The IoT Tech Expo Europe is back đ Join us in Amsterdam on 24-25 September 2025 28 Mar 12:03 PM (6 days ago)
The IoT Tech Expo Europe is back 
Join us in Amsterdam on 24-25 September 2025
What to expect at #IoT Tech Expo Europe:
Cutting-edge IoT innovations from 200 industry-leading exhibitors
Inspiring speakers sharing their vision for the future
Networking opportunities with 7,000 like-minded professionals
Deep-dive sessions into IoT trends and strategies.
With 7,000 attendees, 200 expert speakers, and 200 innovative exhibitors, this event is set to be one of the most influential IoT gatherings of the year! 
What happens when civic economy meets protocol economy? 14 Mar 8:16 AM (20 days ago)
This exploratory research delves into the potential synergies between civic economies and protocol economies, aiming to uncover new pathways for future research and design. The civic economy, focusing on community, collaboration, and social well-being, offers an alternative to traditional profit-driven economic models. Meanwhile, leveraging decentralized technologies, the protocol economy presents novel approaches to value exchange and governance. Examining these two paradigmsâ intersections, we envision a âcivic protocol economyâ that could address complex societal challenges and foster more equitable, sustainable systems.
Towards sustainable 6G: A collaborative call to action for addressing environmental challenges in (and thanks to) future mobile networks 27 Feb 7:47 AM (last month)
As mobile networks evolve towards 6G, sustainability must be a central focus to address the environmental impacts of increasing energy consumption and resource use. This open letter highlights insights from the “Towards Sustainable 6G” workshop, where seven EU-funded projects – 6G4Society, BeGREEN, COALESCE, IN2CCAM, CENTRIC, 6Green, and 6G-TWIN – showcased innovative solutions for integrating energy efficiency, renewable energy, and ecological resilience into next-generation mobile networks. The projects emphasize AI-driven optimisation, sustainable infrastructure design, and cross-disciplinary collaboration as key strategies for reducing the ecological footprint of 6G systems. A joint statement underscores the necessity of embedding sustainability into 6G design, with follow-up activities planned to advance green telecommunications.
Applied Telecoms Engineering Programme. 18 Feb 7:48 AM (last month)
“The programme provides individuals working in the telecoms industry with the knowledge and expertise to become experts in Cellular Radio, Core Networks, LTE, or 5G Engineering. The programme offers guided learning pathways combining foundation courses with specialist tracks, allowing learners to demonstrate competence in their chosen field.
This programme has been assured by City & Guilds. Assured status provides validation and recognition for the learner. It is a symbol of learning excellence and quality and is a reassurance that the training undertaken meets best practice standards.
What tracks are available?
Cellular Radio Engineering
Core Network Engineering
LTE Engineering
5G Engineering
The Applied Telecoms Engineering Programme is designed for anyone working within the telecoms industry from new starters looking to build their technical knowledge from the ground up to more experienced engineers looking to formalise and expand their knowledge base. Rigorous testing, regular digital badging and certification ensure that successful students can demonstrate the breadth and depth of their knowledge.
Who would benefit?
Learn more here:
https://go.wraycastle.com/e/903731/telecoms-engineering-programme/kxvpz/659620202/h/MWbK80IbLwYG5Q3ISILCtLT1Enf8dMwPIjm6ZYkCZFA
Open Source and NGI for Digital Sovereignty 18 Feb 5:52 AM (last month)
Driving Europeâs Digital Sovereignty with NGI and Open Source.
“NGI boosts open-source technologies to foster a more secure, inclusive, and user-centric Internet. A prime example of this commitment by the European Union is the recent launch of virt8ra, the European Union’s first sovereign multi-provider edge cloud platform.
Developed by OpenNebula Systems, a Spanish open-source company, in collaboration with eight European tech organizations, virt8ra aims to establish a flexible infrastructure that interconnects various cloud providers. The initial deployment spans six EU member states: Croatia, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, and Spain.
This initiative aligns seamlessly with NGI’s mission to reimagine and reengineer the Internet, emphasizing the importance of open-source solutions in building a trustworthy, human-centric digital environment.”
The neuropilÂŽ cyber-security mesh 15 Feb 12:44 AM (last month)
The neuropilÂŽ cyber-security mesh is a new and fresh approach to counter cyber-attacks and to minimize the attack-surface to a minimum. It’s foundations are based on modern concepts like named-data networks, self-sovereign identities, zero trust architectures and attribute based access control to increase the cybersecurity level of itâs users beyond the current state-of-technology.
Francesca Bria : Eurostack, Building a European alternative for technological sovereignty 13 Feb 4:16 AM (last month)
EUROSTACK
Building a European alternative for technological sovereignty
Sovereign AI, open-source ecosystems, green supercomputing, data commons, and sovereign cloud: Building homegrown alternatives to empower Europe to reclaim control of its digital futureâlayer by layer, innovation by innovation.
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The Report
The EuroStack: Europe Innovating on Its Own Terms
EuroStack is our rallying cry to shape Europeâs digital destiny. By prioritizing strategic autonomy and harnessing breakthrough techâAI, chips, quantum computing, advanced cloud solutionsâweâre preparing Europe for tomorrowâs challenges and new opportunities.
Itâs time to build a digital future that mirrors our democratic values, economic ambitions, and environmental commitments.
Seize the Opportunity
EuroStack isnât about idealismâitâs hard realism. The alternative? A Europe reduced to digital colonialism, with industries hollowed out, citizens under foreign surveillance, and climate goals held hostage by monopolies.
We have the tools, we have the talent. Now we need the will to innovate on our own terms.
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Act NowâOr Lose the 21st Century
The stack is stacked against us.â¨Letâs rebuild it.
âEuroStack is our moonshot â the digital evolution of the euro and Single Market. EuroStack isnât optional â itâs how Europe innovates in the public interest and leads on its own terms.â
Francesca Bria
Fellow Stiftung Mercator, Hon. Professor, UCL IIPP
Paris AI Action Summit â A few key takeaways by GĂŠrald Santucci 12 Feb 8:07 AM (last month)
âYou were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.â – Winston Churchill (to Neville Chamberlain directly after Munich)
Now that the Paris Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit, held on 10-11 February 2025 at the Grand Palais in Paris, is behind us the time has come to draw a first assessment. Here follow our key take-aways.
No compass
First, we should regret the lack of will from all major countries to acknowledge the legacy of the previous similar events. Indeed, the AI Action Summit, co-chaired with India and signed by 61 countries, including China, was the third AI Summit organized so far. It followed the AI Safety Summit 2023 (1-2 November 2023), hosted by the United Kingdom at Bletchley Park (the birthplace of the digital, programmable computer) and signed by 28 major countries and the European Union, and the AI Seoul Summit (21-22 May 2024), co-hosted by the Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom and signed by 10 countries and the European Union. The impression prevails that each of these summits, which are basically international convenings of senior government officials, tech executives, civil society, and researchers to discuss the safety and policy implications of the worldâs advanced AI models, has been a sort of political
posturing without at the end a genuine pledge to achieve common goals for humanity.
Martin Pot: Architecture: place, atmosphere and agency. 31 Jan 11:44 AM (2 months ago)
Architecture: place, atmosphere and agency.
âWhat is of interest here is the precise identification of those tasks which capitalist development has taken away from architectureââ Manfredo Tafuri,
Our living world, or more precise our immediate environment is a – sometimes unintended – composition of natural and artificial materials and active connections; the artificial often defined as âarchitectureâ where at the same time it is often confused with âbuildingâ. The latter is static, the first is not. Both organize and shape space; space however does not exist within itself, it is the individual human who experiences space. At the same time the level of agency and interaction with this space is limited – sometimes even restricted – while increasing technology serves primarily the built environment as such, not the one who uses or experiences. Consequence is that we encounter problematic situations where this unilateral âagencyâ meets users that experience the absence of a sense of (spatial) privacy or the option to protect oneâs identity.
Architecture does not imply building per se.; the following text starts to define âarchitectureâ as the adaptation of space to human needs; i.e. the ways and means to modify and design our immediate – artificial/built – environment. Or, as phrased by Peter Sloterdijk: âArchitecture of modernity is the medium in which the explanation of human habitation in man-made interiors is expressed in a processual mannerâ .(trans.mp) For now; note the term âprocessualâ.
For a small number of years now the discussion on the basics of architecture – in particular its limits and periphery – seem to intensify in a broader direction, incorporating some involved disciplines that have not been subject for discussion in this before. Increasingly it seems acknowledged that not only architecture shapes our environment; it should incorporate the developing digital/analogue technologies and changing social frameworks. This is all the more significant since this touches on societal – or maybe primarily philosophical – issues, in particular focused on our dwelling that for the last decades have caused confusion where it meets the role/ position of the architect. Only recently several scholars in the Netherlands referred to this dilemma by signaling two âvisionsâ at Dutch Universities of Architecture; one that emphasizes the social questions where the other focuses on the more fundamental disciplinary issues. Should we qualify architecture as the adaptation of space to human needs both âvisionsâ may hardly be considered a contradiction.
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Objective and Subjective Approaches to Key Value Indicators â Sharing methodological approaches and evaluation instruments â 6G4Society & TrialsNet Workshop 31 Jan 10:29 AM (2 months ago)
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February 6 @ 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Virtual Event
6G4Society and TRIALSNET Workshop
Workshop based in two parts. The first half is presentations from SNS JU projects and external experts. The second half is based on interactive dialogue and active contributions from participants.
Who
SNS JU Projects working on KVIs
Date & Time
6 February 2025, 10:00-12:20 CET
Introduction
As KVIs become further developed and integrated as key components of SNS JU projects, challenges have emerged around how to identify what is a good measure of a KV, and how these can look different for subjective and objective evaluations. Key to this is understanding how these approaches and instruments can be different from KPIs and what other methodological resources can be drawn upon in their development. The aim of this workshop is twofold. First, it will share different approaches being developed in SNS JU projects as well as approaches used by external experts who also pursue indicators of social and sustainability values. Second, it will break the participants into small groups to work together to explore how what was presented can inform their diverse projects. The idea is to blend expert knowledge with interactive dialogues between SNS projects that are actively working on KVIs.