edigiregion conference Boosting World-Class Innovation Regions through Digitally-Enabled Ecosystems across Europe

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1 edigiregion conference Boosting World-Class Innovation Regions through Digitally-Enabled Ecosystems across Europe 19 May 2015 Venue: Akvárium (Erzsébet tér 12., Budapest V., Hungary) The Internet of Things is not the future. The Internet of Things is here, today. But are industry, policy makers, and academia ready?. Businesses across the world high tech and traditional are racing to identify opportunities in the new digital innovation ecosystem to take-up and deploy high impact technologies, build new business models, revolutionize value chains, and provide innovative products and services for citizens, businesses and government. Policy makers are designing smart specialisation initiatives that engage the actors of regional digital innovation ecosystems and lead to efficient academy-industry cooperation contributing to growth and global competitiveness. The edigiregion International Conference is an annual event supported by the European Commission that presents novel approaches of businesses and policy makers to reap the benefits of the digital innovation ecosystems. The edigiregion International Conference will exchanges experience on smart specialisation initiatives, and business models that have contributed to boosting regional innovation ecosystems based on advances in information and communication technologies. The edigiregion 2015 International Conference will be the first event in this series, and will take place in Budapest, Hungary on 19 th May In 2015 the conference focuses on future internet and internet of things technologies and applications.

2 09:00 10:30 Plenary - Boosting World-Class Regional Innovation Ecosystems in Europe Objective: Over 110 billion of cohesion funds are earmarked for innovation investments to boost European economies growth, productivity and competitiveness for smart specialisation. This money will be spent on research, technological development and innovation to boost the competitiveness of small and medium-sized businesses. Information and communication technologies have a role in this process, as drivers of technology development as well as enablers across industrial sectors. Moderator: José Manuel Leceta, edigiregion Advisory Board, European Institute of Innovation and Technology Keynote speaker: Fostering innovation-driven entrepreneurship & ecosystems in Europe Kai Engel, World Economic Forum, AT Kearney Speakers & roundtable/exchange of views Financing Innovation and Entrepreneurship Boris Battistini, ETH Zürich Identifying Targets for Regional Smart Specialisation Strategies Chris van Egeraat, Maynooth University edigiregion Regional Benchmark Audit Bill O Gorman, edigiregion coordinator, Waterford Institute of Technology 10:30 11:00 Coffee break

3 11:00 12:30 Plenary 2: Assessing Disruptive Impact of ICT on Regional Innovation Ecosystems Objective: This session will feature examples of successful initiatives across the EU to boost regional economies that capitalize on innovation in digital technologies. Speakers will showcase the initiatives that they have put in place and the impact they expect to deliver. Moderator: Barnabás Málnay, Mobility and Multimedia Cluster Speakers & roundtable/exchange of views: Cyber-physical production and logistics systems: Roots, expectations, R&D challenges and results László Monostori, Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation Ana-Maria Fimin, European Commission, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology Region of Smart Factories Hans Praat, N.V. NOM Investment and Development Agency for the Northern Netherlands Urban Europe Joint Programming Initiative Jonas Bylund, JPI Urban Europe Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation Brendan Rowan, Bluspecs 12:30 14:00 Lunch

4 Afternoon The objective of the workshop sessions is to demonstrate the impact of innovative information and communication technologies on regional economies, boosting growth and competitiveness of industries both high tech and traditional. 14:00 15:00 Workshop Sessions 1 Objective: The first workshop session provides a platform for interaction between policy makers, industrial actors and academia who are at the cutting edge of leveraging ICT technologies in various industry sectors. It features examples of successful implementations, the role of ecosystem mediators, as private & public support structures. Future Internet Clusters Development Introduction and moderation: FIWARE Mundus: the FIWARE Regions initiative Jacques Magen, InterInnov Future Internet Ecosystems in Hungary Vilmos Nemeth, NKFIH FINODEX Open data accelerator Youssef Sabbah, eunlimited FABOULOUS 3D printing accelerator Marie Bourdon, Carsa 15:00 15:30 Coffee break IoT Clusters Development Introduction and moderation: Open platforms Gabor Vicze, Innomine EuroCPS and I4MS András Poppe, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Smart Vineyard Csaba Árendás 15:30 16:30 Workshop Sessions continued Objective: The second workshop session discusses implications of new business models in world class digital ecosystems for key stakeholders. The discussion aims to pinpoint key elements for strategic joint action plans to leverage regional strengths, and develop conducive environments for reinforcing and internationalising technology based clusters. Registration and further information about edigiregion:

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