NexusForum2023

• Ignacio M. Llorente — CEO of OpenNebula Systems & Chair of the Cloud/Edge WG, EU Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge & Cloud
• Pierre Chastanet — Head of Unit for Cloud & Software (Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology), European Commission

• Jesús Marcos Morell — Head of Area & IPCEI-CIS National Coordinator (State Secretariat for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructures), Government of Spain

• Dimosthenis Kyriazis — Vice-Rector of Research and Lifelong Learning at the University of Piraeus & Rapporteur of the Cloud/Edge WG, EU Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge & Cloud

As Commissioner Thierry Breton has stated, “in the Digital Decade, open source will be a key element to achieve Europe’s resilience and digital sovereignty”. In this interactive session we will discuss how open source can help to reduce the market entry barriers in the cloud market, increase market competition and technology neutrality, and consolidate an approach to edge computing that balances its advantages and risks while minimising vendor lock-in and fostering an open ecosystem in Europe around sustainable joint innovation. We will also debate the practical challenges that strategic EU initiatives like the IPCEI-CIS pose in terms of implementing new models of open source governance able to ensure Europe’s technological sovereignty in the long term.

This interactive session will be co-chaired by:

• Alberto P. Martí — VP of Open Source Innovation, OpenNebula Systems
• Sachiko Muto — Senior Researcher, RISE

The European landscape of cloud & edge infrastructure services is highly fragmented and suffers a lack of interoperability that limits the practical capacity of users to easily deploy applications across multi-provider environments and to switch between vendors. In this interactive session we will discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with leveraging European or international standards for the implementation of compatible services across providers. We will also look at how strategic EU initiatives like the IPCEI-CIS are expected to promote the joint development of uniform abstraction layers for multi-provider portability, as well as meta-orchestration and federation mechanisms for the distributed cloud-edge continuum.

This interactive session will be co-chaired by:

• Alfonso Carrillo-Aspiazu — Senior Edge & Telco Solutions Architect, OpenNebula Systems
• Johan Kristiansson — Senior Researcher, RISE

• Björn Fanta — Head of Research, Fabasoft
• Juncal Alonso — Senior Researcher, Tecnalia

While cloud & edge infrastructures continue growing, carbon usage needs to be reduced in order to meet the EU’s 2023 climate neutrality goal for the European datacentre industry. In this interactive session we will discuss how technologies like AI/ML can help to incorporate parameters such as energy efficiency, green energies, and compliance policies into the automated decision-making processes involved, for example, in the deployment and management of workloads across a multi-provider cloud-edge continuum. We will also look at how next-generation European meta-orchestration solutions will have to take into account the increasing heterogeneity at the edge and the need to use predictive models adapted to specific conditions such as node mobility and high variability in power supply availability.

This interactive session will be co-chaired by:

• Erik Langius — Scientist Integrator, TNO
• Thomas Ohlson Timoudas — Researcher, RISE

In March 2021, the European Commission released its Digital Compass, with one of its main objectives being the deployment of 10,000 climate-neutral, highly secure Edge Nodes across the EU by 2023. This panel discussion will analyse the opportunities and challenges that this brings to the European cloud market, and how the EU industry is planning to contribute to achieve that objective through joint technological innovation and pan-European collaboration.

• Maria Barros Weiss — Head of Digital Ecosystems, IONOS
• Alfonso Carrillo-Aspiazu — Senior Edge & Telco Solutions Architect, OpenNebula Systems
• Andreas Florath — Cloud Architect, Deutsche Telekom
• Alexander Heine — Lead Computation Circle (Digital Rail for Germany), DB Netz
• Çağatay Yılmaz — Project Manager (ICE Data Center), RISE

⭐ Session organised in collaboration with the EU Edge Observatory ⭐

• Alberto P. Martí — VP of Open Source Innovation, OpenNebula Systems
• Constantino Vázquez — Chief Operating Officer, OpenNebula Systems

• Alberto Palomo — National Chief Data Officer (State Secretariat for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence), Government of Spain

In this session, a number of high-impact EU-funded research and innovation actions will present new approaches and open source developments that are especially relevant for the IPCEI-CIS and the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud. These projects will explain how they are addressing technological challenges such as workload orchestration across the cloud-edge continuum, the use of AI for cloud operations, the development of middleware solutions for cloud interoperability/portability, the adoption of emerging container and virtualization technologies, or the management of heterogeneous infrastructure resources across public cloud or telco/5G edge service providers:

• SovereignEdge.COGNIT [2022-DATA-01-02] — Alberto P. Martí (VP of Open Source Innovation, OpenNebula Systems)
• AC3 [2022-DATA-01-02] — David Vallejo (Head of the PMO, Arsys)
• ACES [2022-DATA-01-02] — Giovanni Rimassa (Chief Innovation Officer, Martel Innovate)
• CODECO [2022-DATA-01-02] — Rizkallah Touma (Research Lead, i2CAT)
• OASEES [2022-DATA-01-03] — Enrique Areizaga (Digital Transformation Manager, Tecnalia)
• TALON [2021-HUMAN-01-01] — Giovanni Frattini (Technical Manager, Engineering)
• CLARUS [2021-DIGITAL-EMERGING-01-09] — Iván Valdés (Edge/Cloud Software Architect, Ikerlan)
• 6G-SANDBOX [SNS-2022-STREAM-C-01-01] — Alfonso Carrillo (Senior Edge & Telco Solutions Architect, OpenNebula Systems)
• MEDINA [H2020-SU-ICT-2018-2020] — Juncal Alonso (Senior Researcher, Tecnalia)

⭐ Session organised in collaboration with EUCloudEdgeIoT ⭐

One of the high-impact research and innovation topics launched by the European Commission in recent years is the so-called Cognitive Cloud. In addition to reducing latency, improving security, and optimizing resource consumption, this panel discussion will look at how Artificial Intelligence is expected to enable serverless and highly-distributed edge cloud architectures to be more flexible and adaptable to the changing needs of IoT/edge application developers.

• Idoia de la Iglesia — Team Leader, IoT & Digital Platforms, Ikerlan
• Philippe Massonet — Scientific Coordinator, CETIC
• Thomas Ohlson Timoudas — Researcher, RISE
• Paul Townend — Associate Professor, Umeå University
• Constantino Vázquez — Chief Operating Officer, OpenNebula Systems

⭐ Session organised in collaboration with the COGNIT Project ⭐

The EU’s Strategy for Data aims at creating a single market for data that will ensure Europe’s global competitiveness and data sovereignty, a process that is also expected to contribute to bringing some balance to the European cloud market. This panel discussion will look at the emerging Common European Data Spaces and how they are going to influence (and benefit from) the future deployment of a federated edge cloud infrastructure across Europe.

• Domenico Chirico — Enterprise Architect, KPN
• Tobias Guggenberger — Project Manager & Researcher, Fraunhofer ISST
• Patrick Hebant — Associate Director, Dataspace Ecosystem, Amadeus
• Michel Iñigo — Senior Innovation & Technology Manager, Mondragón Corporation
• Marco Mancini — Senior Cloud Solutions Architect, OpenNebula Systems

⭐ Session organised in collaboration with the Data Spaces Support Centre ⭐

• Ignacio M. Llorente — CEO of OpenNebula Systems & Chair of the Cloud/Edge WG, EU Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge & Cloud
• Matías González Martín — Secretary General of Telecommunications and Regulation of Audiovisual Communication Services (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation), Government of Spain