Thursday, 12 April 2012 17:50

For more details on the agenda and the speakers or to retrieve the presentations, please follow the links below.

The event will bring together researchers from EU-funded projects under Challenge 1 of the ICT-FP7 programme, as well as experts and industry representatives from Denmark and other Member States. The Workshop is open to all interested participants and attendance is free of charge (see details below).

This Workshop is part of a sustained effort to strengthen Europe's role in the next generation Internet landscape and reinforce the innovation capacity and competitiveness of European enterprises in the global market, with a particular focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.

The objective of the workshop is to explore and debate several major inter-connected themes which are expected to have a significant impact on the development of next generation enterprise systems, including:

• (New) business values and characteristics of enterprises
• From value creation to value innovation
• Exchange of value objects in next-generation enterprise networks as dynamic constellations of value
• The enterprise as a complex smart entity capable of sensing and reacting to a wide ranging set of (business) stimuli – the Sensing Enterprise
• Characteristics, properties and architectures of next-generation enterprise systems
• Future Internet capabilities, common resources and service utilities to support and power the Universal Business Ecosystem.

The potential impact on business evolution and the enterprise migration path – from the existing situation to the Future Internet – especially for SMEs will be addressed for each workshop theme.

The full day event will start at 9:00 and finish around 17:30, and will comprise three panels referring to business values, value objects and value constellations, the innovative concept of the sensing enterprise, and the next-generation enterprise systems' characteristics, properties and architectural design principles.

The three panels will be followed by an optional one hour session discussing future developments and sustainability of the FInES Cluster addressed mainly – but not exclusively – to the FInES projects' representatives and task forces members.

Panel 1: Business values, value objects and value constellations

This panel takes a fresh look at how Future Internet technologies may enhance the innovation capacity and competitiveness of European enterprises, especially SMEs. The panel focuses on the changing notion of business values, new types of value objects both physical and virtual, and the way in which enterprise resources and capabilities may be deployed in increasingly dynamic value constellations of actors and activities for optimising offerings to customers. The panel describes several examples, discusses the impacts for enterprises, and provides pointers to how enterprises may prepare for digital entrepreneurship in a changing world.

Panel 2: The Sensing Enterprise

What benefits does the Internet of Things bring about for businesses? Are European enterprises in general, and manufacturing enterprises in particular, equipped and ready for the challenges ahead? What does the Sensing Enterprise mean and why is it important?  What are the opportunities, barriers and risks? Who should be tackling them and how? This panel provides a strategic overview of business, technical and governance issues relating to the Sensing Enterprise.

Panel 3: Next-generation Enterprise Systems – characteristics, properties and architectural design principles

Businesses will increasingly operate in a “universal business ecosystem” merging the physical world with the virtual world, where people and things exchange different forms of information and transaction of different types of values. Such an ecosystem will be supported by advanced ICT infrastructures:  from Cloud Computing to SOA and SaaS, from Internet of Things and Smart Objects to Semantic Web and Linked Data, to name just a few among the most relevant ones. This panel discusses the technological trends and developments of next-generation enterprise systems, with a focus on technical design and implementation impacts, in anticipation of future enterprise needs and in support of enterprise migration paths.

Registration and logistic details

To register to the Workshop, please go to the FIA website. In the first line there is a link to the registration form. Click and a new page will open. Go to the bottom of the page and click on 'Next' and the registration form will appear. Fill out your details. If you are only participating in the FInES workshop, select 'I do not participate in the Future Internet Assembly' and then select the session 'Future Internet Enterprise System (FInES), May 9th 2012'. Remember also to select 'by invoice' in the payment section for registering without payment.

Please kindly note that participation to the FInES Workshop is FREE of charge, but a fee is required if you also wish to attend other FIA sessions or side events.

Venue: The Small Theatre in the  Aalborg Kongres & Kultur Center, Aalborg, Denmark

Workshop documents

• Concept paper of the workshop
• Draft agenda
• Announcement
• Short description