{"id":5984,"date":"2014-09-13T12:32:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T10:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2014-09-17T11:45:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T09:45:36","slug":"the-soul-fi-sme-event-fiware-acceleration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/the-soul-fi-sme-event-fiware-acceleration\/","title":{"rendered":"The SOUL-FI SME Event – FIWARE Acceleration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The SOUL-FI FIWARE Accelerator<\/a> is one of 16 incubators that joined the FI-PPP<\/a> with the beginning of the 3rd and most important phase of the Future Internet innovation program.<\/p>\n

The mission of these 16 accelerators is to accelerate the uptake of the FIWARE<\/a> technology foundation, which has been built in the previous two phases and has now reached a level of maturity that qualifies it for competing in the innovation wild. Consequently, the correct name of these 16 incubators is FIWARE Accelerators.<\/p>\n

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Involving dedicated FIWARE accelerators is yet another feature that underlines the decisively impact oriented approach of the FIPPP. Each of these FIWARE Accelerators was evaluated and selected on its capabilities with respect to attracting and supporting entrepreneurs which are keen on developing a business on top of FIWARE technology, no matter if these run existing companies or have a start-up idea and are thus at the very beginning of a venture.<\/p>\n

FIWARE Accelerators do already have a large community to tap into, each of them in one or several application domains. The challenge is to promote FIWARE technology to community members and to support those who commit to developing FIWARE businesses along the entire innovation life-cycle, that is from idea-to-product.<\/p>\n

Seed investment is certainly one very important factor in this, but there are way more elements like business planning, legal aspect inherent to company foundations, human resourcing, financial management, marketing strategies, product development, and and and.<\/p>\n

SOUL-FI is one such FIWARE Accelerator and launched its activities with the SOUL-FI SME Event in o Porto, on September the 5th of 2014. The event attracted 170 attendees from diverse backgrounds, SMEs in the ICT domains, software developers of start-up companies, medical staff of hospitals, representatives of public authorities, academic staff, and with different company roles, from software developers, system engineers, up to CEOs, CTOs, and senior executives of public institutions.<\/p>\n

The central objective of the event was to introduce SOUL-FI, elaborate the services it provides, and to attract decision makers as well as ICT-doers such that they consider to engage with FIWARE. This was implemented with a set of speakers that represent the nature, constitution and ambition of the FIWARE program.<\/p>\n

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THE FIWARE Jump Conference<\/strong>
\nSeptember 5, 2014
\nAre you a Startup, SME or web-entrepreneur, eager to design new apps and services? Europe offers you a chance to receive financing and support to develop your next Future Internet project. CMP and SOUL-FI are promoting a FI-WARE Accelerators event for call dissemination!<\/p>\n