European Innovation Ecosystems: Lessons from Ten Years of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future
🇪🇺 Sometimes a birthday cake tells a bigger story than a hundred project reports. When we cut the birthday cake at Viva Technology 2026 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (GFA), I suddenly realized something. We were not celebrating ten years of an institution. We were celebrating ten years of relationships. Researchers greeting collaborators they had not seen for years. Students introducing mentors from another country. Indu...
Industrial Networking Beyond Connectivity: Key Scientific and Cybersecurity Challenges Discussed at NOMS 2026
Industrial networking is reaching a turning point. We are moving from isolated PLC-centric systems toward distributed AI-assisted cloud-edge infrastructures running industrial protocols over IP networks. But here is the uncomfortable question: Can probabilistic IT and cloud infrastructures ever truly satisfy deterministic industrial requirements? At our NOMS 2026 panel on *“Next Steps of Industrial Communications and Networks”*, we debated topics such as: * industrial protocols over Lay...