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Rolf Riemenschneider

Head of Sector, "Internet of Things" Unit, DG CONNECT
European Commission
Participates in 4 items

Head of Sector, "Internet of Things" Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Rolf Riemenschneider is involved in the research and innovation programme Horizon 2020 where he manages research and innovation project and policies in the following areas: Advanced Computing, Cyber Physical Systems, Factories of the Future and Internet of Things. From 2009-2015, he managed the ICT activities of the Public-Private Partnership Factories of the Future (PPP FOF). Since 2015, he coordinate the Focus Area of Internet of Things as part of the cross-cutting activities in Horizon 2020 inside CONNECT and with DG MOVE, DG AGRI, DG RTD, and contributes to the future strategy of the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIOTI).

Before joining the Commission in 2002 Dr Riemenschneider worked as an engineer for consulting and project management on behalf of the German government (Federal Ministry of Education and Science - BMBF) in the Microsystems programme.

Dr Rolf Riemenschneider received the Dipl.-Ing degree from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, in 1990 focusing on microwave technologies and optical communications.

Sessions in which Rolf Riemenschneider participates

Tuesday 31 August, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour

As data becomes the new oil of the economy and a key asset to address societal challenges like mobility, energy, carbon-neutral cities and manufacturing, the EU must strive for a leading position in the data economy and cannot afford to have the data of its businesses, public sector and citizens stored and exploited from largely outside its borders. A strategy for on World-leading Data and Computing Technology is at the heart of the European policy strategy for

3:15 PM
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | 1 hour

Massive growth of devices and systems connected to the Internet raises technology and policy challenges on a new scale. With an ever more heterogeneous and complex environment of IoT, these connected objects generate large data volumes. This massive data feeds the data economy and opens up new business opportunities. Currently, the majority of IoT revenues are based on cloud-based services as a dominant economic model for IoT business models. Will it be the case in the next decade?T...

Wednesday 1 September, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | 1 hour 15 minutes

The Next Generation Internet of Things (NGIoT) is an initiative to build a resilient European IoT Hub. It acts as an accelerator for the whole European IoT ecosystem towards transforming the current IoT community of researchers and innovators in Europe into an increasingly cohesive, dynamic, participatory and sustainable ecosystem. It assists stakeholders to engage and create value, as well as set up a self-sustaining European IoT commu...

Friday 3 September, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1 hour

This session will then discuss the future research roadmap on Internet of Things, edge computing and Cloud foreseen in the upcoming European research program. It will more specifically discuss and explore the options to strengthen international cooperation in the Internet of Things and networking technologies research domains, including through international research infrastructure perspective. This session organized by Slices SC project will also count with the participation of experts fr...

Sessions in which Rolf Riemenschneider attends

Tuesday 31 August, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | 1 hour 15 minutes

The rising awareness of climate change has caused the popularization of sustainability and the realization that we need to do things not only differently, but better.As focus shifts to finding solutions to climate issues, technological advancements and innovation present a promising way forward. The Internet of Things, for example, which Boston Consulting Group estimates will boom into an $267 bil...

Friday 3 September, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels
11:45 AM
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM | 1 hour

The data interoperability in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) has several issues to be solved by the research community. For instance, the large amount of data, the numerous different data models and the data collection at high speed are key challenges to address by the different organizations working in the domain of IoT data interoperability. Different dimensions of IoT data interoperability exist like semantic interoperability, syntacticalinteroperability and the object abstr...