The FIRE – Future Internet Research and Experimentation Initiative expert group kicked off their 3rd strategy workshop in Paris, France. This event was organised and promoted by the Dimes association within the Fireworks Project (http://www.ict-fireworks.eu) and co-organised by the Directorate General for Information Society and Media of the European Commission, with the workshop aiming to effectively identify a clear roadmap to be used as input to future EU framework programmes for ICT. This high profile event gathered approximately 60 highly-noted experts from both the industry and academia European circles.
TSSG, Waterford Institute Of Technology representative Mr Miguel Ponce De Leon was invited as one of the main key note speakers, providing an informative and detailed presentation on Resource Description: The cornerstone of federation. Miguel represented both the PanlabsII and Perimeter FP7 projects, which TSSG-WIT are actively participating in.
“The FIRE strategy workshop was a very successful event that focused in on the future challenges ahead within the experimental testing facilities area on a European level, with the outcome working towards the harmonisation of a process for the European testbed field” sayes Miguel.

Throughout this FIRE 3 day event parallel discussions were ongoing for the duration of the meeting, with detailed and in-depth discussions around many topics related to this area such as monitoring and virtualisation challenges and requirements for the European experimental facilities.
This workshop was deemed without doubt a successful and beneficial event, that TSSG-WIT were honoured to be part of and they look forward to future similar brainstorming events that push the boundaries of research and innovation in the experimental testing facilities and Future Internet fields.

A successful panlabs II architectural workshop meeting was held in Berlin on September 3rd and 4th hosted by Deutsche Telekom AG, Laboratories.
With the aim of this workshop to provide a forum for discussion around the architectural aspects of the Panlabs II project, it proved to be a very beneficial
meeting, working towards defining most aspects of the architecture required and
detailing a roadmap for the future success of the project.
Mr Eamonn Power attended on behalf of TSSG-Waterford Institute Of technology,
being highly involved in the development stage as acting Task 3.2 leader.

The Future Internet Research and Experimentation Initiative (of which PII is part) is having its launch event with co-located other workshops on10 – 12 September 2008, Paris, France.
The event is organized by the project FIREworks (www.ict-fireworks.eu) and will take in Paris during the French EU Presidency.
Details of the event and the agenda can be found at the following link
http://www.ict-fireworks.eu/events/fireweek-in-september.html