Compared systems and specific adoption cases

April 3 – morning

Key Takeaways

• The backbone for IoT: compared networks
• Low Power Networks: available solutions today, ecosystem and local low-power networks’ evolution
• Multefire, NB-IoT, Lora, RPMA and others: the appropriate standard for every application
• LiFi, the wireless communication technology that leverages visible light for the high-speed transmission of data between devices
• Use cases and best practices in the adoption of different connectivity systems

IoT technologies for infrastructures and efficient digital services

April 3 – morning

Key Takeaways

• Essential technology components for the Smart City digital services. Infrastructures, networks and intelligent buildings.
• Broadband technological solutions for companies, public administration and citizens
• Smart and sustainable mobility
• Promotion of cultural and tourist heritage
• Smart Gov, Big Data and Urban Analytics
• Security for people and communities
• Field Services and Lone Workers: IoT tools to make the circumstance of workers who operate in the field and in difficult environments more efficient and safer
• Smart Living and Smart Healthcare

IoT technology for energy efficiency in public and private lighting

April 3 – morning

(coming soon)

Innovation and digital transformation in farming

April 3 – morning

(coming soon)

Save and optimize water resources

April 3 – morning

(coming soon)

Current and future available solutions

April 3 – afternoon

Key Takeaways

• Emerging technologies and solutions available today: news and trends for users in the enterprise world
• Supporting the business decision-making process through Big Data and IoT Analytics
• Cloud and Edge computing, infrastructures for analyze and manage data generated by IoT. The role of Open Source architectures
• Geographical Information Systems and Internet of Things, perspectives for business applications

Perspectives and opportunities for the Internet of Things for building 

April 3 – afternoon

Key Takeaways

• BIM + IoT systems to reduce inefficiency, extra-costs, emergency maintenance
• IoT for Construction Management: sensors and monitoring applications for the predictive maintenance of heavy equipment
• Sustainable construction, use cases of IoT projects from engineering to energy management
• The implications of IoT in Facility Management, from the use of energy, to the monitoring of temperatures, to the movement of people in buildings

Key Takeaways

• New professional profiles related to the most advanced digital technologies
• University and business needs, does the gap in technological knowledge increase or decrease?
• How to choose project partners: research and businesses in the IoT sector
• Open Innovation projects in Europe and in Italy
• Scaling-up: where to start?

Technologies, business cases and experimentations

April 3 – afternoon

Key Takeaways

• Business market evolution for “Mixed Reality” systems in the short and medium term
• AR / VR technologies for fixed and mobile devices: interact with real-world objects and collaborate with colleagues and partners
• Which specific AR / VR devices will replace smartphones in the corporate device park?
• Use cases and experimentations in different vertical sectors

Skills and experiences to make objects accessible to IoT applications

April 3 – afternoon 

Key Takeaways

• Opportunities for the development of new business and critical issues in the integration between the physical and digital world
• Analysis of the complete technological stack that constitutes an IoT ecosystem
• Examples of development of technologies to interconnect sensors, actuators and machines in the industrial and service context
• From the hobby maker to the business professional, the role of FabLab and maker communities

The new technological frontier for interconnected services

April 4 – morning

Key Takeaways

• Edge Analytics, how to aggregate computing power within network devices to process real-time information
• Improve the performance and security of IoT architectures with the Edge approach
• Use cases for the integration of edge and cloud architectures
• Efficiency opportunities in the production chain in manufacturing
• Safe driving, fluider traffic flows and optimization of energy consumption, the opportunities of the Edge architecture for future mobility

The Digital Transformation taking place between standards, applications and prospects for the competitiveness of the production system

April 4 – afternoon

Key Takeaways

• Production systems as of today and in the next future, innovative technology adoption and process re-engineering
• Experiences, projects and solutions currently available in the various industries’ sectors
• Ecosystem, competence and open innovation in the fourth industrial revolution
• Focus on strategies to support competitiveness
• The evolution of European industry, state of the art and development policies

Digital transformation and optimization of the production process in the smart factory

April 4 – afternoon

(coming soon)

Experiences and perspectives of the use of technologies for an efficient availability of data and services

April 4 – afternoon

Key Takeaways

• Better project IoT infrastructures, combining the needs of security, decentralization and data governance
• Tools and best practices to guarantee suitable performances in business continuity and efficiency terms
• Considerations about scalability and saving in cloud architectures
• GDPR compliance: state-of-the-art about the application of the regulation in cloud services and datacenter

Technology trends & business applications

April 3 – morning and April 4 – morning

Key Takeaways

• Ecosystem and collaborative context to successfully manage the growing complexity of IoT applications
• From sensors to service: the technological challenges related to data collection and processing
• Big Data management, Cloud e Fog computing, infrastrutture per l’analisi, la sicurezza e la gestione dei dati generati da IoT
• Technology and business evolutionary scenarios of network infrastructures for embedded system connectivity: Cat M1, NB-IoT, Sigfox and LoRa in the domestic and global development scenario.
• Application areas and solutions available today and in perspective
• Energy consumption management: from the creation of low-power components to the optimization of the use of batteries, from energy harvesting to energy storage, the next technological challenges to support the development of IoT
• IOT Security: from the single component to the integrated system, state of the art and measures available today to tackle the threats
• Security by design, guaranteeing security right from the design phase

Artificial intelligence to innovate the production systems

April 3 – morning and afternoon

(coming soon)

Chairman: Stefano da Empoli, President, I-COM – Istituto per la competitività

Key Takeaways

• Overview of the global market, technological trends and elements of development
• Technological components fundamental for the development of services enabled by decentralization and cryptography
• State-of-the-art of experiences, projects and solutions implemented in the various sectors of industry
• Perspectives related to the Internet of Things, the “next big thing” for the spreading of the blockchain after the financial sector
• The role of innovative startups in the creation of the market and in the promotion of diffusion among companies
• Integration of blockchain into pre-existing business systems
• Data integrity and reliability in the blockchain
• Scalability and energy consumption, the challenges to face in the implementation of decentralized architectures
• Best practices: from strategy to execution, how to implement successful projects

(coming soon)

Smart Grid, Smart Lighting, Power Charging and energy efficiency: enabling technologies for innovative services

April 4 – morning

Key Takeaways

• Beyond the mere distribution: market overview, technology trends and development of  the Internet of Energy
• Digitization and customer experience in Smart Grid, the enabling factors for the dissemination of innovative services among public and private sector customers
• Communication systems for energy: integration with the telecommunications world
• Energy efficiency and enabling technologies in the public and private sectors, for the domestic, business and citizen sectors
• Smart Lighting, IoT technology at the service of energy efficiency in public and private lighting
• Power charging, business models and key industry development factors
• Technological trends to overcome limits such as battery life and charging times that are not compatible with the user’s needs

Ongoing technologies, projects, trials at national and European level

April 4 – morning

Key Takeaways

• 5G networks technological features
• The roadmap for the experimentation launched by Mise (Ministry of Economic Development
• Innovative services enabled by 5G mobile networks: perspectives in key sectors like health, mobility, energy, security and emergency management
• Business model transformations, new approaches and ecosystems

9:30 ROUND TABLE– TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT: Technology development and business models 

10:30 ROUND TABLE – ENABLED SERVICES: Challenges and opportunities for territory administrations 

11:30 ROUND TABLE – GOVERNANCE: The creation of a socio-economic instrument for the country digital transformation

State-of-the-art and perspectives of Ultra-Wideband plan

April 4 – afternoon

Key Takeaways

• Ultra-Wideband as an opportunity for strategic development in the regions
• The country’s strategic plan for Ultra-Wideband
• The role of institutional actors, such as Municipalities and Chambers of Commerce, in the dissemination of Ultra-Wideband
• State of the art of implementation

Technological Solutions and business models

April 4 – afternoon

Key Takeaways

• Broadband networks and services for the development of the economy in the digitized society
• Wireless broadband as a tool for developing smart communities and overcoming the digital divide
• Sharing frequencies and efficient use of the spectrum
• Successful implementations with efficient technical-economic solutions in sub-urban and rural areas