Dear FI-WARE colleagues, You have probably received the invitation to the 1st European Conference on the Future Internet (ECFI) that will be held on the 2-3 April in Brussels. If not, find the invitation below. Let me provide some context so that you know what the role of FI-WARE is in this ECFI. ¡¤ General comments o This is an event organized by the FI PPP as a whole (it is being managed by the Dissemination WG of the PPP through a conference committee; fi-ware contributes to the DWG, but is not included in the organizing committee-I did not get volunteers for that). o The idea is to have important external audience, even though attendants will be limited to 250 o Programme and details can be found in http://www.ecfi.eu/Brussels2014. o Early registration until 1st February (205 euro per person); if later: 285 euro. ¡¤ Participation of projects o Through conference sessions o Through exhibition ¡¤ What about FI-WARE? o As proposed after the Third Open Call, the Chamber of Commerce (partner of FI-WARE) will organize an event with decision maker, chambers of commerce, etc in Brussels. We have made the proposal of integrating that kind of workshop into the programme o This appears in the current programme as session 11. Future Internet ¨C Smart Products for a Smart Digital Europe o FI-WARE demo @Exhibition --> pending decision Contact me: ¡¤ If you have questions or doubts ¡¤ If you plan to attend (or have already registered) ¡¤ If you want to promote ideas for the FI-WARE demos in the exhibition area Thanks! From: Milon Gupta [mailto:gupta at eurescom.eu] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 4:09 PM To: 'FI-PPP Event News' Subject: [FI-PPP] European Conference on the Future Internet - Brussels, 2-3 April 2014 *** Early Bird Deadline: 1 February *** Dear Madam/Sir, We would like to invite you to the 1st European Conference on the Future Internet - ECFI Brussels, 2-3 April 2014 Early bird registration deadline: 1 February 2014 http://www.ecfi.eu/Brussels2014 The 1st European Conference on the Future Internet (ECFI) aims at bringing together key stakeholders to discuss how Europe can achieve global leadership in ICT by 2020 through innovative Internet technologies. In this context, industry and political stakeholders will discuss central socio-economic and technological topics of Future Internet infrastructures and services in Europe. The event will present cutting-edge research results on the European Internet infrastructures and services of the future, which have been developed in the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP). The FI-PPP is a European programme for Internet-enabled innovation aiming to accelerate the development and adoption of Future Internet technologies in Europe. Target audience ECFI is particularly targeting political stakeholders, including representatives of public bodies and private associations, as well as ICT industry stakeholders, including innovation managers and CIOs from large and medium-sized companies, who are involved in shaping the networks and services of the future. Key benefits ¨C Why you should participate Attending the event will give participants a number of key benefits, including: ¡ö The opportunity to discuss with peers from industry and the political domain how Europe can achieve global leadership in ICT by 2020 ¡ö A clear understanding of how FI-PPP initiatives, projects and actions in FP7 and Horizon 2020 will achieve the goals of the Innovation Union ¡ö Insights on the latest developments in Future Internet technologies ¡ö Direct access to key players in European Future Internet initiatives who are the drivers of the Internet infrastructures and services of tomorrow ¡ö A unique opportunity to discuss major Internet-related topics with political and industry stakeholders Europe¡¯s competitive advantage in the Future Internet ECFI will cover a wide range of Future Internet-related aspects of direct relevance for Europe¡¯s competitive advantage in the short- to mid-term, which will be discussed in high-level plenary sessions and three parallel tracks: ¡ö The role of the Future Internet for innovation in Europe ¡ö Privacy and data protection ¡ö Crossing the chasm - moving European R&D to the market ¡ö A European roadmap for Future Internet infrastructures ¡ö Virtual power plants - Smart energy grids of the future ¡ö Future Internet - Enabling opportunities for vertical application sectors ¡ö Business models for the use of Future Internet technologies ¡ö Network infrastructures for Smart Cities ¡ö Future Internet at the crossroads of content, media, networks and creativity ¡ö Future Internet ¨C Smart Products for a Smart Digital Europe Speakers A line-up of high-level speakers will share their insights at the event, including: ¡ö Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission for Digital Agenda ¡ö Mario Campolargo, Director ¡®Net Futures¡¯, European Commission ¡ö Malcolm Harbour, MEP, Chair of EP Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer ¡ö Luigi Gambardella, Chairman of ETNO ¡ö Patrice Chazerand, Director Digital Europe Event format The event will consist of a conference and an exhibition. At the plenary sessions of the conference, keynote speakers will share and discuss their insights on how the Future Internet can sustain Europe¡¯s competitiveness through generating innovation across different sectors. The parallel conference sessions will explore a variety of Future Internet-related topics. The exhibition will showcase results by the different projects of the Future Internet PPP, giving participants the unique experience of putting their hands on tomorrow¡¯s technologies and for directly talking with the people who are developing them. Further information and registration Further information and registration are available on the event website at http://www.ecfi.eu/Brussels2014 Early bird registration deadline: 1 February 2014 The number of participants is limited to 250. Organiser Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP) represented by Mr Ilkka Lakaniemi, FI-PPP Programme Chairman Contact E-mail: info at fi-ppp.eu<mailto:info at fi-ppp.eu> Website: www.fi-ppp.eu<http://www.fi-ppp.eu> FI-PPP on Twitter: @FI_PPP Event hashtag: #ECFI1 Acknowledgement The FI-PPP Programme receives funding from the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The European Commission has no responsibility for the contents of this publication. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.fiware.org/private/old-fiware/attachments/20140122/f9ab6fda/attachment.html>
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