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NEC attends the FIWARE Global Summit presenting solutions

NEC attends the FIWARE Global Summit presenting solutions

Genoa, Italy, - May 20th, 2019NEC Europe Ltd and NEC Laboratories Europe announced their participation in the FIWARE Global Summit from May 20 to 22, 2019 in Genoa, Italy. The FIWARE Summit is the leading international event in developments on the open source FIWARE framework of which NEC is a Platinum member.

Over the next three days, innovators, entrepreneurs, startups and investors will meet to discuss the future of Smart Solutions in areas including Smart City, Smart Energy, Smart Agrifood, and Smart Industry.

NEC is committed to realize new social values by creating advanced solution for society. The FIWARE ecosystem develops the open software platform that will make cities smart, connects the manufacturing value chains of the future, enables aligned ecological and economic values in food production, and provides an optimized smart grid as well. NEC is an active contributor to the eco system as showcased by a series of talks on advancing the FIWARE ecosystem. NEC will demonstrate its commitment to FIWARE by showing “AI@theEdge” - a system that embeds low-power edge devices equipped with a dedicated AI coprocessors for integrating the popular Tensor Flow software directly into Smart Production lines. The system is realized using the FIWARE FogFlow enabler for programming and orchestrating large-scale edge systems. Edge Computing dynamically brings computation tasks to the devices in the Internet-of-Things thus drastically minimizes application latency, reduces bandwidth consumption, and improves the tolerance against network outages.

NEC will participate in various conference sessions throughout the FIWARE Global Summit under the themes of Connected Industries, Smart Manufacturing, Edge Processing, and AI.
Please see below for the full list of keynote speeches by NEC.

<NEC’s keynote speeches at FIWARE Global Summit>
Tuesday, 21st May:

10:30-11:00     “Plenary Session - Panel Discussion”,
                          Yasunori Mochizuki, NEC Fellow, NEC Corporation.

15:05-15:30     “Connected Industries Open Framework for Manufacturing in Japan –
                          Panel Discussion”, Akihisa Ushirokawa, Senior Engineering Specialist,
                          Corporate Technology Division, NEC Corporation

15:45-16:15      “FogFlow GE: Intent-based Edge Programming”,
                          Bin Cheng, Senior Researcher, NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH

17:30–18:15      “Smart Cities Track – Panel Discussion”,
                          Yasunori Mochizuki, NEC Fellow, NEC Corporation.

Wednesday, 22nd May:

9:45-10:00         “The SI MSC and FIWARE for INDUSTRY White Paper”,
                           Ernö Kovacs, Senior Manager, NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH

11:45-12:00       “Open Platform for Smart City: A FIWARE Powered Solution provided by NEC”,
                           Takuya Sanada, Manager, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd.(*)

12:00-12:15       “Smart Data-Contextualization towards NGSI Data Economy
                           (Demo Leveraging Wirecloud)”, Norio Uchida, Assistant Manager, NEC Coporation

12:30-13:00       “Panel Discussion - Implementing Factories of the Future Scnarios with FIWARE”,
                           Ernö Kovacs, Senior Manager, NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH

12:30–12:45      “Key Dome: Data Protection in FIWARE”,
                           Jagatjot Singh, NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.

14:15-14:30       “Federated AI with FogFlow”,
                           Bin Cheng, Senior Researcher, NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH

14:30-14:45      “Multiple Database Support in Orion”,
                          Anurag Vashisth, Technical Specialist, NEC Technologies India Pvt Ltd.

14:20-14:40      “IaaS & PaaS Capabilities Based on OpenStack & FIWARE”
                          Atul Pandey, Technical Specialist, NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
                          Parwinder Singh, Senior Technical Lead, NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.

14:45-15:00      “NGSI-LD – an Evolution from NGSIv2”, Martin Bauer, Senior Researcher, NEC

15:00-15:15      “A New NGSI-LD Broker – Features and Supported Architectures”,
                          Parwinder Singh, Senior Technical Lead, NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.

*For more information regarding NEC Solution Innovators Ltd., please click here.

About NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH
NEC Laboratories Europe located in Heidelberg, Germany was established in 1997 with special emphasis on meeting the needs of NEC Group’s European customers. It dedicates research, development, and standardization on cutting-edge information and communication technologies for creating innovative social solutions. Our major research areas are including 5G networks, data science, artificial intelligence, IoT platforms as well as IoT security, and blockchain. These technologies will promote NEC Group’s Solutions for a better Society in fields of digital health, lifeline and communication infrastructures, safer cities and public services.

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