1. European Commission Initiative “Digitising European Industry”
Report from October 2016 workshops and next steps
Patrick Guillemin – AIOTI WG03 (IoT Standardisation) Chair
Luis Perez Freire – AIOTI WG06 (Smart Farming & Food Security) Chair
Pierre-Yves Danet – AIOTI WG02 member

2. Digitising European Industry (DEI) Initiative - background
Launched on April Digitising European Industry Communication (COM(2016) 180)
Overall objective of DEI: ensure that any industry in Europe, big or small, wherever situated and in any sector can fully benefit from digital innovations to upgrade its products, improve its processes and adapt its business models to the digital change.
Two working groups established on Sept 20 DEI roundtable
WG 1: Digital Innovation Hubs: Mainstreaming digital innovation across all sectors
Hubs will help companies to understand digital opportunities and to get access to knowledge and testing facilities.
WG1 to define a plan for strengthening a network of Digital Innovation Hubs in Europe.
WG 2: "Strengthening leadership in digital technologies and in digital industrial platforms across value chains in all sectors of the economy“
The Commission plans to launch a set of initiatives supporting the building of the Digital Industrial Platforms of the future.
There are large, but fragmented research efforts in key digital technology fields and in their full integration in industry sectors.
WG2 to define a plan for better coordination and increased efforts.

3. Digitising European Industry WGs 1 & 2 - timeline
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dic
Jan
Feb
March
Apr
WG1-2
Follow-up workshops 8-9 Dec
DEI Round Table
20 Sept
WG1-2
workshops Oct
Deliverables: Final reports WG1-2
Hannover Fair
WG1-2 workshops reports
11 Nov
Deliverables: Draft reports WG1-2
End Dec
Deliverables: Updated drafts WG1-2
DEI Stakeholder Forum
WG1-2 Feedback
18 Nov

4. Digitising European Industry - Working group 1
Mandate of the WG 1 :
Describe current approaches and best practices and elaborate in more detail the Digital Innovation Hub approach and the plans for their further development.
Reflect on how Member States, regions and the private sector could fund the expansion of Digital Innovation Hubs from sources such as the ESIF2, EFSI, or other national and regional funds, mobilising at least €5bn from different financial sources.
Advise on specific actions needed to mobilise all levels of policy and decision makers, including investment by the private sector and connecting to the investment community.
Reflect on how to best support the proposed mapping of Digital Innovation Hubs in Europe.
Reflect on how the objectives of Smart Specialisation and the Digital Innovation Hubs schemes put forward in H2020, such as I4MS, could be mutually reinforcing, and in particular to reach out to less developed regions.
Identify areas where wider use of public procurement of innovations would support the further development and scaling up of digital technologies.
AIOTI representation by:
Pierre-Yves Danet (Member, WG02)

5. Digitising European Industry - Working group 1
What is a Digital Innovation Hub (DIH):
A Digital Innovation Hub refers to an ecosystem through which any business can get access to latest knowledge, expertise and technology for testing and experimenting digital innovations relevant to its products, processes or business models. The Hub can provide also the connections with investors, facilitates access to financing of digital transformations of businesses and help connect users and suppliers of digital innovations across the value chain.
The core of a Digital Innovation Hub is one or multiple "competence centres. These provide advances technical expertise and facilities (labs, infrastructures, pilot lines for production, etc..). They cooperate within the hubs with the necessary partners in the innovation chain to support businesses in their digital transformation including investors, business development and legal experts, etc. No one competence centres can be excellent in all digital fields. Hence the need of networking between competence centres (and their hubs) with complementary disciplines so to offer a "one stop shop" for businesses.
The goal is to ensure that any business in Europe should have access to a DIH at a working distance.

6. DEI WG1 workshop Oct 20
Discussion at the WG Meeting focused on three key issues:
1) What are the needs of industry with respect to digital transformation;
What do competence centres and DIHs need to offer to support industry in your region more effectively?
Which building blocks are already available in your region (innovation programmes, competence centres, clusters, innovation services, training, production facilities, testing and validation infrastructure, ….)
How can DIH support companies on digital skills?
2) How to develop a network of Digital Innovation Hubs in Europe that reflects these needs; How can we build a network of Digital Innovation Hubs that can serve companies from all over Europe at "working" distance?
How to ensure that the knowledge of the network, in particular missing competences, reaches out to the DIH where it is needed?
How to reach out to regions without DIH?
How to foster synergies and collaboration between DIH and relevant competence centres, such as KETs Technology Centres/ Pilot Lines?
3) Which investments are necessary to successfully build the network of DIHs. How to invest in Digital Innovation Hubs?
What is the volume of investments (public and private) necessary in your regions to satisfy the demand of digital transformation services of the industry?
Which investments are already foreseen by you?
How can we create synergies between on-going investments and potential Digital Innovation Hubs?
How to maximize the impact of innovation hubs in the context of the Smart Specialisation Platform on Industrial Modernisation?
Full workshop report:

7. DEI WG1 - Inputs from AIOTI WG02 and next steps
AIOTI WG02 has been focusing on what actions are needed to develop innovation ecosystems by stimulating start-ups, the use of open IoT platforms and enabling linking up between large and small companies. This is a broad subject and, after widespread consultation, it was further broken down into the following topics:
Linking vertical with horizontal platforms: how to set the right conditions for enabling cross-company use cases, how to establish (horizontal) cross company platforms and how to enable participation of small and medium enterprises
Large scale pilots with hands-on experimentation: How to organise as a key element in IoT innovation, large scale pilots under close-to-market conditions
Stakeholder involvement: how to secure timely involvement of a variety of stakeholders in the IoT innovation projects (along the value chain), including future end-users of value propositions
Guidelines for establishing market adoption readiness levels: how to transform the conventional Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) to Market Adoption Readiness Levels (MARL) with more applicable criteria for IoT innovation projects
Adapting funding models: How to apply EC and National funding models to stimulate the right practices, mind-sets and ownership over time
Next DEI WG1 meeting will take place on December 9
Further contributions to the DEI WG1 questions, to complete the vision of AIOTI WG02, can be sent to

8. Digitising European Industry – Working Group 2
DEI WG2 Mandate: “Strengthening leadership in digital technologies and in digital industrial platforms across value chains in all sectors of the economy”
Six sub-groups:
AIOTI representation by:
Patrick Guillemin (Chair, WG03) – IoT sub-group
Luis Perez Freire (Chair, WG06) – Smart Agriculture sub-group
Connected Smart Factory
Digital Transformation of Health and Care
Smart Agriculture
Connected Autonomous Driving
Industrial Data Platforms
Internet of Things

9. DEI WG2 workshop Oct 21 Full workshop report:
The discussions during the workshop of 21 October were organised around four questions:
What is the current landscape of activities in Europe (national initiatives, EU funded activities, other)?
Where do we want to go?
What kinds of next-generation platforms are needed (if any)?
What kinds of large-scale federating initiatives are needed (if any)?
What concrete gaps/problems could be addressed through platform development and large-scale initiatives at EU level?
How do we bridge the gap between what we have and what we want to achieve?
What concrete platform building initiatives and large-scale pilots can be expected/supported/promoted?
How to combine large-scale demonstrators across the EU and across Member States, taking into account already ongoing national developments?
Who are the main stakeholders to be involved?
How can PPPs contribute to building platforms?
How can existing/planned MS initiatives contribute to building platforms?
What are the complementarities/synergies/needs for coordination between EU (PPPs) and MS levels?
How to avoid overlaps and strengthen synergies?
Full workshop report:

10. DEI WG2 - inputs provided by AIOTI and next steps
IoT sub-group:
Initial feedback draft:
Smart Agriculture sub-group:
Initial feedback draft:
Next DEI WG2 meeting will take place on December 8
AIOTI seeks further contributions to those initial drafts, that can be sent directly to the corresponding AIOTI representatives:
IoT sub-group:
Smart Agriculture sub-group: