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The NESSI Strategy The Way AheadBCI07
Jose M. Cavanillas Vice-chairman NESSI Steering
Committee Director Atos Origin Research
Innovation
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The story of NESSI

• The context - European Technology Platform
• Private-public partnership
• Industrial leadership
• Uniting all stakeholders
• Around a key, strategic area
• Strategic?
• Europes future growth
• Europes competitiveness
• Link?
• Requires major research and technological
  advances
• In the medium to long term

NESSI aims to provide a unified view for European
research in Services Architectures and Software
Infrastructures
Today, NESSI partners represent 1.7 Million
strong workforce and 490 B in revenues
NESSI has presented an initial Strategic Research
Agenda that represents a global investment of
2.5 B
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The challenge of NESSI

• Transforming the Internet to service your life
• ensuring that services can be provided to all,
  citizens and businesses alike, in safe, secure,
  reliable, extensible, scalable environments

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The vision of NESSI

• In the past, we were unconnected
• In the 80s, we moved to a one to one connection
  infrastructure was the key, email as the
  interface
• In the 90s, a one to all connection Web sites
  as the interface
• and today we are overwhelmed by information, by
  its amount, by multiple threads of information
• Easing life requires that personalised
  information be delivered
• Tomorrow, software will be delivered as services
  that encapsulate information and personalisation

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The vision of NESSI

• This evolution requires a service oriented
  environment
• NESSI companies have recognised that no single
  company can or should harness the power of such
  an environment
• NESSI is a partnership that will ensure the
  emergence of this environment allowing for

INNOVATION
SEAMLESS ACCESS
FAST DEPLOYMENT
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The tools of NESSI

• The first tool of an ETP is its Strategic
  Research Agenda
• Moving from vision to definition
• Frame the context
• Refine the Technological scope
• Build it together
• Getting organised is key to ensuring
• Smooth operations
• Open contributions

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NESSI from launch to future
01/2006NESSI ForumNew members start
06/2006NESSI General Assembly
09/20069 Active working Groups
09/2005 NESSI Launch
Building implementing the SRA
Vision
22 partners 200 members SRA Volume 1 Working
Groups
SRA Volume 3 - Roadmap
ContextSRA Holistic View Join us!
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Choose your level of involvement
NESSI Community
NESSI Partners
Board
Committees
NESSI Office
Steering Committee
NESSI Members
IST Projects
Collaborating through working groups
WorkingGroups
NESSI Forum
User Community
SME Community
ICT Industry Community
Academic Research Community
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NESSI Current Status

• 22 partners
• 9 active working groups
• Semantic Technologies
• Trust, Security and Dependability
• Service Engineering
• Software Engineering
• Services Sciences
• Service Oriented Infrastructure
• Business Process Management
• User/Service Interactions
• eHealth

NESSI Members
WorkingGroups

• 200 members participating through working
  groups
• Published call for participation to Working
  Groups

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NESSI Communities

• ICT Industry
• SME
• Academia Research
• User

NESSI Forum
User Community
SME Community
ICT Industry Community
Academic Research Community
NESSI is carrying out specific actions for the
involvement of Academia and SMEs
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Why Academia is good for NESSI?

• Academia and Research stakeholders have
  demonstrated their strong push on Research
• Academia and Research stakeholders are very much
  proactive within NESSI
• NESSI performs research in a continuous way and
  it should integrate as much existing research as
  possible
• Involving this community ensures that Academia
  viewpoints are represented in NESSI
• Facilitate the transfer of technology of NESSI
  related technologies from academia to industry

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Why NESSI is good for Academia?

• BENEFITS of getting involved in NESSI
• Gain insight into the European ICT market
  evolution and prime technological directions
• Gain access to organised knowledge by getting
  involved in NESSI Working Groups
• Gain access to ICT and Seventh Framework Program
  at large by joining project consortia born within
  the NESSI activities
• Gain access to new potential partners, new shared
  knowledge, new possibilities to expand the
  potential market

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NESSI and Academia

• The challenge of NESSI is
• Enlarge Academia Community in NESSI
• Encourage members of Academia Community to
  participate in NESSI

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Why SMEs are good for NESSI?

• Motivation
• SMEs employ more than 74 million people and
  generate majority of radical innovations and
  technological breakthroughs
• Necessity of engaging and enlarging NESSI SME
  Community
• Necessity of including SMEs point of view in
  NESSI
• Committee constituted BY SMEs and FOR SMEs
• Action
• Formal constitution of a SME COMMITTEE in NESSI

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Why NESSI is good for SMEs?

• BENEFITS of getting involved in NESSI
• Gain insight into the European ICT market
  evolution and prime technological directions
• Gain access to organised knowledge by getting
  involved in NESSI structures
• Gain access to ICT and Seventh Framework Program
  at large by joining project consortia born within
  the NESSI activities
• Gain access to new potential partners, new shared
  knowledge, new possibilities to expand the
  potential market

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NESSI and SMEs

• SME COMMITTEE
• Main Goal is to provide a single access point for
  SMEs into NESSI to
• Share and discuss the goals of the overall NESSI
  idea
• Ensure that SME viewpoint is represented in NESSI
• Provide NESSI SME representation to external
  bodies or forums
• Ensure that the goal of NESSI SRA can be put into
  reality within the constraints of SME environment

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NESSI Academia next steps

• I am an University or Research Institute
  interested in NESSI what should I do now?
• 1) Become NESSI Member. Its one click away!
  (www.nessi-europe.com )
• 2) Work in team!!

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NESSI SMEs next steps

• I am an SME interested in NESSI what should I do
  now?
• 1) Become NESSI Member. Its one click away!
  (www.nessi-europe.com )
• 2) Contact the SME Committee Chairman Stuart
  Campbell ( Stuart.Campbell_at_tieglobal.com)
• 3) Work in team!!

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National Technology Platforms
AND NEW ONES WILL APPEAR .
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INES the Spanish Case

• INÉS (Spanish initiative for software and
  services) is the national technology platform in
  the area of systems, software services and Grid
• Consists of 100 actors, namely companies,
  research centres, universities and public bodies
• Core management team includes Atos Origin, the
  government of Asturias (CTIC), European Software
  Institute, UPM and Telefonica.
• Launched in Madrid on December 15th 2005
• SRA presented on March 28th 2006
• First General Assembly held on June 29th 2006
• More info at http//www.ines.org.es

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NESSI-Slovenia

• NESSI-Slovenia is the national technology
  platform in the area of systems, software
  services and Grid
• First Technology Platform conference in Maribor
  on June 12th
• June 13th Plenary Session in the KMO 2006
  welcomed by Dr. Gregor Virant, Minister of Public
  Administration and NESSI SC Vice-Chairman
• http//www.nessi-slovenia.com

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Working Together

• NESSI is the Software and Services ETP
• NESSI has the potential, the will and the
  credibility
• NESSI has the organisation and the Working Groups
• What is the best way forward to use the
  opportunity of NESSI to link the business and
  vertical areas to innovation ?

Become NESSI Member Its one click away!
(www.nessi-europe.com ) Work in team!!
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Thanks

• Jose M. Cavanillas
• Vice-Chairman NESSI Steering Committee
• Director Atos Origin Research Innovation
• jose-maria.cavanillas_at_atosorigin.com

http//www.nessi-europe.com/