FIA Aalborg report

Researchers and policy-makers gathered in northern Denmark, in the beautiful city of Aalborg for this year's Future Internet Assembly that focused on Smart Cities and the Internet of Things. It is not difficult to argue that in the long-term, the Future Internet could be the answer to a number of Europe‟s problems. Over the past two decades ICT has driven economic growth and innovation in the EU. And the Future Internet holds equal promise.

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6 July 2012

Future Internet Assembly 10-11 May 2012, Aalborg, Denmark

The first Future Internet Assembly (FIA) of 2012 will be held in Aalborg on May 10-11, under the Presidency of Denmark in the EU Council. The theme for FIA-Aalborg will be “Smart Cities and Internet of Things”, and the event will bring together projects that have recognized the need to strengthen European activities on the Future Internet, to maintain European competitiveness in the global marketplace. Currently, FIA brings together research projects that are part of the ICT programme of FP7. All of these projects are advancing the state of the art in their respective areas, and FIA enables open interactions and cross-fertilization across the technical domains, reaching out to talent in Europe's Future Internet research community.

FIA-Aalborg will be co-hosted with a number of European Future Internet events.

Please find more information on the FIA Aalborg undefined programme, in particular the Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) events are listed here.

Agenda

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Thursday, 10 May 2012

09.00 – 09.45	Welcome Chair: Neeli Prasad Henning G. Jensen, Mayor of Aalborg Finn Kjærsdam, President of Aalborg University Ramjee Prasad, Director of Center for Teleinfrastruktur Mario Campolargo, Director of DG INFSO Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures Morten Østergaard, Danish Minister for Science, Innovation and Higher Education
09.45 – 10.15	Keynote: Thierry Van Landegem, Vice President, Alcatel-Lucent ICT infrastructure as key enabler of Smart Cities
10.15 – 10.45	Coffee Break
10.45 – 11.05	Keynote: Reinhard Scholl, Deputy to the Director, ITU Smart Cities and the Internet of Things through Smart Standards Collaboration
11.05 – 12.05	Round Table on Smart Cities Chair: Dr. Reinhard Scholl, Deputy to the Director, ITU Panelists: Henning G. Jensen, Mayor of Aalborg, Denmark Asta Fog Larsen, Citizen of Aalborg, Denmark Jose M. Hernandez-Munoz, Telefonica, Spain Jacob Bundsgaard, Mayor of Aarhus, Denmark Inigo de la Serna, Mayor of Santander, Spain
12.05 – 12.15	Signing of Smart City Manifesto
12.15 – 13.30	Lunch
13.30 – 15.30	1.1 - Societal View on Smart Cities	1.2 - Open Platforms for Innovation	1.3 - Novel Networking and Relationship with Applications	1.4 - Impact of HTML 5	Hands-on FIRE
15.30 – 16.00	Coffee break
16.00 – 18.00	2.1 - Smart City Applications and Services	2.2 - IoT and FI Architectures	2.3 - Interoperability between Clouds at Several Layers	2.4 - Standardisation	Hands-on FIRE
19.00 – 22.00	Gala dinner hosted by the President of Aalborg University, Aalborg Culture & Congress Centre

Friday, 11 May 2012

9.00 – 11.00

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11.00 – 11.30

Coffee break

11.30 – 13.00

Closing

Future Internet Book: Federico Álvarez , UPM (editor), with presentations of the 3 best articles in the book
- Anne-Marie Oostveen, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford: "Cross-Disciplinary Lessons for the Future Internet"
- Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus": "Using Future Internet Infrastructure and Smartphones for Mobility Trace Acquisition and Social Interactions Monitoring"
- Dimitri Papadimitriou, Alcatel-Lucent: "Design Principles for the Future Internet Architecture"
Opportunites for finding Japanese partners for the joint EU-Japan call on security, wireless, optical, IoT/clouds, experimental testbeds, low energy nets: Nozomu Nishinaga - NICT (Japan)
FIA Roadmap for H2020: What is ahead? Nick Wainwright (HP), Effects+
Future Internet Award: Mario Campolargo, Director Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures, DG Information Society and Media
Announcement of upcoming Future Internet Event in Dublin: Dr. Willie Donnelly, TSSG Waterford Institute of Technology
Closing remarks by Mario Campolargo, Director of DG INFSO Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures

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