The IEEE Technology Time Machine (TTM) is a unique event for industry leaders, academics and decision making government officials who direct R&D activities, plan research programs or manage portfolios of research activities. This is the second organized Symposium of future technologies and will cover in a tutorial way a selected set of potentially high impact emerging technologies, their current state of maturity and scenarios for the future.

The Symposium brings world renowned experts to discuss the evolutionary and revolutionary advances in technology landscapes as we look forward to 2020. All the presentations in this Symposium are given by invited World leading experts. The Symposium is structured to facilitate informal discussions among the participants and speakers. As the number of participants will be kept relatively small, this Symposium provides an excellent opportunity for informal interaction between the attendees and senior business leaders and world-renowned innovators. The Symposium will also provide the opportunity to visit leading German research institutes and industries.

The IEEE TTM 2012 will be held in Dresden. Dresden is the perfect place for the Symposium: it uniquely combines over 800 years of historic, baroque background with the pulsing high-tech multi-billion semiconductor businesses that have turned the region into Europe's number one silicon site. Numerous companies and R&D institutions, e.g. Technische Universität Dresden, three Max-Planck, 14 Fraunhofer and four Leibnitz research institutes, helped to establish a global network of excellence.