TETRA webinar: Finding customers and getting your go-to market strategy of the ground
2021-10-21 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Brussels) | WEB-STREAMED | TIME CET
When: 21 October 2021 | 3:00 PM (CEST)
Where: Online
Powered by TETRA & NGI Atlantic.eu
The session kicks off with discussion about the importance of thinking about go-to market strategy early on in technology/product/service development cycle. During the session we will discuss how to identify your possible early adopters, make collaborations with industry partners and how to come up with ways of getting more insights from them.
In the second part of the session, we will focus on the specifics of crafting a proposition and the importance of building a communication strategy to create awareness. The session will end with practical exercise suggestions to allow the audience to follow through on the recently acquired knowledge.
Agenda

What is product-market fit and when to start thinking about it?
Introduction to design thinking methodology and the importance of speaking to the market.
Finding your targets and getting insights.
Crafting value propositions and communication strategy.
Taking first steps in validation

Speaker
Slavo TULEYA is a “Generation Y” expert on Corporate Innovation and Intrapreneurship. In the past, he gained experience by helping launch Innovation labs such as the SKODA AUTO DigiLab and its related offices in Tel Aviv and Beijing. Slavo lived in 7 countries in the last 7 years and accumulated his experience from Real-Estate, Utilities, and Automotive. He is a Certified Design Sprint Master and founder of the Czechoslovak Service Design Community. Today he continues building new ventures in the field of Digital Native Vertical Brands and Service Design. Companies usually get in touch with Slavo for advice on how to set up internal innovation labs, methodologies, and keynotes on Intrapreneurship.
APPLY HERE!

NGI @ Digital Around the World 2021
2021-10-20 23:00 - 2021-10-21 00:00
Next Generation Internet
This session will explore results of the Next Generation Internet Initiative (NGI), an initiative spearheaded by the European Commission in order to shape the development and evolution of the Internet into an “Internet of Humans”. NGI has the goal to develop an Internet that responds to people’s fundamental needs, including trust, security, and inclusion, while reflecting the values and the norms all citizens enjoy in Europe. Of course, the work being carried out in NGI is global and the session today in Digital Around The World will have a particular focus on the support of the NGIatlantic.eu project to EU – US projects to experiment with NGI results with key stakeholders from Europe and the United States of America. The following projects will be presented during the session: Opportunities from NGIatlantic.eu, Responsibility to protect population through peer governance and trusted community (P2PR2P), CloudBank EU NGI, and Integrating OpenIreland and NSF COSMOS testbeds for delivering a cross-Atlantic Open Networking Solution.

Fed4FIRE+ @ Digital Around the World 2021
2021-10-20 22:00 - 23:00
International Collaboration for Research Infrastructure
The session will discuss the research roadmap on Internet of Things, edge computing and Cloud. It will more specifically discuss and explore the options to strengthen international cooperation on the Internet of Things and networking technologies research domains, including through international research infrastructure perspective.
We will present different initiatives to analyze what is the room for international cooperation, what is needed and what are the challenges to overcome in the present and the future.

2021 BALKAN LAW & TECH SUMMIT
2021-10-20 15:00 - 15:30
Following the first Balkan Law and Tech Summit 2019 on the 4th Industrial Revolution in the Region, organized by the European Law Observatory on New Technologies in Thessaloniki, Greece , we are looking forward to welcoming you to the 2021 virtual edition.
Co-organized by the European Law Observatory on New Technologies-ELONTech and the Internet of Things-IoT Council, this year’s agenda will cover topics such as: the digitalization of Justice, AI and connectivity, the digital rights and innovation infrastructure strategy in Balkans, the 5G war.
SAVE YOUR PLACE BY REGISTERING TODAY.
The Summit will be virtual, in english and free. The Sessions and Agenda with guest Speakers, soon to be announced.

BALKAN SUMMIT ON LAW AND TECH 2021: INNOVATION & DEMOCRACY
The digitalization of Justice and the indicators of the political and societal progress in the Region.
“We need more Europe”.
But where? In the popular big cities or the southeastern towns? The EU digital revolution ship has sailed with the Balkans left behind in the quay. Who is introducing the 4th Industrial Revolution to the Western Balkans, then?
As the world is shifting towards political systems that are techno-political (the term to use is Cyber-physical Systems), it reverts back to the bipolar order of the Cold War, not in terms of ideology but in terms of data strategies. On the one hand the data hegemony of the large US companies, on the other hand the Chinese integration of infrastructure, services, applications with administrative management. The battlefield is the Balkans. In some countries we see the upper hand of GAFA and in others we see the influence of China.
In this virtual Summit we ask the question: Where is Europe? And what would the real purpose and direction be for the newest EU members? EU is still the regulatory powerhouse of the world, but for how long if it is not coupled with infrastructural power and a real sense of mission?
We explore the level of digitalization of justice in the SE Europe and we try to measure the active influence of Europe Digital Market to Balkans. In this seminar we want to map the current situation and raise the awareness of what geopolotical strategies are operating in what many consider to the Europe’s backyard, in reality it’s centre.

TETRA Webinar: Visibility and Growth Hacking
2021-10-08 11:00 - 12:00
When: 08 October 2021 | 11:00 AM (CET)
Where: Online
This webinar is powered by NGI TETRA and NGI DAPSI.
The aim of this session is to discuss the importance of having a communication and visibility early on in a startup’s life. In the world where digital marketing costs are increasing and usable attention span on users is declining, it is very important to focus on activities which “hack” the acquisition of users. During the session we will discuss the importance of looking at users through the eyes of acquisition funnels and experiment-based marketing. The session will end with practical exercise suggestions to allow the audience to follow through on the recently acquired knowledge.
Agenda

Why is visibility important to startups?
What is Growth Hacking
Introduction to conversion funnels
How to create marketing experiments
Where to take growth having next?

Speaker
Slavo TULEYA is a “Generation Y” expert on Corporate Innovation and Intrapreneurship. In the past, he gained experience by helping launch Innovation labs such as the SKODA AUTO DigiLab and its related offices in Tel Aviv and Beijing. Slavo lived in 7 countries in the last 7 years and accumulated his experience from Real-Estate, Utilities, and Automotive. He is a Certified Design Sprint Master and founder of the Czechoslovak Service Design Community. Today he continues building new ventures in the field of Digital Native Vertical Brands and Service Design. Companies usually get in touch with Slavo for advice on how to set up internal innovation labs, methodologies, and keynotes on Intrapreneurship.
Registration
Please register HERE!

NGI_TRUST Webinar Results #9
2021-10-08 10:00 - 12:00
From February 2019 to May 2020, the NGI_Trust project ran three Open Calls to fund the development of a human-centric Internet through privacy and trust enhancing technologies. These calls attracted a significant number of applications and NGI_Trust was able to fund 57 projects focused on relevant innovations. Now that all of the funding has been allocated, it is time to focus in on the funded projects and showcase their ideas and developments. NGI_Trust has started a series of webinars to do just this – and also to help build a community of innovators among the projects through shared ideas and principles.
NGI_Trust will be continuing webinars with our projects during 2021. You can also find out more about the projects via the NGI_Trust twitter account and through the NGI blogposts.
More info on the NGI_Trust website.

TETRA Webinar: Smart use of IP in the Next Generation Internet
2021-10-05 10:00 - 12:30
When: 5 October 2021 | 10:00-12:30 (CET)
Where: Online
Organised in cooperation with NGI POINTER, NGI TETRA and NGI ZERO, the event aims at bringing the open source intellectual property experts in the Next Generation Internet community (and any interested parties!) together, and discuss relevant issues around open source software (OSS) and open hardware IP management, including defensive publications, basic licensing, legal infrastructure and much more.
Agenda
10:00 Opening
10:00-10:15: Short presentations from the event partners

Mirko Presser, NGI Pointer
Onur Emul, NGI Tetra
Joost Agterhoek, NGI Zero

10:15-10:40: Introduction to IP and a case study on the use of trademarks with open source technology

Onur Emul, NGI Tetra
Case study (tbc)

10:40-10:55: Defensive Publications

Armijn Hemel, Tjaldur Software Governance

10:55-11:35: Basics of Open-Source Software Licensing

Gabriel Ku Wei Bin, Free Software Foundation Europe

11:35-11:45: Open hardware IP management

Keith Bergelt, Open Invention Network

11:45-12:00: Legal infrastructure for open source projects

Michiel Leenaars, Commons Conservancy

12:00-12:30: Q&A
Registration
No registration is required. You can access the webinar with this LINK!

NGI Assure - Open call webinar
2021-09-23 13:00 - 14:00
NGI ASSURE’s fifth open call for proposals of Technical R&D projects is live! We will host a webinar where you will get to know how to receive funds for your idea and contribute to the development of an open, trustworthy and reliable internet for all.
Innovators willing to receive funding, as well as, technical and business support are very welcome to attend this webinar. Guidance on how to submit your application will be provided.
The project is part of Next Generation Internet (NGI), the “internet for humans” initiative from the European Commission and aims to transform the Internet of tomorrow into an Internet of humans that responds to people’s fundamental needs.
Join us in the webinar and get to know everything about the requirements and expectations for getting NGI funding. Register now!

NGI_TRUST Webinar Results #8
2021-09-10 10:00 - 12:00

NGI_TRUST Webinar Results #7
2021-06-11 10:30 - 12:00

The Web after the Platforms
2021-06-02
The Web after the Platforms DAPSI FINAL EVENT
What is at stake with Interoperability?
Standards have been defined to build a different web, to give back control of data usage to actors, to maintain control of industrial data and to allow for fair competition conditions. However, these opportunities are not well known by the entrepreneurs who are likely to seize them, support them and leverage their potential, neither by the public actors likely to encourage them, nor, more widely, by citizens.
This event proposes to discuss the implications of these changes based on the input from various use cases.
How do businesses boost or strengthen their market access? How can these standards be used as a weapon of European digital fairness? What changes can be made to the rules for managing personal data? What kind of legal frameworks should be built? How can we educate citizens and actors to manage their data? Finally, how will these transformations affect the organization of businesses and institutions?
We will explore all these issues by mobilising European experts and stakeholders of these topics. We will also shed light on the seven winning projects of the European challenge DAPSI (Data Portability & Services Incubator – dapsi.ngi.eu) proposed by the European initiative NGI (Next Generation Internet – funded by the European Union in the framework of the H2020 programme).
The conference is a 100% digital event. It is addressed to all European stakeholders in digital innovation (large companies, public actors, academics, innovative start-ups & SMEs, representatives of associations and civil society and journalists, etc.). It will be held in English and French. Simultaneous translation will be available.
This event is the kick-off of a cycle of four digital webinars that will focus on different sectoral use
cases, to be organized in 2021.
AGENDA
Morning (09:45-12:00): Interoperability as a means for rebuilding the web, with Gilles Babinet (co-Chairman at French Digital National Council and Digital Champion at the European Commission), Jean-François Abramatic (ex Inria, ex W3C), Alain Assouline (CINOV – Numerique), Antoine Garnier (IDSA).
Afternoon (13:30-16:45): DAPSI FINAL EVENT – Presentation of the 7 winning DAPSI projects, roundtables with the DAPSI project leaders. The first roundtable will focus on the issues of uses, user experience & adoption, the second one on technology transfer and scaling up issues.
Focus on the 7 innovations for data portability from the DAPSI program

Alias Identity: ALIAS enables the next generation of applications to happen, by automating GDPR portability for applications developers.
Own your Data – Digital Immunization Passport (DIP): The main focus of this project is on Data Interoperability & Compatibility through establishing interfaces between health industry and individuals as well as pushing forward on standardized interfaces for PDSs.
Audria – OpenXport: The OpenXPort project will start by providing two main results. First, a best practice document which supports developers and policymakers to address and shape the future of data portability will be created. Second, an Open Source framework for the portability of core PIM data types will be defined. Given the ubiquity and key role of PIM data and prior work in this field, such an open framework has a huge potential for bringing data portability into widespread practice and also to serve as a blueprint for data portability in other domains.
Dpella: a tool that perturbs data analyses’ results with carefully calibrated randomized noise to protect the privacy of individuals with mathematical guarantees, while providing information about the accuracy of the results. This project explores the possibilities for this technology to enable governments and companies to produce open, secure, and public data analyses from private datasets.
Gridpocket – Oratorio: The ORATORIO project consists also in the development of a platform that will store different types of energy data of consumers and prosumers (consumption/production and IoT data in this prototype): consumption data, energy profiles, analytics of use, data of IoT devices, electric vehicule data.
Digita BV: software and services that allow organizations to easily connect to Solid-based personal data sets.
IMEC – Prov4ITDATA: This project offers an improved solution that is fully transparent and has fine-grained configuration to improve interoperability with other data models by exploiting and advancing the existing open-source tools RML.io and Comunica and showing its extensibility by directly applying it to the Solid ecosystem.

Registration
Please register by clicking here.

NGI_TRUST Webinar Results #6
2021-05-19 10:30 - 12:00

NGI Forward Salon Foundationals: Blockchain Ecologies
2021-04-28 11:00 - 12:30
NGI Forward Salon Foundationals: Blockchain Ecologies with Primavera De Filippi
Primavera De Filippi will address self-sovereign identity, the challenges it faces in order to guarantee both unicity (no more than one user per identifier) and singularity (no more than one identifier per user), the way in which these challenges have been addressed by Kiva and WFP through the use of biometrics, and then open up to alternative mechanisms, such as for instance the recently launched Proof-of-Humanity initiative, using web-of-trust and decentralized verification systems to ensure singularity of identities.
www.proofofhumanity.id
“Self-sovereign identity is a relatively new area of research, which is only now starting to materialize into real-world applications of new digital identity management systems. This is particularly valuable for applications that have the ability to scale and greatly improve financial and social inclusion of vulnerable populations (Blakstad and Allen, 2018). Yet, it is important to keep in mind that while there are emerging best practice standards and primitives for self-sovereign identity (McMullen et al., 2019), there is no generic identity protocol that solves all use cases. As demonstrated by the Kiva and WFP case studies, identity is inherently use case dependent. Interoperability and standardization will be important for scale, but the success of a particular identity application will depend on how its deployment is tailored to the use cases and local conditions. A successful identity management system will therefore need to be sufficiently flexible to adapt to the inherently malleable nature of human identity.”
Source: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2019.00028/full
Front. Blockchain, 23 January 2020 | doi.org/10.3389/fbloc.2019.00028
Self-Sovereign Identity in a Globalized World: Credentials-Based Identity Systems as a Driver for Economic Inclusion. By Fennie Wang1 and Primavera De Filippi.
“Ultimately, therefore, the technological guarantees of blockchain technology (in terms of, e.g. transparency, immutability, non-repudiability, etc.) may reduce the need for third-party’s scrutiny and oversight over these institutions. By enhancing the perceived confidence in the operations of both public and private institutions, blockchain technology can reduce the level of risk or vulnerability that is generally associated with trust.1 As such, the technology could indirectly contribute to increasing the level of trust that people may be willing to confer in these institutions, because of the higher degree of predictability associated with their actions. Indeed, thanks to blockchain technology, people would no longer need to trust these institutions in toto, but only to the extent necessary for them to carry on these specific operations that cannot be codified into the formal and deterministic language of a blockchain-based system.”
Source:
www.sciencespo.fr/public/chaire-numerique/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Blockchain-Technology-as-an-Instrument-for-Global-Governance-P.-De-Filippi-1.pdf
Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code
https://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-Law-Rule-Primavera-Filippi/dp/0674976428
Moderation by Mantalena Kaili (ELONTECH) and Rob van Kranenburg (NGI Forward WP 4 Thinktank)
First respondents are Loretta Anania (EC) and Gaëlle Le Gars (NGI Forward WP 4 Thinktank)
The Salons reflect the views of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission but form part of the project’s overarching recommendations for the NGI and future European internet policy.

NGI_TRUST Webinar Results #5
2021-04-23 10:30 - 12:00

NGI Forward Salon Internet of Things
2021-04-14 11:00 - 12:30
NGI FORWARD SALON INTERNET OF THINGS WITH ALICIA ASIN
The promise of the IoT market has been growing for the last 15 years, with many market analysts predicting that we would reach 50 billion devices by the magic year 2020. Now the reality is a little more conservative (we’re about 41 billion devices short of the forecast). Has IoT failed to live up to its promise? No, but the industry is evolving in a radically different direction to the one predicted a decade and a half ago.
So what are the main barriers to IoT adoption that are preventing the industry realising the hype of the mid-2000s, and how should the industry adapt to them? Libelium’s CEO, Alicia Asín, explains concepts such as the hyper fragmentation of the market, the relevance of the hardware, the management of the obsolescence, the security versus the privacy and what to expect from the IoT market after Covid.
First respondent: Gérald Santucci,
Member of Global Forum’s International Scientific Committee chez Items International
https://www.linkedin.com/in/geraldsantucci/

TETRA Webinar: Equity financing for your venture
2021-03-31 10:00 - 11:00
TETRA Webinar: Equity financing for your venture
Are you planning the growth of your company and you need external financing? Be prepared in advance for what the entry of an investor into your company brings. In this webinar session, we will deep dive into different types of funding sources for your project with a more detailed overview about equity financing. How to prepare for fundraising, how to choose the best financing structure and what is its impact to your business model. We will also focus on the shareholder agreement (SHA) or investment agreement and their essential clauses and parts, such as valuation, special rights, founders vesting or liquidation preference.
Register HERE
Speakers
Ivan FILUS is senior consultant in BIC Bratislava, EU project manager, innovation advisor, financial and administrative coordinator of Enterprise Europe Network in Slovakia, Horizon 2020 National Contact Point for Innovation in SMEs and Access to Risk Finance and the key account manager for all successful EIC Accelerator beneficiaries in Slovakia. He is active in the EU RTD Framework Programmes for research and innovation, project management, financial management, technology transfer, research and innovation policies and strategies, innovation management, SMEs development, business modelling, business planning, financing, regional development, pre-commercial procurement.

Andrej PETRUS is investment Manager @ ZAKA – venture capital family office investing primarily in the pre-seed and seed stage (50-500k EUR) in CEE region. Agile generalist with experiences in venture building for CEAi and M&A and Strategy consultancy for PwC in Prague. Assisting the Board of Directors of SLOVCA (Slovak Venture Capital and Private Equity Association) as Project Manager. Lived in Berlin, Bratislava and Rome, currently based in Prague.

NGI Forward Salon Foundationals: On Explainability
2021-03-29 11:00 - 12:30
NGI Forward Salon Foundationals: On Explainability with Beatrice Fazi
29 March 2021; 11.00am CET
In this talk, M. Beatrice Fazi will present and discuss her latest philosophical work on the issue of explainability in AI. The talk will be based on her published article:
Fazi, M. Beatrice (2020) ‘Beyond Human: Deep Learning, Explainability and Representation’, Theory, Culture & Society. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276420966386
Register here: https://app.livestorm.co/made-group/salon-foundationals-on-explainability-with-beatrice-fazi
Article’s abstract
This article addresses computational procedures that are no longer constrained by human modes of representation and considers how these procedures could be philosophically understood in terms of ‘algorithmic thought’. Research in deep learning is its case study. This artificial intelligence (AI) technique operates in computational ways that are often opaque. Such a black-box character demands rethinking the abstractive operations of deep learning. The article does so by entering debates about explainability in AI and assessing how technoscience and technoculture tackle the possibility to ‘re-present’ the algorithmic procedures of feature extraction and feature learning to the human mind. The article thus mobilises the notion of incommensurability (originally developed in the philosophy of science) to address explainability as a communicational and representational issue, which challenges phenomenological and existential modes of comparison between human and algorithmic ‘thinking’ operations.
Speaker’s bio
Dr M. Beatrice Fazi is Lecturer in Digital Humanities in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the ontologies and epistemologies produced by contemporary technoscience, particularly in relation to issues in artificial intelligence and computation and to their impact on culture and society. Dr Fazi has published extensively on the limits and potentialities of the computational method, on digital aesthetics and on the automation of thought. Her monograph Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics was published by Rowman & Littlefield International in 2018.
This presentation will be followed by a roundtable discussion on the epistemologies of AI, with Loretta Anania, M. Beatrice Fazi, Gaëlle Le Gars and Rob van Kranenburg.

M. Beatrice Fazi @m_b_fazi
https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p378975-beatrice-fazi
Loretta Anania @LorettaAnania
Scientific officer at DG Connect, Next Generation Internet
Gaelle Le Gars
Independent Policy Analyst Specialising on intersecting Digital and Urban Policy
Rob van Kranenburg
Founder of #IoT Council @robvank

Register here: https://app.livestorm.co/made-group/salon-foundationals-on-explainability-with-beatrice-fazi
The event will be web-streamed on the site of our partner ELONTECH, the MADE group.
The Salons reflect the views of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission but form part of the project’s overarching recommendations for the NGI and future European internet policy.

NGI_TRUST Webinar Results #4
2021-03-26 10:30 - 12:00

SwForum workshop
2021-03-23 16:00 - 17:30
First SwForum workshop on trustworthy software and open source
Nowadays, the increasing importance of software for businesses, industry and the life of common citizens makes the notion of trustworthiness a crucial one. A trustworthy software is one for which some important properties such as correctness, compliance, reliability, availability, performance, safety, security, maintainability, privacy of data, energy efficiency, sustainability, and certified interaction with humans are ensured.
In this context, several problems require attention from the research and the practitioner’s community. Among the others, this workshop is focusing on the following ones:
Characteristics of trustworthy software. Examples of attributes that make software trustworthy are security, compatibility, quality, correctness, dependability. Is there any other? What are the minimal characteristics of a trustworthy piece of software? The acceptable level of trustworthiness for a piece of software depends on the specific application domain the software is developed for. Is it possible to define a taxonomy?
Developing trustworthy software. Which methodologies, methods and tools are currently available to develop trustworthy software? Which are the most critical trustworthiness characteristics to be considered during development? How a developer or a final user can verify if and to which extent it is possible to trust on the used software? Which are the steps to be accomplished in this case? Could these tasks be automated?
The role of open source in the development of trustworthy software. At a first glance, open source may be seen as a development practice that is against the idea of trustworthiness: the first question we may ask, in fact, is: how could I trust that an obscure developer is developing software I can trust? The situation is not as simple as it can appear. Open-source development today is not conducted by obscure individuals, but, often, it is supported by multiple enterprises sharing the same interest and/or by well-known and highly rewarded groups of independent developers. In many cases, open-source software could be even seen as more trustworthy than closed source one as only the first one can be inspected and analysed by third parties in a completely open and transparent manner. So, the questions we would like to discuss concern: 1) what are the criteria to consider an open-source software trustworthy? 2) What drives the industry to use and rely (or not) on open-source software? 3) How can an H2020 project develop an effective and impactful open-source software, considering its typical timeframe and scope?

NGI Pointer 2nd Open Call webinars
2021-03-16 15:00 - 16:00, 2021-03-16 09:00 - 10:00
NGI Pointer’s second open call deadline is approaching! Have you submited your application yet? Do you have any doubts? Ask them in the next webinar!
In March we will host two informative webinars where you get to know how to become an NGI architect, how to receive funds for your idea and help to build the Next Generation of Internet. In the first Open Call, we have funded 24 projects with up to €200.000 along with business and technical support during a 12-month Support Programme. In this second and last Open Call, we are looking for new amazing ideas.
The project is part of Next Generation Internet (NGI), the “internet for humans” initiative from the European Commission and aims to transform the Internet of tomorrow into an Internet of humans that responds to people’s fundamental needs.
Join us in the webinars and get to know everything about the requirements and expectations for getting NGI funding.
Agenda:

Welcome
What is the Next Generation of Internet (NGI)?
What is the NGI Pointer project?
How to apply for funding?
Q&A

FILL OUT THIS FORM & JOIN THE WEBINAR!
Dates & Time (We are giving you two options on the same day!):

SESSION 1 (16/03/21 at 09:00):
https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/69286606647
SESSION 2 (16/03/21 at 15:00):
https://aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/65128997115

NGI Forward Salon Foundationals: On Participation
2021-03-10 11:00 - 12:00
NGI Forward Salon Foundationals: On Participation with Federico Bonelli
This talk has 3 parts, the first should be exposed in 15 minutes the second 20 and the third needs another 15. Don’t take notes, I will distribute mines and the slides at the end.
I will try to stop and mark the end of a part, taking in your contributions on the chat.
The occasion for this talk has been given to me by a paper co-authored with Sabrina Sauer titled “Collective improvisation as a means to responsibly govern serendipity in social innovation processes” published in the Journal of Responsible Innovation in 2020.
Is an open-access paper and you can find it from www.trasformatorio.net website and from the link included in this talk presentation.
Introduction to the Lab
Trasformatorio is a laboratory, artistic in scope, where I have experimented ways to create site-specific arts. Is named Trasformatorio because we believed that the scope of genuine art is to engage transformation. The scope was to create a laboratory for enacting transformations. A Laboratory from latin Laboratorium, a place/space/time to work in. Work is a term that has many meanings in our tradition, not only the synonymous of labour. There is the work you do on yourself, the work you do for others, the work of the actor to possess their character’s actions upon the textual matter of the play. Work is what you do with presence, intent and quality. And these three concepts, among others, are what the artist is busy with most of the time.
I worked with technology, most of the time hacking together from pieces that were intended for something else, rarely doing twice the same operation. I studied many things for many different reasons, rarely the canonical ones. When I was exposed to the current methodologies for innovation and design I felt that a big occasion was missing. That there was a coherent corpus of reality bending techniques I had become aware in the field of arts that were watched over by the hype cycle prone industry of innovation. I began using them and cross pollinating. I am still doing it in many ways.

TETRA/ NGI TRUST Webinar: IP Basics Research
2021-03-03 10:30 - 11:30
IP Basics Research
When: 3 March 2021 at 10:30 CET
Where: Online
What will you get?
Where to start when you have a business idea but you’re not sure whether you’re being protective enough of the intellectual that is being created with it? Are you considering your local competitors and existing patents in other countries? How to make sure you’ve researched relevant legal frameworks?
The goal of this session is to give an introduction into different IP elements, legal structures and research methods to consider when building or scaling an innovative product or service.
TETRA has invited Raffaele Buompane from EBN / NGI TRUST to share a brief 101 on IP elements and research.
Registration
Register to the “IP Basics Research”, it’s free!
Speaker
Raffaele Buompane is a Senior Manager at EBN responsible for EU projects and the Intellectual Property Pilot. He is also the manager of the Space Special Interest Group (SIG).
Raffaele has worked with EBN since 2007 acting mainly as Senior Advisor and Project Manager and representing the organisation in several events all over Europe and beyond. With more than 20 years of multifaceted experience in particular in the fields of Intellectual Property, Strategic Management and Public Relationships, he has a legal and economic academic background holding a PhD in Economics, a Master in International Political Sciences, and a Master in Geopolitics. He also has an MBA from Imperial College in London.
Beginning professionally as External Relation Manager, he worked in the Italian Patent and Trademark Office, where he specialised in Intellectual Property, and the European Patent Office in Germany and in Serbia as External Relations Manager, Project Director and Team Leader for an IPR EC project. In the private sector, among others, he had a cooperation with BMW as Chief Event Manager. In EBN he has so far been responsible for and participated in the implementation of a portfolio of several projects including Jordan SRTD, TexTechMed, Turkey AbiGem, Ip4inno, MOBIB, ETC Tunisia, EuroMed@Change, PeCoS4SMEs, FETRIC, GReaC, ETRERA 2020, CreatiFI, SaveH2O, IPR Helpdesk China, IPR Helpdesk SEA, Silver Workers, EaP Plus, ReConfirm 1 and 2, SEBSEAM, THE NEXT SOCIETY, DeFINE, NGI Trust, PhotonHub.
Linguistic skills: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Polish.

NGI_TRUST Webinar Results #3
2021-02-26 10:30 - 12:00

NGI Forward Salon: Digital Sovereignty in eID-Solutions | Part 2
2021-02-24 11:00 - 12:30
NGI Forward Salon Digital Sovereignty in eID-Solutions – Self-sovereign, Centralised or Privatised? Part 2
Why does identity technology matter and to which stakeholders? There are three big stakeholders today; the banks (and financial sector intermediaries in general), the ICT sector, and governments (public services, agencies, legislators, ombudsmen). Other stakeholders include civil society and foundations, including the open-source open hardware developers and other fringe players that are important to the innovation ecosystem.
Originally, eID was promoted top-down as a way to simplify the citizen’s relationship to the public administration (eg welfare receipts, taxation). The eIDAS standardisation took many years to agree on how to solve this problem with effective digital authentication technologies (mutual acceptance gains for e-signatures) and a variety of reputable validation mechanisms. It has worked and served its purpose even in the transatlantic context. In EU Member States, eIDAS now requires at least one central node and a bridge to facilitate the exchange of records to all other nodes, thus functioning in an interoperable manner.
But soon came ‘newer’ technologies and new problems, for which a revision of the eIDAS regulation is now needed. There is a recognized need to address the complications, both in terms of cross-border data flows and in terms of certified intergovernmental solutions.
We are in a very interesting historical moment where forces (and solid arguments) for centralization and forces (and solid arguments) for decentralization seem to hold each other in check.
Without a clear vision on identity, society will have no agency since the capability to produce future value (data) is not under regional, nor national, nor international regulated control.
Therefore it is important to have a good overview of what is happening in different parts of the world to see if we can not combine innovative solutions.
In this session, we will hear perspectives from Germany, Next Generation Internet projects, European Blockchain Partnership and Digital Transformation Agency Australia.
SPEAKERS

Daniël Du Seuil
Convenor European Self Sovereign Identity Framework (EBSI) at European Blockchain Partnership
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielduseuil/
Loretta Anania
scientific officer at DG Connect
https://www.linkedin.com/in/loretta-anania-2765898/
Juleigh Cook
Acting Head Digital Identity and myGov strategy stream. Digital Transformation Agency, Australia
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juleigh-cook/
Helmut Nehrenheim
Ministry of economics and digitalisation NRW/Germany; UN/CEFACT; Blockchain-Initiative BiVD; Self-Sovereign
https://www.linkedin.com/in/helmut-nehrenheim-677049170/

The Salons reflect the views of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission but form part of the project’s overarching recommendations for the NGI and future European internet policy.

NGI Pointer Open Call #2 - Session #2
2021-02-24 10:00 - 11:00
NGI Pointer’s second open call is live! We will host two informative webinars where you get to know how to become an NGI architect, how to receive funds for your idea and help to build the Next Generation of Internet. In the first Open Call, we have funded 24 projects with up to €200.000 along with business and technical support during a 12-month Support Programme. In this second and last Open Call, we are looking for new amazing ideas.
The project is part of Next Generation Internet (NGI), the “internet for humans” initiative from the European Commission and aims to transform the Internet of tomorrow into an Internet of humans that responds to people’s fundamental needs.
Join us in the webinars and get to know everything about the requirements and expectations for getting NGI funding.
Agenda

Welcome.
What is the Next Generation of Internet (NGI)? — Jean-Luc Dorel, European Commission.
What is the NGI Pointer project? — Mirko Presser, Aarhus University
How to apply for funding? — Claire Tonna, FundingBox
Q&A

FILL OUT THIS FORM & JOIN THE WEBINAR!

NGI Pointer Open Call #2 - Session #1
2021-02-23 14:00 - 15:00

Stadiem 1st open call webinar
2021-02-22 13:00 - 14:00
STADIEM is presenting with this webinar its 1st Open Call for media startups, scaleups and SMEs, aimed at bringing them together with investors and media organisations to foster the development of Next Generation Media solutions.

Learn more about STADIEM’s vision and objectives
Learn about STADIEM’s Open Call programme
Discover how to apply for funding

The Agenda in detail:

1:00-1:10 | Introduction to STADIEM project | Mike Matton, STADIEM Project Coordinator, VRT
1:10-1:20 | Objectives of the 1st Open Call and its phases | Media City Bergen
1:20-1:30 | How to apply? | Violeta Vasileva, F6S
1:30-2:00 | Q&A with participants

Participation is free but registration is mandatory (through Eventbrite).
This event is funded by the European Commission

TETRA Webinar: How to write a winning offer
2021-02-17 10:00 - 11:00
When: 17 February 2021 at 10:00 CET
The TETRA project is proud to bring you a Webinar on “How to write a winning offer”, hosted by PEDAL Consulting and will feature Robert Miskuf and Innocent Mateeka both of whom are experienced public procurement practitioners.
Registration
To register please click HERE!
Agenda

Welcome and Introduction (5 mins)
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
How to write a winning offer (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.
