Shared by Department of Information Society, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

Portugal continues to foster its growing Future Internet ecosystem. Engaged with its responsibilities in Information Society public policies, the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), in collaboration with the IPN – Instituto Pedro Nunes, organized a whole day event dedicated to the Future Internet and FIWARE opportunities within the Horizon 2020. Together with the participation of the European Commission (Mário Campolargo) and FIWARE Tech (Sérgio Garcia Gomez), which contributed for the attendees to better understand the European and world-wide trends and strategies for the Future Internet and the FIWARE framework, the event had the participation of FIWARE Accelerators (SOUL-FI and INCENSe) and SMEs and entrepreneurs who shared their experiences (see the event’s programme here).

The advantage of the openness provided by FIWARE, which represents an opportunity to companies to easily deliver applications into the market, was one of the key messages of the event.  The event also enhanced the central role of FIWARE Accelerators in the whole FIWARE ecosystem.