FIA Ghent – Scenarios for Future Internet Business

Welcome to the Scenarios for Future Internet Business session at FIA Ghent.

Please see below for a summary of this session compiled real-time. If you have any questions, you are welcome to post them as comments to this post.

Welcome

• Our chair Man-Sze Li, welcomes everyone. The session will last 90 minutes.
  

Keynote: An industry view of Future Internet Businesses – Jose Maria Cavanillas, R&D & Innovation Director, Atos Research & Innovation

• Jose Maria has started his presentation
• The crises is more or less over
• As per WSJ, distressed assets must be written down, debt must be paid off, capital cushions must be rebuilt
• Opportunity for companies like Atos to build innovative services to help us progress
• The current internet almost reaches limits of service and content offerings.
• We have to drive FI in the right direction
• FINES brings the enterprise perspective
• Atos vision of the FI
  • has the person at the centre
  • is information rich and personalised
  • includes concept of virtual intermate – a virtual representative of the individual
• FINES grand objectives: Inventive, Cloud, Cognizant, Community-oriented, Green,’ Glocal’ Enterprises
• In line with 3 flagship initiatives: the EU Digital Agenda, Industrial Policy and Innovation Union
• FI PPP requires
  • Basic agreements and discussions to align direction
  • Seamless integration
  • The public side should “protect and serve”
  • The private side should deliver, be user orientated, involve SMEs
• Europe is waiting!

“Realising the Digital Opportunity: Redesigning Labour Intensive Business Processes leads to a New Future Internet Based Product and Business Model”, paper by Keith Popplewell, Coventry University, and Jennifer Harding , Loughborough University

• Keith has started his presentation
• Synergy Project: Before
  • Control 2K an SME working with fellow SMEs to meet end-user requirements
  • Continuously developing collaborations – decided to create an SME Cluster
  • Identify groups of SMEs that could dynamically collaborate to meet the needs of an end-user
  • Large manual effort to analyse tenders, identify suitable SMEs, build consortia
• Synergy Project: After
  • Service oriented software implementation that automates process of building relevant consortia
  • Captures knowledge & competencies of member SMEs
  • Automatically Builds consortia in response to tenders, as per configured rules
• Implementation
  • Service oriented
  • Employs Enterprise Service Bus
  • Ontologically structured
• Future Evolution
  • enhanced population of knowledge base
  • enhanced id of business opportunities
  • additional business processes
  • explore other industrial sectors
• C2K engaged with FINES
• Future Evolution is to exploit the Future Internet
  • Improve generic service discovery
  • Integration of complex event mgmt
  • Industrialisation of knowledge bases
  • Improved knowledge discovery tools

“Scenarios for Future Internet Business @ Energy”, paper by Hannes Suttner and Josef Weber, Siemens AG Österreich

• Josef has begun his presentation
• Global energy challenges:
  • Demographics dynamics
  • Scarce Resources
  • Climate Change
• Paradigm shift in Energy sector
  • ICT as an integral part to manage complexity
  • ISU to enable cooperation
• Have employed Scenario based Business Model analysis
• 2020 Green Slate Scenario
  • Analysis of daily load
  • Forecast of energy prices
  • Forecast of energy consumption
  • Recommendations for consumer on how to distribute energy consumption
  • Forecast of energy generation based on weather forecast
  • etc.
• Goolge powermeter, Microsoft Hohm
• The future?
  • Large centralise dpower plants
  • Renewables supply 30% of power
  • CO2 emissions constantly on display
  • Micro generation in smart buildings
  • Car parking for plug-in vehicles
  • Wireless power consumption displays
  • …

Future Internet Enterprise Systems (FInES) in FIA Research Roadmapping - Nick Wainwright, HP, Leader of FIA Research Roadmap activity, and Michele Missikoff, CNR, Rapporteur of FInES Research Roadmap

• Participating in Effects Plus  support action
• Organising development of FIA Research Roadmap
• Designed to be FIA contribution to European Commission
• Commission need first FP8 inputs by Autumn 2011
• See plenary event for summary roadmap.

Overview of FInES Position Paper on Orientations for FP8 - Man-Sze Li, Co-Chair of DG INFSO FInES Cluster

• Not all is well for Eu enterprises today
• Context has been analysed
  • no time to lose
  • opportunities for Europe
• Everyone is an Enteprise
• Innovation is key
• Recommendations are being drafted – circles of recommendations
  • Policy
  • Socio-economic
  • Research
    • Enteprise
    • Mfg
    • ICT/Networks
    • Systems

Closing Comments by Christina Martinez, Project Officer, European Commission

• EC is an observer in the community
• noticed a lot of similarities with work in clusters (esp. FINES Cluster)
• FI needs to adapt to user needs
• FINeS cluster has been innovative in approach
  • user at centre of priorities
  • enterprises are the users we want to serve
• Internet has many instantiations – Iot, Sensors, private etc.
  • propose convergence of these networks towards the user
    • intelligent network agents representing users
    • services find the appropriate users rather than other ways around
    • serve societal objectives

• Want building augmented internet to serve needs of enterprises and SMEs in particular
• Some practicalities
  • EC, FINES working hard
  • position paper to be published next week
  • next consulation open in Jan
  • opportunites to input to research roadmap until end of March
  • more we converge the better
  • EC FINES committed to serve the enteprise
• Call to action: What are we waiting for!!

Discussion

• What kind of convergence between private/public/sensor networks etc? Some responses:
  • Convergence should take place at all levels. Services. Smart Objects. Cannot afford to do research in isolation
  • Diffused entrepreneurship – at all levels. Will require complex dynamic systems etc.
  • Convergence in 6 pillars of FI is appreciated and being worked
  • If required by business, systems will converge. We are going in the right direction.
  • EC appreciates this needs to happen at all levels of the stack and is working this. Need to articulate this. Maybe purpose based approach.
  • BBC agrees convergence would be great but notes convergence may be on user experience rather than on platforms
• What is FI Enterprise perspective of Innovation? What kind of instruments will be appropriate?
  • Time ran out before this question could be answered.
• Service/applications important but so too is infrastructure – public support required for R&D here too
  • General agreement with this.

Summing up

• All presenters and participants thanked.
• Planned session topic at FI Budapest in May 2011: Enteprise inputs into architectures of FI

FIA Ghent agenda finalised

The FIA Enterprise caretakers are delighted to release the updated agenda for the FIA Ghent Session: Scenarios for Future Internet Business being held on Dec 17th from 08:30 to 10:00. The agenda includes the two papers that were successfull in our recent Open Call for Contributions.

Agenda:

• Welcome
• Keynote: An industry view of Future Internet Businesses – Jose Maria Cavanillas, R&D & Innovation Director, Atos Research & Innovation
• “Realising the Digital Opportunity: Redesigning Labour Intensive Business Processes leads to a New Future Internet Based Product and Business Model”, paper by Keith Popplewell, Coventry University, and Jennifer Harding , Loughborough University (paper selected under Open Call)
• “Scenarios for Future Internet Business @ Energy”, paper by Hannes Suttner and Josef Weber, Siemens AG Österreich (paper selected under Open Call)
• Future Internet Enterprise Systems (FInES) in FIA Research Roadmapping - Nick Wainwright, HP, Leader of FIA Research Roadmap activity, and Michele Missikoff, CNR, Rapporteur of FInES Research Roadmap
• Overview of FInES Position Paper on Orientations for FP8 – Man-Sze Li, Co-Chair of DG INFSO FInES Cluster
• Discussion
• Summing up

For more comprehensive details of the session please see our wiki.

We look forward to seeing you in Ghent!

Open Call for Contributions closes November 15th

Just a quick reminder – as announced last week the proposed agenda for the Enterprise session at FIA Ghent includes a presentation selected from submissions from the public. The Open Call for Contribution closes November 15th. For complete details on the open call, and the overall session, please see the FIA Enterprise Wiki.

Best of luck to all contributors.

FIA Enterprise @ FIA Ghent

Following a well attended and interactive session at FIA Valencia, we are delighted to annouce that there will be a follow-up Enterprise session at FIA Ghent being held on December 16 & 17 as part of the Future Internet Week.

The session is entitled “Scenarios for Future Internet Business” and will kick-off at 8.30 AM on December 17th. The hour-and-a-half long session will debate the potential of a wide spectrum of scenarios for the future of businesses on the Internet. Both opportunities and challenges will be considered.

While the session will include invited keynotes and also feature live blogging as at FIA Valencia, we are also introducing an Open Call for Contribution to offer you an opportunity to present at the event. This call will close on 15th November 2010.

For further details on this session please see the FIA Enterprise Wiki.

We hope you can make it, either in person in Ghent or online here.

FIA Valencia Enterprise – Open Panel Discussion

Welcome to the second post from the FIA Valencia Enteprise session. Here we summarise the second portion of the meeting, the open panel discussion. The post has been updated during the  session so the discussion could be followed and reviewed  in realtime online. This post will be refined in the coming days, after the caretakers meet to review. Please, add your comments  if there is anything you would like to contribute.

Our panel includes Stefano De Panfilis, EFII, Thomas Michael Bohnert, SAP and Miguel Borrras, Antara.

The discussion is addressing three topics. The context is explained in the Welcome and Introduction slides.

Vision, moderated by Man-Sze Li, IC Focus and Stefano De Panfilis, EFII

• What does exit from crises mean?
• Is it time to rethink nature of business?
• Innovation Union?
• Do enterprises deserve a generic research domain?
• From the floor:
• Robustness of the internet? What happens if catestrophic failure? Airports can check in manually. Can talk to bank staff. What if everything online? What is plan B? Military have redundant internet.
• What about enterprises of the present? Are we discarding the old? Or can they upgrade, so to say. How do we get from now to the future?
• What about SMEs that aren’t / can’t afford to be ICT savvy.
• Reinventing products – what does this mean? Can generic strategies be applied?
• From the panel:
• Think of it as an evolution. Maintain backward compatibilty. Must not exclude anyone from progress. COIN IP addressing this. Looking at maturity models. For SMEs and micro enterprises also. Looking into what is the IT support available to support enterprise growth. However, also revolutionary part to FI to be expected. Not business as usual. Need to reconcile evolution and revolution. Potentially a significant challenge.
• SME employees use FaceBook etc. at home, why not at work? SMEs should consider federation. Could open up significant opportunities.
• FI needs to be based on open standards.
• Is there such a thing as a Future Internet that can be switched on? To clarify, it is an evolution that also supports revolution. Mission, Organisation, intangibles also need to be looked at.
• FI relevant to enterprises of all sizes.
• FI allows faster response times. Reinventing not the business, but the market position and interaction.
• Internet must be a community. SMEs have all levels of ICT awareness. e.g. printing emails and bringing them to face to face meetings instead of emailing response. Need to take this onboard.
• If you go into business you want to win. Need to offer value. Harder and softer values. Nature of what business is is potentially changing. Those willing to take risks more likely to succeed.
• Did Europe miss the boat on Web 2.0 as mentioned yesterday? How can this be addressed?
  

Business Models, moderated byMichele Missikoff, CNR and Jean-Dominique Meunier, Technicolor

• What will be the key drivers?
• What will be the characteristic elements of those models?
• Are there emerging examples of those business models? Buy a personal transport service rather than a car??
• What are the lessons that can be learnt so far? Are there barriers already?
• Commodity – what does that mean for business models? Focus on value added services only? Give the rest for free? What is SAP’s experience?
• SAP have business by design – translate business processes on demand. Overall set of features perhaps 10x size of salesforce. Commoditization is very important. Exists, is secure, there are fall backs. Customer is asking for it – needs to be delivered.
• From yesterday, ‘Greatest innovation comes from commoditised businesses’.
• For businesses that use commodity, what does this mean for them. Do they have a voice? The customer voice is getting stronger.
• SAP has undergone several transformations internally. Netweaver before, then apps on platform, now services sold around the software provided. Ongoing evolution.
• Emerging models of BMs? New models seem to depend on traditional enterprises. How do traditional enterprises, e.g farmers, get involved. Some companies are selling products for SMEs. They don’t care if it is FI – they just want to improve their business.
• Huge changes even in tranditional enteprises like automatic. Maybe no such thing as traditional enterprise.
• US companies largely internet based. European players largely existing business, using internet to expand. Can FI open up new industries? New Business Models derived from data captured from online technologies. Do we just think about evolving existing businesses rather than thinking outside the box?
• There are examples of transformations in Europe. Huge mobile players today emerged from completely different industries.
• 5 year time research to innovation – that’s a long time for SMEs. Many SMEs are still not engaged.
• World leaders not EU based. Not telco based. Can an entirely new industry be launched in Europe based on services? If following others we will always lag behind. Mobile industry was started from nothing. Can that be replicated?
• PPP is a key opportunity for forming this new platform.
• Europe is much more fragmented than US…languages and culture. Needs to be taken onboard…but maybe there are unique opportunities here too.

Future Internet Systems, moderated by Sergio Gusmeroli, TXT & John Kennedy, Intel

• Which FI technologies will help revolutionsise Enterprise Systems?
• Which product lifecycle phases is FI raising the more promising opportunities?
• Is FI an Innovation Opportunity for European ICT SMEs?
• From the floor…
• FI gives Europe a significant opportunity to maximise value for business, society, indivudals, going forward. Living Labs offers one way of helping to identify and values.
• US v EU. Is that valid comparison any more? What if China buys the company.
• Is there a difference between perspectives of East and West Europe on FI?
• Slovenia, returned back from Eastern Europe. Danube River region now forming. New ways for companies to work together. Cross border, experimental, powered by ICT to create new and better businesses. Keen to engage with broader FIA Enterprise community. River used to be the border, now bringing companies together. FI providing even more opportunities on a global scale.
• What do FI tech pillars mean for business? Bottom line is what combinations deliver the most value.
• FI PPP is exactly addressing this. Is not about developing new technologies, but about making existing generic enablers federatable and integratable so specific instances can be built together.
• In FP, what is mechanism to extract lessons from individual projects to other sectors. E.g. Smart Grids to other sectors. E.g. to SMEs.
• FI PPP has 8 use cases to provide broad understanding and sharing required. To inform the most promising 5 pilots.
• What does Service transition mean for Product based companies. How do businesses get value from data in the future? Maybe programme needs to be updated to share lessons learned. Does KICS address this?
• Need to educate business see the opportunities.

With this the session is brought to a close with some closing comments.

It has been a busy and highly interactive two hours. There is a wide spectum of views on the kind of business models which would be promising for european businesses and how FI technologies could support and enable them. This is something we want to pursue going forward, and into FIA Ghent. The session agreed that a useful session topic would be scenarios for the future of business on the internet of the future. Sincere thanks to everyone who attended and participated, in the room and online.

Please, please, continue the discussion and contributions online.

FIA Valencia Enterprise – Presentations

Welcome to the FIA Valencia Enteprise session. Here we summarise the first portion of the meeting, the various presentations. The post was updated during the  session so the discussion could be followed and reviewed realtime online. The post will be refined in the coming days, after the caretakers meet to review. Please, continue to add your comments if there is anything you would like to contribute.

Welcome by Man-Sze Li, IC Focus.

• Welcome and Introduction (PDF)
• Everyone’s awake
• Looking forward to exciting 2 hours ahead on what FI means for Enterprise
• In collaboration with DG INFSO, FInES Cluster, EFII, FIA Working Groups and indeed you we hope
• Results of open consultation at enterprise session in FIA Stockholm presented
  • A straw poll
  • Total concensus: top priority on business models and relationships.
  • Majority interest on important of definition of research stream.
  • A lot of interest on impact of FI in enterprises in Europe
• We want to stimulate further debate
• SMEs of particular interest
• Session Context:
  • Business as usual is over
  • PPP impact on society at large
  • DNA of future internet
• Please participate!!!

Invited speakers:

Stefano De Panfilis, EFII

• FI and Enterprises (PDF)
• What can FI Technologies deliver for enterprises?
• What can enterprise contribute to FI PPP?
• Internet of People, Knowledge, Things, Networks, Services, …indeed Internet of Business Processes introduced yesterday
• FI benefits for the citizen, for (dynamic) communities. Indeed FI supports creation of dynamic communities. For the enterprise it is a significant opportunity, at least indirectly. e.g. Selling an app allowing painting with fingers on iPhone  for a few dollars – the developer is now a millionaire!
• How about direct benefit for enterprise?
• Yes, if: enterprises evolve, willing to change
• Need FI supporting technologies: XaaS!!!
• FI Core Platform: unified and consolidated. Open. Hardware, Software, Network.
• Based on FI Generic Enablers
• So why not a Use Case project from the FInES community

Discussion

• This last point derived from experience here in FI Valencia

Thomas Michael Bohnert, SAP

• SAP Vision – Enterprise Context (PDF)
• Representing SAP, FIRA
• What are our requirements?
• Services are driving economies
• Companies on a global scale – global business network
• Large chain of enterprises
• Increasing global competition
• Need to increase efficiency effectiveness for Europe to be competitive
• Aware of increasing risks and risk potentials
• Mortgage crisis in US triggered by a single bank decision in Singapore
• How can this be addressed?
• Web based service economies and business intelligence
• FI – needs to be a holistic framework. IoT, IoS, NoF, CC, … very aligned with Stefano’s previous presentation
• IoT? – allows high resolution management, next generation business apps. More insight, to the next level.
• Video: integrated comms with a car. Business trips. availalbe to 3rd parties. Internet based odometer. Anonymised. Eco-sensitive. CO emmissions tracked. Will allow Eco cert for car pools to be generated. E.g. can prove env. friendly transport. Increase resale value. Where is local/cheapest fuel? Integrated with Gallelio. Journey has just begun!
• IoT offers real business opportunties for motor industry
• Improved logistics
• Improved fleet management
• IoT not standalone. needs to be in parallel with IoS.
• One architecture can address these needs. See deck for first sketch of FIRA recommendations for architecture.
• The PPP is a big opportuntity for this holistic framework.
• FIRA not to be confused with ‘G16′ proposal

Discussion after next presentation, getting the SME perspective.

Miguel Borrras, Antara

• What Does FI Mean for Enterprise (PDF)
• What does FI mean for the enterprise?
• It is so difficult to be ME !! Signature problems etc.
• FI means TRUST for enterprise. A research issue. Must be easy to use.
• Identity card in Spain is interesting progress for example, but does not answer all questions.
• Are storms brewing behind the approaching Cloud?
• Who controls MY data?
• Yet another buzz word…which approach will prevail???
• e.g. is IBM Cloud effort mainly SaaS?
• Web 2.0 killed the semantic star?
• Will ther ebe a Web 3.0? Web 2.0 has killed it.
• Semantic grid on consumer side: Semantics for competitive intelligence
• Collaborative Web: can be seen as a leaking faucet for enterprises
• Save water, save the company
• % of leaking of comercially sensitive information increasing all the time.
• FI means Company Intellectual Rights Management. Seems to be missing as a research topic.

Open to the floor…

• Clarification from the floor: IBM not just SaaS
• Disagreement with Semantic web 3 killing web 2.0. Web 3 facilitiates web 2.0. Prosumer now emerging. Generating content. People moving to simpler languages from web of documents to web of data.
• In response, different semantic initiaves are seperate/standalone/silos. If not automatic semantic inferencing, semantic web will not prevail. Bet proposed!!
• @Thomas Michael. Are fun elements only with US companies? How will FIRA respond to user needs? A lot of key players from many domains invited to contribute user requirements. FI addressing society needs, gaming has a lower priority.
  
• Thomas responsed to online comment – not just institutional inputs in scope. Broader inputs being solicited.

FI Enterprise Systems Research Roadmap update by Michele Missikoff, CNR.

• FInES Research Roadmap
• Identifing the main research challenges in a 2020 time horizon.
• For more information see FInES cluster website.

Any thoughts, before we begin?

Almost there now. The FIA Enterprise session kicks-off on Thursday April 15th at 11:30 AM in Auditorium 3B – please note this new location.

As you may have already seen, the session caretakers have collated details of  session description, context, themes and topics in the FIA Valencia Enterprise session information document. It includes the opening questions that have been drafted for the panel discussion. Do they trigger any initial thoughts you would like to share before the session begins?

Please, post your comments below and we will take them on board if at all possible…thank you, in advance!

Enterprise @ FIA Valencia

Details of the Enterprise session at the FIA conference in Valencia are now available on the Future Internet Portal. The session aims to tackle three themes raised by the enterprise community in FIA Stockholm:

• Vision: Smart Enterprises of the future and Innovation as a business routine

• Business Models: business models to support new value propositions and drive new business values

• Future Internet Systems: next generation systems that will support enterprises to innovate and thrive in the post-crisis landscape.

Guest speakers confirmed for the session include Stefano De Panfilis (EFII), Thomas Bohnert (SAP) and Miguel Borras (Antara).

A significant portion of the agenda will be given to an open panel discussion in which audience participation will be very much encouraged. For those that don’t get a chance to use the microphones,  your thoughts, questions and feedback can also be contributed real-time by submitting comments to this blog site, or  by tweeting @FIAEnt.

Session caretakers will review online contributions real-time, and raise as much of your feedback  as time allows.

The session kicks-off on Thursday April 15th at 11:30 AM – we hope to see you there.

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Welcome to the Future Internet Assembly – Enterprise – blog!

We plan to use this facility to update you on our progress, thoughts and plans, and very much hope that you will use it to give us your feedback and help keep us on track.

We are currently busy preparing for our session at the upcoming Future Internet Assembly being held in Valencia Spain on April 15th and 16th…stay tuned!!!