“The NESSI Strategy: The Way Ahead” BCI´07 Jose M. Cavanillas Vice-chairman NESSI Steering Committee Director Atos Origin – Research & Innovation

- 1 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 €

- 2 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

- 3 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, 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

- 4 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

- 5 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

partners 200 members SRA Volume 1 Working Groups 09/2005 NESSI Launch 01/2006 NESSI Forum New members start NESSI – from launch to future 06/2006 NESSI General Assembly Building & implementing the SRA Vision Context SRA Holistic View Join us! SRA Volume 3 - Roadmap 09/ Active working Groups

- 7 NESSI Community NESSI Partners NESSI Members Working Groups Choose your level of involvement NESSI Forum User Community SME Community ICT Industry Community Academic & Research Community NESSI Office Committees Steering Committee Board IST Projects Collaborating through working groups Staying Aware Contribute Actively Coordinate

- 8 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 Working Groups 200 members – participating through working groups Published call for participation to Working Groups

- 9 ICT Industry SME Academia & Research User NESSI is carrying out specific actions for the involvement of Academia and SMEs NESSI Communities NESSI Forum User Community SME Community ICT Industry Community Academic & Research Community

- 10 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?

- 11 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?

- 12 The challenge of NESSI is: Enlarge Academia Community in NESSI Encourage members of Academia Community to participate in NESSI NESSI and Academia

- 13 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?

- 14 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?

- 15 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

- 16 I am an University or Research Institute interested in NESSI: what should I do now? 1) Become NESSI Member. It’s one click away! ( ) 2) Work in team!! NESSI & Academia: next steps

- 17 I am an SME interested in NESSI: what should I do now? 1) Become NESSI Member. It’s one click away! ( ) 2) Contact the SME Committee Chairman Stuart Campbell ( 3) Work in team!! NESSI & SMEs: next steps

- 18 National Technology Platforms AND NEW ONES WILL APPEAR ….

- 19 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 INES: the Spanish Case

- 20 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

- 21 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! ( ) Work in team!!

- 22 Thanks Jose M. Cavanillas Vice-Chairman NESSI Steering Committee Director Atos Origin – Research & Innovation