Towards deployment of Cloud-Edge-IoT solutions across the computing continuum from market pathways to large scale pilots

Purpose & Scope of the Event:

To realise the green and digital transition, Europe needs to step up its investments in IoT and connectivity, facilitating data access, invest in energy-efficient edge nodes and increase the capacity of its data infrastructure. IoT and edge computing will play a significant role in the future of our businesses, economy and society, especially while keeping data at the edge and taking decisions at a local level. This gives us an advantage in global emergencies like the energy crisis, or natural disasters caused by climate change. Creating this CEI environment—a computing continuum of data collection, storage and processing from edge to cloud—will be an essential component of a globally competitive, secure and dynamic data-agile economy in Europe. Europe has the opportunity to shape this technological paradigm and creates its role as a key player in the worldwide CEI ecosystem and further progress towards digital autonomy and economic resiliency.

To seize the opportunity, it is crucial to tackle several open points for the CEI paradigm shift. While, on one hand, more collaborative work is needed in terms of CEI architecture, open-source and taxonomy, there is also the crucial need to fully understand the needs and requirements of European adopters, the CEI ecosystem and market trends to ensure the alignment of technological solutions with the market needs. The formation of an integrated CEI value chain where there is an established dialogue among the key stakeholders (technology providers, infrastructure providers, system integrators, end-users, etc.) is an important step to facilitate this paradigm shift. This should be aligned with advancements in Europe in terms of design Principles for Data Spaces, legal frameworks such as AI act and Data act, and strategic initiatives such as Chips JU and EPOSS.

This event will touch upon these topics and will act as the final in-person event of the EU-funded UNLOCK-CEI, part of The European, Cloud, Edge and IoT Continuum. The event is meant to showcase the final project results, impact and synergistic efforts as well as the success stories of Meta-OS projects paving the way towards Large scale pilots. The event is an ancillary initiative to the AIOTI days on 24th and 25th September 2024

Who should attend?

Cloud, Edge, IoT Experts, Companies, SMEs and other industry players involved either in the Cloud, Edge, IoT domains or related topics including but not limited to Artificial Intelligence, Interoperability, ICT security, connectivity, open source and ICT standardisation, Research Projects involved in ICT, Meta-Operating Systems, Cognitive Cloud, Swarm Computing, Software Research and more.

Main pointers for the Target Audience /Participants

• Listen to Policy Makers/ Funding Agencies & their priorities and expectations towards delivering the European Strategy for data and leading computing technologies;
• Learn about Markey dynamics and pathways for CEI in Europe;
• Gain insights from EU strategic initiatives on data and computing technologies in the coming years;
• Discover industrial best practices /use cases who are working on gaps in the main industrial sectors and where European companies are playing a significant role;
• Showcase success stories of Meta-OS use-cases

Be sure to join us (limited seats available)!

Agenda

The draft agenda is structured as follows:

13:30 Welcome and Registration

14:00 Session 1: Results and impact demand side
UNLOCK-CEI overview and its role in the EUCEI ecosystem
CEI Industry insights and market trends
CEI Value chain dynamics
CEI Market pathways and insights

Panel discussion: Reflections on Market insights and industrial practices

15:30 Session 2: Supply-demand dialogue
MetaOS ecosystem overview and engagement actions
Presentation of MetaOS success stories

Panel discussion with MetaOS projects and industrial speakers

Networking break

17:15 Session 3: UNLOCK-CEI collaborative efforts and legacy

18:00 – 18:15 Final Takeaways

18:15 – 19:30 Networking cocktail and welcome to AIOTI days