D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities

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1 Grant Agreement No.: Instrument: Large scale integrating project (IP) Call Identifier: FP 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 Keywords 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. Dissemination and promotion activities, final report

2 D9.4: Final report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities Disclaimer This report contains material which is the copyright of certain XIFI Consortium Parties and may only be reproduced or copied with permission in accordance with the XIFI consortium agreement. All XIFI Consortium Parties have agreed to publication of this report, the content of which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License 1. Neither the XIFI Consortium Parties nor the European Union warrant that the information contained in the report is capable of use, or that use of the information is free from risk, and accept no liability for loss or damage suffered by any person using the information. Copyright notice XIFI Consortium Parties Project co-funded by the European Commission in the 7 th Framework Programme ( ) Nature of the Deliverable: R (Report) Dissemination Level PU Public PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services) RE Restricted to bodies determined by the XIFI project CO Confidential to XIFI project and Commission Services XIFI Consortium Parties Page 2 of 60

3 D9.4: Final report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 3 of 60

4 D9.4: Final report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 4 of 60

5 D9.4: Final report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY...3 TABLE OF CONTENTS...5 LIST OF FIGURES...7 LIST OF TABLES...8 ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION DISSEMINATION AND PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS Action Taken and Goals Scientific publications Technical Blog and Developers Fora Activities External Events Participation XIFI-driven Events ECFI OCOVA Genova Italy FIDC 14 Workshop OCOVA GAP France ECFI M2M Innovation World Marseille FIWARE Workshop in Poznań SENSO Event Aix en Provence Fokus Fuseco Forum SmartCities Expo World Congress Internetdagarna Swiss FIWARE Acceleration Conference NITOS XIFI Info Day Wigner RCP FIWARE Lab Training Workshop and FIWARE Information Day Future Internet in Horizon 2020: how to build a pan-european framework to support Innovation in SMEs US Ignite Applications Summit Interactions within the FI-PPP Context and other Projects Stakeholders Involvement Contributions to the Community Building Activities FORWARD LOOKING STRATEGYAND CONCLUSIONS Handover of the dissemination and promotion channels, tools and contacts...43 APPENDIX A XIFI Consortium Parties Page 5 of 60

6 D9.4: Final report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 6 of 60

7 D9.4: Final report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: XIFI Stakeholder relations...39 Figure 2: Newsletter Figure 3: Newsletter Figure 4: Newslette Figure 5: Updated Leaflets for ECFI-2 and then used in other events 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 Figure 8: FIWARE Ops gadget: Plug-adaptor Figure 9: FIWARE Ops gadget: Frisbee...50 Figure 10: FIWARE Ops gadget: USB toolkit Figure 11: Video for Smart Cities Expo 2014 ( Figure 12: Video FIWARE Ops by the technical team ( Figure 13: Video XIFI federation New nodes ( Figure 14: Video XIFI federation New nodes ( 53 Figure 15: Video XIFI federation New nodes ( Figure 16: FIWARE Lab ( 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 7 of 60

8 D9.4: Final report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities 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 Table 6: Interactions with related bodies within the FI-PPP context Table 7: Interactions with projects and relevant initiatives outside the FI-PPP context 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 8 of 60

9 D9.4: Final report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities ABBREVIATIONS DWG EBM ECFI e-irg FI FIF FI-PPP GA GEs NREN SCWE UCs Dissemination Working Group Exploitation and Business Models European Conference on the Future Internet e-infrastructure Reflection Group Future Internet Future Internet Forum Future Internet Public-Private Partnership Grant Agreement General Enablers National Research and Education Network Smart Cities Week Use-cases XIFI Consortium Parties Page 9 of 60

10 D9.4: Final report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 10 of 60

11 D9.4: Final report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities 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 MS91 Dissemination plan draft, including federation office description and website D9.1 Dissemination and promotion plan D9.2 XIFI office description and establishment MS92 First project workshop MS93 Second project workshop D9.3 Intermediate report on dissemination and promotion activities and updated dissemination and promotion plan D9.4 Final Report on Dissemination and Promotional activities Description 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 This plan is the basis for steering and controlling dissemination, and promotion activities, focusing on the activities of the first year. 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. This workshop presented the XIFI Open Call A workshop on Smart Cities will be held on the 4 th April 2014 as part of ECFI-1 in Brussels. 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. This deliverable is the current document and summarises the overall achievements related to dissemination and promotional activities, focusing on year 2 work and achievements. Achievements M02 (May 2013) The XIFI website was successfully set up in May 2013 and has been improved and updated since then M04 (July 2013) Submitted on the 31 st July 2013 M06 (September 2013) Submitted in October 2013 M06 (September 2013) Took place on the 26 th September 2013 in Brussels (see Section 2.1 below) M12 (March 2014) Will take place on the 4 th April 2014 in Brussels as part of ECFI-1 M12 (March 2014) Submitted on 8 April 2014 M24 (March 2015) Table 1: List of deliverables submitted and milestones achieved during the whole XIFI project duration XIFI Consortium Parties Page 11 of 60

12 D9.4: Final report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 12 of 60

13 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 Workshops organised by XIFI Promote and encourage the use of the FIWARE technology with specific focus on the FIWARE Lab and FIWARE Ops functionalities : Test beds for Networks and Communications community: an untapped potential, during EuCNC : Synergies between FI-PPP and CAPS during the CAPS 2014 OFF event : 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 : Bridging the gap between Future Internet Research, XIFI Consortium Parties Page 13 of 60

14 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) Face-to-Face Rational Results Innovation and Business during the FOKUS FUSECO Forum : 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 : 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 : 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). 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 : 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 : 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 : Training session for Infrastructure Owners of the Mexican node at Campus Party Mexico Basic and intermediate documentation with regard to FIWARE and FIWARE Ops suite : Training session for Phase III projects (A guide to FIWARE for XIFI Consortium Parties Page 14 of 60

15 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) Face-to-Face Rational Results beginners- Accelerator Introductory Training session): Munich, ECFI-2: More than 40 people from the 16 Accelerator Projects participated in the training : Training session for SMEs Developers Phase III (A guide to FIWARE for beginners- SMEs Developers Training session): More than 50 people, Munich, ECFI : 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 : 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 : Introduction to FIWARE Lab. Webinar for Infrastructure owners and Operators. 9 participants external to the XIFI project. 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 : How to join the Federation of Infrastructures. Webinar for Infrastructure owners and Operators. 5 participants external to the XIFI project : FIWARE Lab Solution for Managing Resources & Services in a Cloud Federation. Webinar for researchers and developers. 72 participants : XIFI for developer. Webinar for researchers and developers. 54 participants : SSH Webinar. Webinar for researchers and developers: 13 participants XIFI Consortium Parties Page 15 of 60

16 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) Mediated actions Rational Results Project website Technical Blog Social networks Newsletter A website dedicated to the project has been designed and set up in the first couple of months of the XIFI project: 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 A web space dedicated to post technical articles Twitter and LinkedIn accounts created in the first months of the project. A Facebook page is also maintained to facilitate internal communication. The aim is to gather and collect in a compact, but still appealing form the most relevant news to the 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. 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 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. 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 16 of 60

17 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) Mediated actions Rational Results Publications Promotional material broad FIWARE ecosystem as a result of XIFI activities. International referred, scientific and technical journals when appropriate. See also section 2.2 for the detailed list of scientific papers Project documentation, flyers, posters, fact sheets, gadgets and videos as appropriate to facilitate and make more effective the dissemination and 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 : A press release about XIFI was published by ATOS. ( "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 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: 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). 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 17 of 60

18 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) Mediated actions Rational Results Demos promotion of project work, ideas and results. Demonstrations relating to the XIFI platform and associated applications/offerings (WP6-showcases) 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 Plugadaptor (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 ( ) 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 o o three macro-showcases which represent the appropriate merging of some of the v1 showcases, two showcases which are the evolution of two v1 showcases which were already identified with a specific vertical market segment, and 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 18 of 60

19 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) 2.2 Scientific publications Date, Place Title/Authors Type of event / Name of event Unified Representation of Monitoring Information Across Federated Cloud Infrastructures 26th IEEE International Teletraffic Congress, Karlskrona, Sweden Type of audience Countries addressed Research & Industry Worldwide 150 Approx. size of audience Partner involved TUB, UPM, Telefónica, Synelixis, FOKUS 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 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 QoS-based WebRTC Access to an EPS Network Infrastructure, Kay Hänsge & Michael Maruschke ICIN 2015, Research & Industry European Countries 120 DT 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 19 of 60

20 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) 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 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 20 of 60

21 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) 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 ( 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) XIFI Consortium Parties Page 21 of 60

22 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) 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 s 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 Celtic-Plus event, Monaco Presentation and leaflets distribution Poznań Entrepreneurship Days, Poland (Startup Poznań Hackathon) Presentation and leaflets distribution Developers Public authorities Developers, startups, entrepreneurs, SMEs SME Innovation Day, Sophia Antipolis Presentation SMEs Major Cities of Europe - Annual conference Leaflets distributed Public authorities/end users FI-PPP Day Trento Presentation given Developers, End-Users OCOVA, Genova, Italy Booth and presentations End-users, developers, intermediaries FUSECO Forum Asia 2014 Presentations Sponsors and or Investors Open Cloud Day Presentation Infrastructure owners and operators th European Summit on the Future Internet Leaflets distributed Developers, SMEs, researchers Iot Week 2014 Leaflets distributed End-Users, Technology Providers XIFI Training Sessions Dedicated to Infrastructure Owners, Operators and FI-Ops Users Two training sessions given Infrastructure owners and operators XIFI Consortium Parties Page 22 of 60

23 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) Date Event name and description Type of participation Targeted stakeholders EuCNC 2014 (European Conference on Networks and Communications) XIFI workshop, presentations and leaflets st CI-FIRE Industry Workshop Leaflets distributed Developers, SMEs, researchers Testbed developers and users / Industry & SMEs Campus Party in Mexico FIWARE Ops demo, leaflets, poster Developers, end users CAPS st International Conference on Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation FI-PPP Info Day for SMEs, held in Paris in French FI PPP Info day Berlin-Creative ideas meet expertise and tools 26th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 26) FI-PPP Information meeting Sophia Antipolis FI-PPP session and XIFI presentation. Leaflets distributed Presentation Presentation Presentation during the workshop Presentation during the workshop OCOVA, Gap, France Presentations and booth FI-PPP ECFI M2M Innovation World Congress Marseille NEM Summit Exhibition booth and 2 presentations slots Gadgets and leaflets distributed Presentation and distribution of material Presentation at the FI-LINKS session and leaflets distribution End-users, developers, SMEs, researchers from the CAPS SMEs, testbed users Intermediaries Research and industry Research and industry End-users, developers, intermediaries Testbed users and SMEs in particular End-users, developers, intermediaries industrial and academic players worldwide on FI FIWARE Boothcamp Presentation FIWARE Ops, Leaflets Developers and web entrepreneurs XIFI Consortium Parties Page 23 of 60

24 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) Date Event name and description Type of participation Targeted stakeholders Hackathon-in-a-box, Budapest, Hungary Leaflets distributed Developers and web entrepreneurs Startup Weekend/FIWARE Special Edition Presentation FIWARE Ops, leaflets Start-ups ICT Proposer Day Florence Leaflets distributed A bit of all stakeholders will be there Techcrunch Disrupt Europe 2014 (London) ICT world SENSO event, Aix-en-Provence Presentation FIWARE Workshop, Poznan Presentations and leaflet distributed Iminds conference Informal contacts with industry and SMEs, opportunity such as Phase III. End-users, developers, intermediaries SMEs, startups and webentrepreneurs SME's and web entrepreneurs in the field of ICT, media, health, energy, smart cities and manufacturing Il Future Internet accelera la Smart City Leaflets distributed FIWARE Accelerator Programme echallenges e-2014 Conference Leaflets distributed Senior representatives of leading government, industry and research organisations FINODEX Infoday Leaflets distributed FIWARE Accelerator Programme OpenStack Summit, Paris Presentation and leaflets distribution Infrastructure owners and operators FI-PPP International FUSECO Presentation and leaflets distribution Smart City World Expo 2014 Booth with FIWARE, presentation and leaflet distribution Internetdagarna 2014 Booth End-users, Sponsors and or Investors, Public Authorities Data scientists, solution providers, governments, academics and internet actors XIFI Consortium Parties Page 24 of 60

25 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) Date Event name and description Type of participation Targeted stakeholders FI-PPP Information day; Budapest, Hungary FIWARE Hackathon. Budapest, Hungary Digital growth in the Baltic Sea Region. Copenhagen, Denmark XIFI presentation and FIWARE tutorial with live demo) FIWARE presentation + FIWARE tutorial with live demo Presentation covering the XIFI facility Digital growth in the Baltic Sea Region Presentation Swiss FIWARE Acceleration conference. Zurich, Switzerland Conferences and presentations Developers, End-Users Developers and web entrepreneurs Enterprises, policy makers, experts, business organisations and industry Companies and entrepreneurs within the digital economy Developers, startups, entrepreneurs, SMEs UCC14 Presentation Cloud Computing LeWeb 2014 Paris Presentation and leaflet distributed Testbed users and SMEs Senseair Seminar Presentation Industry Latvian IT cluster, Estonia Smart city Lab Presentation Research, Developers, startups, entrepreneurs, SMEs Swedish ICT day Presentation Research & industry in Sweden Workshop with Fiber Optic Valley Presentation Research & industry in Sweden NITOS XIFI Info Day Presentations, conferences and FIWARE Ops leaflet distributed Developers, startups, entrepreneurs, SMEs YFN FIWARE Ops leaflet distributed Start-ups IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2015), Arizona, USA CeBIT Panelist Presentation and FIWARE Ops leaflet distributed Cloud Computing IT & Digital business XIFI Consortium Parties Page 25 of 60

26 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) Date Event name and description Type of participation Targeted stakeholders FIWARE Lab Training Workshop, Budapest, Hungary FIWARE Information Day, Budapest, Hungary US Ignite Applications Summit XIFI and FIWARE presentations tutorials/trainings and live demo, XIFI and FIWARE Presentations, GE tutorials/trainings, consultation opportunity Presentation, booth and leaflet distributed NetFutures15 Presentation and leaflet distributed Machine to Machine &Objet Connectés - Paris Booth and speaker SIDO - Lyon Booth Tridentcom 2015, Canada Presentation Table 5: List of related events attended in year 2. Developers, startups, entrepreneurs, SMEs, EIT ICTLabs students from the whole Europe Local SMEs, startups and developers, Cloud Providers (EUROCLOUD Hungary members) from Hungary and the Central European region Developers, industry, communities, government, foundations and universities ICT Research and Industry in Europe End-users, developers, startups, entrepreneurs Authorities Industry, startups, investors, designers, entrepreneurs Testbeds, Researcher, Developers and SMEs XIFI Consortium Parties Page 26 of 60

27 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) 2.5 XIFI-driven Events 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 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 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 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 27 of 60

28 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) targeted regional end-users, developers and intermediaries. Com4Innov handled a booth with larger XIFI exposure ECFI 2 The XIFI Project organized two training sessions at ECFI2 in Munich on 18 September 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 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! 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 28 of 60

29 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) 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 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 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, 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 29 of 60

30 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) 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 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 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 Swiss FIWARE Acceleration Conference The 1st SWISS FIWARE acceleration Conference was held in Winterthur on December the 5 th at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ICCLab premises. The event offers, to SWISS XIFI Consortium Parties Page 30 of 60

31 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) 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 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 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 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 17 th of March 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 24 th 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 Future Internet in Horizon 2020: how to build a pan-european framework to support Innovation in SMEs On March the 18 th, 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 31 of 60

32 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) 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 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 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 October 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! XIFI Consortium Parties Page 32 of 60

33 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) 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 FI-PPP Advisory Board FI-PPP Architecture Board FI-PPP Dissemination Working Group XIFI has appointed two representatives to participate at Steering Board meetings and activities Maurizio Cecchi (TI) and Federico Álvarez (UPM). XIFI has appointed representatives to participate at Advisory Board meetings and activities XIFI has appointed two representatives to participate at the meetings and activities of the Architecture Board Silvio Cretti and Federico Facca (Create-Net). XIFI appointed two representatives to participate in the activities of the FI-PPP Dissemination Working Group (DWG) Dr. Monique Calisti (Martel) and Jacques 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. 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. 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. 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 33 of 60

34 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 34 of 60

35 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) Project acronym Rational Results Other FI-PPP Projects FI-LINKS FI-STAR 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 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 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) 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 Consortium Parties Page 35 of 60

36 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) Project acronym Rational Results XIFI partners are also involved in AmpliFIRE. Fed4FIRE FIRE facility projects FIRE research projects 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. Participation of Maurizio Cecchi at the FIRE Board with close communication with other Members and initiatives responsible. The possibility of using XIFI results has been discussed with Fed4FIRE and other FIRE projects in the domain of industrial testing. 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. 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. 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 36 of 60

37 D9.4: Final report on dissemination and promotion activities (V 1.1) Project acronym Rational Results Other Projects community. OCEAN Project H2020 COMPARE FIESTA Collaboration with the OCEAN project thanks to the liaison with Engineering Wigner RCP is taking part in this H2020 project where it is responsible for the analysis of genomic data (at PetaByte scale). Com4Innov is partner of this H2020 project. 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. The project may reuse some components of XIFI and FIWARE including Blueprint templates and BigData GE. Particular focus in using FIWARE components for the project. Table 7: Interactions with projects and relevant initiatives outside the FI-PPP context XIFI Consortium Parties Page 37 of 60

38 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 3 rd question, we identified the local and European events that XIFI partners attended in 2014 and early 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 38 of 60

39 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities glossary accordingly on the XIFI project web pages 2 (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 relationship 3 (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 Technology providers and Others in lesser extent XIFI Consortium Parties Page 39 of 60

40 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities 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 Consortium Parties Page 40 of 60

41 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities XIFI web site and in the FIWARE Ops training portal 4 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 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 LinkedIn 5 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 LinkedIn 6 community reached: EIT ICT Labs & testbeds 943 members; D - FI-WARE LinkedIn Group 7 - FI-WARE general 707 members; D/I - FIRE LinkedIn 8 FIRE testbeds 482 members; D - FI-PPP LinkedIn 9 FI-PPP general 407 members; D/I - Open Stack LinkedIn 10 Open Stack developers 30,758 members; D/I - Open Source LinkedIn 11 - Open Source developers 122,474 members; D/I XIFI Consortium Parties Page 41 of 60

42 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities - Living Labs LinkedIn 12 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 Startups 13 - The Community For Entrepreneurs 448,222 members; I - EBN 14 - European BIC Network 1,191 members; I - European Entrepreneurship & Innovation Stanford Silicon Valley 14,995 members; I - Onevest 16 - 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 metering 17, 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 1 st 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 2 nd 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 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 42 of 60

43 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities 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 followup 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 43 of 60

44 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities 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: Figure 2: Newsletter XIFI Consortium Parties Page 44 of 60

45 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities Figure 3: Newsletter XIFI Consortium Parties Page 45 of 60

46 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities Figure 4: Newslette.06 Appendix A.2 XIFI Leaflets The complete collection of XIFI leaflets is also available on the website at: XIFI Consortium Parties Page 46 of 60

47 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities Figure 5: Updated Leaflets for ECFI-2 and then used in other events XIFI Consortium Parties Page 47 of 60

48 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities Appendix A.3 XIFI Posters The complete collection of XIFI posters is also available on the website at: Figure 6: Updated XIFI posters designed for ECFI-2 and used for other events XIFI Consortium Parties Page 48 of 60

49 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities 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 XIFI Consortium Parties Page 49 of 60

50 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities Figure 8: FIWARE Ops gadget: Plug-adaptor. Figure 9: FIWARE Ops gadget: Frisbee XIFI Consortium Parties Page 50 of 60

51 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities 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: Figure 11: Video for Smart Cities Expo 2014 ( XIFI Consortium Parties Page 51 of 60

52 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities Figure 12: Video FIWARE Ops by the technical team ( Figure 13: Video XIFI federation New nodes ( XIFI Consortium Parties Page 52 of 60

53 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities Figure 14: Video XIFI federation New nodes ( Figure 15: Video XIFI federation New nodes ( XIFI Consortium Parties Page 53 of 60

54 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities Figure 16: FIWARE Lab ( XIFI Consortium Parties Page 54 of 60

55 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities 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 For the entire project life we had a total of 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) 3,500 3,000 2,500 2,000 1,500 1, Number of visits Number of visits 2,500 2,000 1,500 1, Figure 17: Visits on XIFI Website Unique visitors Jul Sept Nov Jan Mar May Jul Sept Nov Jan Mar Figure 18: Unique visits on XIFI Website Unique visitors The average pages views got an important rise during the project life. Regarding the hits per visit, we have an average of These figures are linked with the average duration time of the visits that has XIFI Consortium Parties Page 55 of 60

56 Jul 2013 Aug 2013 Sept 2013 Oct 2013 Nov 2013 Dec 2013 Jan 2014 Feb 2014 Mar 2014 April 2014 May 2014 June 2014 Jul 2014 Aug 2014 Sept 2014 Oct 2014 Nov 2014 Dec 2014 Jan 2015 Feb 2015 Mar 2015 Jul 2013 Aug 2013 Sept 2013 Oct 2013 Nov 2013 Dec 2013 Jan 2014 Feb 2014 Mar 2014 April 2014 May 2014 June 2014 Jul 2014 Aug 2014 Sept 2014 Oct 2014 Nov 2014 Dec 2014 Jan 2015 Feb 2015 Mar 2015 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities been increased progressively to get 4 minutes per visit. A clear interest on the updated content of the XIFI website is demonstrated by these results. 20,000 18,000 16,000 14,000 12,000 10,000 8,000 6,000 4,000 2,000 0 Pages Pages 120,000 Hits 100,000 80,000 60,000 40,000 20,000 Hits 0 Figure 19: Pages and hits on XIFI Website XIFI Consortium Parties Page 56 of 60

57 D9.4: Final Report on Dissemination and Promotion Activities % visit duration 0s-30s 30s-2mn 2mn-5mn 5mn-15mn 15mn-30mn 30mn-1h 1h+ Figure 20: Visit duration time on XIFI Website 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 followed by the Open Call documents. Since their publications, the Use Cases document has attracted also an important number of downloads. Most downloaded files Hits 1 XIFI-presentation-longv3.2.pdf XIFI_Open_Call-Official.pdf FI-OPS-presentation-SCWE_v3.pdf FIWARE_Ops-Poster_web.pdf XIFI_Architecture_and_Vision_INFODAY_FedericoF.pdf FIWARE_Ops_Overview.pdf XIFI-OC-Info-day-TechnicalRequirements.pdf FIWARE_Ops-Leaflet_web.pdf XIFI_demo_poster_A1_FIA_web.pdf UC8_whitepaper.pdf UC1_whitepaper.pdf FI-Ops_LeafletFIA2014_web.pdf XIFI Consortium Parties Page 57 of 60