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Date : 10 September 2008
Venue : Paris City Hall (5 Rue Lobau, 75004 Paris).
Morning (09:00 – 12:00)
Registration - security clearing (09:00 - 10:00)
Plenary - Chairperson: Per Blixt, European Commission
- Jean-Louis Missika, Deputy Mayor of Paris, in charge of Innovation and Education
- Gilles Bloch, Director General for Research and Innovation Ministry, France
- Jean-Charles Pomerol, President of University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
- Nakita Vodjdani, Agence Nationale de la Recherche
FIRE and related initiatives (10:40 - 12:00)
- Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission, FIRE initiative
- Serge Fdida, UPMC, European Testbed Projects
- Suzanne Iacono, NSF, GENI initiative
- Akihiro Nakao, PlanetLab and JGN2 Japan
Lunch
Afternoon (14:00 - 18:10)
Keynote: Rudolf Strohmeier, Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Reding
Panel, FIRE challenges vol. 1 (14:20 - 15:45)
Moderator: Mario Campolargo, European Commission
- Clean-slate approaches: needs and opportunities from FIRE
Introductions:
- Martin May (ETH Zurich)
- Roger Torrenti (Orionis)
- Hendrik Abramowicz (Ericsson)
Coffee Break and Poster Session on FIRE and national testbed projects (15:30 - 16:15)
Panel, FIRE challenges vol. 2 (16:30 - 18:15)
- Industrial perspectives and expectations from FIRE
Introductions:
- David Kennedy (Eurescom)
- Steve Wright (BT)
- Marcin Pilarski (Polish Telecom) - Existing offers as Future Internet Testbeds
Moderator: Max Lemke, European Commission
Introductions:
- Timur Friedman (UPMC), OneLab
- Anastasius Gavras (Eurescom), PII
- Mauro Campanella (GARR), FEDERICA
- Building synergies with national and international initiatives
Moderator: Susanna Avéssta, FIREworks
Introductions:
- Marc Fiuczynski, PlanetLab
- Francois Baccelli, The French Think Tank on the Future of the Internet
- Paul Mueller, G-Lab
- Reijo Juvonen, Finnish Initiative on Future Internet
- Wrap-up: building synergies between research projects on Future Internet
Moderators: Per Blixt, European Commission and Serge Fdida, UPMC
Cocktail and Networking (18:30 - 20:30)
at Les Cordeliers (UPMC, Paris Universitas, 15 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris)
Registration (free but binding for organizational reasons) is available on line at:
http://www.ict-fireworks.eu/events/fireweek-in-september/fire-launch-event/registration.html
The Internet is much more than a communication system. New and unexpected Internet-enabled applications and services make tremendous use of emerging technologies and at the same time shape new requirements for future ones. At global level, Internet is becoming more and more the backbone of modern economy and society, to the point where new generations in the industrialized countries cannot even conceive a world without Internet.
Due to these multiple interactions, Internet is becoming more and more a complex system, a living and evolving entity, where any technological development affecting its future may have multifaceted and even unexpected consequences at any technological, social or economic level. As a consequence, new proposals for internet architectures, protocols and services should not be defined only as paperwork, as they rather need early experimentation and testing in large-scale environments, even though these ideas may actually be implemented only in the long-term.
The FIRE - Future Internet Research and Experimentation- Initiative is addressing this need, being geared towards creating a multidisciplinary research environment for investigating and experimentally validating highly innovative and revolutionary ideas for new networking and service paradigms. FIRE is promoting the concept of experimentally-driven yet long-term research, joining the two ends of academy-driven visionary research and industry-driven testing and experimentation, in a truly multidisciplinary and innovative approach. To make this approach a reality, FIRE aims at creating a large scale European Experimental Facility, built by gradually connecting and federating existing and new testbeds for emerging or future internet architectures, services and technologies.
The ultimate goal of FIRE is boosting the European innovation and its competitive role in the definition of Future Internet concepts. The first FIRE call was published in June 2007, with a budget of euro 40M, as part of the ICT Research Programme of the European Union. It will be followed by a second call, expected for publication at the end of 2008, with an additional budget of euro 50M.
This FIRE Launch Event marks the starting point of the 14 research projects which have been selected under the first call. These projects have two related dimensions: building a European Experimental Facility for Future Internet research, and supporting experimentally-driven advanced research, which defines the challenges for the evolving facility, and takes advantage of it.
The Event will involve all the FIRE stakeholders, from all relevant academic and industrial actors: researchers and decision makers on Future Internet from European academy and industry, relevant national initiatives, R&D projects from FIRE and any other related area in national, EUREKA (Celtic) and FP6-FP7 portfolios.
The event will be a unique opportunity to discuss the research scenario behind FIRE, its expected impact, and the multiple ways to improve synergies and added value with other research initiatives, be they worldwide, at EU or national levels. It represents a key milestone for updating the vision and the roadmap for the European Experimental Facility and the experimentally-driven visionary research for the Future Internet.
The whole event, launched under the French EU Presidency, is fully in line with its policy priorities. For more information on FIRE, please visit http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fire.
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