Summit IOT360: the Gateway to Innovation – Rome, Italy – 28,29 October 2014

The European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) with the patronage of the European Commission - Representation in Italy and in collaboration with Fraunhofer Fokus Institute, La Sapienza University, IBM, INSME and CREATE-NET Institute Organizes the Summit " IoT360: the Gateway to Innovation " , taking place in Rome, Italy on the 28th and 29th of October 2014.

IoT360 is in ITS first edition and Focuses Entirely on IoT Bringing a 360 degree perspective on IoT-related projects and activities and aiming to coach people involved-on the whole path between research and innovation to all the way through to commercialization of ideas, projects and technologies .

IOT360 is a powerful and inspirational event that brings together the most influential innovators, leading technologists, researchers and entrepreneurs, industry Representatives, makers, vendors, experts, developers and others to plan, learn, network, collaborate, strategize and more Effectively tap into the immense potential of the IoT domain.

The Summit Consists of a comprehensive 2-day event that will feature panels covering the main Mainly three different tracks:

• The Innovation That track will deal with the Aspects of taking an idea to market, Following through the Commercialization process, from concept development all the way through funding. This track will take the Participants through the basic steps of how to evaluate an idea, how to assess the readiness of IPR protection and validity longer available from idea and then through panel discussions and to better prepare the audience for funding readiness.

• The Technology track, blackberries Meant to shed light over the actual steps taken by different people / Organisations to capitalize on what the Internet of Things can deliver. In the various sessions there will be talks and discussion panels from various industry sectors to Representatives, gathering views on IoT innovation from big Organisations and SMEs, comparing and contrasting experiences from companies selling horizontal and vertical solutions, sharing hot topics makers from the community and Standardisation bodies , concluding with an overview on privacy and societal implications of IoT.

• The Community track, Bringing people together to network and build the internet of things. This track is the instrument to meet people, companies and organizations. The session brings together longer available actors to share research plans, kick start Initiatives, formulated new projects and make business. Agile one to one meetings facilitated Among users in coral EAI development of the Internet of Things community.

The Summit offers a wide set of collateral activities: such as technical scientific events covering key Aspects of the IoT world, an exhibition of new technologies from start-ups and companies, to demos of projects and workshops. The Exhibit Provides an excellent opportunity for companies to showcase Their business and products, Their researchers to present projects and prototypes, to benefit from expert knowledge, meet and match expertise with new partners and make your way to market with the EAI support.

An EAI Expert Team will award the most qualified projects / prototypes / products by offering free or EAI accelerator Incubation programs. The EAI Incubation & Acceleration Programs are online events Which Shops provide tutoring and mentoring to monetize your technology / project, acquire the tools to lead your start-up and hit the market.

The Summit IOT360 Also promotes the " IOT360 Summer School "Which Will Demonstrate what it takes to deliver an IoT-based product from scratch. The School Consists of lectures and tutorials as well as a hands-on session where participant teams will be formed to work on selected projects. Lastly the IOT360 hackathon addresses entrepreneurs, developers, designers and makers who are willing to hands-on experiment, learn and play with state-of-the-art technologies for the IoT and build IoT related prototypes and solutions.

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