Viale Sarca
336, 20126 Milano MI
Italy
Let’s Speak… NGI – Next Generation Internet – Business, Career & Funding Opportunities, while developing a human-centric internet
A 1-day workshop, 27 March 2018
Purpose & Scope
NGI – Next Generation Internet is offering organisations, researchers and entrepreneurs across Europe a formidable chance: To build a Human Internet for a better future. This is a long-term goal, with funding opportunities that started in April 2018 with ICT-24, ICT-31 and continuing into FP9.
This 1-day workshop was about unlocking business, career, and funding opportunities for representatives from business, academia, and regulators, discussing social challenges and technical insights about the solutions that could be taken forward in the European calls for proposals, also as part of the so-called “smaller grants” envisaged by the NGI calls that closed in April 2018. NGI Champions (ECP, European Champions Panel) and Early Adopters will participate to debate and will continue to interact on the NGI open Consultation Platform available online at www.consultation.ngi.eu.
The dedicated channel on the Consultation Platform helped raise awareness of the opportunities for Research and Education; Start-ups and Culture to start creating momentum before the event: https://consultation.ngi.eu/taxonomy/term/116. To post on the channel you need to go through a quick registration process here: https://consultation.ngi.eu/user/register.
Who attended?
This workshop brought together innovative start-ups, SMEs and academic and research institutions working on or interested in NGI-related technologies like blockchain, decentralised data governance, privacy and security, artificial intelligence, as well as 5G, cyber security and IoT.
Participant takeaways
→ Practical, insightful guides on NGI funding opportunities, including open calls.
→ Project idea pitches and opportunity to find new collaborations.
→ New career opportunities that NGI can help unlock, through collaborative research programmes and more.
→ Connections with our European Champions Panel for tips and views on priority research and innovations.
→ Initial launch of the NGI Early Adopters Club, helping others ease their way into a pan-European community and showcase their innovative solutions and NGI-related best practices.
The Agenda
| Tuesday 27th March 2018 | ||
| Next Generation Internet – Business, Career & Funding Opportunities, while developing a human-centric internet | ||
| Time | Description | Speaker |
| 09:00-10:00 | Registration, Welcome Coffee & visit to the NGI stands | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Welcome & Introduction: NGI Vision- Current Research & Early Adopters, and Public Consultation | Silvana Muscella – Event Chair, UK (ppt) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Keynote: Developing a Humanized Internet for Our Future | Monique Morrow – Women in Technology & NGI ECP, Switzerland (ppt) |
| 10:45-11:15 | Panel of Early Adopters: NGI solutions & challenges | Moderator: Filippo Tramelli – Primopiano Scrl, Italy (ppt) |
| 11:15-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30-12:00 | NGI: Not just a technology playground: building a culture with the NGI awards. The future of internet research: what are the hot topics? | Moderator: Silvana Muscella – Event Chair, UK
Open floor discussion |
| 12:00-12:30 | Social Impact of NGI: Views from the younger generation & other users. Towards a new internet governance? |
Interactive discussions on social impacts & internet governance |
| 12:30-13:00 | NGI Success Stories & Sustainable Paths – NGI Champions in Europe | Moderator: Richard Stevens – HUB4NGI & IDC, Italy (ppt)
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| 13:00-14:00 | Networking lunch & photo galore | |
| 14:00-14:30 | European Vision for Current & Upcoming Funding Opportunities | Moderator: Paolo Lombardi – NGI Open Consultation Platform, UK
Q&A Session |
| 14:30-15:00 | One-Minute-Pitch-Parade (NGI players) & NGI Awards | Moderator: Silvana Muscella – Event Chair, UK
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| 15:00-16:00 | Panel Discussion on NGI Business, Career & Funding Opportunities for start-ups & non | Moderator: Andrea Signorelli – La Stampa, Italy
Open floor discussion |
| 16:00-16:30 | Conclusions & wrap-up | |
Live-streaming on www.consultation.ngi.eu.
Venue: Target Lab Location
Viale Sarca 336 Building 16 – 20126 – Milan