HIGHLIGHTS
AIOTI Days 2025
AIOTI organised this year the annual event in Madrid, building upon six successful editions of the AIOTI Signature Event gatherings since 2019. At the core of AIOTI Days 2025 was the exploration of how the AI, continuum and virtual twins can support the development of modern urban living, including a human-centric approach, practical implementation and environmental aspects.
AIOTI Days 2025 featured the 7 Thematic and 8 Project sessions, the Scientific Conference GIECS with 14 presented papers, guaranteeing a rich and comprehensive experience for all of 104 participants.
The event presentations can be found here.
SCODIHNet Updates
The Smart Connectivity DIH Network has mainly worked on the following topics.
The update of the Replicability catalogue has been made in order to integrate the latest use cases developed and experimented by SNS JU Call 1 and Call 2 projects. Following the survey conducted begin of 2025 by the SNS CO-OP project, a number of new use cases have been identified and most of the projects used the Replicability assessment tool to provide the replicability level of each use cases.
Cooperation with the Smart Connectivity Thematic Working Group is still active, SCoDIHNet is invited to make a new presentation at the next meeting planned on the 10th September. First discussions to merge the 2 groups will start early in October to evaluate the interest of keeping 2 separate groups or to merge them.
DELIVERABLES
AIOTI WG Research paper “Edge IoT Industrial Immersive and Spatial Computing Applications”
AIOTI WG Agriculture paper “Use of robots and AI in agriculture”
AIOTI response to the public consultation on the revision of the New Legislative Framework
AIOTI WG Standardisation report “IoT and Edge Computing EU funded projects landscape”
PROJECTS NEWS
EU-Canada Digital Partnership Week on ICT Standardisation online workshop
14-16 October, Online Workshop
Co-organised with the Digital Governance Council
The EU-Canada Week will explore standardisation challenges across three key technology domains: Dataspaces, Cloud-Edge-IoT (CEI), Quantum technologies.
Discussions will focus on cross-cutting themes, including connectivity, interoperability and security and trust. These multi-stakeholder sessions will include keynote speeches, expert presentations, roundtables and panel discussions. They will also allow the audience to ask questions and contribute insights via the chat and in a dedicated Q&A slot.
EVENTS
Mioty: Made in Europe, for Europe – Enabling a Resilient IoT Ecosystem
The event “mioty: Made in Europe, for Europe – Enabling a Risilient European IoT Ecosystem” is taking place on Wednesday, December 3, 2025 from 12:00 – 3:30 p.m., in Brussels.
As Europe seeks to enhance its strategic autonomy and reduce dependencies on non-European technologies — particularly in light of increasing geopolitical tensions and global supply chain vulnerabilities — the resilience of our digital and technological infrastructure is more critical than ever.
European Leaders in IoT are going to present real solutions for the need to strengthen Europe’s position across the entire Internet of Things (IoT) value chain, from sensor technologies and connectivity to data sovereignty and application platforms. In this context, mioty, a European-born low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technology, stands out as a strategic enabler of secure, robust, and energy-efficient IoT communication.
Developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and driven by the mioty alliance, this technology offers an open, standardized, and scalable alternative to proprietary systems dominated by actors from the US and China. It empowers Europe to build IoT ecosystems that are not only technologically sovereign, but also resilient, interoperable, and future-proof.
Smart City Expo World Congress
Smart City Expo World Congress (Barcelona, November 4-6) is the world’s biggest and most influential event for cities and urban innovation. The event is a premier venue where a diverse crowd of industry executives, government leaders, researchers and entrepreneurs gather annually to revisit complex issues at the heart of a new model of city and society.
This year’s event will welcome over 25,000 professional visitors from more than 130 countries around the globe, 1,100+ exhibitors, 600+ speakers and representatives from 850+ cities.
For registration please visit the link here.
Open Source Community Day 2025
The Open Source Community Day 2025 will take place on 23 September afternoon and 24 September morning in Madrid, directly following the AIOTI Days at the same venue.
Location: Colegio Oficial de Aparejadores y Arquitectos Técnicos de Madrid, 3 Calle del Maestro Victoria 28013 Madrid Spain, (same as AIOTI Days)
More info: https://www.eclipse.org/events/2025/oscd/
Registration (mandatory, early bird discount available for a limited time): Eventbrite Registration
Please note that early bird tickets are available for a short time—register early to secure your spot and benefit from the reduced fee.
EBDVF 2025
European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) is BDVA’s flagship event, bringing the whole European data-driven AI research and innovation community together to share knowledge, collaborate and celebrate achievements. This year’s event will take place in Copenhagen, from 12-14 November. Visit the event webpage.
Nexus Forum 2025 Summit
The NexusForum2025 Summit is going to take place on 5-6 November 2025 at AREA42 in Brussels.
Following on the legacy of the NexusForum Summits 2023 and 2024, this year’s edition will be focusing on the topic “AI, Cloud & Sustainability for Europe’s Digital Sovereignty”.
In this event there will be an exploration on how these elements converge and how Europe can lead globally by aligning cutting-edge technology with long-term resilience and value-based governance. A high-level event gathering innovators, policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders shaping the future of Europe’s cloud, edge, and AI ecosystem is expected.
Who is interested can participate in the session where she/he could showcase her/his key exploitable results, along with key insights on best practices and lessons learnt.
In this scope, to participate it is necessary to fill out this form latest by 15th Sept. This is a 90-min session and spots are limited.
In addition,there is interest to know who would like to obtain a simple free booth during the Summit, or propose scientific posters that could be displayed in the common area to give visibility to researchers. Please use the form to indicate interest in this sense.
Program and Registration for NEM Summit 2025, in Berlin on 21/22 October 2025
The 16th edition of the NEM Summit, the NEM Summit 2025, “Connected Realities: Co-Creating Europe’s Ethical, Inclusive, and Sustainable Future Media”, will be held in Berlin on 21/22 October 2025 and will include, among others, the following topics of discussion:
- Virtual worlds for vertical industries
- 3D / XR in Cultural Heritage
- Ethical and business aspects of virtual worlds
- Networked media session
- Generative AI in Media: Enabling new perspectives
- Media tools, services, standards, and methodologies for an Inclusive XR Media Europe,
- … and much more
The NEM Summit 2025 draft program is available on the NEM Initiative website at www.nem-initiative.org – direct link: https://nem-initiative.org/nem-summit-2025/
The registration for the event is open and available on the NEM Initiative website at www.nem-initiative.org.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
6G-IA Full members + EC 6G-IA – 5G – ACIA Joint Webinar n. 2 – ISAC/JCAS
The 6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association (6G-IA) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) kindly invite you to the Webinar “6G-IA and 5G-ACIA Highlights, Lessons learnt and next steps on ISAC/JCAS” “to be organized on Friday 10 October, 10:00 – 12:00 CEST.
The event will include representatives and presenters from 6G-IA and 5G-ACIA and will be an opportunity to present the key actions and achievements on 5G and 6G ISAC/JCAS from both 6G-IA and 5G-ACIA perspectives, targeting also to further develop synergies between both communities, in addressing the next opportunities and challenges and the related next steps and actions.
The Data Building Block of Virtual Worlds
This workshop will be held on September 24th 11:00 – 12:30 CEST. It will be focused on OPENVERSE Technological. Framework incorporating the vision of experts from the European Data ecosystem on the related building block of Virtual Worlds. Also, it will serve as a moment for the Virtual Worlds community to listen and participate in the conversation on these important building blocks for VWs.In this workshop, OPENVERSE is calling on those stakeholders that have an expertise on data sharing, processing and governance with a focus on Virtual Worlds.Participants are selected and kindly invited to join this workshop with the aim of:• Extending the structure and progress the OPENVERSE Technological Framework on the topic of Data building block• Uncovering the potential of Data as Virtual Worlds enabler, and what should be the interplay with other key VWs’ related technologies• Understand and collect requirements of data sharing, governance and processing with the other building blocks• Collect real cases and pilots on Virtual Worlds that stress and show the capacity and limitations of the data building block.
This workshop is part of a series which aims at analysing the different building blocks of Virtual Worlds, while promoting exchange among specialists from various sectors to comprehensively address the opportunities and difficulties posed by the Virtual worlds and facilitate alignment and implementation actions.
Register here: https://forms.office.com/e/ZvR5xHcD5W
Connection details:
Meeting ID: 310 255 213 336 4
Passcode: Rv7ZB9oa
The Computing and Connectivity building blocks of Virtual Worlds
This workshop will be held on October 1st 11:00 – 12:30 CEST. The objective of this workshop is to continue the definition of the OPENVERSE Technological Framework incorporating the vision of experts from the Computing and Connectivity building blocks of Virtual Worlds. Also, it will serve as a moment for the Virtual Worlds community to listen and participate in the conversation on these important building blocks for VWs.In this workshop, OPENVERSE is calling on those stakeholders that have an expertise on computing and communications for Virtual Worlds, with a particular focus on HPC, Cloud, IoT, 5G-6G and computing continuum to share their inputs.Participants are selected and kindly invited to join this workshop with the aim of:• Extending the structure and progress the OPENVERSE Technological Framework on the topic of Computing and Connectivity building blocks• Uncovering the potential of Computing and Connectivity as Virtual Worlds enablers, and what should be the interplay with these technologies• Understand and collect requirements of computing and networks with the other building blocks• Collect real cases and pilots on Virtual Worlds that stress and show the capacity and limitations of connectivity / computing building blocksThis workshop is part of a series which aims at analysing the different building blocks of Virtual Worlds, while promoting exchange among specialists from various sectors to comprehensively address the opportunities and difficulties posed by the Virtual worlds and facilitate alignment and implementation actions.
Register here: https://forms.office.com/e/9bBArdkF7C
Connection details:
Meeting ID: 325 422 129 337 0
Passcode: vL3tr9Pq