Keynote Speaker

EU and the Internet of the Future, The Future Internet will emerge from advances in a range of critical technologies, converging and evolving in parallel, and from market, business and societal evolutions. These developments are driven by a growing and changing demand for user control of content and services, increasing networking of "things", and convergence at networks, devices and services levels. The European Commission is undertaking under its 7th Framework Programme for R&D activities to enable the European economy and society to stay well positioned to master, shape and benefit from the Future Internet. Various paths have to be explored including in particular network and service convergence, software and security solutions that will bring significant improvements to the scalability, flexibility, security, dependability and robustness of the Internet while increasing its performance and functionalities. The research into the Future Internet focuses on overcoming the expected long term limitations of current Internet capabilities, architecture and protocols through work of exploratory nature to address how various classes of new requirements constrain the foreseeable evolution of the Internet and identify corresponding long term solutions. The talk will address this evolution of the Internet and how it is being studied by our research programmes.