are respectively of 15°C and 25°C.

MAPS
- Localization and access to the Convention Center of Lyon
- Metro, tramway and city centre plans on the TCL website

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