Europe Connected: From IPCEI-CIS Results to Deployment

The IPCEI on Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS) represents a major European investment in sovereign, secure, and interoperable cloud and edge technologies. As projects have moved from early development into implementation and first tangible results, a critical window has opened for spillover, replication, and deployment beyond the participating Member States.

This workshop is conceived as a transition point: from building and testing within IPCEI-CIS to engaging a broader European
ecosystem of companies, innovation intermediaries, and public actors that can use, adapt, scale, or build upon IPCEI-CIS results.

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Built for those ready to act on European cloud innovation

If you are a company or SME looking to adopt, integrate, or scale advanced cloud and edge solutions, this is a rare opportunity to engage directly with the teams behind them — well before these technologies reach the open market. You will find concrete solutions to explore, developers to speak with, and pathways to collaboration that are practical and immediate.

For innovation intermediaries — clusters, digital innovation hubs, industry platforms, and research and technology organisations — the workshop offers a direct line to IPCEI-CIS results that you can help translate into uptake within your ecosystems. For public authorities and policymakers, it is an opportunity to understand what is deployable now, explore alignment with national strategies, and engage with future participation mechanisms such as 8ra.

IPCEI-CIS project representatives and pilot leads will find a room of motivated, qualified potential partners and users — stakeholders specifically engaged because they are positioned to adopt, replicate, or build on what IPCEI-CIS has developed. Outreach is focused on stakeholders from Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Portugal, Malta, and Cyprus.

Agenda

DAY 1 - 21 May 2026

Who will be with us at the Showcase Session:

Pawel Maslowski – Oktawave: NextGen Cloud
NextGen Cloud is Oktawave’s project to secure data processing across federated cloud and near-edge environments, including encrypted storage and processing. The hook is practical sovereignty: making confidential cloud services possible across public and private infrastructure without losing control of sensitive data.

Andreas Schlosser – SAP: ApeiroRA 
ApeiroRA is SAP’s blueprint for an open, secure, flexible and energy-aware next-generation cloud-edge infrastructure. It is interesting because it aims to become the reference architecture others can build on, not just another cloud platform.

Alessio Manca – Tiscali: Villanova
Villanova is Tiscali’s AI-focused IPCEI-CIS project, designed to support multimodal generative AI within a European cloud-edge framework. Its appeal is access: European-language, open-interface AI tools intended to help SMEs use advanced AI without depending on hyperscalers.

Mauro Boldi – Telecom Italia/TIM: TIMECC
TIMECC is TIM’s Edge & Cloud Continuum project, focused on low-latency, secure and interoperable cloud-edge services for European digital applications. It matters because it brings telco-grade performance, compliance and resilience into a shared infrastructure that SMEs and start-ups can also use.

OpenNebula Systems: ONEnextgen
ONEnextgen is building an open-source middleware platform for managing distributed data centre, cloud and edge resources as one continuum. The achievement story is strong: it enables portability, federation and multi-provider management, giving Europe a vendor-neutral alternative to cloud lock-in.

Engineering: AVANT
AVANT creates specialised platforms for digital twins across the edge-to-cloud continuum, with secure middleware that lets different systems exchange data reliably. Its hook is making complex data usable: turning fragmented IoT, AI and infrastructure environments into practical digital-twin services for real organisations.

Fincantieri: Fincantieri Group IPCEI-CIS Project
Fincantieri’s project builds secure processing services for maritime edge-cloud use cases, from smart shipyards to smart ships and digital lifecycle management. It is compelling because it connects digital twins, cybersecurity and ship operations to improve energy efficiency, safety, maintenance and maritime innovation.

TNO: ECOFED Project
ECOFED develops open interfaces and open-source tools for cloud interoperability, switching and federation. The audience hook is freedom from lock-in: it works on the “rules of the road” that let cloud providers and users move workloads across a genuinely open European cloud ecosystem.

Airbus: AXIS
AXIS connects aircraft as “flying edge devices” to an IPCEI-CIS-compliant cloud-edge infrastructure. It is exciting because Airbus is testing how aircraft, ground services and onboard systems can exchange data securely to enable smarter passenger, operations and connectivity services.

Bosch: CUBE-C
CUBE-C develops tools and methods for safety- and time-critical cyber-physical systems in a cloud-edge continuum, especially for software-defined vehicles. The project is compelling because it explores how vehicle and cloud resources can work together for safer, more energy-efficient powertrain, driver-assistance and cooperative-driving applications.

Arsys: Federated cloud-edge orchestration
Arsys' progress in 8ra, showing the integration of the OpenNebula solution into Arsys infrastructure, a new managed LLM service, and how both work together to deploy secure, private, and sovereign solutions

Ericsson: KeeCEK
KeeCEK develops compact and efficient cloud-edge nodes connected with mobile network infrastructure. It is compelling because it brings low-latency, reliable cloud-edge processing closer to industrial and business-critical applications.

Reply: Cloud-edge orchestration and autonomous robotics
Reply is developing cloud-edge solutions for distributed orchestration and autonomous robotics within the 8ra/IPCEI-CIS framework. It is compelling because it connects multi-domain cloud-edge management with real industrial use cases, from telco networks to robotics and intelligent edge services.

Deutsche Telekom: EdgeConnect
EdgeConnect develops a full-service stack for sovereign and open edge-cloud services across on-premise, near-edge, far-edge and central-edge environments. It is compelling because it focuses on seamless, secure and resilient digital services across EU borders and providers, with strong attention to quality of service, orchestration, federation and energy efficiency.

DAY 2 - 22 May 2026

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