Michaël de Boer from the European Commission presented the current State of Play in the FInES Cluster, as well as the meeting objectives. He reported on the outcome of the Future Internet Assembly (FIA) Poznan and outlined the key events for 2012. (FInES Cluster Meeting, December 2012)

1. FInES Cluster Meeting
Michaël de Boer
INFSO D4, European Commission
European Commission, Brussels
19-20 December, 2011

2. Today‟s agenda (I)

3. Today‟s agenda (II)

4. Social Event
• Drinks and food
• €30 to be paid at the venue
• ATMs can be found at the ING bank next to the
meeting building

5. Social Event
•Drinks and food
• €30 to be paid to me at the venue

6. Tomorrow‟s agenda

7. FInES State-of-Play

8. The FinES domain
2009 EI 2009 2010 Research 2011 Position 2011 Research
Research Roadmap Position Paper Roadmap Paper Roadmap
EI FInES
“The full potential of the Future Internet is
accessible to, relevant for, and put to use by
European enterprises including SMEs. The Internet
thus becomes a universal business system on
which new values can be created by competing
as well as collaborating enterprises - incumbent
as well as new - through innovation in a level playing
field, with sustainable positive benefits for the
economy, society and the environment”.

9. INFSO Policy Context and Timeframe
2010
• EU2020 Strategy
• FP simplification communication
• A Digital Agenda for Europe
• Financial Regulation revision
• Innovation Union
• EU budget review
• FP7 interim evaluation
• Other Europe 2020
2011
Flagship Initiatives
• Green Paper: Common
Strategic Framework (CSF) • 29/6 Multi-annual Financial
for EU Research & Innovation Framework (MFF) proposal
• 30/11 CSF proposal • WP 2013 Preparation
2012
2013
• MFF decision
• CSF decision

10. Current Activity
• FInES community management
and representation
• Policy and research collaboration
initiatives
• Prioritization and cross-
fertilization with 14 FInES Task
Forces
• Research roadmapping and
policy activities

11. FInES Community
FP7 Projects FP7 - FOF Projects
VENIS STREP
MSEE IP
COMVANTAGE IP
EPES STREP
IMAGINE IP
EXTREMEFACTORIES STREP
ADVENTURE STREP
GloNet STREP
• 1000+ members on mailing list PREMANUS STREP
BIVEE STREP
• Monthly newsletters
• Social media
• Websites
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12. 14 Task Forces
FP7 Projects FP7 - FOF Projects
VENIS STREP
MSEE IP
COMVANTAGE IP
EPES STREP
IMAGINE IP
EXTREMEFACTORIES STREP
ADVENTURE STREP
GloNet STREP
PREMANUS STREP
• 1000+ members on mailing list BIVEE STREP
• Newsletters
• Social Media
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13. Future Internet Assembly (FIA)
Poznan: outcome
• Poznan: 25-26 October 2011
– Half-day workshop: panel
discussion on “the Rise of the
Sensing Enterprise”
– First introduction of the „Sensing
Enterprise‟ concept by two
speakers
– Proceedings available online

14. Key events in 2012
• FInES workshop at Princeton: 1st
semester 2012 (tentative)
• FIA Aalborg: 9-11 May
– Collaboration to main session
– Parallel FInES workshop
• Digital Entrepreneurship Conference,
June 7 (tentative)
– Major event in Brussels
– Plenary session
– "Everyone can be an enterprise, Society can be
an enterprise, and vice-versa in a multi-polar
and inclusive society.”
• Digital Agenda for Europe

15. Future Events
4-7 January, Hawaii: 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
(HICCS 2012)
20-23 March, Valencia: 6th International Conference I-ESA on Interoperability
for Enterprise Systems and Applications: "Shaping Enterprise Interoperability in
Future Internet" (I-ESA 2012)
16-20 April, Lyon: International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2012)
10-11 May, Aalborg, Denmark: Future Internet Assembly (FIA) Aalborg
27-31 May, Heraklion, Greece: 9th European Semantic Web Conference
(ESWC)
17-20 June, Barcelona: XXIII ISPIM Conference
25-29 June, Gdańsk, Poland: 24th International Conference on Advanced
Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'12)
17-20 July, Orlando, Florida: Collaborative Enterprises 2012 (CENT 2012) -
Collaborative Development and Engineering Driving Innovation in the context of
the WMSCI 2012 conference
3-6 September, Tallinn, Estonia: 10th International Conference on Business
Process Management (BPM 2012)

16. Meeting Objectives
• Reinforcing collaboration between
projects and between projects and
other communities
• Opening the cluster to a broader
audience and stimulating
participation (through social media)
• Defining our priorities for 2012
• Networking
• Celebrating the end of the year!

17. Questions?
For further details, please refer to our online resources:
www.cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/enet/clusters_en.html
www.fines-cluster.eu
Or contact us:
INFSO-FINES@ec.europa.eu
Cristina.Martinez@ec.europa.eu
Michael.DE-BOER@ext.ec.europa.eu
Thank you for your attention!