Sigma Orionis is very happy to announce that from 2009 on, its 'ICT for sustainable homes' event will replace the “Net-atHome” event organised since 1995. From 1995 to 2007, Sigma Orionis has organised 10 editions of its international “Net-atHome” conference and exhibition (through Sigma’s division Homega Research) to provide organisations from all regions of the world with a key opportunity to meet, network, and discuss the development of home networks and gateways, of connected appliances, and of value-added services based on home ICT infrastructures. In just a few years, Net-atHome became the largest international research and industry forum in this field, gathering in Europe, every year, over 200 specialists. Times have changed and the challenges faced by all those developing innovative products and services for the home have evolved. What has to be addressed today is how to put ICT at the service of “greener homes” (lower energy consumption, reduced impact on the environment), to take into account new consumer patterns (more meaningful, recyclable and affordable products), to anticipate new markets at the international scale, and more generally to ensure a true sustainable home, i.e. not only a “greener” home but a home in which the elderly and the disabled will have a better life, in which health, security, communication and knowledge and learning will be improved thanks to ICT, etc. This is why Sigma Orionis has made the decision to change the focus of its annual event from “Net-atHome” to “ICT for sustainable homes”. The first edition of this new series of conferences and exhibitions will take place in Nice, France, on November 16-17, 2009. For full details, please visit the its event web site .