FIA Athens 2014 Brings Together Key European Internet Stakeholders to Reshape the Future Internet Infrastructure for Innovation
“Future Internet Assembly – FIA Athens 2014” Bashkon palët e interesit te internetit evropian për te riformatuar Infrastrukturën e ardhshme te internetit për InovacioninAthina ishte nikoqire e konferencës se përvitshme te Future Internet Assembly
Athens welcomed the annual Future Internet Assembly conference at Megaron Athens International Conference Center on 18-20 March, where more than 400 European Internet scientific and economic actors, researchers, industrialists, SMEs, users, service and content provider representatives attend, delivered new ideas, and shared views, aiming at advancing activities for reshaping the Future Internet. FIA Athens 2014 conference is a collaboration of more than 150 projects, aiming at strengthening European activities on the Future Internet to maintain European competitiveness in the global marketplace. The thematic areas in this year’s event revolved around the formulation of the new Internet technological landscape based on network/cloud integration & virtualization and innovative software, services and cloud technologies that enable application innovation.
FIA Athens 2014 was introduced by the High Profile Plenary on March 18th, comprising keynote speeches by renowned specialists. Following the High Profile Plenary, nine FIA working sessions were organized on the 19th and 20th of March. Furthermore, several pre-FIA workshops took place on the 17th and 18th of March as satellite events. Pre-FIA workshops encouraged the sharing of ideas, information and expected outcomes of EU FP7 projects and concepts. An exhibition was held during the conference, as an integral component of FIA Athens 2014.
The exhibition featured both demonstrations and posters falling under seven thematic areas:
Net Futures, FIRE, Connected Smart Cities, FI-PPP, Cloud Computing, Software and Services, Network Technologies, International Cooperation.
Participation of five representatives from Kosovo: Vjollca Cavolli from STIKK, Zana Tabaku from APPDEC, Driart Elshani from AUK, Labinot Bajraktari and Kreshnik Rrmoku from FECE/UP in this event was supported by the KOSEU project.
