Future Internet Assembly Aalborg

10-11 May 2012, Aalborg, Denmark

The Future Internet Assembly (FIA) will be held on May 10-11, 2012 under the Presidency of Denmark in the EU Council. The theme for FIA-Aalborg will be "Smart Cities and “Internet of Things" and will bring together projects that have recognised the need to strengthen European activities on the Future Internet to maintain European competitiveness in the global marketplace. Currently FIA brings together research projects that are part of the ICT programme of FP7. All of these projects are advancing the state of the art in their respective areas and FIA enables open interactions and cross-fertilization across the technical domains, reaching out to talent in Europe's Future Internet research community.

FIA is THE place for fundamental discussions supported by working groups, such as the architecture of the Future Internet or a roadmap for research in Horizon 2020 (the new name for FP8). But there is also place for one-off discussions around recent trends that when properly understood by projects will make their results more competitive and more ready for commercial exploitation. Think for instance about HTML5 and mobile computing using tablets. Does your project already understand what these cool technologies can bring?

FIRE will have a "Hands-on FIRE!" demo afternoon on Thursday May 10 to show actual experiments being run real-time on the (remote) facilities. This is particularly relevant for the guided tour to be offered to the Member States' representatives present in Aalborg for the Future Internet Forum (FIF). They are expected to visit the "Hands-on FIRE!" event around 17:30, after a short introduction by the FIRE STATION representatives.
Following FIRE projects will organize a demo:
BonFIRE, CONVERGENCE, CREW, FIRE STATION, HOBNET, Nano Data Centres, NOVI, OFELIA, OpenLab, SMART-Net, SmartSantander and SPITFIRE.
More information about the "Hands-on FIRE!" demo afternoon in FIRE wiki at: http://bit.ly/w9FJ3V.

To make the most of the occasion, interested projects were also invited by European Commission to propose Thematic Workshops to be held on May 9th involving where appropriate other FP7 projects. This would help to attract additional participants and make for more lively interactive demonstrations the day after.
FIRE Thematic Workshops being planned/organized on May 9, 2012:
• CREW- Experimental validation of cognitive radio/cognitive networking solutions (+D1+G3)
• EULER - Measurements and Measurement Tools
• FIRE STATION - EU-Japan (afternoon)
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Other workshops:
• ENOLL - Smart Cities
• FI-CONTENT - Impact of AV content on Future Internet infrastructure (+D2)
• FIGARO- Smart Living: Home Networks in Future Internet experimentation (+D2+G3)
More information about the Thematic Workshops in FIRE wiki at: http://bit.ly/yo4V6G.

The Future Internet week event web-site: http://www.fi-aalborg.eu/ 

More informaton and a draft FIA agenda at: http://www.future-internet.eu/home/future-internet-assembly/aalborg-may-2012.html