Register for 2nd European Conference on the Future Internet

The 2nd European Conference on the Future Internet will take place in the Technical University Munich (Germany) on 17 - 18 September 2014. Registration is now open.

The Programme incorporates Keynote speeches, FI-WARE demos, pitches from Phase 2 and Phase 3 projects and 99 Solution pitches from SMEs. 

The event will highlight the commencement of the SME-driven innovation phase of the FI-PPP, where the Accelerator Projects will invest 80 million euros for application and service projects driven by European SMEs and Web Entrepreneurs.

Keynote speakers include:

• Welcome, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang A. Herrmann (President of Technical University Munich)
• The FIWARE Accelerator Programme, Mario Campolargo, Director, NetFutures, European Commission
• Innovation and Internet Infrastructure, Stefano de Panfilis (Engineering, Chief Innovation Officer)
• Innovation Initiatives and their Economic Relevance, Dr. Alexander Tettenborn (German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy)
• Launch of the FIWARE Accelerator Programme, Ilkka Lakaniemi, Aalto University

Panel Discussion focused on FIWARE: A New Innovation Ecosystem to develop Innovative Applications and Services

• FIWARE for Smart Cities, Vincent Marcatté, Vice-President Open innovation, Orange Labs
• A Developer’s Experience of Using FIWARE, Christoph Müller-Dechent, Founder, FoodLoop
• Ethics, Privacy, Regulation, Innovation under FIWARE, Professor Dr. Christopher T. Marsden, University of Sussex
• Building the FIWARE Innovation Ecosystem, presenter to be confirmed

The exhibition at the foyer of the TUM Campus Garching will showcase FI-PPP results, including solutions from FI-WARE (the innovative, open cloud-based infrastructure for cost-effective creation and delivery of Future Internet applications and services), FI-OPs (a collection of tools that ease the deployment, setup, and operation of FI-WARE instances by platform providers), as well as application sector specific solutions based on the core FI-PPP technologies.

Application sectors covered in the exhibition include:

• Social connected TV, smart city services, and pervasive games
• Healthcare
• Manufacturing
• Smart Energy