EGI Conference 2015

Session

Business Track: Intro, Opportunities and Innovation Chain

21 May 2015, 11:00

ISCTE-IUL

Conveners

Business Track: Intro, Opportunities and Innovation Chain

• Sy Holsinger (EGI.EU)

Description

EGI is focused on supporting SMEs and the full innovation chain between business and academia to create opportunities of economic impact through open data generated and the technical services both offered and required to support research and innovation.

The EGI Conference Business Track comprises 5 sessions over Thursday and Friday and is designed to bring business, academia and policy makers together to better understand the concrete examples currently available for immediate benefit, and investigate future opportunities through joint collaborations.

Presentations will provide participants with various aspects of innovation value chains, high-level/European initiatives supporting research and SME engagement, commercial organisations as both providers and consumers of services through use cases and collaborations, as well as examples of fostering reuse of open data and open services.

28. EGI Business Engagement Programme

Sy Holsinger (EGI.EU)

21/05/2015, 11:00

The EGI Business Engagement Programme provides an opportunity for both commercial and non-profit organisations to engage with the world’s largest e-Infrastructure supporting European and global scientific and research collaborations to accelerate the adoption of the scientific outputs into society, to support innovation and knowledge transfer into the market. EGI is open to engagement with a...

29. FIWARE and joint long-term sustainability with EGI

Maurizio Cecchi (Telecom Italia)

21/05/2015, 11:30

FIWARE is an open initiative, co-funded by the European Commission, creating an ecosystem to grasp the opportunities emerging with the new wave of digitalisation caused by the integration of recent Internet technologies. FIWARE is built on a number of pillars comprising a platform with simple APIs, sandbox environment, operations tool and infrastructure, as well as funding mechanisms to...

30. Big Data Value in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities

Nuria de Lama (Atos)

21/05/2015, 11:55

The European Commission has finally recognized the value of data as the new “oil” of the economy and has started to take steps towards a EU data-driven economy. One of these steps was the signature of the Big Data Value Public-Private-Partnership in October 2014. The private counterpart of this initiative is the Big Data Value Association. The joint investment will be of € 1 068 million in...

170. Q&A

21/05/2015, 12:20