• When: Tuesday, May 19th, 2020, from at 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CEST.

• Where: Online at GoToMeeting - the link will be sent to attendees by email.

Webinar Agenda

1. Welcome.
2. What is the Next Generation of Internet (NGI)? — Jean-Luc Dorel, from the European Commission
3. What is the NGI Pointer project? — Mirko Presser.
4. How to apply for funding — David Seoane Vilariño, FundingBox.
5. Q&A.

About the speakers

Mirko Presser is an Associate Professor in Digital Business Development at Aarhus University, Denmark. Before that he was the Head of Research and Innovation for the Smart City Lab at the Alexandra Institute also in Denmark, launching initiatives such as Smart Santander and Smart Aarhus. He is also the president and now vice president of the IoT Forum since it was founded in June 2013, organizing an annual 1500+ participant event for IoT researchers, policy makers and professionals. He has been studying and researching IoT and other digital technologies since 2002, first through a Master's degree in Physics with Astrophysics, followed by a Master's degree in Telecommunications and Systems Engineering, both from the University of Bristol, and he also received a PhD on the Mobile IoT from the University of Surrey. He has been involved in the European FP6, FP7 and now H2020 as a researcher, technical manager and coordinator. Most recently he has been engaged in the next generation internet pathfinding initiative working towards a more human centric vision for the internet, followed by coordinating the NGI Pointer project on renovating the Internet Architecture.

About Aarhus University

Aarhus is a top 100 university worldwide, excels in business and engineering disciplines, with many company collaborations. In 2018, more than 500 students were involved in company projects in more than 250 companies ranging from SMEs to leading globals.

About NGI POINTER

NGI-POINTER is a project developed by Aarhus Universitet and FundingBox with additional partners digital worx and linknovate, funded by the European Commission and aims to find ambitious “NGI architects” to change the underlying fabric of the internet and the web, by supporting promising bottom up projects that are able to build, on top of state-of-the-art research, scalable protocols and tools to assist in the practical transition or migration to new or updated technologies, whilst keeping European Values at the core.