FIWARE: the Open Platform that will boost your business
Why should you change to FIWARE?
Nuria de Lama (Representative of Atos Research & Innovation to the EC)
FIWARE Collaboration Officer; [email protected]
http://fiware.org
http://lab.fiware.org
Start and grow your business with FIWARE
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14:00 – 14:05 The FIWARE Tour: Overall guidance of the
session (Nuria de Lama, Atos, FIWARE)
14:05 – 14:15 First stop: FIWARE, the Open Platform that will
boost your business: Why should you change to FIWARE?
(Nuria de Lama, Atos, FIWARE)
14:15 – 14:25 Second stop: FIWARE accelerator programme
stats and data! (Gabriella Cattaneo, IDC, FI-IMPACT)
14:25 – 15:10 Third stop: FIWARE Greatest Hits Panel Discussion
Meet some of the greatest Start-Ups and SMEs that are already using FIWARE!
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15:10 – 15:40 Last stop: Strategic Panel on The future of FIWARE
Learn about the top features of FIWARE about to appear in 2015, take advantage
of new infrastructures and ecosystems, go International…
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15:40 -- 16:00: Your turn is NOW: work with us, next steps and Q&A.
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FIWARE Greatest Hits Panel Discussion
Mahesh Casiraghi
(CoffeeStrap)
Joel Vera Cruz Preto
Paulo (ETConcept)
Andrés Macías
(usheru)
Mirko Ross
(digital worx GmbH)
Michael Bak
(Onomondo)
Karel Charvat
(Wireless Info)
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Strategic Panel on The future of FIWARE
Miguel García González
Mr. Sergio Carrera Riva Pieter Van Der Linden
(Zabala Innovation
Palacio (Director General of
(VIVITnet)
Consulting S.A.)
INFOTEC, Mexico)
Sergio Gusmeroli
(TXT)
Juanjo Hierro
(Telefónica)
Mirko Ross
(digital worx GmbH)
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Olaf-Gerd Gemein
(SpeedUp Europe)
Genuine FIWARE: qualitative reasons you should
consider…
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Genuine FIWARE: qualitative reasons you
should consider…
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Quantitative reasons you should consider…
(high-level, multi-
functional software components)
7924
1595
1192
636
34
trials,
17
countries,
users
organizations
large scale trials (energy, agro-food
logistics, smart manufacturing, wellbeing
and creative industries)
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industrial settings
now > Smes/start-ups selected
accelerators
37 GE
5
cores capacity
virtual machines
expected >
9000
1000
300
500
submissions,
Smes/start-ups
APPS in the market
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Not so much time ago…
Openness is not enough, good APIs is not enough…
It is economies of scale what counts
(standards to make data models interoperable,
wide community of developers,
avoid vendor lock-in works if enough vendors…)
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Learning geography with FIWARE:
The Open and Agile Smart Cities initiative (OASC)
 Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Tampere, Oulu and Turku in
Finland; Copenhagen, Aarhus and Aalborg in
Denmark; Brussels, Ghent and Antwerp in Belgium;
Porto, Lisbon, Fundão, Palmela, Penela and Águeda
in Portugal; Milan, Palermo and Lecce in Italy;
Valencia, Santander, Málaga and Sevilla in Spain; &
Olinda (Recife), Anapólis (Goiás), Porto Alegre (Rio
Grande do Sul), Vitória (Espírito Santo), Colinas de
Tocantins (Tocantins) and Taquaritinga (São Paulo)
in Brazil have joined the OASC initiative in the first wave.
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Next wave expected in April-May: cities from the Netherlands, United Kingdom and
Mexico are already on track.
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FIWARE: Going Sustainable/
commercial support?
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What IF FIWARE?
From a small market to a European market
EU market (2015)
352M mobile users just
for Western counties
(source: Statista 2015)
Spain (2015)
42,5 Million mobile users
(source: Statista 2015)
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FIWARE Apps want to see the world
languages
health
cinema
spatial data
noise
detection
communications
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Let’s row in the same direction
I am NOT
the EC
I am a big
company
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I am an SME
Je suis Charlie
I am!!
Join us!
http://fiware.org
http://lab.fiware.org
Follow @Fiware on Twitter !
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