An FIWARE Workshop dedicated to presenting funding opportunities of the FI-PPP programme for innovative European SMEs, start-ups and web-entrepreneurs in the Future Internet landscape took place in Poland on the 23rd of October 2014.

The event was organized by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MSHE), Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), PARP, NCBiR and ICT NCP and  supported by the European Commission, Future Internet Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) and Ideal-IST Project.

The main objective of the workshop was to present the FIWARE Accelerator Programme, specifically focused in agriculture and smart cities domains, through talks given by invited representatives of accelerators: INCENSe, IMPACT, EuropeanPioneers, frontierCities, Speed Up! Europe, CreatiFI, SmartAgriFood2 and FRACTALS. Moreover, the event included a Q&A session and offered the possibility to talk personally with people representing the accelerators during a networking and consultations session. The event’s agenda is available at http://www.fiware.pl/poznan2014/agenda/ .

Around 100 stakeholders attended the event, most of them representing SMEs or larger companies, with some research and education institutions being present as well. There were many late registration requests that had to be turned down due to venue constraints and organizational matters. This, along with the large number of questions asked and the high attendance at the networking and consultations session prove the popularity of the subject matter and the need to organise similar local events.

The presentations were given in English. The event has been  recorded by Platon TV, PSNC’s scientific TV studio. The recordings are available at here.