“The NESSI Strategy: The Way Ahead”BCI´07

Jose M. Cavanillas

Vice-chairman NESSI Steering Committee

Director Atos Origin – Research & Innovation

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The story of NESSI

The context - European Technology Platform Private-public partnership Industrial leadership Uniting all stakeholders Around a key, strategic area

Strategic? Europe’s future growth Europe’s competitiveness

Link? Requires major research and technological advances In the medium to long term

NESSI aims to provide a unified view for European research in Services Architectures and Software Infrastructures

Today, NESSI partners represent 1.7 Million strong workforce and 490 B€ in revenues

NESSI has presented an initial Strategic Research Agenda that represents a global investment of 2.5 B€

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The challenge of NESSI

Transforming the Internet to service your life

… ensuring that services can be provided to all, citizens and businesses alike, in safe, secure, reliable, extensible, scalable environments

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The vision of NESSI

In the past, we were “unconnected”

In the 80s, we moved to a one to one connection – infrastructure was the key, email as the interface

In the 90s, … a one to all connection – Web sites as the interface

… and today we are overwhelmed by information, by its amount, by multiple threads of information

Easing life requires that personalised information be delivered

Tomorrow, software will be delivered as services that encapsulate information and personalisation

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The vision of NESSI

This evolution requires a service oriented environment

NESSI companies have recognised that no single company can or should harness the power of such an environment

NESSI is a partnership that will ensure the emergence of this environment allowing for

INNOVATION

FAST DEPLOYMENT

SEAMLESS ACCESS

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The tools of NESSI

The first “tool” of an ETP is its Strategic Research Agenda Moving from vision to definition Frame the context Refine the Technological scope Build it “together”

Getting organised is key to ensuring Smooth operations Open contributions

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22 partners

200 members

SRA Volume 1

Working Groups

09/2005 NESSI Launch

01/2006NESSI ForumNew members

start

NESSI – from launch to future

06/2006NESSI

General Assembly

Building & implementing the SRA

Vision ContextSRA Holistic View

Join us!

SRA Volume 3 - Roadmap

09/20069 Active working Groups

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NESSI Partners

NESSI Members

WorkingGroups

Choose your level of involvement

NESSI Forum

UserCommunity

SMECommunity

ICT IndustryCommunity

Academic &Research

Community

NESSIOffice

Committees Steering Committee

Board

IST ProjectsCollaborating through working groups

Staying Aware

ContributeActively

Coordinate

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NESSI Current Status

22 partners 9 active working groups

Semantic Technologies Trust, Security and

Dependability Service Engineering Software Engineering Services Sciences Service Oriented Infrastructure Business Process Management User/Service Interactions eHealth

NESSI Members

WorkingGroups

200 members – participating through working groupsPublished call for participation to Working Groups

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ICT Industry

SME

Academia & Research

User

NESSI is carrying out specific actions for the involvement of Academia and SMEs

NESSI Communities

NESSI Forum

UserCommunity

SMECommunity

ICT IndustryCommunity

Academic &Research

Community

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Academia and Research stakeholders have demonstrated their strong push on Research

Academia and Research stakeholders are very much proactive within NESSI

NESSI performs research in a continuous way and it should integrate as much existing research as possible

Involving this community ensures that Academia viewpoints are represented in NESSI

Facilitate the transfer of technology of NESSI related technologies from academia to industry

Why Academia is good for NESSI?

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BENEFITS of getting involved in NESSI: Gain insight into the European ICT market

evolution and prime technological directions Gain access to organised knowledge by getting

involved in NESSI Working Groups Gain access to ICT and Seventh Framework

Program at large by joining project consortia born within the NESSI activities

Gain access to new potential partners, new shared knowledge, new possibilities to expand the potential market

Why NESSI is good for Academia?

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The challenge of NESSI is: Enlarge Academia Community in NESSI Encourage members of Academia Community to

participate in NESSI

NESSI and Academia

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Motivation : SMEs employ more than 74 million people and

generate majority of radical innovations and technological breakthroughs

Necessity of engaging and enlarging NESSI SME Community

Necessity of including SMEs point of view in NESSI Committee constituted BY SMEs and FOR SMEs

Action:

Formal constitution of a SME COMMITTEE in NESSI

Why SMEs are good for NESSI?

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BENEFITS of getting involved in NESSI: Gain insight into the European ICT market

evolution and prime technological directions Gain access to organised knowledge by getting

involved in NESSI structures Gain access to ICT and Seventh Framework

Program at large by joining project consortia born within the NESSI activities

Gain access to new potential partners, new shared knowledge, new possibilities to expand the potential market

Why NESSI is good for SMEs?

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SME COMMITTEE

Main Goal is to provide a single access point for SMEs into NESSI to: Share and discuss the goals of the overall NESSI

idea Ensure that SME viewpoint is represented in NESSI Provide NESSI SME representation to external

bodies or forums Ensure that the goal of NESSI SRA can be put into

reality within the constraints of SME environment

NESSI and SMEs

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I am an University or Research Institute interested in NESSI: what should I do now? 1) Become NESSI Member. It’s one click away! (

www.nessi-europe.com ) 2) Work in team!!

NESSI & Academia: next steps

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I am an SME interested in NESSI: what should I do now? 1) Become NESSI Member. It’s one click away! (

www.nessi-europe.com ) 2) Contact the SME Committee Chairman Stuart

Campbell ( Stuart.Campbell@tieglobal.com) 3) Work in team!!

NESSI & SMEs: next steps

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National Technology Platforms

AND NEW ONES WILL APPEAR ….

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INÉS (Spanish initiative for software and services) is the national technology platform in the area of systems, software services and Grid: Consists of 100 actors, namely companies, research centres,

universities and public bodies Core management team includes Atos Origin, the government of

Asturias (CTIC), European Software Institute, UPM and Telefonica. Launched in Madrid on December 15th 2005 SRA presented on March 28th 2006 First General Assembly held on June 29th 2006 More info at http://www.ines.org.es

INES: the Spanish Case

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NESSI-Slovenia

NESSI-Slovenia is the national technology platform in the area of systems, software services and Grid: First Technology Platform

conference in Maribor on June 12th

June 13th: Plenary Session in the KMO 2006 welcomed by Dr. Gregor Virant, Minister of Public Administration and NESSI SC Vice-Chairman

http://www.nessi-slovenia.com

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NESSI is the Software and Services ETP

NESSI has the potential, the will and the credibility

NESSI has the organisation and the Working Groups

What is the best way forward to use the opportunity of NESSI to link the business and vertical areas to innovation ?

Working Together

Become NESSI Member

It’s one click away! (www.nessi-europe.com )

Work in team!!

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Thanks

Jose M. CavanillasVice-Chairman NESSI Steering Committee Director Atos Origin – Research & Innovation

jose-maria.cavanillas@atosorigin.com

http://www.nessi-europe.com/