8.00        Registration and Welcome Coffee

8.30        Opening and Welcome

Justina Bieliauskaite, AIOTI Management Board Member

Tanya Suarez, AIOTI Management Board Member and Event Moderator

8.35     Session 1:         Climate and Resource Resilience

The ongoing challenges in energy production, distribution and consumption due to the ongoing political development in Europe, COVID related disruption and striving to achieve objectives of the green transition are additional layers on top of the already existing challenges in climate transition and resilience.

The green and digital transition should generate new business in particular in the area of using IoT and edge computing as enablers to reduce the energy and carbon footprint in vertical industries. AIOTI focused on providing guidelines and a methodology to IoT and Edge Computing technologies and services stakeholders on making informed choices on (1) how to assess the carbon footprint of solutions and services they use, (2)  include selection criteria that are needed to help stakeholders to select the most suitable PCF methodology for each considered scenario, industry sector, initiatives and standards, existing methodologies of measuring ICT carbon footprint and how they can be applied to IoT and Edge Computing, and (3) measure how these methodologies support carbon footprint reduction of their use.

In this session we will show how IoT and Edge Computing business driven scenarios and use cases can support these objectives and challenges, in particular how to deal with current energy crisis, CO2 reduction, support circular economy and digital product passport, impact on manufacturing and data spaces and measuring climate impact.

Moderator:      Georgios Karagiannis, AIOTI Digital for Climate TF Leader (Huawei)

Other Panelists:

1   Dieter Wegener, Siemens, Vice-President and Head of External Cooperation

2   Ilias Iakovidis, European Commission, DG Connect, Adviser for Digital Aspects of Green Transformation

3   Gauthier de Villenfagne, Lenovo Belgium, Country Manager Infrastructure Solutions Group

4   Luis Neves, GeSI, Chief Executive Officer

9.20      Q&A

9.35        Coffee Break

9.45     Session 2:         Applying the Computing Continuum in the real world

IoT has enabled the measurement and instrumentation of the world around us. Edge computing has enabled our world to become intelligent and automated. Now, Web 3.0 promises to enrich our digital world with context and meaning. This confluence of technologies is driving transformation across multiple industries.

In this session, we examine real-world use cases and international deployment of IoT, Edge and Web 3.0 as complimentary solutions:

• How did we get here – The evolution from IoT to the meta-world
• Real-world deployment (European and global perspective - US, India, China, Korea)
• Major sectoral challenges and use cases (Healthcare, Energy, Manufacturing, Mobility)
• How is this next frontier going to deliver real transformation where IoT and cloud growth has been slower than expected?

Moderator:     Dolores Ordonez, AnySolution, Director General

Other Panelists:

1   Rolf Riemenschneider, European Commission, DG Connect, Head Sector in the IoT Unit

2   Philippe Sayegh, Verses Global, Chief Adoption Officer

3   Kurt Dusterhoff, Fujitsu Research of Europe Limited, Manager, Technology Strategy Unit

4   Jan-Willem Lammers, VMWare, Principal Technologist

5   Maria Rossetti from our MADE Competence Center

10.30    Q&A

10.45    Session 3:         Testbeds and Computing Continuum

In this session, AIOTI members presented their testbeds and live demonstrations will share their insights on contributing to the computing continuum. Other objective is to provide input in possible further work of the AIOTI WG Testbeds.

Moderator:      Ronald Freund (F5G Open Lab)

Other Panelists:

1    Florian Albrecht, Siemens

2   Pieter Becue, imec, Wireless Business Developer

3   Laurent Schmitt, Digital4Grids, CEO

4   Ricardo Vitorino, Ubiwhere, Smart Cities R&I Manager

5   Charles Sturman, TechWorks, CEO

11.30    Q&A

11.45      Presentation of AIOTI Award finalists and Voting

12.30      Lunch break and networking

13.15      AIOTI Award Ceremony

13.30    Session 4:         Advanced Digital Skills to deliver on promise of the Computing Continuum

This session will provide insights into where the Cloud-Edge Continuum ecosystem is going to struggle in the near future related to digital skills from policy, research/academia and industry perspective. Examples will be presented of how I+D is challenged with Advanced Digital Skills shortage, together with what are our current options to act today and secure a competitive European Cloud-Edge industry tomorrow.

Moderator:      Brendan Rowan (BluSpecs)

Other Panelists:

1  Na Fu, Trinity Business School, Professor

2  Homer Papadopolous, Demokritos, Research Director of Applied Science

3  Christopher Gow, Cisco, Senior Director, EU Public Policy, Government Affairs

4  Julia Palma, CeADAr, Programmes Manager

14.15    Q&A

14.30      Coffee Break

14.45    Session 5:         The Next Frontier for Computing Continuum

In this session, the moderators from previous sessions will summarise findings of the sessions and discuss what is next frontier in the computing continuum and how AIOTI can best contribute to overcome identified challenges, having in mind key European policies and experience from other regions.

Moderator:    Natalie Samovich, AIOTI WG Energy Chair, Enercoutim

Other Panelists:

1   Georgios Karagiannis, AIOTI Digital for Climate TF Leader (Huawei)

2  Dolores Ordonez, (AnySolution)

3   Ronald Freund (F5G Open Lab)

4   Brendan Rowan (BluSpecs)

5   Ovidiu Vermesan, AIOTI WG Research and Innovation Chair, (SINTEF)

15.30    Q&A

15.45    Presentation:   Web3 Accelerator

The accelerator, led by AIOTI and its members, is initiated to help the ecosystem to deploy proper and interoperable WEB3 solutions based on insights and components provided by the AIOTI community.

Newly published, assessed and certified testbeds will demonstrate practical WEB3 implementations while enabling public and private user engagement and regulatory sandboxes.

The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate the outcomes and winners of the Hackathon and how experimentation that is based on the AIOTI WEB3 Accelerator could be implemented.

Presenter:        Tom De Block, AIOTI Web3 Accelerator Task Force Leader

16.30    Wrap-up & announcement of the next edition