Presentations during the FIA caretakers meeting, 29 April 2009

EC presentations

• Overall Ambitions and Process for a FI Initiative
• FI-PPP Task Force – Process/Methodology
• EC Task Force on FI Content Scope and Objectives
• Future Internet Forum
• FIA Prague publication - A report on progress for the planned publication

Scenario presentations by the clusters

• Future content networks scenarios
• Approach for trust, security, privacy in FI
• Vision for FI based on scenarios - Emotional web - Energy efficiency
• Future Internet service offer: scenarios
• 4WARD scenario workshoop conclusions - the death of the Internet
• Future networks cluster approach to scenarios
• Global testbeds positioning (PII stateement)
• Real world Internet
• Socio-economics Brainstorming (Madrid)
• FISE Scenarios
• The Future of the Internet III, a PEW Internet & American Life Project report

The last meeting of the Future Internet Assembly Organising Committee before the Prague FIA conference was held on 29 April 2009 in Brussels.

• Slides presented by the EC 
• The slides presented by the caretakers of the clusters are available

Other draft documents necessary to understand the presentation by the EC include:

• Report on a preliminary analysis "Future Internet - Towards research challenges"  
• R&D challenges and priorities reported in the SRAs of the ETPs relating to the FI and in the FI initiatives of some Members States 
• List of functionalities that were identified by the EC from the analysis of scenarios received by the EC from the clusters 

NOTE that the above three documents are work in progress and evolve rapidly. Feedback by the caretakers is welcome.

Actions

All caretakers are requested to sent to Thomas Skordas by 05 May 2009

• 1 or 2 slides on FI scenarios
• 1 or 2 slides on main research challenges you identified
• 1 slide presenting your BO Session and the type of audience you would like to attend it

Looking forward to receiving your inputs and seeing you all in Prague,
Best wishes,
On behalf of INFSO D & F
Thomas Skordas

Following our meeting on the 6th of March, please find enclosed:

• The main conclusions of our meeting accompanied by a presentation on a "Methodology of work towards FIA Prague", clarifying the time line of work from now to FIA Prague and the links between the FIA process and the internal work of DG INFSO on the definition of the content of the next ICT WP (2011-2013).

• Copy of all the slides presented by the EC and the FIA caretakers at the meeting or received later on.

With regard to the FIA event in Prague, the agenda of Day 1 (11th May) is now available at http://www.fi-prague.eu/program/

As for Days 2 and 3 (12-13 May), the updated agenda is enclosed. It takes into account, to the extent possible, the different suggestions and requirements from all of you. Please note that this agenda is based on the following:

• Ensuring continuity of structure so as to build on the good team spirit established within the working groups since Bled and Madrid.

• Present in the opening plenary the FI scenarios, functionalities and challenges elaborated by the DG INFSO's FI Task Forces. This will provide inspiration for discussion in the individual break-out sessions taking in to account the specificities/needs of each area.

• Following Madrid's approach, each break-out session should devote some time to discuss how the experimental facilities should support the testing and validation of the scenarios and challenges identified in each working group. These will be presented in the FIRE session planned at the end of the agenda. To facilitate the discussion and make it short, a summary of the FIRE facilities offer will be circulated beforehand.

• We continue the good practice of updating the FIA participants about Member States initiatives. This should facilitate the inter-working of the FIA with the Future Internet Forum of Member States initiatives.

• The final plenary is organised in such a way that caretakers/break-out chairs can easily compile a report of their sessions to be delivered to all participants.

In addition to the above, please also note the following:

• Regarding the request to have larger rooms than Madrid: the break-out rooms' capacity will be >120 persons. This should allow running the three parallel break-out sessions.

• Regarding the request to extend the overall duration of the conference: in the proposed agenda the break-out time has been stretched to the maximum possible extent. This should now give sufficient time to organise interactive discussions. We suggest you to plan your break-out session agenda to limit the number of "one way" introductory speeches to rapidly get into the interactive part.

We would be grateful if you could:

1. Widely distribute this agenda to your project constituencies and remind them to register to the FIA event in Prague (http://www.fi-prague.eu/)
2. Plan your individual sessions taking into account the overall setting (see above) and the specificity of each working group. A consolidated agenda of all break-out sessions should be presented at our next meeting planned on 29 April [TBC] in Brussels and also made available via the www.future-internet.eu site.

We thank you and look forward to further progressing the FIA momentum in Prague,

Best wishes,

DG INFSO Dir F + Dir D