As we reported a while ago the MobiCloud consortium was selected by the European
Commission to present the latest advances in mobile cloud technologies at ICT2013. This event was held in Vilnius, Lithuania on 6-8 of November. It was an excellent opportunity to network with researchers and industrial
partners, as well as to disseminate the first year project results.
An impressive turnout of almost 5000 attendees was present as the president of Lithuania took to the stage to introduce the event.
On the MobiCloud booth, the team showed demonstrations of the
ongoing trials: a mobile site diary application for the construction industry
built in collaboration with Costain in the UK and a suite of workforce apps for
the public transport industry built for Tågkompaniet in Sweden.
Around
100 visitors expressed interest in following the MobiCloud project results and
accessing the MobiCloud SDK, now available publicly. It is also possible to try out the site diary app for free for 30 days in your own operations. A large Polish construction group took advantage of this opportunity to test the power of mobile cloud applications for their own business.
MobiCloud was also represented in the networking sessions,
with Xavier Aubry, MobiCloud project coordinator, speaking at the CloudWatch
networking session. This session presented examples of existing cloud apps success stories and
discussed how Europe can boost the competitiveness of its industries and SMEs
with cloud computing. Thank you to our colleagues at CloudWatch for inviting
us!
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MobiCloud was actively networking with other projects and was recruited during
the event to join the beta program of E*Xelerator , a virtual eccelerator initiated by the European Alliance for Innovatioin.
Finally
the event was a great opportunity to discover the ICT work programme 2014-2015 of Horizon 2020. The first call call has a deadline on April 23rd 2014 and features key
topics in the field of mobile and cloud. The team is already thinking about a
new project developing the results of MobiCloud further, so if you are
interested to work on joint proposals, contact us!
In summary, ICT2013 delivered over and above all our
expectations!