Technology, research, and digital interaction have proven essential to meet the challenges of a pandemic world. In many senses, change is here to stay. In this opening session, participants will elaborate on how emerging technologies have reshaped our life and what we must expect from the future. One of the lessons of the COVID crisis is the importance of international cooperation to tackle global issues and the necessity to accelerate the com...

5G-MOBIX is developing and testing 5G core technological innovations for connected automated mobility (CAM) along multiple cross-border corridors and local trial sites. This session will present an overview of the 5G networks deployed, the 5G features, use cases and scenarios trialed, a preview of their performance to date, and finally, the cross-border challenges investigated, namely: interconnecting telecommunication infrastructures, application security and privacy or regulatory issues,...

Annabeth Aagaard, Associate Professor (PhD, MSc.) and Director of Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital Business Development form Aarhus University and Anita Krogsoe Skov, who is a GDPR specialist at University of Aarhus, will present a new digital maturity assessment tool (DMAT). DMAT has been developed for companies and organizations to be able to assess their digital maturity on six key dimensions and has been applied already by over 900 companies globally. The...

Digitisation is happening too fast that societies are not prepared for this fast transformation, in times when the new fuel is data, marketplaces for bringing value to data assets are trendy and data economy models are still under development yet many design aspects for Digital Transformation needs to be defined. Emerging technologies are helping to speed up the digital transformation, but societies may not be ready for this fast transition.Join us in this session where we will hear...

NGIoT is participating in the global ‘Digital Around the World’ event on 20th October with a session presenting the final results of the NGIoT H2020 CSA, in respect to the IoT European landscape, the market perspectives for Europe in times of the digital age, considerations for data protection, as well as Europe’s future direction, as depicted in the ‘NGIoT Roadmap’ for IoT Research Innovation ...

Presentation of several research projects on security and privacy  followed by a discussion among the speakers and the audience on the challenges and outcomes:1. ERATOSTHENES - Secure management of IoT devices lifecycle through identities, trust and distributed ledgers:  A holistic security management approach for IoT networks lifecycle”2. OLYMPUS - Oblivious identity Management for Private and User-friendly Services:  Dis...

The use of digital technologies can benefit farmers by improving productivity and sustainability. Farming sustainably can help to safeguard the environment, deliver economic profitability, and ensure social and economic equity for the farmer.  In this session, we share experiences on how digital technologies are helping to increase agricultural sustainability. 

Fundamental research in the EU and the US on new concepts for distributed computing and swarm intelligence  The objective of the session is to explore the ground for potential collaboration of EU and US academia on fundamental, pre-competitive research on new concepts for distributed computing in the context of edge computing at device level and decentralised intelligence  which is mutually beneficial:   

This panel will  present  scientific and technological advances in IoT, conducted by Brazilian institutions in IoT Cognitive Edge. Code IoT education platform (human capital); Caninos Loucos SBC family and SwarmOS (technology). It will be shown six large scale Pilots based on Iot Cognitive Edge Open Platforms: autonomous traffic lights, edge based urban surveillance, health monitoring of childhood cancer patients, Sleep apnea diagnosis,  Internet of Turtle a...

 Since 2014, SAT Alliance is being launched to create a community around the SAT concept, to boost the implementation throughout several initiatives. Initially designed to be a set of standards to support the capture, transformation, and transmission of sensitive data by an IoT device, the SAT concept proved to be a cyber security framework for IoT. The first implementation related to control the issuance of invoices for Brazilian retailers reached impress...

IPv6 is about addressing the future. The world is in a serious trajectory on the transition to IPv6-Only. IPv6 is growing much faster than IPv4. The IPv6 penetration has reached a remarkable rate of 44,7 % worldwide as of June 2021 with China, India, USA, Europe, Brazil, and Japan driving the IPv6 adoption with their large IPv6 user base. The industry has many new technology domains like 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, cloud-network convergence, and distributed edge for serv...

Through this session we will explore how Industrial AI can generate impact for business and society. Experts from Europe, Canada and USA, representing industry, Government and research initiatives will exchange views on needs from Industrial AI to address world-wide challenges of our time; tools and mechanisms to support industries and business to implement industrial and trustworthy AI; ways to transform excellent research results into impact in business and society; and, on the kind of c...

The session will discuss the research roadmap on Internet of Things, edge computing and Cloud. It will more specifically discuss and explore the options to strengthen international cooperation on the Internet of Things and networking technologies research domains, including through international research infrastructure perspective.&nbsp...

This session will explore results of the Next Generation Internet Initiative (NGI), an initiative spearheaded by the European Commission in order to shape the development and evolution of the Internet into an “Internet of Humans”. NGI...

The Road to Digital TransformationBy Stephen Mellor, CTO, Industrial Internet ConsortiumConnecting industrial plant to the internet enables businesses to transform themselves digitally to create new products and services and to create new business models to monetize their offerings. But this is a road going uphill. Where do you start? How do you address ossified organizational, operational, and business practices? What do you need to jumpstar...

Privacy Indicators for IoT service users: ML-based approach

China is an important part of the world's Internet. As of August 2021, the number of active IPv6 users in China has reached 551 million, accounting for 54.52% of Chinese Internet users. The total IPv6 traffic of the three basic telecom enterprises' metropolitan area networks has exceeded 20Tbps, and the total IPv6 traffic in the LTE core network exceeds 10Tbps, accounting for 22.87% of the total network traffic. China has applied for IPv6 address resources and ranks first in the world. The...

The Digital Around the World has opened a window for conversations on enhancing thesecurity as well as capacity by implementing nationwide new internet infrastructure usingIPv6 and IoT technologies and also the creation of secured internet infrastructure.We would introduce, the IPv6 and IoT evangelists committed to working together toencourage provision of IPv6 and IoT products and services to the society at large.This session gives the opportunity to explore the innova...

Airlines are focusing on digital transformation as they look to rebound from the losses they incurred from the pandemic. This session will discuss how inflight digital platforms can help Airlines recover faster. Panelists will discuss their perspectives from Airline, Catering, and Inflight entertainment point of view. The topics covered are as below.What is an Airline inflight digital platform? How does IoT help Inflight Entertainment systems? Wh...

  This session on Blockchain Application in Africa will focus on three main topics to be presented and discussed with the audience:- "3 Ways Blockchain will transform Africa's Informal Sectors." - "Blockchain and the Art of the possible" - "Financial inclusion/remittances enabled by Blockchain technology within the African context" 

Africa accounts for more than 15% of the global population. The continent is experiencing the highest urban population growth anywhere in the world. This has led to an unprecedented explosion of local innovations to meet the challenge of providing essential services: water, sanitation, waste management and energy. Water has b...

After completing a 24-hours virtual trip around the globe, representatives from the five continents will share what they learned and witnessed from the Digital Around the World 2021. Indeed, the session will be the closing of this year’s event but, also, the opening of a new and interesting set of challenges for all the communities. One of the objectives of the Digital Around the World is to promote of regional and international cooperation an...