Detecon FIWARE iHub Forum
Cooperation and Co-creation is our Strength!

We, the citizens, are the most important assets of our cities and communities. How can we work together to make them better places to live? At Detecon, we have been asking ourselves, like many others around the world, the most meaningful question: “How can we help to make our cities better places to live?”. We cannot say we have found THE answer, but for sure, cooperation, fostering innovation and co-creation engaging all stakeholders, seem to be the best starting point. And the FIWARE Foundation, with the establishment of its FIWARE iHubs, is providing an example that, where it has been implemented, is already showing encouraging success stories. Today we want to launch in Cologne one of these platforms for citizens, businesses, academia and urban administration cooperation which, we hope, will help us progressing in our attempt to make our towns and cities vital, thriving social and economic innovation ecosystems.
Come and join us for this first networking opportunity – and know this is just the beginning!
Agenda
14:00 Introduction
Claus Essmann, Lead IoT & Smart Cities, Detecon
14:10 Keynote: The Connecting Europe Facility Programme
Caroline Corneau, Project Officer, CEF Building Blocks, European Commission
14:25 The Fiware Foundation
Ulrich Ahle, CEO, FIWARE Foundation
14:50 The Fiware iHub Cologne
Gianluca Dianese, Lead FIWARE iHub Cologne, Detecon
15:00 Our Success Story with FIWARE
Rick Schager, City of Eindhoven
15:20 Coffee break
15:40 The Importance of Standardization: FIWARE 4 Smart Energy
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Antonello Monti, Institute Director E.ON ERC, RWTH Aachen University
16:00 Achievement of FIWARE Labs in Germany
Olaf Gemein, Board Member FiWARE Foundation
16:20 Panel discussion
Caroline Corneau, Policy Officer, CEF Building Blocks, European Commission
Prof. Antonello Monti, Institute Director E.ON ERC, RWTH Aachen University
Ulrich Ahle, CEO, FIWARE Foundation
Benedikt Gäch, Practice Leader ICT Infrastructure & Platforms, Detecon
Ernö Kovacs, Head of IoT Research at NEC Labs Europe, NEC Europe Ltd.
Presented by Gianluca Dianese
16:50 Conclusions
Benedikt Gäch, Practice Leader ICT Infrastructure & Platforms, Detecon
17:00 Get-together & Networking
Event Location
Detecon International GmbH
Sternengasse 14-16
50676 Cologne
Your Registration
We will gladly accept your binding commitment until march 18th, 2019: Sebastian.Kares@detecon.com
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