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ABOUT US

4 01WHAT WE DO

502PRODUCT INFORMATION

1 203IMPACT STORIES

1 704FIWARE FOUNDATION IN THE SPOTLIGHT

1 805HOT THEMES

1 906FIWARE PRESENCE AT 20+ GLOBAL EVENTS

2 807WHAT’S HOT & HAPPENING (IN A FLASH)

3 008WHAT A YEAR!

3 209MEET OUR BOO

3 310PRESS CONTACT

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Founded in 2016 by Atos, Engineering, Orange and Telefónica, FIWARE Foundation is a non-profit organization that drives the definition and encourages the adoption of open standards (implemented using Open Source technologies) that ease the development of smart solutions across the fields of Smart City, Smart Energy, Smart Agrifood and Smart Industry, based on FIWARE technology.

FIWARE Foundation is driving the development of smart solutions in a faster, easier, interoperable and affordable way that avoids vendor lock-in scenarios, whilst also nourishing FIWARE as a sustainable business model.

The Foundation does that with the support of a growing global community that shares the vision and efforts of making FIWARE open source technology the best instrument for industries, governments, universities and associations to reach their full potential and scale up their activities to enter new markets and grow their businesses. On that front, FIWARE open source technology has been successfully used in the development of smart platforms - ranging from Japan to Uruguay - to name but a few ways in which FIWARE technologies have been getting cities and regions ready for the smarter future.

ABOUT US

WHAT WE DO

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There is more than

meets the eye

We accelerate the emergence of

innovative marketplaces of smart portable and

interoperable solutions, guiding industries,

governments, universities, and civil society to develop their

smart vision.

SMART CITIES

SMART ENERGY

SMART INDUSTRY

SMART AGRIFOOD

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15 FIWARE iHubs

Amersfoort

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Cologne

Geneva

La Plata

Logroño

Mexico City

Montevideo (2X)

Perugia

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Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Seville

Tunis

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10 FIWARE Lab Nodes

Aguascalientes

Dakar

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Noida

Penang

Piraeus

Poznan

São Paulo

Vicenza

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FIWARE IS ALL OVER THE WORLD

FIWARE iHubsFIWARE Members

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SMART CITIES SMART ENERGY SMART INDUSTRY SMART AGRIFOOD

For further information on our members, visit: www.fiware.org/about-us/join

Planned new locations*

Cairo area

New Delhi area

Rabat area

Dakar area

Abuja area

Texas area

* Locations are still subject to change.

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With the world’s population rising at an unparalleled speed, a lack of natural resources and more automated services are just the tip of the iceberg concerning issues that public administrations are dealing with. In an attempt to tackle contemporary problems stemming from large crowds living in relatively small spaces, smart solution providers step in by introducing innovative technology, such as waste management, intelligent industrial LED lightings, smart irrigation systems, to name but a few, that can be taken up by public service providers to improve citizens’ daily life.

FIWARE sees smart environments as an ecosystem driven by an efficient administration of public services. ICT-based solutions, with technologies such as big data, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and robotics fuse into every single industry

and become the backbone of our social sphere. Being smart goes beyond technology: it requires public administrations to move away from inward, fragmentary-oriented organizational structures towards highly collaborative frameworks (that include private businesses, not-for-profit organizations, social enterprises and citizens) in order to deliver seamless public services and, thus, drive the advancement of an information society.

Each country surely has its own goals and challenges (the word ‘smart’ itself may mean different things across continents), but by establishing sustainable structures and offering new approaches to citizens, authorities, local companies, and other stakeholders to engage within the management of services, public service providers can pave the way for economic development, ultimately increasing the quality of life for their citizens and visitors.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE “SMART”?

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The future will gravitate around the management of context data. Context data describes what is going on, who is involved, where, when, why. Context is meaningful in farms, describing the state of the crops and soil. In the industry field, it can help factory managers improve efficiency in industrial systems. At energy plants, it can be helpful to describe the status of the plant and the predicted energy demand. Finally, in cities, data collection generates valuable insights that help public administrations and businesses to improve the way we live, work and engage with one another.

The processing of context data will drive smart decisions in the future. Smart decisions will ultimately improve daily processes, raising the productivity of people, and businesses. Capturing, managing, processing, analysing and visualizing context data will be at the core of solutions in Smart Cities, Smart Industry, Smart Agrifood and Smart Energy.

Context data is a blend of information coming from multiple sources. But the data owners are at the driver’s seat when deciding who can access their data, when, how, where and what for. This means that they can exercise full sovereignty over their data, eventually deciding whether they want to monetize their data or not and who will have to pay for it. That’s why context information management provides the basis for the new Data Economy.

FIWARE lays out the fundamental context management standards needed for the creation of interoperable platforms and digital infrastructures. By enabling the blending of tools for integrating multiple context data sources and helping to process and analyze context management at a large scale, FIWARE stands out as your first choice for building the smart digital future.

Standards are driving the smarter tomorrow

Common open standards are an important element of data infrastructure worldwide. They help technology users and providers publish and use data in ways that can drive new business models, create open ecosystems and help public administrations to implement policy goals to deliver more effective public services and hence, boost citizens’ living standards. A long-establi-shed champion of open standards, FIWARE will always strive to ensure that standards drive the open source technology market, that data is available to the widest range of users, for the widest range of purposes. Anytime. Anyday. Anywhere.

Some highlights from our work with our long-standing partners:

• In 2016, the European Commission published the 2016 Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation in which ETSI was requested to create an ISG (Industry Specification Group) aimed at the definition of a standard Context Information Management (CIM) API with FIWARE NGSI as a candidate. In the beginning of 2017, ETSI created the CIM ISG which was successfully brought to market with the so called ETSI NGSI-LD API specifications in January 2019.

• FIWARE Foundation has (together with its members) actively participated in standardization activities within ETSI (NGSI-LD API specifications), W3C (Web of Things), GSMA (IoT Big Data Ecosystem project) and TM Forum (via the Front-runner Smart Cities program).

• In 2018, FIWARE Context Broker was selected as the new Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Building Block, help building the next generation of European digital public services.

• FIWARE Foundation and its Community have been actively contributing to the development of the International Data Spaces Association Reference Architecture Model (IDS-RAM 3.0).

Here are some of our global partnerships, collaborations and references:

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Developing and integrating smart solutions

FIWARE brings a curated framework of open source software platform com-ponents which can be assembled together and with other third-party compo-nents to build “Powered by FIWARE” platforms that support the development of smart solutions in a faster, easier and affordable way.

The core component of any “Powered by FIWARE” platform is the so-called Context Broker, which supports the FIWARE NGSI API, a simple yet power-ful API for solving a basic need in any smart solution: how to gather, manage and provide access to context information. The FIWARE NGSI API enables the integration of FIWARE platform components, the interoperability of smart so-lutions/services running on top of “Powered by FIWARE” platforms as well as their portability (replicability) across different “Powered by FIWARE” platforms.

The FIWARE NGSI API has evolved over time, following inputs from the global community of developers that have long been supporting the technology. The NGSIv2 version has been widely used in multiple scenarios and has served as the basis for the NGSI-LD API specifications, recently published by the Europe-an Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). The Orion Context Broker provides an open source reference implementation of the NGSIv2 API specifi-cations and will soon also provide a reference implementation of the ETSI NG-SI-LD API specifications.

Building around the FIWARE Context Broker, a rich suite of complementary FIWARE components facilitate (among other things):

The FIWARE Context Broker technology can easily be integrated with blockchain technologies to provide a trustworthy and immutable tracing of certain upda-tes on context.

The interface with IoT devices, robots

and third-party systems, capturing updates on context

information and translating required

actuations;

The monitoring, processing and analysis of current and historic data using event rules,

advanced Big Data and AI algorithms, dashboard and

analytical support tools, etc; supporting smart decisions or the smart

automation of processes;

The management, publication and monetization of context data and

services, preserving defined access

and usage control policies.

FIWARE Context Broker technology: a building block for connecting Europe

The European Commission (EC) has formally adopted FIWARE Context Broker technology as CEF Building Block within their Digital CEF (Connecting Euro-pe Facility) Building Blocks program, part of the CEF Telecom program. This means that the EC officially recommends public administrations as well as in-dustrial players within the European Union (EU) member states to adopt this technology in order to foster the development of digital services, which can be replicated (ported) across the EU.

FIWARE Marketplace

The FIWARE Marketplace is a one-stop-shop, providing entrepreneurs with first-hand access to a wide range of “Powered by FIWARE” solutions and platforms, FIWARE-ready technologies as well as related training, coaching, consultancy, integration and support services. The “Powered by FIWARE” and “FIWARE-ready” labels help entre-preneurs to gain visibility and credibi-lity, essential to building partnerships and gaining market traction.

Check out the 160+ global solutions that are already in our Marketplace: www.marketplace.fiware.org

FIWARE - Paving the way

In the future digital sphere, context data must be pervasive and accessible in ri-ght-time. It creates a digital continuum, blurring the frontiers between applica-tion domains. FIWARE is bringing the standards of reference at every step to be taken by organizations in their transformation journey towards:

• • Becoming truly smart, breaking the silos;

• • Collaborating with other organizations towards a sustainable market;

• • Fostering open innovation;

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The Open Source platform of choice for building Smart Solutions

Common Info Models

Full interoperability between cities and within the city

Enabling portability of solutions across cities

Breaking information silos through shared context data space with standard API

Enabling Overall City-level Governance Solutions

Vertical solutions (some being IoT-enabled) bringing efficiency but in silos

Historic and static data published as open data

Right-time context info published as open data to third parties

Authorization and access control (API management)

City as a platform including also 3rd party data enabling innovative business models

Open and commercial data enabling multi-side markets

Collaborating towards a sustainable market

Exploiting Dataacross verticalsEfficient & Open Supporting Open

InnovationEnabling the Data

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Common Info Models

Full interoperability between cities and within the city

Enabling portability of solutions across cities

Breaking information silos through shared context data space with standard API

Enabling Overall City-level Governance Solutions

Vertical solutions (some being IoT-enabled) bringing efficiency but in silos

Historic and static data published as open data

Right-time context info published as open data to third parties

Authorization and access control (API management)

City as a platform including also 3rd party data enabling innovative business models

Open and commercial data enabling multi-side markets

Collaborating towards a sustainable market

Exploiting Dataacross verticalsEfficient & Open Supporting Open

InnovationEnabling the Data

Economy

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IMPACT STORIES

Our members are leading players in connecting the world to the future. An exciting (sustainable) digital future where new business opportunities can flou-rish. The use of FIWARE open source technology and its focus on standards have been bringing forward multiple awesome solutions and appealing impact stories worldwide.

Aiming to reduce defects in the automotive manufacturing process by continuously monitoring the parameters related to the welding process, Engineering’s solution for Automotive Smart Factory is based on Open Source components, and makes use of data analytics algorithms to detect unexpected parameter behaviour in the shopfloor. It relies on the FIWARE Reference Architecture for Smart Industry and successfully showcases how FIWARE tech can be applied in the automotive sector.

A ‘Powered by FIWARE’ platform, Smartdata.wien encourages openly shared city data by providing citizens with real time information to help with day-to-day activities such as urban mobility, environmental monitoring, urban infrastructure, energy efficiency, and more. The platform uses the FIWARE Orion Context Broker, a Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Building Block, a global standard NGSI-based API for large scale contextual information management.

For more impact stories, visit: www.fiware.org/impact_stories

Engineering’s Bio-surveillance Platform

4Bios

Based on its Digital Enabler platform, Engineering’s ready-to-use biosurveillance system Eng-DE4Bios is a cloud-based solution helping public administrations and health institutions to have a ‘near’ real-time holistic view of contextualized information coming from different data sources. This way, public administrations and health institutions can better understand their priorities, define and apply epidemiological models and real-time geolocation of some clinical-health phenomena, and predictive maps of contagion. ‘Powered by FIWARE’, it has proven crucial to the Veneto region (Northeast Italy), heavily hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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FIWARE IN THE SPOTLIGHT

“ “La VIII edición de FIWARE Global Summit (una de las principales conferencias de código abierto para emprendedores, administraciones públicas, académicos, desarrolladores, tecnólogos, líderes de opinión, emprendedores, grandes empresas e

inversores) vuelve a Málaga en 2020. LA VANGUARDIA – Spain

“ “In 2015, Kakogawa City had the third-worst crime rate in Hyogo, a prefecture in western Japan neighboring

Osaka. Local authorities worked with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and private

businesses, including NEC and Nikken Sekkei Research Institute, to launch a smart networked camera and

sensor system they call mimamori…. The city is using FIWARE, a framework of open-source components to

power smart cities and protect their data. Forbes - U.S.

“ “... NGSI-LD ist das globale ETSI-Standard Schnittstellenformat für den Austausch von Kontext-

Informationen in Smart Cities. Gemeinsam mit dem TM Forum (die globale Organisation der Telekommunikations- und IT-Unternehmen) und einer Reihe von internationalen

Städten hat die Fiware Foundation zudem einheitliche Datenmodelle für Einsatzbereich wie die intelligente Parkraumbewirtschaftung, Beleuchtungssteuerung,

Abfallwirtschaft und viele weitere entwickelt. Tagesspiegel Background - Germany

“ “ From startups to SMEs to global enterprises, FIWARE helps today’s disruptors to fully grasp how they can be part of the digital wave and transform the smart solutions market for the better, based on recognized

Open Source technology. Each year, its Global Summit gathers renowned thought-leaders from the world of technology, politics, R&D, and science to share their vision on how they see the digital world evolving.

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The SMART WORLD BY FIWARE was initiated by the Smart MaaS project, in co-operation with FIWARE Foundation e.V., Cleopa GmbH, Fraunhofer IESE, DFKI, and regio iT to feature, on a practical level, the potential of open source tech-nology for Smart Cities and Smart Mobility. In partnership with Addix, Engine-ering, Linz Center for Mechatronik, NEC Lab, Smart Cities Lab, and StoneOne AG, the demonstrator has been enhanced with functionalities from domains such as Smart Industry, Smart Energy and Smart AgriFood.

Divided into sectors, the SMART WORLD BY FIWARE showcases how FIWARE is powering up Smart Cities with connected mobility, highlighting various do-mains and their interactions. SMART WORLD BY FIWARE was introduced, for the very first time, in June 2019 at Aarhus’s IoT Week, in Denmark. Ever since, it has been present at major smart mobility events across the globe, featuring FIWARE’s solutions and achievements represented in this model.

As more modules are currently being introduced, the Smart World By FIWARE is getting bigger and bolder. Over the coming months, the gigantic model can be seen at major smart mobility events across Europe and beyond.

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FARMING

This sector shows examples from the project “Internet of

Food and Farming” (IoF2020), one of the largest EU projects

to date. “City Agriculture” is an important component

for the optimization of supply chains, i.e. the avoidance

of long transport distances and production and

consumption as close as possible to the consumer.

URBAN MEDIASPACE

The building is part of an effort to reshape former industrial areas of the Port of

Aarhus into residential and commercial areas. It includes future-ready public

housing, a library, culture center with an underground parking facility and a station

and light rail system with trains running through and under the building.

INDUSTRY

This sector features examples of “Digital Twin” and “Supply Chain” and shows the different robots, which are controlled by a FIWARE-based platform. “StoneOne” presents an example from the field of “Maintenance”. Besides, NEC Lab, Linz

Center for Mechatronics and Engineering show how FIWARE’s reference

architecture is successfully used in the “Industry 4.0” area.

RED CITY HALL

The Red City Hall shows the relation to the current

political situation, the relationship between

the energy change and the traffic change, in the backdrop of international

movements such as “Fridays for Future.” Topics such as “traffic avoidance,” “alternative fuels,” or

“ecological footprint” are discussed globally today.

ENERGY

The sector represents the concept of a funded project in North Germany, showing

how the energy sector can support future green

mobility. The gas is produced from the sun and wind, then stored and provided to the

gas fuel station to support a local bus, running between

the cities of Niebüll and Husum in Northern Germany.

CITY HALL

The sector represents the city hall of Aarhus. Aarhus is among the smartest and most innovative

cities in Europe today. It has been awarded the accolade of the city of culture and innovation

on several occasions.

KIEL HARBOUR

This sector showcases mobility developments around Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany), including

technology for water level monitoring in coastal cities, data for the water warning systems,

water storage in the streets in case of flood. It also features sensors detecting the occupancy and

punctuality rate of naval vehicles in real-time, as well as opening and closing process automatization

of movable bridges.

TOURIST CITY – MOUNTAIN AREA

The sector illustrates Werfenweng, a small community in Upper Austria, as a part of the “Samo” initiative – Soft Mobility. This is an example of fully integrated green

and sustainable mobility – a role model for smart mobility of the future.

SMART HOUSE

The Smart House is supported by the IoT sensor hub, which combines and evaluates various data sources and

environmental sensors. This model shows that air pollution measured

on the ground changes road usage in urban areas.

MOBILITY HUB

The sector demonstrates how various intelligent transport concepts are interlinked. FIWARE members across the world provide feasible and smart solutions

for these types of implementation.

As more and more people move into urban areas, a thorough management of urban growth needs to be in place in order for global issues to be tackled and sustainable development fully achieved. To this end, B20, the private sector’s voice of the G20 commu-nity, addresses the global challenges and priorities defined by the G20 countries, by building solid con-sensus amongst business leaders, international orga-nizations and civil society.

A recent recommendation from the B20 has been towards making smart cities the main focus of the G20’s efforts to implement Society 5.0 (Japan’s smart vision of the future) for SDGs. In line with this commitment by public administrations and private business towards the SDGs, FIWARE has been gui-ding cities and industries to deliver their digital vi-sion, with the active involvement of all the relevant actors.

For instance, with the Front-runner Smart Cities Pro-gram – jointly launched with TM Forum and aimed at defining a Common Reference Architecture and Data Models for Smart Cities – FIWARE Foundation enga-ges in the global coalition that promotes the adop-tion of appropriate regulatory frameworks in data sharing and encourages cities to share experiences and best practices.

This way, cities can move away from inward, frag-mentary-oriented organizational structures to highly collaborative frameworks (that include private busi-nesses, not-for-profit organizations, social enterpri-ses and citizens) in order to deliver seamless public services and, thus, drive the advancement of an in-formation society.

The cornerstone of sustainable and inclusive cities, digital technologies can foster high quality, user-cen-tric digital public services for citizens and continuo-us cross-border public services for entrepreneurs. In turn, the management of public services can be bet-ter handled, boosting accountability, trust and eco-nomic development.

HOT THEMESFIWARE supports the Sustainable Development Goals

When inefficient government departments or agencies deliver poor value for taxpayers’ money, citizens and watchdog entities tend to not look the other way. Hence, improving efficiency and responsiveness is of utmost importance. On that front, workflow automation is just one of the ways currently available for public administrations to fundamentally transform the way they deliver services.

Aiming to address how public administrations can deliver such vision with a helping hand from the private sector, the FIWARE Global Summit gathers city CIOs and public administration representatives to address the opportunities and challenges faced in their digital transformation journey (from predicting what is going to happen next in terms of technology advancements — and how best to use them — to creating competitive marketplace conditions). Under the umbrel-la of riveting keynotes, engaging round-tables and unparalleled networking, the Summit allows city CIOs and public administration representatives to envision how strengthened competition and citizen welfare can be effectively delivered, by learning from best practices in the private sector and smart cities worldwide.

For its 8th edition, the FIWARE Global Summit returns to Málaga (28-29 Sept, 2020). The collaboration with the Spanish “Smart City” is a long-lasting one and this will be the 4th Global Summit to be held in the city. Málaga, which was re-cently announced as the 2020 European Capital of Smart Tourism (along with Gothenburg), has been stepping up to the digital transformation by responding to new challenges and demands in fast-changing environments, including the evolution of digital tools, products and services, the sustainable development of the local area and support to creative in-dustries and local talent.

For further information about the Sum-mit, check out the Event Brochure or visit fiware.org/summit.

City CIOs/CD0s and representatives at the FIWARE Global Summit

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Realizing Global Synergies with Open Source and Open Standards

Málaga, Spain28-29 September,2020

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HOT THEMESThe FIWARE Community is growing (& counting)

Mapping Air Quality

The FIWARE Foundation is a growing global community with a common effort of achieving a solid headway towards making FIWARE open source technology the best instrument for companies to scale their activities, enter new markets and grow their businesses. In just over 3 years, our community has grown consi-derably. Check out who our new joiners are:

Based on a large deployment of outstandingly accurate gas sensors, by using an advanced post-processing algorithm, the company has developed an AI-based, low-cost sensor-pla-tform solution to map air quality in real time. The ‘Powered by

FIWARE’ solution provides a highly efficient and large-scale pollution-mapping tool for big cities, allowing them to respond quicker to spikes in pollution levels. The solution is scalable, flexible and adaptable to any city.

In early 2020, CityLinx, BeeZeeLinx’s IoT software platform won the largest European IoT tender for Brussels, Belgium. The solution allows cities to control, command, monitor and configure any type of IoT device from any supplier connected to any IoT network. This way, cities can enhance their opera-

tions, optimize energy consumption and reduce maintenance costs for applica-tions such as street lighting, water and building energy efficiency, among others.

The company provides development, integration and valida-tion of IoT and data technologies. EGM has been experimen-ting with FIWARE-based solutions in research projects since 2013 and is a founding member of the ETSI ISG-CIM group,

defining the NGSI-LD specification deployed in the FIWARE ecosystem. EGM is currently releasing its Stellio solution for NGSI-LD-based context aware manage-ment in several domains.

Acquired by IBM in 2019, Red Hat is the world’s leading pro-vider of enterprise Open Source solutions, using a communi-ty-powered approach to deliver reliable and high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.

The organization helps customers integrate new and existing IT applications, de-velop cloud-native applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system, and automate, secure, and manage complex environments.

The largest university in Murcia (Spain), it houses over 38,000 students and is at the forefront of innovative transformation. Its Department of Information and Communication Enginee-

ring promotes and implements innovative educational initiatives, based on IoT Platform solutions, toward creating a high quality, international programme that fits the needs of the scientific, social and technological field.

FIWARE is on the front line in the fight against climate change

Creating climate-resi-lient environments surely isn’t a simple task but, with the help of IoT and Open Source technolo-gies, carbon emissions can be lowered, food produced in a more ef-ficient way and services such as clean drinking water can be further optimized.

In our brand new Climate Change Booklet we feature nearly 30 ‘off the shelf’ disruptive solutions from members of the FIWARE Communi-

ty who are at the forefront of disruptive technolo-gies, creating solutions (based on FIWARE te-chnology) - and partici-pating in projects - that have become vital to the fight against climate change and and are, ulti-

mately, setting common standards for Smart Cities.

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HOT THEMESFIWARE University Roadshow

Launched in January 2020 to empower the next generation of developers, the program aims to mobilize Universities offering Com-puter Science or Software Engineering cour-ses to incorporate FIWARE technology and workshops within their curriculum. As today’s students are tomorrow’s future, it is crucial to equip them with the future-proof tech skills that will keep them ahead of the curve.

By incorporating FIWARE into their lectures, universities can provide students with hands-on tools that will get them started with FIWARE, the Open Source technology that is creating innovative and sustainable solutions worldwide. By doing so, they can play a key role in modifying and improving software and cre-ate a brighter future for us all.

Over 25 universities have already confirmed interest in the initiative and are cur-rently planning to integrate it into their lectures, whilst the University of Murcia, Spain and the University of Messina, Italy have already launched the FIWARE University Roadshow within their curriculum.

Want to know more about FIWARE University Roadshow as well as new Open Calls for SMEs and Startups? Contact Tonia Sapia.

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FIWARE’s Ever-Growing Marketplace

With the purpose of disseminating existing commercial of-ferings around FIWARE, the FIWARE Marketplace provides access to a wide range of “Powered by FIWARE” solutions/platforms, “FIWARE-ready technologies” as well as training, coaching, consultancy, and support services. The “Powered by FIWARE” and “FIWARE-ready” labels help entrepreneurs to gain visibility and credibility, essential to building partner-ships and gaining market traction. Besides acting as a single one-stop-shop for companies to learn about and purcha-se ‘off-the-shelf’ solutions, platforms, IoT devices, software enablers centered around IoT and Open Source - and based on or supported by FIWARE technologies - the FIWARE Marketplace is the ideal starting point for technology enthusiasts to find up-to-date information on disruptive technologies. Over 160 global solutions are already featured in our Marketplace and the number of offerings continues to grow. Check out who the latest joiners are:

>> Context Broker - BDTI Integration: The solution helps cities to make sense of the data available through their information systems, so that they can then make better informed decisions towards improving public services. This integration so-lution allows users to easily configure the storing of the context data in BDTIs file system (HDFS).

>> Naeva Tec: Committed to providing customers with flexibility and capacity to mobilize their communication services, using the latest technologies in web and mobility, the company offers a full range of technical services to other organiza-tions willing to build their solution, based on FIWARE.

>> Innova iHub: One of FIWARE’s global iHubs, the company focuses on creating wellbeing in fast-changing urban and rural environments through digital innova-tion, cutting-edge technologies, successful entrepreneurial strategy, novel busi-ness models and sustainable values.

>> siGEUS: The organization supports the logistics and waste collection sector to monitor weights, traceability through RFID, filling sensors, GPS or digital signals among others. This technology can be used in other sectors like industry to know the weight loaded, GPS routes or RFID traceability.

>> Sirus City Store: The organization helps cities to harmonize data gathered by different sensors and platforms, which is then made available in an open stan-dard way to citizens, governments, private companies and research institutions. All parties can then collaborate to create innovative solutions.

>> Yggio: Acting as a real time integration layer between services and connected assets, sensors, and networks, this solution enables multiple users and services to use data generated by both shared and private IoT devices.

Apply here to be certified and featured in the FIWARE Marketplace.

FIWARE’S EVER-GROWING MARKETPLACE

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The need for ready-to-use solutions, based on Open Source and open standards principles - to help automate data sharing - grows rapidly as the COVID-19 pan-demic unfolds across the globe. Open Source technologies enable health autho-rities to better track patients, and alert people who have been in contact with them, which could considerably aid the containing of the virus. More and more sharing tools are available, driven by Open Source principles, allowing healthcare organizations, scientists, researchers, public administrations to access existing solutions as well as build their own versions of applications on top of widely avai-lable ‘off the shelf’ solutions. Above all, Open Source has been allowing scientists to evaluate the scientific validity of available data worldwide.

One of these ‘off the shelf’ solutions is the biosurveillan-ce system Eng-DE4Bios. Based on FIWARE technology, the ready-to-use system was developed by Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. and was successfully de-ployed in the Veneto region (Northeast Italy), heavily hit by COVID-19. Based on the functionalities of Engi-neering’s Digital Enabler platform, Eng-DE4Bios helps public administrations and health institutions to have a ‘near’ real-time holistic view of contextualized information coming from different data sources.

For years, FIWARE has been harnessing the Open Source model’s ability to de-liver innovation at faster and less costly rates than other software development and business approaches. This has never been needed more than these days when time and technology are the most critical elements to save lives. Smart di-gital solutions can save people’s lives. It is now all about helping public services and the suffering health institutions to find ways to cope and adapt smoothly, while quickly saving the lives of infected people, including the medical staff on the frontline.

To read more inspiring stories from the FIWARE Community with this compel-ling purpose, visit.

HOT THEMESOpen Source-based ‘off the shelf’ and ready-to-use solutions to fight COVID-19

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FIWARE PRESENCE AT 20+ GLOBAL EVENTS As part of FIWARE’s offerings, members and partners have the opportunity to join FIWARE Foundation (as co-exhibitors at FIWARE’s booth or as keynote speakers) at some of the world’s leading conferences (20+ events in 2019 alone). The FIWA-RE Community has already been present at dozens of global events in 2020, in-cluding the Connected Smart Cities Conference (Brussels), the Things Conference 2020 (Amsterdam), the Cities Forum 2020 (Porto), the Transforming Transporta-tion 2020 (Washington D.C.), and the E-World Energy & Water (Essen - Germany), to mention but a few.

As face-to-face meetings have been cancelled right and left, following the Covid-19 crisis, we have been heavily present in digital events instead and will keep doing so. It is our Open Source thriving Community that encourages us to adapt and strive to create (and harness) the knowledge, content, and collaboration experiences that our Community deserves.

With that said, we firmly hold on to the potential of face-to-face collaboration and are now all eyes and ears for our upcoming 8th FIWARE Global Summit in the be-autiful city of Málaga. A must-attend event for those who want to change the world and transform markets for the better, based on recognized Open Source techno-logy, the Summit takes place in Málaga on 28-29 Sept, 2020 and brings another novelty: FIWARE Summit’s attendees will have the opportunity to network and di-scuss urban intelligence and sustainability at GreenCities (Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2020), an event taking place at the same venue as the Summit, and addressing the main issues of the Smart Cities and sustainability sector.

8 Reasons Not to Miss This Fantastic Event!

People: Since 2016, 6.000+ attendees and 200+ cities have joined. We believe that the best part of Open Source is getting people together and letting them create, adopt and support Open Source development.

Share & tell: With +70 sessions, panels, workshops, hackathons, the Sum-mit content is carefully curated to include multiple perspectives and many subjects around the role of Open Source technology in creating innovative and sustainable economies.

For further information about the Summit, check out the Event Brochure or visit fiware.org/summit.

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Forward-thinkers: The Summit gathers worldwide specialists in their fields and Open Source gurus. Meet leading analysts, Open Source influencers, members of the Press. Discuss best practices, tech and business opportuni-ties with the FIWARE Community.

Events in the Event: Additional ‘What’s On Sessions’ organized by FIWARE members and partners provide attendees with hands-on insights into how advances in tech are influencing trends, needs and business models across all industries.

Hop-on, Hop-off: We’ve partnered up with Málaga’s Convention Bureau to allow attendees to experience (on September 27), on a practical level, what successful digitalization in tourism really means while we show you some of Málaga’s famous landmarks.

Business opportunities: With our business matchmaking sessions, local SMEs can jump-start their efforts and easily identify, meet and establish strong relationships with international businesses, industry, and govern-ment leaders.

Educational opportunities: Learn cutting-edge skills from experienced pro-fessionals within the industry via our training sessions, Bootcamps, tech talks.

Sustainable solutions: Discover the latest sustainable technological ad-vances and a wide range of FIWARE-powered solutions (aligned with the SDGs), that are driving the fight against climate change.

Our Summit has so far been attended by founders and CEOs of global technology companies, developers, inspiring startups, researchers, policymakers, to mention but a few. Our Summit’s attendees and speakers are among the movers and shakers from the field of smart innovative technologies that are driving the digital future.

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>> Feb 05-06

FIWARE Foundation Ulrich Ahle joins the 13 winning cities of the “Smart Cities made in Germany” competition, in Solingen, Germany. Launched by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community in cooperation with KfW - a German state-owned development bank - the project aims to support municipalities to shape their digital vision. Some of these cities that took part in the first wave of the funding program have already decided to use FIWARE technology to create their Smart City platform and then build smart solutions on top of it. By being Open Source and an advocate of open interfaces and standard data models, FIWARE perfectly matches the requirements of the winning cities.

>> Feb 11-13

FIWARE shares a booth with Atos, FIWARE’s Platinum member (and one of FIWARE Foundation’s founding members) at the E-World Energy & Water (Essen - Germany),

Europe’s leading energy and water management industry fair, to showcase its initiatives within the Energy sector. A curated framework of Open Source platform components, FIWARE is meeting the demands of the sector and helping cities to become greener, smarter, more liveable and sustainable places to live in.

>> Feb 12-13

FIWARE exhibits at Transfiere, the biggest multi-sectoral Forum for knowledge and technology transfer in Spain. Gathering key players in the national and international R&D&i ecosystem, the event promotes innovation between research groups and companies. FIWARE showcased how synergies and knowledge sharing practices between the different actors and strategic sectors of the economy lead to interoperable and sustainable solutions worldwide. During the event, FIWARE CMO Cristina Brandtstetter discussed strategy for the 8th FIWARE Global Summit with Francisco de la Torre Prados, Málaga’s Major and Susana Carillo (Deputy Mayor &

WHAT’S HOT & HAPPENING (IN A FLASH)

Councillor Delegate for Innovation & Urban Digitalisation, Málaga City Council).

>> Feb 20

Ulrich Ahle shares a comprehensive insight about FIWARE’s innovative technological offerings at ADV Tagung: FIWARE – Smart Solutions for Smart Cities, in Austria. Organized by the Vienna Business Agency - a member of the FIWARE Foundation - in conjunction with the Austrian Digital Value, the event addressed the current status of FIWARE and the crucial importance of knowledge exchange and best practices between private companies, users and public administrations in creating urban data platforms that can ensure optimal use of digital resources.

>> Feb 25

FIWARE CEO Ulrich Ahle and CTO Juanjo Hierro attend the KI-Marktplatz kick off meeting at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute, Paderborn, Germany. Within the initiative, 20 research institutions and companies are developing a digital platform for AI in product development. During the meeting, Ulrich provided insights into FIWARE’s pilot projects using AI. With FIWARE’s modular building blocks for AI

solutions, tailor-made solutions can be easily offered to solutions providers.

>> March 04-06

Ulrich Ahle joins the Strategy Board to define the next generation of IoT for Horizon Europe, in Switzerland. The gathering, attended by key players from the field of Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, offered the perfect opportunity for recommendations exchange on topics such as Open Source technologies and system of systems for this European Commission’s funding program. For the past years, FIWARE technology has been used as the IoT platform in many projects funded by the European Commission in domains such as cities, farming, energy, agriculture or water.

>> March 26

Ulrich Ahle joins the virtual get-together organized by Future City Foundation (a FIWARE iHub) with Jan-Willem Wesselink, Program Manager at Future City Lab in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, and +150 Smart City enthusiasts. Ulrich introduces FIWARE, how this Open Source technology is changing cities worldwide and how municipalities and companies can apply FIWARE solutions into their projects. F

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WHAT A YEAR!

FIWARE Foundation signs a collaboration agreement (MoU)

with the IOTA Foundation. IOTA’s Tangle technology can serve as an immutable, trusted audit trail for

relevant context data transactions in “Powered by FIWARE” architectures.

The testbed “TRUSTED DIGITAL TWINS DATA CONNECTION ACROSS

THE PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE”, to which FIWARE contributed, features among the 10 testbeds presented at

the IoT Solutions World Congress 2019 in Barcelona.

FIWARE Foundation signs a collaboration agreement (MoU)

with Digital Arabia Network (DAN). Together, DAN and FIWARE

Foundation will promote smart sustainable cities and digital

solutions in the MENA Region.

FIWARE Foundation signs a MoU with the Japanese Data Trading Alliance.

The cooperation focuses on a mutual sharing of relevant technologies

based on open standards that provide the basis for the development of

sustainable smart solutions.

The first showcase of the SMART WORLD BY FIWARE

at the IoT Week in Aarhus.

FIWARE Foundation signs membership exchange and strategic cooperation with the World Smart

Sustainable Cities Organization (WeGO).

FIWARE welcomes on board new members from Nepal, Sweden,

Finland and Germany. The Foundation ends 2019 with over 300 members.

FIWARE opens iHubs in Tunisia and Uruguay. Spanning from South America to Asia, FIWARE’s iHubs help companies and individuals to

build tech-enabling communities and internet-based businesses, at a local

and international level.

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Ulrich Ahle - CEO

Following his extensive experience in the industrial sector (including Vice President and leader of Manufacturing, Re-tail & Transportation Consulting & Systems Integration at Atos Germany), helping clients to digitize their business, Ulrich joined the Foundation in September 2016. He is on the Board of the International Data Spaces Association and was also on the Board of prostep ivip Association for 16 years, before becoming an Honorary Member in 2019.

Stefano De Panfilis - COO

Stefano joined Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A in 1984 and went from Director of R&D Laboratories De-partment (overseeing 100+ researchers in Europe and beyond) to Chief Innovation Officer of the Engineering Group in 2011. He joined FIWARE Foundation in 2017. Be-sides his role as COO, he is responsible for FIWARE Lab Nodes and is a member of the FIWARE Technical Stee-ring Committee.

Juanjo Hierro - CTO

After a thriving trajectory at Telefónica Spain’s R&D Labs (in-cluding Industrial IoT Unit’s CTO), Juanjo joined the Foun-dation in 2017. His involvement with FIWARE dates back to 2011, when he was already coordinating activities related to the FIWARE platform. He has been heavily involved in the launch of the OASC initiative, contributing to the definition of technical mechanisms adopted by cities joining the initiative.

Cristina Brandtstetter - CMO

With a strong track record of success over her 20+ years international career in Operations, Change Management, Strategy, M&A, Marketing & PR, Product Management, Consulting, build-up organisations of industry/vertical te-ams and diversified go-to-market channels (among many other areas), Cristina joined the Foundation in June 2019 to lead the organization’s Marketing and PR activities, with a strong focus on the portfolio and partner activities.

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