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Grant Agreement No.: 604590

Instrument: Large scale integrating project (IP)

Call Identifier: FP7-2012-ICT-FI

eXperimental Infrastructures for the Future Internet

D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and

Promotion Activities

Revision: v.1.0

Work package WP 9

Task Task 9.1

Due date 31/03/2015

Submission date 02/04/2015

Deliverable lead Martel

Authors Monique Calisti (Martel), Miguel Alarcon (Martel)

Reviewers Uwe Herzog, Maurizio Cecchi

Abstract This deliverable is the final report on dissemination and promotion

activities focusing on year 2 work and achievements, but also

reporting on the overall impact within the FI-PPP and beyond.

Keywords Dissemination and promotion activities, final report

D9.4: Final report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

D9.4 is the Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities that the XIFI consortium has

pursued in order to ensure broad visibility of the work and generate strong impact within the FI-PPP

context and beyond. This document gives an overview of the various activities performed during the

whole project duration, but focuses specifically on year’s 2 activities (year’s 1 activities have been

reported already in D9.3, Intermediate Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities and Updated

Dissemination and Promotion Plan, released at the end of April 2014).

During the second year of the project, more precisely towards the end of August 2014, the XIFI

dissemination activities have been aligned with the new FIWARE branding guidelines enforced at the

overall FI-PPP level. This implied several changes with respect to terminology, acronyms, logos and

overall message, so as to focus efforts on a better coordinated way across all FI-PPP projects. As a

matter of fact, the core decision was to push for FIWARE as the main comprehensive offering all the

FI-PPP projects would directly contribute to.

As a consequence, the XIFI dissemination team has firstly adapted the WP9 strategy to better embrace

the following aspects:

Awareness of the FIWARE identity and its outputs, with specific accent on FIWARE Ops.

Refined analysis of the stakeholders and change of focus towards FI-PPP Phase 3 promotion.

Use of the dissemination and communication channels to promote the FIWARE Offering and

the XIFI’s outcomes as part of it.

Coordinate actions across the whole project and across the whole FI-PPP context to build a

high profile image of FIWARE.

Moreover, the XIFI dissemination team has also modified and adapted the promotional material

(including logos, web pages, posters, slides, flyers, software interfaces etc.), and started coordinating

on a regular basis its activities with the FIWARE Press Office, especially for orchestrated efforts on

events’ organization and participation. Emphasis has been given to events directly relevant to the

promotion of FIWARE Ops and the FIWARE Lab Federation.

Overall, WP9’s main achievements, further expanded in this report, can be summarised as follows:

Coordination and involvement of the new XIFI partners in the dissemination and promotional

activities that the various nodes, which joined the federation via the XIFI Open Call, have

been contributing to either globally (within the FI-PPP context) or locally (within their

regions).

The various communication channels and dissemination tools identified at the beginning of

the project, which have been heavily used since then, were consolidated as a powerful engine

to promote XIFI news, initiatives and achievements. These channels and tools have also been

extensively used to contribute to the promotion of FIWARE as a whole, in close coordination

with the FIWARE Press Office.

The XIFI partners attended a number of selected events so as to ensure broad visibility of the

project’s work for the growth of the XIFI Community, but most of all for supporting the

adoption and the exploitation of the project’s outcomes on a large scale and impact creation

for the target stakeholders.

XIFI organized several workshops and training sessions, which WP9 and WP7 closely

collaborated on, which allowed better engagement of infrastructure owners and developers

and provided support to the Phase 3 Accelerators by training them to train SMEs on the

deployment of FIWARE Ops and on joining the FIWARE Lab Federation.

Support was provided to the launch of the Recognition and Reward programme organised to



validate and reward federated FIWARE Lab infrastructure nodes. The dissemination team

actively contributed to prepare the material to be used to launch the programme and helped

creating visibility around it.

Gained increased visibility thanks to several publications, including our newsletter, the

technical blog and papers published at various scientific and technological events.

Finally, the stakeholders groups’ analysis was enriched and extended, also in relation to the

indications provided by the project’s reviewers, and the corresponding pictures and glossary

on the XIFI website were updated.



TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ....................................................................................................................3

TABLE OF CONTENTS .......................................................................................................................5

LIST OF FIGURES ...............................................................................................................................7

LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................................................8

ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................................................................9

1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................10

2 DISSEMINATION AND PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS ......................11

2.1 Action Taken and Goals .........................................................................................................12

2.2 Scientific publications.............................................................................................................19

2.3 Technical Blog and Developers’ Fora Activities ....................................................................21

2.4 External Events’ Participation ................................................................................................22

2.5 XIFI-driven Events .................................................................................................................27

2.5.1 ECFI 1 .....................................................................................................................................27

2.5.2 OCOVA Genova Italy ............................................................................................................27

2.5.3 FIDC’14 Workshop ................................................................................................................27

2.5.4 OCOVA GAP France .............................................................................................................27

2.5.5 ECFI 2 .....................................................................................................................................28

2.5.6 M2M Innovation World Marseille ..........................................................................................28

2.5.7 FIWARE Workshop in Poznań ...............................................................................................28

2.5.8 SENSO Event – Aix en Provence ...........................................................................................29

2.5.9 Fokus Fuseco Forum 2014 ......................................................................................................29

2.5.10 SmartCities Expo World Congress 2014 ................................................................................30

2.5.11 Internetdagarna .......................................................................................................................30

2.5.12 Swiss FIWARE Acceleration Conference ..............................................................................30

2.5.13 NITOS XIFI Info Day.............................................................................................................31

2.5.14 Wigner RCP FIWARE Lab Training Workshop and FIWARE Information Day .................31

2.5.15 Future Internet in Horizon 2020: how to build a pan-European framework to support

Innovation in SMEs ................................................................................................................................31

2.5.16 US Ignite Applications Summit ..............................................................................................32

2.6 Interactions within the FI-PPP Context and other Projects ....................................................33

2.7 Stakeholders’ Involvement .....................................................................................................38

2.8 Contributions to the Community Building Activities .............................................................40

3 FORWARD LOOKING STRATEGYAND CONCLUSIONS .........................................43

3.1 Handover of the dissemination and promotion channels, tools and contacts .........................43

APPENDIX A .......................................................................................................................................44



Appendix A.1 – Newsletters ..................................................................................................................44

Appendix A.2 – XIFI Leaflets................................................................................................................46

Appendix A.3 – XIFI Posters .................................................................................................................48

Appendix A.4 – Promotional gadgets ....................................................................................................49

Appendix A.5 – Promotional videos ......................................................................................................51

Appendix A.5 – Further Data Concerning the Website .........................................................................55

Appendix A.6 – Community Building Statistics ....................................................................................60



LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: XIFI Stakeholder relations ......................................................................................................39

Figure 2: Newsletter.04 ..........................................................................................................................44

Figure 3: Newsletter.05 ..........................................................................................................................45

Figure 4: Newslette.06 ...........................................................................................................................46

Figure 5: Updated Leaflets for ECFI-2 and then used in other events. ..................................................47

Figure 6: Updated XIFI posters designed for ECFI-2 and used for other events .................................48

Figure 7: Updated FIWARE Ops posters designed for ECFI-2 and used for other events. ..................49

Figure 8: FIWARE Ops gadget: Plug-adaptor. .....................................................................................50

Figure 9: FIWARE Ops gadget: Frisbee ...............................................................................................50

Figure 10: FIWARE Ops gadget: USB toolkit. ......................................................................................51

Figure 11: Video for Smart Cities Expo 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGDbHtO-OwM)51

Figure 12: Video FIWARE Ops by the technical team

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4inUHbTA0) ..........................................................................52

Figure 13: Video XIFI federation New nodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4R_zwUhIAg) .52

Figure 14: Video XIFI federation New nodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonXUV-BVN8) 53

Figure 15: Video XIFI federation New nodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UekY6qc-LUI) ...53

Figure 16: FIWARE Lab (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeqXGR3m9Z0) ................................54

Figure 17: Visits on XIFI Website ..........................................................................................................55

Figure 18: Unique visits on XIFI Website..............................................................................................55

Figure 19: Pages and hits on XIFI Website ...........................................................................................56

Figure 20: Visit duration time on XIFI Website.....................................................................................57



LIST OF TABLES

Table 1: List of deliverables submitted and milestones achieved during the whole XIFI project

duration ..................................................................................................................................................11

Table 2: List of face-to-face actions .......................................................................................................15

Table 3: List of mediated communication tools .....................................................................................18

Table 4: List of scientific publications ...................................................................................................20

Table 5: List of related events attended in year 2. ..................................................................................26

Table 6: Interactions with related bodies within the FI-PPP context. ....................................................34

Table 7: Interactions with projects and relevant initiatives outside the FI-PPP context. .......................37

Table 8: Most downloaded files .............................................................................................................58

Table 9: Most visited pages ....................................................................................................................58

Table 10: External sources of visits .......................................................................................................59

Table 11: Summary of the community building and stakeholder engagement ......................................60



ABBREVIATIONS

DWG Dissemination Working Group

EBM Exploitation and Business Models

ECFI European Conference on the Future Internet

e-IRG e-Infrastructure Reflection Group

FI Future Internet

FIF Future Internet Forum

FI-PPP Future Internet Public-Private Partnership

GA Grant Agreement

GEs General Enablers

NREN National Research and Education Network

SCWE Smart Cities Week

UCs Use-cases



1 INTRODUCTION

The dissemination and promotion activities of the XIFI project are carried out within work package 9

(WP9) “Federation Promotion & Dissemination”.

The purpose of this deliverable is to report on the XIFI project’s dissemination and promotion

activities held from month 13 to month 24, i.e., April 2014 to March 2015, which is the second and

final year of the project’s activity.

This document highlights the main achievements after the submission of the intermediate

dissemination report (D.9.3), which was released at end of April 2014 and that included:

XIFI dissemination and promotion goals – a revision of what had been previously proposed in

D9.1.

Dissemination and promotion strategy (definition of stakeholders and communication

channels) – a refinement version of what had been initially drawn in D9.1.

Dissemination and promotion activities during year 1 (event participation, interaction with the

FI-PPP context etc.).

This final report focuses on:

Describing dissemination and communication activities and results in year 2:

Presenting measurable results for the activities pursued both in year 1 and year 2, as well as

improvements that were identified and implemented as the project progressed.

Discussing what kind of impact has been created and what specific achievements will be

pushed forward for the benefit of the overall FIWARE promotion by handover to FICORE.

The rest of the document is organised as follows: Section 2 is dedicated to report WP9-driven

activities and achievements in year 2, including a critical analysis of the measurable results. Section 3

focuses on the future goals and activities planned by the WP9 partners, beyond the end of the project

and more specifically what (and how) will be handed over to the FIWARE Press Office. In Appendix

A, a collection of the most prominent and relevant promotional material has been included, but much

more can be found on-line via the XIFI project web pages.



2 DISSEMINATION AND PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS

Before presenting the results of the various activities concerning the second year of the project, we

report briefly on the WP9 deliverables and milestones achieved within the overall project duration:

Deliverables and

Milestones Description Achievements

MS91 Dissemination

plan draft, including

federation office

description and website

A draft dissemination plan was discussed

at the kick-off meeting of the project,

including a first outline of the federation

office and a first version of the project

website

M02 (May 2013)

The XIFI website was

successfully set up in May

2013 and has been improved

and updated since then

D9.1 Dissemination and

promotion plan

This plan is the basis for steering and

controlling dissemination, and promotion

activities, focusing on the activities of the

first year.

M04 (July 2013)

Submitted on the 31st July

2013

D9.2 XIFI office –

description and

establishment

This document is the reference document

for the responsibilities of the federation

office. It documents all activities that the

office executes pertaining to the

administrative operation of the federation.

M06 (September 2013)

Submitted in October 2013

MS92 First project

workshop

This workshop presented the XIFI Open

Call

M06 (September 2013)

Took place on the 26th

September 2013 in Brussels

(see Section 2.1 below)

MS93 Second project

workshop

A workshop on Smart Cities will be held

on the 4th April 2014 as part of ECFI-1 in

Brussels.

M12 (March 2014)

Will take place on the 4th April

2014 in Brussels as part of

ECFI-1

D9.3 Intermediate

report on dissemination

and promotion activities

and updated

dissemination and

promotion plan

This document reports on the impact of

the dissemination and promotion activities

during the first year of the project. It is an

updated version of D9.1 and documents

the plans for the second year of the

project.

M12 (March 2014)

Submitted on 8 April 2014

D9.4 Final Report on

Dissemination and

Promotional activities

This deliverable is the current document

and summarises the overall achievements

related to dissemination and promotional

activities, focusing on year 2 work and

achievements.

M24 (March 2015)

Table 1: List of deliverables submitted and milestones achieved during the whole XIFI project duration



2.1 Action Taken and Goals

In the following, we list the various WP9-driven actions taken during the project, highlighting why we

have invested on them (rational) in relation to the major objectives of the project, and what have been

the major achievements and results.

Within year 2, in line with the strategy and plans made in year 1 and presented in D9.1 and D9.3,

substantial efforts have been dedicated to:

• Contribute to better reach prioritized stakeholders’ groups in-line with project goals,

sustainability and exploitation plans to create impact (the why)

• Refining the message (the what) conveyed by our dissemination and promotion

activities in relation to the target stakeholders.

• Refining the set of prioritized activities (the how and when) so as to increase our

reach and impact towards specific communities.

• Better quantify the outreach our actions have (the who and where) and more

specifically encourage feedback to be provided on a regular basis.

• Aligning the dissemination and communication activities of XIFI with the overall FI-PPP

Phase 3 strategy and guidelines:

• As a unique chance for XIFI to consolidate and capitalize on our efforts and push

forward selected outcomes to the broad audience.

• To guarantee cohesive and coordinated efforts across the whole programme so as

to consolidate the FIWARE offering and contribute to the consolidation of the

FIWARE ecosystem.

D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1)


Face-to-face types of activities are the ones implying direct communication and/or physical presence of the participants.

Face-to-Face Rational Results

Regular participation at

Dissemination Working

Group meetings organized by

the CONCORD project

(Until Sep. 2014)

To coordinate promotion and

dissemination activities as well as

promotional messages across the

broad range of ongoing FI-PPP

projects and activities

Contribution to the organization of the FI-PPP European Conference on Future

Internet, through participation in the FI-PPP Dissemination WG and moreover

in the organizing committee of the conference. Organisation of a dedicated

XIFI related session on smart cities, and of a booth.

Promotion of XIFI events via the DWG forum and communication channels

(and vice versa).

Contribution to the definition of the FI-PPP promotional activities and

message(s).

Coordination of promotional messages within the broader FI-PPP context

Regular interaction with the

FIWARE Press Office.

(Since Sep. 2014)

A packaged offering FIWARE /

FIWARE Lab / FIWARE Ops is

proposed to FI Developers and

other stakeholders

Definition of a common branding approach combining FIWARE, FIWARE

Ops and FIWARE Lab brands.

Regular and proactive coordination and collaboration with the FIWARE Press

Office for the organization and participation to selected events, taking place in

year 2, including ECFI2, Smart Cities World Congress, 4FYN, CeBIT, Net

Futures 2015.

Workshops organised by XIFI

Promote and encourage the use of

the FIWARE technology with

specific focus on the FIWARE Lab

and FIWARE Ops functionalities

23.06.2014: Test beds for Networks and Communications community: an

untapped potential, during EuCNC 2014

01.07.2014: Synergies between FI-PPP and CAPS during the CAPS 2014

OFF event

23.10.2014: FIWARE Workshop in Poznan, This workshop organized by the

Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Polish Agency for Enterprise

Development and Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center was

dedicated to present funding opportunities of FI-PPP programme for innovative

European SMEs, startups and web-entrepreneurs in the Future Internet

landscape.

13.11.2014: Bridging the gap between Future Internet Research,




Innovation and Business during the FOKUS FUSECO Forum 2014

18.03.2015: Future Internet in Horizon 2020: how to build a pan-European

framework to support Innovation in SMEs. A one-day summit organized by the

Italian National Research Council and supported by the XIFI project

04.02.2015: NITOS XIFI Info Day in Volos, The objective of this one-day

event was to facilitate domestic and international cooperation and bring

together relevant stakeholders. Special focus placed on the mobilization of the

domestic SMEs, both in means of resource usage and resource disposal as it

takes place within the XIFI cloud framework.

See also Section 2.5

Support to organization and

advertisement of the XIFI

technical team and the WP7-

driven training sessions

The major aim is to educate, inform

and train the stakeholder groups

about how to use and interact with

the XIFI federation

15.05.2014: Training session for Developers. Organized in Berlin Fraunhofer

FOKUS - 8 developers participated in this first training session (from an FI PPP

Use Case project – FI-STAR, from 3 Universities and from 1 company).

17.06.2014: 2nd Awareness and Training sessions for Public Authorities:

Organized in collaboration with the FIWARE Consortium at the “Smart

Product for a Smart Digital Europe” event held in Brussels. The session was

hosted alongside the “FIWARE workshop with the Chambers of Commerce”.

The participants from several Chambers of Commerce were informed about the

XIFI Federated Infrastructures. The first XIFI training video (XIFI Core

Concepts) was shown.

24-25.06.2014: 2 Training sessions (basic and Intermediate sessions) for

Infrastructure owners and operators organized in Madrid; dedicated to the XIFI

new nodes + external infrastructure owners and operators: 31 people from the

new XIFI nodes, from the University of Messina (Italy), from the University of

São Paolo (Brazil) and from a small Spanish company that does some data

solutions for smart cities (IPS VIAL) participated in the training.

24-29.06.2014: Training session for Infrastructure Owners of the Mexican

node at Campus Party Mexico 2014. Basic and intermediate documentation

with regard to FIWARE and FIWARE Ops suite.

18.09.14: Training session for Phase III projects (A guide to FIWARE for




beginners- Accelerator Introductory Training session): Munich, ECFI-2: More

than 40 people from the 16 Accelerator Projects participated in the training.

18.09.14: Training session for SMEs Developers Phase III (A guide to

FIWARE for beginners- SMEs Developers Training session): More than 50

people, Munich, ECFI-2.

19-20.11.2014: 3rd Awareness and Training sessions for Public

Authorities: Workshop during SCWE 2014 in Barcelona. Together with the

presentation" What can FIWARE do for your city?" 20 attendees.

22.02.2015: Training session for SMEs at the kick-off of the FIWARE

Accelerator SpeedUP! Europe. FIWARE Lab and FIWARE Ops as use case

examples of FIWARE usage

Table 2: List of face-to-face actions

Mediated communication activities are the ones that imply the use of some sort of media support to facilitate connection with target interlocutors, as

detailed in D9.1.

Mediated actions Rational Results

Provided input and

support to WP7

training webinars

The major aim is to

educate, inform and train

the stakeholder groups in

how to use and interact

with the XIFI federation

15.10.2014: Introduction to FIWARE Lab. Webinar for Infrastructure owners and

Operators. 9 participants external to the XIFI project.

29.10.2014: How to join the Federation of Infrastructures. Webinar for Infrastructure owners

and Operators. 5 participants external to the XIFI project.

23.02.2015: FIWARE Lab Solution for Managing Resources & Services in a Cloud

Federation. Webinar for researchers and developers. 72 participants.

25.02.2015: XIFI for developer. Webinar for researchers and developers. 54 participants.

03.03.2015: SSH Webinar. Webinar for researchers and developers: 13 participants.




Project website

A website dedicated to the

project has been designed

and set up in the first

couple of months of the

XIFI project: https://fi-

xifi.eu. The web site has

been continuously updated

and will be maintained for a

few more years, after the

end of the project, as

mention at section 3.1

The website has been constantly improved both in its form and content.

Updates about attended and upcoming events.

Promotion on the homepage of the most relevant information about XIFI.

Post of news related to the project’s work and activities.

Additions to the technical blog site.

Adaptation of all materials and information since the new FIWARE brand guidelines.

Promotion of FIWARE Ops via a dedicated page linked to the official one at fiware.org.

A specific area has been created and dedicated to advertise the training activities in close

coordination with WP7.

All information about website stats can be found in Appendix 4.

Technical Blog A web space dedicated to

post technical articles

The XIFI blog is a web space dedicated to post articles related to the activities of the XIFI technical

team. Deatiled information about the technical blog can be found at section 2.3

Social networks

Twitter and LinkedIn

accounts created in the first

months of the project. A

Facebook page is also

maintained to facilitate

internal communication.

The XIFI Twitter account reached 475 followers by the end of March 2015, with an activity of 360

tweets from its beginning. Active tweeting actions before, during and after events and for relevant

news. A strong support has been done to all FIWARE related actions through the XIFI Twitter

Channel.

The LinkedIn group has a total of 162 members for the same period and the most relevant activities

have been shared across the community.

The XIFI social networks helped building a vast community around our work and more in general

Future Internet initiatives and trials, and give visibility about its work and results across a broad

audience.

Newsletter

The aim is to gather and

collect in a compact, but

still appealing form the

most relevant news to the

In year 2, 4 newsletters were created and published (May 2014, September 2014, January 2015 and

March 2014). Last newsletter was specially designed to make a review of the most relevant outcomes

of the project See Appendix A.1.

The newsletter - in an electronic version – has been sent to 475 recipients that include project

https://fi-xifi.eu/

https://fi-xifi.eu/




broad FIWARE ecosystem

as a result of XIFI

activities.

partners and all contacts established via various promotional project activities. It is also available in

the publications area of the XIFI project website.

Each edition of the newsletter has been also promoted through the XIFI social networks.

We observed peaks of 20-30% more visits than average the day each new edition is published and

broadly advertised

Publications

International referred,

scientific and technical

journals when appropriate.

See also section 2.2 for the

detailed list of scientific

papers

17.09.2014: A press release about XIFI was published by ATOS. (http://bit.ly/1GS7GZk).

"FIWARE Lab: Managing Resources and Services in a Cloud Federation supporting Future

Internet Applications" presented at Cloud Automation, Intelligent Management and Scalability

(CAIMS) 2014

"Inter-domain Monitoring and Software-Defined Network Connectivity for Federated

Infrastructures Management" presented at EuCNC 2014

"Unified Representation of Monitoring Information Across Federated Cloud Infrastructures"

presented at Federated Future Internet and Distributed Cloud Testbeds (FIDC) Workshop 2014.

The news item titled "Reaping the rewards of the IoT" and co-authored by Brian Pickering and

Massimo Vecchio was accepted for online publication in the next issue of the IEEE IoT

newsletters (May 2015). In this short report, the authors present an overview of some of the most

important challenges and the corresponding system-level requirements which an environment

seeking to host truly-open IoT developments needs to deal with. The IEEE IoT newsletter

homepage is here: http://iot.ieee.org/newsletter.html

48 public deliverables has been submmited and published on the website. From the statistiques,

we can see that this section is one of the most visited (See Appendix A.5).

Promotional material

Project documentation,

flyers, posters, fact sheets,

gadgets and videos as

appropriate to facilitate and

make more effective the

dissemination and

Creation and distribution of promotional material in various formats:

FIWARE Ops leaflets (updated for ECFI-2 and reuse during all relevant events). See Appendix

A.2.

One poster for the XIFI Federation and one for FIWARE Ops (updated for ECFI-2 and reuse

during all relevant events). See Appendix

https://www.fi-xifi.eu/fileadmin/News/atos-press-release_en.pdf

http://bit.ly/1GS7GZk

http://iot.ieee.org/newsletter.html




promotion of project work,

ideas and results. e A.3.

FIWARE Ops gadgets were created for ECFI-2 and then re-used during the XIFI training

sessions. Gadgets were conceived to be linked with the FIWARE Ops functionalities; A Plug-

adaptor (connectivity everywhere, international aspect…); A Frisbee (connecting nodes, data

sending..); a USB toolkit (FIWARE Ops is presented as a set of tool for the FI…). See Appendix

A.4.

6 new videos (FIWARE Ops by the technical team, 3 videos to promote the new nodes of the

XIFI Federation, one specific about FIWARE Ops for Smart cities and one video to promote

joining the federation by new infrastructures). See Appendix A.5.

One flyer in Polish was prepared for the Poznań Entrepreneurship Days (7-8.5.2014)

Demos

Demonstrations relating to

the XIFI platform and

associated

applications/offerings

(WP6-showcases)

Exhibition booth together with FIWARE, FIWARE Ops demos – SCEWC, Barcelona 2014

Exhibition booth together with FIWARE, FIWARE Ops demos at Campus Party Mexico 2014

Exhibition booth together with FIWARE, FIWARE Ops demos, ECFI-2, Munich 2014

Exhibition booth together with FIWARE, FIWARE Ops demos, LeWeb, Paris 2014

The showcases of Year 1 were re-packed to form a total of 6 showcases to be developed during

Year 2. Briefly, the pool of showcases of Year 2 is composed of

o three macro-showcases which represent the appropriate merging of some of the v1

showcases,

o two showcases which are the evolution of two v1 showcases which were already identified

with a specific vertical market segment, and

o a brand-new showcase directly addressing concrete startup involvement in the XIFI

ecosystem.

See also the complete list of attended events in Section 2.4

Table 3: List of mediated communication tools



2.2 Scientific publications

Date, Place Title/Authors Type of event / Name of event Type of

audience

Countries

addressed

Approx. size

of audience

Partner

involved

09-11.11.2014

Unified Representation of

Monitoring Information Across

Federated Cloud Infrastructures

26th IEEE International Teletraffic

Congress, Karlskrona, Sweden

Research &

Industry

Worldwide 150

TUB, UPM,

Telefónica,

Synelixis,

FOKUS

08-11.12.2014

FIWARE Lab: Managing

Resources and Services in a

Cloud Federation supporting

Future Internet Applications.

7th IEEE/ACM International

Conference on Utility and Cloud

Computing (UCC 2014), London,

UK

Research &

Industry

Worldwide 200

Synelixis,

UPM,

Telefónica,

CREATE-

NET, TUB

08-12.12.2014

Taming the Interoperability

Challenges of Complex IoT

Systems

ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware

conference in Bordeaux, France

Academic &

Industry Worldwide

~50 workshop

attendees

~200

conference

delegates

IT Innovation

17-19.02.2015

QoS-based WebRTC Access to

an EPS Network Infrastructure,

Kay Hänsge & Michael

Maruschke

ICIN 2015,

http://icin.co.uk/

Research &

Industry

European

Countries 120 DT

13-17.04.2015

Experiences Monitoring and

Managing QoS using SDN on

Testbeds Supporting Different

Innovation Stages

1st IEEE Conference on Network

Softwarization (NetSoft 2015)

Academic &

Industry Worldwide TBC IT Innovation



23-25.06.2015

Creating a Sustainable Federation

of Cloud-Based Infrastructures

for the Future Internet – The

FIWARE Approach

10th International Conference on

Testbeds and Research

Infrastructures for the

Development of Networks &

Communities (TRIDENTCOM

2015), Vancouver, Canada

Research &

Industry Worldwide NA

TUB, IT-

Innovation,

FOKUS,

CREATE-NET

14-17.07.2015

A Recommender Service

Distributed Over The Federated

Cloud Of The PPP European

Project

MPTE’15 Research &

Industry Worldwide 500 Telecom Italia

Table 4: List of scientific publications



2.3 Technical Blog and Developers’ Fora Activities

The XIFI blog was maintained throughout the course of the whole project. The primary focus of the blog was technical issues relating to the project, but

there were some contributions that provided a larger context and, for example, linked to the commercial context for XIFI.

The blog had an average of just over one post per month and covered issues such as performance analysis of cloud resources deployed using Fuel, how to

support multiple external networks in both Openstack Grizzly and Icehouse, integration with some of the FIRE related activities within the NITOS node

and other issues.

The blog attracted readers from all over the world, with over 50% coming from the US, followed by France, Germany and Spain. The most popular post on

the blog related to enabling a second external network in Grizzly and the specifics around how to enable this to support internal federated communications.

The blog will continue to be populated with content during the period from March 2015-September 2015 with more of a focus on operational level issues.

To extend the XIFI publication coverage some of the XIFI partners are in a process to submit technical articles to the OpenStack Super user blog

(http://superuser.openstack.org/) which is a new online publication forum created by the OpenStack Foundation to facilitate knowledge sharing and

collaborative problem solving among OpenStack developers.

The WP9 has also disseminated the Stack OverFlow threads - linked to the FIWARE Ops training portal - on the XIFI web and in Twitter together with

targeted promotion towards Open Stack developers, SMEs and Startups in several LinkedIn groups (See also Section 2.8).

http://superuser.openstack.org/



2.4 External Events’ Participation

The table below the events that XIFI partners attended in year 2 in order to present and promote project’s work and outcomes in different ways and to

different target stakeholders. As a matter of fact, participation to selected venues has been promoted so as to:

• Increase visibility on the XIFI offering/project work and on FIWARE/FI-PPP offering overall

• Collect feedback via questionnaires, discussion sessions and follow up emails to refine our work.

• Reach a broader audience and built direct connections – at local level as well – to help growing the federation.

• Targeted events / demos / presentations as a mean to better reach and engage the prioritized stakeholders.

Date Event name and description Type of participation Targeted stakeholders

23-24.04.2014 Celtic-Plus event, Monaco Presentation and leaflets distribution Developers

Public authorities

07-08.05.2014 Poznań Entrepreneurship Days, Poland

(Startup Poznań Hackathon) Presentation and leaflets distribution

Developers, startups, entrepreneurs,

SMEs

21.05.2014 SME Innovation Day, Sophia Antipolis Presentation SMEs

02-04.06.2014 Major Cities of Europe - Annual conference Leaflets distributed Public authorities/end users

04.06.2014 FI-PPP Day Trento Presentation given Developers, End-Users

05-06.06.2014 OCOVA, Genova, Italy Booth and presentations End-users, developers,

intermediaries

09-10.06.2014 FUSECO Forum Asia 2014 Presentations Sponsors and or Investors

10.06.2014 Open Cloud Day Presentation Infrastructure owners and operators

12-13.06.14 5th European Summit on the Future Internet Leaflets distributed Developers, SMEs, researchers

16-20.06.14 Iot Week 2014 Leaflets distributed End-Users, Technology Providers

24-25.06.2014

XIFI Training Sessions Dedicated to

Infrastructure Owners, Operators and FI-Ops

Users

Two training sessions given Infrastructure owners and operators




23-26.06.2014 EuCNC’2014 (European Conference on

Networks and Communications)

XIFI workshop, presentations and

leaflets Developers, SMEs, researchers

27.06.2014 1st CI-FIRE Industry Workshop Leaflets distributed Testbed developers and users /

Industry & SMEs

24-29.06.2014 Campus Party in Mexico FIWARE Ops demo, leaflets, poster Developers, end users

01-02.07.2014

CAPS 2014 - 1st International Conference on

Collective Awareness Platforms for

Sustainability and Social Innovation

FI-PPP session and XIFI

presentation. Leaflets distributed

End-users, developers, SMEs,

researchers from the CAPS

10.07.2014 FI-PPP Info Day for SMEs, held in Paris in

French Presentation SMEs, testbed users

23.07.2014 FI PPP Info day Berlin-Creative ideas meet

expertise and tools Presentation Intermediaries

10.09.14 26th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC

26) Presentation during the workshop Research and industry

15.09.14 FI-PPP Information meeting – Sophia

Antipolis Presentation during the workshop Research and industry

16.09.14 OCOVA, Gap, France Presentations and booth End-users, developers,

intermediaries

17-18.09.14 FI-PPP ECFI-2 Exhibition booth and 2 presentations

slots Gadgets and leaflets distributed

Testbed users and SMEs in

particular

22-24.09.14 M2M Innovation World Congress Marseille Presentation and distribution of

material

End-users, developers,

intermediaries

29-30.09.14 NEM Summit Presentation at the FI-LINKS

session and leaflets distribution

industrial and academic players

worldwide on FI

02-03.10.14 FIWARE Boothcamp Presentation FIWARE Ops, Leaflets Developers and web entrepreneurs




03-04.10.14 Hackathon-in-a-box, Budapest, Hungary Leaflets distributed Developers and web entrepreneurs

03-05.10.14 Startup Weekend/FIWARE Special Edition Presentation FIWARE Ops, leaflets Start-ups

09-10.10.14 ICT Proposer Day – Florence Leaflets distributed A bit of all stakeholders will be

there.

20-21.10.14 Techcrunch Disrupt Europe 2014 (London) ICT world

22.10.14 SENSO event, Aix-en-Provence Presentation End-users, developers,

intermediaries

23.10.14 FIWARE Workshop, Poznan Presentations and leaflet distributed SMEs, startups and web-

entrepreneurs

23.10.14 Iminds conference Informal contacts with industry and

SMEs, opportunity such as Phase III.

SME's and web entrepreneurs in the

field of ICT, media, health, energy,

smart cities and manufacturing

29.10.14 Il Future Internet accelera la Smart City Leaflets distributed FIWARE Accelerator Programme

29-31.10.14 eChallenges e-2014 Conference Leaflets distributed

Senior representatives of leading

government, industry and research

organisations

05.11.14 FINODEX Infoday Leaflets distributed FIWARE Accelerator Programme

03-07.11.14 OpenStack Summit, Paris Presentation and leaflets distribution Infrastructure owners and operators

13-14.11.14 FI-PPP International Workshop @ FUSECO Presentation and leaflets distribution End-users, Sponsors and or

Investors, Public Authorities

17-20.11.14 Smart City World Expo 2014 Booth with FIWARE, presentation

and leaflet distribution

24-25.11.14 Internetdagarna 2014 Booth

Data scientists, solution providers,

governments, academics and internet

actors




26.11.14 FI-PPP Information day; Budapest, Hungary

XIFI presentation and FIWARE

tutorial with live demo) Developers, End-Users

29.11.14 FIWARE Hackathon. Budapest, Hungary FIWARE presentation + FIWARE

tutorial with live demo Developers and web entrepreneurs

09.12.14 Digital growth in the Baltic Sea Region.

Copenhagen, Denmark

Presentation covering the XIFI

facility

Enterprises, policy makers, experts,

business organisations and industry

04.12.14 Digital growth in the Baltic Sea Region Presentation Companies and entrepreneurs within

the digital economy

05.12.14 Swiss FIWARE Acceleration conference.

Zurich, Switzerland Conferences and presentations


SMEs

08-12.12.14 UCC14 Presentation Cloud Computing

09-11.12.14 LeWeb 2014 Paris Presentation and leaflet distributed Testbed users and SMEs

08.01.15 Senseair Seminar Presentation Industry

13.01.15 Latvian IT cluster, Estonia Smart city Lab Presentation Research, Developers, startups,

entrepreneurs, SMEs

14.01.15 Swedish ICT day Presentation Research & industry in Sweden

14.01.15 Workshop with Fiber Optic Valley Presentation Research & industry in Sweden

04.02.15 NITOS XIFI Info Day Presentations, conferences and

FIWARE Ops leaflet distributed


SMEs

02-05.03.15 4YFN FIWARE Ops leaflet distributed Start-ups

09-13.03.15 IEEE International Conference on Cloud

Engineering (IC2E 2015), Arizona, USA Panelist Cloud Computing

16-20.03.15 CeBIT Presentation and FIWARE Ops

leaflet distributed IT & Digital business




17.03.15 FIWARE Lab Training Workshop,

Budapest, Hungary

XIFI and FIWARE presentations

tutorials/trainings and live demo,


SMEs, EIT ICTLabs students from

the whole Europe

24.03.15 FIWARE Information Day,

Budapest, Hungary

XIFI and FIWARE Presentations,

GE tutorials/trainings, consultation

opportunity

Local SMEs, startups and

developers, Cloud Providers

(EUROCLOUD Hungary members)

from Hungary and the Central

European region

24-25.03.15 US Ignite Applications Summit Presentation, booth and leaflet

distributed

Developers, industry, communities,

government, foundations and

universities

24-26.03.15 NetFutures15 Presentation and leaflet distributed ICT Research and Industry in

Europe

01-02.04.15 Machine to Machine &Objet Connectés -

Paris Booth and speaker

End-users, developers, startups,

entrepreneurs Authorities

07-08.04.15 SIDO - Lyon Booth Industry, startups, investors,

designers, entrepreneurs

23-25.06.15 Tridentcom 2015, Canada Presentation Testbeds, Researcher, Developers

and SMEs

Table 5: List of related events attended in year 2.



2.5 XIFI-driven Events

2.5.1 ECFI 1

Beginning of April, XIFI took part in the 1st European

Conference on the Future Internet that was held in

Brussel. The event presented cutting-edge results on the

European Internet infrastructures and services of the

future, which have been developed in the Future Internet

Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP).

This was a very successful event for the FI-PPP

community that gathered together a rich selection of

invited speakers from SMEs, public authorities and

major ICT industrial players in Europe, who animated

several technical and business sessions.

In this dynamic and exciting atmosphere, many people visited the XIFI exhibition booth where we

presented the FIWARE Ops (FI-Ops at this period) offering and the latest project’s achievements to

the various conference visitors.

The XIFI Project Coordinator Maurizio Cecchi (Telecom Italia) and one of the key technical leaders

of XIFI, Silvio Cretti (Create-Net), have been invited to give presentations at various sessions about

the XIFI project and the FIWARE Ops offering. This has contributed to provide an insight on our

project’s activities, contribute to clarify synergies between XIFI and FI-WARE, and animate very

interesting discussion panels.

Finally, XIFI has also contributed to organize and run a very interesting session that focused on

discussing the role of Future Internet technologies and experimental infrastructures for the

development of Smart Cities services and solutions.

2.5.2 OCOVA Genova Italy

OCOVA (5-6 June) is the meeting point between future technologies and services targeting to enhance

territory and quality of life. Com4Innov handled a booth with XIFI exposure. This event targeted

regional end-users, developers and intermediaries.

2.5.3 FIDC’14 Workshop

On Friday,13 September 2014, the XIFI Monitoring solution has been presented in the Federated Future Internet

and Distributed Cloud Testbeds (FIDC) Workshop that was held in conjunction with the 26th International

Teletraffic Congress (ITC 26) in Karskrona, Sweden. The accepted paper entitled “Unified Representation of

Monitoring Information Across Federated Cloud Infrastructures” will appear in the proceeding of the 26th IEEE

International Teletraffic Congress.

2.5.4 OCOVA GAP France

OCOVA (16-17 September) is the meeting point between future technologies and services targeting to

enhance territory and quality of life. This instance of OCOVA is dedicated to open Internet

technologies and services to Northern part of PACA region and its Italian neighborhood. This event



targeted regional end-users, developers and intermediaries. Com4Innov handled a booth with larger

XIFI exposure.

2.5.5 ECFI 2

The XIFI Project organized two training sessions at

ECFI2 in Munich on 18 September 2014. More than

100 people attended the two sessions, which were

respectively dedicated to SMEs and Accelerator

projects.

The session dedicated to SMEs and web-entrepreneurs

(called “A Guide to FIWARE for beginners: SMEs

Developers introductory training session”) was a big

success: more than 60 people attended the training

session. After an overview of the FIWARE Global

offer, focusing on the FIWARE benefits for SMEs,

technical details were provided on FIWARE Lab, and on the FIWARE Generic and Specific Enablers

available. The session finished with a description of the e-Learning portal and the FIWARE Helpdesk.

The afternoon session dedicated to the Accelerator Projects (called “A Guide to FIWARE for

beginners: Accelerators introductory training session”) was equally successful with more than 40

participants. The focus was similar as in the morning with in addition an introduction to FIWARE

Ops.

2.5.6 M2M Innovation World Marseille

At the intersection of new business models and

technological innovation, M2M Innovation World

Congress (22-24 September) fosters exchanges of

insights and best practices to achieve the full potential of

M2M/IoT. Aimed both at M2M Industry players and

their customers from verticals, this independent

conference and exhibition explored the new ways to

translate M2M technologies into vertical business needs

through presentation and live demonstrations.

During this event with European and worldwide

attendance Com4Innov presented XIFI / FIWARE Lab

and use case on Generic Enablers. XIFI and FIWARE

LAB were also highlighted on the Com4Innov / XIFI dedicated booth. Both, the presentation and the

booth were very well attended. Please see the presentation!

2.5.7 FIWARE Workshop in Poznań

On the 23rd of October, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center coorganised a FIWARE

Workshop dedicated to presenting funding opportunities of the FI-PPP programme for innovative

European SMEs, startups and web-entrepreneurs in the Future Internet landscape. The main objective

was to present the FIWARE Accelerator Programme through talks given by invited representatives of

accelerators: INCENSe, IMPACT, EuropeanPioneers, frontierCities, Speed Up! Europe, CreatiFI,

SmartAgriFood2 and FRACTALS. Moreover, the event included a Q&A session and offered the

possibility to talk personally with people representing the accelerators during a networking and

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consultations session.

The XIFI project was represented by Pierangelo Garino, who gave a talk introducing FIWARE,

FIWARE Lab and FIWARE Ops and was available for consultations at the FIWARE Ops table with

some informational and promotional materials. Pierangelo was aided by employees of PSNC engaged

in XIFI, who helped in the organisation of the event and responded to questions of the attendees.

Additionally, each participant received a conference pack including a flyer explaining and promoting

the FIWARE Ops toolset.

Around 100 people showed up for the event, most of

them representing SMEs or bigger companies, with

some research and education institutions being present

as well. There were many late registration requests that

had to be turned down due to venue constraints and

organisational matters. This, along with the large

number of questions asked and the high attendance at

the networking and consultations session prove the

popularity of the subject matter and the need to

organise similar events.

The event has been recorded by Platon TV, PSNC's scientific TV studio. The recordings are available

at http://www.fiware.pl/poznan2014/videos/ .

2.5.8 SENSO Event – Aix en Provence

In the IoT context, ARCSIS, a French professional association of electronics actors in the region

of Provence-Alps-Cote d'Azur region, in collaboration with the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne /

CMPGC and the SCS (Secured Communicating Solutions) competitiveness cluster, organizes a

conference dedicated to ‘’Sensors, Energy harvesting, wireless Network & Smart Objects’’.

The aim of this event was to offer a meeting opportunity to all the different contributors and provide a

more integrated vision of the basic elements of such smart objects network, ranging from the effective

exploitation of their energy source up to their final deployment in an actual working environment.

Com4Innov presented XIFI / FIWARE benefits during this event.

2.5.9 Fokus Fuseco Forum 2014

In conjunction with the FOKUS FUSECO Forum

2014, XIFI organized an international FI-PPP

Workshop, a full day workshop for the regional and

international promotion of the European Future

Internet Public Private Partnership (FI-PPP) program

in Berlin, Germany, on November 13, 2014. With

participation of more than 50 guests and speakers the

international FI-PPP workshop successfully provided a

comprehensive overview of worldwide Future Internet

programs and the status of the FI-PPP program in particular. By fostering the collaboration with

related regional and international initiatives and by openly discussing strategies for sustainability and

commercial exploitation, several fruitful and lively discussions took place during the workshop.

During the workshop, the status and achievements of FI-PPP's Infrastructure and Capacity Building

project (XIFI) was presented.

The FI-PPP workshop concluded with a panel discussion where several invited panelists involved in

the FI-PPP answered questions around FI-PPP¹s exploitation, commercialization and sustainability.

Core topics included questions related to the sustainability of the FI-PPP infrastructure (i.e. the

http://www.fiware.pl/poznan2014/videos/



federation of FIWARE nodes), the added value of standardizing FIWARE platform's Generic Enablers

and their APIs, future plans for creation of a FIWARE foundation and ecosystem and strategies for

SMEs to exploit the results of the program.

2.5.10 SmartCities Expo World Congress 2014

XIFI attended the Smart City Expo World Congress

2014 (18-20 November) that was held in Barcelona

(Spain) in conjunction with FIWARE and 5 of the Phase

3 Accelerators (INCENSe, SpeedUp! Europe,

frontierCities, FI-C3 and IMPACT).

At the exhibition booth, the XIFI team presented the

overall offering of FIWARE with focus on FIWARE

Ops showing live demos of the deployment, the

federation management, the connectivity manager and

the service offer management across nodes. Compared to

last year, when our offering was less mature, this year

most of the visitors had already heard about FIWARE and were interested in concrete deployment

information. For instance, many questions concerned the adoption of the technology, the participation

to the Accelerators programme, the advantage of joining the federation or the benefits of sharing data

into the FIWARE Lab community.

An important example of the consolidated presence of FIWARE was the meeting organised by DG

Connect at the booth with majors of 4 European cities interested in the adoption of the FIWARE

offering to make their cities smarter.

During the 3 days, the XIFI dissemination team was very active through the social networks mostly

with live tweeting during the relevant activities at the booth and at the congress. A specific FIWARE

Ops promotional leaflet and a video were developed for the event.

2.5.11 Internetdagarna

Internetdagarna (The Internet Days), one of the biggest

conferences about the Internet in Sweden and the Nordic

Countries, was held on November 24-25, 2014 in Stockholm,

Sweden.

The conference was attended by 2100 people, representing a

very broad audience: from data scientists and solution

providers to politicians, school teachers and tax authorities.

XIFI was represented by a poster at the exhibition area. The

lunch and coffee breaks were held adjacent to the exhibition

that allowed for a large number of visitors.

2.5.12 Swiss FIWARE Acceleration Conference

The 1st SWISS FIWARE acceleration Conference was held in

Winterthur on December the 5th at the Zurich University of

Applied Sciences ICCLab premises. The event offers, to SWISS



Small Enterprises and WEB entrepreneurs, the opportunity to introduce project ideas to the

professional A16 accelerators.

“A conference to guide attendees through the difficult time of developing applications and building

businesses”. Several partners of the XIFI consortium were there to answer specific questions about the

FIWARE Ops toolkit and the FIWARE Lab federation.

2.5.13 NITOS XIFI Info Day

The University of Thessaly organized the XIFI-NITOS Info Day that took place in the city of Volos,

Greece, on the 4th of February 2015. The objective of this one-day event was to facilitate regional and

international cooperation and bring together relevant stakeholders working on Future Internet

solutions. Special focus was placed on the mobilization of the local SMEs, both in means of resource

usage and resource disposal as it takes place within the XIFI cloud framework. Towards the goal of

explaining the usage of the Cloud, portal and infrastructure, a number of XIFI showcases were also

presented.

2.5.14 Wigner RCP FIWARE Lab Training Workshop and FIWARE Information Day

The Wigner Research Centre for Physics organized two events in March 2015 to promote the

achievements of XIFI and FIWARE. The FIWARE Lab Training Workshop took place in Budapest,

Hungary on the 17th of March 2015. The main goal of this ona-day event was to give a practical

overview of the capabilities of FIWARE Lab and the most mature FIWARE Generic Enablers to

developers including the winners of some accelerators (CEEDTech, FINISH, CreatiFI) that are active

in Central European region. Besides presentations live demos of the cloud portal and some GEs were

also displayed. This international event had participants from the Netherlands, Serbia and

Hungary.The FIWARE Information Day was held in Budapest, Hungary on the 24th of March 2015,

targeting Hungarian SMEs, startups and entrepreneurs that may be interested in the achievements of

XIFI, FIWARE Lab and the FIWARE Accelerator programme. We have invited presenters from

CEEDTech, FINISH and INCENse. In addition, we had a presentation from EuroCloud Hungary

Association that is an umbrella of Hungarian Cloud providers. Our aim was to promote XIFI

achievements among local cloud operators. This event was also extended by a tutorial/training session

showing developers how FIWARE Lab and some selected GEs can be used in practice.

2.5.15 Future Internet in Horizon 2020: how to build a pan-European framework to

support Innovation in SMEs

On March the 18th, XIFI organized a one-day summit with the support of the Italian National Research

Council. Key players in the European scene presented their vision on how EC-driven programs, such

as FIWARE, and National initiatives will boost innovation for Small and Medium Enterprises

across Europe.

The introduction to a common vision has been elaborated by Luigi Nicolais, President of the CNR.

The Horizon 2020 strategy has been presented by the Vice General Director of CNECT Roberto

Viola, that explained the goal of the EC programs that are actively supporting SMEs by providing both

direct financial, and indirect support to increase their innovation capacity. He envisaged a strong

coordination between the European Commission and the National Programs; they can boost R&D and

Innovation as key pillars of the European SMEs' ecosystem growth. The Managing Director of Tilab

Gabriela Styf Sjoman showed how industrial initiatives such as XIFI can give a real contribution to

the creation of a valuable ecosystem. The overall vision has been substantiated by the presentation of

Mr Ilkka Lakaniemi, the Programme Chair of EU FIWARE Future Internet Public-Private Partnership

(FI-PPP). The German Government policy has been presented by Walter Mattauch, that works for the

German Program Management Agency DLR. In this position, he supports the German Ministry for

Economic Affairs and Energy in the management of research programs in current ICT topics. The

German vision has been complemented by Mathias Rauch, the Director of Fraunhofer Brussels. The

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Austria strategy was explained by Lisbeth Mosnik, that in the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport

Innovation and Technology, is responsible for National and International ICT Research Strategies.

The Polish vision has been explained by Piotr Kępski, Chief specialist at the Department of

Innovations and Development at Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

It was clear from the discussion that FIWARE commons can be thought of as a living ecosystem that

is open and accessible to European companies, developers and researchers, and continuously adapts to

the changing requirements of the Internet market.

XIFI demonstrated how a federation of Infrastructure providers could be open and competitive and

above all not “institutionalised”. Allowing e-Infrastructures to evolve is important: keywords here are

open competition, collaboration but also technological innovation.

It was made clear in the discussion that a great advancement of data infrastructures are needed because

they are not yet as well-established as the basic networking and computing infrastructures in the

European scene.

2.5.16 US Ignite Applications Summit

XIFI Project together with the FI-LINKS CSA and the participation of Peter Fatelnig from the EC,

attended several meetings in Toronto and Washington D.C. and participated in the US Ignite

Applications Summit in Washington D.C. during the week of 23 March 2015. The Summit, which was

entitled “Beyond Today’s Internet: Experiencing a Smart Future”, gathered more than 400

participants. The main outcome of our effort was that FIWARE was proposed to be set up on top of

existing platforms both in Canada and in the US. In Canada, cooperation with the SAVI platform is

being considered; in USA as well, with support from US Ignite, over the existing GENI gigabit

networking and computing infrastructure. The objective in both cases would be to provide the

FIWARE features to application developers in North America, thus promoting the use of open

platforms such as FIWARE (publicity will be made) and also the knowledge of US-Ignite Gigabit

applications activities, GENI and SAVI in Europe.

The ambitious objectives that were discussed could be to demonstrate smart cities applications based

on FIWARE in an event organised by NIST in Washington D.C. on 1st June, 2015 within the Global

Cities Team Challenge (GCTC) initiative, and to showcase a first integration of FIWARE over SAVI

in the Smart City Platforms Summit planned in Toronto on 13-15 October 2015. We will follow this

up shortly as the registration for the NIST event has just been announced. In addition, teams have been

set up between Europe and USA with support from the EC and NSF to work on common challenges,

potentially leading to common research and commercial opportunities.

There may also be opportunities with the World Bank, whose representatives were interested in

evaluating the offering of FIWARE to countries looking at developing smart cities e.g. India, Central

and South-America (e.g. Colombia), and others. More contacts will be made in the next weeks.

Many participants came to see the videos and the demos at the “demo night” organised by US Ignite

and GENI on 24 March evening. FIWARE was voted “best demo” by the participants, out of 63 demo

tables!

http://www.nist.gov/cps/sagc.cfm

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2.6 Interactions within the FI-PPP Context and other Projects

Bodies/Groups Rational Results

Boards and Groups facilitated by CONCORD

FI-PPP Steering Board

XIFI has appointed two representatives to participate at

Steering Board meetings and activities – Maurizio

Cecchi (TI) and Federico Álvarez (UPM).

XIFI actively participated in discussions about the overall

strategy and direction of the FI-PPP with all other FI-PPP

projects and the EC. To be noticed is that Stefano de

Panfilis (Engineering) that is the chairman of the SB is also

an active player of the XIFI team. This has ensured

cohesive actions in-line with the overall Programme

strategy.

FI-PPP Advisory Board XIFI has appointed representatives to participate at

Advisory Board meetings and activities

XIFI actively participated in discussions about the overall

strategy and direction of the FI-PPP with all other FI-PPP

projects and the EC. A presentation was sent to the

Advisory Board explaining the federation nodes, the

benefits of using the FIWARE Ops set of tools, the

handover to FI-CORE and finally our offering for the

FIWARE Helpdesk.

FI-PPP Architecture Board

XIFI has appointed two representatives to participate at

the meetings and activities of the Architecture Board –

Silvio Cretti and Federico Facca (Create-Net).

XIFI played a particularly important role in defining and

specifying the overall FI-PPP service portfolio together

with FIWARE (the FI-WARE project first and the FI-

CORE consortium more recently), thus providing an

“integrated” offering supporting FI business development.

FI-PPP Dissemination Working

Group

XIFI appointed two representatives to participate in the

activities of the FI-PPP Dissemination Working Group

(DWG) – Dr. Monique Calisti (Martel) and Jacques

XIFI has regularly participated to the Dissemination

Working Group activities, including regular conf calls and

contributed to newsletters and organisation of events (like

for instance ECFI-1 and ECFI-2), until the group was



Bodies/Groups Rational Results

Magen (InterInnov). dismissed to leave the floor to the FIWARE Press Office

(June 2014) – see below.

FIWARE Press Office (since its

start)

The leader of the XIFI Dissemination and

Communication activities (Monique Calisti, Martel)

has been appointed to guarantee coordination of the

XIFI-driven dissemination and promotion activities

with the programme-wide initiatives under the direct

supervision of the FIWARE Press Office.

XIFI has regularly contributed by injecting input for the

production of newsletters; promoting FIWARE related

news and events via all the project’s social channels and

mailing lists; helping with organisation of events, including

organisation of presentations focusing on the FIWARE Ops

and FIWARE Lab Federation for events like CAPS2020,

ECFI2, Smart Cities World Congress, LeWeb, CeBIT, Net

Futures 2015 Conferences.

As discussed in more details below the XIFI team will

ensure smooth handover of the generated know-how and

contacts to the FIWARE Press Office.

FIWARE – Technology foundation: Future Internet core platform

FIWARE

XIFI has actively interacted with the FIWARE project

first and more recently with the FI-CORE team so as

to ensure coordinated efforts both from a strategic and

operational point of view.

XIFI and FIWARE established close collaboration on

strategic, technical and communication matters since the

project start. During year 2 as there was a transition from

FIWARE to FI-CORE, coordination of efforts has been

achieved also thanks to the fact that several partners in

XIFI are also partners in FI-CORE. In these last months of

the XIFI project, we focused on ensuring smooth transition

and hand-over of know-how and resources both at a

technical and communication level. This also in the

perspective of supporting the FIWARE Foundation (not yet

officially created at the time of writing this document).

Table 6: Interactions with related bodies within the FI-PPP context.



Project acronym Rational Results

Other FI-PPP Projects

FI-LINKS

FI-LINKS is responsible for the production of a

roadmap for the Future Internet, and FIWARE Mundus

programme, which is promoting the adoption of

FIWARE in European regions and in countries outside

Europe where the take-up of Internet innovation can

occur and impact local markets

XIFI has been working actively with FI-LINKS in the

regional promotion (attending common events looking

for enlarging FIWARE lab nodes number) and in the

international aspects as for the Mexico and Brazil nodes

(attended Campus party Mexico and trained on the use of

FIWARE-Ops).

The last action is a common visit to US to discuss future

opportunities for common FIWARE cooperation and

nodes expansion in this area (24-26 March 2015)

FI-STAR

It is built based on the FIWARE technologies and the

cloud hosting offered though the XIFI federation for

the healthcare domain. The FI-STAR Platform

comprises several GEs as well as SEs that are/will be

deployed and offered through XIFI nodes for

Healthcare application developers.

XIFI partners involved in FI-STAR provided technical

and GE evaluation support for the need of FI-STAR

platform.

FIRE (Future Internet Research & Experimentation)

AmpliFIRE

This FIRE CSAs is responsible for overall coordination

of FIRE activities both at the strategic and operational

level. Close communication and interaction with

AmpliFIRE has the main objective to understand how

the FIWARE- and FIRE-driven activities relate and

complement each other. Effective communication has

been guaranteed also thanks to the fact that several

XIFI participated in the FIRE Board and FIRE Forum

discussions so as to contribute to identify complementary

and synergies between the FIRE and FI-PPP programmes

and activities.




XIFI partners are also involved in AmpliFIRE.

Fed4FIRE

Fed4FIRE is the “federation” project within the FIRE

context, the objective of which is to build a federated

offering from currently independent FIRE facilities.

Close interaction has been envisaged to ensure lessons

learned in the two contexts to be exchanged and

possibly shared.

XIFI benefited from the technical work performed in

Fed4FIRE around federation, in particular from the work

of Fed4FIRE towards alignment of experiment

definition, control and monitoring tools. In return, XIFI

(WP8) identified the FedSM project to Fed4FIRE, which

has led to the close collaboration between the two. So far

no technology adoption materialised from FIRE to XIFI,

however the requirements and objectives of the two

initiatives are similar, and it can be expected that a

convergence will take place in the future.

A mutual benefit between XIFI and Fed4FIRE emerged

through the complementary advertising of the different

relevant actions to each other’s communities.

XIFI is considering whether to sign a Memorandum of

Understanding (MoU) with Fed4FIRE, based on the

model MoU signed between the projects INFINITY and

FIRESTATION.

FIRE facility projects

Participation of Maurizio Cecchi at the FIRE Board

with close communication with other Members and

initiatives responsible.

Particularly relevant has been the inclusion of some

FIRE facilities such as the iMinds one. Several

discussions have been done with Amplifire on

sustainability issues and with Fed4FIRE. On

benchmarking and other issues.

FIRE research projects

The possibility of using XIFI results has been

discussed with Fed4FIRE and other FIRE projects in

the domain of industrial testing.

In particular, a common effort has been devoted in

understanding how the XIFI Federation could support

industrial testing. This has been done taking in

consideration the upcoming 5G technologies. This has

also been shared and discussed within the 5GPPP




community.

Other Projects

OCEAN Project Collaboration with the OCEAN project thanks to the

liaison with Engineering

The Open Cloud Directory, provided by the OCEAN

project - Open Cloud for Europe, Japan and beyond -, is

now hosting three XIFI Cloud assets - two of them part

of the FIWARE Ops toolkit.

H2020 COMPARE

Wigner RCP is taking part in this H2020 project where

it is responsible for the analysis of genomic data (at

PetaByte scale).

The project may reuse some components of XIFI and

FIWARE including Blueprint templates and BigData

GE.

FIESTA Com4Innov is partner of this H2020 project. Particular focus in using FIWARE components for the

project.

Table 7: Interactions with projects and relevant initiatives outside the FI-PPP context.

D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities


2.7 Stakeholders’ Involvement

The methodology used by XIFI regarding the stakeholders definition and glossary was twofold:

initially, a glossary and a picture (which graphically summarizes the stakeholder categories) were

created in order to ensure that the same terms would have meant the same thing in all the project’s

documents and deliverables, and to determine for each Work Package which stakeholder needs to be

involved and for what purpose. After this first analysis, carried out in Y1, we prepared a short

questionnaire about the stakeholders in order to better understand what stakeholder each partner were

targeting, in order to refine the marketing strategy of the project as a whole, refine the stakeholders

priorities and see how the events planned at national/regional/local level were aligned with the

project’s strategy.

This questionnaire included the following questions:

1. Please classify the stakeholders that you are, as a XIFI partner, interested in/targeting;

2. For each stakeholder that you have selected in question 1, please explain why you consider

them as important;

3. For each stakeholder that you have selected in question 1, please detail which event you will

use in order to engage them: whether it is a local event you can organize, or a

European/International event you will attend. Do not forget to mention the date and location

of the event;

4. For each stakeholder that you have selected in question 1, please explain what are you needs

in terms of training for your targeted community(ies).

Out of the analysed answers, we were able to identify who were the priority stakeholders for the XIFI

partners: the End-users (especially Institutions, Authorities at national/local level, Industries and

Smart Cities), the Intermediaries (especially the Public Authorities at regional/local level, the Phase

III Accelerator projects and the Clusters/Incubators at regional/local level), and the Infrastructures

Owners and Operators are the top target stakeholders. The Public Authorities (especially the

national, regional and local ones) are considered important similarly to Sponsors and Investors and

Intermediaries. Developers (especially the Phase III Developers, SMEs, web-entrepreneurs) and the

Technology Providers are also considered important stakeholders, but less when compared with the

other categories.

Thanks to the questions 1 and 2, we were able to define a first bottom-up approach, which has been

used as a basis for the work carried out in the Community Building (CB) Work Group, see next

section for an overview and D7.4 for more details.

According to this first bottom-up approach, we defined a top down strategy in order to prioritize

stakeholders’ communities and to better understand how we can reach these communities.

Thanks to the 3rd

question, we identified the local and European events that XIFI partners attended in

2014 and early 2015. For each planned event, the XIFI partners specified the stakeholders that they

targeted and WP9 provided support in several ways.

Thanks to the collected information, we maintained a table in order to list the XIFI-relevant events and

identify the stakeholders’ communities that these events would allow to reach/target. For each planned

event, T9.2 checked with the XIFI partner involved in the event’s organisation whether the target

audience were in line with the priority stakeholders identified by the project.

Following the reviewers’ comments, the Community Building work carried out in Y2 and the

outcomes of the questionnaires on stakeholders, we defined the following priority stakeholders as

depicted in “Figure 1: XIFI Stakeholder relations” and we modified the stakeholders pictures and



glossary accordingly on the XIFI project web pages2 (namely the “Infrastructure developers and

Infrastructure tools developers” and “Non-public Investors” were added):

Direct relationship:

Infrastructure owners and operators

Infrastructure developers and Infrastructure tools developers

Intermediaries (mainly training)

Sponsors / Investors (mainly training)

Indirect relationship3 (via FI-WARE and will continue via FI-CORE):

End users

Application (Apps) Developers

Figure 1: XIFI Stakeholder relations

The tightest relationship we had is with the Infrastructure owners and operators and related

Infrastructure and Infrastructure tools developers. With the Intermediaries (Phase 3 accelerator

projects) and Sponsors / Investors (Public non-public authorities) we have focused more on the

information sharing and training, similarly to what has been done with the “indirect” Developers

(SMEs and web entrepreneurs using the XIFI federation) and End users. It is important to underline

that the XIFI project organized and participated to several “indirect” stakeholder events to support the

FI-WARE promotion and in wider terms the whole FI-PPP programme and community to share

information and to train potential End users and Developers. This has helped them to find and start

using the services and the development environment based on the XIFI Federation platform.

2 https://www.fi-xifi.eu/about-xifi/stakeholders.html

3 Technology providers and Others in lesser extent

https://www.fi-xifi.eu/about-xifi/stakeholders.html



2.8 Contributions to the Community Building Activities

WP9 played an active role in supporting the XIFI Community Building activities, which were led by

WP7 as reported in details in D7.4. The main achievements in year 2 can be summarized as follows:

The different communication channels and dissemination tools (Newsletters, web, LinkedIn,

YouTube and Twitter) have been effectively used and linked to each other to promote the

XIFI news, events, videos, training webinars and overall project achievements so as to reach

the highest possible number of stakeholders. Additionally new LinkedIn groups (see details

below) have been found out to complement and further extend the community coverage.

Additional technical articles and papers have been published and promoted in the XIFI blog

and in various scientific and technological conferences and workshops.

The newsletter subscriptions have increased thanks to our presence at various related events

and workshops and also to the increased activity and media coverage via our Twitter and

Youtube channels.

Tailored marketing campaigns have increased participation in the training events (webinars,

physical training sessions, awareness and training for Public Authorities, training in “pills”)

and generated more video views on the YouTube, increased traffic on the XIFI web and on the

training portal.

Combination of the tailored marketing campaigns and training events/webinars resulted in 13

FIWARE lab nodes participating to the FIWARE Recognition & Reward (R&R) Programme.

These nodes were awarded R&R labels documenting the quality of each node – see below and

D7.4.

The use of the communication and promotion channels has been two-fold:

1. The News on the XIFI web, the XIFI Newsletter, the YouTube channel and the various

mailing lists we addressed (including the former XiPi repository mailing list with direct access

to 242 Infrastructure owners/operators globally) have been used for the more medium-long

term promotion purposes.

2. The Social Media networking channels, namely LinkedIn and Twitter, have been mostly used

for short-term promotion on a weekly or on daily basis to highlight news and gather attention

to specific achievements especially via events’ participation. The Facebook page has been

used on the “background” to support more the Application developers and End Users which

are indirect target stakeholders for the XIFI as mentioned in section 2.7.

These two modalities have effectively supported and complemented each other by generating different

types of contents, at a different pace for different audiences and stakeholders by contributing to

reinforce the FIWARE and FI-PPP promotion at a large via a large set of channels and promotional

material, which can be easily accessed by different stakeholders for their use and re-use contributing to

multiply the reach of our dissemination activities.

WP9 has organized specific tailored dissemination/marketing campaigns, e.g. for the publishing of the

Munich training videos, the Showcase videos and training events with following timing in different

Social Media channels to get the best promotion coverage and repetition rate:

Training videos/events: Basecamp Day 1; Twitter Day 4; several LinkedIn groups Day 8

Showcase videos Basecamp Day 4; Twitter Day 9; several LinkedIn groups Day 14

The results showed the increased amount of the video views in the XIFI YouTube channel, hits on the



XIFI web site and in the FIWARE Ops training portal4 where the videos were also published. The

impact for the training events was remarkable as the participation to the training events and webinars

increased from earlier typical 10-15 participants to more than 70 participants with more effective

interaction during the training sessions, as the participants were better informed upfront already.

Additionally, as a combination of the tailored marketing campaigns and training events/webinars there

were 13 FIWARE lab nodes that applied to the FIWARE Recognition & Reward Programme, which

received the R&R labels:

- iMinds VZW (Belgium), NITOS (Greece), Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center

(Poland), Wigner Research Centre for Physics (Hungary), University of Piraeus Research

Center (Greece)- a GOLD label;

- Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden), CESNET (Czech Republic), Technical University

of Crete (Greece)- a SILVER label; and

- ACREO (Sweden), ImaginLab (France), Neuropublic A.E. (Greece), Waterford IT (Ireland),

and Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland) - a BRONZE label.

As stated in the section 2.7, the tightest direct relationship XIFI has had was with the Infrastructure

owners and operators and related Infrastructure and Infrastructure tools developers. On the other hand

the several organized and effectively promoted events and training sessions to the “indirect”

stakeholders, namely End users and Developers (lesser extent Technology Providers), has led to

concrete impact supported by figures, as detailed in the D7.4 and in the Appendix A.6, that show

specific growth on the Users/Developers community.

Technically oriented people typically follow/use web, Stack OverFlow, Blog and Twitter while more

business oriented people follow/use LinkedIn/Twitter. Although there are many members in the

LinkedIn groups/community that do not participate actively and only passively follow discussions,

there have been more and more “Likes” and “Comments” especially about the training and showcase

videos published during the year 2. Overall the LinkedIn groups are effective promotion channels to

complement the web presence and the Twitter channel. Beside the XIFI LinkedIn5 group we have used

following LinkedIn groups for promotion and community engagement (“D” indicates direct (e.g.

Infrastructures) and “I” indirect (e.g. Apps developers, End users) stakeholder relationship/influence in

the group):

- EIT ICT Labs LinkedIn6 – community reached: EIT ICT Labs & testbeds 943 members; D

- FI-WARE LinkedIn Group7 - FI-WARE general 707 members; D/I

- FIRE LinkedIn8 – FIRE testbeds 482 members; D

- FI-PPP LinkedIn9 – FI-PPP general 407 members; D/I

- Open Stack LinkedIn10

– Open Stack developers 30,758 members; D/I

- Open Source LinkedIn11

- Open Source developers 122,474 members; D/I

4 http://edu.fiware.org/course/view.php?id=118

5 http://www.linkedin.com/groups/XIFI-5058775

6 https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3357925&trk=anet_ug_hm

7 https://www.linkedin.com/groups/FIWARE-4239932

8 https://www.linkedin.com/groups/FIRE-3361373


10 https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3239106

11 https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=43875&trk=anet_ug_hm&goback=%2Eanb_1310437

http://edu.fiware.org/course/view.php?id=118

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/XIFI-5058775

https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3357925&trk=anet_ug_hm

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/FIWARE-4239932

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/FIRE-3361373


https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3239106

https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=43875&trk=anet_ug_hm&goback=%2Eanb_1310437



- Living Labs LinkedIn12

– Living Labs, Smart Cities, End Users, SMEs, Public authorities

2,946 members; I

To extend the coverage to new communities, namely SMEs, Startups and non-public investors, the

tailored promotion campaigns (training and showcase videos) were run in year 2 to address the

following LinkedIn groups:

- On Startups13

- The Community For Entrepreneurs 448,222 members; I

- EBN14

- European BIC Network 1,191 members; I

- European Entrepreneurship & Innovation15

@ Stanford | Silicon Valley 14,995 members; I

- Onevest16

- The Startup & Investor Network 40,820 members; I

Opening of the discussions/promotions in these LinkedIn groups has been part of the specific tailored

dissemination/marketing campaigns in the WP9 (e.g. the published training and showcase videos). The

results, based on the LinkedIn contribution level metering17

, indicated that the contribution level

within the direct stakeholders related groups (infrastructure owners and operators) has been either

“Making an impact” or “Building influence”. Within the indirect stakeholders related groups (e.g.

Apps developers, SMEs, Web entrepreneurs, End Users) the contribution level reached “Finding an

audience”. These results show that with the indirect stakeholders XIFI has had more a supporting role

via the FI-WARE collaboration – at the same time creating basis for the more user centric Phase 3 of

the of the FI-PPP programme and the FI-CORE. The activities in these groups have further

complemented the XIFI web page and Twitter based dissemination to get more video views in the

XIFI YouTube channel, more hits on the XIFI web site and on the FIWARE Ops training portal (cf.

statistics in the Appendix A.5).

To conclude, WP9 has followed the planned strategy: during the 1st year, efforts concentrated on

targeting the direct stakeholders: “infrastructure owners and operators”, and also to a lesser extent

“public authorities” and “intermediaries”. Then, during the 2nd

year of the project, we extended our

reach for the promotion and engagement activities to embrace indirect stakeholders: “developers”

(SMEs and web entrepreneurs using the XIFI federation). Also, in year 2, the engagement of the other

identified stakeholders took place i.e. “sponsors and investors” and “end-users” although the latter one

was reached indirectly via collaboration with the FI-WARE project.

Based on the fact that the biggest community growth has happened within the “developers”

community and considering that the primary target was “infrastructure owners and operators”, we can

say that WP9 has played an essential role in supporting the XIFI Community Building activities and to

contribute to the success and sustainability of the whole FI-PPP programme.


13 https://www.linkedin.com/groups?viewMembers=&gid=2877

14 https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2201839



17 Contribution levels that shows members how influential they are in a group are group specific and recalculated every day.

The contribution levels are, in order: Getting started, Finding an audience, Making an impact, Building influence.


https://www.linkedin.com/groups?viewMembers=&gid=2877

https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2201839





3 FORWARD LOOKING STRATEGYAND CONCLUSIONS

3.1 Handover of the dissemination and promotion channels, tools and contacts

Close collaboration with the FIWARE Press Office since its establishment, as of summer 2014, has

allowed WP9 to guarantee a smooth and transparent hand-over of the most important dissemination

and communication channels and means already during the last couple of months of the XIFI project.

Regular input and activity via the FIWARE BaseCamp and the FIWARE Press Office communication

mailing list, which is grouping representatives from all Phase 2 and Phase 3 projects, has guaranteed

to push towards the whole FIWARE and FI-PPP community all important XIFI results, outcomes,

news and announcements.

The fact that several XIFI partners are also directly involved in FICORE and in several Phase 3

Accelerators has been of great help to guarantee the transition to be as smooth and as effective as

possible. Handover to the FIWARE Press Office and CONCORD-driven activities includes:

The responsibility for advertisement of the Federation of FIWARE nodes and of the FIWARE

Ops toolkit as part of the FIWARE offering, including communication channels as well as

existing promotional materials such as videos, flyers, logos, presentations, etc.

Some of the XIFI web pages have been already moved under the direct control of the

FIWARE Press Office so as to guarantee continuity and update of the specific information and

know-how that will be carried on by FICORE. This includes the FIWARE Ops pages as well

as the training and education ones.

The responsibility to select events at which the FIWARE Ops offering and the federation of

nodes shall be promoted. Several XIFI partners with technical know-how necessary to follow-

up on this task (including CREATE-NET, TI, Engineering, ATOS, etc.) are going to continue

to operate on this from the FICORE project.

At the end of the project, the XIFI website will be reviewed and information that would soon be

outdated will be removed or moved to an appropriate (archive) section. In case of important changes,

news or additions the web will still be updated even after the project end for at least 2 years.

Conclusions The XIFI dissemination and communication activities aimed at contributing to the success of the

whole FI-PPP programme and specifically to contribute to the sustainability of FIWARE-centred

efforts and offering in a broad perspective. This strategic perspective has been pushed forward through

the whole project duration, adapting at the operational level all the dissemination and communication

means according to the development of the work, the exploitation priorities of the XIFI partners, the

identified target stakeholders and the specific opportunities that emerged along the way.

The promotional activities have been fundamental to create awareness about the project’s work and

outcomes and directly contribute to grow the FI-PPP community as a whole. Orchestrated actions

were organised to serve the various XIFI partners and work packages, but also to support other FI-PPP

projects and cross-programme efforts. Dissemination and communication efforts were set and

implemented with the final objective of maximizing the impact of the work done during the project

life-time and possibly beyond its end.



APPENDIX A

Appendix A.1 – Newsletters

4 newsletters were published in year 2. The complete list of XIFI newsletters is also available on the

website at: https://www.fi-xifi.eu/publications/newsletters.html

Figure 2: Newsletter.04

https://www.fi-xifi.eu/publications/newsletters.html



Figure 3: Newsletter.05



Figure 4: Newslette.06

Appendix A.2 – XIFI Leaflets

The complete collection of XIFI leaflets is also available on the website at: https://www.fi-

xifi.eu/publications/project-leaflet.html



Figure 5: Updated Leaflets for ECFI-2 and then used in other events.



Appendix A.3 – XIFI Posters

The complete collection of XIFI posters is also available on the website at: https://www.fi-

xifi.eu/publications/poster.html

Figure 6: Updated XIFI posters designed for ECFI-2 and used for other events



Figure 7: Updated FIWARE Ops posters designed for ECFI-2 and used for other events.

Appendix A.4 – Promotional gadgets

In order to increase the visibility of FIWARE Ops, to attract stakeholders and visitors to the booth

during the most relevant events, and to thanks participants to the training sessions, a set of 3 gadgets

were designed. The plug adaptors and frisbees were created before the changes on the FIWARE brand,

that is why they are branded as FI-Ops



Figure 8: FIWARE Ops gadget: Plug-adaptor.

Figure 9: FIWARE Ops gadget: Frisbee



Figure 10: FIWARE Ops gadget: USB toolkit.

Appendix A.5 – Promotional videos

During this second year 5 new promotional videos were edited for different events. The complete

catalogue of XIFI videos is available at: https://www.youtube.com/user/xifiproject

Figure 11: Video for Smart Cities Expo 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGDbHtO-OwM)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGDbHtO-OwM



Figure 12: Video FIWARE Ops by the technical team (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4inUHbTA0)

Figure 13: Video XIFI federation New nodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4R_zwUhIAg)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE4inUHbTA0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4R_zwUhIAg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4R_zwUhIAg



Figure 14: Video XIFI federation New nodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonXUV-BVN8)

Figure 15: Video XIFI federation New nodes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UekY6qc-LUI)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonXUV-BVN8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UekY6qc-LUI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sonXUV-BVN8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UekY6qc-LUI



Figure 16: FIWARE Lab (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeqXGR3m9Z0)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeqXGR3m9Z0



Appendix A.5 – Further Data Concerning the Website

To have a complete vision of the evolution of the website, this report will take consideration of the

data from the beginning of the activity (July 2013) until the end of March 2015. For the entire project

life we had a total of 43’000 visits on the website with a very good ratio of unique visitors of 61%.

The peaks of visits are clearly identified during the attended events thanks to the social networking

activity, the promotion of the newsletters and the announcements of relevant information about the

project. The number of visits grows progressively with the project life, with a remarkable peak during

the promotion of the Open Call (Sep – Nov 2014)

Figure 17: Visits on XIFI Website

Figure 18: Unique visits on XIFI Website

The average pages views got an important rise during the project life. Regarding the hits per visit, we

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The active promotion of the Open Call (Sept-Nov 2013) with a wide communication, videos and

social networking had significant impact on the visits and the downloaded files. This is also reflected

in the most visited pages; apart from the general pages of the project like “what is XIFI”, the Open

Call ones are the most visited. The dynamic content of the website (publications, news and events) are

in a very good position also showing that the users follow XIFI activity and that social networking is

spreading this information properly. The most downloaded file is the general XIFI presentation

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8 FIWARE_Ops-Leaflet_web.pdf 260

9 XIFI_demo_poster_A1_FIA_web.pdf 249

10 UC8_whitepaper.pdf 247


12 FI-Ops_LeafletFIA2014_web.pdf 207

% visit duration

0s-30s

30s-2mn

2mn-5mn

5mn-15mn

15mn-30mn

30mn-1h

1h+



Most downloaded files Hits

13 D8.2_Socio-economic_factors_and_business_models_for_XIFI... 198

14 Guide_for_applicants.pdf 188





19 Agenda_of_XIFI_workshop_at_EUCNC_2014.pdf 142


Table 8: Most downloaded files

Most visited pages-url Visits

1 /home.html 24623

2 /Service.html 8839

3 /about-xifi/what-is-xifi.html 6703

4 /fiware-ops.html 6203

5 /publications.html 3426

6 /open-call/ 3286

7 /open-call/open-call-details.html 2620

8 /about-xifi/partners.html 1863

9 /fi-ops.html 901

10 /news.html 1825

11 /events.html 1642

12 /publications/deliverables.html 1547

13 /training.html 1452

14 /federation.html 1244

15 /fiware-ops/deployment.html 1216

16 /showcases.html 1189

17 /about-xifi/federation-members.html 1030

18 /about-xifi/stakeholders.html 803

19 /about-xifi/why-xifi.html 677

20 /fiware-ops/federation-management.html 602

Table 9: Most visited pages

Finally, the external sources of visits came mostly for the FI-PPP projects' websites and also from the



XIFI partners’ websites as shown in the table below.

External sources of visits Hits

1 www.fi-ware.org/fiware-operations/ 3542

2 account.lab.fi-ware.org 1253

3 www.fi-ppp.eu/projects/xifi/ 1197

4 www.fi-ppp.eu/how-to-participate/ 864

5 help.lab.fi-ware.org 842

6 lab.fi-ware.org 672

7 www.fi-ware.org/about/ 347

8 www.horizon-research.ro/index.php 215

9 www.linkedin.com 98

Table 10: External sources of visits



Appendix A.6 – Community Building Statistics

The Table 11: below describes the status and measures in the end of year 1 and end of year 2 of the

community building and stakeholder engagement activities in the XIFI project.

Channel End of year 1

End of year 2

XIFI LinkedIn members 76 161

Additional LinkedIn groups addressed 4 11

Additional LinkedIn members addressed 5 000

> 500

000

XIFI News/Newsletter database 206 475

R & R programme - Gold 0 4

R & R programme - Silver 0 3

R & R programme - Bronze 0 4

XiPi mailing list: Infrastructure owners/operators globally 230 242

XIFI Partners 23 38

FIWARE Lab nodes in the federation 5 19

FIWARE Lab users/developers 1 591 8138

Participants to F2F training events 0 160

Participants to training webinars 0 171

[fiware], [filab] and [fiware-orion] tagged Q&A threads in

the Stack OverFlow 0 269

Training portal visitors 34 1 432

Table 11: Summary of the community building and stakeholder engagement

Documents

D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities€¦ · 2.5.16 US Ignite Applications Summit.....32 2.6 Interactions within the FI-PPP Context and other Projects .....33