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1st CI-FIRE Industry Workshop
Sustainability and the best use of developed testbed infrastructures is highly critical for both FIRE and EIT ICT Labs. Many FIRE facilities have now reached a level of maturity that allows them to be opened up to a wider use. Today, there is a strong momentum for implementing pioneering sustainability models in practice. Providing on-demand testbed usage on a commercial basis, on the one hand bears several challenges, on the other hand provides game-changing new opportunities for testbed users as well as testbed providers, Florian Schreiner, FanTaaStic
ICT test facilities: The future internet will drive innovation in almost all industries and shape the future of service-based economy in Europe. European test facilities have proven that experimentally-driven research and innovation are key mechanisms for the development of the future internet, benefitting businesses, research and educational institutions.
The joint workshop "Connecting EU innovators to ICT test facilities - How to push research boundaries and gain competitive edge", organised by CI-FIRE, EIT ICT Labs and its project FanTaaStic was held on 27 June in the Zamansky Tower at UPMC in Paris.
The workshop was an opportunity to learn about the FanTaaStic Brokerage Service which is intended to connect users and experimenters with testbed owners. The FanTaaStic platform will be trialled until the end of 2014 and launched commercially thereafter. The technical and non-technical pre-requisites for being able to offer testbed resources (such as FIRE facilities) for research, education or busuiness purposes, via the FanTaaStic Brokerage Service, were explained. FIRE has much to gain from collaboration with EIT ICT Labs, especially in terms of re-packaging its offer for successful outreach to SMEs.
Nikolaos Isaris, Deputy Head of the FIRE Unit, presented the role of Future Internet Research and Experimentation in promoting Innovation and Competitiveness in Europe, and gave some first insights some first insights into the 2015 FIRE+ Call for Proposals. Two SMEs and the coordinator of the FIRE CSA project FUSION (Jean-Charles Point) expressed their views on how FIRE testbeds could be made even more visible and attractive for use by SMEs. The industry perspective of FIRE facilities was given by Stefano de Panfilis (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.), who is the chairman of the FI-PPP Steering Board.
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Session 1: How to push boundaries with future internet technologies
Chair: Milon Gupta, Eurescom and CI-FIRE Coordinator
Nikolaos Isaris, Deputy Head of Unit, Future Internet Experimental Platforms, DG CONNECT
Stefano de Panfilis, Chief Innovation Officer, Engineering
Promoting innovation and competitiveness
Florian Schreiner, Fraunhofer FOKUS
FanTaaStic, One-Stop-Shopping of Federated European Testbeds
Session 2: How users can benefit from FIRE for business and education
Chair: Martin Potts, Martel Consulting
David Margery, INRIA, BonFIRE Benefits and Open Access Approach
Serge Fdida, UPMC Sorbonne University, OneLab 'An Internet of Test Beds'
John Domingue, The Open University, Bringing FIRE and the eLearning spheres together and FORGE iBook video teaser
Session 3: How startups and SMEs can benefit from EIT ICT Labs and FIRE
Chair: Susanna Avessta, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Startups and small businesses: requirements for using test facilities
Mirko Ross, Digital Worx, CEO
Guillaume Chelius, HiKoB, President & CEO, On the interest of test beds for a hardware startup
Jean-Charles Point, JCP-Connect, Needs and pre-requisites for testing
Closing panel: where do we go from here?
Chair: Milon Gupta, Eurescom and CI-FIRE Coordinator
Nikolaos Isaris, Deputy Head of Unit, Future Internet Experimental Platforms, DG CONNECT
Mirko Ross, Digital Worx, CEO, Guillaume Chelius, HiKoB, President & CEO, Jean-Charles Point, JCP-Connect & Coordinator of FUSION
Stefano de Panfilis, Chief Innovation Officer, Engineering
John Domingue, The Open University & FORGE coordinator
Blog post on the outcomes of the workshop. Key discussion points, session summary and photo gallery.
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FIRE has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 611591.