AIOTI Newsletter January 2022

31/01/2022

HIGHLIGHTS

Dear AIOTI Community,

We wish you all the best in 2022.For the start, we would like to share with you what is ahead of us in this year, until the General Assembly that will be held on 23 June after IoT Week in Dublin, Ireland.

Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and Projects

Collaborations between AIOTI members facilitated

We will continue with the work to develop our strategic research and innovation agenda (SRIA). This will serve as our input to the work programme of Horizon Europe 2023/24.

The matchmaking and facilitation in consortia building that started last year with Horizon Europe calls will be continued adding also Digital Europe programme and we will strive to find and provide more funding opportunities for our members.

Collaborations and Partnerships

Strong contributions to SNS and Gaia-X as they continue to take shape

On collaborations, we will continue our participation in 6G IA, to continue work on the SNS partnership, the first call announced in January, updates of the SNS SRIA and work programme 2023/24.

We were contributing actively to the Transcontinuum Initiative, and we will continue the work this year, on both contributing to use cases and participating in projects.

Regarding Gaia-X, we are still evaluating the best ways of contributing. We will keep you fully informed as the situation develops.

Events

Over 200 participants at our last Signature event: IoT/IIoT and Edge Computing convergence. If you missed it, you can access the recording here

Our signature event will have its fourth edition this year, we plan to have a physical edition on 27 September. We plan to use the event to show our substantial progress from the last edition in November 2021, and where we have an impact.

We will continue with bi-monthly events having interesting external speakers, discussion with our partners as well as sharing with members internal work that has a cross-domain element. We start on 15 February so please join.

We initiated our Business Forum to provide our members with the opportunity to present themselves and discuss possible business opportunities. We will continue this year with monthly sessions. In case of interest to present, please contact the Secretariat.

Strengthened organisation

Continuous alignment to achieve the impact

We will continue reviewing our structure aligned last year, to ensure continuity of work and focus on key themes of interest where we can make a clear difference and impact.

We continue our Digital Innovation Hub network, SCoDIHNet. We will continue developing this network in particular supporting the network in bidding for Digital Europe projects.

We hope you find this impactful and that you will join the leadership in achieving the best outcomes for our members this year, your support is most welcomed and needed.

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

Qio Technologies

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Sendrato

At the end of this month, AIOTI has 199 members.

NEXT MEETINGS AND EVENTS

COREnect workshop “Microelectronics and connectivity: Europe going forward”, 1 February, The announcement and registration are available here.

AIOTI WG Manufacturing Workshop, 8 February 2022, 15:00h CET, Online. Please join here.

NGIoT Roadmap for IoT Research, Innovation and Deployment, 10 February 2022, Online (TBC)

EUIoT Workshop on Energy – Dynamic smart grids, 22 February, Online (TBC)

International Conference on Data Protection, Regulatory Compliance, and Innovative Technologies, 5 – 7 April 2022, Venice, Italy

IoT World Solution Congress, 10 – 12 May 2022, Barcelona

Fo AIOTI members, the following discounts apply:

50% IOT Congress
Code: ZADW2EEW
Link

100% unlimited Expo + tickets
Code: RBO83QET
Link

100 Full digital tickets
Code: 6N9RFQ0R
Link

More information could be found here.

AIOTI Calendar of Events 2022

AIOTI Calendar of Group meetings 2022

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Horizon Europe Information and Virtual Brokerage Session

Following the “Digital Autonomy in the Computing Continuum” Workshop in November 2021 (more information here), the European Commission invites stakeholders from industry, academia, and innovators to participate in an Information and Virtual Brokerage Session on the Horizon Europe 2022 Call on “WORLD LEADING DATA AND COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES” and “Digital and emerging technologies for competitiveness and fit for the green deal” on 2 February 2022, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm CET.

The open and free half-day virtual event will introduce the three Horizon Europe calls “Cognitive Cloud: AI-enabled computing continuum from Cloud to Edge (RIA)”, “Open source for cloud-based services (RIA)“, and “Programming tools for decentralised intelligence and swarms (RIA)”. The event is organised by the European Commission in collaboration with H-CLOUD (Grant Agreement no 871920), HUB4CLOUD (Grant Agreement no 101016673), and EU-IoT (Grant Agreement no 956671).

The event offers a unique international networking experience to forge the winning partnerships with academics, researchers, industrial stakeholders, and SMEs. Event participants will have the unique opportunity to pitch new concepts and applications, proposal ideas, and expertise in front of leading research organisations and cutting-edge innovators from across industry.

Pitch registration will start on 11 January 2022. The registration deadline is on 31 January 2022 12:00 CET latest. The event organisers will validate and confirm your pitch slot by 1 February 2022 12:00 CET.

More information and registration here.

Project partners for Master Programme on IoT Engineering (DIGITAL-2021-SKILLS-01-SPECIALISED call

The EC published a call to provide mechanisms to improve the digital skills of European stakeholders, targeting also the key area of IoT. Within this call, the University of Catalunya is looking for universities and SMEs that might be interested in contributing to the development and execution of a Master programme on IoT Engineering. As a research-driven university, they have been providing cutting-edge education on key aspects of IoT, including electronics, telecommunication, and informatics. Here is the relevant pitch at the Info Day of this call.

Launch of the 5G for Smart Communities Call under the CEF Digital Programme / EC Info Day on 19 January

First call for proposals for 5G for Smart Communities call 1 under the Connecting Europe Facility Digital programme has been published today.

The budget for this first call is 25 million euros. The deadline date to submit project proposals is 22^nd March, 2022.

An information day for potential applicants, organised by the European Commission, will be held on 19^th January

ICT-52 Virtual Workshop on 6G, 3-4 February

The workshop is organised by the European 6G Flagship project Hexa-X together with other ICT-52 6G projects.

The initial agenda is below and please register at Hexa-X – ICT-52 Workshop on 6G

AGENDA

Feb 3^rd 9-12 CET
·         Opening by EC, 15 min
·         Welcome and 6G vision from organizing project Hexa-X, project lead Mikko Uusitalo, 10 min
·         Hexa-X: Introduction of the European 5G/6G IA whitepaper on 6G, 20 min
·         6G use cases and societal values – including aspects of sustainability, security and spectrum

Hexa-X: 6G use cases and societal values – including aspects of sustainability, security and spectrum
REINDEER: Emerging interactive use cases: technical requirements and quantification
TeraFlow: TeraFlow use cases for a novel cloud-native SDN controller for beyond 5G networks

Feb 3^rd 14-17 CET
· Radio and sensing for 6G

Hexa-X: Initial radio models and analysis towards ultra-high data rate links in 6G, 20 min
Hexa-X: Localisation and sensing use cases and gap analysis, 20 min
RISE-6G: Reconfigurable, intelligent, and sustainable wireless environments for 6G smart connectivity, 20 min
Asian view on RIS, 20 min
6G BRAINS: Channel measurements and high accuracy positioning approaches, Xun Zhang, Diego Dupleich, Benjamin Meunier, 20 min
REINDEER: In search of drastic energy reductions: the potential with RadioWeaves technology, 20 min
DAEMON: Energy-aware Orchestration of Virtualized RANs: Experiments and Algorithms, 20 min
DAEMON: Reliable RAN Virtualization in Shared Platforms, 20 min

Feb 4^th 9-12 CET

Architecture, network evolution and expansion towards 6G
- Hexa-X: Initial B5G/6G architectural components and enablers, 20 min
- Hexa-X: Gap analysis and technical work plan for special-purpose functionality, 20 min
- B5G-OPEN: Building an open power-efficient packet-optical white box, 20 min
- MARSAL: MAchine learning-based, networking and computing infrastructure ReSource mAnagement of 5G and Beyond inteLligent networks: the MARSAL Vision
- Asian perspective on 6G Architecture, 20 min
HW for 6G

o    COREnect: Trustworthy and Energy efficient computing in 6G, 20 min
o    COREnect: RF enabling technologies for THz communications and sensing, 20 min
o    COREnect: Sensor Processing in 6G, 20 min

Feb 4^th 14-17 CET
·         Connecting intelligence towards 6G
o    Hexa-X: AI-driven communication & computation co-design, 20 min
o    Hexa-X: Gaps, features and enablers for B5G/6G service management and orchestration, 20 min
o    DEDICAT 6G: Data marketplace for access control, asset sharing and privacy-preserving AI/ML, 20 min
o    AI@EDGE: Bringing AI to the Edge, 20 min
o    Dan Warren, Samsung: AI&6G, 20 min
o    North American view on AI&6G, 20 min
o    DAEMON: Learning to Predict for Automated Network Management, 20 min

Webinar: Gaia-X: vision, implementation and the importance of HPC, 18 February, 11-12h CET

Pierre Gronlier, CTO of Gaia-X, and Carlo Cavazzoni, member of the ETP4HPC steering board and Leonardo representative in GAIA-X, will present how the project is organised and how its vision will be implemented. A particular focus will be on the role of HPC in the project: how can HPC providers, computing centres, users and academic research teams contribute to and benefit from the project ?

Sai Narasimhamurthy and Jean-Philippe Nominé, both members of the ETP4HPC Steering Board, will share their insight on Gaia-X from an HPC point of view and guide through the open discussion with the webinar participants.

Speakers:

Pierre Gronlier, Gaia-X
Carlo Cavazzoni, Leonardo

Moderators:

Sai Narasimhamurthy, Seagate
Jean-Philippe Nominé, CEA

Please register here.

SNS BROKERAGE PLATFORM 2022

The public SNS BROKERAGE PLATFORM 2022 has been launched and is available at https://sns-brokerage.eu

The SNS BROKERAGE tool resource can be used in 4 ways:

1. For offers of Expertise: (participants looking for projects) To post your profile and indicate your interests so prospective partners can find you.
2. For Idea owners or proposal leaders: (projects looking for participants) To post your project ideas so prospective partners can ask to join with you.
3. To browse Submitted Expertise Offerings To browse or search uploaded profiles to find the competence you need in your proposal(s)
4. To browse Submitted Proposal Ideas: To browse or search project ideas to see if there are any you would like to offer your participation to.

The presentations made at the SNS JU Public Information Day yesterday 27^th January 2022 are available at https://6g-ia.eu/event/sns-ju-public-information-day/

(N.B. please note that the video-recording of the event will be available on the same webpage in the coming days).