ICT sector in Wallonia

Strategy and actors

Marshall Plan 4.0. : Priority measures for the economic redeployment of Wallonia :

• www.wallonie.be/fr/plan-marshall

• Structured around 5 axis

• 5th AXIS : Supporting digital innovation

Entering the age of the fourth industrial revolution :

• Cloud, Big Data analytics, Industrial IoT, real time processing

• Government is building a transitional digital integrated plan

• Objective is to boost the digital economy of Wallonia :

• Digital goods-producing industries

• Digital services market industries

• Enhancing the “digital culture” from business to citizen and particularly the

young generation

Supporting digital innovation

We have a vision !

Making Wallonia

• Smart and connected territory,

• Digital companies are recognized leaders worldwide,

• Digital companies act as drivers of a successful industrial transformation,

• Digital innovation works for excellence in education, open public services and the global well-being of citizens

1 strategy // 5 major topics

> € 500 million over 4 years

Several institutions and initiatives whose mission is the development of ICT in all

sectors of the society (public services, businesses, citizens, ...) :

development and boost the ICT sector center of excellence ICT incubator

promotion of ICT in the ICT field

ICT companies are represented by national federation

Wallonia also benefits from the action of many private initiatives (BetaGroup, Nest Up,

FeWeb, Rue du Web, Café numérique, …) dynamism of the ICT sector !

Support ICT sector

Clusters / Networks

Clusters

Business Networks

UNIVERSITIES

5 Universities

7 500 researchers

overall

1 500 researchers for

ICT (estimation)

“LIEU” Network

Companies /

Universities

ICT, Micro,

nanotechnology

working group

TRAINING

CENTERS

specialized in

ICT

Ciney

Photonics

Networking

Speech

Signal and Image Processing

Big data

Cloud computing

Internet of Things

Security

Etc.

ICT

RESEARCH

CENTERS

Software Engineering

Cloud computing

Data Innovation

EXISTING DATA

CENTERS

Standalone and

colocation

Wallonia has excellent coverage in terms of broadband networks (fixed and wireless)

Networks

The public fiber network, managed by the Sofico. This network is open to public & private partnerships. It covers all major cities

and areas of Wallonia

Belnet provides broadband coverage for universities, colleges and publics institutions

The fixed and mobile networks of 4 major telecoms operators (Proximus, Mobistar, Base and VOO). Mobile 3G covers most

areas of Wallonia. 4G is available in the major cities

Creative Wallonia is a framework program that places creativity and innovation in the

center of the Walloon project. Lots of initiatives are related to ICT.

• CoWallonia is the name of the network of 8 coworking centers.

There is also several Smart Work Centers

• Wallonia is one of the 2 European regions recently elected “European Creative

District”

• Specific plan to transform 5 Walloon cities into smartcities

Futurocité is the name of a public/private initiative to develop

projects related to urban intelligence

A smart region

Small entities

• Areas of retail, consulting, training and distribution and installation of goods and

services

• Target markets : business services, general public and retail trade

+/- 250 companies with high added value

• Consulting and software

• Target areas : business services, financial services, utilities, distribution, healthcare

and industry

The ICT sector

• 70 % involved in R&D projects and 26 % believe that innovation is essential to their survival

Aware of the importance of

innovation

• 35 % have at least one establishment abroad

• 79 % are exporters

• 62 % say they want to expand their export activities in two years

Highly open to international

(particularly companies with a high added value)

The ICT sector

The INFOPOLE Cluster TIC

132 members : 109 companies, 5 universities, 14 resarch centers and non profit org.

Supported at 50 % by the Walloon government

Bronze label for the European Commission

A direct link to all public and private institutions

IT Competences

8%

11%

12%

13%

17%

18%

21% Cryptographie, gestion de la sécurité

Solutions VoIP, outils collaboratifs

Hosting, Grid- and Cloud-computing,virtualisation

Equipements et Services réseaux

Applications mobiles, embarquées etsystèmes intelligents

Dev Logiciels - Web, portails, marketing etcommunication

Dev Logiciels - Application multi-tiers /métiers

Cryptography, security

VoIP solutions

Hosting, Grid- and Cloud-computing,

virtualisation

Equipment and services networks

Mobile and embedded applications,

intelligent systems

Web development, software development

Business applications

Sectors

MechanicalEngineering

Health/E-health AerospaceTransport, Logistics,

Mobility

Agro-industry

Green Economy and Sustainable

Development

Environmentand Energy

Eco-construction

Plastics Photonics

Sectors

Public Services Education Smart CitiesCreative

Industries

Medias TourismTrade

/ Distribution

Communication/

Publicity

Markets / Market niches

Big Data

Data Center

Dematerial.

e-Health

Electronicinvoicing

Geolocalisation

IoT

Security

Mobile Technologies

E-business

E-marketing

E-commerce

Serious Game / Game /

Elearning

Simulation

Smart Cities

Smart Grid

Transmedia

Web

Mission

Stimulate networking

and maximize interactions

Promote the economic

development of Member

Valuing SkillsContribute to the opening up of actors

Making co-innovation a

priority

Centre d’Excellence en Technologiesdel’Informationet de la Communication

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Applied ICT research in Walloniaby CETIC

Jean-Christophe DEPREZ, Ph.D. & Olivier van de WERVE

2016 - CeBIT

Scientific Coordinator Business Development Manager

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Positioning

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APPLIED RESEARCH FEASIBILITY STUDIES PROOF-OF-CONCEPT TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

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Key Figures – R&D Projects

2323

SOURCE OF FUNDING APPLICATION DOMAIN

Number of projects :

3 Structural funds in Wallonia

6 Competitiveness clusters

8 Walloon programs

5 International programs

7 European Framework Programs

2 Other

Number of projects :

8 Software industry

7 Health

5 Transport & logistics

3 Manufacturing

2 Energy

2 Computer Security and Trust

2 Digital and co-creation

175 partnerships,

With 151 different entities:

45 Wallonia/Industry

41 Wallonia/Research & Innovation

4 Wallonia/Other

38 Europe/Industry

40 Europe/Research & Innovation

7 Europe/Other

PARTNERSHIPS

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Range of expertise

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SOFTWARE & SYSTEM

ENGINEERING

SOFTWARE & SERVICES

TECHNOLOGIES

EMBEDDED & COMMUNICA

TING SYSTEMS

PROCESS & PRODUCT QUALITYMETHODOLOGY & QUALITY

REQUIREMENTS & MODELLING

CODE ANALYSIS

OPTIMIZATION

SECURITY

USER INTERFACES (METHODOLOGY)

FUTURE INTERNETCLOUD COMPUTING

SEMANTIC WEB

BIG DATA

OPEN SOURCE & OPEN DATA

USER INTERFACES (TECHNOLOGIES)

INTERNET OF THINGSPROGRAMMABLE SYSTEMS

SMART OBJECTS

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

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Application Domains

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ICT

Software Media Manufacturing

Transport & LogisticsAerospace Telecommunications

Healthcare Energy

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Technology Readiness Level

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INDUSTRIAL

RESEARCH

FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH

MARKET

SYSTEM TEST, LAUNCH & OPERATIONS

SYSTEM / SUBSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION

TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

RESEARCH TO PROVE FEASIBILITY

BASIC TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH TRL 1

TRL 2

TRL3

TRL 4

TRL5

TRL 6

TRL 7

TRL 8

TRL 9

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Involvement in European programmes

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FP6

Oldes

BEinGRID

CoreGRID

EverGrow

QualOSS*

GridTrust*

AssessGrid

HPC4U

FP7

PaaSage

POLCA

Evidence

Redirnet

Ascetic

Bonfire

RESERVOIR

Deploy-IP

PONTE *

S-Cube

Other European Projects

Numericanal(Interreg)

NWERide(Interreg)

I2MSTEEL (RFCS)

ComodIT(Era-Net)

SPES (Central Europe)

AMACS (Era-Net)

Dapcare(Era-Net)

Extra (Cornet)

C2A (Interreg)

H2020

BEACON*

TANGO

* Coordinator

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TRL-based Technology Transfer in practice @ CETIC

2008 – ERDF project (2007-2013)

Expertise building on Optimisation Constraint-based Local Search

(Dynadec – COMET)

2016 – TANGO (FP7)

2011 – PIPAS (Collective)

Partnership with UCL and Nside on OscaR

2013 – Contract Research for an SME in Wallonia

2010 – BEM (Collective)

Initial design and first building blocks

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R&D – Technology transfer to Industry (SME)

Time

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In a nutshell

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Applied Research technology centre Active at Regional and European levels (H2020, Feder…)

In ICT, health, transport, energy... Strong network of academic and business partners across

Europe

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Olivier.vandewerve at cetic.be