Next Generation Internet

HubIT webinar
2021-01-13 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Brussels) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
The Next Generation Internet: A Guide to the New Concept and its Opportunities
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) has the potential to disrupt our economy, society, and environment even more than internet technologies have changed our world over the last “emerging-Internet” years.
To develop a human-centric internet, where technology is utilized as a powerful tool to serve the core European values of equality and democracy, there must be the right priorities and framework set. NGI – European Commission initiative aims to develop the current Internet in terms of service and speed and launch an entirely new range of applications which will transform the current use of the Internet. The opportunities of such worldwide change will be uncovered during three presentations throughout the webinar.
“Introduction to the Next Generation Internet: The Internet of Humans” by Robert Miskuf (Pedal Consulting)
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) is a European Commission initiative that aims to shape the development and evolution of the Internet into an Internet of Humans. The focus is on advanced technologies including privacy and trust, search and discovery, decentralized architectures, blockchain, Internet of Things, social media, interactive technologies, as well as technologies supporting multilingualism and accessibility. To ensure durable impact NGI also provides mentoring to help bring research and innovation outcomes to the market.
In his presentation, Robert Miskuf from PEDAL Consulting (a partner of the TETRA project which acts as a business accelerator for NGI) will present the most relevant actions in this field.
“The Next Generation Internet – Re-thinking the Digital Agenda Towards the Society” by Jose Gonzalez (Australo)
Jose’s presentation will outline what are the key values of the Next Generation Internet (NGI) and what that actually means. The roadmap which shapes the human-centered Internet will be presented as the ideology that the people-centered Internet works to make sure the Internet is a positive force for good, improving the lives and well-being of people around the world. The presentation of “Digital Agenda” will underline the need for defining such a strategy, giving examples like the empowerment of women in STEM, and the significant role that mobility programmes have over the professional careers of talented researchers and entrepreneurs.
“Trusted and Reliable Content on Future Blockchains” by Mirko Lorenz (TruBlo)
The presentation will address the importance of ensuring truthful content online as the amount of fake news or misleading and false information presented as news increases each year. The main topic of the presentation spans the fight against dis- and mal-information and with regard to Next Generation Internet (NGI) – a vision of useful, trusted content for society as a whole.

CITYxCITY Festival
2021-01-13 - 2021-01-15
Connecting cities. Empowering communities.
After a decade of successfully hosting the annual OASC conference, we’re shifting gears to amplify our impact on society. Join us for the very first edition of CITYxCITY Festival and take part in a 48-hour celebration. This is an invitation. To innovate. To collaborate. And to celebrate. An invitation to build a smarter society, together. Step by step. And city by city. With like-minded spirits from around the world.
Where ideas meet, smart solutions for tomorrow’s challenges will emerge. Accelerating change to create positive impact for citizens across the globe.
We invite you to join our community of change makers. We invite you to embrace exchange.

DAPSI OPEN CALL #2 - WEBINAR #2
2021-01-11 11:00 - 12:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
DAPSI OPEN CALL #2 WEBINAR #2 | GUIDE FOR APPLICANTS
On Monday, 11th January 2021 at 11:00 am CET, we'll be answering all your burning questions about applying for the DAPSI Open Call #2, live on air.
If you’re thinking of applying, or are already half-way through your application for DAPSI Open Call #2, then this webinar is for you.
Join our team, to find out:

What is DAPSI
Which are the data portability challenges
Support services
How to apply

These and many more questions will be addressed during our webinar!
JOIN US!

Deep Dive with David Li
2020-12-22 15:30 - 16:30 | ON-LINE EVENT
Deep dive with David Li, the founder of Shenzhen Open Innovation Lab
https://www.szoil.org
As the pioneer who pays close attention to the maker activity, David Li has been committed to promoting the development of Chinese makers and the transformation of innovative products since 2010. Meanwhile, he is the important promoter of China maker activity and is honoured as “Top Maker in Asia”, and he once participates in the founding of the first maker space of China-Xin Chejian.
David has participated in open source movement since 1990, and he is the member of Free Software Foundation and the code contributor of Apache as well as the director of Object Web Open Source Geospatial Foundation. During the past 20 years, he has participated in the interactive multimedia project of Steven Spielberg, Disney World, Japanese IT enterprise project and the design of social networking application of Facebook, and he also developed the visual programming environment Ardublock for Arduino and started and worked for many open-source software projects.
With David Cuartelles from Arduino and Ramona Dremljuga from TETRA | Business Acceleration for Next Generation Internet | business.ngi.eu

Links:

“Beyond Silicon Valley. Can Asian countries develop an Alternative Innovation Narrative?”
https://www.szoil.org/ric-webinar-series/
Inside Shenzhen’s race to outdo Silicon Valley
https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/12/18/1661/inside-shenzhens-race-to-outdo-silicon-valley/
Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. Arduino boards are able to read inputs – light on a sensor, a finger on a button, or a Twitter message – and turn it into an output – activating a motor, turning on an LED, publishing something online. You can tell your board what to do by sending a set of instructions to the microcontroller on the board. To do so you use the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring), and the Arduino Software (IDE), based on Processing.
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction
TETRA project provides business support to third parties awarding NGI open calls issued by NGI-TRUST, NGI0-PET, LEDGER, NGI0-DISCOVERY and by those projects who will be funded under H2020 call ICT-24-2019.
https://ngi.eu/ngi-projects/tetra/

DAPSI OPEN CALL #2 - WEBINAR #1
2020-12-16 15:00 - 16:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
DAPSI OPEN CALL #2 WEBINAR #1 | GUIDE FOR APPLICANTS
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative is launching a new call to shape the development and evolution of the Internet into an Internet of Humans. Data Portability & Service Incubator (DAPSI) open call addresses all internet innovators developing technology solutions and services in the data portability field. The following domains are specially targeted: service portability, data compatibility & interoperability, security & privacy and other relevant topics in the data portability and services field.
This 2nd open call is based on a cascade funding instrument. Each selected project can receive grants up to €150.000, tailored technical and business resources, access to top infrastructure and much more!
Participate in a highly qualified ecosystem to develop and validate a Data Portability technology solution and/or service. During the programme, the DAPSI consortium will provide the logic and vision, the necessary technical support, as well as coaching and mentoring to the participants, where only some will progress to the Booster phase.
During this event, DAPSI’s partners will present the call and answer all your questions! We also invite one of the first DAPSI open call winners to be present in order to share his experience with you.
Agenda

Cap Digital Presentation: support for Europe, and NGI initiative
DAPSI project: global overview
Testimony of one of the 1st DAPSI open call winner
Challenges overview
Acceleration program overview
2nd call for projects overview
Questions & answers

NGI Forward and ELONTECH: Dialogues on Identity
2020-12-16 11:00 - 12:30 | ON-LINE EVENT
Drivers of the Digital Transition: data, identity and cybersecurity
In joint cooperation with ELONTECH
By assembling the building blocks we want to achieve the ‘overtone’ which is creating an NGI attitude, a way of looking at the digital transition in Europe that coherently makes the key topics – Trustworthy Information Flows, Decentralized Power on the Internet, Personal Data Control, An Inclusive Internet, Competitive European Ecosystems and Ethical Internet Technology, Safer Online Environments and Sustainable and Climate-friendly Internet – actionable for local (city), regional, national and EU policy makers, guiding for technology enablers and ‘comforting’ to a larger audience, meaning we explain the fast developments in such a way as they remain close to everyday life, especially given the economic situation in many countries due to lockdowns and the role of technology in trends in work and employment.
With Thibault VERBIEST (iour.org), Loretta ANANIA (EC), Alberto Crespo Garcia (ATOS), Petros Kavassalis (UAEGAN) and Mantalena Kaili (ELONTECH – moderator).

ONTOCHAIN Open Call Webinar
2020-12-16 11:00 - 12:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
ONTOCHAIN launched an open call for internet innovators distributing €1.14m to build the framework of a new software ecosystem for trusted, traceable, and transparent ontological knowledge management.
Join the webinar to find out:

What is ONTOCHAIN?
What are the Open Call topics/challenges?
What are the eligibility criteria?
How to apply?

All participants’ questions will be answered live on-air in the Q&A section of the webinar.
Register here: https://www.f6s.com/ontochainopencall1-webinar

Fed4FIRE+ webinar #3: GPULab
2020-12-16 10:00 - 11:00 | On-line event | TIME CET
FED4FIRE+ WEBINAR #3 | GPULAB TESTBED
GPULab is a distributed system for running jobs in GPU-enabled Docker-containers. GPULab consists out of a set of heterogeneous clusters, each with their own characteristics (GPU model, CPU speed, memory, bus speed, etc.), allowing the user to select the most appropriate hardware. Each job runs isolated within a Docker containers with dedicated CPUs, GPUs and memory for maximum performance.
This webinar will provide an overview of the GPULab resources, the different ways of experimenting with GPULab and a hands-on tutorial experiment.
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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TETRA Webinar: Open-source software licences
2020-12-16 10:00 - 11:00 | web-streamed
In this webinar session, we will learn about the different types of licenses, from the most permissive to the famous copyleft GPL. We will study them to understand their differences. Then, we will assess their impacts from different perspectives as a user, a contributor, and editor.

This webinar aims to help you develop a sound software licencing strategy (e.g. open-source, free, proprietary, mix, dual licenses), and allows you to assess their influence on your business.
Register
Please register through this link: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3166901762200490254
Speaker

Sébastien Campion – Expert Architect at PwC
Sébastien is an Expert Architect at PwC since 2019 with over 15 years of professional experience in designing, building, and implementing large scale solutions.
Prior to joining PwC, he was a Research Engineer in Cybersecurity and Machine Learning at INRIA, the French Research Institute in Computer Sciences and Applied Mathematics. He has worked on infrastructures and applications dedicated to large scale analysis.
Sébastien also has extensive knowledge and skills in open-source development and architecture.

NGI @ MyData 2020
2020-12-11 17:15 - 17:45 | On-line event | CET
FUNDING INNOVATION THROUGH THE NEXT GENERATION INTERNET (NGI) INITIATIVE
Session Host & Presenter: David Seoane
Goal: Present an overview of the available funding opportunities provided by the Next Generation Internet initiative through open calls. This initiative aim at funding the next Internet researchers and innovators to address technological opportunities around the following areas: privacy and trust, search and discovery, decentralised architectures, blockchain, Internet of Things, social media, interactive technologies, as well as technologies supporting multilingualism and accessibility.
Description: The session will provide an overview of current and future open calls provided by the initiative, that are managed through the cascade funding mechanism under the Horizon 2020 programme. This mechanism consists of an agile and simple process where the funding is distributed through ongoing NGI Research and Innovation Actions (RIAs) that provide support to projects from outstanding academic researchers, hi-tech startups and SMEs.
Funding is allocated to projects using short research cycles targeting the most promising ideas. Each of the selected projects pursue their own objectives, while the NGI RIAs provide the programme logic and vision, technical support, coaching and mentoring, to ensure that projects contribute towards a significant advancement of research and innovation in the NGI initiative.
The focus is on advanced concepts and technologies that link to relevant use cases and that can have an impact on the market and society over all. Applications and services that innovate without a research component are not covered by this model.

An EU-USA Webinar on Smart Cities & Regions for International Collaboration
2020-12-11 15:00 - 17:00 | On-line event | CET
The webinar is organised by NIST (USA) and NGI Explorers (EU) for the international smart cities and regions community. In this webinar, we are going to briefly discuss the future for Smart Cities in Europe and USA and introduce an initiative funded by NGI Explorers (EU Fellowships to the US) on how technologies like IoT, AI, Big Data and others can be used for smart city innovation. A focus part on this webinar is an introduction of innovative results in the field of Smart City KPI Methods for Measuring the impact of the technology in cities and also as a Self-Assessment method for evaluating community impact or digital inclusion. We will briefly discuss a roadmap for this innovation and finally how a smart city in Ireland (as an example) is following the methodology to advance in their Smart City development strategy.
More information related to this event can be found at the ScaleUp KPI Explorer Section at this website: http://www.oasc.ie/?page_id=507
People interested in attending can register using the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/usa-eu-webinar-on-smart-cities-regions-for-international-collaboration-tickets-131173189541
On December 11th, 2020 at 15:00 Hrs CET, please use this link to CONNECT to the webinar: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/739927781

NGI projects’ contribution to technological developments of DNS and naming systems
2020-12-10 14:00 - 16:00 | ON-LINE EVENT
This webinar will gather the projects in the NGI portfolio that contribute to the evolution of the DNS and naming systems.
The objective of the webinar is to trigger information and experience sharing, to stimulate synergies and complementarities and to understand similarities among those projects as well as others interested parties.
Agenda:
14:00 – 14:10
Introduction (EC)
14:10 – 15:15
Presentations from various projects on their developments:

Benno Overeinder (Nlnet Labs) – DNSSEC key signing suite (slides available here) and Connect by Name (slides available here)
Alexander ter Haar (Open-Xchange) – Privacy Enhancements for PowerDNS and DNSdist (slides available here)
Leif Johannsson (Sunet) – Cryptech.is/Cryptrev (slides available here)
Rick van Rein (internetwide) – Id-xover InternetWide Identity through Realm Crossover (slides available here)
Christian Grothoff (Bern University of Applied Sciences) – GNU Name System (slides available here)
Jeremy Rand (namecoin.org) – Namecoin: ZeroNet and Packaging and Core Infrastructure (slides available here)

15:15 – 16:00
Panel Q&A

NGI @ MyData 2020
2020-12-10 09:15 - 09:45 | On-line event | CET
A sustainable internet for a greener data economy
NGI FUNDING: A SUSTAINABLE INTERNET FOR A GREENER DATA ECONOMY
Presenters: Dr Giovanni Rimassa, Dr Monique Calisti
Host: Dr Monique Calisti
Goal: To present the Next Generation Internet initiative and invite newcomers to join, calling attention to the main challenges and opportunities to transform the internet of today into a more inclusive, trustworthy, democratic, resilient and sustainable one.
Description:
The Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative (ngi.eu) has been launched by the European Commission with the ambition to gather and empower the community of researchers and innovators in Europe at work to transform the Internet in a way that it responds to people’s fundamental needs, including trust, security, and inclusion, while reflecting the values and norms all citizens enjoy in Europe. The NGI has been evolving and growing right from its inception, gathering a large community of about 550 Internet researchers and innovators supported in 366 third-party projects. These projects cover a number of applications and technological building blocks that are essential to improve both the way the internet works and how it empowers people and communities.
As a matter of fact, the internet and its supporting technologies are essential to accelerate the twin digital and green transitions our society and economy need, especially to overcome the major crisis induced by the COVID19 pandemic. However, while advanced internet technologies are essential for this transition to happen rapidly and efficiently, they are also part of a major problem: the overall impact on the environment of digital technologies themselves.
Data traffic is increasing tremendously (+25% on average a year), corresponding to 55% of the annual energy consumption of the whole ICT sector. This year, due to the COVID19 pandemic and its effects on our lives, the Internet traffic, for instance, has been generally 25% to 30% higher than usual. This leads of course to an enormous growth of energy consumption, which calls technologists, policy makers, private and public organisations to adopt the proper measures to move to a more sustainable internet in the wider context of a greener data economy.
In this session, in line with the vision recently presented in the “Vision for the future internet” NGI working paper, we will discuss and present challenges, opportunities and recent initiatives that focus on the development and promotion of green digital technologies for a more sustainable internet in the context of a greener data economy.

MyData 2020
2020-12-10 - 2020-12-12 | On-line virtual event
MyData Online 2020: Radical collaboration for designing the new normal
MyData Online 2020 will gather 1000 personal data professionals and people interested in the data economy. The online conference will provide a quality programme, networking opportunities and social connections.
MyData Online 2020 held 10 -12 December, will bring together stakeholders representing Business, Legal, Tech and Social perspectives because they are all equally important for designing and accelerating the sustainable, fair and prosperous digital society, where human-centric approach to personal data is a key ingredient.

It’s organised by the MyData Global – an award-winning nonprofit.
MyData Global’s mission is to empower individuals by improving their right to self-determination regarding their personal data.

NGI Forward at IOTSWC Barcelona DIGITAL SUMMIT 2020
2020-12-03 11:00 - 12:00 | ON-LINE EVENT
Salon: Disposable Identities and Digital Twins
The world rapidly shifts from analogue to digital. Rules have now changed with self-driving connected cars that make decisions not on ‘real’ events but on data streams that can enable predictive analytics and many other forms of augmented decision. These data streams, now can act in the car without the knowledge of the driver. As data becomes as importantб or more important than territory as a means to power (defined as funding capability of future value) new rules of engagement are necessary. By analogy, this extends to the rules of intergovernmental relations. The rules have changed. As data is the new source of future value, identity becomes the main issue in the next decade.
Goods, persons, houses, situations and Industrial processes all radiate data and create digital twins. These twins exist as sets of properties in an analytic layer that is in many hands now but not really under multi stakeholder control. The situation is hybrid in the sense that the digital twins actually begin to actuate back in the analogue objects. This is the moment of ontological change.
With Petros Kavassalis (UAEGAN), Rob Tiffany (Ericsson), Gael Blondelle (Eclipse Foundation) and Michele Nati (IOTA).
Moderator: Rob van Kranenburg

Fed4FIRE+ webinar #2: w-iLab.t
2020-12-03 10:00 - 11:00 | On-line event | TIME CET
FED4FIRE+ WEBINAR #2 | WIRELESS TESTBED W-ILAB.T
The w-iLab.t testbed enables all kinds of wireless, IoT, and 5G research. It provides more than 200 nodes in various environments (industrial environment, office, datacenter) with up to data WIFI hardware, user-defined radios, mobile nodes and IoT devices. The experimenter has full control over all of them.
This webinar will provide an overview of the w-iLab.t resources such as wireless fixed and mobile nodes, IoT, officelab and portable testbed and a hands-on tutorial on using the testbed.
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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DIGITAL SUMMIT 2020
2020-12-02 - 2020-12-03
Join us for an exciting new virtual event, where you will learn about the evolution of digital twins, AI and their applicability to multiple sectors including manufacturing, construction, transportation, smart buildings, healthcare, energy and military.

WEB SUMMIT 2020
2020-12-02 - 2020-12-04 | On-line virtual event
WEB SUMMIT: “The world’s largest technology conference”
Join us at the European Commission booth at the Web Summit! More details to be announced soon.

Web Summit brings together the people and companies redefining the global tech industry.
Join us for one incredible online event this December.

eSSIF-Lab’s Infrastructure - oriented Open Call webinar
2020-11-27 13:00 - 14:00 | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
Find out all about the eSSIF-Lab’s Infrastructure – oriented Open Call
Do you have questions about the Open Call? Want tips for crafting an effective proposal? Join our live webinar on the eSSIF-Lab’s current Infrastructure – oriented Open Call.
When
On Friday, 27th of November at 13:00 pm CET, project coordinators will be answering all your questions about the application process, the programme, framework and the value of the eSSIF-Lab’s Infrastructure – oriented Open Call.
Where
Online, register here!
eSSIF-Lab’s Infrastructure-Oriented Open Call
This call targets open-source Self-Sovereign Identity components for eSSIF-Lab Framework which fall within the SSI concept (i.e. technologies which allow individuals to control their electronic identities and guard their privacy).
Next deadline to apply for the Infrastructure-oriented Open Call: 4th of January 2021.
There is up to €155K funding for innovators to develop technical enhancements and extensions of eSSIF-Lab’s Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) Framework.
Apply here for the Infrastructure-oriented Open Call!
The webinar is free and open to all interested stakeholders.

REGISTER HERE!

eSSIF-Lab is an EU-funded project and aims at advancing the broad uptake of Self-Sovereign Identities (SSI) as a next-generation, open and trusted digital identity solution for faster and safer electronic transactions via the Internet and in real life.

TOKEN National Event
2020-11-26 10:00 - 12:00 | On-line virtual event
Connecting Europe through blockchain and self sovereign identity: A discussion on its benefit for public services
Blockchain technology has enormous potential to enhance the way that citizens, governments and businesses interact, by enhancing trust between entities and improving the efficiency of operations. This, coupled with the developments in Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) in the world of digital identity, creates the potential for a more trustworthy, secure and fair digital identity future for Europe.
The Internet has been described as “the decisive technology of the information age”, and blockchain is now reinventing it. The domain of blockchain applications seems to be limitless, from payments to safe data sharing of Internet of Things, or healthcare data. An identity management model powered by blockchain could pioneer this change. This new model would reimagine the relationship between state and individual, as the government would become the verifier, rather than the controller of people’s public service identity.
On 26th of November, an event “Connecting Europe through blockchain and self-sovereign identity: A discussion on its benefit for public services” will be organised and held on behalf of the TOKEN project, accompanied by a rock-solid panel of highly specialized experts with demonstrable professional experience in the fields of blockchain and digital identity.
About the speakers:

Rieks Joosten – Senior Scientist at TNO (business information processes and information security).
Kai Wagner – Member of the Board of Directors at International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications; Partnership Development at Jolocom
Carlos Pastor Matut – Digital Identity Leader at Alastria, Convenor ESSIF at European Blockchain Partnership
Andrés Sánchez– Programme and project manager at TOKEN project, Director of FundingBox Communities
Jorge Fernandez – CTO at FundingBox, Co-founder of BotCar (Internet of Things Platform for smarter driving)
Daniel Du Seuil – convenor of the European Self Sovereign Identity Framework within the European Blockchain Partnership

Event agenda:

Welcome note by Andrés Sánchez
TOKEN Project and its technology by Jorge Fernandez
Keynote speech: “ESSIF and Self sovereign identity in Europe” by Daniel Du Seuil
Round table: How Self sovereign Identity will change society
The round table will be chaired by the following experts:

Rieks Joosten
Kai Wagner
Carlos Pastor Matut
Andrés Sánchez
Jorge Fernandez
Daniel Du Seuil

Q&A

TETRA webinar: IP protection in software development
2020-11-25 10:00 - 11:00 | web-streamed
IP protection in software development

Current innovation relies increasingly upon digital technology, and software development lies at the heart of it, whether in pure form as seen with blockchain and AI applications, or paired with physical devices like IoT sensors, medical devices, drones, robots and more.
This webinar presents and explains Intellectual Property (IP) rights with relevance to software innovation, in particular:

copyright; as it relates to code and other aspects of a software product
patents; which may be sought for technical effects brought about by new software algorithms and solutions
registered designs; to protect new and commercially-relevant visual aspects of user interfaces, and
trade secrets; that can attach to data sets, coding techniques and other proprietary aspects of software development.

Registrations
For registering please click HERE.

Speakers

Stéphane Ambrosini, Senior Associate and European Patent Attorney at Marks & Clerk (Luxembourg) LLP
Stéphane is an Irish, British and European patent attorney, an Irish and European trade mark and design attorney, and a Luxembourgish Conseil en Propriété Industrielle.
His specialist practice areas are patents for computer implemented inventions, including card and other electronic payment systems, database architectures, digital image processing software, motion capture and animation software, data flow management and security, cryptology and user interfaces; and design rights.
Stéphane particularly enjoys working with digital start-ups and SMEs in need of identifying, structuring and capturing their IP, both for securing investments and strengthening their growth. As a Senior Associate, he continues to work with a wide variety of traditional and cutting-edge technologies, digital devices, wireless and mobile telecommunications systems, digital control systems, medical devices, alternative energy power generation systems and power tools.
With over 20 years’ experience working in IP, Stéphane has also enjoyed opportunities to develop skills in trade mark practice involving advice and filing; patent licensing; and enforcement of patent, trademark and design rights both in a pre-action context and at Court.

H-CLOUD SUMMIT 2020
2020-11-25 - 2020-11-26 | On-line virtual event
1ST HORIZON CLOUD SUMMIT 2020
Cloud technologies are key enablers to unleash the potential of the European data economy and ensure its industrial competitiveness, providing secure data storage and sharing, as well as empowering applications and solutions ranging from artificial intelligence to simulation, modelling, digital twins and high performance computing.
In Europe and globally, several initiatives and many private and public organisations are at work to ensure that secure, environmentally sustainable, interoperable and scalable Cloud Computing technologies and solutions can effectively transform our economies and society.
To grow its impact and effectively shape Europe’s digital future, the European Cloud Computing community needs to overcome fragmentation of efforts, ensure proper know-how and tech transfer from research to industry, create the most favourable policy and regulations conditions and raise investments, both on the private and public sides.
The Horizon Cloud Summit aims to gather all European Cloud Computing stakeholders, from both the demand and supply side to shape together the new strategy for Cloud Computing in Europe. During 2020 EC released a number of key documents defining an high level vision for the future of Cloud computing in Europe, it is now the time to define how concretely this vision will be implemented by work programmes in the next 7 years.

Think NEXUS #Webinar
2020-11-24 17:00 - 19:00 | web-streamed
Think NEXUS #Webinar: Emerging AI technology and its social and ethical implications
Think NEXUS is organising a webinar titled ‘Emerging AI technology and its social and ethical implications’, which will be held on November 24th at 18h EET (17h CET).
The webinar is free of charge.
Join us here. More info is avalaible here.
Webinar details
AI makes possible many new products and services that drive economic growth and technological innovation, worldwide, and is the key to military technology. Therefore, “AI systems” seen as automated decision systems raise countless socio-political questions, for example: who possesses the knowledge needed to take decisions? Who determines who possesses that knowledge? And to what extend AI enables influencing on public and political debate, for example through political micro-targeting and the dissemination of disinformation? Besides privacy and security, specific social and ethical issues that can be affected by AI include responsibility and predictability of algorithms, avoidance of discrimination, social exclusion, and stigmatisation, ‘winner-takes-all’ market dynamics, de-skilling, de-socialisation, and unemployment, among others.
There have been many initiatives within science, business, and government to look at AI from a social and ethical perspective. According to the European AI Strategy, ‘human-centric’ AI should, firstly, respect fundamental rights, applicable regulations and core principles and values, ensuring an “ethical purpose”. And, secondly, the technology must be robust and trustworthy. However, the semantics behind AI are not shared between both sides of the Atlantic despite the common challenge to responsibly develop and use AI technology – maximizing its benefits while minimizing risks and protecting human rights. It’s now time for shared rules and legislation.

NGI Talks Roundtable
2020-11-24 13:00 - 14:00 | ON-LINE EVENT
The Next Generation Internet: The Internet of Humans
The Next Generation Internet initiative is designed to create an internet of humans that responds to our fundamental needs, including trust, security and inclusion.
With the explosion of the Internet of Things, multimedia content and social media, the Internet offers unprecedented access to data and online services. Artificial intelligence helps to extract meaning from this data and to embed autonomy and intelligence into networks, connected objects and services. This promises to revolutionise healthcare, public services, transport, finance – to name just a few Sectors.
Yet, as technological advances upgrade what the Internet can do, there is no matching increase in the trust people place on the Internet. On the contrary, such trust, which is one of the pillars of technology acceptance, has eroded in recent years.
Join the NGI Talk, this time chaired by quite a few internet experts who will be discussing how redesigning the Internet and interconnection ecosystems can help the society.
Register here!

About the speakers:

Antonio Grasso
Founder & CEO @ dbi.srl, Digital entrepreneur with a passion for knowledge translation, B2B Tech Influencer, Author & Speaker, Startups Mentor
Antonio Santos
Co-Founder of DT Lab, CxO Adviser on digital transformation, future of work, diversity and inclusion focused on sustainability
Mirko Ross
CEO of asvin.io, Cybersecurity Researcher, Speaker, DLT / Blockchain, Member of ENISA IoT, Security Expert Group
Kai Michael Hermsen
Global Coordinator for the Charter of Trust; Member of the Siemens Cybersecurity Board
Pierre Pinna
Founder CEO IPFConline Digital Innovations

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 | 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 | 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.
