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Mr Brendan Rowan

Tech, Policy and Skills
BluSpecs
Participates in 3 items

With nearly 15 years of experience in the areas of research, consulting and venture support, I have supported and delivered on high-impact and flagship initiatives that span various tech areas from IoT to LLMs development to HPC and Quantum Cryptography. I have a strong track record in the design and delivery of training and acceleration programmes with impact, that are tailored to the needs of participants and ensure engagement within the ecosystem and working on real-world experiences and exposure to deliver results not certificates. 

Summary results directly supported in the previous 6 years have included over 30 million euro raised, establishment of 25 companies, over 300 commercial agreements, 20 new patents, 

I design and direct large projects linked to the adoption of advanced digital technologies that are multi-stakeholder and work with the start-up and investment community, large corporates, and multi-level policy makers. I work with companies and large public bodies in navigation of shifting tech and skills demands and support the convergence of market insights with tech and skills strategies for future competitiveness.

I regularly speak on the areas of talent development for frontier tech, market readiness and tech transfer, strategic roadmaps and scaling of use cases and start-up ventures. Guest Lecturer in Masters in AI, Task Force Lead for Skills in the Big Data Value Association and Task Force Chair for Early Innovators and Ventures for the Alliance for IoT and Edge Innovation.

Sessions in which Mr Brendan Rowan participates

Monday 30 August, 2021

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

The EU-IoT project will kick-off its 6-month offline Hackathon/IDEAthon, focused on Mobile Sustainable Solutions and addressing as domain challenges the EU-IoT scope areas: IoT interfaces; Near/Far Edge; Infrastructure; Data Spaces. During this section, we shall explain the Hackathon challenges, project types, awards, rules, and how you will be able to interact with the EU-IoT experts, the differentNext Generatio IoT projects support...

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

Are you creating the next generation of the Internet of Things? Are you looking to apply your solution to novel use cases or to integrate leading tech into a new application area? Then this session is for you! Here you will find out about the different opportunities for funding from across the 5 Next Generation IoT projects, and specific use cases where you can contribute. Following this, you will have the opportunity to ideate and co-create new sol...

4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | 1 hour

Are you creating the next generation of the Internet of Things? Are you looking to apply your solution to novel use cases or to integrate leading tech into a new application area? Then this session is for you!Here you will find out about the different opportunities for funding from across the 5 Next Generation IoT projects, and specific use cases where you can contribute. Following this, you will have the opportunity to ideate and co-create new sol...

Sessions in which Mr Brendan Rowan attends

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

5:45 PM
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM | 1 hour

The IoT, edge and cloud computing technologies are likely to be global by design. A technology that is developed by focusing only the specific requirements of a regional market may face difficulties to be globally adopted. International collaboration allows researchers to exchange knowledge and combine perspectives to solve challenging problems, often of transversal nature. Nowadays, with a growing number of global challenges such as climate change, infectious diseases, energy and sustaina...

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...

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

Introducing data spaces into society makes us designers of a new world exploiting the sharing of data in a totally new way. As designers, we need to know what we are doing, business activities will not be the same as before, business processes will be re-engineered, and new skills are necessary to build data ecosystems. This track will bring together leading initiatives that are paving the way for what could become functional implementations of European-governed data sharing spaces. We want t...

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

The future technological developments will set several strategic choices related to new value networks and ecosystems, how value is created within companies and redistributed among industry players, countries and society. Intelligent connectivity is essential for the achievement of the United Nation’s (UN's) Broadband Commission agenda for 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, having set deployment targets for 2025 to underline the importance of communication systems and networks on address...

5:45 PM
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM | 1 hour

The COVID19 crisis has significantly pushed for the digital transformation of our society and economy. Beyond the visible face of digital transformation, deep technological revolutions are happening. Network virtualization, digital twins, far edge computing, artificial intelligence, and distributed ledger technologies are just a few examples. This session brings together representatives of several organizations and fora active in the ICT research domain to share their views on the most import...

Thursday 2 September, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes

The IPv6 Initiative at ETSI (3GPP) is attracting a very good number of players including ISPs/Vendor/Academia from Europe, US and Asia to work on:Identify gaps and recommendations of existing and required IPv6 standards both inside ETSI and in other SDOs;Identify and describe IPv6 Network related use cases & specific scenarios, derived requirements and IPv6 networking challenges in the following areas:

4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1 hour

The expansion of the IoT and edge computing landscape has brought opportunities but also new challenges. Standards have an essential role in the IoT and edge computing systems. Having a roadmap of IoT standardization can enhance the technical issues that have to be addressed and resolved. The role of standardization in interoperability solutions is key, both by allowing a formalised support to various implementations, and by ensuring a consolidation of the options available so that the int...

Friday 3 September, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels
3:45 PM
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM | 1 hour

 Artificial intelligence and industrial internet of things, IIoT, are enablers for digitising industries. The progress in technology delivers more intelligence at the edge that empowers IIoT devices with smarter decision-making, high performance, low power processing, and built-in security to create more intelligent and adaptive industrial applications. This session aims to present the research and development results related to the deployment of AI technologies implemented in ...