Driving Innovation in the Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum (A summary of the Concertation Meeting in Brussels on May 10, 2023)

In the realm of digital advancement, the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum is seen as a key factor in shaping the future of technology. This continuum represents the evolution of data processing and management as data moves from IoT devices to Edge and Cloud. On 10 May 2023, Open Continuum under the EUCloudEdgeIoT initiative and the European Commission organised a concertation meeting in Brussels, where the importance of shared knowledge and ideas in shaping the European research agenda for 2025-2027 was emphasised. This document gives a short overview of the Concertation meeting, including the main points highlighted by the more than 40 projects that presented, including the speaches from Pearse O’Donohue, Director for the Future Networks at the European Commission (EC), Manuel Mateo Goyet, Deputy Head of Unit Cloud and Software at EC, and Max Lemke, Head of Unit Internet of Things at EC.