
Rolf Riemenschneider
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
- From Cloud to Edge to IoT for European Data
- 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 manuf...
- Panel
- IoT MARKET PERSPECTIVES ON DATA ECONOMY
- 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 hetero...
- Building an ecosystem for IoT and Edge Computing towards a European Strategy Forum
- 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | 1 hour 15 minutes
- The Next Generation Internet of Things (NGIoT) is an initiative to build a resilient Europ...
- INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION FOR LARGE SCALE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES
- 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 res...
Sessions in which Rolf Riemenschneider attends
- OPENING: NEXT-GENERATION IoT FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
- 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 di...
- IoT DATA INTEROPERABILITY
- 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...