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FIWARE for Smart Cities - panel discussionHow can cities provide more efficient services to citizens?
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How can cities become engines of innovation and growth?
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What is being the potential of providing real-time open data?
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How can cities help to materialize the Economy of Data?
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Listen the testimony of front-runner cities adopting FIWARE and leading the path by example
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FIWARE for Smart Agrifood - panel discussion What are the key challenges and potential improvements in agri-food when considering the growth of world population, hunger, food waste and regularly experienced food crisis with an impact on consumers' health
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The agri-food sector lacks on one hand an integrated ICT support, on the other there is a lot of high tech already available. What are the ICT related challenges for decreasing efforts and costs for its usage?
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How to exploit data, information and knowledge throughout the agri-food chain from farm to fork? How to handle issues with data ownership, competition and trust? What are the business challenges from a horizontal and vertical perspective in a complex agri-food chain?
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Which existing groups, associations and/or standardisation bodies in agri-food are the appropriate contacts for the FIWARE foundation and its members to create synergies from a technological perspective? How to facilitate data exchange between existing software systems (e.g. farm management information systems and enterprise resource planning) as well as between diverse machinery (e.g. measurement devices, tractors on the field, transporter, storage systems)? How can we reach a common infrastructure and technology base at a global level to improver interoperability and to maximize competition between solution providers?
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What are the challenges for startups, innovation and research in agri-food that is characterised by large (e.g. food processing industry & retailers) and very small organisations (e.g. farmers & transport).
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How to improve food safety and increase trust for a healthy diet of consumers?
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FIWARE for Smart Industry - panel discussionAnalysis of major requirements for Industrial services (requirements associated to smart industry are not (traditionally) connected to ICT. How can FIWARE contribute to components that can be trusted in terms of reliability & performance?
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Where is the competitive positioning of FIWARE in Smart Industry? (platforms in this area are understood as something different); what kind of alliances (also interoperability) would be needed to bring value to this sector?
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What does the Industry Data Space vision brings to development of a Smart Industry? Which winning collaboration is it foreseen with FIWARE? What would be the next steps?
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Illustrate current experiences of using FIWARE in Smart Industry. Improved KPIs at application level. Highlight value that FIWARE could bring beyond that of applications that may be developed with other platforms
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How can FIWARE capitalize the momentum around Industry 4.0 intiatives as part of the EU policy on "Digitizing European Industry"
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Going global: the FIWARE Mundus Programme - panel discussionCome and learn with high level international representatives why non-European organisations have decided to choose FIWARE and work with FIWARE
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Why is global cooperation important?
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How important is FIWARE to help mobilise/involve the local ecosystem?
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Set-up of FIWARE Lab Nodes / instances: why is it required, or not?
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How is FIWARE helping in the (global) development of replicable and scalable of solutions and applications?
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Supporting startups and SMEs: the FIWARE Accelerator ProgrammeFIWARE Accelerator program results so far. Figures and inputs from accelerators.
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New opportunities to get equity free funding for your project. IMPACT Growth and Frontier Cities, the continuation of the FIWARE Accelerator programme.
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How important FIWARE was for developing and growing more than 1,000 projects. Insights from 2 startups and 2 customers (cities and agrifood).
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Acting local: the FIWARE iHubs ProgrammeLearn about the announced FIWARE ZONE in Andalucía, a space which will become a first-class reference of what a FIWARE iHub will be.
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Learn about other initiatives aimed at materializing the FIWARE iHub concept in the rest of Europe
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Listen about first developments towards creation of new FIWARE iHub nodes in other places of the world
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Discovering success stories and offerings: the FIWARE Marketplace
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FIWARE as a de-facto standard: OASC, TM Forum, IES-City, GSMA
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FIWARE, the road ahead
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