Next Generation Internet

SLUSH 2020
2020-11-19 - 2020-11-20 | Exhibition and Convention Center of Helsinki, Messuaukio 1, 00520 Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki, 00520, Finland
NOT THE CALIFORNIAN SUN, BUT HONEST SLUSH.
Slush is a student-driven, not-for-profit movement originally founded to change attitudes toward entrepreneurship.
Slush has grown from a single gathering in Helsinki to a series of events organized all around the world. We throw bigger events in Finland, and China, and smaller get-togethers around the globe, from Singapore to NYC. Wherever they happen, our events aim at equipping founders to solve the most meaningful problems of our time.
Slush is built to be a vehicle for change.
Around the world, movements that want to drive entrepreneurship and empower the upcoming generation can start under the Slush name. Currently, Slush events and communities have been started, in addition to Helsinki and Shanghai, in Tokyo, Singapore, London, Berlin, Stockholm, Paris, New York, Trondheim, and more than 40 other cities.
A gathering of 25,000 curious minds, including 3,500 startups and 2,000 investors.
See you in Helsinki on Nov 19—20, 2020.

Stockholm Internet Forum @ IGF 2020
2020-11-17 12:40 - 13:40 (Europe/Brussels) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
Stockholm Internet Forum 2021 Networking Session

Contribute to shaping the next Stockholm Internet Forum during this open networking session with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Sida and the organisers of next year’s event.
The Swedish International Development Agency, Sida, invites the IGF community to feed into the development of Stockholm Internet Forum 2021 (SIF21). SIF is a platform for advancing a free, open and secure Internet as a driver of development for decreasing poverty and increasing freedom from oppression. SIF21 will be held online in May 2021 and centre around how to protect and defend a free, open and secure internet in the shifting landscape of the pandemic.
What are the most pressing issues you see coming? How do we mobilise in response to them? How do we create an online SIF space that is safe, secure and enables meaningful participation and exchange? We are keen to hear your ideas!

IGF 2020
2020-11-09 - 2020-11-17, 2020-11-02 - 2020-11-06 | On-line virtual event
The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be hosted online by the United Nations under the overarching theme: Internet for human resilience and solidarity. The programme continues to develop around the four main thematic tracks: (1) Data; (2) Environment; (3) Inclusion; (4) Trust. The IGF 2020 pre-events, newcomers sessions, thematic introductory sessions, as well as the Open Forums, NRIs and DC sessions will be hosted from 2 to 6 November during the first meeting’s phase. The meeting will be officially opened on 9 November and closed on 17 November. During this 7-day phase, workshops, main sessions, the high-level leader’s track, parliamentarians roundtable and thematic concluding sessions will be hosted. The MAG Chair wrote a blog on this update.
What is IGF?
IGF (Internet Governance Forum) is an international initiative of the United Nations which enables global discussion about Internet and most recent issues and innovations regarding the topic. The event itself is multistakeholder with representation of government , administration, academia, technical, busines and NGO.
This year IGF will be concentrated on the topics of trust, data collecation and use, platform economy and influence of the Internet on the environment. IGF 2020 is a place for inclusive and equal discussion about the future of all those things. Motto of this edition is Internet United. What is unique about this years IGF is wider involvment of youth in discussions and decisionmaking.
During IGF everyone has the right to speak out about the future of the Internet. You too can take part in this discussion!

Sustainable Internet Governance & the Right to Development
2020-11-06 14:10 - 15:40 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
IGF 2020 Sustainable Internet Governance & the Right to Development
This meeting continues groundbreaking work drawing links between environmental sustainability and human rights. Its focus is Article 4 of the Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet in light of the urgent need to identify and rectify the adverse environmental impacts of internet technologies. This meeting will contribute to emerging action plans to ensure that environmental sustainability and the full realization of human rights are cornerstones of internet governance.
Internet-connected technologies play a vital role in helping to achieve full realisation of human rights. All around the world emerging technologies are contributing to the effort of eradicating poverty, hunger, and diseases and promoting gender equality and empowerment of women and youth. Digital technologies are also increasingly central to our current efforts to find solutions to the climate crisis and to promote environmental protection. However in this still highly digitally divided world we live in, the drive for digital overconsumption is creating unprecedented levels of e-waste, a burden that affects mostly developing countries with the huge environmental cost, and the consequent exposure of entire populations to serious health conditions.
This year the IRPC meeting will be looking into Article 4 of the Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet – Right to Development Through the Internet to address how human development and environmental sustainability can be achieved through the Internet, and will work with representatives from all stakeholder groups to identify the adverse environmental impact of Internet-connected technologies and to help developing solutions to ensure the full realisation of human rights in the online environment.
Meeting Format
Opening Remarks and brief introduction to the Internet Rights and Principles Coalition
Minda Moreira, co-Chair IRPC
Presentations from invited SpeakersQ&A from participants, discussion, closing remarks
Objectives of this session:

Address the major issues arising from the rapid growth of the ICT industry and digital overconsumption in view of the human rights directly affected by resulting environmental hazards
Consider further the specific impacts on human and sustainable development goals as these intersect with “greening the internet” policymaking.
Bring together representatives of all sectors committed to work on the urgently needed solutions to ensure that next generation of internet-connected technologies enable human development and a sustainable environment for full realisation of human rights.

Policy questions that this meeting will address include:

How does the environmental impact of internet-connected technologies affect human rights especially the right to development?
As the UN SDGs look to “connect the next billion”, how can internet policymakers, designers, and citizens better respond to the environmental issues arising from the growing energy demands, manufacturing, consumption and disposal of internet-connected technologies?
In which specific areas can different stakeholders cooperate more closely to work towards environmentally sustainable and human rights-respecting internet futures?

This session follows up to Coalition’s annual meetings organised at IGF2018 in Paris and IGF2019 in Berlin, as well the 2019 EuroDIG in The Hague, and Plenary 4 from the EuroDIG 2020. It is part of the IRPC’s ongoing outreach and dissemination work based on the Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet.

NGI @ IGF2020
2020-11-06 09:00 - 10:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
Trustworthy internet technologies against COVID-19
Technology has played a key role in the COVID-19 global health crisis outbreak and it will play an even more important role in supporting countries and citizens to overcome the crisis. This session will look at how effective technology-based measures have been in tackling the spread of the virus; how they have ensured the respect of laws and fundamental rights; and what lessons can be learned for the development of trustworthy internet technologies and their use for public policy purposes.
The public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented global challenge to health care systems and our way of life. Digital technologies have played an important role since the beginning of the crisis outbreak and they will play an even more important role in supporting countries and citizens to manage and overcome the crisis. In response to this emergency outbreak, the European Commission has taken a series of initiatives to coordinate a common European approach for the use of mobile applications and mobile data in the context of the coronavirus crisis. The European Commission adopted a Recommendation to support Member States in exiting the COVID-19 crisis and supported European Member States in preparing and implementing a common European Toolbox for the use of mobile applications for contact tracing and warning. These instruments were flexible and agile enough to allow the European Union to promptly react and adapt its response to the emergency. Starting from the COVID-19 crisis experience, this open forum aims at discussing how technologies can play a role in a global health crisis and yet continue to respect human rights and enact principles and values such as privacy, trust, openness, transparency, decentralisation, user control and inclusiveness. The session will look at how effective technology-based measures taken in different countries and regions in the world have been in tackling the spread of the virus; how they have ensured the respect of laws and fundamental rights; and what lessons can be learned for the development of trustworthy internet technologies and their use for public policy purposes. The European Commission has also funded several projects developing technologies and apps to fight the COVID-19 outbreak, notably in the context of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) programme. The open forum will be the occasion to present to the audience concrete projects and to reflect on lessons learnt and way forward.
Moderators:

Monique Calisti, CEO and Head of Martel Media and Consulting, NGI Outreach Office Director
Esteve Sanz, European Commission

Speakers:

Gemma Carolillo, Deputy Head of Unit, Next-Generation Internet, DG CNECT
Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Special advisor to NL government for COVID-19 tracing apps
Jelena Malinina, Digital health, policy officer at BEUC, the European consumer organisation
Hong-Wei Jyan, Director General, Department of Cyber Security of Taiwan, responsible for the development of the apps on COVID-19

Europe's Digital Decade
2020-11-05 14:00 - 18:30 | On-line virtual event
European Commission Study on the Impact of Open Source Software and Hardware
On 5 November the study team will for the first time reveal early results to the public. They will be joined by Frank Nagle of the Harvard Business School to contextualise the study results with his research.

How much does Open Source Software contribute to the European economy?
What should European policymakers learn from successful and failed projects?
What is the potential of Open Source Hardware and how can Europe gain an early foothold here?
Where have governments around the world succeeded with Open Source policies?

The event will feature keynote speakers from the European Commission’s DG CNECT and DG DIGIT as well as European Member States, providing an early insight into new initiatives that will be announced soon. In addition, they will be joined by a list of exciting speakers in panel discussions focusing on research, SMEs and growth, industry and the public sector.
More speakers and the full agenda will be announced soon.

OpenForum Europe (OFE) is an independent think tank which explains the merits of openness in computing to policy makers and communities across Europe.

SMOOTH webinar
2020-11-05 13:00 - 14:00 | web-streamed
Webinar: How to make use of cookies and implement successful cookie policy and banners?
Are you curious about how to set up your privacy, cookie policy and banners?
Register for this SMOOTH webinar ‘How to make use of cookies and implement successful cookie policy and banners?’ and learn all key tips on how to successfully implement it on your website!
Besides, you’ll have an opportunity to hear about SMOOTH Market Pilot and GDPR recommendations.
The event is organised in the cooperation with EURid, KU Leuven and FundingBox under the SMOOTH initiative.
Agenda

FundingBox (Host) – Short introduction to the webinar, the SMOOTH project and the market pilot – 10 minutes
KU Leuven – How to use cookies (includes extra tips for privacy and cookie policy drafting) – 20 minutes
EURid – GDPR experiences and practical recommendations – 15 minutes
Q&A – 10 minutes

The webinar starts on the 5th of November at 1 p.m. CET
More info is available here: https://spaces.fundingbox.com/spaces/smooth-support/5f870380f9a7a75c28f36d86
REGISTER HERE!

TETRA Webinar: Innovation and internationalisation
2020-11-04 10:00 - 11:00 | web-streamed
Innovation and internationalisation
Thanks to this webinar you will get a practical overview of innovation and internationalisation support facilities in Europe. Experts from BIC Bratislava with 28 years practical experience on utilising programmes, tools, networks, databases, formal or informal will share with you overview of possibilities, all pros and cons and practical hints.
What have you consider before entering international cooperation in the area of innovation, what it will cost you and what it will bring to you. How should you adapt the strategy of your company to win the best from chances provided by European networks, programmes and institutions.
So, don’t hesitate to join this practical webinar and consider the best way to become a European innovative company.
Registration
To register please click HERE!
Agenda
Welcome and introduction to TETRA project: NGI Business Accelerator (5 min)
Ivan FILUS, BIC Bratislava

TETRA services for NGI participants

Importance of innovation and internationalisation for startups (15 min)
Roman LINCZÉNYI, BIC Bratislava, innovation advisor

Innovation and internationalisation and its importance for company
Set-up of a company before entering the international cooperation
Introduction to Enterprise Europe Network

Enterprise Europe Network: Individual services for companies (10 min)
Ivan FILUS, BIC Bratislava, innovation advisor

Support of clients journey to growth
Individual advisory services
Enhancement of innovation management

Enterprise Europe Network: Events and databases for international partnerships (10 min)
Veronika SOMOLÁNYIOVÁ, BIC Bratislava, innovation and communication advisor

Partnership opportunity database – thousands of high-quality cooperation profiles
Find your clients and partners at transnational brokerage events and company missions
Success stories

European Big Data Value Forum 2020
2020-11-03 - 2020-11-05 | ON-LINE EVENT
The European Big Data Value Forum (EBDVF) is the flagship event of the European Big Data and Data-Driven AI Research and Innovation community organized by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) and the European Commission (DG CNECT). The 2020 edition of the EBDVF will take place between the 3rd and the 5th of November 2020 in Berlin and online, and it is organized in collaboration with DFKI, Plattform Industrie 4.0, Plattform Lernende Systeme and Berlin Partner.

With a central theme “Building a strong European Data and AI Ecosystem”, the EBDVF 2020 edition brings together the German and European communities on AI and Data. It aims to contribute to the discussions on the European Data and AI Strategy, specifically addressing key topics for Europe such as the development of European Data Spaces, the importance of Technology Platforms and Trust, the opportunities for market uptake and the new challenges ahead for Data and AI within the society. The event will also focus on how Data and AI can help to tackle emerging societal challenges, like those brought by the Covid19 pandemic. For this edition, cross-sectorial tracks will be combined with sectorial tracks on Manufacturing, Autonomous Systems, Transport, Mobility and Logistics, Health and Smart Society. Furthermore, the programme will include multiple research and innovation sessions and startups pitches, showcasing Europe’s R&I excellence on Data and AI.

The EBDVF2020 edition will particularly benefit from the very vibrant Data and AI research and startup ecosystem in Berlin. Each of the programme tracks is jointly organised by a German representative (from the Berlin research and innovation community or coming from other German key initiatives and organisations) and a European representative to maximise co-operation and value created. With this hybrid approach, the event aims at having a great local and European impact and leveraging the potential of the innovative German ecosystem.
Furthermore, the 2020 EBDVF edition will combine physical and virtual sessions in order to accommodate for possible travel disruptions linked to Covid19, this will offer to the event the possibility to reach a much wider audience, achieving a record in terms of participants from all over Europe.
EBDVF2020 offers interesting virtual sponsoring options for companies, research institutions and AI and Data initiatives, with a lot of interaction possibilities outreaching a much wider audience than ever before. This will allow many players in Europe to position themselves in the European AI and Data ecosystem.

SMOOTH webinar
2020-10-29 13:00 - 14:00 | web-streamed
Webinar: SMOOTH GDPR platform and pilot opportunities for micro-enterprises under DIHs initiatives
Join the upcoming SMOOTH webinar, on 29th of October at 13:00 CET, and discover the tool of the SMOOTH platform that can assist your company in complying with key requirements of the GDPR! Besides you’ll learn about the current Market Pilot opportunity that can help small businesses across Europe to quickly test if their data storage and management are compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union.
If you’re a small enterprise or Digital Innovation Hub that wants to support micro-enterprises, then this webinar is for you!
WHEN: Thursday 29th at 13:00 CET
More info available here: https://spaces.fundingbox.com/spaces/smooth-support/5f7d7936f9a7a75c28f35db3
REGISTER HERE!

ONTOCHAIN TALK#5
2020-10-29 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
ONTOCHAIN – TALK#5
We are excited to invite you to the fifth ONTOCHAIN TALK.
Are you a researcher, developer, innovator, or entrepreneur related to blockchain development?
Join us to learn more about the project offering €4.2M equity-free funding and other support services.
Register now and join us Thursday at 11:00 AM (CEST) to learn more about this fantastic opportunity!
The ONTOCHAIN Team,
https://www.f6s.com/ontochaintalk5

Families_Share: Final Webinars’ series
2020-10-27 14:00 - 17:00 | web-streamed
Final Webinars’ series: Families_Share
The H2020 Families Share project has experimented in the field of Digital Social Innovation for the last 3 years: its main goal has been co-designing and co-creating Open Source technology with people in order to solve one main societal challenge -insufficient and/or not affordable childcare services, in a bottom up way.
Parents’ led childcare activities, facilitated by the Families Share platform/app as a planning tool, have been tested in 6 cities across Europe, in Belgium, Greece, Hungary and Italy, with one main pilot-site being a Research Organization setting up innovative welfare/childcare with and for their employees.
The project’s final online events aim at presenting and discussing the project’s results and potentials for further dissemination, take up and sustainability, by emphasizing its 3 main components:

Co-design and co-creation methodologies applied to socio-technical systems (session 1 October 19th 2020)
Ιnnovative organizational welfare through co-created childcare services (session 2, October 20th 2020)
Rethinking and innovating local childcare in cities through co-creation (session 3, October 27th)

Session 3 | Innovating and re-thinking local childcare in cities through co-creation
14:00-15:45

Welcome and introduction to the Families Share Project,
Agostino Cortesi, Università Ca’ Foscari
Experiences of parents’ led cooperatives running nurseries:
Lucie Stephens, New Economics Foundation and Luciana Talpo, Grasshoppers in the Park, London
Families Share the overall piloting experience presentation
Maria Sangiuliano, Smart Venice
Assessing the Impact of Families Share
Olga Tsoumani and Carina Veeckman, IMEC
Pitches from all Families Share implementing partners
Marzia Cescon & Natasha Sega, Smart Venice
Eefje Cottenier, De Stuyverij
Carlotta Berionni, Università Ca’ Foscari
Lilla Balla, Parents’ House Foundation
Popi Sourmaidou, Ergani Centre
Q&A

15:45-16:00 Break and networking chat
16:00-17:00

The Families Share sustainability scenarios and policy recommendations for local childcare
Apostolos Vontas, Vilabs
Feedback session with
Bianca Faragau, Eurocities and Sally Kneeshaw, Gender Equal Cities -URBACT
Q&A

17:00 Closing the session
Moderator: Agnes Hubert, Sciences Po, Gender5Plus

FED4FIRE+ WEBINAR #1
2020-10-26 14:00 - 15:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
Introduction to Fed4FIRE+: A federation of testbeds for hands-on experimentation
This webinar will:

present an overview of Fed4FIRE+ testbeds available
describe the main features of the Fed4FIRE+ Testbed portal: JFed tool
hand-on tutorial on the use of JFed tool

Target audience
The intended audience is hands-on experimenters who want to use (large) testbeds to put their research on a higher level. Background required: basic linux know-how and know how to use ssh to login on a remote computer.
Hands-on material
All tutorial material is available online at https://doc.fed4fire.eu and/or https://doc.ilabt.imec.be.
See the links above for examples.
To register
Registration to the webinar is free, but mandatory.
BOOK IT HERE.

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Do not forget to follow us: – on Twitter @Fed4FIRE – and please spread the word with our hashtag #f4fwebinars #fed4fire.

“NGI Talks” with Pierre-Yves Danet
2020-10-22 13:00 - 14:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
Join the upcoming NGI Talk, on 22nd of October @ 13:00 CET, and find out how and why The New European Media Initiative commits to mainstream responsible research and innovation approaches for ensuring that technology and content-based innovations are human-centric, inclusive, accessible and addresses societal and environmental challenges along the way.
FREE REGISTER HERE!
Media and Creative and Cultural industries have always been a strong and independent sector of significant value in Europe, based on our cultural heritage and values, combining the power of private initiative and governmental actions for the good of the people. Currently, the media ecosystem has grown in the international context, characterized by global players, business activities and market scope on one side and convergence of technical standards one another side, where Europe needs to work towards a more robust media ecosystem, being able to compete with other world regions while ensuring the independence of its own media and creative sector. Therefore, the underlying media distribution network architectures and platforms need to be in European control, and we need to take the regulatory measures, but also the necessary investments to implement it and make it happen.
The New European Media Initiative understands itself as an agent towards this challenge, assembling views of media and creative sectors in Europe with respect to the needed future research and innovation activities.
This event is free and open to all the interested stakeholders and you can FREE REGISTER HERE!
About the speaker
Pierre-Yves Danet @pydanet‍ joined France Telecom (Orange) in 1992 taking the responsibility of a research group on ISDN. Since then, he is has been leading many projects in Home Automation domain and nowadays he is head of collaborative research – Europe at Orange Labs, he is also representing Orange at Alliance for the Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI) and at NEM technology platform, chairing the ETNO Research & Innovation Group and vice-chairing the FIWARE Mundus committee. At AIOTI, he is a member of WG2, and is one of the main contact points for DIHs in the IoT domain.

Join the NGI community to stay up to date with the latest topics around the Next Generation Internet.

ONTOCHAIN TALK#4
2020-10-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
ONTOCHAIN – TALK#4
We are excited to invite you to the fourth ONTOCHAIN TALK.
Are you a researcher, developer, innovator, or entrepreneur related to blockchain development?
Join us to learn more about the project offering €4.2M equity-free funding and other support services.
Register now and join us Thursday at 11:00 AM (CEST) to learn more about this fantastic opportunity!
The ONTOCHAIN Team,
https://www.f6s.com/ontochaintalk4

TETRA Webinar: (Secret) strategies for SMEs to win public tenders abroad
2020-10-21 10:00 - 11:00 | web-streamed
(Secret) strategies for SMEs to win public tenders abroad
The TETRA project is proud to bring you the “(Secret) strategies on how to win a tender abroad” Webinar.
It will be hosted by PEDAL Consulting and will feature Robert Miskuf and Innocent Mateeka both of whom have multiannual experience in public procurement practitices.
The webinar will officially inaugurate the launch of Tenderio services free of charge for NGI beneficiaries!
For more information visit Tenderio Open Call.
REGISTRATIONS
For registrations please click HERE.
AGENDA

Welcome and Introduction to tendering abroad. (5 mins)
a whole world of opportunities. By Innocent Mateeka Project Manager at PEDAL Consulting.
How Tetra provides Access to Tenderio services to help you win business abroad and how to get involved. (10 mins)
By Robert Miskuf CEO PEDAL Consulting and Co-founder Tenderio.
Secret Strategies on How to Win Business abroad and how to get involved. (35 mins)
By Robert Miskuf and Innocent Mateeka.
Question and Answer. (10 mins)

SPEAKERS
Mr. Robert Miskuf – Optimist. Received €8.02M in EU/US grants. Managing two kids and a portfolio of projects worth € 39M EUR. Robert is the Founder and CEO of PEDAL Consulting and Tenderio. Robert has been involved in over 50 FP7/H2020 projects and coordinated several international tenders. Frequent speaker at high level events on public procurement organized by the European Commission or under the EU presidencies.

Innocent Mateeka – is a Project Manager in PEDAL Consulting and TENDERIO. As a trained lawyer, he has both the professional and technical competence to effectively execute extraterritorial projects. He holds a number of academic and professional qualifications which make him uniquely placed in the exercise of his duties.

NGI at DATW
2020-10-20 20:00 - 23:45 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
Digital Around The World event addressing EU-US Internet collaboration, through an NGI Think Tank, involving major stakeholders from both sides of the Atlantic.

“Future of Internet: the EU/US Next Generation of Internet Initiatives”
20 October 2020 | 8 pm – 9 pm CET
In our global context, the Next Generation Internet, an initiative launched by the European Commission back in 2016, will be successful only if a worldwide consensus is found, enabling a Human-centric Internet. To that end, collaboration between the EU and the US is essential, both areas being strongly committed to develop the future of Internet and to shape a sustainable landscape for NGI developments.
Indeed, the NGI initiative should design specific actions for policy collaboration, shared technology development and interaction between user-communities, with other initiatives in the world where parts of the NGI infrastructure are designed and deployed; and the US are one of the main places where such activities are held.
Think NEXUS – Think tank for the collaboration on NEXt generation internet between EU-US – is a European Commission (Horizon 2020 research program) project that aims to reinforce EU-US collaboration, through its dedicated Think Tank, involving major stakeholders from both sides of the Atlantic on Next Generation Internet related thematic in three focus areas: Science & Technologies; Innovation & Entrepreneurship; Policy.
This 1-hour session will be dedicated to further advancing EU-US talks around technologies & policies’ priorities for cooperation.

“Next Generation Internet: A Visual collaboration workshop on EU-US NGI research and innovation”
20 October 2020 | 11 pm – 12 am CET
The session will focus on giving the opportunity to a number of the third-party projects funded by two of the NGI RIAs, NGIatlantic.eu (EU-US collaboration on NGI), NGI Pointer (Open Internet architecture renovation) and an EU-US initiative funded by NGI Explorers (EU Fellowships to the US), a chance to present their project ideas to the global audience of the 24 hour-long digitalarounbdtheworld.org event.

Dr. Mirko Presser, Associate Professor, Aarhus University
James Clarke, EU Strategic Liaison Manager at the Telecommunications Software and Systems Group, Waterford Institute of Technology
Sara Pittonet Gaiarin, Senior Project manager, Trust-IT Services & COMMpla

For more info, read the programme here.

Families_Share: Final Webinars’ series
2020-10-20 14:00 - 16:30 | web-streamed
Final Webinars’ series: Families_Share
The H2020 Families Share project has experimented in the field of Digital Social Innovation for the last 3 years: its main goal has been co-designing and co-creating Open Source technology with people in order to solve one main societal challenge -insufficient and/or not affordable childcare services, in a bottom up way.
Parents’ led childcare activities, facilitated by the Families Share platform/app as a planning tool, have been tested in 6 cities across Europe, in Belgium, Greece, Hungary and Italy, with one main pilot-site being a Research Organization setting up innovative welfare/childcare with and for their employees.
The project’s final online events aim at presenting and discussing the project’s results and potentials for further dissemination, take up and sustainability, by emphasizing its 3 main components:

Co-design and co-creation methodologies applied to socio-technical systems (session 1 October 19th 2020)
Ιnnovative organizational welfare through co-created childcare services (session 2, October 20th 2020)
Rethinking and innovating local childcare in cities through co-creation (session 3, October 27th)

Session 2 | Innovating organizational welfare through co-created childcare services
14:00-15:30

Welcome and intro to the Families Share Project
What is innovation in organizational welfare?
Patrizia Zanoni, University of Hasselt & Utrecht
The Families Share Pilots in research organizations and corporate settings
Chiara Leonardi & Gianluca Schiavo, FBK & Eefje Cottenier, De Stuyverij
Experiencing Families Share as an HR Development Manager
Luisa Rigoni, FBK
Q&A

15:30-15:45 Break and networking chat
15:45-16:30

Families Share sustainability model and recommendations for organizational welfare policies
Charalampos Chatzimallis, Vilabs
Can Families Share become a new way of doing welfare?
Barbara Deboni, Human Resources Manager, Trentino Sviluppo
Q&A

16:30 Closing the session
Moderator: Massimo Zancanaro, FBK

Digital Around the World
2020-10-20 - 2020-10-21 | web-streamed
Digital Around the World – a global 24 hours conference on digital transformation across the globe
For its 10th anniversary, the IoT Forum is launching a new 24 hours non-stop virtual conference that will roll over the World to run a quite unique event on emerging technologies and digital transformation. The event will bring together experts from all continents to present and discuss the latest technological innovations and trends in digital transformation: from the Internet of Things, to 5G, network virtualization and smart services. 27 high level sessions with keynote speakers will be developed and moderated consecutively from various countries in Europe, the Americas and the Asia/Pacific region, and a worldwide community of industry experts, researchers and specialized media will have the opportunity to follow and interact in the debates.
Scope and Application Domains
Digital Around the World invites you to a digital journey across:

Emerging technologies for digital transformation:

with lead experts and industries from Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things to 5G, network virtualization and smart industries

Technologies for the Good:

for eHealth and smart economy to overcome the Covid-19 crisis
for sustainable development by preserving the environment and our resources
for a privacy and data protection by design digital world

International Cooperation in the Research and Innovation domain

Participants Profile
Industry, experts and top-level researchers, as well as specialized media.

Driven by the IoT Forum, a not-for-profit membership-based organization born from the research community, Digital Around the World intends to build a bridge around the world to promote international research and cooperation.
More on IoT Forum: www.iotforum.org
Contact details: info@digitalaroundtheworld.org

Families_Share: Final Webinars’ series
2020-10-19 14:00 - 15:30 | web-streamed
Final Webinars’ series: Families_Share
The H2020 Families Share project has experimented in the field of Digital Social Innovation for the last 3 years: its main goal has been co-designing and co-creating Open Source technology with people in order to solve one main societal challenge -insufficient and/or not affordable childcare services, in a bottom up way.
Parents’ led childcare activities, facilitated by the Families Share platform/app as a planning tool, have been tested in 6 cities across Europe, in Belgium, Greece, Hungary and Italy, with one main pilot-site being a Research Organization setting up innovative welfare/childcare with and for their employees.
The project’s final online events aim at presenting and discussing the project’s results and potentials for further dissemination, take up and sustainability, by emphasizing its 3 main components:

Co-design and co-creation methodologies applied to socio-technical systems (session 1 October 19th 2020)
Ιnnovative organizational welfare through co-created childcare services (session 2, October 20th 2020)
Rethinking and innovating local childcare in cities through co-creation (session 3, October 27th)

Session 1 | Co-designing and co-creating technologies and services for community driven childcare

Welcome and introduction to the Families Share project
Agostino Cortesi, Ca’ Foscari University
Co-designed co-creation; scaling up social innovation from project to EU Programme
Loretta Anania, European Commission, DG Connect
Enhancing co-design and co-creation in Europe
Francesca Rizzo, Politecnico Milano, SiSCODE-H2020 project
Presentation of the Families Share bottom up approach, co design methodology and platform
Massimo Zancanaro, FBK, Fondazione Bruno Kessler and Manolis Falelakis, Vilabs
Q&A

Moderator: Maria Sangiuliano, Smart Venice, EIP SCC-Citizen Engagement Cluster

ONTOCHAIN TALK#3
2020-10-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
ONTOCHAIN – TALK#3
We are excited to invite you to the third ONTOCHAIN TALK.
Are you a researcher, developer, innovator, or entrepreneur related to blockchain development?
Join us to learn more about the project offering €4.2M equity-free funding and other support services.
Register now and join us Thursday at 11:00 AM (CEST) to learn more about this fantastic opportunity!
The ONTOCHAIN Team,
https://www.f6s.com/ontochaintalk3

Citizen Science SDG conference
2020-10-14 - 2020-10-15 | Berlin or virtually!
This conference is an official event of Germany’s 2020 EU Council presidency. The conference will present, evaluate and discuss the exciting contributions that citizen science makes in framing and achieving sustainable development, specifically the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The conference will bring together expertise from policy makers, institutional and citizen scientists, economists, NGOs and civil society to implement mechanisms and processes for the transition towards a more sustainable future.
The conference addresses topics around citizen science such as:

Citizen science for the UN Sustainable Development Goals, e.g. good health and well-being, quality education, life on land and below water
Policy and scientific methodology of citizen science to implement the SDGs
Scientific benefit of citizen science networks and platforms and their impact on society

All information about the event here.

ONTOCHAIN TALK#2
2020-10-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
ONTOCHAIN – TALK#2
We are excited to invite you to the second ONTOCHAIN TALK.
Are you a researcher, developer, innovator, or entrepreneur related to blockchain development?
Join us to learn more about the project offering €4.2M equity-free funding and other support services.
Register now and join us Thursday at 11:00 AM (CEST) to learn more about this fantastic opportunity!
The ONTOCHAIN Team,
https://www.f6s.com/ontochaintalk2

ONTOCHAIN TALK#1
2020-10-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Online
ONTOCHAIN – TALK#1
We are excited to invite you to the first ONTOCHAIN TALK.
Are you a researcher, developer, innovator, or entrepreneur related to blockchain development?
Join us to learn more about the project offering €4.2M equity-free funding and other support services.
Register now and join us Thursday at 11:00 AM (CEST) to learn more about this fantastic opportunity!
The ONTOCHAIN Team,
https://www.f6s.com/ontochaintalk1

TETRA 1st Build-up bootcamp
2020-09-29 - 2020-10-01 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CEST
We are happy to announce that we have opened the applications for TETRA’s 1st bootcamp!
What will you get from TETRA bootcamp?
TETRA’s “Build-up“ bootcamp was designed to help accelerate your project, idea, or startup from the “R&D stage” to the “Go-To-Market stage”. During this bootcamp, we will train your team on the fundamentals of start-ups that tackle intellectual property rights and management, business models, value proposition, the importance of the team and good leadership, and fundraising basics.
How to apply?
A maximum of 2 team members are welcomed by TETRA to participate in the bootcamp. TETRA will cover the travel and accommodation costs of the participants.
More about the bootcamp, applying conditions, list of topics and agenda can be seen here: https://business.ngi.eu/news-events/events/1st-build-up-bootcamp/
Deadline for applications is 31 August 2020!

NGI Policy Summit 2020
2020-09-28 - 2020-09-29 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CEST
We are very excited to announce the NGI Policy Summit 2020.
Bringing together a coalition of internet changemakers from 28-29 September, the Summit will lay out an ambitious European vision for the future internet and explore the policy interventions and technical solutions that can help get us there. The Summit is aimed at local, national and international policymakers but we also welcome researchers, innovators and civil society organisations who can share practical ideas for a more human-centric internet. Register your interest now to join us online.

The NGI Policy Summit is the flagship policy conference of the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative. Organised by the City of Amsterdam and Nesta, the conference aims to set out a compelling vision for the future internet; to empower policymakers across all levels of governance; and to strengthen the ecosystem of the NGI initiative. It provides a unique opportunity to focus on remedies, not just diagnosis; to explore the concrete building blocks of our shared European vision for the internet, and forge the coalition to make it happen.
Aimed at policymakers across all levels of governance (EU, National and local/city-level), this year’s event will have a particular focus on the following five themes:

Sustainability & resilience: How we can we leverage connectivity and smart technologies to build a more sustainable and resilient and ethically-sourced internet, and how we can conversely reduce the environmental footprint of the infrastructure underpinning the internet itself?
Trust & identity: How do we give citizens control over their own data and help them regain trust in online interactions? How can we best use the opportunities offered by new models of online identity and decentralisation to help us do this?
New models for the data economy: How do we respond to the extreme centralisation of power in today’s internet economy and the dominance of business models that favour the concentration and exploitation of personal data? How can we help alternative governance and ownership models, such as data commons and trusts, succeed?
Inclusion: How do we ensure the future of the internet is more inclusive, representative and human-centric? How can it help break down economic, cultural and political barriers and contribute to European integration?
Collective intelligence: How can Collective Intelligence be augmented through emerging technologies to identify problems or solutions, mobilise citizens, and solve the kinds of social challenges that individuals or technology alone cannot?

Registration
The event is free of charge. Register your interest now to join us online.

NGIatlantic.eu Proposers Webinar
2020-09-23 16:00 - 17:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CEST
From April 2020 until November 2021, NGIatlantic.eu will launch 5 Open Calls for 3rd party applicants, with a total budget of 2.8 Million Euro. The calls are open to European organisations – SMEs, large enterprise, public organisations – wishing to carry out high-quality Research & Innovation activities, with a US-based counterpart, on NGI experimental platforms.
This webinar will focus on interested applicants, providing them an excellent opportunity to present and discuss their ideas for the three NGI topics introduced in the second NGIatlantic.eu Open Call. During the 45 minutes of the webinar, we will also give some space to the EU and US experimental platforms, showcasing how these can represent the ideal playground to push transatlantic research and innovation in the NGI to the next level.
The event will serve as a unique networking opportunity for NGI enthusiasts and professionals who are looking for partners to meet and apply to NGIatlantic.eu’s open call funding opportunities.
Maximise your funding chances: Join the interactive session to shape up your NGI experiment and to network with peers to present an EU – US proposal to the open calls.

When: 23 September 2020, 4pm CEST
How: Webex platform
The workshop is free and open to all interested stakeholders. Registration is required!

Please note that in order to join the Webinar, you need to sign in with your existing credentials or you will need to register to the NGIatlantic.eu website.

TETRA WEBINAR: Pitch like there is no tomorrow
2020-09-23 10:00 - 11:30 | web-streamed
Pitch like there is no tomorrow
An interactive, hands-on webinar where you will learn how to effectively pitch your idea!
Together, we will:
– Explore what a pitch is and how to adapt it to your audience;
– Dive into three approaches that will help you upgrade your pitching skills;
– Get an overview of the pitching do’s and don’ts with the pitching guru Gleb Maltsev;
– Listen to your pitches and practice!
Let’s get real! Send us a link to your 3-minutes pitch by September 11, 2020 at noon CET and get selected to pitch your idea for feedback in front of TETRA pitching coaches and Gleb Maltsev!
Registrations
To register please click HERE
Speakers
Jan Bormans, Ph.D., MBA, has been active in the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship for more than 20 years. Jan was strategy advisor at the IMEC nanotechnology research centre (that developed one of the first open innovation business models worldwide) and valorisation manager of the Flanders DC/Vlerick Business School knowledge centre. He has been actively involved in various start-up initiatives such as start it @KBC and startups.be since 2010. Jan has also co-founded Kunigi, an interdisciplinary innovation agency. From 2019 on, Jan is the CEO of the European Startup Network. Jan’s LinkedIn profile.

Adèle studied International Trade and Investment at the Brussels Diplomatic Academy, a joint program by Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Solvay Business School. She has a 10-years experience in business development, sales, strategic partnerships and project management within private & public sectors. Adèle has acquired significant knowledge of digital innovation and is fascinated by the impact of new technologies on business activities. She is convinced that a cohesive European startup ecosystem is the key to empowerment and scaling up. Adèle’s LinkedIn profile.

Gleb listens to around 1,000 speeches a year ranging from a 60-second pitch to a 45-minute keynote. He’s trained presenters for industry-wide pitching showcases such as Slush, Latitude59, TechChill and LOGIN. He’s the co-founder of Fundwise, a founder-to-investor pitching platform with a 68% success rate and raising over 2.8 mln EUR for over a dozen projects. Every year he works with executives from almost every industry that would make the world a bit better, or at least have a shot at doing so. Around a 100 of those execs have gone on to pitch at trade fairs such as the Mobile World Congress, Smart City Expo, conhIT, boot Düsseldorf, Bygg Reis Deg, or BAU. Get an overview of the pitching do’s and don’ts with the pitching guru Gleb Maltsev.

Infoshare 2020
2020-09-23 - 2020-09-30 | web-streamed
THE BIGGEST TECH CONFERENCE IN CEE
September 23-25 and 28-30, 2020.
STREAMED FROM THE CITY OF GDAŃSK
Infoshare 2020 online is a virtual space, where you will watch speeches delivered by the best experts and take part in the new ways of networking, sitting comfortably on your couch.
NGI TETRA will be participating to help innovators who receive funding through any NGI initiative project to go to market and build a sustainable business or be able to scale up.
Services offered by TETRA include:

Introduce the project teams to investors, and facilitate matchmaking at the event (more info infoshare.pl/speed-dating);
Facilitate the participation of project teams in well-established pitching competitions (more info infoshare.pl/startup-contest).
