Dear all, I am Marco Terrinoni, FIWARE Coach from Consoft Sistemi S.p.A. for the CEED Tech consortium, in the context of the FIWARE Accelerator Programme. With the following, I would like to submit my apply to be recognized as FIWARE Chapter Active Contributor. I started interacting with FIWARE (and the early instance of FIWARE Lab mostly) while in SAP Labs France, back in 2014, following the OPTET Project, but my involvement with FIWARE really started almost at the beginning of the FIWARE Accelerator Programme in Consoft Sistemi (late 2014), covering a relevant role in being one of the main contact point between the whole FIWARE Community and the CEED Tech consortium, from the members of the accelerators to the real Startups and SMEs. The very first period was everything but trivial, but after a while I really started feeling the great possibilities behind the FIWARE Technologies, and the feedback received from some of the accelerated Startups confirmed me what just said. The initial difficulties were mainly due to the fact that the covered areas (i.e. Estonia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Slovakia) were not really aware and informed about FIWARE, and so one of the very first activities while being a FIWARE Coach was indeed answer the question "What is FIWARE?". Right now we can count ~70 CEED Tech Startups that are able to tackle various sections of the market also because of FIWARE. The following are just few lines from the assessments I performed on two startups: "With this functionality [FIWARE cloud solutions] our product positions itself much better in this market, since it has more powerful and useful features than its competitors at same price-category. These kind of functions would have not been developed by our own in this early stage of the project without FIWARE." Afflield Ltd. (MachineryGuide) "The added value of FIWARE GEs is the ready-to-use set of tools with compatible interfaces, which saved us development time and provided the possibility for our system to scale up dynamically by utilizing the cloud hosting capabilities." Growww Digital (ROIminer) This awareness and success undoubtedly comes from the FIWARE Accelerator Programme and the effort I made in spreading the FIWARE Technologies and assisting the various accelerated Startups, while finding the solution to their issues and facilitating the creation of a communication channel between them and the GE owners. In these last months, in addition to the "normal" coaching activities, I leaded the coaches meeting in conjunction with Manuel Escriche Vicente (FIWARE Scrum Master), substituting the current Coaches Team Leader. Without this intervention, most of the feedback and retrospectives from the various coaches would be lost and, as I also reported in Jira's COR-613<https://jira.fiware.org/browse/COR-613>, the feedback we report should be crucial for the whole FIWARE Community. All of this to convince you about my active contribution to FIWARE and FIWARE Accelerator Programme in particular. Hoping in a positive response I send to all of you my greetings, forwarding a huge "Congrats" to all of you, who made this project a great success. Best regards, Marco Marco Terrinoni Consoft Sistemi s.p.a. BU Application Via Pio VII 127 - 10127 - Torino Tel (+39) 011 3161571 Fax (+39) 011 3161583 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.fiware.org/private/fiware-active-contributor-application/attachments/20160505/7db48dae/attachment.html>
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