Detecon FIWARE iHub Forum

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

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We will gladly accept your binding commitment until march 18th, 2019: Sebastian.Kares@detecon.com
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