 We are the US Digital Innovation Hub, an international and multi-partner cooperation that supports companies in easy accessing the digital technologies and services offered by the European Open Science Cloud. But we are a work package of the US CARP projects that is focusing on centralizing the innovation activities within the EOSC. The main goals of this session are to provide an update of the EOSC LI8 on the EOSC Innovation Landscape and the world that the industry plays. We want also to raise awareness about the EOSC LI8 as the mechanism for industrial engagement. In addition, we expect to facilitate the cooperation between the different European Open Science Cloud service providers, the related projects with the EOSC LI8, and so we will be able to enhance the EOSC LI8 technical offer. And finally, we want to increase the visibility of the EOSC LI8 business pilots that are running or have run in the past during the project. So before starting with the first speaker, just a quick reminder that in this session we will use the Zoom chat for the question and answers part, so no slide up. And after the presentation of the invited speakers, we will organize a first round of the quality question and answers. So the first speaker is Sai Holsinger. Sai is the EOSC LI8 coordinator and he's the strategy and innovation team lead and business development manager at the EGI Foundation. He has about 15 years of experiencing European projects managing and supporting the development and implementation of infrastructures for research and innovation. Sai, when you want. Sure. So let me share my screen. So I hope you can see my screen now. Everything's okay. Yes. Good. So thank you very much, Elisa, for the introduction and for everybody joining our session. So, yeah, the first kind of introduction to the session as a whole. I'll be basically giving you some background to the Digital Innovation Hub landscape and basically the specific activities that we've been doing inside of the Digital Innovation Hub itself, which I think will be, let's say, a nice segue into the later presentations from the European Commission around the future funding models and then potentially from the executive board to try to understand how we could maybe facilitate some information, information exchange to make sure that we're aligned from the governance level and then kind of give some space to the individual pilots to basically tell you what they've been doing. So that's pretty much going to be the outline of my presentation, which is the background to the Digital Innovation Hubs, what we're offering, what we've done to date, and where we think we need to go into the future. So just two quick words about basically what Digital Innovation Hubs are, just so we're kind of like all on the same page. So basically, public-private partnerships have been going on for several years. This is nothing new. However, the Digital Innovation Hub as a concept, as a word, as a term has been a way to more easily, let's say, communicate the activities that we're carrying out on a day-to-day basis, which then makes it easier for us to align with different initiatives, whether they're sector-specific or in different regions, it makes basically the language that we're speaking a little bit more clear. So from the European Commission's point of view, they've defined the Digital Innovation Hubs as an ecosystem of startups, SMEs, large industries together with researchers, accelerators, investors that kind of come together and stimulate innovation. So the Digital Innovation Hub is kind of part of the European Commission's digital single market. So it's all about digitizing EU industry. And here you can see that they've specifically mentioned that the European Open Science Cloud is a key component in this strategy, as well as wanting to create this kind of pan-European network of Digital Innovation Hubs. So it's like a logical conclusion to then combine the two and say we want to create and support and run and operate and expand a Digital Innovation Hub for the EOSC. So basically, what they've said is, well, what do the services that each of the Digital Innovation Hubs need to provide? So there's this concept that will be repeated over and over, which is about tests before you invest. And I think the spirit here is like in these pre-commercial activities in order to kind of stimulate conceptual models, prototypes, go to market, but basically is my idea good, solid, valid, and could scale in a digital age? But this also comes with the need for specific training and skills, connection to investment opportunities. So we really want to create like an entire ecosystem of actors in this specific space. So the European Commission has basically been putting some funding in a number of different initiatives. You may or may not have seen, for example, FIWARE where they're funding different Innovation Hubs. I4MS is a little bit more focused in manufacturing. But overall, they've been basically funding different initiatives in order to stimulate the creation of Digital Innovation Hubs. So over the years, there's been either existing public-private partnerships that are coalescing or calling themselves or consider themselves a Digital Innovation Hub. So as a mechanism for trying to track these different Digital Innovation Hubs across Europe, the Commission has put together a catalog where you can basically register and provide who you are, where you are, what services that you're offering, and a sort of registry of these Digital Innovation Hubs. So there has been several working groups over the last couple of years, but now in order to create or coalesce this pan-European network, yeah, you have the catalog, which at least you know who they are, but now you need to start to pull them together. So there's a CSA project, which is called DIHNet, which is charged with basically pulling together and being a part of or creating this Digital Innovation Hub community. So the EOS Digital Innovation Hub, we've happily joined a partnership with them and we participate in their working groups. So that brings us kind of to that's the landscape of Digital Innovation Hubs. So the question then pulls, well then what's the role of industry and all of this within the EOS? So we can kind of put them in four main buckets. So we definitely see the industry being a customer, so simply making use of existing EOS services. They could also be a provider, so they have services that they would then like to offer to the EOS community. There's also this kind of partnership where we're co-developing things together. So we're jointly operating, we're jointly co-creating, whether it's a new product, service, whatever it is, we're just simply providing them with consultancy and expertise. And then the other one is participating in the procurement framework. And I think you've heard of ongoing initiatives such as Oakray that's helping to support and trying to make sense of a complex environment within procurement with industry can surely play a role. So moving into a little bit more about the EOS Digital Innovation Hub itself. So it's all about onboarding industry partnerships. So if you basically want to engage with the EOS, give an industry flavor, it can go through the Digital Innovation Hub, there's a partner network to be able to engage with them. Also following the spirit of like the EOS Hub project, which is about trying to reduce the fragmentation of services across the research and science and innovation space, the same thing we want to do for our industry engagement program. So each infrastructure had their own industry engagement programs and we're trying to pull those together, which then increases, it simplifies the request process, and it also basically extends the service portfolio of the individual providers. So in order to kickstart this, at the beginning of the EOS Hub project, we had six business pilots that we started with, which helped us get up and running. And then over the course of time, we've been onboarding new ones. So we've onboarded five new pilots since then, we're open to more and I'll go into how we're doing that. And then the idea is that basically the Digital Innovation Hub will live beyond the life of any single project. So we're already putting the mechanisms in place so that when the EOS project finishes, the Digital Innovation Hub remains and there'll be multiple support initiatives or projects for how it will operate in the future. So really, it just kind of boils down to us wanting to offer the access to these kind of infrastructure resources, facilitate the partnerships between all of these different actors. We're now getting a number of different requests for the industrial engagement activities for other EC projects and initiatives, as well as wanting to serve as a kind of a bridge for these other research infrastructures, such as the S-Free projects into EOS and industry. Many SMEs and startups have limited visibility in their local small markets. So by partnering with a European or international community raises the individual profiles of them, provide coaching if they need it for go-to-market strategies. And then obviously after a pilot, there could be some opportunities for providing ongoing services for future opportunities. So we're always looking at longer-term business relationships. So we just tried to somehow bucket all of these services into some type of categorization and we basically broke them down into what we offer support for piloting and co-design. We do offer technical access to either compute, storage, data management. Now through some of our partnerships, we're including services like machine learning and artificial intelligence. We have a number of different data providers across the EOS landscape. So if any of the industry would like to take advantage or build applications on top of the research data, we should help facilitate that reuse of our own tools and applications and then providing them with the human services, training, support, and then the visibility, the marketing, the media exposure, participation, and events, which you'll hear later even in this session. We'll have a couple pilots, but I'll go into more detail in that setting. And then also, for example, if they want to be a provider, maybe the output of one of the pilots is a new service that they would like to make available in the market, we then make that available. So we have our strategy to serve as the mechanism for Can we automatically mute people? Yep, that's done. Thanks. So we do, our long-term strategy is to basically serve as the mechanism for industry engagement with the EOSC and live behind the project. So we're already officially registered. We started setting up like our own dedicated promotional material. So our own branding, which we're in the process of doing a refresh. We have our own website, our own social media, such as Twitter, LinkedIn accounts, and then we really focus on having dedicated brochures, videos, articles. We have success story publications on the pilots that are running in themselves. So really trying to like establish its own outside of any project. So we have a number of partnerships that are already ongoing. Like I said, this is one of our mechanisms for constantly expanding the services that we're offering through the digital innovation hub. And we do that by partnering with other organizations. And one of the examples has been with the deep hybrid cloud as one example of adding or augmenting our service portfolio with more machine learning type services. But we are working with other networks and digital innovation hubs like BDVA for the Big Data Value Association, as well as some regional partnerships. And then even through the EOS Cub project, we have a number of different providers that have been working for an example in the Earth observation space that comes from commercial entities. So we put together some vouchers. So one of the limitations in EOS Cub was is that we didn't have a cascade funding mechanism. So we had to come up with mechanisms by which we could at least concrete some or put some type of monetary value on the services that we were offering. So we created kind of a free trial offer. We did a 5k giveaway at the ICT event. There's now a dedicated section for the digital innovation hub on the portal. And we're trying to offer our services in the marketplace. And as a recent activity to stimulate new pilots coming into the digital innovation hub, we ran an open call which closed at the beginning of May. And we are in the final selection process. So we received 16 applications. And we will go up to, we will select up to five is basically the amount of resources that we had available in the project to be able to support. So we'll probably have another five pilots being onboarded in addition to the 11 that we already have. So I'm not going to go into detail about this because I'm marching, we'll discuss this as his introduction to the business pilots. But we do have, we did start with six that were in a variety of different sectors. I think the main message to come out of here is that basically each pilot had different mature, they came in with different maturity levels and that's okay. Some of them just had an idea and they wanted to run a prototype. Others had a prototype and they wanted to move to having like early, first early adopters. Other ones already had some early adopters and they wanted to see if it would scale in the final solution. So we get them all across the board. We have onboarded five new business pilots. In fact, three of them you will hear from directly. So it's no point me taking away their thunder, but you'll hear three of them later in this session. Others have already presented inside of other EOS related events and obviously we're in the process of onboarding both via the open call as well as the partners in the digital innovation hub. So there's a number of different activities. So every business pilot comes with dedicated support so that they have dedicated plans, constant meetings and updates to kind of follow to make sure that their plans are on track and they're going to hit their key results. And then we try to give them the visibility at our events. There's a couple lists. I may just highlight the one where one of our business pilots won the best demo at the last EOS Cub Week in Prague as well. And then we have our first success story publication that we published towards the end of last year. We'll definitely do a new one towards the end of this year with all of the new business cases that we have, that we've onboarded. So where are we going from here? This is my last slide before passing it back over. So, yeah, our focus right now is basically providing support to our existing pilots and onboarding new ones. We have seen in recent months that there has been, let's say, an increased number of partnerships, whether the ones that we managed to put onto the website with some others that we have, let's say, some logs on the fire. I think the launch of the new website was probably one of the key drivers of this because it really helps people kind of understand where they fit. And then really just kind of continue exactly what we're doing through this session, which is expanding the knowledge that we exist and what services that we offer and that we want to continue to expand moving forward. I think we're going to have to definitely coordinate more with the EOS governance to make sure that what we're doing in the Digi Innovation Hub is visible in any future strategic documents. And right now we're defining this kind of what we're called the terms of reference, which will be basically the description of how we will operate as, let's say, a multi-provider partnership outside of any given project. So we hope to have the terms of reference finalized over the next couple months. And then right now we're just doing a final survey of the different thematic services, competent centers and pilots in terms of what are the next round of commercialization topics that they would like to have specific consultancy with. So here's just the basically final numbers in terms of what we've managed to do. So it's not only just getting the Digi Innovation Hub set up and defined and coordinated, but it's been the direct support of the individual SMEs. So we have 11 pilots to date totaling 16 SMEs supported, a number of compute hours, success stories, 600k almost an SME support. We've been attending a number of different industry events. Our Twitter followers, our social media presence is slowly ramping up and we've gotten a couple services into the EOS marketplace as a result. So obviously I'm speaking because I'm the coordinator of the of the Digi Innovation Hub, but basically all of these activities, the results that we achieved is thanks to a lot of committed people that go into building up the Digi Innovation Hub team. So just to kind of acknowledge the rest of the individual partners that kind of made all this happen. So with that, I'll stop and I'm happy to take any questions that we may have time for. Okay, thank you very much, Sai. Now the term for Anne-Marie Sassin, Anne-Marie is the Deputy Head of Unit Technologies and Systems for Digitizing Industry at the Digi Connect in the European Commission. So yeah, perfect. Hello, good afternoon. I hope you hear me well. Yes, I also want to explain something about the Digital Innovation Hubs, but Sai has just explained many things already. Nevertheless, the perspective that I will take is a little bit different than Sai's perspective. I think Sai was talking more from the perspective of technology suppliers and for instance startups who would have a technology offer, whereas I would like to talk more about the user or the SMEs that are currently not investing in any digital technology. Rob, can you please go to the next slide? So we've seen this picture already on the slides of Sai. But he also had a definition about Digital Innovation Hubs. I have a slightly different definition. So what these European Digital Innovation Hubs should do is they should really support SMEs, but also public sector organizations to provide them with technological expertise and experimentation facilities to enable their digital transformation. Because at the moment, if we look at the differences between large companies and small companies in terms of how much they invest in digital technologies, then we see that more about 60% of the large companies, they are highly digitized, whereas only 20% of the small companies are highly digitized. So this is really a big difference and all the technologies are available to anyone. But it's simply too difficult for the SMEs to follow all the new technologies to understand what they could use in their business processes and therefore a response to that market failure, let's say, is to set up Digital Innovation Hubs everywhere in Europe, close to the companies that speak the language of the companies, and that can help them to first define a vision of what which are the technologies that could help them and then indeed to test them out before they need to invest it. So the core service is indeed this test before invest. For instance, if a company would like to use a certain robot, they could try it out for a couple of weeks in their own production process to see how it really is to work with this robot. What are the skills that the people need? Do we need to reprogram it every day? I mean, there are many, if you want to use these robots, there are many more things than just acquiring the robot that needs to be done and then the company can experience that. They can develop a return on investment analysis and that way decide whether they really want, you know, whether this robot really brings advantages to them. Indeed, what Sai also said is that the ecosystem building is very important and while there is this testing, for instance, with the robot, as I said, we also would like very much that the Digital Innovation Hub involves the startups or the supply industry who could deliver such products to this user industry. The typical participants that we see in the Digital Innovation Hubs are research and technology organizations, so RTOs, and technical universities who would have facilities, who would have technical knowledge, but they should work in collaboration with industry associations, clusters, in order to reach out to the SME, to the users of this hub and to also understand very well the needs of the users. They should also collaborate with Enterprise Europe Network, which is also a European network built up of Chamber of Commerce, who are also very much in contact with SMEs. They should team up with local accelerators and incubators, where usually the startups are somewhere, groups with innovation agencies and then also with vocational training institutes that could deliver training services to the companies that would need to work with these new digital technologies. So the four services, test before invest support to find the investments and building this ecosystem and skills and training should be brought as a kind of one-stop-shop to the companies and the public sector organizations. We want to build a network of Digital Innovation Hubs and actually in Digital Europe Program, which I will explain later, we want to invest in around well let's say between 160 and until 240 European Digital Innovation Hubs that are geographical spread everywhere in Europe. Of course you are for instance the EOC, Digital Innovation Hub is more a virtual hub, if I understood it well. I think you are offering your services through the internet and of course that's very fine and that's good. But here we are looking really for physical places where you can receive companies and where you can meet them because we are targeting the very difficult to reach companies who are at the moment not at all investing in digital technologies and therefore we think that such a physical nearness is an advantage to be able to understand them better and engage them more. Can you please go to the next slide? So this slide explains the different funding opportunities for Digital Innovation Hubs in the next multi-annual financial framework. So that will start 2021 and will run until 2027 and the first opportunity will be Horizon Europe where we want to continue with initiatives that we have been doing so far. For instance in I4MS which was briefly mentioned by Sy. So here we really want to fund SMEs that experiment with highly innovative digital technologies by making use of a digital innovation hub. But the grants should mostly benefit the SMEs. We will have a new program which I will explain in more detail from now on and it's called Digital Europe Program. And Digital Europe Program that is meant to invest in digital capacities. So it will be similar program as Horizon Europe but not focusing on research and innovation but focusing on investing in the digital capacities in supercomputers in large data sets in cybersecurity in the things that we need to support the European economy with their digital transformation. And as part of Digital Europe we want to fund or invest more in digital innovation hubs and that grant will serve to support the facilities and personnel of the European Digital Innovation Hubs to build capacity in Europe to diffuse digital innovations across SMEs and administrations. So we will not be funding the SMEs but we will really be funding the digital innovation hubs themselves so that they can be stronger, they can hire more personnel and they can invest in more facilities. And then there are other programs for instance invest EU that will be financial instruments mostly for banks to bank guarantees for banks so that they have less risks when they grant loans to SMEs for instance but also for investors who want to invest in startups and scale-ups. And the last fund that I want to mention here is the European Regional Development Fund so this is a fund which is allocated at national level so it are the member states who will decide how they will spend these funds but also these funds can be used to invest in digital innovation hubs and in fact in Digital Europe we are expecting co-investments of the member states and the European Commission in the same hubs both 50% and the European Regional Development Fund ERDF can be used by member states for this co-financing. Can you please go to the next slide? Yeah this slide gives an overview of how we see the overall structure of digital Europe program so I already explained we are going to invest in digital capacities and these digital capacities they will be in the area of high performance computing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and trust, advanced digital skills these are digital skills in the areas of HPC, AI and cybersecurity and then we have a fifth strategic objective which is called deployment and best use of digital capacity and interoperability and there we want to stimulate projects of importance to really show how all these capacities can be used in a in a best way so we are building all these capacities for instance in HPC there will be the acquisition of very high performance computers in artificial intelligence there will be investments in data spaces and also in testing and experimentation facilities which are really high-end for instance hospitals of the future where researchers working on artificial intelligence or companies developing products for artificial intelligence projects can go to test out their innovations and we will also be investing in an AI on demand platform which makes available algorithms that anybody can use to adopt AI in their company. Cybersecurity and trust it will for instance invest in an audit program which companies can use to to get quality recognition that their products are cyber secure for instance so we have these projects that develop digital capacities and then it will be the role of the of the between 160 and 240 digital innovation hubs that we will be funding also in digital year program to diffuse these digital capacities to their stakeholders so to their region and for instance if I take an easy example it's the AI on demand platform all the digital innovation hubs that are part of this program they will be trained to learn how to use the AI on demand platform and that will then ensure that every digital innovation hub can work with its own SMEs or with its own public sector organizations to and then the ones who could really benefit from this AI on demand platform can then through the digital innovation hub learn how to use it and and then really that would really mean that all these capacities will be widely used everywhere in all regions of Europe so that's one important task of the European digital innovation hubs and it's also really an advantage of every hub that is funded in this program that they will get access to the facilities that are built up in the different strategic objectives and that they also will be trained how to make use of them that's one knowledge flow that we will have then on the other hand every European digital innovation hubs themselves they will also have their own specialization and this specialization it should be linked to the needs of the industry in their region so if it's an agriculture region the specialization could be on precision farming for instance if we want to go to something digital if it's more a manufacturing region the specialization could be on industry 4.0 if it's a logistics region they could do AI for logistics or things like that but every every region will have its own every European digital innovation will have its own specialization which must be relevant for the local economy and help them with both the digital but also for instance the sustainability transition that they need to make that will also mean that every European not all the SMEs in one region could possibly be helped by the local digital innovation hubs sometimes they would simply need other expertise than what is available locally so then the advantage of that all these hubs are networked is that the local company could find their expertise could find support from another European digital innovation hub that is part of the network the hubs will also exchange best practices and learn from each other and successful setups that are carried that are already been carried out in certain regions could be copied into other regions so they will really learn from each other and that way we will get effective transfer of expertise between different regions so this picture is very important to understand how what will be the role of the European digital innovation hubs in digital year program of course every hub they will get their individual grant and this grant then they can use to invest in facilities and people and every hub should be 50 co-founded by the EU and 50 by the member states or the regions and the whole network will be supported by one special note which we call the digital transformation accelerator which you could see as a support activity that then animates the network so they will organize networking events between the different hubs they will be organizing the train the trainer events that need to take place they will organize best practice sharing they will develop an interactive map of all the digital capacities that are available and here I also added something with you because I see you somewhere in between a digital capacity or a European digital innovation hub and they could also organize collaborations with you where you explain your offer to the other European digital innovation hubs and that that the other hubs are kind of scale up mechanism for you to reach out to all kinds of SMEs to which at the moment you are not able to reach out by yourself could you please go to the next slide and Marie um three minutes please yeah yeah and so I already explained a little bit that this networking that will really provide the European added value so we will get export and import of excellence of the European digital innovation hubs and everybody can really focus on specializing and doesn't need to invest in all kind of infrastructure but we will have in the network complementary competences and infrastructures and then of course there is really the advantage of that every hub can learn from all the specialists in hbc cyber security ai and that more mature digital innovation hub can help less mature ones so that all the differences that we see in regions between uptake of digital technology hopefully will be smoothened can you please go to the to the next slide yeah I just this is the last thing that I want to explain to you since we are investing together with the member states in the European digital innovation hub there's also a very innovative two step selection process and the first step is that the member states they will be proposing candidate entities for the European digital innovation hub they have to select those entities through an open and competitive process and then they have to give to the commission a list of all the entities that they want to support in their country the commission takes this list we then have to do a formal decision which week it's called a commission decision and that will be normally a list where all the entities from all the member states are put together these entities they will be then be invited to a restricted call for proposals and and then it goes to a process that you know more of horizon 2020 also all those entities then have to write a proposal submitted to us before deadline that will be evaluated with external experts and then we will rank all these proposals balancing of course the quality which is reflected by the score but also geographical technological and sectoral coverage so that we will get really a diverse network of European digital innovation hubs and we need to keep on with the next so that's good yeah yeah yeah yeah so this is that process and then my next slide Rob can you go to the next slide yes so I just want to tell you that we expect to have the designated hubs possibly by October 2020 we will have an event which will be fully digital where the designated digital innovation hubs can network it will be in November 2020 and then we expect the restricted call to take place in quarter four and then my next slide are just some links with more information where you can read it all in detail thank you thank you very much and Mary um well now uh it's the turn for a young Francois Abramatic he's an emeritus senior scientist sat in Ria and serves on the ESC executive board as the architect to a working group chair um and um individual experts so uh not speaking formally on behalf of the ESC executive board um he's he has been kind enough to join us to give his personal thoughts and opinions with how he sees the role of industry and the european science cloud so please thank you very much Elisa um and uh thanks for giving me the the opportunity to to share a few ideas uh I am uh as Elisa told uh told you I am a senior scientist emeritus senior scientist that in Ria my career was uh split between research and industry so I have had a chance over my career to be engaged in uh in research activity as well as managing uh startup companies or or working in large ones since I ended my career at IBM during the whole course of my career I was also chairman of the worldwide web consortium so I have experience in a multi-stakeholder uh initiative in this case it was to build the web and uh I'm happy to be able to contribute to the development of ESC which is different multi-stakeholder initiatives but it's certainly uh you know very very needed and promising uh for for all of us so if we can go to the next slide hello and it's here in the european open science cloud objectives tree and it's currently showing I can't see it so I don't know uh uh Elisa are you able to see uh the house of jeff that's three-slide uh this is the presentation but we we don't see in in the presentation mode uh this is second let me try once more how about now yeah that's much better oh thank you so much Rob thank you so much so uh you you probably know that uh AOSC is in a transition it has been conceived in 2015 launched in 2018 in 2018 it's in the transition 2019 2020 before getting to a sustainable state uh at the beginning of the horizon euro program uh in the next January so we are at the moment the executive board is building uh the document that will be um that will be the called the sra s uh strategic research and innovation agenda which will summarize everything at the beginning of the stable sustainable phase which will be most likely run by a dedicated uh association so in the course of this work uh we have uh developed this uh uh objective tree which uh as you can see uh has three three dimension or three routes one related to people and uh you know improving the deployment of open science uh across europe in order to improve uh trust quality and productivity in science uh the program of course is centered on data because that's why the the overall goal is to be able to share publication data software all research artifacts uh between scientists uh the data are the the is the domain where there is more work to be done because that are very heterogeneous there is they are very volumic uh the granularity of it has to be defined and so forth and so the whole community is trying to develop what's been called the the fair principles apply the fair principles make data findable and accessible interoperable and reusable and uh and if and that's the the point i would like to insist in this first slide if and when uh data are available that way it will have an impact on industry in general of course it will have an impact on science since scientists will be able to share those data but anybody will be able to share those data and that would provide opportunities for development of innovative services and products based on this corpus of of information made available by the fact that data would have become fair of course it's one thing to have uh data uh following those principles it's another to be able to access them and for that you need infrastructure uh which at the moment are reasonably siloed or independent of each other so the other dimension of the EOS program is to federate those infrastructure so that a single user whatever he is he or she is whether it's an individual scientist or it's an SME or it's uh it's it's a NGO or citizens or public administration whatever you'll be able to access through this federation of infrastructures uh the the data that they need to develop their activities in particular for the science perspective if those uh infrastructure are connected to each other it will improve the impact of research in addressing societal challenges because in many cases while the recent of course uh pandemic is a obvious example in in many very challenging very challenging situation for society the use of multiple sources of information is essential and but similarly in more peaceful or uh moments or for for a company being able for an SME or industry to being able to access multiple sources of information is very often important in order to develop new products and services so as you can see uh you know industry is one of the three uh ultimate uh goal of the EOS care between science and society so the three-dimension science industry and society are part of the overall objective of EOS now to be more concrete let's move to the next slide so EOS will be a partnership so uh Horizon Europe has been introduced by Anne-Marie a moment ago in this new program uh partnerships are a little bit revisited compared to what they were in Horizon 20 and this slide presents I think 47 of those partnerships which are underway the caller uh mentioned various ways I mean the of uh putting together those partnerships uh ways meaning uh the influence of member state will be very important in the orange one and less important in the blue one it's not the point today but what's important is to see that those partnership address all sorts uh energy transport and mobility human environment health food and agriculture manufacturing so if we go to next slide there is one uh there are two sorry uh partnerships which are cross uh domain it's the one related to innovative SMEs and it's the European open science cloud so the impact of of the european sand cloud will be across all of the partnership any of the other partnership in any other domain can leverage uh the delivery and the ecosystem of the europe that EOS will put together since it will allow any scientist any user any citizen any company to be able to access information that are relevant to their own activities right so uh EOS in that sense is uh is uh fully enabling all the all of those efforts so if we go to the next slide and uh so now so that's those those are the previous slide with the good news and the goal for the seven years program and so forth now uh of course you don't make uh such a dream that come true overnight right and so there will be stages going from where we are today to the moment where uh you know what i described that is anybody will be able to access any sort of information in any sort of domain will uh will occur so we will start with uh what we call the minimum viable EOS which has a core federated data which which will allow various disciplines to put forward their data their publication their software and share them it will be at the beginning focused on public you know dedicated to to a scientist and and focused on openly open available data does it mean that nothing will be done for more complicated tasks when there are private privacy issues or society or security issue of course not but we will start uh you know in terms of the the development can can be uh engaged on any front on all fronts but the deployment we have to be reasonable in terms of expectation will start with the minimum viable EOS uh and it will be the role in this case more so so far i've more mentioned what sigh described as the customer position of an SME you know getting access to information available on EOS now it will be uh the provider side i mean the the fact that companies industry organization of all sorts will be able to join forces and bring their data their information in in the EOS ecosystem while they are using data coming from others and here the most important thing and i would like to close here since i'm running after time next slide will be for the provider to comply with what's uh is under design today it's called the EOS interoperability framework for people to benefit whoever they are in particular industry to benefit from the EOS ecosystem they will have to follow it's again it's it's not a law it's not a regulation it's it's a fact of the interoperability has to be built on consensus in other words any player in this world has to say okay i want to exchange data at the technical level i will pay attention to those elements those apis those schema that i will use or that i will expose for people to use my my information or i will represent information at the semantic level uh this way so that it's it can be understood by partners across across europe so that's my the message i wanted to carry this is in the works the one version of the document of the EOS interoperability framework was published two days ago right so we're at the beginning of the journey but it's very important for whoever was to engage in this journey to follow uh to follow the the cooperative effort to put together those interoperability capabilities so that they can engage into the ecosystem at the level that fits their own goal so i will close on that and thank you for your attention thank you very much yeah i'm françois um so now we are going to open a short period for for questions so if you have any question please you can write on the chat or you can the raise your hand in the chat to if you prefer to speak so i don't see any nobody on muting or changing or raising their hand or putting in the chat so i will say oh no there is one now isabel um yeah i can also speak i hi i put the video i i have seen the last slide today i saw it the other day i i think i'm not the only one that is puzzled with that slide after the emails that have been exchanged etc and then uh so the question that keeps being repeated in many sessions is why is not the eos hub architecture being considered and the whole thing appears restricted to a question of metadata and pids and and to be more clear in the current if you look at the eos portal everything that appears there to the 99 percent are services related to data processing and analysis and there are no data right or very few data so what what makes you believe that the approach uh based on metadata pids and all that has any possibilities to to progress as an eos as to create anything sustainable hello i guess the question is for me right uh some someone from industry could also could also explain the view on what well let me uh uh i apologize i have uh i am limited in time and my bandwidth is difficult so if i may so first of all eos cub is participating in the uh they are representative of eos cub in the eos kinteroperability framework development they have co-signed uh they have co-signed the the initial uh the one that version one that i mentioned so the eos cub is totally present in the activities in the architecture working group uh they are probably more representative from eos cub than from any other uh from any other uh project i have paid attention that the eos architecture working group as representative from any uh any h 2020 project and eos cub is very well represented so i don't see where i understand your you know they might be they might be represented but it doesn't mean that they agree this is the problem with these groups no because from from the day one uh apparently pids was the was the main the main concern and and i understand is a concern but this is at the very end at the very end of the process can ask any any people from a company here how easy it is to produce data that do not serve any purpose yeah and it is only at the very end of the research or on the or of the testing phase etc that you think of which data are usable and i can keep and i want to preserve and then i can allocate them some some permanent identifiers for data preservation purposes but well what happens between there and the beginning of a testing phase in an industrial process is the 99 percent of it yeah and what is being presented not only here but in this session is to me it looks like building the house from the rooftop well that's your opinion it's not mine what is that what is the the solution that this architecture will present to someone coming from from an SME that wants to deploy a certain a certain service what what what will you tell them yeah to okay so the whole purpose of eosk is to share this data so the data that you have produced on your disk drive and which is for your own purpose is not part of eosk it's it's necessary we all as you said many of the data we produce every day are for ourselves but then the the whole purpose of eosk is to share open eosk means European open science club okay open science means the information that you exchange between scientists so it can be publication data software workflows all of that so very tiny subset of the data that are produced every day are are supposed to be shared but those are the ones that are of interest because other scientists other users including SMEs will be interested in those mature data that have been produced by whatever process the producer of data has put together so the the whole purpose of eosk is sharing so it is you cannot share if the data are not named are not located if you can't discover them if you can't access to them again the whole purpose of eosk is to share so you cannot share if you cannot produce data to begin with so it's not the role of eosk to produce data I mean a large arena collider doesn't need eosk to produce high energy physics data by so all the data are produced by other things that eosk is putting together is allowing to exchange those data which are produced by others by existing infrastructure existing large and small equipment so large equipment historically and more and more small equipment thanks to the internet of things so more and more data are produced and the whole idea of eosk is to be able to share those data no this is a very restricted vision this is not in the white papers that we have from eosk and this is not the vision of eosk that has been put forward by the commission yeah there is a there is a comprehensive view that includes from the users to the resource providers to the policy makers etc and and everyone has a claim there it's not only about allocating permanent identifiers this is the the end of the road if you want but okay since we don't agree on this I would like to know what what people from from the industry from the industry users think about that yeah I think actually we might hear a little bit about the usage of the of research data and that can be coupled together with maybe some machine learning techniques from one of our pilots that will be presenting here in the next in the next few minutes so so I think this was very interesting discussion and we should make a note of this to to push forward but I think we should close here and see if there's one last question or if we should then move on to the individual uh business pilots um I think there are observation on chat also on this subject yeah because it seems it's it's got quite of interest definitely okay I think we we should move on out to the rest of the of the speakers and now at the end of the session we can uh restart if you want this this conversation so um Jean Francois leads because I knew you were restricted on time I just wanted to say thanks for thanks for joining because I think the message is is good and clear and I think it's kind of our first opportunity to start to bring the to bridge the different activities um with what's already happening with industry engagement and what could potentially be like kind of fed in to the strategic eosk level documentation and stuff so uh thanks for joining I think this was kind of a really important first step in that direction so thanks for the time and thanks for the opportunity to to to share where we are thank you yeah thanks to you thank you uh well now time for Martin Placenic uh that is the eosk pilot coordinator he leads the iot system department at psnc and represents Poland in the eosk architecture working work he has worked in a significant number of projects focused mainly on distributed computing cloud scientific workflows sensor networks through multi instrumentation or internet of things so please Martin okay thank you uh and I hope you can see my screen yeah yeah okay yep so basically uh I will very shortly introduce um our activities uh one of the major activities that was also mentioned by Psy before that is related to business pilot support so so our um co-design and the piloting uh support uh is uh related uh uh for each pilot uh we follow similar implementation plan so we have designed the plans designed the the the solution to integration uh we have and support the architecture and uh all the details with technical integration of eosk uh we go through the kpi's uh there's definition and also um they're monitoring uh through the uh the later stage the dissemination commercialization marketing activities and support and exploitation so depending on the the pilot because we have different kind of pilots in different maturity state uh we can skip some of these phases uh but in general for most of the pilots we are proceeding with these phases so uh basically how we work we have community meetings uh every three weeks uh and besides that many one-to-one meetings with the pilots that are technical that are related to to to to to the commercialization and to the um exploitation uh so basically we help and analyze the business pilots from different perspectives and this really depends on each pilot's needs and also on their maturity uh in terms of the project itself for we are also kind of an um bridge between other work packages uh and uh we help uh with communicating important aspects related to the events related to the dissemination materials uh trainings and uh usage of the infrastructure so um basically okay um we also uh help and support uh the pilots uh with uh their dissemination and we also give and give them a chance uh for showing the results so uh already on the important uh eosk events uh most of the pilots has been presented in the past so starting from Leesblum then in EOS Week in Prague we have uh another um four pilots where one got the best demo prize and then uh in these sessions we have also in this EOS Week we have also free that presents uh lightning talks uh posters uh and uh demos basically initially we had six pilots uh and uh so each of the six as I said were on different TRL levels so we help so with our support they uh they increased the TRL level and um they used our resources services and combine their new added value uh services so basically what happened in the meantime one of the company was acquired by a large industry another moved from SME to large enterprise so this is really dynamic uh landscape so um after the initial phase because those six pilots were included initially in the um in the EOS Hub project we are on boarded uh uh next uh five uh pilots and uh were uh three of those will be in a moment uh presented and uh their results and uh and how they uh interact with uh uh dih and uh also um some of them are presenting the posters and uh and also presents uh the demonstrations what is worth also to mention uh one of the pilot here is an example of collaboration of the EOS Visual Innovation Hub with another initiative so in this case of uh deep hybrid data cloud projects where uh together uh we supported this pilot together where the deep is an provider of some of the services EOS DIH is a provider of the resources and also support and some of the services and we combine this effort uh together so this is this is uh the way of the activities we are performing okay so uh this was very short introduction and I think we are we'll move now to lightning talks thank you thank you very much Martin now we're going to enter to the first um with the first pilot that is net service and uh with uh Michelle Marchesi that is professor of software engineering at the University of Caviarri he has been working on blockchain technology since 2014 and he's out of more than 40 papers on the subject he's founder of uh Floslav uh Spinaf now in the net service group which works on blockchain solutions so please hello uh good afternoon to all I I think I will try to share my my desktop if I find the uh just a moment uh sorry but I don't find the presentation is here not yet I have the presentation but uh I don't uh share I don't I'm not able to find it in the presentation just a moment I think I will okay I will share my desktop uh do you see my the presentation uh we can see your desktop only the desktop yeah sorry I will close all the windows I'm sorry but I don't find the the the window of of my presentation in the windows that the zoom is presenting to me basically okay okay I start to talk about the project meanwhile I I try to find the the the presentation and if you prefer I can present it for for you let me just download it let me just hi if you have the the the presentation yes please just a second in any case the project is about um um well the implementation on the EOSC servers of a blockchain aimed to okay now we see for to um certify university certificates sorry for the the double word and the idea please go on on the next next slide it is uh well just just me I am a professor of software engineering but you already presented me please go next okay the idea is uh to what what has been done is a pilot project we aim to address the possibility to issue valid official document in a in a digital form using a blockchain and the proposed architecture is based on the permission of the blockchain which is now Ethereum proof of authority permission so it is running on a private blockchain made in practice in in nodes provided by EOSC and it periodically anchors anchors itself to a public blockchain to get immutability the blockchain can be obtained that is it is ready it is running there is an API service so an external client can use the blockchain using this public interface and the pilot is aimed to to provide the services to certify university diplomas like the diploma supplement which is a standard for degree certificate of Europe from European universities you can go next please okay the idea is that you know that the paper certificates can be easily forged today there are very powerful way to forge a paper document and so they can start from a true certificate changing the data inside it or totally forged so the idea is that if you clearly also if you deliver a certificate using a pdf so in digital form again this can be easily forged if it is simply by the f it is digitally signed well it is more difficult to to forge it but again it could be difficult to verify the authenticity of the document in any case especially outside the european union so the idea is to certify these documents or a blockchain so the the idea is that the educational institution giving certificates of degree for instance will produce these certificates in a digital form could be a pdf and then digitally sign the pdf and write the signature on the blockchain so it is becomes immutable it's impossible to forge this this signature and the blockchain can be easily browsed inspected from everywhere on the earth with open source tools or with an app that we provide and so even in australia in any part of the world it's very easy following a few step document to to verify that the the document is has not been forged and that the address of the institution which published the digital signature is actually the university or the other learning situation that gave the diploma the certificate so it's very easy to to verify the the fact that the the certificate is authentic can you go next the okay the we are working in we are above phase three because we integrate the blockchain solution solution in australia hub servers we deployed it using the cloud services so we use the blockchain runs in i think four five nodes all hosted by australia and different in different places and there is this we have the demonstrator because we already are providing an api an interface to use this system to certify documents and in particular certificates for universities and so the service is already working but clearly what it's needed now is clearly to publicize it and to and to write apps able to ease the interaction with the system you can and this can be done by us but also by any any third party third yes next please this last one so the the impact of the business well it's written here clearly it could be a fine interesting service to the universities and other institutions teaching institutions of the european union and not only and there is a visibility at international business development level and it's possible to interact with the research centers and to every center that the need that gives diploma certifications and has the need that to to to make them unforgible very easily at a low cost and now we are working on the business case for it thank you for my for your attention thank you very much miscell now time to move to the next pilot that is a gregor's nemic from the inside gregor's is a solution architect at the inside and on an architect artificial intelligence enthusiastic so please gregor when you want hello good afternoon my goal in this presentation is to introduce the company bi inside is the component i work for and also talk a little bit more about one of our products enterprise content management because this is the our case for eosk bih pilot bi inside is a company based in warsaw poland we have been providing services and products to our customers for more than 14 years now some of our customers are top five in warsaw stock exchange so quite big entities we have a team of scientists and and engineers and we specialize in artificial intelligence data science business intelligence data governance and we are open for new initiatives as part of eosk platform last year we took part in two competitions part of gov tech program and one of them we won and in the next one we were the second and i will talk a little bit more about this in the next slides so this is the the case where we won the competition and it was the challenge was to build a system for a polish ministry of development this is an organization that is collecting a lot of documents reports analysis from all kind of sources and they are synthesizing the data and they are producing new reports new presentation for internal internal use and also they share it with the market so they had an issue with growing volumes of unstructured data that was scattered across network folders and personal computers it was locked in data silos and it was hidden from from people in the organization so the idea was to create an information hub where the data from internal and external sources is integrated into a central repository where the knowledge is extracted automatically from the files and it can flow easily across the organization borders and it's easily accessible by every member of the organization so we built our solution bi enterprise content management system so the system can connect to many popular data store types and it can search for new files which are then sourced into a processing pipeline where the knowledge is extracted automatically from the most common file formats and is stored in a document database repository and in a search index uh so the system extracts automatically metadata keywords named entities it can generate document summaries it can classify documents into taxonomies it can find similar documents or duplicates of the documents and based on user activity it can recommend new interesting content to the user of the system but apart from building internal repository the system integrates with external APIs and for example we are federating queries to open-air API and this is one of the partners in in the EOSC platform so and we believe that if an organization is using its data as an asset by and they use proper tools to explore and exploit the data they can save time cost and they can increase their revenues and we have demonstrated our system in three use cases the first one that was described in the business scenario in the previous slides this is a system for ministry of development and the system is in production uh now and they call it internally actual knowledge management system so the second one is a poc for polish parliament where we extract automatically keywords and named entities from the acts of parliament and they want to replace a tedious manual process that they have now so we are talking about the solution and validating its use in this case the third case is again a poc for national revenue administration and this organization is searching dark dark net for web pages with signs of illegal activities like illegal sales of drugs or alcohol and we have built a web scraper and web spider that are crawling the web searching for for the pages that might be interesting for for the users and they are sourcing these snapshots of these pages and the data that can be extracted automatically and this is sourced to the system and then the users can use all the functionalities of the system to to find interesting and relevant uh relevant data so we are still improving the product and in the nearest future we want to add new features like text analytics document semantic similarity or relationships network advanced image processing for example search with picture and we hope that visibility in eosk marketplace will help us engage with new customers and engage with new initiatives in the community we want to make use of the existing resources and components and services in the in the platform and we want to share the same from our side we want to share the knowledge we want to share our experience and the components of our system and i believe that's it thank you for your attention and let me know if you have any questions regarding the component or the product thank you very much gregors we will keep the the questions for the for the last part of the session finally our last pilot is going to be presented by daniel desjardins daniel was formerly a professor of physics at the royal military college of canada he is now the chief executive officer of king's distributed systems the canadian organization responsible for developing the distributed compute protocol so please daniel thank you very much bonjour à tous and good morning from canada it's 11 30 here it was an early start um okay i have control sharing my screen and i will make this short end sweet all right present first of all thank you for the introduction aliza and we are very grateful to be part of usc hub and the dih initiative and it's allowing us to to test our technology and not just in canada but in europe and as we build this this protocol called the distributed compute protocol or dcp for short we're very excited about its applications in science and research as a background myself i come at this as a physicist and so even for my own purposes having access to more computing resources is always a plus so without further ado essentially we've built a distributed computing framework and a bank and essentially in this bank we're metering the consumption of cpu seconds cpu seconds bytes in bytes out ram memory reputation and can essentially wire in anything else and the benefit of this this framework is that it is completely hardware and environment agnostic in a demo that we'll do at the end here we'll be able to source instantly computing power from smartphones computers laptops tablets and even enterprise service to do a computational physics problem and we will reward every participant in their bank accounts with credits that are earned this is important because in issues of cross-border resource provisioning let's say you have multiple data centers and even entire desktop fleets how we're able to keep track of who's supplying what and who's consuming what is a problem that's completely distinct from just being able to orchestrate and deploy workloads in the first place so this this tool is a means of achieving both ends with usc hub right now phase one of our pilot that we're grateful to be conducting we've set up the dcp worker agent within two egi sites one in italy and one france we've also simultaneously been conducting this in toronto ottawa and waterloo which are canadian sites that are part of the sen gen centers of excellence for next generation networks digital infrastructure for computing and what these workers did was they reached out to a schedule they pulled down computational tasks that had to do with astrophysics and disease modeling they executed those tasks sent the results back to the researchers and then credited the accounts of the different workers for the amount of work that they did automatically and in a phase two what we're we're interested in taking this is bringing in or augmenting those those compute networks with desktop fleets that are otherwise idle at university sites this could conceivably build some sort of like an eos eos edge computing network that could be built with idling desktops from universities across all of europe we're doing this right now in canada in fact this this is about to be announced within the next two weeks but we've won a large contract to deploy this network across canadian institutions educational institutions in order to run covid-19 forecasting models for municipalities in order to make better decisions about how to reopen but at the heart of it it's a computing platform with an accounting system that can track resources that are being provided by suppliers and consumed by individuals or institutions and very quickly i invite you all to open in a browser tab on any device that you have whether it's a phone or a laptop or whatever is whatever is you're using whether it's mac windows i don't even know and i don't even care if you open dcp.mn in the browser tab and hit start you will instantaneously join a small computing network and i'm going to launch a physics job right now i'll do it here's an example i open this site i hit start my laptop is now part of a computing cluster that's it no download no install and it's a secures online banking and then when i want to launch a job i have a pre-prepared physics job and this is my own research from world military college it has to do with electromagnetic propulsion the math is horrible but what's cool about this paper is that any reader can modify the inputs to this scientific paper and recompute right in the paper itself right in the web page new results and a lot of numerical integration here it takes normally takes a lot of time but by distributing it over multiple workers for example i'm receiving tasks here multiple workers multiple devices all accept tasks crunch the numbers and send the results back to my main page here which is the green bar moving right now so for embarrassingly parallel tasks the more devices connect the faster this goes because we can distribute them and i have the results here and so i think of this in a couple different ways a it's it opens exciting possibilities for the future of scientific literacy where now you can have interactive scientific papers where people can come and participate and go beyond what the author was exploring but also means we can source compute power from any device no download no install at the drop of a button but it also means we can account for how much compute power was provided by who and to who and when and finally um here's a a really cool example where this can go this is a presentation or a similar example that we've done from us department of energy princeton plasma physics laboratory in this example we can actually distribute the computations for the the interactions that occur within fusion plasmas inside of their reactors and so on that thank you very much and we look forward to phase two the pilot which involves a deployment in more sites in conjunction with eosc hub and dh thank you thank you daniel um well now time for them for the questions so uh let's see in the chat if there is anything um for any of the speakers at least one from mark the church i actually don't know dan do you i'm guessing you know you know both basically be in in canada i imagine but of course yeah i'm guessing this is a cheeky comment but go ahead i'll let you answer but well it's interesting so uh jupiter requires obviously there are some specialized stuff um we're trying to take it to the browser which makes it completely agnostic to any specialized software or specialized programming languages or what have you um we're not going to compete with jupiter notebooks or jupiter hub or all these groups we're going to work with them um we think that there are some complementary tools here that that will benefit everyone um even you know another example mathematica they have their their their specialized sort of a viewer to create these sort of interactive pages but again you need the software and so on and so forth but their new engine actually outputs uh web assembly objects which can be trivially exported and distributed on our networks as well so we're not looking to compete we differentiate in the way that we can collaborate and integrate with pretty much anything and everything um so it's interesting how we bring up boink same thing here so we're not looking to compete with boink we're actually looking to bridge certain gaps and work together so we took the project asteroids at home for those of you who are familiar we ported over to our network and we're sort of we're highlighting a lot of similarities and advantages um that uh the joseph or joseph direct out of charles university the um owner of the the asteroids at home project appreciates so we're looking to work with boink to sort of offload um some of their work and spread our networks um to to free up more capacity for them to do even more of their research as well so the idea is all of the can all the computers that are idle at universities across all of europe can create an edge computing network that can augment uh usc's existing centralized core infrastructure for grid style computing tasks uh osg is open source grid um i'm assuming it's open science grid it's open science grid okay it's basically the federation of compute centers in the us basically it's kind of like compute canada but in the us got it um so you you saw what i just did from a technological perspective that was all in browser and browser compatible everyone in europe will participate in this pilot with a single click i mean talk about frictionless um scalability and adoption all these groups including boink or whatnot you have to download and install specific agent um so it's our being completely built on web technology which takes a distributed computing into the 21st century um no other competitor out of there is built on top of the the web stack like this maybe there are also questions to other pilots because it's a question and answers uh apart but to all the pilots or previous speakers so if there are any questions from the floor uh also to others i have a question for an marie sasen um you have explained some of the funding opportunities for the for the digital innovation has but what are the funding opportunities for those um for those digital like the eos digital that will operate at european level and um establishing bridges and relations between different the agates uh thank you elisa for your questions uh i was also thinking about that when i prepared my presentation for you and um i would think it would become part of uh horizon europe and then part of the um area we saw the slide where there were all the partnerships mentioned and there was one on the european open science cloud so i think like now probably it will be part of of that part of horizon europe but i am not involved in there in writing the work program so uh i am not sure if that's the case but that is that would be the logical place to to have your work and otherwise i also see opportunities for instance in a digital europe program then but then not as a digital innovation hub but more as a data space for instance but i i do think probably your place will be more in horizon europe okay thank you very much okay i think there was also a question uh to gregos uh if you were uh also use your tool with the ec documents gregos can you respond on that not yet but you would be more than happy to do it we tried our system with the the documents provided by the organization that i mentioned in the use cases so for example the the polish parliament case this is the acts of parliament in poland but we also start talking about our using the same kind of documents from european union our legs we also tried our system with arxiv documents and with polish patents but ec documents yes we should do it in the demo that we are deploying as part of the pilot to to do the portal okay okay thanks so are there any other questions okay i think that is time to finish we are uh 15 minutes late so i think we can close the session here uh thank you very much all of you for your participation you will find all the slides in the in the agenda in the years cup um week uh web page um thank you very much again thank you thank you discussion doesn't have to stop here send us if you guys are interested so thanks everybody bye thank you bye